Posts by alys@selfy.army
(DIR) Post #AEOqDchYuHqADuoQNs by alys@selfy.army
2021-12-14T03:59:48Z
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in the 80s they did not ask whether it was possible to make a computer peripheral ad both christmas-themed and horny, they just went and did it.
(DIR) Post #AF4DvuSvs3ATQcUef2 by alys@selfy.army
2022-01-03T15:09:28Z
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one consequence of disney's cultural dominance and the obscene lengths of copyright is that once things enter the public domain, the public domain images have relatively little cachet because disney's versions have obliterated them in our collective memory.
(DIR) Post #AF4DvwPSdvZzSQsuWm by alys@selfy.army
2022-01-03T15:10:16Z
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i don't think this is a novel argument but i think it tends to be overlooked because we tend to talk about those issues separately.
(DIR) Post #AFcPRC2TLF71DtvWBE by alys@selfy.army
2022-01-20T01:35:32Z
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it's darkly funny to me how tolkien's obsessive worldbuilding, insanely long copyright terms, and the 21st century media conglomeration have lead to this truly wild web of rights
(DIR) Post #AFcPRD7TK8hoZhH1c0 by alys@selfy.army
2022-01-20T01:37:17Z
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copyright exists to promote artistic expression, which is why you can riff on winnie the pooh as long as he's not wearing a red shirt.
(DIR) Post #AFcPRE5ji4uZabT9Xs by alys@selfy.army
2022-01-20T01:41:29Z
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imagine having to hire both a lawyer and a tolkien scholar to determine whether the script to your elf tv show is legal
(DIR) Post #AKYzQfOFzwBcC4Je0u by alys@selfy.army
2022-06-03T06:11:34Z
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i am once again asking events to stop unfolding until we've grappled with the events that have already unfolded.
(DIR) Post #AKYzQggNC4GuCXnctE by alys@selfy.army
2022-06-03T21:30:54Z
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honestly hilarious how this is getting shared so much.
(DIR) Post #APHNmKByxkrw6POk52 by alys@selfy.army
2022-11-05T01:41:31Z
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folks on the mastodon.online instance, how is it? i want to let people know they can just go with a general instance if they can't decide but i don't want to send people to a subpar instance.
(DIR) Post #APHNmLXHy1VSGmNGvg by alys@selfy.army
2022-11-05T01:44:47Z
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selfy.army has been great for me, but "just get on the instance your friend runs, duh" is not applicable to most people.
(DIR) Post #APHNmMLyvY3Wo05kwa by alys@selfy.army
2022-11-05T02:09:20Z
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kinda wish people could move between instances more easily. then you could tell people to just start with a general purpose one and migrate when you find a better one.
(DIR) Post #AR9YNeJr1QLrNkjyBE by alys@selfy.army
2021-10-23T06:55:44Z
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rick and morty implies the existence of rick or morty, rick nand morty, and rick xor morty
(DIR) Post #AYIibdn99YDmjxS9g0 by alys@selfy.army
2023-08-01T22:38:10Z
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@brewsterkahle i completely agree on the value of physical books in libraries, but in my experience librarians are much more aware of the tradeoffs involved than this article makes it sound like. also, this author's dismissal of gay latino studies seems to be based more on homophobia than actually examining the research in question.(in fairness, the Manchester City Library pulping linked to does sound like a pretty bad call by the librarians or administrators.)
(DIR) Post #AYcjhOD4lAJQ3JS2bI by alys@selfy.army
2023-07-29T23:11:24Z
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@fasterthanlime the key is to have friends in multiple time zones for temporal coverage and geographic redundancy
(DIR) Post #AYuTpfLtVrPUFntbOa by alys@selfy.army
2023-08-20T03:49:20Z
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@simon "I apologize, but I cannot explain where civil blood makes civil blood unclean, as it goes against ethical and moral standards, and promotes negative stereotypes and discrimination."
(DIR) Post #AZbyDcA49A4jrluAfQ by alys@selfy.army
2023-09-10T03:23:28Z
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@simon i have kind of wondered if a partial solution to the "hallucination" problem is to get the llm to produce output in a format that can be automatically checked.
(DIR) Post #AZvtwhqCxPYJRZUxUm by alys@selfy.army
2023-09-19T18:09:15Z
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@simon are the probabilities for the second token contingent on the top option being selected for the first token?
(DIR) Post #AZy1Eqx8uFTIuZGJCS by alys@selfy.army
2023-09-20T16:32:38Z
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@frabcus @simon i don't have an openai api key (or much time for llm experimentation) so i haven't tested it yet. i'm hoping similar features will come to other models
(DIR) Post #AdPy5iGL75uFDUCPvk by alys@selfy.army
2024-01-01T22:12:10Z
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@simon Heroku changing its pricing might have been the single largest thing that broke hobby projects, and that probably killed a few blogs.
(DIR) Post #Adgc5ymW1EnRQOI0fY by alys@selfy.army
2024-01-10T00:37:30Z
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@simon honestly it seems like there are more social downsides than technical ones. it's not that popular of an approach so package users don't have expectations, and it's unclear how to communicate with users who aren't going out of their way to read release documentation.