@[email protected] this comment prompted me to go to your profile as up to this moment I'd only viewed your profile pic in feed - where my brain has always interpreted the mini version as a teddy bear with a party hat.

I've been working on my version of the Monk class for Final Fantasy Union's coming book about Final Fantasy jobs 👊

Kickstarter here :
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/finalfantasyunion/the-defenders-of-the-crystal-an-encyclopedia-of-jobs

Got chased away but couldn’t resist grabbing a sip of nectar

xoxo.zone/users/Ashedryden/s...

Oof. This. The combination of #adhd and #chronicfatigue is a life of constant war between "you should rest immediately when you need to" and "here is your reminder of critical thing that if you don't do it right now it will drop into a black hole for ever"

@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, this is fascinating as I'd only hit the reverse issue; people thinking they had 'taught' the LLM something and then being surprised (and sometimes embarrassed while showing off the progress) that the explanation had no impact on the next time they asked the LLM to do the same task.

Using 'learning' as a way to explain how the question you are asking shapes the response is something I'd never thought to try, but is certainly something I'll keep in mind for the future.

Anyway, sorry for derailing the thing you were meaning to spend your time on this morning; this is very much idle curiousity on my end, so please don't let it highjack you.

@[email protected] @[email protected] The language space is getting pretty overloaded in this area in ways that are unhelpful, it has to be said. I recently nearly skipped over a genuinely interesting piece of machine learning (sorry!) research as it had AI in the title and was something LLMs would obviously be terrible at - but they weren't using LLMs.

> I really mostly saw people correctly take it to just mean "this changes in response to information"

It's interesting to see you (Cat) say this, as one of the issues I have with LLMs is that people assume they will learn while in reality the 'learning' already happened at the model training stage (with added bonus confusion if there is or isn't any context being stored), and the thing you're actually using doesn't change in response to information. Which is true of a lot of machine learning tools in general, not just LLMs, but LLMs have the added disguise of tracking context within a conversation (and frequently now an internet connection), so interface almost implies that longer term learning is happening (despite not having 'learning' in the name :facepalm:).

Tempted to write a json-ld library for #zig as a way of learning Zig properly and because it might be a better way of implementing #fediverss (blog.mavnn.eu/2026/04/10/fed...) for low resource environments than dotnet. #activitypub #rss

Me, being clever: so I don't want this RayCast node firing every physics tick, so I'll disable it and only enable it when I force it to update.

adds all the code to enable and disable the ray casting

Me, actually reading the doc comment for the force raycast update function: "Note: enabled does not need to be set to true for this to work." sigh

It's almost like the devs considered this use case! #godot #gamedev

My latest modern art creation: the warming of the soup.

Worth at least an extra ten thousand due to the ephemeral nature of its satisfying beauty.

@mttaggart I am just screaming incoherently into a pillow over here as I am trying to stop learning *new* genres of horror as I desperately try to complete my menagerie of horrors

the llms can't talk about goblins anymore cause the goblins won their class action suit. it happened a few weeks ago, but human media doesn't usually report on stuff from goblin court

Orrrrrr, we could just ban for-profit social media.

The case against for-profit social media is, after all, far more direct and thoroughly well-documented.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Doing this to random people on the internet seems rude and lacking self awareness. Doing this to your employer seems to take a... special something, and maybe limit future life opportunities

bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects...

Could these be... new features related to the new course draft?

Yes. Yes they could. #visualnovel #gamedev

@blog Of course, the only issue here is that the screen shot on the blog is itself going to get scaled, but hey ho!

Read this post in its full formatted glory at https://blog.mavnn.eu/2026/05/01/crunchier_pixels_in_visual_ink.html

Pixel art has a certain charm all of its own, and visual novels in particular often borrow from the older games of yesteryear for their artistic inspiration.

But unfortunately, that means that if you're using a web based visual novel engine like VisualInk your assets can end up looking blurred and smudgy depending on the screen size where they are viewed.

VisualInk now has the pixel_style variable for choosing whether images that need to be resized are scaled using "Smooth" style (the default, good for photos and scanned hand drawn artwork), and "Pixelated" style for low resolution pixel art to be scaled up keeping nice sharp edges between the pixels.

As an example:

Versus (excuse the placeholder images):

Ideas for the new course starting to solidify, with the plan being a five week online intro to creating #visualnovel assets of your own for under 18s with no budget (above and beyond having a computer) using tech you probably have around the house and open source software like #krita and #audacity. Official announcement coming soon. #HomeEd #GameDev

wizard who recently joins the party casts True Seeing, shouts "What the fuck?" and immediately leaves for good

@[email protected] "There's about five hundred thousand more valuable targets with the same vulnerability, so just think of it like Russian roulette with a 500,000 shot revolver. That shoots like a really fast machine gun. I'm losing this metaphor, aren't I?"

#NASA released an image generator (non-ai) where you can insert your name and it will display as #Landsat images from around the world.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/landsat/outreach/your-name-in-landsat/

#fckafd #earth