@fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

So I’ve been sharing my Weird Dreams with the fediverse lately. Because I’m a bit of a nut, I figured: why not share my normal dreams as well? I’ll be doing that with the #fedidreams hashtag every morning. If you, too, find dreams interesting, feel free to join in! Some ground rules and background: as a teenager, I was extremely interested in #lucid dreaming. I practiced #dream recall and put a lot of work into it, as the first step to lucid dreaming. While I never achieved it, to this day I can generally remember 1 or 2 dreams a night. I don’t believe dreams are supernatural, or have any deeper meaning.I just believe they’re fun, and sometimes an interesting way to get a glimpse of your own subconscious. Also, thanks to some medication I take, my dreams have become even more vivid over the last couple years. If I’m lucky enough to have any explicit dreams, I’ll be keeping those to myself! Will sharing my dreams with the world every morning get me any closer to my long abandoned goal of lucid dreaming? Will my subconscious get performance anxiety and stop dreaming entirely? Will the focus on writing up my dreams in something more than point-form for my dream diary make them even weirder? It’s a social experiment, bro! And you get to follow along on this journey of entirely unscientific and meaningless science! Yay! Yeah…feel free to filter out the #fedidreams hashtag entirely.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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Unfortunately, Openevv shares the same bugs with parenthesis characters that the IBM viavoice it's based off of did, and were not present in the final (only good) ECI version of eloquence. I suspect a lot of the work the openevv folks are going to have to do is squeezing out all of the bugs IBM added.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@kimchitea Yeah, in Toronto, Union Station is the largest one, and a terminal in the way you mean. But it's not the last stop on any line it's connected to.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@kimchitea In Toronto the subway announces "This is a terminal station." at the end of the line. I always wonder if the station is about to die, or if this is the station for people who are about to die, or what. Why can't they say "This is the last station on this line" or something?

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@bermudianbrit There's nothing kinky in here. AI roleplay can be about more than just sexting, you know.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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AI Roleplay is a Good Thing, Actually

While AI roleplay has gotten a bad rap recently, as all things gaming related too often do, I believe that open-source and self-hosted AI roleplay is an excellent way to mitigate some of the harms done by closed AI platforms.

stuff.interfree.ca/2026/08/25/ai-roleplay.html

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@mcourcel Let's do it again!

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1d

@fastfinge Nothing wrong with learning languages, of course. But the kind of person I'm talking about will usually start an opinion with "Well, I speak Arabic, so..." followed by whatever ridiculous hot take they have about international politics, religion, or whatever. When what "speak" means in this context is "studied it on Duolingo and never met or conversed with a native speaker".

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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I feel like duolingo has created a weird new kind of smart white woman #racism. She studies, like, 11 languages on duolingo! So she's obviously multicultural and worldly. She can't actually speak any of them in the real world, of course, but she's really really extremely good at #Duolingo. It's possible men and women of other ethnicities do this too, but the five or six people I know who do all match the profile above. Is performative #linguistics becoming a thing? Or is it just a weird quirk of my circles? Should we be saying anything about it? And if so, how/what? I dunno, it's just a thing I've noticed recently that bothers me.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@Quentin Nobody filled out the survey? Our minimum wage employe in charge of surveys is useless! We should fire them!

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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TIL: if you use the data and framework to turn Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead into a single-player mud, what you get isn't actually a good game. It just feels like a MUD with hundreds of rooms with identical descriptions, because tiles can't be treated as MUD rooms. Well, they can. But you get to type "north" 50 times to get to a door. And roguelikes have different ideas about interacting with objects, so you wind up with a mud interface where players can pick up an object that's three east from them and then drop it to the west, without ever moving. So now you get to do a bunch of nonsense to let players know what objects they can interact with when. Combat is surprisingly the least dreadful part of the thing. Anyway, that was a completely useless waste of a Sunday. I'm going to bed. I really don't think sleeping on it will turn this idea into anything actually worth releasing. What I wanted was a cross-platform mod of a roguelike that could be played without a Braille display. MSP and GMCP were nice, but that's about the only part of this that works in practice. Well, and full word commands were also nicer than memorizing dozens of shortcut keys. #CDDA #mud #roguelike
Are we having fun yet?

--- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead ---
Balance armor versus encumbrance. Even dropping a backpack can help in melee.
1) MOTD
2) New Game
3) Load
4) World
5) Tutorial Game
6) Settings
7) Help
8) Credits
9) Quit
Choose>
--- Load a character from which world? ---
1) Ardoch
2) Lawsonia
3) Oberlin
4) Sulphur Springs
Choose>
--- Load character from "Ardoch" ---
1) George Barrientos ([00:28:16])
2) <- Back to Main Menu
Choose>
--- forest ---
The ground here is grass.
Diggable Plowable Flat
To the north: grass.
To the north-east: grass.
To the east: grass.
To the south-east: grass.
To the south: grass.
To the south-west: grass.
To the west: young tree.
To the north-west: grass.
You could go north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-west, west and north-west.
[hp 100% sta 100%]> sw
* sound played: plmove/walk_grass/walk_grass_4.ogg
You're tiring out mildly, and slowing down as a result.
--- field ---
The ground here is grass.
Diggable Plowable Flat
To the north: young tree.
To the north-east: grass.
To the east: grass.
To the south-east: grass.
To the south: long grass.
To the south-west: dirt.
To the west: grass.
To the north-west: grass.
You could go north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-west, west and north-west.
[hp 100% sta 100%]> sw
* sound played: plmove/walk_grass/walk_grass_6.ogg
--- field ---
The ground here is dirt.
Diggable Plowable Flat
To the north: grass.
To the north-east: grass.
To the east: long grass.
To the south-east: dirt.
To the south: grass.
To the south-west: dead grass.
To the west: grass.
To the north-west: dead grass.
You could go north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-west, west and north-west.
[hp 100% sta 100%]> sw
* sound played: plmove/walk_dirt_5.ogg
--- field ---
The ground here is dead grass.
Diggable Plowable Flat
To the north: grass.
To the north-east: dirt.
To the east: grass.
To the south-east: grass.
To the south: grass.
To the south-west: grass.
To the west: grass.
To the north-west: dirt.
You could go north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-west, west and north-west.
[hp 100% sta 100%]> sw
* sound played: plmove/walk_t_grass_long/walk_t_grass_long_3.ogg
--- field ---
The ground here is grass.
Diggable Plowable Flat
To the north: grass.
To the north-east: dead grass.
To the east: grass.
To the south-east: dead grass.
To the south: grass.
To the south-west: grass.
To the west: grass.
To the north-west: grass.
You could go north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-west, west and north-west.
[hp 100% sta 100%]>

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1d

@Quentin If you do answer every question five out of five stars, it means the company is probably spending too much money on customer service. Now they know they're doing so well they can afford to fire a few minimum wage employees. This is the purpose of surveys: they justify whatever the leadership already wanted to do.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@Quentin But remember that if you don't answer every question with five out of five stars, the executives use it as an excuse to fire minimum wage employees, and make sure living wage employees don't get bonuses this year. Of course the executives get million dollar bonuses; they thought up the power outage survey that uncovered all those slackers and saved the company literally thousands of dollars by firing them!

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@jfayre You should be able to do it either from the TUI, or by running the /tools list and /tools disable commands via the gateway you want to disable them in. hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/reference/toolsets-reference

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@jfayre You can set what toolsets are enabled per platform. Create a toolset with all tools but clarify, then enable only that toolset for the openai gateway.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@Orinks @jfayre Because I don't want it installing something that can stay running on the server, and I want it to not run long-lasting commands. I will run those on its behalf, as they usually require a lot of resources and my server is busy, so I want to schedule them overnight.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@jfayre hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/web-dashboard

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@jfayre Set up the Hermes Dashboard. Then you can edit the config in a web browser and you don't have to worry about it.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@jfayre Oh! Disable the clarify tool for the openai gateway. Then it'll give you choices in plain text.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@jfayre I'm using it locally. When you set it up in Hermes, you can set it up as local embedded. Then it will set up postgresql and the rest for you, and you just need to give it an API key via an environment variable in your .env file. What error is basiliskLLM throwing? It may be an error with the model perhaps? Do you have Hermes set up as provider: openai, and does your custom endpoint URL end in v1?

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@kev No, it is not. I don't know anyone who can go faster than 100.

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