NotesWe have entered an era of LLM democratization. By showing that smaller models can be highly effective, enabling easy experimentation, diversifying control, and providing incentives that are not profit motivated, open-source initiatives are moving us into a more dynamic and inclusive AI landscape. This doesn’t mean that some of these models won’t be biased, or wrong, or used to generate disinformation or abuse. But it does mean that controlling this technology is going to take an entirely different approach than regulating the large players.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesAutistic people’s identities were derived differently, not an amalgam of social intersections, but of the intersections of their values, interests, and experiences. FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesIt’s an open secret that with the advent of the high score table in arcade video games, designers would hide their signatures in lieu of being directly credited for the games themselves.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesLit supports server-side rendering through the Lit SSR package. Lit SSR renders Lit components and templates to static HTML markup in non-browser JavaScript environments like Node. It works without fully emulating the browser's DOM, and takes advantage of Lit's declarative template format to enable fast performance, achieve low time-to-first-byte, and support streaming.FeedUnfurl
NotesBut in calling these programs “artificial intelligence” we grant them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue. Each of those tokens used by programs like ChatGPT—the “language” in their “large language model”—represents a tiny, tiny piece of material that someone else created. And those authors are not credited for it, paid for it or asked permission for its use. In a sense, these machine-learning bots are actually the most advanced form of a chop shop: They steal material from creators (that is, they use it without permission), cut that material into parts so small that no one can trace them and then repurpose them to form new products.Unfurl
NotesMy original vision for this article was to cover the development of computer art from the 50’s to the 90’s, but it turns out there’s an abundance of things without even getting half way through that era. So in this article we’ll look at how Lovelace’s ideas for creativity with a computer first came to life in the 50’s and 60’s, and I’ll cover later decades in future articles. FeedUnfurl
NotesRelay List is a site that indexes and tracks various ActivityPub relays that have been shared with the public or with the creator. Each relay is checked every 30 minutes, updating the number of participating servers, the registration status, and if the relay is online. This information is useful for server administrators when considering adding a relay to their instance.Unfurl
NotesFor the purpose of this article, I used two Fedora machines and installed the ckermit and lrzsz packages to handle the Kermit and ZMODEM protocols respectively. There is a qodem package as well, but it only bundles the X11 binary. I prefer to use the curses version, so I built it from source.FeedUnfurl
NotesSimply hop on Xibalba BBS and let me (NuSkooler) know you’d like to join in. You’ll get an @YourName@Xibalba.l33t.codes Fediverse address with the ability to both post and read public and private messages.FeedUnfurl
NotesThe tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than Twitter and Facebook. But we’ve been here before.FeedUnfurl
NotesThen I realized Home Assistant has all the parts I need. Specifically it has an RSS integration called Feedreader and a notification integration for Mastodon. All that I needed to do was configure them, per their docs, and create an automation to post new RSS items. Here’s the automation I initially came up with:Unfurl
NotesWordPress Playground public API allows you to run and control an entire WordPress stack in your browser. You can use it to build an entirely new kind of a web app, like an in-browser WordPress IDE we built at CloudFest Hackaton 2023. In this post, you will learn how to get started. Unfurl
NotesBBC Micro bot is a Twitter bot that runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator. Tweet-sized programs are written in BBC BASIC, a language created by Sophie Wilson in 1981 for the BBC Micro.Unfurl
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The Great Aboveground Empire — May 22, 2023
Beyond microblogging with ActivityPub [LWN.net]
Commentary: Cory Doctorow: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point
The Identity Theory of Autism: How Autistic Identity Is Experienced Differently » NeuroClastic
Arcade Authorship – High Score Table Credits – The History of How We Play
Server-side rendering (SSR) – Lit
ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft. | America Magazine
Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s — Amy Goodchild
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev
Date and Time with a Static Site Generator - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated
Cory Doctorow Explains Why Big Tech Is Making the Internet Terrible
Relay List - Connecting the Fediverse
Beyond Puzzles: Adding Narrative to Zork
Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH | Frederic Cambus
Reddit - Dive into anything
ActivityPub Beta on Xibalba BBS
Crochet DDR mat is cute and functional - Polygon
Project HARP Space Gun/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24596746/236620_Activitypub_New_Social_Protocol_HHerrera.jpeg)
ActivityPub is the next big thing in social networks - The Verge
GPT-3 Creative Fiction · Gwern.net
Long COVID Is Being Erased—Again
How to Make Activity Delivery Look Fast with ActivityPub — evanp
Rachel Pollack (August 17, 1945 – April 7, 2023) – The Tarosophy Tarot Association
Sqlg Documentation
AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects