Hey #gaming#nerds, I have a question. Is there anything like a "container" to run #games in? I want to run some older games, but don't want to dirty up my main #Windows install with whatever interesting choices their developers made back in the #Win95 days. I've considered running a #VM with #Linux and playing the games with #Proton or #WINE, but thought I'd ask here first.
I want to recreate a poster of the original Star Trek Tricorder based on the blueprints released in the '70s. So far, I've got this, but I'm not happy with the fonts I found online.
Does anyone have a better one that matches the original more closely?
When I'm done, I will release the source files for everyone else. I could image doing more of these posters.
"In the middle of the quad, students had set up a snack table—complete with a “nut zone” to accommodate their peers with allergies—that also had sunscreen, water bottles, and ibuprofen available.
If you're looking for a way to irritate other #nerds, particularly #tech nerds, just say "What's the big deal about Al? Always in the headlines, who's Al anyway?" And don't say #AI as in "ai" say Al like "Al Capone".
I’ve been ”different” my whole life. I’ve felt like an outcast. I was that quiet and awkward kid who was into computers, Linux and ”odd things”. I studied French and Spanish as only boy in the class because on top of Finnish, English and Swedish they teach in schools here as mandatory, I was into languages on top of Tolkien’s Elvish and Lovecraft’s R’lyehian. Girls said out loud that I was weird and had a sour face whenever they had to so pair studies with me.
I was never part of the cool kids’ group. Not really. I never knew how to talk to other kids. My only friend was a kid that was into super heroes when I just liked to code. He kinda didn’t care for not to belong, but I did. I suffered from it. I got severely depressed.
What I’m trying to say is like the book title by Felicia Day: You're Never Weird on the Internet, but more than that: You are never weird on the Fediverse. I’ve found my place in the world and I thank you for it.
Hey fellow #AI / #LLM#nerds, I've discovered a weird issue with some LLMs I've been foolin' around with. I'm using #oobabooga, and Some models seem to just quit when formatting block text.
For example, the above is what some models do. Others don't seem to care. Something about the ``` token makes it give up. Seen anything like this?
Hier, der Herr @nblr hatte neulich mal eine Lötstation empfohlen.
Welche war das denn gleich? Ich hab hier mit meinem Tauchsieder, der sich Lötkolben schimpft, nicht so viel Freude. Benutzung zwar nur sporadisch, aber man will trotzdem nicht mit so einem Schrott arbeiten müssen.
I think one of the problems with Twitter was that I had to follow a TON of accounts to get to the information I wanted. I was dealing with the algorithm or whatever, so to get a relevant post or thread a chunk of something had to float by, so I had to cast a wide net. Here on Mastodon I’m following less than half the number of accounts, I have a quarter of the followers, but a high level of signal and way more engagement.
I’m glad I deleted the bird site account, and while it is possible that some time in the future Mastodon might evolve into something less useful (thinking the equivalent of The September That Never Ended for you old school folks), for now I am enjoying the hell out of it and hope this lasts a long time.