2024-04-03

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 04:57

@thegibson another account to toggle at your leisure, sir.

https://mastodon.social/@irenes

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 06:37

oh yeah might’ve saved myself a little time

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 09:12

She, in a meeting: “We have to talk to IT”

Me, mumbling to the dog: if they’d hired me that would just mean turn a little to the right but hey i’m sure they know what they’re doing

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 09:16

@amydentata Ollama can run LLMs locally, reducing overall energy consumption to your on-demand usage rather than a whole cloud farm, and can be used to generate really convincing gibberish.

As seen in the broader world of LLMs of course.

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 09:21

@Long_live_rock_n_roll @Mjack just had this one in my head as a matter of fact

El Sobrante Fortnight by Les Claypool and The Holy Mackerel

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 09:48

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/112208296806318351

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 09:49

@IamMrsGeek can confirm.

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 11:15

I am disappointed to report that I have implemented the easier solution that gets me measurably closer to my project target rather than the ill-defined, brittle tangent of a solution I had my heart set on.

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 11:21

@Greg please refrain from clapping until the mourning period is over.

Alas, poor genius idiot idea, we never got to finish writing you.

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 11:45

@wordshaper I’m not opposed to LLMs or generative AI in the abstract. I just hated the extractive approach to training data, ecological and economic wastefulness of high profile implementations, hype-driven acquisition of every tangentially related concept as part of the “AI” umbrella, —

lemme start over

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 11:58

sorry ADHD brain won’t shut up until I post this

“As you all know, first prize is a nice weighted blanked. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a nap. Third prize is a hug. Get the picture?”

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 12:22

@lilithsaintcrow @mwl ah to have only one idea that I can care for and nurture instead of this field of dying tamagotchis before me, batteries slowly fading as they broadcast their neglect

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 12:29

@mwl @lilithsaintcrow

“But they’ll never actually die!”

Oh I know. I keep trying.

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 15:43

gonna tell my grandkids that “10x” described the effect on infrastructure and security attack surface area

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 16:14

I had a problem, so I used regular expressions.

and it worked out pretty nice actually because i am comfortable with regular expressions and used them in Perl which provides more affordances for regex-based solutions

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 16:58

@oldcoder Oh I don’t know if I’d go that far.

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 19:29

Model-driven image upscaling has turned out to be a practical application of the generative “AI” toolkit.

And it only sometimes puts boobs on the drawings.

(original 3k x 3k pixel on the right; upscaled 9.6k x 9.6k on the left)

hackers.town: 2024-04-03 Wed 20:54

Okay I made my picture big so you can get it on everything from an Apple Watch band to a wall mural(?!) or just a nice travel mug. Society6 has a dizzying array of home and office decor options. Seemed like a good spot for this drawing.

Not sure what hashtags to put on this. #SupportArtistsBuyArt something? All I know is I’d like to contribute to rent.

Dream Aesthetic Art by randomgeek | Society6