Let’s wait until 2050s.

There’s a conlang introducing phonemic hats, so why the hell not?

This is why I dread working with anything ‘too consumer friendly’.

Wasn’t it a few years ago that scientists working on human genes renamed something because excel was chaging it every time?

The first thing I’m generating when this thing matures is Tay Zonday (chocolate rain guy) dancing in actual chocolate rain.

The film industry could use some of the tools, like assisting in special effects with reduced costs. As long as it doesn’t claw on the industry workers with an abusive contract, that is…

It won’t be long before we have something like Oobabooga or Stable Diffusion but for artificial video with matching audio. I’m so sorry for historians in the future trying to determine whether this video of Joe Biden doing tap dances on an F-16 while throwing a hadouken recovered from a trashed hard drive is authentic or not.

I’m really weighing whether I should continue paying for GPT4. I’m already using the API to pay just what I use for instead of full-blown ChatGPT Plus. Despite OpenAI nerfing hard it’s models, none of the alternatives available seem to match their answer quality yet.

Perhaps I haven’t looked enough? Bard/Gemini was crap, so was Bing Chat/Copilot. I see a lot of promise in FOSS models like Mixtral, but I can’t feasibly selfhost it without a good GPU.

Are those USB naming schemes, or edgy usernames from 2000s like xXx_31Gen3x1HardCore_xXx?

My workplace insists on using dot net classic to recreate a twenty years old VB app that should be able to drink, vote, and drive.

Please send help. SQL queries are a spaghetti mess and all the original devs are probably gone or dead.

I am so sorry, man. No one deserves this.

And this is why alcoholism is rampant. Please free me from this insanity.

I scream silently everytime.

And then there’s .net classic and .net core. Making up two entirely separate names shouldn’t be difficult for marketing executives.

I still think YYYY-MM-DD should be more apt for an international release.

Remember that banking and finance is full of regulations, and have moving speed of snail. Opposite of IT. When asked for something like this (open source or cross compatibility or anything nerdy) the first question is “who will be liable for losses and damages when something breaks?”.

Liability is probably the biggest factor. When something isn’t working properly, they want to be able to point fingers at someone and blame them. The vendor then blames someone else. Open source tends to be the polar opposite, which means huge red flags - hippie stuff, no payment, no liability, no pointy-blaming game.

Or so I’ve heard from people working in that sector. For places as conservative as them to deploy FOSS solutions, you’ll need the government branches cooperating with clearly worded laws and regulations, dragging them kicking and screaming into adoption.

And that’s assuming no one will lobby against in the process.

Its very ingrained on me that a proper business should be able to spare a few on a domain for themselves, as I remember it before the dot-com bubble.

Now? Websites have been displaced by social media altogether and many small business simply prefer having an Instagram profile, for example.

Yeah, that’s what happens, something cool but that’s it. It would be nice if l could use it for something else other than a glorified online resume.

I also bought a cheap domain for experimenting around, so that’s where all my “not so professional” stuff goes.

What about Yunohost? Its made for newbies getting into selfhosting and has Jitsi support.

I’d rather have a text-only instance with no media at all. Can this be done?

Does that disable image saving and processing for one’s instance?