sounds something like call of cthulhu rules.

If you successfully use a skill during play, without the help of Luck points, mark the box next to it. Between scenarios, you get to roll to improve any skills you marked. To improve the skill, roll 1d100. If you roll higher than your skill, it improves by 1d10. After you’ve rolled for all the marked skills, erase the marks.

personally i think xp is too fiddly. i prefer systems like fate where you can just rewrite skills to fit your style of play better.

learning to use a workshop has nothing to do with how the tools are constructed. open source means very little to people who are not familiar with software tools, and is not likely to get someone started.

as soon as you are even starting on an intermediate level you need to care a lot, because you start building your own tools. but before that point, open source just means the big players. good luck explaining the benefits of awk before they know the difference between office and openoffice.

yeah that’d do it. on X11 this is a solved problem, but wayland delegates the responsibility to the wm, and i don’t think anyone other than gnome has actually implemented it. another one of the paper cuts that makes it hard for me to make the switch.

in most systems this is global. it’s provided by the desktop and programs just see a copy/paste event. are you on wayland by any chance?

i had no idea this was a thing in american courts. it just seems like an insane thing to include in a murder trial

i was responding to the questions posted in the comment i replied to.

also, doesn’t that make this entire thing worse?

it would hold the same meaning as now, which is nothing.

this is automatic writing with a computer. no matter what you train on, you’re using a machine built to produce things that match other things. the machine can’t hold opinions, can’t remember, can’t answer from the training data. all it can do is generate a plausible transcript of a conversation and steer it with input.

one person does not generate enough data during a lifetime so you’re necessarily using aggregated data from millions of people as a base. there’s also no meaning ascribed to anything in the training data. if you give it all a person’s memories, the output conforms to that data like water conforms to a shower nozzle. it’s just a filter on top.

in regards to the final paragraph, i want computers to exhibit as little personhood as possible because i’ve read the transcript of the ELISA experiments. it literally could only figure out subject-verb-object and respond with the same noun as it was fed, and people were saying it should replace psychologists.

yeah folk race! the winners are all put up for auction at the end.

you would also not want to enter a brand new rally car in a folk race… it’s full-contact racing on a track that’s basically all mud.

whos gonna tell’em

your dangerfield needs work

wife bad amirite

four weeks? hell no, i’d walk from any interview that attempted to strip two weeks of vacation from me.

through titles sure. but that’s not what i need from any site.

that is… pretty neat. is there some way to get it to interop with a browser’s bookmarks?

if only there was a fuzzy content search included. usually i don’t remember the page, or the topic, but just like… a quote.

that’s actually a good use for this local ai stuff, take the contents of pages i bookmark and auto-tag it based on that. for that matter, archive the contents as well.

worses

i use bookmarks for sites i access frequently, like a speed dial thing. i’ve set up my bookmarks toolbar to be in-line with the address bar and icon-only, so that it blends in with the rest of the interface. if i’m just going to go back to something one time i leave a tab open until i get time.

if i bookmark something i will never look at it again

ah so no generative ai used in actual article production, just in meta stuff and for newcomers to ask questions about how to do things.

yup, running a global network on top of something designed to be slow seems… inadvisable.