Been a bit quiet on the VisualInk (visualink.mavnn.eu/) front for a few weeks, but a minor release went out today which allows scenes to have names with spaces in. Previously a bug meant that you could upload scene backgrounds and give them a name with a space, but they then wouldn't show up correctly in your visual novel.
Also, look out for some new #visualnovel course news in the coming week!
Anyone else allegedly being a robot ? I've been asked again and again on a loop 4 times and not working
Might be a vivaldi related bug , but this is such a poor experience
@[email protected] I have a couple of websites that gets in this loop on one of my devices regularly. Other Cloudflare checks on the same device work, I can access the site from an other device, but the tick box just loops. The next day it'll be working again. It's been going on for years intermittently at this point.
alright friends, it's Wednesday, and you know what that means!
no? uh yeah, I have no idea either. sorry.
@[email protected] Same thing we do every Wednesday. Try to take over the world!
@mavnn nice, that’s very cool!
@[email protected] I think some of it came from previous experience with character generators disappearing and leaving people unable to access their old (or even current) characters. That said, I've realised this isn't quite what your were proposing: there's no proviso to release products built on top of the source code, I don't think
- all source remains property of the dev, not allowed to release source publicly etc
As an indie dev of both games and apps the idea of actually releasing software this way scares me of course and I imagine it would be very risky and open to abuse. But… *waves hands*… somehow?!
@[email protected] I've no idea how successful it was, but Dan Simon actually did this when he created the HERODesigner software (herogames.com/store/category...) for the Hero/Champions #ttrpg.
You can pay for the app, which is obviously what most people do, but you can also pay for the source code to modify the app with your own house rules etc.
I honestly have no idea at all how many copies of the source code were sold, but it was definitely interesting to see this model being tried out 'in the wild'.
I wonder what the stupidest way for a business to fail with LLMs will be
@[email protected] @[email protected] It's going to be interesting seeing somebody beat the opening double tap of "we let AI delete our product" followed by "we let AI delete our product after seeing it happen to the other guys already"
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Niche, but fascinating; Wing is a musician and beatboxer who is sitting out the equivalent of the world championship this year to be part of the judging panel. He put together a one and a half hour video where he breaks down all of the submissions that qualified this year (in a particular category), talking about why he judged the way he did. It's a masterclass of clearly explained criteria, a sampling of the best beat box/solo acapella work out there today with expert commentary, and an insight breakdown of how musicality and technical skill can either enhance or detract from each other and why a technically impressive skill demonstration could be enthralling for other 'experts' but turn away the general public or even musicians from other fields. #beatbox #music #art #CriticalThinking
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Incredible. Every second paragraph in this article is lunatic nonsense.
One of the things I've long said about hiring is that you can always tell when you're talking to a junior dev who's going to be senior-staff or better someday. You can always tell when somebody was paying attention in the theory classes.
But good god you can also tell when people missed that day in gradeschool when somebody slowly went over "So, what is a computer, really."
@[email protected] Did... did he write that entire article without taking any responsibility at all for what happened? Not even a "I thought I'd put something in place but I was wrong"?
I... would probably sleep much better at night with that level of self awareness. And hurt the people around me a lot more.
he did a set where he pressed play on his mix, walked to the front of the stage, and did a dance on a loop for a straight hour. his commitment to the bit is incredible.
@[email protected] also one of the world's weirdest fighting game characters: youtu.be/GXwC4LhcjaY
Unlike Ronaldo, who even more bizarrely is a character in the same game but appears to have had no involvement, Ganacci was actually involved and showed up at a bunch of events and made a video of him being sucked into the game.
So yeah;if you wanting to see Ronaldo getting punched with the grandma punch, that's the game for you (it is one of his attacks on game...)
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I was like well think of a codebase as a shared narrative with an oral tradition with lots of tacit rules and he was like, yeah yeah I get it, it's the same here
@[email protected] I have used precisely this analogy in trying to explain how engineering teams function! As a data point, my dad has a classics degree...
New experience unlocked: stabbed myself in the head with a lemon tree.
(And if you somehow read the above as "it's OK for me to burn Claude tokens because I'm vegan" I will find you and I will slap you.)
Bodil: "I have a very particular set of skills"
@spazahedron Because they can't track you they can't try to sell you six more lawn mowers to go with the one you bought yesterday, so they'll show you random stuff instead.
The ads are only "lower quality" insofar as the ad exchangers can't charge advertisers as much money for untargeted ad slots.
In other words, "lower quality ads" is a self-own by the bloated leeches degrading your browsing experience.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I once had a website pop up a dialog that warned me that I was receiving a "degraded" experience because "no ads are loading". insert Princess Bride meme here
@[email protected] I'm looking into the fact that my instance isn't federating to tags.pub anymore, and the error I'm getting is from github.com/evanp/activitypub... (where the signature checking code changed around the time I started getting errors)
I'm looking at the Bonfire code and it appears we're caching information about what signatures to send; is it possible that because I already followed @[email protected] before the changes at the #tagspub end, my instance is sending the wrong signature? And if so, is there anything I can do to 'refresh' the cache?
I have washing up’d! (Raised the plates? Levitated the dishes? Why do we wash ‘up’ anyway?)
English be weird. And yes, it may seem strange to some of you that having done the washing up is worth celebrating but sometimes it most definitely is: blog.mavnn.eu/2022/10/14/adh... #adhd #chronicfatigue
That said, I suppose I have literally lifted the plates up. One thing that is very common here in Italy that I've never seen in the UK is that the cupboard section directly above our sink has a draining rack and drip tray built in, so that the work surfaces are kept clear even while stuff is drying. It's a very neat solution to the issue that in reality you nearly always have a mix of clean, dirty, and just washed crocery whilst a lot of kitchen layouts assume that the kitchen is going to be completely clear before you start using it.
I have washing up’d! (Raised the plates? Levitated the dishes? Why do we wash ‘up’ anyway?)
English be weird. And yes, it may seem strange to some of you that having done the washing up is worth celebrating but sometimes it most definitely is: blog.mavnn.eu/2022/10/14/adh... #adhd #chronicfatigue
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Aha. Testing if this fixes the federation errors I've been seeing 😊 #tagspub
@mavnn I'm assuming that it's 100% not a joke, because my joke detector broke down years ago
@[email protected] you're making me doubt again now, which is harsh but fair given the current state of things. It kind of smells of someone who wants to be able to pass it off as a joke (or even thinks it is funny) but wants to leave it ambiguous enough that people who think it's a good idea pay them. Which means either I'm a cynic or they are and neither option leaves me all that happy.
I can't overstate how much it annoys me that there are three ways to put the stress on the word "Palantír:" the way that my brain tells me is the most natural, the correct way according to Tolkien, and the correct way according to Alex Karp.
@[email protected] I think we can call those the correct way, the other correct way, and wrong
so dumb
@[email protected] it says something about the current state of the world that I wasn't sure even at the first mention of the CEO setting whether it was a joke or not. I'm glad the person appears to actually have a sense of humour, but I have to admit I still find charging money for jokes like this a bit... uncomfortable?.. even if it's just to cover costs.
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