Post Your Art and Writings Made on FreeBSD

Crumb 1460: The First Time Traveler: The first time traveler was a Cro-Magnon female who lived in the Iberian Peninsula, entered a cave, and found herself in medieval Europe. She adapted easily and had great success fighting in the Crusades.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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I have a lot of fun discovering what ChatGPT generates from my crumbs (I just determine the style and let ChatGPT come up with what the image has to depict as an interpretation of the crumb) so I'm adding two new styles to the mix: photorealistic Japanese magazine and photorealistic steampunk. This next image is in the latter.

Crumb 1461: The Future Door: If you step out of your home backward, and, as soon as both your feet are touching the outside floor or ground, turn around, you’ll travel to 10 years in the future for 10 seconds. This only works once in your lifetime.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1462: RA;UN+/-: When I read with true interest some comments on the FreeBSD Internet Forum posted by very tech-savvy people and understand nothing because I lack the necessary base knowledge, I wish it were part of Internet etiquette to write an appreciative shorthand like “RA;UN+” (Read it All; Understood Nothing) to thank the poster without falsely conveying that I understood anything. Evidently, “RA;UN-” would be reserved for when you don’t understand something and you believe this is because it’s badly written.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1463: Crying from Beauty: Sometimes you see someone so beautiful that your eyelids forget to close and you start tearing up.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1465: Complimentary Perks: If they’re giving you complimentary perks, you are paying too much.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1466: The Immortal: There’s an immortal being on Earth who is currently more than 20 thousand years old. She’s an invulnerable forest mouse who also possesses extraordinary strength and speed. The few humans who have seen her assert that she has a crimson mark in the form of an S on her chest, which you can see when she stands on her tiny feet and inspects her surroundings with keen senses.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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This is a true story. My laptop is an LG Gram. Don't ask me for more specifications. I'm not using it now and I don't want to start it or take it out of its case. I'm in recluse-mode, using my desktop (using FreeBSD 15 on metal, of course).

In my page on DeviantArt you'll be able to find 8 additional versions of this crumb (I have to upload them yet), in case you want to use them for whatever. They are free to use. The crumb as pure text is free to use as well. All this is true for all my crumbs.

Crumb 1467: Destined Love: I got disillusioned with Linux after becoming fed up with Windows, so I decided to install FreeBSD on my quite modern laptop as my first experience with this OS. I didn’t check whether my hardware was compatible. It took me some effort, but I managed to install FreeBSD 14 and, guess what, everything worked fine. I seem to be a lucky guy because this is supposed to not happen ever—or perhaps FreeBSD is currently much more compatible than people say, and the opposite has become a false cliché.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1468: The Creation of K-pop Idols: Verus Deus created K-pop idols so they could be admired by the rest of the mortals and these understood how unworthy they were of existing by comparison.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Note: Crumb 1469 is too bleak for this forum. You can find it on DeviantArt.

Crumb 1470: Power Minimalism: Some tech enthusiasts, aka power users, manage to set up their FreeBSD computer so it runs so few base apps that the CPU might as well be a tiny scatterbrained office worker using a pencil, a notebook, and a pocket calculator.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1471: K-pop Idols vs Super-zombies: In 2063, the Korean Peninsula is overrun by the reanimated and superpowered cadavers of all the pissed-off victims of the former Communist regime of the North, brought back to a semblance of life by a chemical accident. Among the general chaos, the members of several K-pop groups have to band together to fight the super-zombies that have invaded the venue in which they were performing.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1472: American Cheerleaders vs Cyborg Serial-killers: In 2155, the American deep-state creates a black ops team composed of cybernetically enhanced clones of the most ruthless serial killers in history. As a test mission, they are ordered to massacre a convention of cheerleaders in Dallas, but the girls (and a few boys) use their acrobatic and athletic prowess to fight back.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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AlfredoLlaquet said:
Crumb 1472: American Cheerleaders vs Cyborg Serial-killers: In 2155, the American deep-state creates a black ops team composed of cybernetically enhanced clones of the most ruthless serial killers in history. As a test mission, they are ordered to massacre a convention of cheerleaders in Dallas, but the girls (and a few boys) use their acrobatic and athletic prowess to fight back.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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You forgot to mention remotely controlled terrorists and remotely controlled human torture programs via implanted devices. And come on, you are writing year 2155 - I'd say year 2030 they'd have the entire population of the planet cut up like piglets and implanted with horrible things - not just in the brain but all over the body.
 
Crumb 1475: About Typos and Other Errors: Not only am I a perfectionist but, which is much worse, I also suffer from obsessive personality disorder. This means that I do everything within my power to rid my work of any kind of mistake, no matter how small. Even so, human fallibility is inescapable, and I’ve grown fond of it. Now, when I notice a mistake in an old crumb, even a serious one (I think in Spanish, my English is an afterthought, which is fertile ground for slip-ups) I say to myself, “Well, this just demonstrates that I’m imperfect and so is my work.”

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1473: Gymnasts vs Alien Vampires: In 2072, during a global sports gathering in Barcelona, an alien race of flying vampires attacks Earth. At the Nou Palau, the sporting arena in which the female artistic gymnastics event is taking place, the flying fiends meet their match with the extraordinarily skilled gymnasts, who face off against them in the air.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1474: Wisdom in the Age of AI: Don’t blame the tool; tame the tool.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1476: Sanitation Workers vs the Intelligent Pathogen: During the summer of 2066, the sanitation workers of the city of Rome notice the most peculiar thing—Rome’s trash suddenly smells different in a way that alarms them. They warn the authorities, but their concerns are disregarded, so they are left to their own devices to fight an intelligent alien pathogen that’s started the conquest of Earth by setting up shop in the bowels of the citizens of Rome.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1477: The Final Frontier of AI: On January 18th, 2026, I’m starting to suspect that my predictions about AI being very far from achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) are as misguided as most auguries tend to be because a certain LLM model seems to have solved several hardcore mathematical problems this same week. That’s very exciting news. Maybe I’ll see AGI in my lifetime. Do I fear AI developing even true creativity, as a creator of fictional worlds? Not at all—creativity is a level playing field because it’s always judged subjectively.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1478: Extreme Solutions: I’ve always had a natural tendency to go to extremes. All kinds of social savants routinely discourage both ends of any issue and idealize balance, but what if balance just doesn’t work for you? I’m too old for ineffective common truths. If going to extremes takes me places, I’ll live on the edge, precisely where I feel more comfortable.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

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Crumb 1500: A New Kind of Wealth Is in Peril: The rich never have liked it when the hoi polloi get to do things that were so far out of their reach, like flying everywhere, because Capitalism ends up “affordabilizing” most things when not disrupted by oligarchs or politicians. Now the intellectually endowed and the highly literate hate ChatGPT with great passion for similar reasons.

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina.
Design and image by ChatGPT.

MY PRODUCTION PROCESS
  1. I write my crumbs (very short stories or reflections) when I feel like it.
  2. I have 9 prompt templates that instruct ChatGPT to convert one of my crumbs into an image using a certain style.
  3. Each template basically says to ChatGPT: create an image in this particular style that reflects what the crumb says. Add the text of the crumb on the image, plus "Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina presents".
  4. It's important to note that ChatGPT decides by itself what specific image to generate every time. I just provide the crumb and the style. It provides the rest. It's its "creativity" that decides how the image will be.
  5. To speed up the process, I use a custom FreeBSD script that gets the crumb from stdio (this means I paste it on the terminal), and consecutively pairs it with each of the prompt templates and copies each result into the clipboard, one at a time, waiting for a key press in between.
  6. I paste each final prompt into ChatGPT.
  7. ChatGPT creates the image.
  8. If the image doesn't look distorted and the text is correctly rendered, it gets approved.
  9. If the image is okay and I like it, but the rendered text has a few errors, I may decide to fix the text manually by copy-pasting individual letters, which is tedious but worth it if it means saving a nice image.
That's it.

Note: If you notice a typo in this image or any other, please leave a comment. Usually, I can fix them.

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Madagascar Conservation & Development

Madagascar Conservation & Development is a peer-review, open-access journal with geographic focus on Madagascar and surrounding islands.
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for the latest issue, the layouting (scribus, pdfunite, pdfseparate in a bash script) and copyediting (libreoffice) and gimp-ing of the cover picture (er, gimp3, darktable when it's my picture) are entirely done on my laptop under freebsd.
all done previously on debian (when i took over, some 10y ago).
all is opensource, except the font but i had no say on that matter.

hope you'll like it.
 
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