Darryl Wright 🇨🇦 🎧 @darryl@qoto.org
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Technical Director in Video Games / Music Fan / Developer / Writer / Entrepreneur / Serial Optimist / Aspiring Stoic
#GameDev #Programming #Music #NowPlaying #DnB #webdev #foss #Science #Reason #NovaScotia #Tech #fedi22 #fedi23
Joined Dec 2022
I just wrote a program which queries ChatGPT for any list of music you ask for and turns it into a Spotify playlist.
Example: "Give me a list of the top 50 punk songs released in the year 2000" -> New Spotify Playlist.
@brownpau
Wow. That little strip is a recipe for loneliness and depression. I hope the weather is nice.
Going to read up some more on ActivityPub this weekend. Still thinking about a high performance, low cost, single user instance.
@acjay It sounds like you’re talking about Microsoft Teams and let me tell you, that ain’t it. We’re forced to use it at my company and many of us dream of Slack.
@LouisIngenthron But that's easy for you and I because we know better. For "average user" who has no understanding or interest in decentralization, they need the path to least resistance. And yes, that brings us back to a centralized onboarding experience.
@LouisIngenthron If I asked you the question "What page do I go to to get on Mastodon?" -- what would your answer be?
Right now there is no simple answer aside from pointing them at the major instances (which is how most people are migrating over). That's contrary to the whole idea of decentralization though.
The best implementation I've seen is that site that asks you some simple questions and then points you at a short list of potential instances to choose from. I think that exact process needs a centralized landing page.
@LouisIngenthron You've made my point for me because email is a great example of something that's had many years of private companies putting money into making access to it easier to access (for better or for worse). See gmail, Hey, ProtonMail etc.
You can definitely say they "don't want to understand it" but in as far as the goal is widespread adoption, they shouldn't have to, should they? If I asked my aunt what SMTP server she is using, she has no idea, but she sure can send me 20 ancient memes about Jesus every day.
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Portmanteau of the moment: "AI-gerism" https://hope1032.com.au/stories/trending/2023/chatgpt-ai-gerism-and-the-ethics-of-it-all/
#Mastodon certainly has the functionality to replace #Twitter but from the average mainstream user's perspective, understanding the ideas behind federation of services, selecting an instance etc are not only irrelevant, but tedious TMI. Not everyone values these things. For most of Twitter, they want a single URL, a login and a password they have to enter once.
@alexjsp I think the only option left to you is to get this onto a media outlet or YouTube'er with enough followers to have a reputation hit on Insta/Meta.
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So I've been secretly in a cold war with some weird crypto bros for like 6 months now, and worryingly in the last couple days it's looking like they've won. They wanted my Instagram handle, and somehow they've now got it. Without my consent. And it's kinda scary. Strap in for a toot storm (is that what we call it?) [1/16]
People at my workplace this week were making jokes about Drum 'n' Bass being harsh. Ironically, there was a facebook discussion about some of the most beautiful / haunting #neurofunk and Drum 'n' Bass tracks throughout the genre's history on one of my Facebook groups. I compiled some of the songs that were nominated into a single playlist of the most beautiful, haunting and classic Drum 'n' Bass tracks.
#NowPlaying
#DrumNBass
#Music
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVNRnvBCys668qUwlcIywnLkWiM7SL0Ed&feature=share
@eecastro Where were you 8 years ago when we enrolled our daughter in a private school that followed a tailored learning program?!
I think he probably wrote this on a day like today in #novascotia
I've got that feeling like you're driving your car through a car wash. The only difference is it's my house. #Weather #rainstorm
@ambulocetus This is fascinating stuff.
I recently read something about how all our energy crises could be addressed cheaply, safely and sustainably by gravity drives installed in old mines. What I didn't read was any mention of anyone actually getting started on this.
Also, it's clear that the author never saw Event Horizon.
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- @punkscience:matrix.org
Technical Director in Video Games / Music Fan / Developer / Writer / Entrepreneur / Serial Optimist / Aspiring Stoic
#GameDev #Programming #Music #NowPlaying #DnB #webdev #foss #Science #Reason #NovaScotia #Tech #fedi22 #fedi23
Joined Dec 2022
