FearfulSalad

joined 2 years ago
[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

She has a very specific ideology, and the bailout disagrees with it. She's an awful human being and I hate all the things she says and does, but at least she's somewhat consistent about her stance?

[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a good rule of thumb that if you do not pay, as the result of some sort of contract, for the service of security, and you do not own the software or hosting within which you expect something to be secure, then you don't actually have any security.

The browser could be storing your data in plain text, and making it available to other software or malware on your system (or even on websites you visit, or to scripts which run in ads on websites you visit); the browser could be making it available to their internal tools or external "partners"; the browser could be storing it in the cloud and be subject to a breach for which you will never receive a cent; the browser could be doing everything "right" right now, but change their terms next week and your convenience will turn into a liability.

Host it yourself, as you do with bitwarden, and manage your own security, or pay a company to host it who makes it their business and is therefore legally liable if they screw up.

Crane's law.

[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 19 points 1 month ago

If you are skilled at task or knowledgeable in a field, you are better able to provide a nuanced prompt that will be more likely to give a reasonable result, and you can also judge that result appropriately. It becomes an AI-assisted task, rather than an AI-accomplished one. Then you trade your brainpower and time that you would have spent doing that task for a bit of free time and a scorched planet to live on.

That said, once you realize how often a "good" prompt in a field you are knowledgeable in still yields shit results, it becomes pretty clear that the mediocre prompts you'll write for tasks you don't know how to do are probably going to give back slop (so your instinct is spot on). I think AI evangelist users are succumbing to the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, the plot of Caprica

[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You're resorting to personal attacks without knowing who I am, what I do, what I do or don't have on the wall behind me. You apply a blanket label on all people who you class a certain way, and when I disagree with your label and its implications, and recommend nuance, you class me further.

It sounds like you think very highly of yourself, or lowly of everyone else, or both.

What makes your opinions here worthwhile?

[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 15 points 2 months ago (8 children)

You just described Geeks. Geek and Nerd group labels can sometimes apply to the same people, but they are not synonymous, and a person can be one without the other.

[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Made it past the fire, but then it turns out that Paul can be overfed.

[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I got to "AAAHHH! Your password is on fire! Quick, put it out!"