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AI is only creative when it's messing up. Guide rails are basically the opposite to the subversive nature of jokes, so the only time it can make with the funny is by falling off the rails

(or lifting some comedians work, but I'm not counting that as the AI's creation of course)

See also: Will Smith eating spaghetti

I like how you need to tap the spoiler tags to show the text which works as a link to the individual page where you need to again unveil the spoilers

Dunno what it is with the wording but my brain started reading it in a bit of a "Hello Clarice" Hannibal Lecter style lol

The specific combination of fonts on your device is nearly unique — like a fingerprint made of letters

Is this one true? I've not made any changes to fonts on my phone that I know of, wouldn't it just be bog standard iPhone fonts?

Curiosity not challenge

Would be cool if you actually did track just to prove the point like "you've opened this page 6 times now, 2 of those were via VPN and one time was using the Firefox Focus browser. Have you found any flaws in the data yet?"

I just treat it as if I'd asked a public forum the question like reddit.

Decent for stuff that doesn't really matter, even if it gets it wrong.

Still gonna be polite to it because I'm about ready to slap the next person that talks to me like an LLM, I don't want to get used to not being polite in a chat interface

How are they going to stop it?

A certain combination of nonstandard characters will make an AI character drop an n-word no problem

I guess they could chuck the output through whisper or something to see if it transcribes back to anything dodgy?

LLM security feels very ball of sand held together with duct tape haha

I feel like such a dumbass for falling for it.

At first I thought it was just super American cheerful or whatever but after the South Park episode I realised it's actually just a yes man to everyone.

I don't think I've really used it since, I don't want man or machine sticking their nose up my arse lmao. Spell's broken.

No consolation needed - if I come across as woe is me it's not the intention. It is what it is and all that. I've got food, I've got shelter. It'll do.

You're born, you keep your head down, and you die - if you're lucky.

a £50 fine might as well be £50,000- its unpayable, and leads to a sort of doom-spiral of lending to avoid worse consequences. Easily you can end up in unmanageable debt

Yup! Bank gave me an overdraft when I was 16. At 37 I'm still in debt connected to that first bit of "free" money.

I've never earned above £0, and at this point it's too late to care. They can write me off as a minor loss when I kick it haha

iPhone DevOps (2023) 11 months ago

Something that might be worth a look at for anyone in this situation is the Twiddler, it's a one handed mouse and keyboard. Connects via USB and/or Bluetooth

I know of it via a streamer who uses it to control OBS, but this is more its native use case haha

https://www.mytwiddler.com/

Then your higher power is logic and reason, and the question:

"Why are you doing this?" Give it the old 5-whys.

Your thermodynamic gubbins know how to enjoy the entropy while they're temporarily in this configuration without booze too.

Or just die in pain when your liver gives in, all good options.

Interesting idea and kinda really makes sense.. I guess at the time I just chucked them into todos as I have plenty of friction free ways to get tasks into Todoist haha.

I'll give it a go, nice one

This is going to be like that thing where we have to fix printers for the generation above and below us isn't it, haha

Damn kids, you were supposed to be teasing me for not knowing how the new tech works by now.

Unfortunately not on mobile web, just takes me to the homepage (even if I replace the www with m to rule out a blanket redirect to mobile)

I guess I could restrict my Facebooking to desktop if it still works there but then I'll visit even less haha