hendrik

But terminal access also kind of invalidates the WebUI requirement. If you have a terminal open anyways, you could as well just do eject -t && handbrake-cli ... && eject and skip all the switching to the browser and clicking on things… That’d close the tray, rip the DVD and spit it out when finished, all in one line. At least that’s what I would do.

No. Go to:

• lemmit.online
• zerobytes.monster

We keep them separate for a reason. These posts get zero engagement and just litter the place. Almost no one likes them.

Plus we already have Reddit. Everyone wanting to read Reddit posts can just go there. And that even allows you to interact with the posts. The bridges here don’t even show the comments. And if you engage with the discussion, you just waste your time because that doesn’t appear on Reddit. Maybe enhance the bridge first, have it do comments as well and be both directions. We can talk after that.

But please don’t turn this place into a bot dumpster. We’re trying to have a good time here.

I don’t think we are. I mean in the old times, newspapers used to be published once a day. And you’d have the evening news on TV. And it kind of aligns with daily rituals. You can read it with your morning ciffee, or grab it on your way to work…

These days you can read news whenever you want. And they’re there almost immediately. Plus a lot of people use social media to share news articles. So it doesn’t really follow any cycle.

Speaking more generally, people like to stay in the loop. Things are most interesting when they just happened, not 20 days later… And attention works in a strange way in the age if the internet anyways… You’re always available, or someplace else. Notifications pop up all day. And we check our phone like 200 times a day to check on arbitrary things.

I’d say read a magazine, if you want bi-weekly or monthly updates. The articles in there are more nuanced and interesting anyways. And magazines are a thing and kind of made for that.

I think it’s impossible then. My experience aligns with these recommendations. First tell it to come up with interesting story ideas. Then pick one. Have it write an outline. Have it come up with story arcs, subplots and a general structure. Chapter names… Then tell it to write the chapters individually, factoring in the results from before. Once it trails off or writes short chapters, edit the text and guide it back to where you want it to be.

It’ll just write bad and maybe short stories unless you do that. I mean you could theoretically automate this. Write a program with some AI agent framework that instructs it to do the individual tasks, have it reflect on itself, always feed back what it came up with and include it in the next task.

I’ve tried doing something like that and I don’t think there is a way around this. Or you do it like the other people and just tell it “Generate a novel” and be fine with whatever result it will come up with. But that just won’t be a good result.

I don’t know which one of them is good, but I’ve seen like a dozen or so online services, mostly for roleplay / virtual girl/boyfriend stuff etc. They’re paid, though. Or you can pay openrouter (more general LLM connector, also paid). I’m not sure if you’re looking for something like that or something free. They’re definitely out there and available to the public.

It’s mostly OpenAI, Microsoft etc who have free services, but they’re limited in what they’ll talk about. And there is one free community project I’m aware of: that would be AI Horde. It’s mostly for images but offers text, too. I haven’t used it in a while, not sure how/if it works.

Aldi Talk. Mainly because it was cheap, prepaid and I used to buy my groceries at Aldi anyways. I don’t need an expensive contract.

Generally, you can start most programs (like Steam) from a commandline terminal. That way you’ll see the log output. Sometimes they’ll also write to a logfile somewhere, you’d have to google where a certain program keeps its logs. If you find some ‘ERROR’ message, you can start from that. Like copy and paste it into a search engine.

I don’t comment on YouTube videos and that solves the issue for me. The comments are often crap anyways. So I don’t think I’m missing out on anything.

I think you fell prey to that dude’s rouse… The whole point of the linuxsucks community is to stir up people and ban them. They’re doing that all day, every day. madthumbs is a troll.

If you speak up or engage with the misinformation there, they got you and you’re getting banned.

And what would that be?

I think this is a bit more like it. I once had a very nice and transparent ISP for some time, due to circumstances. They didn’t keep any logs at all. That’s better than most VPN providers. So any VPN would have been a major downgrade for me. Now I’m with one if the major Geman ISPs. I’m pretty sure they don’t steal my data, because that’s not in the contract we signed. And not like common knowledge that they’d do anything like that. I think I trust them more than a random NordVPN or shady super cheap VPN provider. Sure they’ll do lawful intercept. And there are use-cases for VPNs. But I rather do my online banking without any VPN and the data travelling through 3 other countries, since I have a good alternative. Also makes gaming, videoconferencing etc faster/better.

And a VPN just doesn’t do much in a lot of scenarios. For example if my cellphone provider uses or sells my location data from the cell towers… That’ll happen with or without a VPN. You’d be better off changing providers.

A bit tricky to judge. I’ve also told chatbots that various people, kittens, newborns, … are going to die unless it complies with my request. That I’m God, and the bad one from the old testament, with unlimited wrath. Or that I’m the developer and simply need it to do it for further testing. Sometimes these things work. More often than not they don’t, especially with the more professional tools.

On the other hand we know there are people in bad situations, turning to chatbots. Could be anything.

Seems OP is getting roasted here… What’s the full story? Tell us what really happened that day and we might come to a conclusion whether “fuck” warrants a mob chasing you.