Apparently nobody learned anything from the FalconStrike crash.

F*** you to all the celebs who blindly parrot his BS. And F*** you to RFK Jr

Somewhere, in a cramped 4th floor walkup apartment in Queens, the last remaining editorial intern is feeding an LLM an editorial calendar of which articles to rewrite on what schedule.

A "token" is a substring. They're usually parts of words or whole short words.

"Processing" "tokens" is fundamentally what an LLM does.

Simplified, It takes input text, tokenizes it (splits it up according to the same rules as the corpus), maps that to a huge sparse network of vectors that serve as a lossy represention the tokenized training corpus, and then plays "pick the next most likely token" to respond.

If you choose to pay money to one of the robot timeshares, you are effectively buying the right to feed it this many tokens and expect back to get back that many tokens per month.

I know a couple long-time Redhatters who left at various points during the digestion process.

I heard both unhappiness about how the company changed and unhappiness about IBM shafting the open source world from both of them.

I assume anything RH-branded is simply demoware now, and am leery of projects with too many redhat.com email addresses in the repo.

It was an excellent example of doing well by doing good for a long time.

Next on the list seems to be finding out exactly how gullible Americans really are.

Ozero sure is nice this time of year. I wonder when CBS will play Swan Lake?

Valid point. The other issue is that for those of us with really long names, there's never enough space for it to fit.

Was about to say something like this. Though I was going to phrase it as "Nuke CoPilot and all AI 'features', and just leave a virtual radioactive crater in my system".

It's just a bunch of AI voices reading text files. Nothing really useful with that yet.
I checked their catalog - it's a useless pile of slop.
Here's an example: A boring reading of a text about Havana Syndrome.

I was expecting automatic clones in the like of Wolf 359... well we're not there yet.

Yeah, fuck off.

And those are used to excuse hating on many others who are just in a bad place.

I'm doing fine now, but grew up in a poor family. We were constantly judged for it. I recall hearing from a classmate that we couldn't be friends because his parents told him I would steal from him.

And yes, if you're seen having anything even vaguely inessential or middle-class coded, you're judged for that, too. Taking your kids to get ice cream once in a while demonstrates how wasteful you are. Or my absolute favorite was someone trying to shame me for wearing nice clothes one day. I was on my way to a job interview. So which is it, am I too stupid and lazy to lift myself up by my bootstraps, or am I to only get work at places that will hire someone in rags?

All of which probably helps explain why I can be extremely contemptuous about this sort of thing. People are complex, and the finances of many people at the edge of poverty are largely based on interpersonal relations. Without a fair amount of personal detail you simply won't have a lot of the time, you really just don't know how responsible they're being.

Yeah, I noticed this when I went back to school at age 60. Everyone else in the class was using their laptops. I had brought mine, but it wasn't worth it. I needed to have the info go through my brain to my arm and hand to help me retain the info.

Because it's impossible to write your signature legibly, while using your finger instead of a pen or stylus, on a phone sized device.

People are only annoyed because this is Apple.

If a clothing brand like Ann Taylor made an ugly $250 phone purse nobody here would bat an eye.

This particular thing has only been pushed recently, but various different visions of "interactive TV" has been a Thing for a very long time.

People were talking about it back in the 50s, probably earlier. But the earliest deployment in the US of something plausibly called interactive TV was Qube in 1977.

There's a parallel universe in which the US ended up with a cable-TV-based version of Minitel.