@dave my favourite bit is the contortions it forces the Memory Alpha people into as they try to fit it into the wider canon.
Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.
@0xabad1dea similarly Amazon: you ordered a washing machine, you must want to washing machines all the time now, clearly a big fan of them.
Making a great first impression on the new guy at work by sending an email saying “call me on [number] when you get there and I’ll let you in”.
Reader, it was not my phone number. It was a different, much more memorable number, which leapt to front of mind. Thankfully I realised and sent a follow up otherwise there’d have been a very confused phone call tomorrow morning.
I used Twitch briefly a month or so ago to vet someone the boy wanted to watch, they’ve just sent me an email saying I’ll love these categories, containing what I assume is just a list of popular categories in order because they have ~no data on me. No, Twitch, I won’t be logging on to watch some Fortnite streams.
@gsuberland they were amusing but that Trump track always stank of “this isn’t satire” to me.
@dave I think I’ve convinced myself here that the fundamental issue with LLMs is that they’re solving the wrong problem. Everyone is drowning in dross, and instead of us stopping and asking if we should be we invented a machine that does lossy compression on it, sometimes resulting in entirely the wrong message being received.
@dave broadly I think I agree, but I do see LLMs as being particularly egregious given how much is required to train them, plus whatever is needed for inference, all to (on the whole) spew out endless pages of shit nobody needed to read in the first place, which is then compounded by people using them summarise the shit that was expanded earlier.
@dave and also, yes, so much slop, although I think there’s a more general argument to be had there about the amount of energy (both literal and mental) we expend as a society in doing things that we could just… not and no one would really care.
@dave the problem here is that the previous uses of data centre capacity haven’t gone away because LLMs arrived so that extra capacity for LLMs is additional, not a swap of one thing for another.
It's very simple really. There are Drives and Sites. You can find your Sites in Teams where they are called Channels. Or Files in Channels. Sites are also in SharePoint. Drives are also in SharePoint but you can't access them that way except by accident. Libraries are Groups that are also Files (but Teams calls these Knowledge Bases). You can save things in Notebooks which are saved in a Drive but can also contain Drives or Sites (but not Teams, which are what Teams calls Teams and where Channels are stored, which SharePoint and OneDrive call Sites). Copilot is both a way to access Sites and Drives, and a way to produce lies. Nobody knows what 365 means. If all of this is overwhelming, consider speaking to your administrator about whether Microsoft Death is right for you.
@anon_opin our man here watches only Lawrence of Arabia without an intermission at the cinema.
@JulietEMcKenna @pikesley this isn’t even conspiracy, it’s OpenAI’s business plan. Initial investors don’t get any money back until they develop AGI, which they will then task to making as much money as possible.
Someone I know got caught up in the Unbound mess, and this LLM generated summary of the email by Google is the most soulless shit ever. Yes, it accurately summarises the key points. No, it doesn’t in any way encapsulate the hurt, and the guilt at people having trusted her with their money and it being lost without any books being delivered.
I need to cook dinner for the boy but Tolly is having none of it.
@jackeric (apparently hustler is now a good thing, and not as previously a synonym for conman)
@jackeric it’s how you can tell they’re hustlers who’ll be rolling in cash within minutes.
Lesson learned today: don’t think “hey, I’ll just eat when I get back from the gym”, because that results in eating a huge meal at 10pm, and then I’m not at all tired at half midnight despite needing to be up in the morning.
TWICE. Twice in one fucking day.
https://activitypub.blankpad.net/@jon/posts/473715778244363440/
Another day, another minor crisis caused by me not putting something in my calendar.
@tommorris @jackeric unfortunately all coverage of laws is played as a Westminster soap opera because it gets covered by the political reporters, who don’t really have any in-depth knowledge of anything other than the Westminster social scene.
Seeing the British political media turn the debate about #OnlineSafetyAct into a catty fight between Peter Kyle and Farage without looking at the underlying problem—namely, the legislation being an overly complicated dogs dinner—is sadly predictable.
Nor is anyone talking about how it’s a regulatory moat that protects the big players like Facebook rather than holding them to a much higher standard.
@skjeggtroll @jackeric @itsOasus both Google and Apple have systems like that based on their mobile wallets in development but the UK government being the UK government decided that would make sense and pushed on with the current piss poor solution instead.
What is with all the Sendgrid spam? I swear every other email I get is someone trying to steal some Sendgrid credentials.