"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me," Altman said during an event at Harvard University in May 2024. "I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model." View quoted note →

Work had me in Niagara, NY today. Got off early and stopped by the falls. Was a a combination of snowy and misty, but got a few cool snapshots. #photography

Specify it only somewhat

Fragments on agents, Dwarf Fortress, and tape loops

#blog post by Squishy Computer, about AI music

Got a company phone today. Unfortunately, it's an Apple phone. #Android

Made a new #blog post about daily driving an older, out of date laptop.

The RAM wars: mini penguin to the rescue

Originally, I was drafting this in September, planning on dedicating it to Windows 10 Home becoming EOL. I also figured I’d share a meme that con...

Also, of course, I have a few #memes to go with it: https://nate.mecca1.net/img/old_laptop/meme1.avif https://nate.mecca1.net/img/old_laptop/meme2.avif #blogstr #linux

Neat! I use TTS fairly often, and there's not a lot of options out there for free (as in beer, much less as in speech) local models that sound decent. View quoted note →

I've been working at a place that that provides critical infrastructure as if late. * I never showed ID to anyone * I work out of a building that requires an RFID card to be scanned in. I have not been issued an RFID card, and have had no problems entering it without it. * I have admin access to technical systems I'm not supposed to touch, and physical access to just about everything (again, no empoyee ID/access card). * I have not been added to payroll yet, but if I keep hounding them about it they might update it eventually. Anyone got any doomsday prepper resources? 😆

Looks like, for probably the first time ever, Debian stable broke. Wifi stopped working, but downgrading the kernal seems to have provided a temp fix.

Just finished reading Exit Strategy by Jen J. Danna. It's been on my (metaphorical) shelf for a while, I think I found it a few years ago Dollar Tree. Started reading it during a power outage the other day, and got hooked pretty fast. A lot of books are a bit bulkier, scifi/fantasy books that have a lot of world building and really detailed plotlines. Exit Strategy has a lot "smaller" of a story for a lack of a better term (smaller stakes, humanity isn't at stake or anything, + a smaller cast of characters), and it takes probably a dozen or so pages to introduce the setting and then gets right into the main plot. It moves quickly, in the ~300 or so pages it has a self contained story that's moves rapidly. There's not a lot of subplots and it doesn't meander too much, so it's a fairly linear story throughout the entire book that doesn't get boring. Characters seem human, not just cardboard cutouts or with crazy inhuman smarts/skills/etc. Definitely worth a read. #bookstr

Happy new year

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Holos Is Adding Custom Domain Support

Holos announced they're working on adding custom domain support to their server. It's a really cool development, and I figured I'd shar...

Mini #blog post about #Holos (a relay style activity pub server)

Merry Holidays, Happy Christmas, and pour one out for 'ol Saint Nick who threw hands with an Arianism heretic. Wishing you all a great Christmas my fellow internet strangers.

@FediTree What's my fedi tree looking like across the bridge?

I replaced an iffy valve stem on my car today, everything went well until the check engine light came on during my test drive (new, unrelated problem).

Finished reading Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin recently, it's a really good read. At the start it feels like the writing keeps branching in unrelated ways, only to abandon the plotlines and jump to something seemingly unrelated, but it all comes together in the latter half of the book. A very interesting read with a fairly unique execution. #bookstr

RIP react devs

This is Fine: an Interim Microblogging Protocols Update

As is customary on my microblogging posts, let’s get us started with an original meme. Also, if you’d like to read my previous Microblo...

New #blog post, plus a #meme that goes over some updates in the decentralized social media space (#activitypub #nostr and #at / #bluesky ). Was planning on doing an updated comparison post at some point, but figured I'd separate things into this post with a more informal list of happenings that I found noteworthy, then later I can do a comparison post focused on the protocols themselves that doesn't become an entire novella. #blogstr