Dan FitzGerald / is on Nostr

IBMmer, Software Engineer, Mainframer, Amateur Photographer, Polythiest, Druid, and Collector of Crap. Views are my own and not my employer's.

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2024-04-16 16:52:31

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"LLMs are a way to sell software to enterprises and people alike, while also driving theoretical billions into tech stocks, which in turn makes the tech industry feel special and important. It's a new "thing" that tech can do that feels like the future, that sort of makes sense, that allows people who barely read anything and don't do any real work to dream of ways to get rid of the people who do."

2024-04-16 16:51:41

"The optimistic, respectful and trusting approach to legislation around online platforms has led to an internet riddled with decay and pain, one that incentivizes mining human beings like veins of ore.
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Generative AI is catnip for big tech — a narratively-satisfying way of expressing how big their companies will grow for investors that don't invest in companies because they make things for real people, but for the signals they issue to Wall Street speculators."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-looting-of-the-internet/

2023-12-14 04:59:36

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@npub1agu…j0sk it took me a little while to get used to it. I have an advantage in that I'm a mainframe programmer and used to text editors like that, but doing actual _word processing_, with margins and indents and justifications? It really doesnt work well in a non-GUI environment (my apologies to the legal profession and George R.R. Martin, who all still swear on WordPerfect 5)

2023-12-14 03:27:45

Word processing on an Apple //e is generally unpleasant.
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