@misty the trick here is to jump straight to making the purchase and then deal with the aftermath of transporting it from wherever it is to you, finding space for it, and working out how to power the thing.
@saraislet @rmd1023 @catsalad thank you. I know too many people who’ve been directed to CBT in order to reframe their thinking when it’s not the thinking that’s a problem, their circumstances are legitimately depressing, and no amount of colouring in and mindfulness exercises will change that.
@an0key I consider recipes to be idea fodder, which may or may not get cooked in half remembered form at some point in the future.
The film also includes the line “Emergency Zoom meeting NOW”, delivered via the medium of an MS Teams notification popup.
“They’re a hybrid organism, biological and cyber” is a line someone actually had to deliver in War of the Worlds (2025). I think it could be very funny if drunk enough, and with enough nerds also heckling every other line. Alone, save yourself the pain. @emffilms - you know what to do.
@dave my favourite bit is the contortions it forces the Memory Alpha people into as they try to fit it into the wider canon.
Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.
@0xabad1dea similarly Amazon: you ordered a washing machine, you must want to washing machines all the time now, clearly a big fan of them.
Making a great first impression on the new guy at work by sending an email saying “call me on [number] when you get there and I’ll let you in”.
Reader, it was not my phone number. It was a different, much more memorable number, which leapt to front of mind. Thankfully I realised and sent a follow up otherwise there’d have been a very confused phone call tomorrow morning.
I used Twitch briefly a month or so ago to vet someone the boy wanted to watch, they’ve just sent me an email saying I’ll love these categories, containing what I assume is just a list of popular categories in order because they have ~no data on me. No, Twitch, I won’t be logging on to watch some Fortnite streams.
@gsuberland they were amusing but that Trump track always stank of “this isn’t satire” to me.
@dave I think I’ve convinced myself here that the fundamental issue with LLMs is that they’re solving the wrong problem. Everyone is drowning in dross, and instead of us stopping and asking if we should be we invented a machine that does lossy compression on it, sometimes resulting in entirely the wrong message being received.
@dave broadly I think I agree, but I do see LLMs as being particularly egregious given how much is required to train them, plus whatever is needed for inference, all to (on the whole) spew out endless pages of shit nobody needed to read in the first place, which is then compounded by people using them summarise the shit that was expanded earlier.
@dave and also, yes, so much slop, although I think there’s a more general argument to be had there about the amount of energy (both literal and mental) we expend as a society in doing things that we could just… not and no one would really care.
@dave the problem here is that the previous uses of data centre capacity haven’t gone away because LLMs arrived so that extra capacity for LLMs is additional, not a swap of one thing for another.
It's very simple really. There are Drives and Sites. You can find your Sites in Teams where they are called Channels. Or Files in Channels. Sites are also in SharePoint. Drives are also in SharePoint but you can't access them that way except by accident. Libraries are Groups that are also Files (but Teams calls these Knowledge Bases). You can save things in Notebooks which are saved in a Drive but can also contain Drives or Sites (but not Teams, which are what Teams calls Teams and where Channels are stored, which SharePoint and OneDrive call Sites). Copilot is both a way to access Sites and Drives, and a way to produce lies. Nobody knows what 365 means. If all of this is overwhelming, consider speaking to your administrator about whether Microsoft Death is right for you.
@anon_opin our man here watches only Lawrence of Arabia without an intermission at the cinema.
@JulietEMcKenna @pikesley this isn’t even conspiracy, it’s OpenAI’s business plan. Initial investors don’t get any money back until they develop AGI, which they will then task to making as much money as possible.
Someone I know got caught up in the Unbound mess, and this LLM generated summary of the email by Google is the most soulless shit ever. Yes, it accurately summarises the key points. No, it doesn’t in any way encapsulate the hurt, and the guilt at people having trusted her with their money and it being lost without any books being delivered.
I need to cook dinner for the boy but Tolly is having none of it.
@jackeric (apparently hustler is now a good thing, and not as previously a synonym for conman)
@jackeric it’s how you can tell they’re hustlers who’ll be rolling in cash within minutes.