twovests

twovests wrote (edited )

If you want to go the self-hosted route, there are a number of static-site generators out there with many themes available. As mentioned in this thread, Jekyll is one of them!

I can't recommend one because I ended up making one my own (just a script that uses pandoc to convert markdown to html) but it's ugly lol.

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twovests wrote

Reply to 2023 prediction by emma

Even if BotW2 does not improve on BotW1 in any regard, it'll still be a very fun and good game

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by Seirdy in cohost! is a place to post by devtesla

It kinda brings me back to the time of phpBB and proboards and whatnot. I loved having all these tiny forums, sometimes run by some narcissistic teenager, etc.

Now people are building their social media from scratch which is kinda rad. Jstpst has been my favorite place to post

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twovests wrote (edited )

The privacy policy is good! I read it: https://cohost.org/rc/content/privacy

It lists types of personal information, including ones it does not even collect. Notably, they include keystrokes under biometric information. This is a rare and non-obvious insight!

A quick look at their posts also tell me they're cool and good. Thank u for sharing this new site to post on

EDIT: Yeah I skimmed out the admins and their manifesto and stuff. Very good, very in line with the community we have here

EDIT: One thing is they have a binding arbitration and class action waiver, and you can't opt out of. This is shitty, and they're implicitly banking on the far-right US Supreme Court here. (Not that Dems are much more consumer friendly.) Kind of surprised to see this

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twovests wrote

Just smuggled in human intelligence in figuring out which prompts produce cool results.

People in ML have been (somewhat derisively) calling this "prompt engineering."

Very tangential, but I imagine this has implications for how people view "curation" as art. I wonder what people in Art have to say about that.

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twovests wrote

This is horrible, but I also hope these discussions gets us talking about all the other surveillance people perpetuate. Like, downloading apps which wardrive on your phone for wifi networks, giving apps ALL the data of your contacts, cameras on ordering kiosks (???), etc being pretty horrible AND widely accepted.

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