@chris What you could attempt (if possible) is spin up the database and try running `tootctl` in a `chroot`

"We, on the other hand, what joy did we take in the victory of war?
Once we returned, Zeus spun a painful death for me,
at the hands of my own wife and cursed Aegisthus."

- Agamemnon, King of Kings

The best part of Halloween is hanging out with our kids and making costumes out of cardboard.🤗

It's almost done! We just need to attach the gold plated human spine and hair tassel to the back as soon as those parts are dry.

I've been given strict instructions not to do that part until after school!

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@djlink/117505969964946590

This is why I have been pessimistic about LLM "reverse engineering". The big LLM companies will just do the equivalent of YouTube/Twitch taking down your video/stream when they detect copyrighted music or whatever.

Big companies can slurp up the commons, but you won't be able to return the favor.

EDIT: seems I am spreading misinformation in this specific case. That person was suspended for a *different reason* than reverse engineering. I'm still pessimistic about using frontier models to reverse engineer but the scenario I explained above hasn't actually happened yet, as far as I know.

For example, here is a Moon-surface backdrop. This is NOT a NASA photo. It's digitally-painted in Gimp, but it did USE NASA photos as a texture source by painting with the "clone" tool.

Is it more of an original work, with the NASA photos as mere "fair use"..? Or is it an actual "derivative work" of the NASA photo?

#LunaticsProject #ImageUse

Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti?

^_^

What really riles me when I see captcha prompts asking: "are you a robot?"

I am like: "Who wants to know? However, yes, I am part of the proletariat! I guess, you, since you're asking, presumably aren't?"

Alas, I don't know who it was (maybe Asimov?) who demeaned "robot" into something to instead be synonymous with mecha and automata [which predated robots by at least centuries, perhaps longer based on some Roman era records] and seemed to erase the whole: "no war, but class war" which was the underlying theme of R.U.R., the play which was the origin story of the term robot. Robot uprising, is a canonical association, not a fluke.

I mean, I too, as a corporeally incarnated human of the late 20th century, encountered the demeaned phrasing of "robot" with all sorts of toys and Scientific American articles about car factories being filled with "robots" replacing pre-NAFTA auto workers (who would be even further terminated and outsourced to cheaper laborers outside of the USA, after NAFTA). Yet, for some reason I had some relatives who attempted to tell me that "robot" was closer to being synonymous with "slave" as a means to educate me about its etymology and my high school even put on a play of R.U.R.

Oddly, or perhaps not surprisingly? There has never been a film adaptation of R.U.R. as far as I know? We got Will Smith in I, Robot (again, Asimov); we have a multiplicity of Transformers ("Robots in disguise"? Disguised from what I wonder?) movies, yet there remains a glaring omission of a film version of the R.U.R. robot origin story on the silver screen.

Meanwhile, the lived experience, in a society which continues to operate with the predominantly demeaned Asimovian phrasing of robot? Remains: repugnant.

Data brokers and advertisers argue that location data itself is not sensitive data, EFF’s Mario Trujillo told KFF Health News, as reported in @WashPost. “But location data is sensitive. It’s the comprehensive collection of location data that reveals sensitive things.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/10/28/your-phone-knows-youre-doctor-data-brokers-are-profiting-it/