Posts by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
 (DIR) Post #AjizvB9bnwdXZzWcgC by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2024-07-08T15:28:22Z
       
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       @protonprivacy hold up. You cite the 2024 survey as your customer base wanting LLMs but you asked “do you want proofreading, spelling, and grammar tools” and “do you use an LLM once a month”. Neither of those questions equate to “please shove an LLM into proton services. I will cancel immediately if you introduce an LLM (or diffusion model) to your products.
       
 (DIR) Post #As9OxQO5mtXtmJxlFA by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2025-03-17T15:41:31Z
       
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       @benjojo I'm pretty sure this is opt-in at the site owner level. https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/detections/leaked-credentials/
       
 (DIR) Post #AsA1Q1J1urPMe3eosq by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2025-03-17T22:22:18Z
       
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       @zachleat The funny thing is they say this _all the time_ and never get held accountable for their "predictions" being wrong.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxzABZgLSs0OaooQy0 by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2025-09-08T04:48:12Z
       
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       @ricci @xgranade Anthony Moser made a similar point over here: https://bsky.app/profile/anthonymoser.com/post/3lyccbdjdiu2q
       
 (DIR) Post #AyEH6HpKmlRIhkTaO8 by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2025-09-15T00:12:01Z
       
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       @mcc @aeva Is there a good breakdown of the overall costs? Like I saw a lightweight AppView implementation still has to store roughly 2 gb of data per day, indefinitely, and...that's a _lot_ of storage.I assume there's also a fair amount of bandwidth and other cost involved.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPBeNj6HvbSCuDFi4 by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2025-09-20T18:07:06Z
       
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       @ricci @SnoopJ This is one of those time where the phrase "Balmung is leaking" both would establish the in-group knowledge and also make the conversation immeditely shift tone.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPBm6J6w6QYV0jlCa by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2025-09-20T18:08:32Z
       
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       @ricci @SnoopJ I'm not here to judge the Balmung friends. ^_^
       
 (DIR) Post #B0wbhozJSvWLYCCSbw by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2025-12-05T00:30:39Z
       
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       @mcc "Allows" is incorrect, as far as I'm aware. The spec does not disallow using a passkey from an authenticator over (say) the USB transport (otherwise yubikeys would be useless?) - but no one has implemented this with a phone-based authenticator.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1MaB8jdybdfOYgIwS by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2025-12-18T04:14:26Z
       
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       @xgranade I will continue to complain about the UX of passkeys until I literally pass out, yes.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1WyK6knJxqanxNngu by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2025-12-23T00:39:46Z
       
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       I wrote a bit about the "one good use of LLMs" (namely, a bunch of different "one good uses") I keep seeing and why those aren't good, actually.https://alextheward.com/blog/llms_are_a_cognitohazard/A lot of this boils down to "if you care about accuracy and learning, you shouldn't be using an LLM for anything".
       
 (DIR) Post #B233zLUso0feHlSOwa by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2026-01-07T17:25:39Z
       
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       @davidrevoy The version with the typo in it was also good because it was making something imperfectly (I thought you did it on purpose).Anyway thank you for this series, it's so good.
       
 (DIR) Post #B234aNeVkscDgVcViS by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2026-01-07T17:32:24Z
       
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       @davidrevoy Oh I feel you, I disabled spellcheck on my phone because it's gotten *worse* since everyone started shoving LLMs into everything. (But also I think you're being modest. Avian Intelligence and the Amphora of Great Intelligence are very very good critique of the current trend.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B36POCJgF68oPvOs40 by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2026-02-08T04:41:41Z
       
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       @glyph @aburka that mindset is absolutely wild to me. How on earth do they not think past their immediate usage?
       
 (DIR) Post #B36POFf3o41en6QUIy by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2026-02-08T04:51:14Z
       
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       @glyph @aburka I get it! I have posts on my own site trying to see if these things were actively useful before I landed on "no, this is not ethically sustainable". Hell, I gave a talk about how self-driving cars were the future, a position I no longer hold! I get it. I really do. But this is like an order of magnitude different than "smartphone awesome". It's not even good _for the individuals using it_.(Also I know you know, I'm yes-and'ing your discussion here)
       
 (DIR) Post #B36POHPBK4VqCR0ppg by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2026-02-08T04:55:56Z
       
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       @glyph @aburka In my direct personal conversations, I'm with you - I can clearly point to why this is worse than computers (technology) displacing computers (profession), but I really do not understand how one can come to the conclusion that these things are "neutral" like tech sold to us previously.
       
 (DIR) Post #B36POLn51A0PniDydc by cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev
       2026-02-08T05:06:19Z
       
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       @glyph @aburka Humans interact with language. Things emulating language short circuit the brain in such a way that we tend to ascribe all sorts of humanness to the not human thing. Which is to say: Plausible text generation "breaks" people's brains.