Gamera8ID

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[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"The Green Leopard Plague" by Walter Jon William. Nebula award winning novella that blew my mind when I read it in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty First Annual Collection back in 2004.

 

I've gotten used to reading, "OpenAI has a moat," around Artificial Intelligence. They've been so far ahead, so consistently, that the fear has been that other AI companies would ignore safety in an attempt to catch up.

Now the ouster of Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO seems to indicate that its board intends to pump the brakes and attempt to reach AGI responsibly rather than recklessly.

But when the daredevil driver of the lead car is replaced with a school bus driver who stops for all of the cross-walks will the other cars in the race abandon all caution, knowing that they are no longer only competing for second place?

[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminded me of this early Aaron Sorkin play about a writer and director filming the most expensive and pivotal shot of their debut film, which is ruined when three cows walk into frame.

[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

For the foreseeable future with Lemmy, plan on the unplanned.

Create accounts on several instances, and keep them synced.

I use lemmy-account-sync. It works perfectly for me.

There's another project, lemmy_handshake, which is an Android app (YMMV, I haven't tried it.)

It's not too difficult to use Oracle's free tier and Lemmy-Easy-Deploy if you want to register a domain and set up your own single-user instance. I do that, knowing that it could poof at any time. I run lemmy-account-sync as a cron job nightly on the same Oracle instance, but hosting your own instance isn't required for syncing.

I sync my main account with accounts on a few small instances. I chose them from the list of Lemmy nodes which are on the current version of Lemmy, that have active users. Small instances tend not to defederate other instances so much, if that is important to you. They are also less likely to be targets of DDOS attacks. They can also wink out of existence without warning, which may be the case with lemmy.villa-straylight.social.

I also sync my main account with accounts on a few of the larger instances. (I mainly use Lemmy Explorer to find Communities, but big instances are best if you just want to doom scroll "All.")

Should I tire of self-hosting, or if Oracle decides to randomly delete my instance (a real risk), then I'll just log into another instance.

You'll lose some stuff (like post history, and private messages) but it will be better than losing everything again.

[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I enjoyed The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois until his passing. I just discovered its spiritual successor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Neil Clarke, and am catching up now.

[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check that you're logged in? I found myself unexpectedly logged out everywhere after the last Lemmy update.

 

Has anyone self-hosting Lemmy found docs for the rate limit options?

I'm running on a free Oracle Cloud VM and am wondering if there are any default settings I should consider changing.

[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IDK where content creators should go, but as a viewer Piped looks promising. (I only discovered it because of @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks.)

[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 3 points 1 year ago

You are not alone

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