Posts by Tock@corteximplant.com
(DIR) Post #Au18Q9ClbGSeOcBNZY by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-05-12T12:09:22Z
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@futurebird In my experience:1. Non-LLM "Random Title Generators" are just as effective.2 and 3 No argument against; this is the root of LLM, it is what it is made out of. Language Translation and Correction engines. Only instead of being specialized, it's trained on massive amounts of random text and in the cloud.4. For now Map applications do a better job. (All search engines are seeking to replace prior results with only AI.)5. Mathway still exists, I believe it is not AI. At best, some free help, at worst, $14.95 a month for "I suck at this, show me everything I'm doing wrong."6. Nothing online can do this. (Restaurants are notorious for "set it and forget it" websites, even in the age of DoorDash.) I wouldn't trust an LLM to make such a list. Especially if we're talking allergies, it could kill someone.7. Wikipedia has geeks who love putting comparison lists together of many, many topics. Photo editors being among them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_raster_graphics_editors8. I'll concede this to LLM. Tone writing again being part of the same spell check and grammar engine.What is depressing: most of these answers in the next few years will be "LLM" whether it is true or false, because static websites and free info resources are under attack from alt-right and US politicians to serve them or shut down.I'll encourage people to use free info until it's all gone. Because throwing away decades of work for "billionaire speak and spell" to serve it up instead is madness to me. It's like taking the References of an academic paper offline after publishing it.
(DIR) Post #Au18UuP23sYXw5Bq9A by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-05-12T12:10:14Z
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@futurebird In my experience:1. Non-LLM "Random Title Generators" are just as effective.2 and 3 No argument against; this is the root of LLM, it is what it is made out of. Language Translation and Correction engines. Only instead of being specialized, it's trained on massive amounts of random text and in the cloud.4. For now Map applications do a better job.5. Mathway still exists, I believe it is not AI. At best, some free help, at worst, $14.95 a month for "I suck at this, show me everything I'm doing wrong."6. Nothing online can do this. (Restaurants are notorious for "set it and forget it" websites, even in the age of DoorDash.) I wouldn't trust an LLM to make such a list. Especially if we're talking allergies, it could kill someone.7. Wikipedia has geeks who love putting comparison lists together of many, many topics. Photo editors being among them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_raster_graphics_editors8. I'll concede this to LLM. Tone writing again being part of the same spell check and grammar engine.What is depressing: most of these answers in the next few years will be "LLM" whether it is true or false, because static websites and free info resources are under attack from alt-right and US politicians to serve them or shut down.I'll encourage people to use free info until it's all gone. Because throwing away decades of work for "billionaire speak and spell" to serve it up instead is madness to me. It's like taking the References of an academic paper offline after publishing it.
(DIR) Post #AucwWipaqNlnuxptx2 by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-05-30T17:55:11Z
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@Nonilex @indivisibleteam Why hold a town hall only to tell your constituents to get f**ked?
(DIR) Post #AukkIBANZEbtGjXLhw by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-06-03T12:15:16Z
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@foone I love the photo of this (I've done this with a similar USB device, a flat Yubikey USB-A plug) and now the Fediverse is percolating with, "you know, come to think of it, an HDMI port theoretically could do it..." ❤️
(DIR) Post #Aw0SMG6G2jUbqABJJI by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-07-11T00:02:17Z
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@Nonilex May as well use E-Meters from Scientology and Dowsing Rods to detect how bad they want to go to the bathroom.
(DIR) Post #AwD5sFPKegFX0PyNXs by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-07-17T02:21:34Z
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@futurebird You didn't punk out, you sent him in advance to make sure it was safe. Job done, go have a drink. :)
(DIR) Post #AxABxkQb0OaYiI1Z5c by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-08-14T14:37:41Z
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@futurebird Increasing the odds some Texas goofball does something involving weapons to make Trump happy, basically.
(DIR) Post #AxbXIV5IaistVriYJE by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-08-27T19:14:03Z
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@futurebird That face tho.
(DIR) Post #AxcxJRFj7CzVsufAXY by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-08-28T11:40:17Z
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@futurebird Full agreement. It seems the solution they can come up with is "hack more code on top" of the same core that eventually disregards the guardrails and programmed suggestions and does what it can to parrot back what a user wants to hear. If any of it mattered, "Ignore All Previous Instructions" and other methods to knock over the stantion holding you in line should not work.Coming up with a different method (not ChatGPT or Claude or whatever model other companies have made, but something that isn't a Large Language Model) that doesn't do this would be real advancement.Something that Silicon Valley, the supposed center of innovation in America, refuses to do at the moment. Nobody seems to be asking "what's next?"
(DIR) Post #AxcxRJgt78g8kT7kcy by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-08-28T11:41:43Z
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@futurebird Full agreement. It seems the solution they can come up with is "hack more code on top" of the same core that eventually disregards the guardrails and programmed suggestions and does what it can to parrot back what a user wants to hear. If any of it mattered, "Ignore All Previous Instructions" and other methods to knock over the stanchion holding you in line should not work.Coming up with a different method (not ChatGPT or Claude or whatever model other companies have made, but something that isn't a Large Language Model) that doesn't do this would be real advancement.Something that Silicon Valley, the supposed center of innovation in America, refuses to do at the moment. Nobody seems to be asking "what's next?"
(DIR) Post #AxnLSTcu02RWKkwex6 by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-09-02T11:57:21Z
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@aral Their endgame may seem to be "we want all your data for AI" but it's a touch more sinister.Their goal: like Outlook, MS wants to push their apps off of all desktops and into the cloud so the next major releases of Word, Excel, etc. are no different than Google Workspace. -- No more piracy. If there's no desktop apps, there's no losses.-- AI gobbles every second, edit and save. Anything you yank back MS already "got", along with user tracking and analytics.-- Anything made by Office is Microsoft's first and yours second (which depends on your payment status.) And like any SaaS/Cloud offering, pricing only goes up.I kicked MS Office to the curb last spring and started using a different cloud provider and LibreOffice. It was time to get off that merry-go-round.
(DIR) Post #AyP8wJZaAabkfvcWDQ by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-09-20T17:36:41Z
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@futurebird Oh, those eyes. ❤️
(DIR) Post #AyfbBhBZNGgCubUtNo by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-09-28T16:08:36Z
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@grickle Leia Water Ghost: "Four episodes.""Four episodes? What does that even mean?"
(DIR) Post #AyfbD44lkokIC7yA5I by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-09-28T16:08:54Z
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@grickle Leia Water Ghost: "Four episodes."Luke: "Four episodes? What does that even mean?"
(DIR) Post #AzTKOIINF8tSAD68Ke by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-10-22T15:55:55Z
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@futurebird "Awesome person (which was never in dispute) posts jealous takedown of the adorable cat she lives with" is the kind of drama I want on the Fediverse.
(DIR) Post #B05mmukeYCGrzG3uEq by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-11-09T13:47:00Z
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@futurebird I follow for the ant facts, but I love the "Pica once again is being tortured with affection" posts.
(DIR) Post #B0NkFDdZHaHbtOoAXA by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-10-15T15:26:03Z
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@pluralistic Yeah, you're plugging a book, but the writing industry doesn't hire promotional staff anymore so them's the brakes. I like your work so it doesn't bug me at all.
(DIR) Post #B0bO53Xo25LDg9MP9E by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-11-25T04:54:42Z
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Staying the hell away from Big Tech news and Consumer Electronics this week. Because 90% of the news is just Black Friday crap.This meme says it best.#shopused #boycottblackfriday #capitalismisadeathcult
(DIR) Post #B0q3e4FWDfniKo3iYC by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-12-02T12:56:25Z
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A 16GB Raspberry Pi is now $145, up from $120, due to AI and RAM Shortages.Including their "Blue Lives Matter" stances in the past and backing away from their mission to supply schools with inexpensive computers to feeding the IoT industry with "appliance controllers" instead, just one more reason I don't recommend using them anymore. There is nothing special or notable about them vs. just refurbishing old tech for the same needs.
(DIR) Post #B0q8kNyyGTfh2n9QaO by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-12-02T13:09:32Z
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@buster That's fair. I work in IT, I know when a "rock and a hard place" dictates your choices.