People don’t read them but I think that’s not usually the point. The people I know who have written them usually end up with boxes in their garage that they eventually give at to friends and family.

It’s still a nice accomplishment and a good personal growth thing.

Just to be clear, companies know that LLMs are categorically bad at giving life advice/ emotional guidance. They also know that personal decision making is the most common use of the software. They could easily have guardrails in place to prevent it from doing that.

They will never do that.

This is by design. They want people to develop pseudo-emotional bonds with the software, and to trust the judgment in matters of life guidance. In the next year or so, some LLM projects will become profitable for the first time as advertisers flock to the platforms. Injecting ads into conversations with a trusted confidant is the goal. Incluencing human behaviour is the goal.

By 2028, we will be reading about “ChatGPT told teen to drink Pepsi until she went into a sugar coma.”

The headline also does not say the same thing that the post claims!

Headline: “15% of content” --> every 6th or 7th post or comment is a corporate troll

Article: “15% of subreddits contain” --> the vast majority of subreddits contain no troll content

Actual study: [file not found]

I also cannot find any Pew research study resembling the one described. The link is a 2017 report that doesn’t mention reddit.

Unpopular opinion: I have a second phone logged into my kid’s YT account. I train the algorithm while he’s sleeping.

It takes a significant time, and YouTube doesn’t have good options for blocking content, but it helps keep out the worst of the brainrot.

I can’t attest to any as I don’t use PDFs this way, but here are a few links:

Stirling PDF

PdfDing

BentoPDF

All of these are self-hostable and FOSS. I’m not sure about NextCloud integration.

I think you may be thinking of LibreOffice

Yeah, it’s better if you can have the computer on all the time, but it only needs to be running when you access it.

I’m not that familiar with FreshRSS, but in general apps will only update at opening (not in the background) for most syncing operations. You may have to do more manual syncing than you would like.

It definitely works. Mastodon doesn’t have threaded conversations, so if it is complex, then it can become hard to follow.

If it’s a simple post/reply then it is not confusing at all.

Water is weirdly one of the only materials that is lighter (less dense) in its solid form. That’s why ice cubes float.

When a mass expands, it ALWAYS becomes less dense.

Water does not “trap” air molecules as is freezes, although water may contain dissolved gasses.

I think it’s fair to say not all AI is AI slop.

Turns out the world is ending, just not ours. But lots of others.

Two powers wanted to build a politically favorable buffer zone, but it was the same buffer zone.

It turns out that people are better at most things than non-people.

It can absolutely be local.

For podcasts I use AntennaPod, for news I use Feeder. Whatever your use case, there is probably a local, well-made FOSS option.

Nonlocal uses have additional capabilities, such as syncing across multiple devices. I also use gpodder.net for podcast syncing, although there are self-hosted options for this as well.

Yep. It’s the same reason everyone has to pay more for RAM now, even though consumers didn’t cause the shortage.

Naw, they’ll just declare bankruptcy and the municipalities will foot the bills for the infrastructure debt.

Basically, have you even seen the Simpsons monorail episode? It’s that.

If someone were killed, you could be charged with murder because you’re taking actions that could reasonably result in death.

IANAL

Edit: Here are some real-world examples.

Meth manufacturing explosion leads to murder charges

Temple City man charged with murder in explosions that killed 5 at illegal cannabis labs

Athens man sentenced after meth lab explosion

There are all sorts of additional charges that might be piled on, like reckless endangerment or child endangerment if there are any children in the immediate vicinity.

That sounds like the first person to get killed by the demons talking.

Right before they say, “oh, that’s weird. I swear I removed these yesterday.”

I’ve seen this movie before. You need to throw away that computer and then burn down the dump.