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Eugen Rochko
@Gargron__dup_1@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon@mastodon.social. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
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Technology is not inevitable. We've decided not to have asbestos in our walls, lead in our pipes, or carginogenic chemicals in our food. (If you're going to argue that it's not everywhere, where would you rather live?) We could just not do LLMs. It's allowed.
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From what I've observed, people who claim that LLMs can replace artists don't understand art, people who claim that they can replace musicians don't understand music, people who claim that they can replace writers don't understand literature, and people who claim they can replace translators don't rely on translations. If I had a button that would erase LLMs from the world but it would take machine translations away (which is a false dichotomy anyway), I would absolutely still press it.
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I have the impression that primarily anglophone people don't read as much translated literature, because so much good literature already exists in their language, so this issue may not be as familiar within that demographic. As someone who did not grow up anglophone, I can tell you there is a world of difference between a good and a bad translation even when done by humans. Machine translations are not even on the scale.
I feel like in the last couple media interviews I’ve done after stepping down as CEO I’ve done a much better job communicating the vision and importance of the fediverse than I’ve ever done before, which is ironic but maybe logical? Brain work better when less pressure?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/116076611382717131
This is what they took from us.
Has anyone received their "I write alt text" t-shirt yet? I'd love to see some pictures / hear some feedback 🙂
Just rewatched Dreamworks' Sinbad, which I have only seen once as a kid. It's such a good movie! Beautifully animated. It should be up there with Titan A.E. and Treasure Planet.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116177753236186999
There won't be any more new merch for a couple months at least, I need to sell these out before I can make more stuff like the beanies.
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We now have two t-shirt designs on our merch shop! Both are unisex, high quality 100% organic cotton, with screen prints of @dopatwo@mastodon.social's awesome illustrations. You voted for these slogans! "I write alt text" and "My friends are not for sale". We offer free shipping over a certain threshold, shipping from Germany.
https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy
#Merchtodon #Mastodon
RE: https://frogs.lgbt/@alyx/116232623564098477
Anyone in #BelieveInFilm interested?
#DevinTownsend’s The Moth now has a release date: May 29. Album is up for pre-order. Secured myself the vinyl. One single is up on streaming platforms today as well.
New single from #TheDearHunter's upcoming album Sunya came out today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l629U0uS38
The Dear Hunter - Marauders (Lyric Video)
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@maxleibman@beige.party Personally, I just blocked that domain from my account so I never see those posts.
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@maxleibman@beige.party In my view it's turning unique character designs into averaged out Instagram influencers. I also do not share in the pursuit of realism in media. The more realistic, the harder to suspend disbelief.
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@fediversereport@mastodon.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social The share button does not use the Mastodon API and has nothing to do with whether 3rd party apps or different platforms choose to implement the Mastodon API or not.
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Did we get recommended the same video on YouTube?
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@coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social @kims@mas.to That's very disappointing.
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@Edent@mastodon.social Video is a subtype of Document, so it's not really wrong.
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@hiker@akk.fedcast.ch @Mastodon@mastodon.social @fediversereport@mastodon.social My impression is that a lot of people would be upset with us if we published something claiming to be a "fediverse" tool, as if we own the fediverse. Of course, there's also not nearly the same amount of brand recognition for the fediverse as a concept. There are at least 3 unofficial symbol proposals and most people outside the fediverse aren't familiar with any of them.
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@hiker@akk.fedcast.ch @Mastodon@mastodon.social @fediversereport@mastodon.social Probably the body best suited to publish something like a fediverse share tool is the @swf. Regardless, I think we're well within our rights to publish a tool our users asked for, catered to our own platform. Not everything has to be for everyone. PeerTube has a PeerTube app and Sepia Search, nobody is upset (nor should they be) that those don't work with Mastodon.
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@wahlatlas@norden.social It'll likely take a few months for the fisherman beanie.
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@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place This is like saying building sandwiches in Subway democratizes cooking and will give rise to the chef equivalent of Steven Spielberg.
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@mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl @foxyoreos@mastodon.social AI is a marketing term and functionally useless. It means whatever big tech wants it to mean. I studied neural networks at university back in 2013, before there was even a whiff of a large language model. OCR was described in books from 2001.
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@krautspace@chaos.social Sie sind im Moment alle ausverkauft, neue kommen so mitte August oder so.
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@coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social @kims@mas.to What is this about Doctorow? I have not been keeping up.
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@Landsil@infosec.exchange @dopatwo@mastodon.social No, that's only available as a pin.
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@Edent@mastodon.social Yes, ultimately it's up to the receiver to figure out how the file type is to be handled. For example, GIFs are converted to MP4 files without sound in Mastodon. Is that an Image or a Video? I'm not sure you'd gain anything from specifying this on the protocol level.
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@johan@tilde.zone Смотрится может и ничего, но качество и долговечность по моему не теже самые. Мне нравится делать красивые и качественные вещи.
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@johan@tilde.zone Евгений. Рисунки эти не в открытом доступе, на и печать трафаретная на одну футболку невозможна. Все равно, все размеры я заранее подготовить не могу.
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@nolan@toot.cafe What you're describing is not a skill or craft, it's a gacha machine. It's gambling. You're hitting spin until you win something. And it relies on similar code and programs being in its training data. It's copying from Stack Overflow with extra steps. It won't solve novel problems.
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@df@s.dfaria.eu No, this is marketing. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic &co want you to believe that what they're doing is artificial intelligence. My professional opinion is that LLMs are a dead end technology to creating actual intelligence. And if any of those companies did create actual intelligence for the purposes they pursue, it would be slavery, for which I cannot advocate.
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@Eetschrijver@mastodon.social @madengineering@mastodon.cloud @fesshole@mastodon.social If it’s a studio production, yes. But based on “her channel” in the post it sounds like OnlyFans &co in which case it’s absolutely the choice of the performer.
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social The age verification companies operate internationally. I imagine it's the same companies lobbying in the UK, Canada, Germany, and so on. It is impressive that they have the funding to lobby across the world like that, and it does seem sinister.
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@foxyoreos@mastodon.social Mastodon does not have an AI alt text feature. You may be thinking of some third party apps.
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@David@setouchi.social Hugo is from 2011 and despite being full of CGI it still looks vibrant and very different visually to let's say Wake Up Dead Man, which is one of the better looking modern examples, so the cut-off point is sometime after 2011.
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@hpod16@eupolicy.social @Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social I just have them on my computer. And if there's one I don't have, I search for it online and download.
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@codinghorror@infosec.exchange The closest I can give you is Casualties of Cool, which since last year I've started putting on before bed to calm me down, although it is by no means meant to be used that way as it is a very good album in its own right.
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social Lobbying from age verification companies. They really are just creating an industry for themselves.
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@hiker@akk.fedcast.ch @Mastodon@mastodon.social @fediversereport@mastodon.social If it has a /share page, it works. The tool doesn't care.
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@inanedirk@metalhead.club If it was real, I would be so impressed. But now I'm just sad.
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@ozzy@fedi.social @fediversereport@mastodon.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social @swf @hiker@akk.fedcast.ch I think things work pretty well right now. You’ll never have 100% feature parity between platforms, sometimes it doesn’t even make sense. Some code forges now use ActivityPub between themselves, but I think most would agree it would be ridiculous to expect to be able to send a pull request to a code repository from Pixelfed or Mastodon. The important bits are the bits that are in common.