Jezza! @jezza@qoto.org
Proper nutter.
Joined Jul 2023
@levisan i think we need more than that... first, "open mythologies" which other people are free to make work from without complications, including being able to sell it (as media, not as IP.)
The second is that we need people to focus on creating new things. It's hard for me to believe that Marvel's spandex or Star Wars Trek is a monopoly on the possibilities of storytelling and universe building.
@levisan no, i'm not a bot. 🤖
@levisan there's an "intangible culture heritage" argument, which is as legitimate as your belief in such, like the protections extended to cheese from some particular part of Europe.
To me it seems like part of the larger scheme to own and manage culture.
It's sort of like how fanfic is a response to the reality that modern mythologies are copyrighted intellectual property.
Nanoo nanoo, live long and prosper.
@levisan apparently the hollywood sign is such an object. To me, this is absolutely ridiculous, and so laws be damned. If you or I are in public, we're subject to photography without our consent. Seems the same thing should be the case for the crap called public art inflicted on us in a public space without our consent (and usually with our tax money.)
🏴☠️📸!
@levisan or two line, or line priority.
Coffee is the best argument I have for drone delivery. Flying coffeemakers and steamers FTW.
@levisan i think coffeeshops and retailers should prioritize those for whom coffee is a medical necessity over those for whom it is a recreational drug.
@levisan my pet peeve is the use of the word "community" when there is no unity, nor anything in common other than some arbitrary category of the mind, and the primary purpose is for some asshole to speak for other people.
"On behalf of the XYZ community..."
"Speaking as a member of the XYZ community..."
... and that's when I shot them/they, your honor.
@levisan i buy Christmas lights and gift paper on Dec 26/27, and usually, pascha is after the western date for easter, so I'm used to getting candy and whatnot at a discount, too. :-)
@levisan only to the degree that it is not a function of monopoly/cartel. If that were true, inkjet ink, paper, light bulbs, and vinyl records would be shipping cost only.
To the degree that you can't roll your own and must buy it from an industrial concern, it will always have an associated cost.
On the other hand, at the end of the season when your neighbor has nowhere else to store and can use no further tomatoes, they come free by the pound: there's no cartel or monopoly on their distribution or production.
@levisan the worthless waste of time that is public education.
@levisan is this list available?
I began to think about such a list of my own, and strangely, I'm drawing a total blank. I can't think of a single song that expresses politics in line with my own, or, for that matter, politics at all; perhaps i'm not recognizing them or thinking about it usefully. Literally the closest I could come is a Whitlam's song about one's city being a massive disappointment. :-)
@levisan what's the motivation?
@levisan "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
- Groucho Marx
@levisan but if you point that out to them, you're a sexist (or racist, nazi, etc.)
Please consider this parable:
https://gradypolcyn.medium.com/the-parable-of-the-donkey-and-the-tiger-11a4b0b9327c
🍍Pineapple
> Modern GUIs abandoned old hardware long ago. Even "lightweight" desktops demand resources that vintage PCs and embedded systems don't have. Pineapple brings windowed multitasking to machines with no FPU, limited RAM, and modest CPUs—think Mac System 1 meets Windows 1.0, but with TCP/IP networking. Designed for FreeDOS, the whole thing fits on a floppy.
@levisan an invitation to redefine neighbor to those with adjacent properties? :-)
@levisan even with thousands, sometimes you find The One. 🎄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHU99s793q8
Vapes on the sidewalk (use gloves) could well be your next electronics project...
https://github.com/schlae/VapeRE/
@realTuckFrumper so... exactly like Biden, except able to walk and talk?
@levisan given the timbre of the conversation, where people speak of AI as if it has agency, desire, and creativity, I don't think people understand that.
"AI" is also the wrong term, unless you mean Actually Indians. OCR is "AI", a proven and robust technology, but no one means OCR when they say "AI". No one says LLM to distinguish it, from, say, OCR... it's just "AI."
I'm not sure what use it (meaning mostly LLMs) has that it hasn't already proven itself abysmal at, from deleting user's hard drives to offering people deals that companies don't actually offer, to suggesting field telescopes as gun sites (all things I've seen in the last week and a half) it's just... not a thing.
The military's recent rollout of a specialized version of Gemini lead to crashes and lack of access even as personnel were urged to "integrate it into their battle rhythm", touting such amazing features for the soldier as... formatting documents.
To really make the LLM parlour trick work, like ELIZA of days past, it strokes the user and prompts them, mostly agreeing or affirming them. All the way to suicide, divorce, and erotic interaction.
I don't see what positive use it has, nor the justification for the energy, water, and space its consuming.
Proper nutter.
Joined Jul 2023
