Neocities.org
So apparently the Neoities maintainer person Kyle wants to put AI into the code editor. God knows what else AI is going to do - i didn't see any warranty of our sites not to get scraped so far. Read more about that here [https://gremlin.nekoweb.org/blog/10-15-24] and sign the petition, please. I don't want one of the last OK places of the internet to fall like that.
13 likes
regarding the AI thing gremlin and i have been talking about: it doesn't sound like the Penelope AI is anything more than an analytical engine; sort of an "autocorrect for your code" type of thing. The problem is that KD hasnt said which API Penelope is based on, so there could easily be a corporate datascraper on the other side of it.
9 likes
gremlin
2 months ago
I don't know if it is a scraper involved. However the facts of the matter are that Kyle tried at least twice to add "coding assistants" to neocities despite understanding that AI/ML A: Contributes significantly to climate change and B: The neocities crowd is against this kind of stuff, we came here to avoid some the issues that plauge the modern web
2 likes
gremlin
2 months ago
C: Kyle has stated on reddit that the plan is only on hold, it could very well still happen
1 like
gremlin
2 months ago
So for the sake of being fair, Kyle acted pretty shady and could have potentially thought about scraping the data or selling it to AI companies to use BUT so far there is no proof of that so thats not what I am saying.
1 like
gremlin
2 months ago
What there is proof of is coding assistants being added to the neocities text editor! These got added under the guise that they help and assist new webdevs HOWEVER the code produced by "coding assistants" is notorious for presenting code that is way more trouble then it's worth. What this will realistically result in is more lower quality web pages that don't function or require more time to fix then code that you-
1 like
1 like
gremlin
2 months ago
Anyways no, it's was not just autocorrect. When it was functional you would ask it a question, it would give a response based off that question.
1 like
6 likes
astrossoundhell
2 months ago
Put the new album to the fresh tunes window! [https://elysiantunes.bandcamp.com/album/bad-future-hi-speed-gabba-party] if people are curious
4 likes
my brain has been occupied by the idea of building a functioning computer out of 74 series logic, no CPU or whatever involved - just for funsies. Which is definitely possible and much easier than a lot of other asinine computer ideas. But even considering that, is it really worth my time?...
5 likes
astrossoundhell
2 months ago
Yeah, i know how to make registers and ALU and the control unit etc out of basic logic chips. I can make them. I can make my own assembly language that translates into machine code for that exact abomination. That would be fun! And i know how to do it in good detail! But. WHY exactly would i do it except for to maniacally laugh when it finally works
4 likes
4 likes
astrossoundhell
2 months ago
Fair enough... just thinking if wasting one of my two action slots per day is worth it. BUT i'm pretty sure it is. I'm teaching this shit at a university, and how dare i, if i never built an actual computer
1 like
Listen to my best speedcore album today [https://elysiantunes.bandcamp.com/album/everlasting-thursday]
5 likes
badgraph1csghost
2 months ago
mark mothersbaugh would be proud of you (the highest compliment i can think of at the moment)
2 likes
1 like
been staying away from the website stuff because for some reason i want to delte it recently. i'm not sure why v~v that sux cause i also wanted to start on re-loring elysian tunes
8 likes
badgraph1csghost
3 months ago
take care of yourself first. take all the time you need, we'll still be here (>^.^)> ~~<3
3 likes
5 likes
astrossoundhell
3 months ago
AUBERY 1 : SCREENSHOTTER 0! Take that ya robo! Now the screenshots will be clean and fullmode, while new visitors will get a splash and returning visitors will keep their calm mode preference
2 likes
New tutorial [https://auberylis.moe/webtut/dotslash/] - simple but essential stuff this time
3 likes
3 likes
astrossoundhell
3 months ago
Made a web tutorials index and reformatted the first article. Feedback is much appreciated! I think it reads much better now. Also i decided to keep the styling tame and more groundy than the rest of the site, so papery skeuo it is
3 likes
Not sure why the screenshotter no longer posts my screenshots... maybe it gave up seeing the same shit over and over? Anyways, there's now a tutorial on menu buttons with color-shifting backgrounds, since i saw like five sites use static images for those; so i decided to show the lighter and more flexible way of CSS.
2 likes
astrossoundhell
3 months ago
It's available at [https://auberylis.moe/webtut/buttons/] - but not from any link within the site itself. Check it out if curious and tell me if i have to majorly change something about how i write. I plan on making more web tutorials, so feedback is important
It's not a foolproof anti-scraping solution, but we can use robots.txt (and/or meta name=robots tags) to tell the major cloud LLMs to stay off our sites: https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/go-ahead-and-block-ai-web-crawlers/
neocities ai will be trained on making the same sadgrl website template over and over
sure, robots.txt is a must, but it doesn't mean a lot. neocities hosts our sites, the data is already there, they don't need to webscrape in order to train. I want a warranty from Kyle that we're not used as training data.