Christopher Snowhill

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Software developer. Computer (ab)user.
websitehttps://kode54.net
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@adora @Natasha_Jay @j2 @david That no-pfp issue can also happen when someone migrates from one account to another instance, and does a forward before setting up their profile.

Well, and it can also appear blank on your instance if nobody else has followed them yet. I do agree people should fill out their profiles before importing anything, though. Very helpful if someone is vetting their follows, which I am for instance.

International poll, so please boost for a wider sample.

How many languages can you read (and, of course, understand!) without the help of an online translator?

> 5
3.6%
4-5
15.9%
2-3
62.2%
1
18.3%
Poll ended at .
@Daveography @andrew @deltatux Dear mastodonuser: There may be a little problem with relays, in that you can't even use them if you enable the authenticated fetch feature for securely enforcing instance blocks.
@cb @ariadne In my case, I don't think I'd have ever had the spoons to start something from scratch and actually make it as usable as this thing was to begin with. The closest I got was a terrible Qt app that just opened one file at a time, and played it forever until stopped.
@cb @ariadne I dunno whether it's better or worse, that I wanted to find a macOS audio player that did things I wanted, so I looked for an Open Source project, and found one, but it was dead. Then I ended up spending a decade keeping it alive. Didn't just settle for cloning something, I took something that already existed and forked it because it was discontinued. Hmm, I hope I'm leaning towards better here.

@tillianisafox I understand. I only use it as a toy when I'm bored anyway. I don't actually use it to replace real humans.

I did consider using that ChatGPT thing as a code language converter, since professional language conversion services (Objective C to Swift) cost a small fortune to use for a large scale project, but then I remembered I don't really need to do that sort of crap anyway, and I can better spend my time writing code manually and learning new ways to improve what I've got. Many files Open Source project, numerous contributors over the years.

I wouldn't be surprised if something has already added my project to their corpus of training data, either. Mainly all I care about, though, is that the project fills a use case for someone. It certainly has filled my needs at various points since I started working on it. (Cog, for macOS, which I forked after its original dev dropped it because he got hired by Apple, and a subsequent developer also dropped it after a few commits. It's collected about 2700 commits since I forked it, and a number of them are from others who have helped out over the years.)

It would probably also ruin history tracking for the source code to just up and replace great swaths of it with newly rewritten files, even if I rewrite them by hand.

@tillianisafox How about I just stop using Stable Diffusion, then throw away all those random frivolous ideas I already come up with for prompts? I already don't want to waste a real artist's time on any of them, especially since I definitely can't afford to hire artists any more, so I'll just go back to sleeping 12 hours a day and hoping I can dream up something to pass the sleep time, and be satisfied with my ideas only living for that long.

Maybe someone will come up with a way for me to record my dreams and I can use that for output? I certainly already know creativity completely escapes my conscious self. But boy, do I have some wild dreams now and then. Sometimes they even leave me in a state where I want to get up instead of escaping back to sleep.

@mcc @dango_ Wow, I didn't know any of that about him. All I knew was he was the guy who made that "Fuck You" song/video.
@xssfox I'm surprised there aren't more widely discussed articles on how to stick it to the man. But then, that would just give the man more ideas on how to stick it back to us.
@shelby I was using macOS as my primary up until about a week and a half ago, but I have the luxury of also owning a Ryzen PC which I run Arch Linux on (btw, of course). So I switched to that full time again.