inked curiosity
ink.pds.witchcraft.systems
inked curiosity
@ink.pds.witchcraft.systems
engineering my better, kinder future

ink/水墨
english/中文

tech partition of @another-letter.bsky.social
sign for me to draw more attention to Strawberry Music Player (also a collection organizer, so i use it for sounds made by others and by myself)

www.strawberrymusicplayer.org
Strawberry Music Player
Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer for Linux, macOS and Windows. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. With Strawberry you can play and manage your digital music co...
www.strawberrymusicplayer.org
August 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
(the being judged is its own thing i'm still in the process of getting over, lol)
August 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
this is honestly part of why i'm trying to partition my digital experience more; i can build communities/networks where i am able to discuss certain topics in depth and with heart, without falling as strongly to fears of Being Judged
August 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
absolutely, capitalism is a mechanism that is very easily leveraged for harm (those maladaptive cravings!! vv nice wording, i'm adopting that) but treating it as the root cause of any given harm is an oversimplification that can discourage more in-depth discussion
August 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
...去去睡觉
August 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM
虽然用中文比英文聊聊generally similar mental load,可是到网上写中文的外人,所以贴子(不知道怎么说啊)很难
August 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
i'm too sleepy (boutta head to bed) to give her a proper reply rn but i promise it's even cooler due to homophones/near homophones and literary stuff
August 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
btw this is why i don't typically post in chinese. but also why i should do so more
August 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
frick. skeet cancelled everyone

lemme just rewrite (i drafted this earlier today and forgot to finish writing out her handle)
August 8, 2025 at 4:49 AM
notably i do agree with many of the concerns that my anti-ai friends bring up, but honestly a lot of those concerns come down to how the existing social structures will nudge ai into unkind directions—not bc ai itself is intrinsically unkind
August 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
honestly this, i don't talk about ai much in meatspace (due to my meatspace priorities being different) and as such get to witness the anti-ai folks around me make what sound to me like very flawed (oversimplified) statements
August 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
i do genuinely enjoy software btw (i'm into tech, broadly) but hardware gives me a special sort of joy

software's just... much easier to start playing around with when first venturing into new realms... it tempts me dearly
August 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
opened my main to see what i've missed in the last several hours, and uh. also in the category:
Has no one learned from all the movies that were made about this?
August 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
things to file under some category along with:
astrra.space @astrra.space · Jul 15
> come up with a torment nexus
> look inside
> its just regular capitalism
astrra.space @astrra.space · Jul 15
ok, so:

a language model only thinks when it generates tokens, therefore costing money to run

but the only knowledge of the outside world it has is a single API query tool that returns the balance of the billing account for its token generation API

and so the only thing it can think about is that
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
i have some various ideas for what i can do from a visual perspective (once i get to my doodles) to communicate tech magic, but any vibe guidelines would be greatly appreciated
August 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
also obligatory "local genderqueer/nonbinary-aligned individual is frustrated by the broad assumption of binaries Everywhere when honestly most things exist as gradients or at least fixed-interval scales" joke or something
August 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the entire exchange as a wordless comic: dame excitedly gesturing at docs, astra frowning, dame turning to astra, astra with head in hands (greyscale past convos with luna?)

hm. maybe a tiny animatic... too many ideas
astrra.space @astrra.space · Jul 12
i very much re-made this by hand from scratch thinking "wow would be real nice if they provided that BUT ALAS"
August 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
luna with cats (robots? real? both, both is good)
Cats are and always have been cyberpunks
August 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM