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  • hedgehog@ttrpg.networktoLocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•What to Integrate With My AIEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Ah, gotcha. Nothing had been using them yet because I’d only just gotten the API key configured the day prior. But I already had Traefik running several dozen self hosted services that I use all the time, so the only “new” piece was adding API key support to Traefik.

    One of my planned projects is an all-in-one, self-hostable, FOSS, AI augmented novel-planning, novel-writing, ebook and audiobook studio. I’m envisioning being able to replace Scrivener, Sudowrite, Vellum, and then also have an integrated audiobook studio, but making it so that at every step you could easily import or export artifacts to / from other tools.

    Since I also run a tabletop RPG, and there’s a lot of overlap in terms of desirable functionality with novel planning and ttrpg planning, I plan to build it to be capable in that regard, too.

    In both cases, the critical AI functionality that I want to implement (that afaik hasn’t been done well), is how to elegantly handle concepts from the world building section. For example:

    • Automatic State tracking, where a scene following the outline is written or generated, and the changes to state are calculated based off the text.
      • Example: the MC started with $100 and spends $5 buying a magazine. Now MC has a magazine and $95
      • Example: a character leaves the scene, heading to another location
      • Example: a minor character overhears a secret conversation about the villain’s plan
      • Example: a character is killed
    • Manual State tracking
      • Example: MC left the Macguffin with their mentor, but off page the mentor was killed and the Macguffin was stolen by the villain
      • Example: MC thinks something happened, but they misinterpreted it, so the user edits the automatically calculated state with a clarification: this is what MC thinks; this is what actually happened
    • Syncing state changes with timelines.
      • Example: a scene in chapter 8 is a flashback to before the start of the book, so nothing that’s happened since then has happened yet
      • Example: after having written the first draft, you realize you should have introduced the Macguffin much earlier, so you edit a scene in chapter 3 to include a mention of it. The timeline is updated to incorporate that information.
      • Example: you move a scene from chapter 7 to chapter 4 for the sake of pacing. This causes the state at the start of scene to be analyzed and the changes in the scene to be propagated and for any conflicts to be noted, both in this scene and any following ones, e.g., MC had $95 in chapter 4 and $60 in chapter 7, and lost their wallet in this scene, so now MC should have lost a wallet containing $95 and won’t be able to make the purchases they made between this scene and chapter 7
      • Example: You add a new scene in chapter 5 after having already written chapters 6-20. The changes in state due to this scene are propagated out and any resulting conflicts are noted
    • Information concealing
      • Example: MC doesn’t know that the Macguffin has been stolen, and neither does the reader. But if you tell the LLM that it’s been stolen at this point, the generated text will often immediately give this away

    Another critical feature is to have versioning, both automated and manual, such that a user can roll back to a previous version, tag points in time as Rough Draft, Second Draft, etc…

    I’d also like to build an alpha / beta reader function - share a link and allow readers to give feedback (like comments in particular sections, highlights, emoji reactions, as well as reporting on things like reading behavior - they reread this section or went back after reading this section - that could be indicative of confusing writing), and also enable soliciting the same sort of feedback from AIs, and building tools to combine and analyze the feedback.

    I could go on about the things I’d love to build in that app, but then I’d be here all day.

    I don’t have that tool built yet, obviously, but it has a need to integrate with everything I’ve worked on - LLMs, embeddings, image generation, audio generation - heck, even video generation could be useful, but that’s a whole different story on its own.

    That app will need to be able to connect to such services from the browser or the backend directly, depending on the user’s preferences and how the services are configured.

    In the meantime, having API key support means I can use my self hosted services with other tools.

    • the FOSS NotebookLM clone supports that.
    • I still haven’t touched N8N, but I’d been (and still am) planning to.
    • I’d been toying with subbing to Novelcrafter, which allows you to connect to an ollama instance.
    • I learned about PlotBunni around the time of this comment and spun up my own instance, then forked the project and added support for API keys and made some other bug fixes… I started adding support for storing data on the server and synchronizing it but never fully got that working before having to set the project aside to focus on my day job.
    • I can now use the Comfy UI Remote app outside of my own network (I think I was already able to do this before by configuring a service user in my auth provider and enabling basic authentication with a base64 encoded username/password as the Bearer token) which is nice because Comfy is a pain to use on a phone
    • Likewise with Kokoro - there is (or was - unsure if it’s been fixed) a bug in the web client that means only Chrome browsers can use it, but because I added API key support to the server, I can expose the service and access it from outside my network with a different client running on my phone

    I’ve been pretty busy and haven’t really touched any of this in over a month now, but it’s certainly not for lack of use cases.

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.networktoSteam Deck@sopuli.xyz•[Game] Hollow Knight: Silksong is now Steam Deck Verified
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    9 days ago

    You have it backwards.

    • Day 2 Purchase
    • Day 1 “Theft”

    Chronologically, the “theft” comes first. And you can easily purchase something you previously stole.

    Theft is in scare quotes because piracy isn’t theft and I’m assuming OP isn’t going to actually steal someone’s Steam Deck, Switch, or Switch game cartridge… but maybe I’m wrong.

    (Also you could “steal” it after purchasing it by buying on one platform and pirating it on another, but that’s a separate matter.)

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.networktoRPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Absolute genius
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    26 days ago

    By chance did you make her unintentional malapropism a canon part of the history of the company’s name? Like Google’s backstory (it may be an urban legend, but I heard they’d intended to name it “googol” but didn’t know how to spell the word, and misspelled it as “Google” when submitting their application).

    Strange, I suddenly want to have an Italian-inspired, high class restaurant in my game called “Bone Apple Tea”

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.networktoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some assets that depreciate considerably once you purchase/obtain them?
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    26 days ago

    I still wouldn’t call a car an “investment” or anything, but 100% agreed. The whole “cars lose 50% of their value when you drive off the lot” thing might have been true before the Cash for Clunkers program, but it isn’t anymore. Or maybe it’s true if you’re trying to trade-in the vehicle.

    If I wanted to buy the (fairly popular) car I’ve been driving for over 6 years with the same mileage, it’d cost me over 2/3rds what it cost new When I bought it, new cars were less expensive than used cars (i.e., like less than two years old with less than 25k miles) thanks to how much better the interest rates were on the loans. A couple years later, I was getting offers for more than I paid for it. And none of that is a unique experience.

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml•Immich 1.136 Photo and Video Backup Brings Breaking Changes
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    1 month ago

    I genuinely don’t understand why people here are taking it so hard that I wish the Immich devs were using semver.

    Because you didn’t say that; you said “Breaking changes in a point release? Not cool” and later “I’m basing this off the guidelines at semver.org.”

    I’m paraphrasing your comments from memory, to be clear, so apologies if I misquoted you.

    It certainly felt to me like you were assuming that this project was using semver and was not following it well, not that you wouldn’t want to use a project that receives this many breaking changes / that doesn’t follow semver. Those complaints both make a lot more sense to me - and I’ve seen many people say similar things about Immich in the past. In fact, it’s a big part of why I haven’t migrated from Photoprism to Immich myself - in this regard they’re complete opposites.

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml•Immich 1.136 Photo and Video Backup Brings Breaking Changes
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    1 month ago

    I don’t think there’s any room to argue that announcing a 1.x with a change the developers say is a breaking change, which is what Immich have done, fits within the semver.org guidelines.

    That wasn’t the argument.

    Following semver is optional. If a project doesn’t explicitly state it is following semver, it shouldn’t be assumed that it is. With regard to Immich in particular, a cursory review of their documentation makes it clear that they are not following semver. Literally, go to https://immich.app/ and read the text at the very top of the page:

    ⚠️ The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes.

    Go to the repo and you’ll see the README, which states at the very top:

    • ⚠️ The project is under very activedevelopment.
    • ⚠️ Expect bugs and breaking changes.

    If you can read that, see that they’re on major version 1 with a minor version over 100, and you still think they’re using semver, then that’s on you.

    The devs have stated they won’t be using semver until they consider Immich production ready, and that moving to a 1.x version from 0.x was a mistake made some time ago. If you want to think about it as though it is semver, consider the major version to still be 0. See https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/5086#discussioncomment-7593227 for example.

    As this project is clearly not following semver, the semver guidelines aren’t applicable and haven’t been violated.

    I don’t think there’s any room to argue

    Even if semver were applicable, in this case, I would still disagree. The text from semver.org states:

    8. Major version X (X.y.z | X > 0) MUST be incremented if any backward incompatible changes are introduced to the public API.

    It doesn’t state that any backward incompatible changes, period, require a major version increase, only changes to the public API. I would personally argue that the deployment configuration is part of the public API, but not all project owners agree with me. Even if they do agree, they might say that this was not a documented deployment configuration and thus not part of the public API, and that it therefore doesn’t necessitate an increase to the major version, but as they knew that people were using that configuration, anyway, they included a note about a potentially breaking change as a courtesy to those users.

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.networktoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?
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    1 month ago

    There have been so many places in front end web dev that used the abbreviation “a11y” without defining it (or explaining the 11) that for years I assumed it was just the name of a particular library that had gotten Kleenexed.

    (To be clear, I’m using “Kleenexed” as a verb here to mean “genericized explosively, as if a sneeze.”)

    It didn’t help to look at the code, either. “Okay cool, so all this does is add a bunch of random extra tags to the DOM? Doesn’t seem super useful but okay, I guess there’s probably some tool out there that depends on them but we probably don’t use it.”