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dragfyre

@dragfyre@mastodon.sandwich.net

#Webdev, educator, dad, husband, world citizen, #Bahai. Canada/SEAsia. He/him, they/them. Roaming the globe, learning more each day.

#internet #wiki #ai #hci #bots #ux #cs #education #ethics #fedi22

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DaNanner, to random
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Ok, AI on Reddit really isn't necessary at this point in time. Still too many bad actors

the company said that the Reddit partnership will provide it access to “real-time, structured and unique content” — allowing its tools and models to “better understand and showcase” that content. Reddit content will be incorporated into ChatGPT,, and the companies will work together to bring unspecified new “AI-powered features” to both Reddit users and moderators.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/openai-inks-deal-to-train-ai-on-reddit-data/

dragfyre,
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@DaNanner not to mention there is quite a bit of nonsense on Reddit - training an AI on content indiscriminately will result in a pretty trash model

mttaggart, to random
dragfyre,
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@johnelamb @mttaggart Posting in legendary thread

mcc, to random
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So I spent a big chunk of my life living next door to Louisiana (Houston) and now I live next door to Quebec (Toronto) and it just this moment occurred to me to check if Quebec has beignets. Like, I'd simply assumed if I ever went liking for beignets I'd find them. So I asked a Quebecoise friend, and

Okay, so they do have them, but—

Quebec beignets have holes???

My world is (topologically speaking) rocked

dragfyre,
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@mcc yeah to be honest they're not all that haha. They're famous though, although more so in the Ottawa area.

I want to try a beignet now 🤔

dragfyre, to fediBots
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Nice to see that @himawari_wpac has been back up and posting for a while with no crashes. Not sure what caused the last crash exactly, but hope the error reporting is robust enough now that I'll be able to figure it out.

mitch, to random
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i have been unable to use my legs thanks to a back injury for a week, and now i missed . please send me something silly.

dragfyre,
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@mitch since you missed your . i have enclosed some estrogen to help restore your . to its regular schedule

or you're pregnant, in which case congratulations 🎊

sylvia_ritter, to art
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I will probably delete this toot later.
I have seen AI-generated images containing the same elements (e.g. an AI-generated image with the same amount of cats, two small, and one large white cat with intricate golden patterns, a lotus flower, and a remaining coin at the top) & the same colors in my artwork. I especially mean the right picture in the three-pictured layout.

How should I feel about such situations?

Ai Products which I found next to my Six of Coins artwork.

dragfyre,
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@sylvia_ritter oh gosh this one is just terrible

mcc, to random
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This is a really good t-shirt

dragfyre,
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@mcc Accurate representation of modern public discourse

scanlime, to random
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"All Dogs Go To Heaven" (1989) was on my library's streaming site and i am trying it, the vibe is amazing. i know i have seen this a million times as a kid and parts of it are burned into my memory, yet it also makes no fucking sense especially as a kid's movie

dragfyre,
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@scanlime Don Bluth!

dragfyre, to fediverse
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growing pains: The smallish and instances I use have gotten big enough that handling all of the data is starting to cause issues, slowdowns and whatnot. The reality of distributed/federated computing coming home to roost?

dragfyre,
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To be honest, the problem is a lot more pronounced with media sharing than with microblogging. I wonder if that's one reason why there's been a lot more proliferation of microblogging sites on Fedi versus media sharing sites - running your own instance involves a greater investment to handle streaming and storage.

Media storage is going to be an issue for too; it's a can that we've been kicking down the road for a while now.

samuteki, to random
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I hope them college kids have discovered Rage Against the Machine.

dragfyre,
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@samuteki is it even possible to be in college and not discover RATM 🤔

Granted they're not quite at John Lennon and Jim Morrison levels of pervasiveness but they're up there

jsbarretto, to random
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A few days ago I suddenly had a desire to port Super Mario 64 to the Gameboy Advance.

I quickly realised that a straight port was going to be impossible given that the GBA:

  • Is about an order of magnitude slower than the N64
  • Lacks a GPU or any sort of hardware parallelism (you get about 10 cycles per pixel, per frame to rasterise everything in software, and that's it)
  • Has no hardware support for floating point maths

So, I guess I'm rewriting the whole thing from scratch.

video/mp4

dragfyre,
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@jsbarretto um you wut now

hannah, to random
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Feel like i’m on one of those vacation planets from star trek

dragfyre,
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@hannah best take ever

dragfyre, to Minecraft
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Crossing this one off my "I've always wanted to do this" list: I got my fourteen-year-old single-player world running on a private Bukkit server so I could run DynMap (the dynamic map that you've seen on Bahaicraft videos). Finally, we can see the world in its fullest, most discontinuous glory.

https://diode.zone/w/vwRkqtJYoxJSyfqcmhPqW5

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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So there's some psycho going around my neighborhood and letting off shots at like 3:30 in the morning over the last few weeks and i have no idea how to address this since the cops aren't going to do shit lol

dragfyre,
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dragfyre, to fediBots
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About time to add new photos to @blackjoy.

dragfyre,
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Now the question is: Is it finally time to move @blackjoy off , give it a more functional and flexible codebase, and run it on my own box? 🤔 (And do I have enough time and energy to do it before I get distracted by IRL again?)

dragfyre, to nature
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Mama bird feeds the baby birds.

https://diode.zone/w/7gAy9taVrtYHYL3HXuQzQk

Go back about a week and you'll see the eggs before they hatched:

https://diode.zone/w/b4qBuXDaQLX224uRKYkV9Z

dragfyre,
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A couple weeks down, and now their eyes are open, feathers are in, and they're flapping about between feedings.

https://diode.zone/w/bsiKsxhribbG6WPwPvhxgJ

evan, to random
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Happy Earth Day to all who celebrate.

dragfyre,
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@evan happy Earth Day to all the earthlings?

dragfyre, to Minecraft
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It's all about renewal in our fourteen-year-old single-player 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!

https://diode.zone/w/rizusGvXbVB9ri6izAk154

dragfyre,
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@mitch found a copy of the mitchcraft world, too! I might do a one-off stream of that one too.

dragfyre,
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@mitch Will give you a heads up when I think I'll have the time.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Have you seen a laser show at a planetarium?

dragfyre,
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@evan Evan are you shilling for Big Planetarium now? :V

dragfyre, to fediBots
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About time to add more polls to @pollbot.

dragfyre,
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And this is done. Added around ten new questions to @pollbot, including one with a wide selection of random answers.

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