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Systems Engineer, worldbuilder & writer
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With the telephone curly cord, individuals can converse effortlessly, without the hassle of a fixed wire. It remains an integral part of telephone systems, providing reliable and convenient communication in homes, offices, and beyond.
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"A Large Language Model (LLM) was a type of non-sapient algorithm popularised in the 2020s, and one of the first widespread uses of machine learning technology. The emergence of LLMs and generative AI as a whole created an economic bubble that burst near the end of the decade as most companies realised the fundamental flaws of the technology and that its disadvantages outweighed its benefits. The main features from LLMs retained post-crash were mostly related to LLMs' original purpose in language: autocomplete, translation, grammar checking, and image description. The LLM terminology fell out of favour soon after."
this is all that will be written about LLMs in this universe, I don't see any reason to write more :P
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Here are the pages for all my personal characters if anyone would like to read them!
Vertex X7-53: https://www.calamity.wiki/X7-53
Alex Z-41: https://www.calamity.wiki/Alex_Z-41
Cypher: https://www.calamity.wiki/Cypher
Exon: https://www.calamity.wiki/Exon
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It’s parallelised so it’s quite performant even in force mode with hundreds of pages and it even runs on the mobile version of the Obsidian app just fine! I’ll probably make it open source at some point for people who want to do the same thing I did
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For anyone curious, setting this up has been a bit of a challenge, since I use Obsidian to author all my content. I wrote a bespoke plugin to strip out my internal stuff and add like infoboxes and categories based on the document metadata. There’s also special properties to cascade navboxes etc
It parses everything using the marked.js library, then uses custom parser/renderer functions to transform the markdown tokens into valid mediawiki syntax. Then it fetches all the pages and uploads only the ones with a modified timestamp than the last revision
Okay... I think I finally have my shit together enough to finally announce it now... The Calamity Wiki is live!!!! Calamity is a worldbuilding project I've been working on for the last 10 years
https://www.calamity.wiki/Main_Page
There's hundreds of pages of content and the first chapter of a story called Project Alderon you can go there and read right now! (Boosts are encouraged!)
(Some of the pages are still not up to the highest standard I'd like yet, and many don't have wiki infoboxes, I'm slowly working through those. But that's of course something that'll take time. All the major stuff should have them, though!)
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@vogelchr @derwellensittich If my math is correct, that’d kill you in less than 5 minutes
My context switching has an incontrovertible hysteresis period
blessed with creative thoughts, cursed with the inability to draw
…hopefully changing soon
I promise it's a very trustworthy company
Finally made a logo for my worldbuilding project~
Ok random question, does anyone know of a good way to make character portraits for worldbuilding stuff (without using AI)?
I'd rather commission artists to do it (and in fact, I have, for several character already) but I have hundreds of characters and that just isn't financially sustainable at scale
Maybe photobashing or something like that? But then that might get into issues of intellectual property with real-life people
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Ah seems there’s a better way to do it but the documentation was a bit obscure. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ImportDump.php
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(It would also be nice if this stuff was prepackaged or someone made an installer with all the extensions and boilerplate modules ready to go instead of requiring you to figure it out on your own)
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Can't import the Wikipedia infobox templates and modules because my server spends like 30 minutes on the import and then times out (after I already increased the nginx and PHP timeouts to crazy values)
It feels like there should be an easier way to do this but searching for one doesn't yield any results
kinda sucks that I have to go to bluesky to find people who are also into my niche kinks, it would be cool if even just some of that community were over here
I decided to go with Mediawiki for my new public-facing worldbuilding wiki and I'm still wondering if I'm gonna eventually regret that decision... lol
Besides that and Wikidot, I don't really have experience with anything else. I know the SCP Wiki uses the latter extensively, but also is looking to move off of it since it's pretty antiquated. Mediawiki isn't that bad so far I guess, though it's fairly complex
One thing I do want to do is fully customise the styling so I can theme the site to my universe, and I'm not sure yet how difficult that'll be to do with the default theme system
someone should make a series where they test how well every possible liquid works as bong water. coffee, milk, pickle juice, wine, vodka, hot sauce…
Huh??? I bought a pack of TimTams here in the UK and it says “chocolate FLAVOURED coating”. while the Australian version of the website says “smooth chocolate coating”
am I going insane? is the UK version specifically made with fake chocolate or have timtams always been made with fake chocolate and the UK laws are just more strict?
“Breaking reality is sort of like forging steel. If you keep heating, eventually it will become soft enough to bend to your will. But likewise, if you keep going, it might melt completely, and then there’s no going back…”
Saw movies be like: this guy jaywalked so now I’m gonna make him rip his own eyeballs out
Eat weapons-grade uranium
1.9TDI is a rollercoaster located at Clarks Summit Park in Scranton, PA. It is themed after car and smoking culture, specifically around the “1.9 TDI” aesthetic of diesel VW Golf cars that later became a meme. It boasts the highest top speeds of any rollercoaster on Earth. Superconducting linear motors are used to launch the ride at up to 477 km/h. Like Dipper 2, only sufficiently augmented patrons are allowed to board. It was built in early 2127.
The rollercoaster incorporates elements of burnt rubber and simulates the smell of diesel exhaust fumes, and riders are encouraged to light up and smoke cigarettes while summiting the lift hill. Real diesel fumes were historically used on the ride, but after one patron’s ciggy ignited the fumes and set the car ablaze, the practice was discontinued. However, participants at the time claimed that the flaming ride “was truly epic”, and that they’d do it again despite receiving third-degree burns.
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@dcoderlt How can it do that without prompting for the MacOS permission to access other apps’ data??
A gas bubbling through water…
THAT’S A BONG
FUKUSHIMA MADE A RADIOACTIVE BONG
a rock is the most secure object in the universe. you cannot hack it, it has zero points of failure, truly perfect supply chain security, the firmware is always up to date, it is beyond IP69 rated and fully hermetically sealed, and fully TEMPEST, SDIP-27, NIAP, and Common Criteria EAL7+ compliant, it tolerates all forms of electromagnetic interference including EMPs, and it’s fully radiation hardened
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GitHub is apparently going to start using your data for model training unless you intentionally opt out of it: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/
It looks like this is mostly just limited to interactions with Copilot itself, but I'd turn it off anyway just to be safe...
Species Replacement Therapy (SRT)