Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

When you find the N64 shiny thing

#indiegames #indiegame #indiedev #gaming #videogames #n64 #nintendo64 #oot #zelda #zeldalike #ocarinaoftime

#windowsDefender

@ProgressiveLurker @TomSwirly @GeePawHill Mastodon is chockful of micro-celebrities huffing and puffing beyond their reach.

Been having a discussion, and thought I'd have a quick poll. Please boost to get this beyond my bubble.

Is zero:

Would you drink the systemd juice?

They then state that 1,287 megawatt hours is enough to power 120 average US homes for a year. According to https://housegrail.com/how-many-houses-are-in-the-us/ there were more than 140 million houses in the US in 2020. Thus, the energy cost of training one LLM represents roughly 3/35000 of a percent of the energy used by all homes in the US in a year.

I'm trying to argue that the energy consumption of AI is comparable and perhaps even smaller than basic household amenities. That's to say, we should be willing to accept such an amount of energy consumption if we are already accepting it elsewhere. I think your mock interpretation of my viewpoint reveals some strong ideological oppositions you have to AI, besides the energy consumption alone.

@jonny AI is just the latest ”no code” vibe cycle.

Every 10-15 years someone comes in declaring: ”Programming is dead! From now on we only write specifications in a language anybody can understand.”

But it always hits the same problem: Natural language is not good for describing systems of deterministic formal logic. If it was, we’d not have had to invent symbolic mathematic notation, flowcharts, etc to describe them.

The cycle might yield a new #programming language.

Been there
#stateHWtrek

Another #LiteraryQuote from the same work:

There are no nouns in Tlön's conjectural Ursprache, from which the "present" languages and the dialects are derived: there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic suffixes (or prefixes) with an adverbial value. For example: there is no word corresponding to the word "moon,", but there is a verb which in English would be "to moon" or "to moonate." "The moon rose above the river" is hlor u fang axaxaxas mlo, or literally: "upward behind the onstreaming it mooned."

It's just q with a bunch of silent letters waiting in line.

#DadJoke #DadJokes

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

— Grace Hopper

#programming

There's a really cool claymation puzzle game called The Neverhood. It was a big part of my childhood, and it looks like GOG might work to bring it back to modern devices! Consider voting to bring it back from the old times to modern-day computers, if it looks interesting to you. https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/the-neverhood

#GOG #claymation #gamePreservation #gaming #puzzleGame

Good morning Fedi! Do any of yall use a operating system that's not Linux, Windows, BSD or Mac on a regular basis? If so, which one?

#os #linux #bsd #macos #windows #dos #freedos #amiga #plan9 #Solaris #aix #pdp11 #retrocomputing #os2 #qemu #haikuos

Been thinking a lot about media recently, and I think a lot of writers and creators really need to understand the importance of pacing and a strong first impression.

The intro of Mario & Luigi: Brothership was dull, and turned people away. The first few episodes of the RTD 2 version of Doctor Who were bad and turned people away.

In both cases, the creators stuck the boring and audience alienating stuff at the start, and lost a sizeable percentage of said audience.

@tante I think this is a bit too extreme and generalized. For instance I don't use the inline code suggestions, they annoy me. But I sometimes use the AI Chat to ask programming questions, especially when I'm in a domain that I'm not very familiar with. I don't blindly copy the answers. I validate them and use them as an inspiration to solve the current coding problem. I'm very aware that AI makes errors.

I found this #throwback from a few years ago. I'm thankful to whoever made it.

#foss #linux #debian

I just logged into FaceBook for the first time in years and it’s filled with the most insane AI slop