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Faintdreams

@Faintdreams@dice.camp

Geek. Curious. #Critter. Cross-Platform User. Occasionally sweary.
Likes Problematic (so most) Disney films.
Bippity boppity back the fuck up.
Pronouns: She/They

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aral, to DuckDuckGo
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“Choice.”

Qwant search for foo at 09:18: Qwant is temporarily unavailable.
Ecosia search for foo @ 09:17: There was a problem loading search results for “foo”
Two astronauts staring at Earth from space. Front astronaut: “you mean it’s all just Bing?” Rear astronaut, aiming gun at front astronaut: “Always has been.”

Faintdreams,
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@EVDHmn @aral thanks, I hadn't heard of Kagi before and shall investigate further.

Faintdreams, to random
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Orla Gartland

"These Are the things That I've learned."

" Don't compare your face to the other faces, it's not worth it.

Take up all the space, even when you think you don't deserve it.

You're living your life in your mind, you don't get it.

Never buy the jeans that you've never seen, you'll regret it"

https://youtu.be/bonEOAMGkqw?si=Y4KT5qEg7ghfEnJq

mwichary, to random
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Has anyone written about how textual generative AI feels strangely close to toxic masculinity in some respects? The absolute confidence in everything stated, the lack of understanding of the consequences of getting that confidence wrong for important questions, the semi-gaslighty feeling when it “corrects” itself when you call it out on something. It so often feels like talking to someone one would despise and avoid in “real life.” I’m curious if anyone did some writing on this.

Faintdreams,
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@mwichary when the a large set of the conversational corpus of LLM's is taken from places like Twitter and a reddit, then their ... Flavour of discourse is the output

Faintdreams, to random
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Watching a drama that was filmed in 2004, and I forgot how the clothes silhouette - particularly flared trousers and jeans for women - was such a predominant thing.

Jyoti, to ElectronicMusic
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If you're involved in electronic music-making and you're not white, please DM me on here.

I've just been watching loads of #SuperBooth footage and was aghast at how overwhelmingly white the whole thing is. I've seen more diversity at EDL marches.

So, I'm gonna try and do something about it. And the first thing is organising.

#Diversity #ElectronicMusic #Synthesizer #MusicProduction #DrumMachines

Faintdreams,
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@Jyoti Fess from Reverb covered the event - they might be a good person to reach out to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPlZBH0BF8I

Faintdreams, to random
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Remember:

For everything that one person finds to be Easy another person somewhere else on the planet finds doing the exact same thing Incredibly Difficult through no fault of their own.

Faintdreams,
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@Supermouse This is further complicated because what constitutes 'good ' or 'perfect' toast or scrambled eggs is highly personal to the person eating it !

astrid, to random
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nightcore? no no no, we're doing knightcore. lancelot, prepare the lute

Faintdreams,
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@astrid

@infryq

Bardcore is a thing already !

Love me some Hildegard Von Blingin' :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVCE6HqAPts

garius, to random
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Rebranding myself as an eco-friendly alternative to ChatGPT.

Ask me a question and I'll mansplain an answer to you, while consuming much less water and energy.

Faintdreams, (edited )
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@garius oooh I've got a good one for ya.

Who - aside from the tech CEO's who stand to make money from it directly - actually WANTS A.I. and LLM functionality shoved into .. everything?

Outside of very specific niche medical uses - eg scanning for caner cells - what are the Ethical use cases?

Faintdreams, to random
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Probably a long shot - but does anyone know of an easy(ish) way to have Mastodon posts automatically cross post to a Dreamwidth account ?

Faintdreams, to animation
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Soo The Gummi Bears cartoon series exists solely because Michael Eisner - the then CEO of Disney Inc - had a daughter who loved Gummy Bear Candy.

Wow.

"Adventures of the Gummi Bears is an American animated children's television series created by Jymn Magon and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series .. takes place in a fantasy world of medieval lands and magic, and focuses on the lives of seven mystical beings known as Gummi Bears. " - Wikipedia

Faintdreams, to random
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So many friends and family went to Instagram / WhatsApp / Facebook - especially Facebook during the Pandemic and especially after Twitter became a (mostly) unusable and unstable cesspit, and Anything Zukerberg owns does me serious mental damage but .. I miss all those people so much.

Faintdreams, to random
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Needed to search for something on my old Twitter (yes that's it's name) account. A certain 'Boy Wizard' Authors tweets are all over my 'following' tab and I am not and have never followed her.

It's a flaming Trashfire and I'm still so angry that a utility millions of people were using, was destroyed simply because the MOST Divorced (currently) Billionaire in the world wanted a new toy.

Last actual post (not repost) was around Aug 2023 (?), Dec (2023) was final post giving Mastodon details

sashabilton, to linux
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The hard part of setting up a new is done. The initial sticker selection is all important. Now, what and packages should I install? I reckon I'll mostly use it for hardware & server side programming.

Faintdreams,
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@sashabilton Debian ! 🙂

duckbunny, to random
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Things Achieved So Far Today:
-edited a podcast
-wearing clothes

Faintdreams,
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@duckbunny

Some days this is all you can manage and that is okay.

Faintdreams, to Pubtips
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Today I learned that there is an entire classification of fiction books which are deemed (and advertised as) 'Clean Books' and .. wow

Wow, wow, wow, wow.

Apparently a 'Clean Book' doesn't feature any graphic violence, cussing (swearwords) or sexual situations.

I Cannot Even with this Problematic Can O Worms ...


Faintdreams, to random
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Oh yes, this is the time of year when I am incapable of smelling anything other than ALL THE FRESH CUT GRASS IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW.

:: sigh ::

:: sniff ::

Faintdreams, to linux
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Just figured out how to rip audio .mp3's from .mp4's and also .mkv files so now I can listen to my favourite Tv shows alll the time.

bwahahahaha !

[Oh. No]

Faintdreams, to VintageOSes
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Microsoft releases MS-DOS 4.0 as Open Source Code.. well kinda..?

"Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release" - Ars technica

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/microsoft-and-ibm-release-source-code-for-one-of-the-weirdest-versions-of-ms-dos/

Faintdreams, to fanfiction
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Oh no it finally happened

I'm at chapter 4 of what should be a 7 part Fanfic, but it looks like the author abandoned it.. in 2017

It was sooo good and there was a mystery and now it shall forever be a cliffhanger :C

::sigh::

Faintdreams, to books
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Looking for modern (so 2000's onwards or at least no older than mid 1990's) Mystery / Romance that DOES NOT involve murder.

Does such a thing exist?

Reccs please !

I assume that Mystery / Romance as a hybrid genre already exists but am not sure... 🤷🏿‍♀️

I know that ' Romance & ' as a genre is a far spanning horizon...

Faintdreams, (edited )
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@satsuma for Iain Banks I'd definitely make a date range exception. Thanks !

Faintdreams,
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@RogerBW oooh I know that A. Christie was adamant about film adaptations not creating a Love Interest for Poirot, but didn't realize other writers considered it a cornerstone of the Crime / Mystery genre.

You have opened up a nice rabbit hole for me.

Thanks! 👍🏾

Faintdreams, to random
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YouTuber: This punch needle project wasn't working with the knitting yarn I had, so I picked up some cheap embroidery thread to use instead because it comes in sooo many more pretty colours.

Apparently there is a difference between wool and embroidery stuff but I don't know what it is.

Me: :: Eye Twitch ::

Faintdreams, (edited ) to random
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No, it's not just you.

does appear to be experiencing some unscheduled down time right now [10.45AM BST aka UTC+1] :S

Its back up now [ 1.34 pm BST ]

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