and this is why i get so tired of people saying it’s bad to have a big instance like mastodon.social, like bro do you fucking want the platform to be successful or not? it seems like people just want a small isolated place to circlejerk each other rather than something globally useful.
this is such a nonsense argument, people navigate email just fine despite every single platform sending emails from their own domain.
it’s part of the appeal for me, it’s nice when things are fun
yeah sure, “cuter”, definitely nothing to do with “toot” being slang for “small fart”.
that still feels like a massive insult to tony stark, like stark did quite specifically save the universe didn’t he? pretty sure he’s supposed to be the quintessential hero who is very much imperfect but still ultimatly does good.
i don’t get why they’d do stuff like that in general, you just… don’t fucking refer to living people in media that’s set in the future lol, precisely for this reason!
it’s also kind of cringey to talking about currently living people because it feels like such a cheap grab at being relatable, “ooooo we’re talking about [person who is currently popular], that’s right, someone from your specific time period is relevant in the future!”
the one way you can do it in a decent way is to have it be an offhand remark, and even then you better be quite certain that they’re not going to suddenly start lighting orphanages on fire 5 years after everyone’s seen your production.
as silly as it sounds stuff like this is what prevented me from ever clicking with pokemon, even as a kid.
like sure this all seems kinda fun, and was perfectly fine for something on the fucking gameboy, but then it never really gained any depth?
Then you have the anime, which i actually kinda enjoyed because it had depth to it, they actually explored how things would work instead of it all just being set dressing for a dog fighting game.
maybe they just die emotionally
i have never even had the desire to use a chatbot, the only AI thing i’ve really found actually useful is DDG’s thing where it will just pull directly from sources like wikipedia to answer a question, like “what is the combined population of NYC and boston?”.
you hear that said about AI because companies are desperately throwing more and more resources at it to get 0.3% better results, and people are collectively running an insane amount of prompts all the time.
but on a personal level it’s not really any different from any other computations, people render videos all the time and no one complains about the resource usage from that, because companies aren’t trying to sell bloated video rendering services to gardening businesses.
i’m using fedora on ext4 lol, the single unavoidable problem with BTRFS is that i’d have to switch to it :P
“chmod 777 is opening your front door with a sledgehammer”
i don’t have any stake in this, i’m a fucking xfce user lmao, but man “hyprland” is not a very great name since it immediately makes me think it’s a crypto bullshit project…
almost sounds like god doesn’t want us doing machine learning
so eventually we’re going to end up with .internaldomainonlyforinternalusenottobeexposedtotheinternetPLEASEcanwejusthaveONEproperlyinternalonlydomainhowdifficultcanthisbeyouguys
deep rock galactic, stardew valley, and minecraft work on linux.
what more could you possibly need?
you go to shake someone’s hand, it comes off. they’re made of cake
you scream and leap into the arms of another person, you fall onto them and are covered in whipped cream. they’re also made of cake
you vomit all over yourself, the room is silent, you look at everyone in horror. they’re all made of cake
you vomit again. it’s whipped cream. you are made of cake
it’s unclear what the shared secret is.
it’s actually just literally any string you want, but they should tell you that fact in the same paragraph as when it’s relevant…
funnily there’s an… ansible i think? project that makes selfhosting synapse easy as fuck, you basically just go “ansible deploy synapse” or whatever the syntax is and it does almost everything for you.
how much of the budget can a mastodon instance even take? like yeah sure don’t invest more into it but surely they could just leave it as a place for official fediverse accounts for their various projects?