Update: It's pretty much finished. PNG and GIF files can now have their embedded tags indexed. What I'll do next is develop my tag scraper more. I also want that to work with MP4 files, which have their own tagging system that windows supports that natively.

Alright, what I have so far works with images perfectly well(minus the bugs I've been finding here and there)

https://gitgud.io/nvtelen/tag-injector
https://files.catbox.moe/xgq3cc.7z

I ended up writing this part in Rust. I wanted to remove the dependency on Exiftool and just have a self-contained executable. Wasn't possible with Go. I learned a lot though and the result has more polish.

Next I'll try adding MP4 support.

Post edited on 14th Dec 2024, 12:08am

This could've been good in theory, but sadly we have to pass on this because it's written in NSAlang.

Yeah, I'm done with what I have now. The latest release on Gitlab will probably be the last unless I notice a bug. Error-handling has been cleaned up.

Unfortunately, I'm giving up on adding MP4 support. Microsoft decided to use a proprietary, undocumented standard for MPEG-4 tags. The only way to programmatically edit these, is through some .Net Windows Shell SDK that they don't even host a download for anymore.

What makes this even more frustrating is that iTunes already made a standard for MPEG-4 audio metadata, and there's very good library support for editing that. There's 0 reason it can't be used with video files too. Trying to use XMP data instead didn't really work when I tested it before, so I don't even want to get into that.

I'm beginning to see the advantages of Hydrus Network's approach. Shell integration with something like that would be great. Maybe through a "protocol handler"
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/search/-search-3x-wds-extidx-prot-implementing

I'm not sure it's worth investing even more into the Window's platform though. Maybe thinking about Linux would be a more fruitful venture, since everything is well-documented there.

>>3660
C and C++ are the NSA's favorite languages. They have it to thank for countless exploits and 0-days. At the end of the day, the ecosystem is the most important thing about a language and Rust was the only language that fits this purpose besides C++, which I think would be a huge pain in the ass in comparison.

I think this one came out better. The torso is still too long proportionally and I don't really know how to shade the back.

>>2357
woah

trying to replicate a drawing i saw in the interweb

>>2357
y0mu, you?

>>3650
>mongodb
To be fair mongolicdb is terrible even for nosql standards.
>flat files
I remember some guy that used to run an imageboard that used a gigantic CSV file as database. It didn't matter because the board was slow enough to not crash the whole thing.

>>3649
>but SQL stays.
Postgres supports jsonb if you really want to store a loose bag of data inside a column.

>>3651
Schemebbs uses plain files too
>There's no database, messages are stored as Scheme objects in plain files.

Early on, I considered using Redis for certain things, but decided there was nothing I needed which couldn't be handled by an in-memory map, and would justify the additional dependency.

>>3653
A database is just a fancy hash table if you squint your eyes enough.

>>3629
Thank you. Now, about the method... are you really supposed to do the same thing from the very beginning, which is looking at a target picture and trying to imitate it as closely as possible by eye? Or would it be better to start with direct tracing and after some time move onto imitation by eye? Or maybe some sort of hybrid where you try to imitate sections by eye, and directly compare them with the target picture and fix major fuckups before moving to the next section?

>>3630
Don't just trace. There's no point where you'll be "good enough" to start copying by eye. Howard has suggested tracing AFTER you copy by eye, if you're really off the mark. I think doing it all in one go is better than sectioning things arbitrarily. The drawing exists as a whole, not in neat divisions. As you draw something, keep the other parts in mind. That's how you keep things proportional and with the correct gesture.

I realized that for my purposes I need to learn some SD, and if anything that would have more priority than general art. Has Howard ever talked about SD in his Patreon videos or whatever? Is it easier than general art? Can it be learned before general art or is that unadvised?

>>3632
If by SD, you mean chibi, I can't recall him mentioning it specifically. What I think though, is that any otaku art style is going to share the same principles. If drawing chibi characters is what motivates you, just go for it.

>>3304
>>3304
>Computers in the 90s had keyboards, real ones.
You can plug in a USB keyboard to your phone (with the appropriate usb to micro-usb adapter I guess). Or use a bluetooth keyboard.

>They also had screens larger than your hand. So you could actually see what you're doing
Fair, but this isn't a limiting factor. With how large phones are these days (and their resolution) you can still manage to work on things. I'm not saying developing on a phone is going to be a comfortable experience, but it can be done if you're willing to put in the effort to find creative workarounds.

The rest I do agree with, and if one is going to do software dev he should at least learn how to google rather than asking people for help.

Getting a VPS might be a nice idea, you can do what the person right above me recommended to have a better experience with logging into the ssh server of said VPS. It would cost maybe about £3 a month? And you may have to learn how to use a Linux distribution of your choice for said server.

Hope this helps.

>>3616
>£3
Where?

>>3617
Privex's cheapest option is $2 per month. You only get a ipv6 address, but that can be worked around with this:
http://v4-frontend.netiter.com/

>>3547
look nice, at least to my untrained eyes your stuff is already at the level of popular pixiv artists.

>>3547
>That's really nice. Are you just starting to learn drawing?
Thanks a lot. No, I used to draw as a kid, but kept going on and off, sometimes with year-long breaks in-between. But I am starting to try colouring. Nice Flandre, by the way.

>>3547
That's a cute flan drawing

>>3547
I'm glad it helped! "Just draw" works more if you're a beginner like me and don't know where to start. I think it depends if what you want to draw is something that forces you to practice or if you get into the habit of drawing what you're used to but it's fun nonetheless. I'm going to try drawing something other than portraits regularly again after I finish cleaning and rearranging my room. Cute Flan, by the way.

>>2775
LBRY

>>3519
What is your website anon? I won't comment about it.

>>2775
Literature goes onto my personal website on Neocities. Art right now is mostly on Weasyl but I plan to move it to my website at a later date. Games go on Itch, can't put them on Neocities sadly.

>>3461
I can... almost vouch for Weasyl. Most of the stuff uploaded there is DeviantART-tier but it makes up for it with its user interface that I think is the best I've seen on an art site. Don't expect any engagement though.

>>3461
I think that what site you choose to upload your stuff to should be based upon the functionality of the site as opposed to reception; what's the extent of it's tagging/searching capabilities, how much of it is gated by account-usage, does the site compress your work or have limits (if so how much), privacy aspects etc. Nonetheless, if you are using the site not merely as a means for hosting to link elsewhere but for sake of visibility (whose purpose is indeed lacking) then proceed with your criteria. However, regardless I think you should also choose another site to mirror your work with quality as the priority. I don't know personally which sites are browsable that offer lossless galleries, if any, but optimally it would be both, if none can be found then at the very least upload all your works losslessly to a filehosting service perhaps periodically in an archive, or maybe MEGA, or consider hosting your own simple html site on a free hosting service such as neocities (only really a feasible option if the quantiy is low).

>>3532
Was pleased to see you can upload .swf there, though I didn't find any interesting ones. Odd that there's no svg (according to the faq) though considering.

>>3533
>Any thoughts/criticisms?
AAAAAAAAAAAああああああああああああ

I'm not really into poetry. It requires effort on my part to not skim through. The mention of urine laced tap water, and sports-drinks felt odd. I think I get what you're going for, a dreamy, nonsensical atmosphere, but it still feels inharmonious to include stuff like that and name drop Greek tragedies in the same text.

I just thought up a nightmare scifi scenario I'd like to ask if you think its spooky enough before fleshing out the idea. The hypothesis I'm basing my idea on is that after humans go into space and live in low/zero gravity situations the physical penalties for obesity are reduced and the fatties are able to grow to enormous sizes without being crushed to death under the weight of their own hideous mass. After a few generations the fatties have evolved bodies more in line with their excess nutritional intake and as everything else about them grows, so does their brains. The fattest of fatties grow super smart and conquer humanity completely, possibly eating a lot of us in the process and eventually enormous space whales the size of planets rule the universe an thats how it all plays out in the end. Fatties win bigtime.
What do you think?

>>2827
delete this right now you baka

Old thread, huh. I never did realistic noses, I would just add little triangle noses to images to make people laugh.

>>3527
unlike op's picture, those triangle noses actually look cute