Quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy

Geek, Dyke, Brewer, Rider of Bikes, Maker of Things, Quixotic, Generally Curious, Mostly Harmless, she/her.

Location: somewhere in Europe.

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@edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy

Data: - LLMs are killing the planet - LLMs are raising utility prices - LLMs are raising computer prices - LLMs give you teh dums - LLMs show negligible increases in net productivity - LLM costs are going up - LLMs run on stolen content - LLM companies keep breaking laws and saying, "Oopsie!" […]

@sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy

I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

@0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyReposted by @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy

Just had a conversation with peers that was like: "my friend says github's changed their SSH key fingerprint again and it's generating scary warnings you have to ignore" "oh? it hasn't changed for me" "or me" "can't find any documentation on them having changed it since 2023" "... uh-oh." […]

@bsd.cafeReposted by @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy

I got a call from someone I don't know. "Hi. We have a FreeBSD server. It's been working perfectly for years, but it hasn't been updated since then. We asked AI to update it, but now it won't boot anymore. It didn't even make a backup before starting. The AI keeps trying things, everything is […]

@rickf.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy

Interesting how the media keeps referring to the AI companies as "labs" as in "a model escaped the lab.." or "research at the labs shows that..." 'Lab' implies a place where experimentation and 'accidents' understandably might happen. Y'know, like Ebola or Covid. A 'company', on the other hand […]

@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy

It's a genuinely plausible post-apocalyptic scenario: only a few salvaged computers remain, powered intermittently from car batteries, no internet - we try to run a small LLM from a DVD-R on an old PC to answer some questions about the world - it takes weeks - the distilled LLM is a bit janky - […]

@ruthmottram.eurosky.socialReposted by @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy

I would really like to see a data journalist do a deep dive on the actual statistics from the different SoMe platforms (X, Bsky, mastodon, Facebook) to see what the yandex outage has done to activity on them. I'm wildly curious about the bots and the trolls, also on a country level.

@wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy

'Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote JPMorgan and MUFG are part of the group that has spent more than six months trying to distribute $38 billion in construction debt tied to a Texas and Wisconsin data center project leased to Oracle.' […]

@moof.spaceReposted by @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy

TIL that a formal thank you in Romansch is “Gratzie fitg” Unfortunately, with his accent, it makes it sound like this conductor is calling everyone a “Grassy bitch”

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