I checked out dev.to recently and it seemed 99% of the posts were AI-generated posts about AI.

Startup doesn’t understand that it’s not the hot dog that’s the selling point.

There was a fee I had to pay to sign up for a library card the next town over. $15 for the year which I was happy to pay: a 3d printer, video game library, seed library, library of things with telescopes, musical instruments, cookware, and a ton of community events.

Libraries kick ass.

I use one of the forks on f-droid.

So many shitty managers, C-suite execs, and AI accelerationists are convinced that they can replicate an entire workflow with a single vague prompt that will print infinite money. They can’t comprehend the idea that you still have to understand what you’re asking for, how to ask for it, how to spot what’s wrong with the output, and what needs to be done to correct it.

AI will never be able to do that. Not because it’ll never be technically capable, but because it was never, or will ever, be designed to.

I work in government and part of my job is writing memos or documents that nobody will ever read but that some congressional mandate requires me to have on file. I absolutely offload that to AI so I can do my real job.

https://cyberinsider.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn-cyberghost-pia-zenmate-vpn-review-sites/

I bought a year of PIA before I found this out, after Mullvad dropped port forwarding. I guess I’ll switch to Proton?

https://cyberinsider.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn-cyberghost-pia-zenmate-vpn-review-sites/

Well yeah, Anthropic’s statement said as much. And they already had a contract with the DoD. This isn’t a gotcha.

I see the problem. They didn’t load the tic-tac-toe program.

In the game, even if you’ve built yourself up, an unlucky roll can still lose you the game. As opposed to real life, where the government decides you’re too big to fail.

Yes, I read that output. And it’s still better than I would expect.

Honestly that’s a lot more coherent than what I would expect from an LLM running on phone hardware.

The market has made clear how it feels about consumer freedom. Every consumer option is lost revenue to them.

Is this why my phone was suddenly enrolled in half a dozen text notification services at the same time last week? Or was that a different massive-scale data leak? It’s hard to keep track at this point.

iGoogle was great. It was a customizable personal dashboard with widgets you could drag and drop, including a really good built-in RSS reader. Which was pretty sweet at the time. Unfortunately, like any Google product that was actually good, it was discontinued in 2013.

I’m currently hosting everything on old desktop PCs and SBCs but fuck it, I’ll swipe some closeout hardware and upgrade to a proper server rack.

What do you think all those data centers are for?

Because “the grid can’t handle it.” Yet somehow it can handle a half dozen more suburban subdivisions full of McMansions, endless strip malls, big box stores, parking lots, and highway expansions.

Remember kids, violence is never the answer!

But it’s always an answer.