Em Adespoton

Just so you know, turning all that off only limits SOME of the telemetry going back to Microsoft. You can’t turn it all off.

Sweeps across? How many billionaires are there in CA? Surely not more than a thousand?

Another in the AI-discovered list of related kernel bugs, yes.

And many will die young as a result of their parents’ beliefs.

Conservatives.

I self-host NextCloud myself, which provides shareable calendars, contacts, drive space, photos and collab office suite. It doesn’t do email. For email, I have my own domain and point the MX records at whatever service I currently happen to be using.

Proton seems to be trying to do all of this, but I don’t want one org holding all that personal data of mine, even encrypted. The only people who need access to my NextCloud data are my family, which is much easier to manage than thousands of accounts.

Well they’re in luck; the US already has working quantum computers, and quantum-resistant encryption.

Sure; you can do all sorts of things. What happens as a result depends on the agreements in place between the countries involved.

The US, for example, has all sorts of Russians who have already had their day in court that they failed to show up for on international watch lists. They’ve been indicted for crimes at trial, had representation, but have never physically been in the country. But if they step foot in a country with an extradition agreement with the US, they’ll be arrested and sent to the US for sentencing.

On the other hand, Sweden requires you to be physically present and able to acknowledge the charges against you before any proceedings can occur.

This is the Florida Man we want, not the one we deserve.

LLMs are also stuck in the past. Always ask an LLM what the date is before starting a session that has any expectation of current results. Usually you’ll find the information it prioritizes is from a few years ago.

LLMs also often incorrectly weight information.

If you have a popular website that has outdated information with a note at the top that the information is outdated, the LLM will see it’s a well respected site, ignore the disclaimer at the top that falls out of it’s context window, and happily tell you the annotatedly incorrect information is the baseline truth.

It’s possible to get good results out of an LLM, but it’s a skill, just like engineering a good Google search string or using Wikipedia to find the primary source information you need.

Wikipedia: it’s an encyclopedia. Fine for a general overview of a topic, but you need to follow it to primary sources if you want to make an authoritative argument.

Google: it’s got an AI summary at the top and a bunch of SEO’d results on the first pages.

LLMs: really good at translating a lot of content down into something that’s easy to read. Not necessarily easy to understand, not necessarily accurate, not citing it’s sources accurately, but easy to read.

So: where do people’s attitudes come from towards them?

We now have 25 years of Wikipedia. That means that for 25 years, anyone in school from K through university has had it drilled i to them “you can’t use Wikipedia as a primary source!” Which is often interpreted by kids (now adults) as “don’t trust Wikipedia!”

Google has been around for 28 years. When it started, the other search engines always missed things, had a bunch of ads, and were slow. Google was this fast clean interface that could instantly find whatever you were looking for on the world wide web, and the exact human created content you wanted would almost always be featured on the first page of results. People who grew up with that might be slow to catch on to the fact that Google today doesn’t do that. So they trust the results and assume the information they’re looking for must be there somewhere on the first page.

LLMs are new. They hold the promise of early Google in that they crawled all the source material for you and present a summary so you don’t even have to decide which link has the right answer. They haven’t been around long enough for a generation to be trained to distrust the messages they provide.

Did the cat choose of it’s own free will to come live with your friend?

If not, your friend is already responsible for a domestic animal they chose to acquire. That comes with responsibility. Domestic cats aren’t compatible with the outside environment and cause ecological damage.

Study, copy and then circumvent.

Turnabout is fair play. Start dropping dead animals in the cat’s bed and see how long the behavior lasts.

If my network connection goes down, I have difficulty using Windows with 64GB RAM.

Why on earth does losing your network connection make the OS unusable? Like, locks up the mouse and can’t use the keyboard unusable?

On TV? People still watch TV?

International VoIP?

A few months is recent; the plant analogy is apt here, because often you plant in the fall before the frost, then have to wait a full 6 months before you see any results. But when you see results, that doesn’t mean it’s harvest time; you’ve sometimes got another 3 months of nurture before you start seeing a harvest.

And then you’ve got to put in that effort all over again, and some plants just won’t make it.

Exiting that analogy, relationships are a dance. Meet people where they are. Pay attention to how much they’re bringing to the relationship. Bring a similar amount yourself, and carefully add a bit more over months if you see a balance there.

If you find out they just wanted a single dance, or don’t like your style, accept it, appreciate what you were able to enjoy together, and go look for another dance partner, using what you learn along the way.

They had fun with that; kept inventing new ways to count, and then taught their classmates with various levels of success.

Thankfully, their teachers got on board and didn’t see it as being disruptive.

You’re on to something here. I raised my kids to use technology as a tool, not as a babysitter. They didn’t have smartphones with SIMs until after they’d learned to drive. But they knew how to count in binary on their fingers by the time they were three. They’re really good at recognizing when something was LLM-generated, and only use LLMs when it’s required.

I think there’s quite a few kids like them out there, but they aren’t the ones you hear about.