Apparently not, or at least the web version refused when I asked.

Still overkill but not remotely impractical. Sending a "whole computer" would be no more difficult than shipping tiny PCs to Ebay buyers who often buy several at once for our "home lab" style setups.

A typical tiny PC plus power brick and its cord easily fits in a flat rate box (though for Important Stuff best sent next day air).

Except the answer is often wrong.

For example, last year I was looking for info about a library that some old software we maintain every decade or so uses. The "AI" told me it was deprecated, but when I actually went through the search results it turned out there was some other library of a similar name which was now deprecated and end-of-life.

Without the search results you can't check to see whether what it told you us is true or misinterpretation or just plain made up.

This is exactly what someone would say if they never produced any content of value

Ducking Google keyboard bullshit. I typed that how I wanted it in quotes and Google "corrected" it for me.

It spelled it C o v e r g e d

I already replaced my browser, now I have to replace my keyboard again? So irritating

I suppose you could just claim I'm making shit up. I'm not complaining about being targeted unfairly, but allow me to explain.

If you get banned, then whine about it, saying "They're so mean!" That is complaining about being unfairly targeted. Exactly.

I noted I was, then surmising what I might have done wrong. In your world, is everyone of one mind? And all thinking in lockstep? And that any decision among all would be the same? Perhaps you live in an alternative universe of puppy dogs and rainbows. In the real universe, there are differing opinions. Sometimes certain opinions are prioritized.

Bloody hell, there are a fair number of people In here who would love to have me banned from Slashdot. Although I seldom swear, some find themselves violently disagreeing with me - I even have a few stalkers, who mod me down when I post objective truth. So you're claiming I am dissembling, or posting violent threats or whatever you made up in your head that I'm omitting for - what - internet pity? That's rather amusing.

Judges aren't there to serve us or they would treat officer testimony that way, because there is literally no less reliable form of evidence. It's actually less reliable than unsolicited third party reports.

It's only bad PR if the people you're marketing to are intelligent

Desktop Firefox is pretty good for me these days.

Mobile is trash, slashdot makes it crash multiple times a day. I'm using brave now, it has the best ad blocker...

Yesterday I got an unwanted Gemini result at work where I can't block them that wrote the word "covered" as "covered". That was fast from the only error as well. Public Gemini is clearly the most shit of all LLMs.

because you don't have any idea where it got its "facts" from.

With a link you can (roughly) judge the credibility of the source. I.e., did the "facts" come from published research or some nobody on social media. Or some known propaganda outlet.

Back before Youtube became a little more inclusive I got banned from an address, and they wouldn't say why. As far as I can tell, it was a post I made about some women seem to always pick abusive mates. I must have been reported for that. Unfortunately, that is an objective truth. But not one that was politically correct at the time. So I pissed off someone that made a complaint, and that complaint landed on a person who shared that. Or maybe an algorithm issue - who knows?

https://www.psychologytoday.co....

And yes, Slashdot's moderation method, which allows people to mod posts up or down, then allows users to block out posts below a certain level is the best moderation concept ever.

What happened to you? Is this long COVID?

It seems like an unnecessary button. LinkedIn already has an icon that labels slop posts generally. It's a blue field with white letters "in".

So OpenAI "accidentally" lets their internal agents under test hack some third parties, and not to be out done Anthropic rushes out to say ours too!

I mean nothing says invest-able business like 'hi our products are dangerous and despite positioning ourselves as a leading tech firms we can't competently implement internet access controls'

We really are living in the dumbest universe