Notices by happyborg (happyborg@fosstodon.org)

@servo
Relationally and technically IMO this is a bad move.

It reduces the likelihood of me building with or donating to Servo for various reasons.

Code is one of the least justifiable uses of LLMs, and then we have a plethora of ethical and potential legal problems needing to be worth any perceived benefits.

Why risk such a great project for questionable benefits?

Watched Darkest Hour again tonight. What a film.

A perfect follow up after Trump and Vance's cowardly and disrespectful bullying of a courageous leader, who is literally fighting tyranny on behalf of free democracies across Europe.

A man Trump and Vance thought they could stand next to and look bigger than.

The film #DarkestHour should offer hope to #Zelenskyy, and inspire European leaders to step up, to stand taller than the United States, which has fallen so low under Trump. [Winston voice]

@scottjenson
I'd be excited too if my experience of today's local #LLMs was positive but they're consistently useless IME.

I even chose my recent laptop purchase to check earlier experience on larger models but found no significant improvement on any tasks I thought they might be good for, or which others were reporting as useful.

I do see use for a local LLM assistant but they are for me trivial and not important. And there's no way I'd trust an #LLM to control my laptop.
@homeassistant

@scottjenson
What I mean is that they cannot be trusted to carry out instructions because they are unreliable and have no understanding of context, or in fact anything.

To an LLM wiping a hard drive requires no more consideration than drafting some text. To a human, if I said "wipe my hard drive", they'd want to be sure that's what I said and wanted before doing it.

Link that with their high error rate and there's no way I'd 'give one' control of my laptop.

@emily
I think you should mention this is for third party services, not strictly VPNs. Leave people some hope!

Maybe point out that some of those services are much better than others. Mullvad for example has stood up to those trying to access details of the traffic they protect, and it seems they succeeded.

Personally I self host a VPN. It's not trivial but not that hard, and stopping your ISP seeing every site you visit is a good reason for average folk to use a #VPN service don't you think?

How do you feel about Windows #Recall when you realise how many computers and devices run Windows?

Your personal data captured when viewed on medical devices and PCs by Banks, Doctors, Hospitals, lawyers, Insurers, your Govt Representatives...

Everywhere, screens captured every few seconds and stored, and we all know the reason: to train AI and send your data back to anyone who will pay for it because #AI models reveal the data they are trained on.

😱

#WindowsRecall #Windows #LLMs

@ntnsndr
That would mean shooting down weapons it is supplying.

Be great to see a detailed side-by-side comparison of the #Debian and #Windows QA and release processes.

#Crowdstrike v #Linux

OH at #Crowdstrike: when do we let on that we replaced the QA dept with #ChatGPT?

#LLMs #AI

@MissingThePt

👆 Fedi is the lifeboat, p2p will be the shore.

My first computer printer was a #Teletype 33 which I could barely pick up, as it was a big beast made almost entirely of metal. And not flimsy metal, this thing could have taken a bullet and not flinched.

Printing was at an incredible - very noisy - 3ish characters per second, and all UPPER CASE!

You kids today blah blah blah 🤣

@aral
Yes, ads themselves are toxic, drive toxic business models and toxic products, partly through centralising power, and of course by hiding better products and undermining trusted networks (eg person-to-person).

Aral, do you recall me urging you to look at Safe Network a few years ago because of these issues, to bring your UX ideas?

I know you have your own approach as well but hope that now it is happening it will be interesting to you - recently renamed #Autonomi

@johnlynch @onepict

@fabio

Mmm, that's like saying tolerance requires accepting the intolerant.

You're welcome to do what you want with your insurance, and others are going to comment.

What is really going on here is a power struggle, and that's over the levers that are in few hands, so people will fight over them.

Fedi is the lifeboat (remember the titanic), but p2p may be the shore!

@fabio it sounds like we have similar principles and goals but a different idea of what's important to realise them. Which is completely ok, necessary really.

Personally I don't see how people can look past Meta v fediverse and justify helping Meta in order to connect with people who are still there. It's one of the reasons they can exploit and abuse those people, and anyone visiting a website that helps them track even non Meta users.

I don't get abusive but I understand people's anger.

@fabio

The reason that could happen is a consequence of one of the core problems that fedi doesn't solve: servers controlled by admins.

Hence we need even less centralisation of the levers of power, and increased choice and autonomy for users. I'm hopeful #p2p will do this and that 2024 will be the year we see the beginnings of that.

#Fedi was a step in the right direction but never going to solve these issues using traditional servers.

#fediverse

I've now deleted all my #Reddit posts and comments but leaving my account so my username can't be messed with.

Current daily activity includes:
- a daily does of deleting every #Reddit comment I've ever made. (I was a moderator for almost a decade).

I've already deleted all my posts, but my comments will take a while.

Not for you #LLMs
Not for you parasitic #VC's
Not for you Reddit enshitifiers
#Enshittification

@clacke

It's not just "people in the street" though. It includes career technologists who have dived deep into LLMs. I know one who says things like, perhaps humans aren't all that intelligent after all, reasoning that we're doing something very similar to an LLM.

I know but cannot prove that an LLM lacks a human like mind, but so much of what is said implies that it's not that different and encourages conflation, and there are already dangerous legal precedents built on such lies.
@simon

@simon
I think there is a point because something has changed. People are suddenly experiencing something uncannily like all the fictional AIs they've read about and watched in movies.

Many people, including plenty I expect to know better are seeing a conversational UX with a black box behind it, as opposed to a few lines of basic, and then make wildly overblown assumptions about what it is. Deliberately encouraged by those using deceptive framing such as 'hallucinations' to describe errors.

@sil
And may I suggest, remember that github = Microsoft, and that almost any company that isn't already owned by one of the big untrustworthy corporations can become owned by one of them overnight. Currently we have no good options.

Until we do I'd put the emphasis on portability, not so much on past record.

Is it easy to export into a useful format? If so, do it regularly in case one day it is not.
@simon