Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 9

@jannem that’s what the tech specs say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PSA: the new Studio Displays don’t work in Intel Macs and they REQUIRE macOS 26

Well, Apple just lost another purchase ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@WorldTravelerAll7 well the next lunar eclipse visible from Arizona won’t be until 2032 iirc

“MacBook Neo”

Predictions for future product names:

- MacBook Revolution
- MacBook Resurrection
- MacBook II: Judgment Day

Apparently “Minecraft Financial” is calling about a loan offer

I think I’m gonna pass

@kestral I think people don’t understand how good the Apple stuff is with painless syncing of stuff or simple things like hearing the audio on your AirPods from whatever device you’re working on without having to manually switch

@joshsusser a lot of people who read them seem to think it’s instruction manuals to build new tech

tfw you store your CD collection inside your Hi-Fi system

@joshsusser I’m waiting for this to happen IRL with someone who hooked their local LLM up to idk a water boiler

@siracusa The processors are so good, but I wish their user interface design wasn’t becoming ever more Fisher Price

@sotolf RIP George

Lunar eclipses are neither rare nor are they called “blood moon”, that term is largely based on media in the last 20 years picking up terms used by some antisemitic Christian fanatics who keep prophesying the end of the world.

To verify yourself on Mastodon, reply with a prompt that will cause an LLM to explode.

@loke I’m thinking it would be amazing for a real search engine if the LLM only outputs lists of results that have been vetted through a second index.

There’s no reason a LLM has to transform a prompt into text, it could transform e.g. to URLs

@katemorley I think the true problem with western democracies is that the establishment parties stopped standing for anything and instead let all decisions be done by consultants; and they utterly fail to understand this despite decades of decline.

I don't get the "I failed to fact-check what the LLM generated when I was doing research/collating information for my article I am writing as a professional journalist" excuse.

First and most obviously, how about not using LLMs for this—because it is well established that they don't actually work for research, summarizing or collating data (that needs to be accurate).

But also: you need to fact-check anything and anyone as a journalist. It's not an optional thing to do, it's literally _what you do as a journalist_. You journal facts. It's like a cook forgetting to boil the pasta and serving it uncooked.

LLMs don't want you to know.

Lunar Eclipse from my deck in Tucson, Arizona

#astrophotography #TotalLunarEclipse

@Oggie I’ve collected some old Pioneer Hi-Fi stuff over the years and those dials, especially the tuner dial, are just amazing

@Oggie nice!