Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago

AI maybe. Chatbots forced into a PDF reader, no.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago

It is truly astonishing how a company with their resources could have a program like Teams be so terrible for so long. Matrix/Element have advanced faster than Teams.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there a list of sources this pulls from?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Microsoft is using Discord and not Teams?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Hard to believe it's real, hopefully Motorola is committed to the long term.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago

I see myself in this meme

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 27 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I've never woken up the next morning regretting greasy food

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

+1 for Bookstack. Very simple and easy to learn.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh I see thank you for the explanation. I missed that the university network was called a VPN.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure "Block" is derived from "Blockchain"

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This may sound dumb, but wouldn't it appear to anyone listening between the client and VPN as though all traffic is coming from the VPN and not the website? Isn't that the point of a VPN?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They were called that for most of their history until Jack Dorsey wanted to change the name to hype some crypto.

 

I know this isn't wallstreetbets but I can't help but wonder if this is a more secure investment than the usual S&P500.

 

Backstory here: https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

Personally I think this is a good response. I hope they stay true to it in the future.

 

Inspired by a recent talk from Richard Stallman.

From Slashdot:

Speaking about AI, Stallman warned that "nowadays, people often use the term artificial intelligence for things that aren't intelligent at all..." He makes a point of calling large language models "generators" because "They generate text and they don't understand really what that text means." (And they also make mistakes "without batting a virtual eyelash. So you can't trust anything that they generate.") Stallman says "Every time you call them AI, you are endorsing the claim that they are intelligent and they're not. So let's let's refuse to do that."

Sometimes I think that even though we are in a "FuckAI" community, we're still helping the "AI" companies by tacitly agreeing that their LLMs and image generators are in fact "AI" when they're not. It's similar to how the people saying "AI will destroy humanity" give an outsized aura to LLMs that they don't deserve.

Personally I like the term "generators" and will make an effort to use it, but I'm curious to hear everyone else's thoughts.

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