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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@dumpsterqueer @WeirdWriter Iceshrimp has support for machine translation plugins. That can’t be done without AI.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jonny The thing that's the most shocking to me is just how bad this is. There are systems like hindsight and honcho that can handle this far better, cheaper, and more accurately than just a dump of markdown documents. This is the most expensive and least reliable way to do any of this. No tripples or fact store. No vector search. Nothing. Not even a database. Just...have the AI re-process every document hourly. Computing moved beyond flat files in about 1980! No wonder they want all the data centers, if they're just going to do things the worst possible way they could be done. Hell, mnemosyne can do this better, as a background task on your laptop, without even a cloud LLM. I'm sure Muse gives impressive demos. But in six months, everything in every file will be wrong, have drifted off the format, three quarters of it will never get updated, and the bits that do get updated the AI will forget to use. And the user will be wondering why Muse forgets everything they tell it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MikeGorse @tristan Matrix is godawful. I wouldn’t touch it if you paid me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tristan The only thing I'd want is the alt+number and moving of the windows to ctrl+number behind a config flag. It's all I could really see breaking people's mustle memory. Everything else are nice additions!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Elizafox And good point about the Overton window. I do find myself doing more with AI these days, both because of how society is, but also because when I consider not doing it (or not using AI for it) there is absolutely an element of "Fuck these people. They're going to hate me if I use AI for even one thing where I can't avoid it, so I might as well use it for fifteen things; they won't be any less abusive."
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Elizafox Trouble is, the most abusive accounts (as a blind person who uses AI because it's the best or only option and gets abuse from many of them) have been active and participating for far too long on Mastodon to be set up by some sort of bot farm.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Elizafox Yeah, I'm aware of the history of this happening in various places. Though not aware enough to know what that actually looks like on the ground, or how it might look different in a movement that's largely distributed and online.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Elizafox The main reason I don't actually think so is because none of us have enough influence for them to bother with a false-flag op. Plus, of course, absolutely no proof. But when did that ever stop a good conspiracy theory?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Elizafox If I were just a bit more conspiracy minded, I would wonder how many of the "anti-AI" people are just paid false-flags by Anthropic and Open AI to make the side look bad.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tristan Happy to take pull requests.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof Ah, okay. Of course, I'm running in docker, so I don't have easy access to the folder structure. Maybe a fix would be to make the page at clip.interfree.ca say "running with 3 buckets" or whatever? Then people would know if there are unexpected buckets. But it could be that logging already does this. I'll test in a bit.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof Yeah, client-side is probably the only way to do it. Either that or make the server log every time it creates a new bucket. So if someone was troubleshooting, they would see logs like "Sam's Framework joined the server and created a bucket. Sam's mac joined the server and used an existing bucket. Sam's iPhone joined the server and created a new bucket." So at least then, when something wasn't working, someone who checks the server logs would understand that iPhone did join the server, it just created a new bucket for itself.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof Yeah, I think that's right. The main thing is to know if you're joining an existing bucket, or if a new bucket was created. If a new bucket was created, and you did not expect that to happen, it's on you to figure out why. But now you know what happened, so you don't waste time trying to figure out why machine 1 isn't syncing the clipboard, when it is, just not in the same bucket is machine 2.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof So one small issue with this design. Doesn't it mean if I make a typo on one of my machines, and enter an incorrect password, it suddenly won't share history with all the others, and I won't know why? I might suggest a message when first setting up a machine alerting if it's creating a new database bucket instead of joining an existing one. It's not an error, of course, but it's good to know that what happened might not have been what I intended. Maybe it already does this; right now I have my dad on a different server instead, so I haven't tried that yet.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof Oh! I assumed giving a different encryption password would just mean the devices with the wrong password gave back an error. I didn't realize they could just create things with that password.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Edit: All of the below has been fixed. Docs are updated, the bug with the conf file is fixed. And see the reply in this thread for how to share a clipman server. Plus it was clarified in the manual. Gotta love quick updates! Clipman by @FreakyFwoof is one of those things I’d had on my list to set up ever since the IOS app came out. I finally did it. Should have done ages ago. The only weirdness involves running servers in docker behind reverse proxies. If you do that, a few things to know: first, it writes files you will need access to later. So don’t use bind mounts. Second, the importable config file it writes is wrong. You have to enter it in to the apps yourself. And the format has to be clip.example.com. If you use clipman:// examples like in the manual, it will try to use plain text and fail. When saving settings on IOS,you have to specify the port, even if it’s the default, because it requires a specified port or the settings won’t save. Lastly, it’s one server, one database. I thought I could add tokens for family members, but no. They need there own clipman server on there own host.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@dhamlinmusic Mac actually lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Because I know you all wondered (that's sarcasm: I know none of you care), this is the work happening to aimud this week. These are steps needed before I start building the OLC systems for players next week. github.com/fastfinge/aimud/blob/master/docs/rulesets.md
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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What have they done to the apples? Like, the food ones. That you eat. I got myself an apple for lunch, and it's huge! Like, larger than my hand. WTF? I have never seen or experienced an apple this large in my life. This can't be natural, can it? Is AI involved, somehow?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@8 I beat my meat. How should I vote?
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