Profile for chris
- Display name
- Christopher Snowhill
- Username
- @chris@losnoco.net
- Role
- admin
About chris
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- website
- https://kode54.net
- 💞
- @kevin
- pronouns
- he/him (they/them okay)
- Discord
- https://discord.gg/4A6mrhtfAz
- Github
- https://github.com/kode54
- age
- 44
Bio
kode54 / kuroshi, primary maintainer of Cog for macOS.
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Fuck you, r/duolingo. I shouldn’t have to provide context to use you as an unremitting shitposting platform whenever something makes me mad. I shouldn’t have used the “language question” flair, but I could no longer find the “user error” tag that I always understood to mean “generic shitposts”.
I don’t want a serious conversation, I just want to scream into the void and feel like at least one person will be subjected to my screaming.
Oh hecc off, Gitlab, and your expiring personal access tokens. Blah blah blah blah, there is no point to rotating credentials, blah blah blah.
subtoot, massive brain dump on "AI" tools
I definitely can understand an artist's desire to not have their work used for AI model training. But at the same time, can any artists understand the idea of someone who has severely impaired visualizing ability, and possibly impaired drawing ability, using an AI model to prototype ideas to then use as references for an artist to draw an idea in their style? Possibly to ask them to give it their own inspired poses instead of whatever the AI came up with, but either way, asking an artist to render it for money?
I really only consider AI use for inspiration, I think it's really rude to actually sell AI output. Well, maybe other than paying for the compute cycles to run the model. The cost of training a model should also include the cost of the material that was used to train the model, but we all know that big businesses will never go for that, and small timers who can afford compute cycles to train models probably already can barely afford the compute time needed for the training, much less paying every artist to use their work. And then, those personal models are probably not being widely used like big business models are.
Sorry for the dump, I just think these mathematical models can be interesting toys, I just think it's unfair when they're being used to replace already underpaid artists. I would hope that artists don't mind if the people using them are just using them for toys, or inspiration for paid work.
Funny Trump newspaper headline
Gee, Press-Enterprise, can you not?
When it comes to gatekeeping things, even gatekeeping support behind a lengthy explanation and hard to spot confirmation check, I would rather tell someone directly how to do exactly what they want, even if it means they learn nothing in the process. Sometimes I even just do the thing for the person instead of trying to show them how to do it themselves.
I just prefer the least painful solution in the short term. It's not like I'll remember tomorrow anyway.
Subtoot: Is it terrible that my primary concern with security schemes is "how much will it inconvenience me?"
FYI, OP has since been edited to include ALT text encompassing the entire post contents.
#clothes #womensclothing looking for dress suggestions for my mom. She has to buy dresses with a large waist, but short torso and short legs. She ends up buying 3X large dresses from catalogues, and they are barely large enough around the waist, but then end up being a length designed for a 6ft+ tall woman, and she has to pull up the hem to wear them. She needs that waist, but for a 5ft 2in woman. Does anyone know keywords or places to buy such clothing?
I will make this a blog post, but my attempt to use Windows a primary OS was put on hold by numerous nitpicks with the experience of running various software I use, which outweighed the problems I was having with Linux immediately prior to the switch.
possible ableism mention, ice cream person
So, I don't know where this came from, but someone in my extended family had picked up and/or started some tradition of referring to the roving ice cream trucks that patrol around cities with music playing, as "the village idiot". I can find no mention of this on the Googles, so it must be a very localized thing.
Please stop trying to meddle in my relationships. It won't change anything how you are expecting.
We got chased out of another community today because people just can't leave well enough alone. I guess people expect me to just dump my boyfriend for whatever reason they've cooked up for it, and get tired of us behaving the way we do. Oh well, guess we'll just burn more bridges.
Going offline for a bit, be back soon!
Facebook mention, @highlight spam
Cool, I found a new reason to hate Facebook. Apparently, if you post (at sign) and click on "highlight", it will spam a link to the comment to every one of your friends, including by email immediately after you do it.
What you don't know about this, as someone who has received this notification, is that most of the people who are still doing this shit heard about it via some "hack" that claims you can use this function to "hack" Facebook and find out who is "stalking" your profile without leaving likes or reactions.
Thanks for the extra engagement bullcrap, Zuck.
We fell short this month, and could really use about $60 USD. https://paypal.me/kode54 https://paypal.me/kddlb #mutualaid
Going down for a while for a motherboard upgrade, see you all on the other side!
Cool, I love our water delivery company. They were supposed to deliver on Monday the 4th. They emailed us at 7:01a on Saturday the 2nd to announce they were delivering on that Saturday. Then a minute later, they emailed "Sorry, we have changed your order date to Saturday the 2nd." They delivered within 30 minutes of the email. And because we didn't know in advance and don't usually get up until like 11:00a, they left our current default order of two 5g bottles and two 24ct flats of 500ml bottles. We were definitely not in need of 500ml bottles this week. Maybe it's time to look into a different company, or in-home reverse osmosis system.
Is there no place I can go to spread my suffering to others? I can’t seem to figure out how to stop following sources of suffering, so I need to constantly vent about it, and nobody seems to want me to kill their precious vibe.
My oldest brother is clearly a boomer, since he knows our dad has an email address, yet he sent photos to us. By mail. In a media mailer. Not a one of them labeled. Sure, we recognize him, and we can guess which one of them is his new squeeze and the child she is adopting, but we have no clue who the rest of them are. And he doesn't mention any of them in the single sheet letter he sent with the photos. I guess he has forgotten how to operate a Sharpie.
Cool, so I'm such a big dipstick, I didn't know that for some reason, Arch doesn't do auto resume of balancing of btrfs partitions on boot if you're using Dracut? And I also didn't know that you're supposed to resume balancing with btrfs balance resume and instead ran btrfs balance start which means I get to let my drives sit through another 24 hours of what they already spent the last 24 hours doing, in an estimated 48 hour balance job.