@prometheus People are asking a lot of questions already answered by my soap / not soap indicators
@genehack Well that would just make too much sense 🤦♂️
@voltur @lordbowlich @prometheus It took me a second to get this joke and then I had a bit of a shiver
@rckenned like, literally
Crap. Got a jury summons
@mhoye@mastodon.social Sigh. Correct.
Whew, this ChatGPT shit is just a great big security exploit against human theory of mind innit?
I'm being continually astonished by folks attributing confidence, intent, and lying to this thing that's just a clever algorithm recombining source material.
It's not a confident actor lying with intent, it's a system serving up confident lies sourced from human actors
Happy BBS Day, edgy penis mention
Happy BBS Day, everybody's so creative!
Still need to get some fun text files & ANSI art uploaded to my BBS, but at least I got a bunch of local & remote games installed
When I was a little kid, I attached a blob of playdoh to an electric motor and let it flop around on a table.
For a good 10 minutes, I was spooked and convinced I'd made something alive. It moved rather randomly and even seemed to lunge at me occasionally.
But, you know, it was not in fact alive. Any life it apparently had was assigned & extrapolated by my own mind. Handy for quickly reacting to things that might be coming for you through the trees, but not exactly an accurate instrument of assessment.
@tobyink Not sure what you mean or where I did that?
This mini-rant brought to you by my having seen multiple folks in multiple places today actually wondering out loud whether Bing really did spy on people via their webcams.
It produced output narrating such a scenario and some folks seem inclined to give that output some benefit of the doubt? Like, why? It hurts my brain.
@Craigp@mastodon.social That's a pretty great notion. I've used tarot for writing & thinking prompts, but I've never really figured that a deck of cards was literally channeling some extra-planar information to me. All the calls were coming from inside my brain-house
And this reminds me that I really wish we had classes & curriculum in basic education that gave a tour of flaws & limitations in our brains & sensory apparatuses.
Teach folks about optical illusions, sleight of hand, close-up magic, statistical reasoning, cognitive bias, logical fallacies - a survey of the many ways things might not be what they seem and show the utility of doubt & skepticism & verification. I feel like this stuff is really hard for folks in general
@kusuriya @Rob_T_Firefly oh man, I just saw this video last night courtesy of this DJ on twitch https://www.twitch.tv/djlexradio
Today I learned the term "Corporate Memphis" as describing a design aesthetic and I want to RETVRN to Factory Pomo so bad
https://beaconagency.co.uk/post/does-big-tech-design-have-an-authenticity-problem
Oh hey, so I discovered that I unfairly slandered Barrier.
My problem was apparently that my mouse wheel only stopped working in the latest Firefox when combined with X-Mouse Button Control on Windows.
I love computers, they're so full of puzzles. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to open a window so I can throw all my computers out of it
https://techdows.com/2023/02/fix-mouse-wheel-scrolling-not-working-firefox.html
Ted Nelson saw all this Cybercrud coming, decades ago
Seriously, find a copy of Computer Lib / Dream Machines by Ted Nelson. It's an amazingly prophetic blog / zine in book form
@Wrewdison @jshmlr the only way out is through
The important part of Cybercrud isn't just confusing jargon and processes - it's an elevation of the computer as your superior and an abandonment of responsibility for what it does by the folks who own & run it. It's weaponized obscurity and shifting risk onto your plate.