Dorsey was on a tear yesterday, unfollowing all but three accounts on X while referring to Elon Musk’s platform as “freedom technology.”

Ah, I see. He went insane.

They’ve been talking to Tencent, I’m gonna stick with “no.”

Their online tech support these days is no better. Just a maze of dead links and broken, 503-ing pages.

HP anything is a bad investment. I bought a HP gaming computer because it was on clearance for less than it’s graphics card alone, and learned that they lock the bios down to the simplest, most useless options.

the fangame runs on nintendo licensed hardware using nintendo licensed SDKs.

Legally shouldn’t have ever been their problem. If I, without any permission, ported Mario 64 to the Xbox, it would make zero sense for Microsoft to raise issue with Nintendo over it.

A lot of fangames that mod valve games don’t use any steam tools and Valve is still completely fine with the mods.

Statement’s a little incongruous: I would take a fangame that mods Valve games to mean something like a Sonic game built on the Source engine. Regardless, I’m pretty sure I get your intended meaning, and the fact is, there really aren’t that many to reference. I can only think of two notable ones off the top of my head, both of which are flash games, and both of which Valve ultimately did profit off of. After digging for a short while, I came up with two others, one being a short celebration of the series made for it’s 25th anniversary by a very well-known fan site, and the other being an obscure Unreal Engine project. The only other thing I can think of that might apply is Xash, which they definitely aren’t fine with, they just don’t have the legal standing to get rid of it without legally endangering every third-party tool made for their games.

So Valve takes down any project related to their IPs that isn’t made utilizing their tools and done in a way they like and/or can profit from?

How is that different from Nintendo with things like Mario Maker?

Ya know what? I hope they do it. That many rich assholes with more ambition than brains in one place? It’ll burn from the inside.

Damn, I don’t remember that part at all.

GOOD.

Most people don’t understand and are put off by the concept of federation and the difficulties that can come with it.

You have to find a suitable instance. Many instances are specialized, require applications, or simply don’t allow new users at all. I myself have yet to find a well-suited instance, and instead, I’m on an instance where discovery of my content is impossible.

With Twitter, if someone shares their profile, it’s two clicks to follow them. With the fediverse, you have to get their profile, then manually search for it on your own instance. In some cases, this doesn’t work reliably due to federation errors.

Its possible you’ll find yourself in the off-putting position of being unable to follow some people you’d like due to instances being defederated. This can make the process of finding an instance harder, or for people who are unfamiliar with the concept, result in them declaring the whole thing broken and moving away.

The problem is finding a viable alternative. Mastodon and Firefish are too much trouble for most people, BlueSky is a walled garden and Threads is… Well, Threads is Threads, enough said.

Breaking news: Elon is a hypocrite. In other news, snow found to be cold.

I mean, it’s not like this is new. He ranted about free speech for months, then as soon as he bought twitter, he started removing journalists that spoke out against him. He’s scum, plain and simple.

They said they’re on IOS.

It definitely happens with extremists on both sides, but I think it’s much more common on the right. Like, I encounter it on streets all the time from the right. I recently had a “climate change doesn’t exist because a day was cool last week” conversation with someone on the fourth-straight record high day in a row.

Someone in there finally said, “We can sell them the parts, and then the ones that fail to fix it either have to buy a new one or send the old one to us to fix at even more cost!”

Interesting about ROCm, I’ll have to look into that. As for running without the UI, I honestly don’t think I know enough to do that right now, lol.

I didn’t have any hope for being able to run it locally, but regardless, I’ve been getting it set up on and off all day. Well, as it turns out, I’m lucky enough to be able to generate with DirectML and 2GB VRAM in a not-terrible amount of time.

To test, I generated a couple of simple prompts. This one is from ‘a poster for Sex the movie’. It’s not NSFW, but I’d say it’s suggestive… in a weird, warped way. I didn’t use any negatives to test.

TBH, it would take a long time to come up with a prompt that didn’t produce trash even when generating quickly on Colab. Trying to do this on my CPU sounds like it could end up taking weeks or even months just to get a few good images.

EDIT: Well, it took me a long while to get set up, but as it turns out, I’m one of the lucky ones who can run on 2GB VRAM. I generated this in about a minute.

Here’s the info.

I never knew it was possible to run on CPU. Well, thanks for the idea, but that doesn’t seem usable. SD outputs are terrible 9 of 10 times, and at ten+ minutes a generation…