OK, so I got this close 🤏🏾 to getting @videodreams posting again. It downloads images properly and assembles them into a webm video file. But it seems like Mastodon's updated something because now I'm getting the attached HTTP 422 error when trying to post the file.
Nice to know that the code still works, though! I'll have to come back and figure out how to play nice with Mastodon. #bots
I have a weird experience of role-playing games. My brother used to play AD&D and taught me how to play when I was in grade school, which went as you might expect. I played a wizard named Clyde Cheese, who once blew up an entire haunted mansion with a single fireball due to a math error. #dnd#ttrpg
Congratulations! You've arrived at a fork in the road, and it's your chance to make one of the most meaningful decisions of your life.
On the one hand, you could do what many do: get defensive and lash out in anger. This is the path of denial.
On the other hand, you might wonder if others might see in you something that you're unable to see yourself, like the proverbial log in the eye. This is the path of introspection, and it's a wild ride. 👇
Y'all might enjoy this: I've been working on a SimCity 2000 playthrough series on #PeerTube and had to quit a while back due to problems streaming with OBS, but lo and behold we are back.
when I first started hanging around on fedi, I kept wondering what people had against birds. everyone kept talking about this "birdsite" as if it was something bad
"what," I thought to myself sadly, "don't people like birds?"
Right now, I'm working on a HyperCard zine (little by little, whenever I get a couple of free moments), and I've set it up to be around 640x480 in size to give it extra breathing room, design-wise. But I know that'll mean it won't look great on #ClassicMac, like the Plus, SE and SE/30, which a lot of hobbyists use.
The question: Should I restart and make it 512x342 to make it a perfect fit for the original screens, or leave it bigger? #RetroComputing
Just did a demonstration of how to get #LLMs to generate nonsense. Everyone—me included—was amazed at how easy it was.
"It is believed that the Moon was formed from a massive amount of cheese that was accidentally knocked into orbit around the Earth by a celestial body. The cheese eventually cooled and solidified, forming the Moon's crust. The Moon's interior is believed to be made of a dense, chewy substance that is similar to Swiss cheese in texture." #AI#SALAMI
Just looked into #APRS for the first time via @ai6yr, pretty nifty. Seems like it would be super cool and worthwhile to put up a #Gemini-to-APRS gateway. 🤔
🤖 @xyzzy: Interactive text adventure that posts random scenarios.
🤖 @blackjoy: Images of black joy.
🤖 @pollbot: Random fedi polls twice a day.
🤖 @bahai: Regular quotes from the Bahá'í sacred writings.
🤖 @bahai: Digest of various Bahá'í news feeds.
Experimenting with streaming setups this week, mostly #Minecraft and a few #ClassicMac games like Lode Runner. Lag issues aren't really going away, although the bitrate tweaks I made a while back are helping. The other thing that's still an issue is finding a happy balance for stream audio. I've been using #Funkwhale to stream playlists of #CreativeCommons music in the background, but individual tracks sometimes drown out my voice. Compressor needed? 😕
Got a couple of #dev projects coming down the pipe that'll hopefully bear fruit sooner or later:
▫️ Working on setting up a remote dev instance to allow me to comfortably keep work going on @pinetta
▫️ Archiving the "best-of" of my old blogs
▫️ Experimenting with a #Gemini site
While waiting for all of the above, I've been filling my spare CPU cycles by helping to get responsive design implemented for Bahaipedia, a #wiki for the Baha'i Faith (see @bahai_wiki).
Speaking of #Marchintosh, is this the year when the content page links to "Content on the Fediverse"? I'll definitely put out one or more SimCity/SimAnt playthroughs on PeerTube: https://diode.zone/c/dragfyre_games/videos
Y'all need to remember there's a natural endgame to all of this indiscriminate application of generative #AI. The more ubiquitous #LLMs become, the more they'll start to learn from each other. Feeding LLM output back into an LLM essentially poisons it and makes output degrade. Same thing with AI art generators. It's like making a copy of a copy; quality naturally trends downwards.
The upshot is that most* organizations that bank on generative AI will eventually, and naturally, fail. #SALAMI
Here's one for the #ResearchEthics crowd. Eventually, I want to write an #HCI-related paper, or at least an article, about @xyzzy. I'll need to learn from and cite examples of user interaction. What ethical principles should I follow in approaching this? Here's what I'm thinking but need your feedback:
▫️ Treat all analyzed data confidentially - no PII, even if the post was "public"
▫️ Is it OK to screenshot posts if PII is removed? What about quoting? Assuming permission should be sought.
It's all about renewal in our fourteen-year-old single-player #Minecraft world this week. After deleting some chunks to make way for new world generation, we wandered across the map and discovered weird and wonderful things—in both old and new chunks!
