Notices by attacus (attacus@aus.social)

Excellent news: I’ve made the last LLM interface anyone will ever need.

(I assume this is the part where I am given billions of dollars.)

It turns out you can deploy some of the older Internet monsters against the newer ones.

#chatgpt #ai #generativeAI #zalgo #hecomes

#melbourneweather #melbourne

One of the best investments I have ever made is a pill bottle that displays the time that it was last opened on the lid, so if you need to take meds throughout the day and can’t remember if you just did that or not, you have a quick record of it.

This is a PSA for #ADHD folks especially.

Today I built a silly webpage by hand in a couple of hours. (I’m not going to tell you what it was, except that it was frivolous af.)

I started out by looking for a template, but everything I found was way too involved, so I ended up writing the HTML and CSS from scratch, throwing it in a cloud-hosted directory, and nudging the DNS settings to point there.

This turned out to be a ridiculously nostalgic experience. I built a lot of weird little websites like this when I was about eleven years old, saving the HTML of sites that I liked so that I could access them when the phone line was being used by someone else, and changing pieces around to figure out how it all fit together.

It struck me that:
a) by this measure I’ve been doing web dev for almost a quarter-century now 😳
b) there is nothing stopping me from making websites this way. I can still write HTML and yeet it out there if I want to, no matter what it’s for. Pages load quickly. It’s not fancy. It works. Underneath it all, the web is still there.

If you feel so inclined, I can highly recommend seizing an afternoon, taking a silly webpage idea, and having a play.

#HTML #CSS #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #web #dev

And yeah, I realise that knowing how to make a website happen is something that requires additional layers of expertise (a lot of which I didn’t have when I was eleven).

Plain HTML has its limitations. It’s not going to do everything for every use case.

But it sure does a hell of a lot, and there is so much fun you can have messing around with it, even without publishing your page to the web. (And when you’re ready to put your cool, weird site out there, there are plenty of places you can get help with that.)

Wow, these Zoom AI features have really maximised my productivity!

#AI #LLM

Many of us are feeling the stress of moving our communities en masse to a new place - a place that looks superficially like the old place, but has been built on top of a collection of beliefs about the world that are fundamentally the opposite of the one that underpinned the space we came from.

Not everybody has going to find that this works for them. Mastodon will be a waystation for a lot of communities.

This is okay. It’s allowed to be temporary. Don’t assume it’s everyone’s Forever Home.

“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”

I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)

Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.

This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.

My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.

#RSS #Podcasts #ProtocolsNotProducts