Notices by Wiredfire (wiredfire@mstdn.social)

@evan no, but they should have that available as needed

Experimenting with putting my phone in greyscale mode of an evening. It does feel less engaging , less attention grabbing, which is entirely the point. So far I like it.

@killyourfm It’s shouting into the wind, I appreciate, but the simple rule should be that any *actual* journalist just shouldn’t use AI. At all. Ever. At least not for anything relating to an article.

I remember being at uni in 2000 and watching the journalism course student and dreading for the state of News once they were in charge. Now they are, and I was right to worry.

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series is SO GOOD. I’m a couple of parts in to the 3rd book now. It slowly builds up a growing and convincing world (well, galaxy) and makes me care about what’s going on.

Also, without spoilers, I enjoy that two of the earth ships are called Gilgamesh and Enkidu ^_^

Hoping my library gets the audiobook of the 4th in the series due out this year.

#bookstodon

@killyourfm it’s an approach that appears to be working very well for Vivaldi.

@evan No but only because they shouldn’t *have* to in order to prevent misuse of their posts.

@thomasfuchs depends. If folk are taking positions around verifiable facts and data then yes. But a LOT of the discourse is about viewpoints and opinions which are rarely objectively true or false. They can be considered kind and welcoming vs self-serving and combative for sure but to be dismissive can be quite dangerous (usually for stupid reasons). Said absolutely not as a centrist.

@killyourfm or.. Order pizza to make up the deficit.. 🍕

@MissGayle @MyWoolyMastadon @jcrabapple @vmstan @protonprivacy

It’s nothing to do with that.

It’s to do with the massive backlash they got on Fedi for their CEO being all Trumpy and somewhat horrible right wing.

So they’ve run away because they were made to feel unwelcome on account of us not letting their BS fly.

@davidnjoku every LLM is inherently biased based on both the views of the team behind it and the materials it’s trained on.

How we’re this far down the “AI” conversation with so many people choosing to disregard that is somewhat alarming.

Of course next up is some LLM aggregator that uses its own model to query all the others then patch together a response taking into account all replies.

@killyourfm definitely the sort of thing I’d love to read-along to ^_^

@killyourfm love it! Not in a position to participate right now so I won’t muddy the vote but I hope this takes off and I get join in when life affords the opportunity 😊😊

@bcon @killyourfm if you’re on an ancient paperwhite it’s worth it for your health. No, really. If you read in the evening or at night and use the paperwhite’s light you’re getting blue light which disrupts melatonin which is needed for good sleep. The kobo (and newer Kindles to be fair) can adjust the colour of the light to red orange hues which is far kinder to you eyes and you sleep cycles 😊

@killyourfm now THIS is pod racing!!

Feels like the start of something very very cool.

@killyourfm thrown that into Instapaper to read when I get a moment ^_^

@killyourfm I’ve very much enjoyed mine. The Libra design is excellent. I still spit anything I buy from the kobo store through a de-drm plugin, of course, but being able to just chuck whatever else onto it is superb.

I have read a bunch of manga on it, which is decent but my aging Nexus 7 2nd gen pips it for manga / comics really.

The kobo software is much nicer too. I used to hack my kindles but never bothered with the kobo, does all I want it to out the box ^_^

Might end up getting a Kobo Libra Colour as the Libra 2 just isn't available any more.

Does anyone use the Colour & can comment on how the screen is for B&W text (which is what it'll actually be used for) compared to how nice the Libra 2 is?

Think we’re going to get a Kobo Clara Colour in the end. Shame not to have the physical button but for what my wife needs from it we can’t justify the price difference. The Clara Colour hits everything else other than physical buttons though and looks pretty great for the price.

Gone off the Clara again, I think the asymmetric design and physical buttons of the Libra are a must.

So might get the Libra Colour for myself & hand the Libra 2 to my wife 🤔

Quietly hoping for some Boxing Day discounts..