cbold

CSS, the only way to win is not to play

Social media does not only spread bad ideas, but degrades the symbolic machinery people use to form ideas in the first place. It trains reflexes where thought should be. There is no symbolic lattice for things to land and it turns people into reactive zombies.

Just double the amount of words in the follow up. That might make people think.

Just post the prompt bro

It is not human language. It's AI slop!

I am a big fan of the Scaled Agile DevOps Maturity Framework and it's certificates: https://scaledagiledevops.com/certifications/

It is actually less SAD than SAFe

I thought it was a an interesting focal point for agentic ideas, but now it is too much flavored towards OpenAI

When the openclaw/moltbook fad dies, those Mac mini's could be repurposed for a p2p forum network.

Everyone has some economic game going on. If some entity can see most of the cards you hold, it like putting your cards open on the table during a poker game. That is why big companies want your data, they want to peek at the cards of as much players in the game as possible.

A simple WIFI/bluetooth only device like the iPod Touch but with Linux, combined with a modem puck would actually be enough. You separate the untrusted part from your own device.

This is also interesting: "Customers will be able to use distilled flavors of the DeepSeek R1 model to run locally on their Copilot+ PCs."

This is news, because Microsoft seems happy to not be tied to OpenAI so heavily.

This could also safe a huge amount of money for their Office 365 Copilot initiative.

I figure Microsoft started analyzing these models ASAP in their labs to catch up with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic etc.

By also hosting this model, they will help normalize the use of them from which they immensely benefit.

I want a tool that would reverse the content to the original prompt.

"Write a thank you note that sounds sincere to that ahole" "Some deep musing on the meaning of life tied to b2c marketing for a LinkedIn post"

At university I made some money on the side giving courses in HTML, Excel etc. One person that was mandated by an employer to follow such a course had extreme trouble using the mouse. I opened Solitaire and showed quickly how to click and drag. The person in question had to confess he also did not know how to play Solitaire.

When you don't want OpenAI use your ChatGPT chats for their AI models by turning off "allow them to be used to improve our models", it is no longer possible to have longer conversation then a few minutes.

When you focus back on the tab with ChatGPT after a few minutes, then this event is probably used to wipe the conversation, because you can see the page getting cleared when you want to continue.

Before this issue it, was possible to have a conversation open and stable for 6 hours (already not ideal).

This new behavior hinders usage like solving software development or system admin issues. This also affect users with the Plus subscription that might want to use ChatGPT in a professional context and can't offer company data to be used in OpenAI models.

It is not clear if it is an honest mistake or a newly introduced limitation to nudge people into sharing more data.

I have set up two NUCs with PopOS for my sons. Both very happy and I have full control of the machines.

The problems started with Windows 7 when at some points the updates became obfuscated and mandatory to push "telemetry" aka data snooping. Before that phoning home was considered spyware and a sin.

While researching hardware for solar panels I scanned the web for possible hardware and saw that Enphase is supposed to have good inverters needed create AC. I am looking for hardware that does not need to be connected to the internet for all the obvious reasons like security, privacy, continuity, stability, resale value, etc.

So I asked myself the question; can Enphase hardware run without interaction with the Enphase company. Someone in their forum already asked this question:

https://support.enphase.com/s/question/0D53m00008IDVYmCAP/ca...

Looks like independent usage of the hardware is no longer the case because of a mandatory firmware update and people are "unimpressed":

https://support.enphase.com/s/question/0D53m00006ySLuRCAW/un...

What I understand is that people are forced now to periodically get a token with limited lifespan from the Enphase website to access the API of their hardware in stead of open local access. This seems to upset people with 20.000$ setups.

I am curious if I am reading this correctly, because this looks a bit like a "Bait and Switch" in the legal sense (not a lawyer btw) if this is true. It seems that Enphase removed a well known and coveted feature (independent local api connectivity) after the sale for the benefit of themselves. I am wondering if people have experience with this hardware and the situation, because I might be wrong and don't want to wrongfully suggest an issue. Hardware looks nice, but if this is true and does not get reverted, it would be a deal breaker for me.