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The distinction between "firmware" and "software" these days is pretty thin. With that in mind, how should you treat non-free firmware blobs on a modern system? @mjg59 has a great post that talks through a lot of the considerations that should go into making the decision for yourself:

https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/to-update-blobs-or-not-to-update-blobs/

It's hard to build hardware w/o blobs. If you want details, check out my talk on Purism's attempt to build RYF-compliant hardware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbvMtFLOmE

#blobs #ryf #firmware #foss

YonderVerseOfBlobs

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIuBFbRJ0BA

Blog: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/wcccconstruction

#CreativeCoding #Livecoding #WCCC #WCCChallenge #Worldbuilding #sounddesign #Blobs #Construction

For this week's Creative Code challenge by @sableraph : “Construction“, YonderVerseOfBlob is coded in #SonicPi, #Python , #LiveCodeLab & #HydraVideoSynth. It plays on the theme of Construction by entering a reconstructed world of blobs (LiveCodeLab & HydraVideoSynth) with their own mini conlang (constructed language) made in Python .

#Poetry

In the Lands, Outside of our Scope
Lies a verse that constructs outside of our tropes
With languages related to the elements
And blobs reconstructing their previous movements
The Yonderverse of blobs
May render hope,
May glitchify its pixels
But would the output be vibes that can trickle?

#glitchart #Conlang #Eliterature
#newmedia #videography#animation

@support.bsky.team it's blowing up! #Blobs clobs all of it. That's about number 12 or so for me. 🤯

Blobbing blobs

#illustration #digital #colors #blobs

BlobBoard

BlogPost/Code/More Imagest: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/genuary2026perfectres

#Genuary #Genuary2026 #Livecoding #Worldbuilding #Genuary4 #Genuary14 #perfectfit #lowres #blobs

BlobBoard takes blobs and perfectly fits them in various vision board templates (Prompt 14 of Genuary 2026) and has some of the blobs in a low resolution (Prompt 4 of Genuary 2026)

Coded in #LiveCodeLab

#Poetry

Blobs are blobbing
With hopes of their season
To perform their treason
But is there a way of it stopping?

#creativecoding #coding #animation
#newmedia #spheres #geometric #3D

A vision splendid or eyesore? South Australian court to rule on ‘Blue Blob’ sculpture vandalism charge https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/10/googly-eyes-cast-in-blue-blob-sculpture-mount-gambier-ntwnfb
If Amelia Vanderhorst is found guilty and penalised for allegedly sticking googly eyes on Mount Gambier landmark, it might be the first time such an act has been punished #art #law #blobs

Another #HowTo, this time how to use #Signal on #Android without giving it broad media permissions.

Signal does not use the 2 possible secure methods of accessint photos that Android offers, and clones #Whatsapp in that regard.

By insisting on needing access to read all your images, while being a complex app connected to the internet, and the only official versions containing proprietary #Google #blobs.

Links:
- https://community.signalusers.org/t/46828
- https://community.signalusers.org/t/55725

Other messengers like #SimpleX, #Element, #ElementX, #Fluffychat, #Conversations, #Threema and more save themselves the effort and just use the builtin options, improving security by design and unnecessary code bloat.

So, how can I use Signal without trusting it with all my images?

1. Use the "Share" Portal.

That is the obvious one, and a very nice feature on Android. It allows to share any media to an application and giving it access to only that.

This also works across the #WorkProfile or #PrivateSpace and can be used by Apps like #SaveTo to transfer files.

The workflow is often slower than just using the media chooser portal, but it works. It is what I use since years.

2. Android hacks

But this is not all. Setting a profile picture or group profile picture does not work through the share portal. So we use a Feature specific to Androids Sandbox:

- All apps can save files to various default directories like Pictures, Movies, Music, Downloads, Documents; without having read access to it.
- And all apps can access files they themself saved there.

Combining these two features, you can send a picture to Signal and use the "Save locally" button to save it from within the app.

The result is that this picture will be visible in Signals internal gallery and can be selected for profile and group pictures.

Obvious downsides are
- it is a stupid workflow
- it duplicates images that you need to delete manually afterwards
- pictures might be compressed twice, losing quality

But for this very limited purpose, it is kinda fine.

Still, @signalapp please solve this very old issue!

@signal@lemmy.ml @signal@lemmy.blahaj.zone

it's been a little while, but I've been trying some new stuff with blobs in #TouchDesigner

to be continued.....sometime....question mark⁉️

#procedural #generative #realtime3d #cgi #videoart #blobs #WIP

abstract cg landscape of green and pinkish blobs with semi random holes and intersections suggesting a kind of digital erosion process, with a background of yellow and pale pink glows

a different variation on the first image, with a large yellow area at bottom and more of the starry eroded backdrop visible through a glitchy gap at the top

some red, softly morphing CG amongus-esque creatures walking over a small chunk of green and orange landscape on a black background

BlobOfMatrix

#Poetry

Blobs finding themselves
In the depths
The depths of the matrix
For this portion of their day trip

Video: https://youtu.be/2fR1Rbrdqro

For my 18th sketch of Mathober2025 (curated by @fractalkitty ) coded in #LiveCodingYoutube, BlobOfMatrix takes the 14th prompt of “Augmented Matrix” and uses the speed function to represent the matrix of Blob while the audio is coded in #SonicPi through “Recursions” (28th Prompt).

Blog: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/mathober2025matrixrecursion

#mathart #mathober2025 #mathober #mathober14 #Mathober28 #augmentedmatrix #recursion #blobs

#creativecoding #coding #audiovisual
#newmedia #scifi #animation
#math #geometricart #videography

BlobOfMass

Video: https://youtu.be/glg82w2HTik

Blogpost: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/wccccreatures

#worldbuilding #scifiart #geometry #WCCC #LiveCoding #creatures

For this week's Creative Code challenge by @sableraph " Creatures ”, BlobOfMass is a creature/entity coded in LiveCodeLab with its soundtrack coded in SonicPi

#Poetry

Blobs are blobbing
With hopes of their season
To perform their treason
But is there a way of it stopping?
Is there a way of it skipping,
Skipping a beat?
Or these blobs want to continue their treats
As they venture after their formation
Into the streets
Into the seas
Into the streams
To gather not only useful information
But to keep their blobbing
For more blobs to come in
And commence their flipping
as others prepare to slip in

#creativecoding #coding #blobs
#newmedia #scifi #animation #narrative
#math #geometricart #geometry #3danimation

What if: blobwerewolves 🤔

#lang_en #thoughts #blobs

🔍🤔 Oh great, another piece of MIT-induced #existential #dread, because we all needed to know that our lives might just be a glorified #game of #Pong. 🤖💻 Apparently, back in 1994, someone thought it was enlightening to watch #pixelated #blobs play Sims with themselves. 🕹️🎨
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-life-a-form-of-computation/ #MIT #Simulation #HackerNews #ngated

Sometimes, when I interview bacteria or animals, I ask myself if it's not too childish. But hey, the highly respected @cnrs lets #blobs talk!
In case you need some #goodNews: Blobs are sure to take over the world (well, my hypothesis). Thanks to the CNRS and a #citizenScience project, they are already living in countless children's bedrooms. 🤫 Listen to a blob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwcx6yCdDE8

#NatureMatchCuts #blob #PhysarumPolycephalum #slimeMould #learning #intelligence #moreThanHuman

#Development #Techniques
CSS blob recipes · What’s the easiest way to make fun shapes? https://ilo.im/164zjl

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#Shapes #Blobs #Generators #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #CSS #HTML #SVG

So here are the photos, and Thank YOU so much @nora
#Trans #pridemonth2025 #Art #Blobs

A rainbow shipping bag with Nora's little kobold sticker on with text underneath saying THANK YOU

Two jewelry boxes, one bluegrey, and one black sit on my green craft mat on my desk, with a sticker with the same adorable image as noted in previous image, but underneath it says nora.jewelry

My left hand holding a the cameo bit of a Kraken cameo necklace, with silvertone frame, bone coloured carving with light blue in the relief

A rainbow blobby guy! Glass blobs melted together in harmonious chaos

Biomolekulare Kondensate wurden lange belächelt, sind aber zentrale Akteure des Lebens. Sie regeln wichtige Prozesse in unseren Zellen — und könnten neue Therapien gegen Krankheiten wie Alzheimer oder Krebs ermöglichen.

#BiomolekulareKondensate #Blobs #RNA #SpektrumDerWissenschaft #SpektrumPodcast #Zellbiologie #SpektrumDerWissenschaftDerPodcast