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Here’s an article. It’s in Swedish.

Hope so. They’ve been trying to undermine the Swedish job market here, and even fucking stalked their employees. Horrible company.

Yeah so the solution there is to not just bow down to a dictator. If they want to block Twitter altogether, let them. Let’s not pretend that Musk isn’t willingly going along with that.

Ah, I see. I’ve not tried Snaps, been avoiding Ubuntu because of Canonical’s weirdly corporate angle. Once they baked in Amazon into Ubuntu I was out.

I like the bundling of deps. Sure it’s inefficient, but it runs, and storage comes cheap nowadays anyway.

What do people have against flatpaks? I like them.

Things you can say on the internet, and also in the bedroom.

Was listening to my go-to podcast during morning walkies with my dog. They brought up an example where some couple was using ShatGPT as a couple’s therapist, and what a great idea that was. Talking about how one of the podcasters has more of a friend like relationship to “their” GPT.

I usually find this podcast quite entertaining, but this just got me depressed.

ChatGPT is by the same company that stole Scarlett Johansson’s voice. The same vein of companies that thinks it’s perfectly okay to pirate 81 terabytes of books, despite definitely being able to afford paying the authors. I don’t see a reality where it’s ethical or indicative of good judgement to trust a product from any of these companies with information.

Completely unrelated segue, but your comment reminded me of this one vet appointment I had with my dog.

He was in for having his teeth cleaned, and came out with his claws trimmed. They managed to cut into his quick on five claws. I don’t even know how they managed to do that, I don’t do that and I don’t have the advantage of him being sedated when I clip them. Then they had the absolute gall to charge me for trimming his claws.

To top it all off; I had an appointment booked with the groomer next-door a couple of days after that so their “service” was unwarranted and unwelcome.

I love this.

Yeah, it wonks the tokens up.

I actually really like machine learning. It’s been a fun field to follow and play around with for the past decade or so. It’s the corpo-facist BS that’s completely tainted it.

Sounds like corporate right now. Had a meeting earlier and it wasn’t even focused on AI, but I heard it enough times to make my ears bleed.

I think it largely depends on what kind of AI we’re talking about. iOS has had models that let you extract subjects from images for a while now, and that’s pretty nifty. Affinity Photo recently got the same feature. Noise cancellation can also be quite useful.

As for LLMs? Fuck off, honestly. My company apparently pays for MS CoPilot, something I only discovered when the garbage popped up the other day. I wrote a few random sentences for it to fix, and the only thing it managed to consistently do was screw the entire text up. Maybe it doesn’t handle Swedish? I don’t know.

One of the examples I sent to a friend is as follows, but in Swedish;

Microsoft CoPilot is an incredibly poor product. It has a tendency to make up entirely new, nonsensical words, as well as completely mangle the grammar. I really don’t understand why we pay for this. It’s very disappointing.

And CoPilot was like “yeah, let me fix this for you!”

Microsoft CoPilot is a comedy show without a manuscript. It makes up new nonsense words as though were a word-juggler on circus, and the grammar becomes mang like a bulldzer over a lawn. Why do we pay for this? It is buy a ticket to a show where actosorgets their lines. Entredibly disappointing.

I’m personally running on Librewolf, it strips out the Mozilla BS and gives you fairly strict default privacy settings. It’s sad that the free and open web is skating on thin ice.

Nope. That’s still chromium based and further serves Google’s monopoly on the web platform.

The same thing that’s stopping pedophiles today of course.

Same energy so I get the mix up, honestly.

Yes, they’re gearing up to sell your data.

“I wrote an email to Google to say, ‘you have access to my computer, is that right?’”, he added.

lmao right, because the support person they reached, if indeed they even spoke to a person at all, would know and divulge the sources they train on. They may think that all their research is private but they’re making use of these tech giant services. These tech giants have blatantly showed that they’re OK with piracy and copyright infringement to further their goals, why would spying on research institutions be any different?

If you want to give it a run for its money, give it a novel problem that isn’t solved, and see what it comes up with.

I don’t think they are, it was just Microsoft screwing things up. I’ve never heard someone call them postcode archives.

Throwback to Microsoft renaming “zip file” to “postcode file” in English.

The difference here obviously being that actual humans worked on the localisation Mint uses, whereas I’m sure Microsoft just uses machine translation.