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Alex Hoffmann
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Joined January 03, 2024
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New wallpaper and I really like the depth effect for the clock on the lockscreen.
What an excellent article.
„Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos)“ by Elizabeth Lopatto over on The Verge.
The breathless insistence that LLMs are a technological revolution and we all need to get on board or be left behind is so, so annoying. Especially because I see good use cases for it, too but these are the enterprise uses Lombardo describes, like my boss, who‘s not a developer building a small but strikingly effective local macOS app to analyze large amounts of data at speed, where a web app would’ve been much less efficient. Or myself synthesizing pages upon pages of high-quality, human-made technical documentation into training materials for a colleague, saving me literal days of work.
But then I still see these tools hallucinate repeatedly no matter how much I massage a prompt.
Stop pretending what this stuff is useful for and get on with it.
Huh. Arcane has disappeared from Netflix in Germany. Can’t call it up anymore. #enshittification
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@catsalad this made me laugh. Mostly because I was lucky enough to see something like this live once.
During a conversation with a coworker yesterday, I realized that I dislike going to the gym but I decidedly like having gone to the gym.
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@petebrown@social.lol I‘d gladly only cycle and row but at over 40, „body maintenance to ensure function within normal parameters“ requires more effort.
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@ianbetteridge I see that a lot with your posts recently. Looks like a cross-posting automation error from my perspective.
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@zak@infosec.exchange if you‘ve never played Mass Effect, give that a go. I played it for the first time a few months ago and it was really good.
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@koehntopp@infosec.exchange na dann dauert es ja jetzt nicht mehr lange, bis Nuhr einen auf Naidoo macht.
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Illuminating if entirely unsurprising article.
Professor Michelle Travis @ Forbes: „Women Who Use AI Seen As Incompetent; Men Who Use AI Seen As Pragmatic (https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2026/06/25/women-who-use-ai-seen-as-incompetent-men-who-use-ai-seen-as-pragmatic/)“
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@ianbetteridge @kagihq is the Linux version out yet? If so, I missed it. Been looking for a good daily driver on Fedora for a while.
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@ianbetteridge @kagihq so I *did* miss the announcement. Thank you, Ian.
Will give it a go. Tomorrow’s „Install GrapheneOS on the new Pixel 9 Pro Max“ day. 
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- ‚neu‘
- Och ist der niedlich.