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AusatKeyboardPremi , 1 month ago to Technology in Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare

I do not agree with @FiniteBanjo’s take. LLMs as these are used today, at the very least, reduces the number of steps required to consume any previously documented information. So these are solving at least one problem, especially with today’s Internet where one has to navigate a cruft of irrelevant paragraphs and annoying pop ups to reach the actual nugget of information.

Having said that, since you have shared an anecdote, I would like to share a counter(?) anecdote.

Ever since our workplace allowed the use of LLM-based chatbots, I have never seen those actually help debug any undocumented error or non-traditional environments/configurations. It has always hallucinated incorrectly while I used it to debug such errors.

In fact, I am now so sceptical about the responses, that I just avoid these chatbots entirely, and debug errors using the “old school” way involving traditional search engines.

Similarly, while using it to learn new programming languages or technologies, I always got incorrect responses to indirect questions. I learn that it has incorrectly hallucinated only after verifying the response through implementation. This makes the entire purpose futile.

I do try out the latest launches and improvements as I know the responses will eventually become better. Most recently, I tried out GPT-4o when it got announced. But I still don’t find them useful for the mentioned purposes.

AusatKeyboardPremi , 1 month ago to Technology in Mozilla is adding tab grouping, vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI features to Firefox

There are a lot of knee jerk reactions in the comments. I hope few of those commenters have read the article or, at the least, your comment.

AusatKeyboardPremi , 1 month ago to Technology in Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

Ah! That really does make things easy for migrating emails. Unfortunately I don’t have my own domain yet.

AusatKeyboardPremi , 1 month ago to Technology in Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

How are you approaching de-googling? I am unable to think of a graceful solution to migrate my emails and photos while preserving their metadata.

AusatKeyboardPremi OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Bloomberg - Apple Says No Major App Developers Accept New Outside Payments

Seems like Apple’s convoluted guidelines around external payment systems is working out for them.

E: added link to said guidelines.

AusatKeyboardPremi OP , 2 months ago to Technology in HMD Pulse trio unveiled: affordable phones with 'Gen 1 repairability'

True. Hopefully, the community helps maintain/extend the longevity of the phone.

AusatKeyboardPremi , 2 months ago to Technology in Elon Musk is a pigeon CEO, 'he comes, sh*ts all over us, and goes', says former Tesla manager

Thanks for the list. While there are some that I read about previously, a few of the other patterns are something that I only experienced.

It is nice to know that these have been identified and labelled by others in the industry. :D

AusatKeyboardPremi , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in They'd probably do it again these days.

That’s a really nice thinking exercise.

Makes me wonder why the aliens didn’t come back to the planet after nuking it. Or have they already arrived?

If they haven’t, why nuke a planet that one doesn’t plan to use?

AusatKeyboardPremi , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Memes in Kind regards

First time I am seeing Conan O’Brien in a meme.

The Hot Ones interview seems to have worked wonders for him and his show, regardless of which stills are taken from the interview. :D

AusatKeyboardPremi , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Valve made the right decision

Hey, that rhymes. That’s sublime.

AusatKeyboardPremi , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Asking a Linux user to recommend a printer

Thanks for sharing the recommendation as well as your thoughts on it.

I wanted to shove it into a corner where it won't get in the way

That is the kind of printer I am looking for as well. :-)

AusatKeyboardPremi , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Which DE/WM do you prefer?

This guy MATEs.

AusatKeyboardPremi , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Which DE/WM do you prefer?

MATE, any day.

AusatKeyboardPremi , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows

Adobe … spam … Windows

That sounds about right.

AusatKeyboardPremi , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in yes, I run KDE 1 on Debian 13. how could you tell?

Is that a new Linux distribution?