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So we are at a point with bird.makeup where I'm sending to many requests to Twitter and I'm triggering some rates limits. The plan is to figure out Wireguard, than I'll split request half and half from the server to my home using a rasberry pie. Sounds fun!

(but expect relaying delays while I set that up)

It's amusing to me that star trek imagined a world where an AI faces social rejection because he's rational, fact based, literal, fiercely/dogmatically moral, and struggles with social nuance. But here in reality we invented AIs that have no concept of truth, give zero fucks about accuracy, have no rationality, and can't do math, but match vibes and tone nearly perfectly.

The first artificial person will not be an autistic science officer. It'll be an extremely allistic salesbro or politician.

Seeing the CEO of TikTok testifying to congress was interesting. But just wait till you see John Mastodon called to testify.

I guess the spare Raspberry Pi 4B that I have will come to the rescue and offload some work!

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People keep saying that people will adapt to AI like we did to other tech revolutions.

But the scale and the speed of progress in AI will dwarf anything we’ve ever experienced before.

The technology will have impact far faster than our ability to adapt our societies.

On a more technical note, I find it interesting that since is so efficient with JSON (processing JSON is most of the work that has to be done to run a service like this), more than half the CPU time is actually used by the kernel networking stack handling a few hundreds requests per second (both inbound and outbound)!

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This is an amazing chart from the International Monetary Fund. If we stopped subsidizing fossil fuels, we would come very close to meeting our international climate targets. You can support capitalism or the fossil industry, but not both.

Please consider supporting if you haven't already: patreon.com/birddotmakeup

And thanks to all that already do! It helps a lot

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Current state of the bird.makeup server:

Has anyone played with the oracle cloud free tier here? Any good or bad experiences?

So I've been scratching my head for a few days optimizing bird.makeup, and it turns out I've been setting an environment variable with ParallelFediverseRequests when it should have been with ParallelFediversePosts...

Programming is sometime... yeah...

The SEC going after Justin Sun and TRX for market manipulation is just *chef kiss*. sec.gov/news/press-release/202

Researchers monitoring the Twitter bot space noted, correctly, that TRON-themed bots were unbelievably, unimaginably prolific from 2018 onwards. We spent a massive amount of time building detections to shut it down — and it would just keep coming back. Major portions of all spam globally on Twitter, for months at a time, was just dedicated to hyping Sun and TRX.

It is funny to see some very large accounts that have been consistently anti-crypto, move seamlessly into fudding ChatGPT.

Clearly there is a spectrum of human responses in terms of openness to novelty.

The same ofc applies to us. We are more open than average to new ideas.

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

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