Bots minus Twitter

I turned off the Twitter versions of my fleet of bots last week, and today I went through their various home pages and took out the Twitter timelines - which seem to have stopped working anyway - and replaced them with embedded timelines from their Mastodon incarnations, using Emfed, which was really …

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Happy New Year

Last year was a really big one for me - I changed jobs and institutions just before the end of 2022, and was lucky enough to become a group lead in the new team in May. It's been challenging but really exciting, I feel like I'm getting a lot more out …

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Tailscale

Since I set up Funkwhale I'd been thinking of using it to host my music collection so that I could listen to it from anywhere, but I did the sums and the cost of the extra storage would be about the same as if I got a static IP for …

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Chat-GPT

Like every other nerd, I spent way too much time earlier last week playing with and worrying about Chat-GPT, but you can relax, I've stumped it:

Screenshot of Chat-GPT conversation

Screenshot of Chat-GPT conversation

I never thought that my addiction to lipograms would lead to any useful conclusions, but these exchanges seem to capture exactly what Chat-GPT is …

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Bots on Mastodon

One of the nice things about the influx of Twitter users to Mastodon has been peoples' reaction when they find out that most of my bots are on the Fediverse, too. Even though they are still posting on Twitter, I've updated bots.mikelynch.org so that the front-page links go …

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Colonnades

AI generated photo of a bearded emperor carved from jade
AI generated photo of an ornate floral carving in red wood
AI generated photo of some spooky black pyramids

I didn't have as much time as I usually do for National Novel Generating Month, but I think the less time I spend on it, the better the results. I started out with a plan to do a complex, procedurally-generated parody of Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili but only got as far …

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