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David RevoyThe first dose is free...
I'm posting this new episode a day earlier than usual (usually on Wednesday for the weekly comic) because I'll be traveling tomorrow and I'm not sure I can rely on the wifi (train/hotel) to get everything uploaded smoothly. Better safe than sorry!
Félix@davidrevoy I mean I'm not gonna say "noooo, how daaaare you" to an early treat!
@cacophony 🤣 haha... thank you.
João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)@davidrevoy safe journeys! And thank you for making sure we had this new episode.
megumumpkin@davidrevoy Have safe travels! And the webcomic has been great so far!
@megumumpkin Thank you very much! 💜
Johnny ThanGood thing there is no "Post it later" functionality in the #fediverse :) I needed the artwork from you today. Thanks @davidrevoy
(And no, there is no option to have a post it later functionality in the whole Fediverse and there never will be and don't search for it and if the avian intelligence says otherwise I assure you it is just hallucinating and *babblesOn*)
@johnnythan Yes, it's probably better like that, I prefer to inform anyway about it when I need to post a day earlier or like in January, a day later (had a funeral that day, wasn't in the mood to post my funny comic and spam the TL of my family with it).
It's life, and I'm not a company with a process, or software that does crossposting (I continue to post all manually), and I prefer it that way 😊, it's always a pleasure to comeback with something weekly.
It's life, and I'm not a company with a process, or software that does crossposting (I continue to post all manually), and I prefer it that way 😊, it's always a pleasure to comeback with something weekly.
GunChleoc@johnnythan Have a 🤗 too
BTW Tusky App allows the scheduling of posts.
Few people use it though, it's a cultural thing I guess plus no pressure to feed the algorithm 🤔
I do use it sometimes when I'm travelling and want to post pictures, so that posts that identify my location only go out after I have already left. That will give me some locational privacy.
@gunchleoc @johnnythan Good option for this usage! Thank you for sharing.
My camera shoots fascists@gunchleoc @johnnythan @davidrevoy
Yeah, my use case as well. It's usually easy enough to post a day later, but it's nice to snap a pic and caption the post in the moment, schedule and move on.
Piper@davidrevoy Have a safe trip!
@piper Thank you!
Pixel Dunn@davidrevoy no need to be perfect, you could always send it even week later and i wouldn't see a difference…
Dr. Sobek@davidrevoy It's not even Wednesday, impressive.
troler@davidrevoy Reminded me somewhat of this anecdote about Microsoft: https://blakjak.org/gex_bgbh.htm
Schaf@davidrevoy Now that you subscribed, I can build your house.
*eternal rotation of "ok, last thing i need to know is if you want a door in it, just type yes and i'll start, for real this time"-type of answers following*
Goofy 📖 🍝 
Brillant , comme toute cette série sarcastique sur le perroquet stochastique, des strips impeccables !
@goofy Merci ☺️ 💜 !
Chacheneguer
Nours@davidrevoy
Tellement vrai
Tellement vrai
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw@davidrevoy do you have an archive online by any chance?
Nvm, found it in the comic itself 😅
Nvm, found it in the comic itself 😅
@doc Great, I was typing it when I saw your edit!
So here it is anyway (for a bit of self promo) my website with full Krita sources, high resolution and translations https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater.html
The RSS: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/rss/miniFantasyTheater.xml
Or it's possible to list them all on the Fediverse with the hashtag #miniFantasyTheater (or follow the hashtag)
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@sam4000 Thank you! Yes, it was on my list for long, but I wanted to really put it at a moment in the story when Cepper, the Gothic Sorceress, would really need it.
With the home destroyed on the two previous episode it was the perfect opportunity. Now, I have another good opening to jump on the theme of the 'locally installed AI', also a big item on my TODO list.
With the home destroyed on the two previous episode it was the perfect opportunity. Now, I have another good opening to jump on the theme of the 'locally installed AI', also a big item on my TODO list.
Local AI sounds nice, but you need expensive* hardware and the quality lags 6 to 12 months behind commercial AI – at least in simple terms.
I’m looking forward to seeing them; your comics are simply brilliant.
* Prices for local AI hardware are actually falling, at least until the next hardware price surge hits.
Piko Starsider 
@sam4000 @davidrevoy prices of hardware has been rising alongside RAM, at least in the used market which is the only place I regularly check. My GPU that cost me 600€ more than a year ago is 750-800€ now. I don't know what are the falling prices you mention.
LLMs of any size they're all shit, except for a few particular tasks, most of which don't require a GPU this expensive (or any GPU at all, if you have some patience). I keep a very small LM loaded at all times for image transcriptions and things like that. Most of my VRAM is used with Blender or VR stuff. I _could_ load much bigger models (when I'm not using the GPU for graphics) but I don't really need to.
Yes, that’s what I meant in the second part.
In the past, you needed an expensive server GPU; today, you can use expensive consumer hardware. That’s why I mentioned the first part.
VANTABlack@davidrevoy How messed up do you think the house will be if Parrot did remake it. I can imagine finding random out of place things for days lol.
@VANTABlack2000 🤣 Oh yes. And probably many things looking good at first, but totally awkward later; like the door to the toilets not opening fully because hitting the toilet seat, or a random door lower sized than all other that you have to constantly remind for bending yourself a little, or a random stair on the way to a room lower than all other. Many little poisons like that 😆
Aha! So that explains the Winchester Mystery House!
Takiro 🎨@davidrevoy Of course it starts raining.
Gustavo@davidrevoy Sure you don't use it, because surely those people would not have a subscription with unlimited access. "Double your limits!" sure, unlimited, no.
Voxel@davidrevoy You didn't highlight the A and I :<
@voxel Thank you for noticing and reporting, I saved the info here https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/-/issues/278 among a little list of inconsistency I need to fix later.
Louis@davidrevoy she seems to be a bit less reluctant to use her AI than at the beginning of the series, will she turn into one of the AI addicts eventually? I hope not, wait and see :)
All she needs is the right jailbreaking prompt!
Echo Nar@davidrevoy This makes me wonder how many of our current models are "designed" to intentionally misinterpret a users final request token to push for subscriptions.
@lethedata Interesting, indeed: for companies with AI/LLMs services based on prompt count or length of characters until a subscription, it sounds reasonable to think they can get extra motivation to make the user type more and turn around and around until they get a answer they consider valid or satisfactory.
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Stemy@davidrevoy Cepper is very patient with aviary intelligence. If i would be her, he would be dumped for good since a very long time.
💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@davidrevoy
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I just went to your site and read this whole series. I'd missed some of the Avian Intelligence series and reading them all in series is hilarious in a lolsob kinda way since they are so on-point! Thanks! Love this!
@Mikal Thank you!