Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 21

@csepp @urusan That said, I am excited for NeRFs! That should help bring filmmaking within reach of theatre groups! And save some trips to get good scenery.

And we've gotten the performance down to reasonable levels on them...

@urusan Bitcoin did at least promise (but so far failed) to decentralize finance. I haven't seen a decent use case for AI art that justified its energy costs.

And yeah, I'm holding PC gaming and other forms of digital art to the same standard. Games should have a tiny fraction of their system requirements. Same goes for 3D animation.

@csepp While I'm not going to argue that AI is great for the environment, the wastefulness of cryptocurrency is next level.

Training Stable Diffusion v2.1 created 15,000 kg of CO2 equivalent, which is the same as roughly 34 Bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin chews through 3.4 million Stable Diffusion trainings in a year.

I run SD at home on my gaming PC and it uses the same electricity as gaming. So after paying that up front cost, it's about as bad as PC gaming.

Tbh if you were against the #NFT and #blockchain crap because of its energy requirements, you should be against #ChatGPT and most other currently hyped #AI crap.
If you aren't, I'm really curious what you're doing that you think makes the energy expenditure worthwhile.

@csepp Along that line, here's a link I shared earlier: https://limited.systems/articles/climate-cost-of-ai-revolution/

git-annex external remote tree export protocol be like

> EXPORT <remote name with spaces>
> <somecommand> <hash> <local name with spaces>
< <somecommand>-SUCCESS <hash>

except sometimes it forgets to send EXPORT?

And then is surprised I give it the same file instead of the one it asked for, judging by the hash?

wtf?

There is no waste in nature.

I've got a styletree from the download webpage now!

Now to hook up CatTrap & through it Balkon to decide where to position items onscreen!

Getting close to having a rudimentary #Haphaestus I can demo at LibrePlanet!

@kitsune

💯

I don't mind a disclaimer or reminder.

But this is an anti-pattern I've seen start to creep up on several web sites lately.

Juggling tasks, I believe I've now hooked up the libraries to retrieve a stylesheet from a downloaded webpage!

The only errors that Haskell's reporting to me now is that it doesn't know what to do next!

Also: I snitched a useragent stylesheet from the CSS 2.1 spec's appendix... Not great defaults, but webdevs are relying on them...

#Haphaestus

Dear devs,

It's NEVER ok to lock people out of a webapp because their User-Agent doesn't match your predefined list. 😡

Especially webapps they need to manage their healthcare.

(I am in fact using one of the browsers on this list, your code just isn't able to tell.)

:boost_love: Please boost for basic education.

#webdev

@downey "our website strickly follows well established webstandards, therefore we support any browser you like" should indeed be the proper atitude to webdevelopment.

P.S. I'd love some fan art I can use as memes...

PSU in the machine didn't have enough SATA power connectors, so I had to swap in the PSU I use for the sound system.

Drives and PSU were an absolute horror to fit because the case I currently use for that machine is cheap old shit and when I finally managed to squeeze the new PSU in, it plucked out cables from two drives without it being easily visible.

I'd want to use stylistic contrast as a tool. Baboon McSmoothie from the pilots universe should look more cartoony, characters like Tom Tomorrow & The Red Squirrel should be computer-animated so they look out-of-their-time.

The crowds would give our superheroes people to protect, & serve as a production-quality signifier (of many) I can drop by s7 to drive home its message. Also lines up to the direction MCU went...

We could switch to colour as the war ends.

2/2

Something I'd be keen to see: The Red Panda Adventures adapted to a cartoon with the existing audio. Mostly so it's easier for me to share my love of the show...

Animated as if we're constrained by shoddy 1930's-1940's era practical effects! With the cartooniness highlighting that as a gag.

Monochrome with the theatrical aspect ratio of the time, colour drawn on top to represent wealth & supernatural power.

Backgrounds should be based on historical Toronto photos, with crowds until WWII.

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@lightweight @jeremy_pm That said if it is political manoeuvring, that doesn't really make much of a difference to us! In either case it's best for us to give our vote to the 3rd parties so they have more sway!

Listening to RNZ now, I'm appalled by gov't's decisions to roll back climate action commitments due to natural disasters caused by climate catastrophes. Who was it who said that 'humanity is the only species that will be unable to save itself from extinction because doing so isn't cost-effective'?

Reverse-engineering the Apollo spacecraft's FM radio - Ken Shirriff: http://www.righto.com/2022/07/reverse-engineering-apollo-spacecrafts.html

X-ray reverse-engineering a hybrid module from 1960s Apollo test equipment: http://www.righto.com/2022/06/x-ray-reverse-engineering-hybrid-module.html

We’ve gained a number of new followers recently—shoutouts @FediFollows—so maybe it’s time for a re-#introduction?

Hi! We’re elementary, an #OpenSource software company with a focus on #InclusiveDesign! We make #elementaryOS—the thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS—plus AppCenter, the pay-what-you-can app store.

We’ve been contributing to the desktop #Linux space for about 16 years now and we’re 100% funded by regular people just like you 💕