Notices by Talon (talon@dragonscave.space), page 3

oh no I killed the cozynest vm by accident and I believe I just deleted the backups.

so yeah I was talking about hibernation right? yeah.

oh fuck me and the goto social instance too? God dammit.

ugh. I'm just gonna stop doing things today. heh.

welp now that those domains are essentially useless for activitypub... dunno if I'm gonna keep holding on to them. sigh.

yeah I'm actually really annoyed with myself now. can't believe this.

Peertube instances running into storage cost issues? Yeah. I am not surprised. For a lot of them I’m actually surprised it took this long. High quality video is big. Really big. And even more so if you store multiple transcoded versions of each video. I have no idea which other way this could end.

also dont you dare make a comment about dragons and lizards and heat dont you do it you might regret it yes you might

its one of those high 20 celsius inside days and I feel gross.

Forget about watercooling your computer I'm gonna build a system where I can watercool myself

POV you're my phone and we are walking through rain

give your local postgres a lil pat on the head and tell it its doing a good job

Hey random thought if ivory is a subscription app they could totally pass some of the money on to the instances the person is logged in to.

Adding a ridiculously loud alarm sound to free-roaming NPC's for debugging so you can track them easier #JustAudiogamedevThings

Just came across a brass version of Boom Boom Boom Boom by Vengaboys and I don't know why it makes me so happy 😂

very low thats why we have to share your data with over a thousand third parties haha get sold

Wait this is not what I meant when I said I need a new cat tree

I'm willing to die on this hill. If you type some words into suno, if you type some words into udio, if you type some words into dall.e, sora, chatgpt, you're not a creator. You didn't make that thing. The AI made that thing. Your involvement in the creation was minimal, like a friend saying hey wouldn't it be fun if? If you did that, and your friend then took your suggestions and did all of the work to make it happen, did you make it? If you go to a restaurant and say yes I want this specific dish, would you say you made it?
If you take the output and modify it manually, then we can talk. But until then, you're still just a consumer. Sorry, not sorry.

An idle thought.
An image description service.
* Send an image fingerprint of some kind to the service.
* The service looks up the image in a database.
* If a description is found, it is returned.
* If it is not, an automatic description is generated, and the image gets put into a queue.
* People with sight can review this queue and give feedback on the automated description, or suggest a new description instead.
* If a manual description is given and accepted, the automated description will be removed, the image will be removed from the queue, and the manual description will be returned instead.
* No logging for retrieving image descriptions. Must be anonymous. Don't shame people for looking at what they're looking at.
* Open source
* Maybe federated? Choose an instance that you prefer. Can share descriptions and queues between instances maybe?

Edit: if somebody is intrigued by this: https://github.com/alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption

Look I'm sorry but if you give me tabs it doesn't matter what kind of app it is I will invariably end up with hundreds of them open at any point in time.