CIRCLE WITH A DOT

computer setups where you reach over to an adjoining desk/surface and hit a switch on something and it Activates and Does Something

why do people trust ai search summaries? theyre wrong SO MUCH?? the biggest value is digging up relevant sources that arent as SEOed but i still need to click those sources to make sure they actually match the summary. sometimes theyre not even about the same topic! is there any improving on this haha ?

Ooh! APE! algorithmic pattern extension/extrapolation

@GossiTheDog my brain is like very fried so im worried that question sounded ironically robotic but my brain is fried but im trying to make it soak something in

@GossiTheDog are companies blaming ai for breaches to duck responsibility for security mistakes that were definitely made, like how theyre blaming layoffs on ai to try and present an optimistic spin to investors? how much of the impact of ai, would you say, is actually substantial, vs just... that

i wish we had a non marketerspeak lexicon for talking about "ai". eg "apr" (abstracted pattern recognition/replication) instead of "ai". "anomaly/anomalize" instead of "hallucination/hallucinate", etc

@ariadne fwiw (and that shouldnt be much because idk shit) i kinda took it for granted that this is what linux in general would do as soon as these laws passed and im a little shocked no one has. and a little shocked by the degree to which lawmakers are insulated from the consequences of their own insanity/hubris in general

I actually think I need a riced tiling wm I need to babysit and fine tune and optimize constantly because otherwise my skillset will atrophy and my brain will shrivel

I actually think I need a roped tiling wm I need to babysit andnfine tune and optimize constantly because otherwise my skillset will atrophy and my brain will shrivel

@hacks4pancakes I even dug through my toots and couldnt find it but I definitely remember wondering how.. different this is for cybersecurity? Someone made a new automated scanner? cool! Why is this revolutionary? It doesnt change how you use tools: they give time, not skill. Yes even without skill you can spam a tool at something and have things happen but youre flying blind and the reason why it wasnt enough to be a script kiddie 10 years ago still apply even when your VERYYY expensive rube goldberg linear algebra doer works as a good scanner

@Karlitschek I just hope against hope the conversation manages "open source and interop over monopolistic hegemony" and doesnt drift into "non-american momopolistic hegemony over american monopolistic hegemony"

@nixCraft how it feels to not use linked in ---->

@javi guess its back to qutebrowser?🥴