#introductions Hello world!
My name is Maxwell. I'm an artist, writer, and aspiring webcomic creator. I'll mostly be sharing pieces of stories I'm working on (like random plot concepts, worldbuilding, concept art, etc.), as well as talking about animation, games, TTRPGs, and stuff like that.
"[Lowering the cost of ML] is thus very desirable, even if the cost is making ethical compromises. ...
With GitHub, it takes the form of disregarding the terms of Free Software licenses.
In the process, they built a tool which facilitates the large-scale laundering of Free Software into non-free software by their customers, who GitHub offers plausible deniability through an inscrutable algorithm."
https://drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Copilot-GPL-washing.html
#FLOSS #AbandonGithub
#Microsoft #Github #CoPilot #GPLWashing #ML
It's been on my mind for a while, though.
I guess I'll look at my options before making any final decisions.
I definitely want to dedicate an alt account to Northbound (the comic) once I have that going.
I think I might start from the ground up in terms of a more "personal" profile? I don't fully know what that means yet, though.
And don't get me wrong: I really, really like toot.party; I just don't know that it's quite what I needed. And I'm still not even sure that I'm really leaving yet.
2/
It has been a while since I've said anything here...
I guess ultimately, I don't do too well with social media? I like this instance, and I don't mind most of the federated stuff either, but enough of it is stressful to the point that I never really want to log on.
I might try another instance or something, or I might just delete this account altogether.
I still plan on sticking with Mastodon in some form, though. 1/
Although, come to think of it, I don't think I'll be buying it either way.
The Pokémon company went and worked with Tencent for that stupid Unite thing or whatever and that's a bit of a problem. I don't even care whether or not they're involved with this game specifically; I don't want to risk supporting them at all.
Okay, so it looks like Finnish doesn't have articles (I think that's what they're called? Like "a" and whatever), and "is" always comes after whatever word you would put next in English (for instance, "Hän hauska on" rather than "Hä on hauska"
Or that's what I'm gathering from the handful of Duolingo lessons I did today...
I wish it was more direct about the actual grammar and alphabet, but I guess I'll have to learn those independently.
Or maybe I'm overthinking things a lot
I had a whole bunch of caffeine and everything seems like a good idea right now
The fact that replicating little chunks of Earth is an entire artform is really beautiful, I think. It's very human, if that makes sense.
We fell in love with the world around us, and we really try to capture all those little things that make it so pretty.
And we do this in everything. Illustration, animation, music, game development, writing, film, even cooking and interior design.
I want enough of it to survive that future generations fall in love with it, too.
I want to start making those little terrariums and stuff. It never occured to me that you could just make a small one and not put fish or whatever in there. Just some little plants and rocks and you can make whatever you want.
Glass seems to be a lot easier to work with than I initially thought, and it's not difficult to get the tools you need (if a bit pricy...)
Hello World! My name's Maxwell! I have a lot of bad ideas, I like to draw, and I write weird stories. I'll probably spend a lot more time talking about Fever The Ghost and Ratchet And Clank than anything else, though.