Tynan

This article was so well-written that I was briefly surprised to encounter the term “nerfed” in the middle. I guess it’s common parlance in tech circles at this point.

My wife and I both have our ownn logins on both computers, even though we tend to only use our own.

I thought it already did, and that’s why it was dangerous.

Wow that adder was honestly impressive. Great article overall.

On paper, I like this solution better than every app/site developer having to hack together (or outsource) their own age verification system. But I’m sure it opens up a ton of potential problems. And if it’s open source, someone could just fork it and make a version that always says “yes” so unfortunately it’ll never be FOSS.

Are they coming to harvest the RAM from my computer?

I’ve got one in my wallet right now.

Humans are historically pretty good at offloading mental capacity to some sort of tool in order to tackle larger and more complex problems. Consider solving a math problem mentally. Compare that to the kind of problem you would be able to some with a pen and paper. Then consider what you could do with a pen and paper and a calculator. An LLM purports to be all of that, and more, for any subject. It doesn’t matter that the results are often horrifically wrong, once they’ve offloaded the entirety of their mental capacity to the magic box and refocused their attention somewhere else.

Fancy 16-ply toilet paper. That’s why they’re so worried about the rate, it costs $20 a roll.

Greg is a terrible name for a car. At least call it Gregory.

I’ve saved the wax and tried to come up with a creative use for it, but I’ve never decided to make it somebody else’s problem and then make them pay for the privilege.

“AI is untrustworthy, therefore you can use multiple AI services in our product.”

https://youtu.be/SQEhBai711o

While I agree being shitty is a human problem, shitty people are using AI to be shitty faster.

Just hold it down until it sticks in place!

There’s a new pebble? Wow!

I’ve only heard of Perplexity because I got a free year from my cell provider. Also does anyone else feel like this article is missing punctuation or something?

If you’re wondering if you would still be able to plug your phone into your computer to put files on it, let me ask you a related question: Do you think Google would kill the ability to plug your phone in and take pictures and video off of it? I think the answer to that is pretty obvious.

I lost mine in my house. Looked for it in April, couldn’t find it. In September I found it and the battery was at 56%.

Also you can’t read a tablet in direct sunlight.

Yeah Amazon and I have a pretty adversarial relationship about what I should be able to do on my Kindle, and my next device won’t be from them. But in the meantime I’m loving having my jailbreak back, and I made sure to prevent updates properly this time. Koreader is great and the thing even has a Gameboy emulator!