@gildilinie @brooke

😲 My code now runs without any errors! (...or any output! EFFICIENCY! weve all been played for absolute fools etc.)

@devopscats ...or my laptop (see addendum)

@devopscats That's absolutely refusing to play, for me. Is it working for you?

(Added) I was able to download it, fwiw, and play it from there. It may just be my laptop being weird :blobcatupsidedown:

@brooke @gildilinie

These modern kids with their fancy curly-bracket-utopia languages think they're all that and a bag of 64-kbit RAM chips, but I have one question:

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FIT THIS CODE ONTO PUNCHED CARDS?

(Checkmate, athiests.)

@artemis I can't speak to how other people use it, but here's how I have considered using it:

• I have a song-parody that could use a cover-image; I have an idea for what would make a good cover-image but not the time or skill to draw it. (Actually did this one; the rest are hypothetical.)
• I have an idea for a comic series, but not the time to draw it. I've considered the idea of storyboarding it, then having GenAI actually draw the frames
• I have an idea for a song, but lack certain instruments (and wouldn't have the resources in time or space to get a good recording even if I did), so I describe the rhythm and chords and have the AI generate a backing track for me, then overdub my parts.

In all cases, I would post an open offer to replace the AI-made material with human-generated material by anyone willing (and sufficiently skilled/talented) to do it at a price I can afford.

Oh, one more I've actually done (although I'm not sure this really counts as "generative", but it's still within the realm of "using 'AI' for creative purposes"):

• I have a live recording of a pretty good performance (in which I participated) of original music, made with a single cheap cassette deck (in stereo 🎧, mind you!). The main problem with it is that the vocals are kinda buried. I used an AI "stem separator" to pull out the vocals from the rest of the music, then used standard audio-production techniques to bring them out a bit in the final mix. (I don't think there's any non-"AI" way of doing this, FWIW.)

(Additional disclaimer: I have never given money to an AI company; I have only ever used their free services.)

RE: https://furry.engineer/@pawprint/116682917245404379

Who will be the first to register thesoundandthe.furry? Enquiring minds want to know!!

@kity @naga

me, to CCU via web portal, just now:

(I had most of a message typed, but then the portal spontaneously refreshed and lost it -- so I'm now a little more irritated than when I first typed it.)

1. Can you at least add the -8845 card to the "Manage Card" page? Then I can deactivate it myself. I don't understand why it isn't listed there already.

2. I had a text interaction with a phone number which I only later realized was not actually CCU -- see attached image. Your security department might want to know about this.

...and finally, just to reiterate what I said earlier: we don't make phone calls, so this will need to be resolved some other way. We are currently leaning towards moving our accounts to another financial institution.

Thanks.

@kity ...but on further reflection, I think what you're saying is that that message is not actually the bank, but rather the scammer trying to make me think they're the bank, and hoping I'll call that number instead of the real one?

Web search seems to confirm this hypothesis...

...which just underscores the BSery of them (the real bank) insisting I call their phone number, because it means I'm more likely to think the scam-number is real. >.<

@kity Yeah. ...and I sent a message to CCU via their online banking secure messaging portal, but they said I have to call the phone number.

...which tells me that they consider their secure portal to be less secure than a toll-free phone line.

Submitted without comment. #CoastalCreditUnionNC #banking

Fedizens! Please send me your favourite meme which shows something important about the #Fediverse

I'll go first:

@kdkorte @AAKL @TheNewStack

I think it's interesting that the article doesn't (unless I missed it) talk about the percentage that get these real-world fact-checks wrong.

Narrative-think dominates even in this space? :blobcatupsidedown:

@clarfonthey We/Someone really should be growing banana-trees in greenhouses. ...for at least 2 reasons I can think of.

I'm curious do any of you play the harp? Feel free to boost. I'm interested to talk to some harp players.

@NanoRaptor @brooke

I have not been released yet; still working up to RC.

@amcooper Ahhh, yeah, that kind of compatibility-matrix is something I eventually wanted to have on HTYP (don't bother looking it up -- the server is impossibly slow right now; working on that). Maybe one day...

@amcooper This thought intrigues me. What kind of queries were you thinking? (Seems like it'd be easy enough to write a utility to snarf up all the relevant info and stuff it into a RDBMS which could then, in fact, be queried...)

PawScript (or in Microsoft world, PS Script++^[1]) is the PDL^[2] for firmly defining where a kitty's every pawprint belongs on a digital document.

^[1] pronounced PS-Script psps, or pspsps for short
^[2] Pawprint Definition Language

RE: https://lile.cl/@capibarabot/116669076056687525

Ahh yes, the famous Loch Ness Rodent!

(Better image description: photo of the middle of a lake in which is swimming a capybara, its head fully above the water, followed by a series of four smaller capybara, their heads partly submerged.)

(Image description in Tamari: the capybara, on the lake, its head raised; four smaller capybara, also in the lake, totally not drowning, everything is fine. Location relative to Tenagra unknown.)

@Researchbuzz Also, now that I think of it: ownership of the new solar/wind/battery farms should be structured in such a way that if the datacenter ceases operations, ownership of the power-generation reverts to the municipality.

[added] ...in the unlikely, far-fetched, extremely hypothetical event that all this massive server-farm invetment somehow turns out to be just another tech bubble. But, I ask you, how likely this that really? [/s] :blobcathalo: