Notices by SoapDog (soapdog@toot.cafe)

I been enjoying #soapmaking for a couple years now. I love listening to audiobooks while letting myself go a bit automatic making cute soaps and massage bars. Here are some of favourites I made.

(Also attempting to crosspost images with alt text from #BlogCat for the first time, let's hope it works)

#crafting

@loyhena looks good doesn't it? still, such a pain to use huahuaauhahu tentacles are very easy to break.

I used to enjoy browsing Hacker News a lot 10 years ago. It was a good place to find new stuff and be excited about computing. These days, it is just AI bullshit on top of AI bullshit.

I has become so unusable, I'm tempted to write a WebExtension to remove AI entries.

ChatGPT 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 search engine 👏

ChatGPT 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 search engine 👏

ChatGPT 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 search engine 👏

@djsumdog not a single good technical reason. I just see Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey as larger than what I'd want for a single user instance. They'd be awesome if I was hosting a small community.

I might be planning to self-host on an old ThinkCentre at my house. So being nimble is a requirement.

@chuck thanks and thanks for the link. Gonna check it out.

@cadusilva thank u, gonna check it out.

hey #fediverse what is the current #activitypub server that provides features similar to #mastodon or #pleroma that uses the fewest resources? Is there anything there that is good for single user instances?

I'm aware of GoToSocial and Honk but wondering what else is there.

@mauve love it!

@mauve check out some onigirazu videos. They are super easy to make too and you already have the ingredients.

Gonna be presenting my Tonal Lenses talk at tonights #AITinkerers meetup in #Ottawa

Hopefully it'll be recorded so I can share it here after

@davew people are angry and even though that is no justification for rudeness, I empathise with their sentiment.

Artists already have a really hard time these days without AI adding a ton of noise to the internet.

There are crap AI publishers flooding the short story and eBook markets now. The stories don't work of course, but once you have thousands of new items per day, it is very hard for real artists to get noticed.

@davew in my specific case it boils down to:

* how the training model was made without any regard to licenses and copyright.
* how it will output code that contains full on verbatin proprietary code from repos it shouldn't use.
* how it will plagiarise and mimic artwork by real artists in a way that had a human done it, it would end up in litigation.
* how it is very confident in its halucinations.
* the energy cost of all of it.

I'm mostly complaining about generative AI.

@thomholwerda seen them on ebay for 15 bucks

@cwebber which CPU board you went with, is your Pocket a RK3588 as well?

Would love to read a review about it if you ever publish one (but zero pressure), there's a lack of reviews and impressions from pocket owners out there.

@mcepl that is really not the case. You can use Lua in small projects without any problem. I do it all the time.

The article is not about having or not having a standard library. That matters very little. It is about providing mechanisms and tools over features.

@cwebber I'm torn between MNT Reform Next and MNT Pocket Reform. I'm drawn to the pocket, specially cause what I do most of the time is just writing and I tend to love small screens. Still, I can't make a choice.

Were you tempted by the pocket one?

@enieber activity pub is way too chatty as a protocol, the whole pushing data to all contacts makes me scream.

@flaki @lumi sending ✨✨✨✨ to Lumi

@m455 Enyo is dead, been dead for a very long time? maybe even 10 years, I still like it.