Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 4

Can’t say it often enough, but never put anything in this shit that is private or not yours to share.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-reader-reports-chatgpt-is-sending-him-conversations-from-unrelated-ai-users/

Replies are so messed up on Mastodon, even replies I make to my own posts. People rarely read them before replying themselves, because the threads/replies aren't shown in the home timeline; leading to confusion and repetition.

Why isn't there threading in timelines?

(Please don't answer that alternative clients do that; I'm talking about the web client in Mastodon.)

Headline in 10 years from now:

“Of course AI didn’t achieve sentience, but at least we ruined the Internet trying!”

Remember that tech people like DHH paved the way that made it fine in media to speak badly of DEI--something only happening because racism and white superiority are now cosplaying as "valid criticism".

Yo, Rails Core team, how's it going over there in racism HQ?

The quote you probably didn't see today

(via https://bsky.app/profile/petermanseau.bsky.social/post/3kizvyynv5m2m)

People need to read more old books.

This is from one that's near 50 years old and explains succinctly why replacing humans with AI is bullshit--even if the AI can think on the same level as humans (current AIs can't, and will likely never be able to).

(Weizenbaum was a computer science professor at MIT and famously invented the ELIZA bot, so yes, he knows what he's talking about.)

Always wanted one of these

I really hope to see some actual cool tech stuff getting some time in the limelight after all the douchebro hype of the last 15 years.

𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓪𝓻𝔂

Blockchain: a slow database

Crypto: an expensive slow database

NFT: an expensive slow database to store URLs

AI: a way to write slow and inefficient algorithms

LLM: a database that stores text in a slow and inefficient way

Chat GPT: an expensive imprecise query language for slow and inefficient text databases that often returns wrong results

My favorite Windows 95 (30 years old next year!) tidbit is that the startup sound was composed by Brian Eno.

On a Mac.

@foone I'm trying to decide between quantum computing and anti-aging

The last 10 years or so of tech:

2013: Blockchain! It's a like a database, but slower and worse!
2016: VR! It's like monitors, but slower and worse!
2021: NFTs! It's like pictures, but slower and worse!
2023: AI! It's like algorithms, but slower and worse!

@vkc they know exactly what they’re doing and they’re choosing to do it—believe their actions, not their words

Thought of getting a Kagi account but not longer tempted after they announced working together with the Thiel-funded homophobe clowns at Brave. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why is everyone like that, ugh.

“If we just speak rational enough with proper decorum, we can make our customers stop feeling threatened by us working and sharing profits with racists, homophobes, misogynists, transphobes and Nazis!”
—Tech companies, 2024

@foone tbf it was in beta

lol at people trying to retcon history and pretend the Y2K bug wasn't real.

I literally worked for like a year from late 1998 to the end of 1999 to fix databases of utility companies and health systems to not, you know, completely and utterly fail come January 1st, 2000.

You know what’s awesome? Every time I use my 1970s Hi-Fi stuff I just turn it on and it works.

There’s no updates to download and install, no notifications to swipe away and no Bluetooth that needs reconnecting.

⚠️ 23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome ro thieves.

Do what it says in the email and email arbitrationoptout@23andme.com that you do not agree with the new terms of service and opt out of arbitration.

If you have an account with them, do this right now.

Here’s an email template for what to write: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94164861

@amigalove to the bitcoin mines!