:tootcat: I've temporarily set signups to require approval because we've been dealing with a rather relentless influx of spambot accounts for the past few days. Just so ya know. :blobcatupsidedown:

RE: https://toot.cat/@devopscats/117091386688057094

description of short video:

Camera shows sticker in window which says "WARNING" with a cartoon-style drawing of a cat with dark ears and a white nose and mouth. Camera pans slowly left until we see, in the next window, an actual cat which precisely matches the drawing.

@samiamsam @broadwaybabyto

A desperate, ignorant, malnourished population constantly worried about becoming ill and not being able to afford medical care is a compliant population (...or so the theory goes).

@autolycos @kcdc

She's downloaded all the audio clips from her favorite band now
And she's not using it for thesis research like she told her old man now
And she doesn't need a fifty-six K or an ISDN now
And she'll have
fun fun fun till her daddy takes her T-1 away.

Well she's got a Linux box with a 10 TB RAID array now
With ftp and httpd web servers from the NCSA now
And Adobe and Corel are lookin' good on her dual display now
And she'll have
fun fun fun till her daddy takes her T-1 away.

Well she got a million hits the other day on her personal page now
And her graphics and her sound clips and her applets have become all the rage now
And she's got so many clients that her daddy says it's time to upgrade now
And she'll have
fun fun fun when her daddy takes her T-1 away.

@autolycos @kcdc

(chorus)
I'm my own sysop
I'm my own sysop
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
Oh I'm my own sysop.

Now many many years ago as a lab employee
I started on a PDP 11/23
The lab soon modernized a bit and got Turbo Pascal
I started using that and it sure helped with my morale

This soon gave me some interest in writing my own code
But trying to make money there was really quite a load
To complicate the matter in a way I can't forget
There soon became this thing that people call the internet

I started using email and it really made things better
With nearly-instant transfer there's no waiting for a letter
Then suddenly the world wide web arrived upon the stage
I purchased hosting from MindSpring and made my own web page

Soon after that I started hosting on my own machine
With web, email and database, it really was quite keen
And every time I think of this it kind of makes me stop
As admin of my server box, I am my own sysop

(repeat chorus)

@kookie I mean, how else would we get more science.

Scientific progress goes "boink" --
@kookie boinks back?

@newsguyusa ...which (I have to think) is congruent with why the fash wanted it dead: they didn't want any actual reporting to challenge their narratives.

@hellomiakoda I promise never to call you Shirley.

@etenil ...and done. Let me know if anything isn't right.

Can you put a link to your profile in the bot's profile, for future reference? (That's one of the changes I made to our policies: bots need to identify their humans.)

Much thanks!
:tootcat:

@etenil Sorry I've been slow to respond! I posted some policy updates on the wiki this morning, but then some other stuff came up...

...but I think this change means we can allow the bot now.

Either way, to be clear: you have done nothing wrong, since the new policies were not in place at the time, and I appreciate your patience! I'll go re-enable the bot's account now.

@xkcd There has been a fault in the system architecture. Please try again later.

@50years_music There are actually 2 versions of this -- I've always been a little partial to the single version (partly because I had the 45, growing up, and there's a bit in it which is missing from the LP version) but I'm also glad the LP version exists (because it, too, is good).

@linuxrocks2024 @QasimRashid

"Honeymoon is over" = "we're really hoping that there will be some problems now; here are a few possibilities we've imagined"

@ChrisChris Either way, pretty stellar performance amiright.

@MightySpork @quixoticgeek

Just watch out for the dreaded Blue Sky of Death.

@etenil I'm still getting my thoughts settled before making a decision about this -- but I wanted to answer the question in your appeal: if the decision is that you need to move it, then I'll be happy to reinstate the account so you can do that more easily.

@luxliquida I had to read really closely (prompted by your mention that there was one) to catch the mention of the model he's using -- ministral:8b. I'd heard of Mistral (of which I assume the ministral series is a derivative) but don't know much about it.

...but in any case, yeah, I think that makes it an LLM (though I'm going to go see what else I can find out). "...switched ... to use a local model" suggests he's self-hosting it on a home machine, which avoids the issues around "data farm" excesses, at least. There are other issues to consider, though.

@billiglarper

Yeah, exactly.

For one thing, we have this bonkers "gun culture" thing going on here. :spiral_eyes:

@mekkaokereke

@kity @smp @biupdatebot ...and for awhile there was @epigram (mine)...