The US right wing news coverage of the Canadian "trucker convoy" came with a lot of "liberate Canada" rhetoric and that was the first blip on my radar that the US could be more of a threat than an ally.
It actually concerned me to the point I mentioned it on a few shows at the time and just got weird looks. And yet...
But why! All I want to do is attach media to a post. An error occurred while sending your post, Server fwoof.space encountered a problem: Error processing thumbnail for uploaded media (422)
Like LLM skills, except it's me leaving .md files for myself, telling Future Me how Past Me solved this problem last time, with ramp-up context / lessons learned commentary.
(been doing this for 20+ years, for everything from file conversion to household appliances. anything that fades from memory due to infrequent access / task)
Load all of those notes, and all the manuals for all of your appliances, into ollama with the LLM of your choice running locally and make yourself a memory bank.
Looks like someone got pushed to go into hiding. Apparently one doesn't criticise people for using an anti-human-planet-burning-bullshit-technology without feeling the abuse from its chills.
At least that's my 5 minutes extrapolation based on a few things.
There seem to be two kinds of people. Those where #matrix mostly just works and those who run into all kinds of issues and complain 24/7 about how awful everything is.
I wonder why I'm in the first group. Seriously, what am I doing different?
1) if you lose your session (clear the tab; delete the app) and later try to log back in, you will lose history sent since you were last logged in. this is fixed by MSC3814, but implementation has got repeatedly stuck.
2) if you forget your recovery key/passphrase, you'll lose all your history. this could be improved too.
3) if your server is beta or underpowered then risk of badness.
4) abusive spam (we've been working away on antiabuse)
As ever in January, Element lit up like a Christmas tree on my phone as all the #Matrix invites for #FOSDEM came in this evening. Feels vaguely festive.
As there is a band rehearsal on today, there will be no John Zone this week. In lieu of a broadcast, why not go out and do something silly, like pet a puppy, or find the nearest elderly gentleman and ask him to tell you all about the good old days.
Hey there! I'd just like to apologize for the short outage; it seems our database is getting a little on the big side, at around 95GB. This caused the local version of the backup to take a little too much disk space. I am now working on a solution to insure this doesn't happen again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
My dad came and got the antenna hanging sling shot. Says he wants to go to the school across the street from where they live. Personally I secretly think he wants to have a valid reason to shoot a slingshot at random things. We'll get it up sooner rather than later I think. So looking forward to it for sure.
If your #fanfic summary starts off "All characters were bornded in 2008 instead" I'm not reading any further. Bornded? Really? I can't even...how do we get to bornded? Born is already the past tense! Okay, but if you didn't know that, I could see borned. I don't like it, but not everyone speaks English, and that's totally okay. But if you're using some kind of translation dictionary, wouldn't it give you the word "birth" and so then you'd write "birthed"? Birthed isn't my favourite, either, but it's fine. It's a real word. I've been sitting here for several minutes trying to figure out how anyone, anywhere, gets to "bornded". I would even accept "gived birth to", especially if your native language isn't English; it's a good try.
@jscholes LOL nope. They were trying to age up the characters so the teen author wouldn't have to do historical research about what things were like in the 1980's, and could just give them all cell phones and have them listening to real music, rather than whatever medieval chanting they used to do in 1988.
Oh! Posting late because I forgot about this, but it fits #fedidreams. My dream journal last night said (cleaned up quite a bit from the transcript): "Listening to the radio. Heard an add like in OTR. But it was for choco-sausages. Yes, thanks to modern technology, Campbells soup has been able to create sausages, with chocolate chips embedded in them! That's right, now you, too, can enjoy having a sausage with chocolate chips in it. And it's all thanks to Campbells, producers of theoretically consumable products since 1900. Remember, choco-sausages contain chemicals that are unknown to the state of California. Campbells does not claim any medical benefits for choco-sausages, that choco-sausages may treat or cure any medical condition, or that choco-sausages are food or a suitable part of any meal." I have no other context. I guess I dreamed this? Or did I just...partly wake up and think this idea was so good it had to be recorded? I have no idea. My mumbling made it obvious I wasn't really awake.
I also have no idea why I just...decided to come for the state of California? Sorry, California followers. I'm sure you...know about chemicals. I dunno.
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yet I keep hearing how people find LLMs "useful" for summarizing or writing (!) documentation. I'm glad these reports are public to use as a - surely to be ignored - counterpoint.
I have strong doubts whether the survey is statistically representative. If you're not politically motivated, there's no incentive for you to fill out the survey, hence most users who filled it out are probably radical anti-AI activists.
Been seeing a survey going around fedi this morning about Discord's use of AI, but it's hosted on some other unrelated website, there's no mention of it on discord's blog and the first time I've heard of it is from mastodon, so, like, anybody got a source for this, or is this just someone playing games?
EDIT: The domain has been used by Discord in the past (see thread), which points to this survey being legit!
(I do still wonder why I heard it from Fedi rather than from Discord though)
I mean I filled it out, but I wanna make sure it's an actual thing before I share it around to my mates who use discord so I don't end up looking like a total bellend
Last question was something like "Would you stop using discord if we added AI" and obviously I answered no but also obviously I won't stop using discord if it goes even shittier because, like, I didn't want to use discord in the first place lol, a group chat moved to it from facebook and I couldn't make a compelling case for Jabber given that discord is easier to use, shitting it all up with AI isn't gonna change the fundamentals here
Today I've been reminded to be careful about inferring anything based on what I encounter as a research subject. I was participating in a project where a grad student was studying interactions between blind people and robots. The robots kept failing to correctly complete the tasks that I was supposed to be asking them to do. After I was finished, the researcher told me that the robots had been programmed to make those mistakes on purpose, since they are common mistakes that robots might make, and she was trying to learn about the way a blind person would react to these mistakes. I was glad that she told me this, since, until then, my take-away had been that these robots were early research prototypes that couldn't reliably perform tasks, but this wasn't exactly the right take-away.
The Samsung commercial with the couple rushing through a museum, pointing their phone at artifacts and asking Gemini what they are, as if museums didn't have an explanation next to the artifacts, before speeding away without even looking at the actual artifact, tells you everything you need to know about these sociopaths.
Question! If I post an image, is the image automatically available in google-search and for training AI bots, etc? Or is it only viewable from within the federverse? -- From an artist protective of her work and privacy.
The fediverse is not by nature a private platform. It's not like any media gets uploaded to google immediately, but there is nothing stopping google from indexing your images.
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