@technomancy It’s been suggested, but is bittorrent a good solution for a file that’s updated weekly? Seems like that would just keep out-of-date versions in circulation.
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Andrew Plotkin (zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 10:24:23 JST Andrew Plotkin
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Andrew Plotkin (zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 10:16:36 JST Andrew Plotkin
We’ve added a one-URL download for the entire contents of the IF Archive.
https://blog.zarfhome.com/2024/02/download-the-ifarchive
(That's not the URL, that's a post *about* the URL. I'm not about to put a 30GB download link in a social media twoot, good grief no.)
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Andrew Plotkin (zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 13:29:26 JST Andrew Plotkin
You got coding problems, I feel bad for you, son.
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Andrew Plotkin (zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 10:49:11 JST Andrew Plotkin
You have two wolves inside you. Also two goats, two cabbages, and a boat.
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Andrew Plotkin (zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 05:08:07 JST Andrew Plotkin
The Activision thing finally landed. Which means MS owns Infocom, via an impressive 40-year chain of buyouts, takeovers, and shakeups.
Now I formally put forth the plea:
Microsoft should put all of Infocom’s IP under a Creative Commons license. Or donate the rights to a nonprofit which can do the same. Let’s bring all these legally-shaky fan sites and collections into the light.
https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/10/microsoft-consumes-activision
(Yes, I’m part of a nonprofit that could do that.)
Pass it along.
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Andrew Plotkin (zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 08:54:34 JST Andrew Plotkin
This went around today:
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
Leaked Google document, basically saying "We have no competitive advantage over open-source LLM work."
This is interesting Google-kremlinology. But surely the important point is that AI -- at least the text-generation, image-generation parts -- are out of the hands of tech companies. Anybody can run that stuff at home. It is now impossible to legally regulate or limit it.
(DeCSS flashbacks, anyone?)
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Andrew Plotkin (zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 08:54:32 JST Andrew Plotkin
This isn't entirely negative. It opens up new ethical uses for AI tech! You can train a text or image model *entirely on your own work*, at home -- no need to rely on a predatory tech company *or* questionably sourced data.
Indeed, I know at least one artist who is doing this right now.