Notices by Kornel (kornel@mastodon.social), page 2

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I still can't believe that @FirefoxNightly is trying to kill the best UI option they have.

iOS is showing me Uber Eats ads on my home screen. I don’t have their app.
If this is some kind of a beacon trick, I hope Flipper Zero can broadcast goatse shortcuts.

Moldova has summoned Germany #Eurovision

@leonidas CC-0, because AFAIK it handles more of the international copyright law edge cases.

@thomasfuchs That's the emerging tech hype cycle & you seem to be ignoring that some of these things survive into the productivity phase.

3D printing has revolutionized product development.

Some people use voice assistants daily. Dictation has improved a lot.

LLMs are the piece of smarts that voice assistants lacked.

ADAS is now almost mandatory in cars. Not FSD, but saves lots of lives.

VR is slowly getting there, pushing very high-dpi screens, lighter electronics.

@thomasfuchs AFAIK that didn't happen, except a news cycle and one MKBHD video.

@thomasfuchs Just like Deep Learning went from being "OMG OMG A.I." hype, through many seemingly useless toys like style transfer, to people naturally expecting to have a working search function in their photo gallery, and not even noticing that "HDR" stopped looking weird at some point.

@thomasfuchs The Sydney with existential crisis will definitely be buried like Tay bot.

However, I expect the tech behind LLMs will be used so widely, it won't even count as anything special any more, and be "just" a text processor.

@thomasfuchs That's quite pessimistic, and a bit unwarranted to bundle outright malicious scam with emerging technologies, just because all of them had some "hype" around them. And NFT didn't even have a hype, it had aggressive astroturfing.

@davatron5000 I've had Gowalla even before signing up for Twitter.

However, the 2.0 immediately raised red flags when it was *MANDATORY* to upload your entire address book during signup. I'm highly suspicious that it's just data harvesting operation under a cheaply acquired name.

"Electronic mail" has been abbreviated all the way to "e-mail", missing the excellent intermediate step:

electro mail

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For our #cat packing paper is the best toy.

@wingo Mastodon adds a random delay up to a minute to avoid hitting the site in "less than a second".

So this is more like 30 req/s.

#caturday