Young deer totally crashed out asleep on my lawn after a full meal of my landscaping.

@juergen_hubert My favorites would be: TeX Gyre Terms (A high quality Times clone), TeX Gyre Bonum (Bookman), Erewhon, KP Serif and the Basketball/QT Basker family (Baskerville) I would mix and match those until you find two that really look distinctive from one another.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@burgervege/116968725820944097

Comme la dernière fois, je vous rappelle que la seule pétition utile sur le site de l'AN, c'est celle qui demande à supprimer la plateforme ⤵️

Cleaned out my phoneclunge.

You're telling me the guy who did blackface regularly on the BBC in 2011 was a bad-un?

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A re-imagining of the original 2014 adventure.

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Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3955330/A_Golden_Wake_Roaring_20s_Edition

@mlanger yep, I was on the other side of that, edited news snippets for a very long time....

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117592857554097967

I mean. You can also just not use LLMs.

Insane to me how many people think open-weight models like Qwen just come out of thin air:

• As if they aren't trained on smuggled NVIDIA GPUs and deeply reliant on NVIDIA remaining alive
• As if they aren't reliant on distilling American models
• As if they aren't built via Alibaba Cloud scraping the shit out of your websites
• As if they aren't reliant on the same exploitative labour relationships in poor countries, for annotation and training as the Americans use
• As if they aren't released by Chinese tech giants which do the same, and worse things, than the American ones
• As if they don't use massive data centres for training, mostly outside China or in poor regions of China, so people can pretend "oh China has no data centres". People are literally protesting these right now in Indonesia

Absolute L take from 404 Media

#NoAI

Yep. It's been austerity after austerity after austerity for 45+ years.

But his buddies in the construction biz are happy.

@chris

My stance is pretty simple: genAI does not change the morality of an action.

If someone is plagiarizing, whether they're doing it through an LLM or not does not matter.

If a bot is trying to perform a denial of service attack on my website, whether that bot is owned by a genAI company or not does not matter.

If someone is disruptively posting long-winded nonsense on a forum, whether that nonsense was generated by an LLM or by copy-pasting a message a hundred times or by hitting random keys on the keyboard does not matter.

If someone submits code changes they have not tested to an open source project, it doesn't matter whether those changes were made by hand or by any kind of automated tool.

I will never create content.

@stux

@ai6yr I used to write press releases and they all followed a formula. Four paragraphs. First paragraph would introduce the topic. Second paragraph would have a quote from a knowledgeable person providing more information. Third paragraph would provide more information, reinforcing what was said in the quote. And the fourth paragraph was another quote from the same person. We made up the quotes. When used word for word by a publication, it looks like someone was interviewed.

@VE2UWY thanks! We'll be driving through CO on the way home, I'm hoping the weather is kind.

@jonah are you hosting mstdn.party at home? I didn't realise 🤣

@mcc i am in a part of the us that was, ehrm, surprised on november 3

i can access the sites with no vpn connection or with a vpn server in texas, but not when i use a canadian vpn server

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

I had to spend $80 on meds that I really needed for food this month

Being out of insurance is the worst

If you'd like to help me and you can afford it, please consider donating to me in the following link

Goal: $0/80

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@ajroach42 Break a leg, esp if those legs belong to someone from Hasbro.