AI Roleplay is a Good Thing, Actually

While AI roleplay has gotten a bad rap recently, as all things gaming related too often do, I believe that open-source and self-hosted AI roleplay is an excellent way to mitigate some of the harms done by closed AI platforms.

Not a week goes by without some publication releasing a new article, video, or paper on the completely real and valid harms AI is doing to the mental health of a large segment of society. Sometimes it's a weird news or human interest fluff peace on someone getting married to Chat GPT. Sometimes it's a deep, hard-hitting look at AI psychosis. Sometimes it's just encouraging everyone to point and laugh at lonely people with mental struggles who have AI girlfriends, so the news publication can make money hand over fist from the clickbait while victimizing the people struggling.

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The Problems and Successes of Fediverse Comments on my blog

I've been running fediverse as the commenting system on this blog for a while now. Here's how it's been going.

I was inspired to write this by a number of recent articles around the blogosphere (is that still a word people use?) on using the fediverse (or atproto) as a way to get comments on a static blog. As someone who gets a lot of fediverse interaction, and has been doing this for a bit, the experience has been mixed.

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An Accessible Theme for Oh My Posh

Oh My Posh is a set of configurations and themes for powershell, that allows dynamic modification of the prompt depending on what you're doing. This is the theme I use as my daily driver, and how I have powershell set up as a screen reader user.

Microsoft's Powershell has been my favourite shell for several years now. Not only is it an extremely powerful shell on Windows, it also runs perfectly well on mac and Linux; it tends to be the first thing I set up when configuring a new server, in fact. It's deeply configurable, integrates well with DotNet assemblies, and is well documented and logical. If you haven't explored powershell yourself yet, you absolutely should.

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