This is where I’m at. The process is fun for me, though. Setting everything up, maintaining it, seeing other people using the things I’ve put my time and effort into. Feels good.
Not for everyone, though, and I think that’s where division of labor comes in. We all have the weeds we wanna be in. Where someone sees weeds, I might see dandelions. Where I see weeds, someone else might see white clover, and we all work together to make each other’s lives easier
Summarizing text — probably not primarily books — is one area that I think might be more useful. It is a task that many people do spend time doing. Maybe it’s combining multiple reports from subordinates, say, and then pushing a summary upwards.
The problem I have with summarizing text is that it does often miss key features. Without using books as an example, for my work we have a knowledge base that we reference for things. We work in all 50 states, and the laws vary, and the AI will very frequently quote the wrong state’s laws, or tell us to do something possible in one state, but not in others. Could this get better? Maybe, but I’m not super convinced.
The rest of the comment isn’t exactly disagreeable, I’m just also concerned of the social costs. Not just for things like lost jobs, those always happen when new things come in. It sucks, but we do move on, and entire professions have been forgotten because they were automated long ago. A lot of the opinions I have about AI are a bit reactionary, but at the same time headlines like “AI chatbot talks child into suicide, and it’s really easy to get it to do that” is. Y’know. Not a great thing to read, especially when the tech is steeped in controversy in all directions. Copyright (which isn’t an issue they’ll ever get past without massive changes, and scrapping entire models), bringing smaller sites down with extensive scraping, job loss, environmental concerns (however overblown they may or may not be), increasing utility bills for areas, leading to the RAM shortage… It’s a whole lot of bad stuff, all for something that, largely, people don’t want, and is being forced into every aspect of our daily lives.
All this for something that people largely don’t want. I don’t even remember this many people being this anti-internet/computers. At worst I remember articles talking about how it’d be a passing fad. Granted I was a kid when the internet was really kicking off, but I was in an area where people were still mad about seatbelts, so I’d imagine at least a handful would’ve hated the internet if it were even half as bad as how little AI is wanted anywhere outside of CEO offices.
I’m sure AI will find some use-cases, I just don’t think they’re going to be user-facing at all, mostly due to how much they cost vs how much people will be willing to pay.
1: It’s not a waste of time if you enjoyed the time spent
2: Unhinged rants are about 90% of the reason I’m subscribed to any person online. Love that shit
I mean, yeah, it’s your computer. Just login on the root account, nothing bad ever comes of that, not even once, nope.
I mean, in the US we didn’t even pay attention to the experts past the first, what, year of COVID? And that year we basically eradicated the seasonal flu, which killed ~26,000 people in the 19-20 flu season in the US.That was the last time we even considered that an expert could exist.
As for safety hysteria, I don’t even see masks in public anymore. Most of the time I go to a store I’m the only one wearing one, while people are dying, and being permanently disabled by COVID.
Digital dependence is something that was happening before COVID. I think the only bill I’ve paid using a check instead of paying online was my rent, and that’s because they charged extra to pay online. It definitely increased screen time for a lot of people, but the dependence isn’t set by individuals; it’s set by the fact that paying by check is becoming more difficult, and a lot of businesses are going online-only.
The —? Yeah, GPT uses it frequently because it was used in a lot of the papers it was trained on. All of my stuff is just me talking xD I don’t run it through AI first, it’s an extra step I don’t feel I need
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pronoun If wewbull is using a different definition of pronoun than Merriam-Webster (and all dictionaries), then I guess wewbull is the one who’s correct, and not Merriam Webster.
You is a second person pronoun, it’s used in place of a proper noun. A person’s name when talking to them, in this case
Yeah, a crossover cable is pins… 3 and 6 switched? iirc. I did not remember correctly, it’s 1/3 2/6, been a while. The greens and oranges swap places
Either way, if the cable was reading completely reversed, assuming it wasn’t fixed by rewiring it, check the patch panel to make sure that’s wired right if you haven’t. One of the first mistakes I made in college was wiring a patch panel backwards xD
Besides that the only thing I could assume is the direction one end got termed was just backwards. If someone’s in a rush I could see them just absentmindedly mounting the head backwards.
I was in second grade, it was for reading. I don’t remember what book anymore, but it was age appropriate. I was just reading the wrong thing during reading time.
It’s one of two for me, one’s personally satisfying, one’s just funny:
Personally satisfying: I took Intro to Unix and Linux for an easy A. By that point I’d been using Linux for 5 years, and I needed an elective, so why not. Teacher admitted to having 0 experience with Linux, with his closest being MacOS. Don’t remember the exact exchange, but it ended with him saying I’d be one of those Linux gurus. Been riding that high ever since
Funny: One of my teachers couldn’t understand when my friend said his name. It was Kent. He asked him like… Five times? On the sixth Kent says “Oh, fuck it, K-U-N-T” and the teacher responds “Oh! Kunt!” before realizing what he said, and laughing. Good times.
Hey that’s literally everyone, you know that right? “Political” doesn’t just mean the people you disagree with—everything is political. If you’re trying to be “apolitical” it just means you’re pushing for the political status quo, which is a political position.
Unless you’re working with a private definition of political, it’s all politics when you go past the surface level.
In most contexts it’s trying to solve problems that are better solved by other tools. Automation scripts are more consistent than AI, for example, and automation scripts are pretty easy to set up now.
In some contexts it’s trying to solve problems that don’t exist. AI generated memes sit there for me.
Other contexts just… Make me scratch my head and go why. Why do you need an AI summary of a book? Why are you trying to make a leisure activity more efficient? Same with writing fanfiction. I can at least understand why people want to pump out books to sell, but you literally cannot sell this. Writing fanfiction is a leisure activity, why are you trying to automate it?
Why is it baked into my search engine? It’s wrong on anything but the most common searches, and even then it’s not reliable enough to trust. My job recently baked an AI into the search, and most of the time it spits out absolute nonsense, if not flat telling us to break laws, and then citing sources that don’t even say what it’s saying.
Most of the marketing around it is stuff like
And I just. Don’t get it. Don’t get me wrong, I have tried. I’ve tried to get it to work for me. I’ve succeeded once, and that was just getting the jq command to work how I wanted it to. Tried a few more times, and it’s just… Not good? It really doesn’t help that every respected computer scientist is saying they likely can’t get much better than they are.
It’s an overhyped hammer that’s doing a bad job at putting soup in my mouth, and on the way it’s ruining a lot of lives, and costing a lot of money for diminishingly better results.
Gopher.
Or Gemini (protocol, not AI). No fancy rendering, you get plain text.
I remember when I was trying to learn German, one sentence the app gave got burned into my brain forever:
Der Tisch hat kein Geschlecht.
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with the point of the table not having a gender; you just called him a man.
It was around the 1700s, right about when “you” became a singular pronoun
I did try this, and I can still tell. I sent someone a voice message, then told them to re-send it to me at a random time. Could still tell it was me.
I did, however, get around it while voice training? I’d spent a week speaking in a different voice to my usual, then when I recorded something in my usual voice it didn’t give the effect you usually get when listening to your own voice. I did get it when listening to a recording done with the trained voice, though.
Who needs ISOs in 2026?
It’s even simpler now: Plug in stick, reboot
Select the stick as the boot media
“archinstall”
Configure
Done.
I don’t recommend it to first timers, because the install process does get you a good feel of what you’ll be expected to know, but I’ve been running arch for years I’m not doing that manually anymore xD
Reminds me of my childhood home, we had a few dozen neighborhood cats, and the sounds of cat sex are awful. Sounds like they’re in a fight to the death.
For me it really was the fediverse that saved my opinion of tech, at least at the start. From that I found HackerNews (which I don’t use anymore for reasons), then omg.lol, and went down a rabbit hole of self hosting that ended with me finding my love for tech again. Because it is disheartening, and a lot of how tech is now is just… Bad for you (and, admittedly, fedi’s no different there).
I also just… Disconnected from how a lot of tech is being run. While, yes, I’m doing this to avoid big tech, it’s also just fun for me, and I’m not gonna have Google being evil ruin a hobby that’s been with me for life.
That being said, I do a lot more analog stuff now, or stuff that’s digital but removed from the internet. Knitting, writing (though that is on a computer), journaling, boardgames, I’d even class about half of how 3d printing works in this. It’s about finding a balance that works for you