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Good morning folks

This is actually the Friday equivalent since tomorrow is a public holiday.

No idea what I'm working on this weekend. Guitar, Gunpla, maybe look at Traveller?

Concluding that I'd like to give panel lining, etc a go for my gunpla.

So, I have two pens (a panel lining black pen and a chunkier panel colouring metallic blue pen) on the way and another kit... We'll see.

I think a scribing tool would also be good but they seem to sit on about the $15-20 mark which is a little more than my 'fuck it, let's go' amount

But... Also...

About two hrs left of the working week.

Let's fucking gooooo (home)

Finished scanning the recipe folios.

There's a few duplicate pages, but:
* Folio 1 (meals) - 29 pages
* Folio 2 (sweets) - 52 pages
* Folio 3 (biscuits) - 11 pages

Not entirely sure, but I might bop together a cover or something for them.

Something with a huge amount word art, perhaps.

*looks at the latest *

Oh man, people are gonna be so MAD.

Straight up, I can admire the sheer spite that must go into holding off on an in-universe event for out of universe years, and then going 'HAHA FUCK YOUUUU' and timeskipping through the bulk of it.

If I was Jeph I would've kept a little notepad by my desk with 'times people have bitched about no wedding' and then added a month to the timeline before the wedding happened, and taken a panel off the storyline of the wedding when it did happen.

Pondering whether to get into more infrastructure stuff or feature stuff this weekend.

The biggest yaks to shave, are:
* Make the hardware cyberdeck for the AI assistant (learn shitty 3d software to model it for laser cutting, then actually get a bunch of shit done)
* Try and work out if Home Assistant/ESPHome are good for me (try and get Home Assistant installed on the raspberry pi without breaking it, but I hate docker, et. al)
* [Redacted] Project infrastructure
* ???

Huh.

Quarries of Scred 2 was nine fucking years ago.

Gods, that was a long time ago.

Just as a casual reminder:

People in almost any subreddit are terrible at thinking about regulations.

But people in AI subreddits make some of the sillier statements:

'We don't know what a free market is!'

Yeah, we fucking do.

It's called all of history leading up till we started saying 'hey, fuckface, don't put chalk in flour' and actually meant it.

'Regulations in the EU are fucking with development of LLMs'

As someone who dabbles in LLM shit: GOOD.

That's a good thing, kids.

The Australian government, the other day being like 'ok, so... Facebook (Meta), are you using our people's photos for AI stuff?', and Meta being like 'well... no... ok, you caught us, yes, but we're allowed to because you didn't stop us', and the Aus government saying 'uhhhh, so.... shit'

Know what would've been great there?

Some fucking regulations.

Companies will literally do whateverfuck they can do to make money/gain power/influence unless you say 'hey, no'.

... and even then, you probably have to say 'hey, no' loudly, and with a loaded gun and a bunch of pitchforks.

Randomed into some subreddits following something and... urk that turned dark.

Gonna go do... anything else... for a while

Wait, has fishing now?

Oof.

Dangerous territory.

CC: @worthlessbums and @RogerBW just because I need to inflict psychic damage.

@DarkestKale I was *very* happy yesterday to see the single panel comic and extraordinarily happy with it today. Jeph getting a bit bolder and more obvious with the time skips (which have always been part of QC) is something I am here for. :D

@kaynSD I still very, very much think Tai's a piece of shit, but... eh, I just love him fucking over all of r/QuestionableContent.

Jeph just leg-sweeped one of their big 'criticisms' and gave them a middle finger in the same hit. Heh.

@DarkestKale Oh the joys of insatiable, unsatisfiable fanatics.

Let Jeph write what he wants to write. He's already done comics at weddings and if he doesn't want any more zany shenanigans to happen during Tai and Dora's wedding planning and wants to focus on the character interactions at wedding receptions, or blaze past that entirely, or write something completely different in a completely different part of his setting, then let him.

@DarkestKale dump'em on an island.
"Here you go, a world almost totally free of regulations. The sole rule is don't fuck with the cameras. Good luck."

@kaynSD really? You don't get my post showing up?

@MachineLordZero @DarkestKale to be fair their response isn't showing up either. So either they've now deleted it and it's orphaned everything, or some *fun* is happening.

@DarkestKale @MachineLordZero yeah, but not members of the subreddit. So it might not be showing the original comment with a negative score.

@kaynSD @DarkestKale reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/commen

"1 more reply" is visible, but clicking it gets a loading spinner for a second and then nothing

@MachineLordZero @kaynSD I'm looking at in in incognito mode and some weird shit's happening, for sure.

@DarkestKale Strikes and regulations are the substitute for stout rope and a lamppost. Like the antivaxers, the boss class has forgotten the alternative.

@DarkestKale Yeah, we've got regulations, but the government is refusing to act on the complaint because they think Facebook can win them elections.

@DarkestKale Yeah, this is very strongly my feeling.

I don't like the way the big players in this industry are trying to distort the legislative, enterprise and communications/PR/public awareness landscape surrounding the tech.

@DarkestKale @worthlessbums Maybe someone should write a trite and overblown romantic tragedy set in Silly Valley AI bro culture. You could call it "The Bungle".

@RogerBW @worthlessbums Welcome to the Bungle, we've got fun and games?

@DarkestKale that... seems wrong. You got a pic of this tool in case it's not what I'm thinking of?

@MachineLordZero it's showing me some cheaper ones now, but bear in mind shipping plus list price == real price