Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
@riesi I'm aware of it. It's occasionally an improvement.
Like, no one can make a web browser because the web is so complex, and we mostly use that complexity for:
- Running complex client-side applications in a cross-platform virtual machine. Which is really cool, but I kinda hate that the UI and the service are so often tied together.
- Bombarding me with distractions when I just want to read an article or watch a video or whatever.
And.. maybe a simple client would be better than a complex VM and layout engine a lot of the time?
So much of my experience of browsing the web is fighting sites over how I want them displayed, that I'm beginning to think that I don't want a web browser that renders web pages, and instead I want a web browser that scrapes content from web pages and displays it according to my preferences.
Today I learned that you can replace share/media/blank.mkv with whatever you want and Proton will (in theory) play it instead of the SMPTE pattern for videos it doesn't have transcoded. I feel like there's some meme potential here.
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So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.
villain problems
blisters from doing the evil hand rub too frequently
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AI stuff (-)
I am beginning to suspect that the labor exploitation in how LLMs are trained (tuned?) has a detrimental impact on the quality of responses. Basically, LLMs sound like someone who is being exploited, which comforts and discomforts entirely the wrong people.
AI stuff
I have set up a local LLM with a web UI on my laptop. It was pretty easy (for that I credit Arch/AUR). It barely runs but my laptop doesn't have a fan or discrete GPU so it's kind of amazing that it works at all.
(For the few things I use this for, I don't want to be there when OpenAI starts rent-seeking, and I'd rather not continue to inflate their numbers now.)
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“If difficulty itself becomes a badge of honour, you've created a trap: anything that makes the system more approachable starts to feel like it's cheapening what you achieved. You become invested in preserving the barriers you overcame.”
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
If we take the "it'll be too hard to tell who you're talking about" argument against they/them personal pronouns to its logical conclusion, we arrive at "everyone should have their own unique pronoun set". Which, has a certain appeal. Or maybe I just want my own unique pronoun set.
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https://e926.net/posts/5334115
Source 1: https://skeb.jp/@kurumilky6/works/34
Source 2: https://x.com/kurumilky6/status/1847831308724260965
Source 3: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59665593/
Source 4: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59665596/
(Reference ID: 26626)
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I am an IEEE 754 NaN value. You are an IEEE 754 NaN value. We are not the same.
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The difference between kindness and niceness is that niceness is grounded in cowardice and comfort-seeking while kindness is grounded in justice and embraces discomfort as growth
Pick the right one
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There was this brief period around 2020 that all the tumblr kids were talking about "reality shifting" and then this stopped, and it's normal for tumblr to get into a weird idea and then abandon it, but also we have to consider the possibility that everyone who was doing reality shifting simply shifted out of this timeline and that's why we stopped hearing from them
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the timing couldnt be better on this one
Catching up on feeds, a bunch of really good ocremixes dropped on Oct 31. https://ocremix.org/remixes/
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Set your clocks 92 hours forward if you want. Time isn’t real
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follow up, voidgoddess quote
Be to yourself who you would be to a partner you adore and admire and nurture all your hobbies and quirks. You are your first partner, so try not to have too toxic of a relationship with yourself.
From https://voidgoddess.org/2023/01/07/heres-your-permission-slip/
Joined Aug 2018
