Tag your favorite application that has added an LLM agent nobody wants, babes

[lesley@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@hacks4pancakes University.

Seriously, this particular university's relentless promotion of LLMs really wears me down. They also seem to have a deal with Microsoft, where they require every professor to have a slide promoting Copilot while discourage using ChatGPT. Someone probably has a lot of money in their pocket in this process

[lunarloony@dosgame.club]

@hacks4pancakes I discovered this morning that even @iFixit has an "AI" chatbot thing. I'd love it if I could have just one day without having an overpriced text guesser shoved in my face

[spellucci@infosec.exchange]

@hacks4pancakes Would I be a hypocrite if I complained about the ads for Perplexity's Comet browser that appear when I launch the Perplexity app on my phone?

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@hacks4pancakes
How do I tag life itself

[theodora@rivals.space]

@hacks4pancakes uhhhh VSCode ik it's made by M$ but I liked the simple interface and how easy it was to use it for teaching people ; copilot sucked the will for me to use it, i'm mostly back to vim now

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@lesley @hacks4pancakes I've been in those meetings. (Not recently, but back in the '00s and '10s). There aren't wodges of cash, but there's a lot of very cheap services on the table.

[montgomerygator@fouroclockfarms.club]

@hacks4pancakes Sleep as Android is a good one, i really wanted to be late for work because a slop machine decided I should get up 3 hours later than usual.

[realgene@hachyderm.io]

@hacks4pancakes
QuickBooks Online.
Intuit found it could only make it suck more by adding an LLM. Oh, and raising the price.

[starfruit@transfem.social]

@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange Bootstrap studio

[ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social]

@hacks4pancakes
Not sure if this is what you're looking for but here's an example from Adobe InDesign

Daniel P. Huffman (@pinakographos@mapstodon.space)

Attached: 2 images A warning for Adobe #InDesign users. I recently updated my copy, and after preparing a document, the recipient of that document sent me the alt text that popped up on one of their figures. Apparently, by default, InDesign uses AI to generate (often hilariously wrong) alt text for images.

Mapstodon.Space (mapstodon.space)

[w_b@mastodon.world]

@alice @Fpccraig

Any idea how reputable Gandi is? They have worked well for me for a long time but I have no idea about the management. They were recommended years ago when I wanted to dump Network Solutions for various reasons.

[fpccraig@mastodon.social]

@w_b My recollection is I have heard them mentioned only positively, but I have not specifically investigated.

[targetdrone@mastodon.social]

@tk @hacks4pancakes Setting aside the complete inanity that you have to deal with this bullshit, I recommend going to Settings/Apps and uninstalling the "Notepad" app. The same old Notepad32.exe is still in your System32 folder, unaffected by the uninstall, and will run as expected -- without the Copilot nonsense.

Or do what I did after a year of Windows 11 -- buy a new Framework laptop, put Ubuntu on it, and stop looking backward. So much less stress!

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@hacks4pancakes
Canadian Revenue Agency web portal.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@w_b no clue, but maybe one of my followers does.

@Fpccraig

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@w_b @alice @Fpccraig My understanding is that they used to be reputable, but have been bought out and hollowed out. I was a Gandi customer, but the kept jacking prices on me.

I switched to Porkbun, which are far from ideal, but at least seem to be an improvement over Gandi at the moment.

[fpccraig@mastodon.social]

@alice @w_b Heh. Thought I was being considerate in dropping you from my reply to w_b (vaguely positive impression, but no actual knowledge—now made obsolete by xgranade’s informed reply).

[w_b@mastodon.world]

@xgranade @alice @Fpccraig

I'll keep this in mind when it's time to renew. Thanks!

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@w_b @alice @Fpccraig extremely fucking not. Do NOT use Gandi. It has long since been acquired by vulture capital and has become increasingly shitty both in quality and ethics as a direct result of those sales. Prices are going skyrocketing every year with quality and honesty going off a cliff.

French web biz Gandi.net raises the white flag over outage

: Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime

(www.theregister.com)

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@w_b @alice @Fpccraig if you are looking for a non-US company, I can and do recommend INWX.ch (available in English.) I'm not a huge fan of the new site, but their service and support has been top notch. When I was having issues with AXFRs, they didn't hesitate to escalate to engineering, confirmed a documentation problem, and got it fixed quickly.

Netcup is also a good option, though they're more focused on VPS than registrar. However, they have more US exposure potentially.