We've got a few sites that are intermittently giving 503 cloudflare errors (the site itself is not throwing them), found this. Combined with general squirreliness with YouTube this morning, figure better safe than sorry to psot here.
The twitter fail whale was a thing a decade ago now.
I don't think outages are more common as such, but we pay more attention to them since we live in mobile phones nowadays.
There has been a lot of contralization of web servers into 3rd party CDNs like Akamai and Cloudflare, probably more than is truly needed by smaller actors who instead just need to fix their crappy DB access patterns and rid themselves of all the tracking js, but that in and of itself doesnt mean more outages...just a larger blast radius when an outage does happen.
> The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
> Please try again in 30 seconds. That’s all we know.
Even YouTube goes down. Good reminder for us mere cyber mortals with our total customer base of 100ks and not millions. Nobodys perfect!
I was just about to research 1:60 scale mapmaking for my rpg campaign since I was going to adapt a modern day map hidden as a fantasy map, and boom, shes dead Jim.
Eternal September came up in conversation today about how users don't do effort posts any longer, they just want to leave funny comments below reaction videos and then swipe to the next one.
Anyone got any good effort post oases I can lurk and help out in?
Thank you for sharing your hard work with the world! I get to play with these AI technologies without having to train my own model or wire up an entire composition because of precompiled systems ither have made and shared, like yours.
I hope you find product market fit and are able to do what you desire with this product. In the meantime, I am grateful that you are helping us advance towards the Star Trek Voice Computer being defictionalized!
Excited to try this out, I've been looking at LangFlow and similar tools for doing DAG workflows. Sure, I could prompt or try to do an MCP or a claude skill for my utility workflows, but they aren't strongly followed and I want to, where possible, make each AI agent call be smaller, like a function.
This is definitely going to be given a try tomorrow morning. I think first up will be something easy and personal like going through the collection of NPC character sheets in my recent campaign and ensuring all NPCs have the following sections with some content in them, and if not, flagging them for my review.
An interesting read with good points regarding copyright discussions and how pointy haired bosses will hope to do a neo nafta to white collar employees like the original did to blue collar ones.
I suspect businesses will attempt to do compilation copyright if not individual asset copyright to get around tfas recipe for centaurness for artists.
If I have a story that I write and use AI to render the images, soundtrack, motions, potentially voice acting, when does what the AI did stop and where does my work begin?
If I write and voice act the thing, those pieces are copyrighted. Does that constitute enough of the creative work that while I can't copyright a particular screen grab, I can copyright the work as a whole like a phone book?
Maybe, I genuinely don't know. What if I have the AI do the voice acting as well? Probably, that is a public domain work to my uninformed opinion.
It is not a question in my mind if I also just throw in a concept and have the AI produce the script that is then rendered out as well.
AI has shown that for creative art, it all begins with the writing, even if the final work produced is entirely visual or audio, the whole point of Art and copyright is to create a shared impression, hallucination, experience from Human to human. To communicate.
If the AI rendering can properly give things like tabletop RPG Recaps (and the content that the AI is rendering is original and under copyright) how much of that original concept (such as someone playing a tabletop RPG session with a story they wrote themselves) does the final rendered work get transient copyright protection? None? Even though its based on an underlying concept that is copyrightable if written down?
Businesses will be wanting to know these sorts of questions too, and that sill help shape how artists / coders / knowledge workers at large are transformed into centaurs or the reverse, ceteris paribus.
(Edit: if multiple processes are concurrently reading and writing, and one process vacuums, verify that the right things happen: specifically, that concurrent writes from other processes during a vacuum don’t get erased by the other processes’ vacuum. You may need an external advisory lock to avoid data loss).
> You can VACUUM INTO, but standard vacuum won’t rewrite the whole db.
This is not true. From the link you posted:
> The VACUUM command works by copying the contents of the database into a temporary database file and then overwriting the original with the contents of the temporary file.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, besides not preferring dynamic programming languages, I would in the past have given python more of a look because of its low barrier to entry...but I have been repulsed by how horrific the development ux story has been and how incredibly painful it is to then distribute the code in a portable ish way.
UV is making me give python a chance for the first time since 2015s renpy project I did for fun.
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