Notices by ☠️ Maggot McFear ☠️ (tankgrrl@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs It's absolutely infuriating, because the general public assumes programmers make everything 'computer' and so are the ones responsible for and therefore authorities on these systems.

And then you hear somd presentation 'the human brain excels at pattern matching, LLMs work based on emergent patterns, therefore... exactly the same! hurr-hurr' 🤬

@thomasfuchs 😄

@thomasfuchs same 😄

@thomasfuchs One squirt of that stuff and the ectoplasm really hits the fan.

#alwsomostlydrunk

@thomasfuchs (broke the reply link in previous, reposting)

@thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs We looked into buying a rad-hardened CPU some time back for a project. We quickly decided we could do without. $$$$$$

@thomasfuchs I've used NetCup (Germany) for VPS. But they also have a basic 'web hosting' offerings with SSH access.

https://www.netcup.com/en/hosting

@thomasfuchs MA as well. https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/09/05/massachusetts-covid-vaccine-insurance-guidelines-rfk-cdc

@thomasfuchs And why the f*** don't they have the skills to summarize something on their own. Or why are people sitting in things that need to be summarized.
Where the f*** is wrong with everyone.

@thomasfuchs Indeed. They're so otherwise inept.

Sadly the evil genius of it is that someone decided to write it all down for them and say 'just do this'. Those someones being evangelical sociopaths, of course, but nonetheless they knew who their audience was, their failings, and how to direct them.

@thomasfuchs "Somebody once told me..."

@molly0xfff "Had a huge hoard of unused electronic parts, 3D printers, and computers. More than is considered normal."

@thomasfuchs 😭

@thomasfuchs @crmsnbleyd Yeah. I mean we've been at it for decades because it's an NP-Hard problem. Sadly, those working on things like deep learning, HIS, etc, now find themselves drowned out by the GAI crowd.

@thomasfuchs I feel compelled to say 'to be fair' in that the con is the people saying 'here it is!', not the researchers saying 'we are not there yet and we still have a long way to go'.

@thomasfuchs
@#(*&^@, Fuchs! Yes, but I'm not buying hardware right now.

....... Bid placed anyway.

@thomasfuchs I've always loved this thing. So much better than all the ever-expanding to the left/right offerings from others.

@thomasfuchs #1 even used to be called "an expert system" before the buzzwords got applied.

Oh, The Onion, you are a treasure.

https://theonion.com/sofa-so-good-1851619418rev1723472411101/