Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 28 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The idea of using LLMs for ideas is so sad to me. Isn't basically all of the fun of coming up with a new drink, the coming up with part?

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

This is a guess but I feel like it was around the time that most coding was done for things that weren't explicitly "programs", like web design CSS/Java and smartphone "apps".

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just curious, what does "some automation" entail? I thought LLMs could only work with text, like summarize documents and that sort of thing.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This appears to be one guy's blog who writes about the royal family, with no connection to the family itself.

He also outputs a suspiciously large amount of articles/day. Probably using AI.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It seems to be implying that SoCs will soon become so fast and efficient that they will always outperform custom builds in every category including price.

There's an argument to be made there (not saying I agree).

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago

Booklore was discovered to be vibe-coded and riddled with security issues. The dev shut down the project when discovered. Best avoided for now.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

KOReader is not "fake epaper", it's an app designed to be used on ereaders which means it's UI is high contrast. FWIW I agree it's not ideal for an OLED phone screen, but it's definitely not fake epaper (more like the opposite) and makes me think you might be accidentally using something else?

(Also KOReader is not for "certain" devices, it's FOSS and installs on basically any ereader, including Kindle, Kobo and anything running android like Boox).

What CWA does is it integrates a KOreader sync server (can also be ran independently). In future updates CWA's web reader will sync with this progress, but for now it only shows up in the UI like this:

THAT ALL SAID, if you are only using the WebUI and don't want to wait for CWA to update their web reader, Komga is a simple app (originally designed for Manga but will work fine with books) that has a web reader that will also remember your progress (and fwiw there is a KOReader plugin in case you want to sync that progress with an epaper device in the future).

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

It was the UI he didn't like so it's not going to be much different.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 9 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

At some point they are going to have to make money.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yunohost seems the community pick these days. I also played around with CasaOS and found it very user friendly. Though development on that one seems to have stalled.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's also a pretty big exaggeration of what actually happened which is that it generated and posted some technically inaccurate information.

 

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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