Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

@noracodes anyway i’ll add that the baha’i calandar of 19 months with 19 days gives 361 non⹀intercalary days total, so really we are all being conned by the illusory prestige of bases 8/10/12

@noracodes i WANT to be using <https://www.ladys.computer/calendar/>, but calendars don’t have much utility beyond scheduling rest days or worship, and i can’t do the first under capitalism and haven’t yet figured out the second

until that gets fixed we can probably realistically never have things like webrings again

if you sharing a link to someone’s personal hobby project has a chance of them going not “hey cool man thanks for the support” but “oh my god i did not ask for this spotlight”, you should just log off and never log back on

i don’t blame google or social media i blame walking talking context collapse machines making it impossible to say anything ever because someone Famous might see it and share it with a million random people

web got bad when celebrities logged on

@alyssa yes i saw it and was like “actually that’s a great idea”

i think it is unethical to hijack the part of brains designed to identify tasty berries amidst foliage in order to make website buttons look good to click at

if you post a color at me i will not see it

apparently colour filters work with night shift now in i·o·s so i turned on greyscale and set the night shift to permanently max

“at least the h·t·m·l parser is standardized”

the way things are going tho we’re more likely to see h·t·m·l adopted as a lingua franca for documents and tools than we are to see an x·m·l parser with wide·spread adoption which is actually good, to say nothing of making reasonable metadata queries of the parsed result

putting licence information in an easily⹀recognizable and ⹀parsable plaintext comment at or near the beginning of a file is sensible and very unixy, but it still irks me a bit when the file in question is x·m·l

that could be structured metadata!

@aschmitz @Satsuma oh to be clear i think that people SHOULDN’T try to get a computer to generate a language, but there are lots of people who want to make real-sounding fake sentences quickly without doing all the work that Building A Proper Language From Scratch might take

and “make real-sounding fake [thing] quickly without work” seems like the sort of problem people love throwing LLMs at, so

large language models aren’t capable of devising and consistently applying a novel grammar OR phonological system but a lot of people probably simply don’t care

there are existing tools out there which, for example, you can put some phonological rules into and have it spit out random words which follow those rules, and i still don’t like them but at least their output will be consistent

are the conlangers using LLMs to generate new words for their conlangs now or have we not quite gotten to that point yet