Notices by Guy (phlogiston@mastodon.nz)

A lecture **every** #LLM bro should re-watch on a weekly basis.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ShusuVq32hc

LLMs **don't reason!** LLMs **don't deduce!** They're just stochastic word (token) predictors!

And this isn't anywhere close to where the problems stop.

#GenAI

You can't spell 'fail' without 'AI'!

#AI #FAIL

This might be the point in time where a successful project – #Mozilla – may need to be forked by the community (especially developers) into a new, unenshittified reimagination.

It's worked with LibreOffice (previousloy OpenOffice), MariaDB (previously MySQL), Valkey (Redis), ... and many more.

I have hopes that the recent turn of events won't kill the former browser of common sense. There's hope it'll become a 'PhoenizillaFromTheAshes' to arise without #enshittification.

Let's support a world with less #GenAI/#LLM and other shit in it, which is harmful to society, mental health, democracy as well as our environment.

It goes even beyond. Someone at my work has tried Claude ...

"deep level of language understanding" in #GenAI my arse!

GenAI has a severe 'binding problem' and it shows particularly clearly in image generating systems.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/image-generation-still-crazy-after

#GenAI #LLM #FAIL #AI

@wiktor
Yes. Centralisation and the strong corporate flavour are my main issues with S/MIME. And for those reasons there's not been much of an urge to make free/low-cost certs available.

#email #authentication

@wiktor
@octade
I *really* appreciate your input here. The purpose of this thread is to venture into opportunities to improve traditional email in a way that doesn't suck (as @soatok also states in depth in his blog post that #email for socially working end-to-end confidentiality sucks). It is also not about other tools (like Signal, Bitmessage, Briar, ...).

This is about potential #cryptography for #authenticity or mon-repudiation use cases of email. PGP flavours, S/MIME or something else?

I was wondering ... as #email encryption via PGP/GnuPG is not suitable for true and ongoing end-to-end confidentiality. But what about authenticity of mails? I dislike S/MIME for its corporate nature, and #PGP via PGP/MIME is well enough supported by many (free) mail clients.

What's the #cryptography or #security community's view on PGP for signing emails? Or what would a suitable alternative be? I haven't come across any, though.

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Wow, one task on ChatGPT o3 is the carbon emission of 5 tanks full of petrol for an average US car.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/realjayscott_openai-has-announced-o3-which-appears-to-activity-7276296915216953345-Lr1u

Stop using this shit, please!

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ChatGPT #sustainability

This looks interesting: A 'Sovereign Workplace' with openDesk. Integrates Nextcloud, Open Xchange, Xwiki, Collabora, Element, Nordeck, etc.

https://www.openproject.org/blog/sovereign-workplace/

Liberate yourself with open source!

@lightweight

#OpenSource #Productivity alternatives

So, the cat's out of the bag. Corporate greed is the driver for the inflation and cost of living crisis.

I'd have preferred an RNZ link (where I heard about it this morning), but could only find this one on the short:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2023/08/rising-profits-not-wages-primary-driver-of-domestic-inflation-during-cost-of-living-crisis-report.html