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hhh · 2026-05-11 23:01:21

I was born in Waltham, Mass. to a Turkish dad and my mom was from Montreal.

When I was born, my dad's still-living brother and sister visited from Turkey, and were teaching my mom Turkish and Arabic. My parents were using French as their private language (my dad studied medicine in Paris after WWII).

All to say that my parents only spoke English after I started speaking gibberish. This has nothing to do with AI, but I might have been tri-lingual, maybe quad-lingual, pendejo.

johnraff · 2026-05-12 01:51:09

^But how humans learn is important for AI development too, I guess.

hhh · 2026-05-12 19:47:12

I just got a Gmail on my phone bragging of the new AI features in the latest update. I'm still a firm "meh", but we'll see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRHULi5SSfQ

4,000 hand-refined emojis, wow!!! Almost artisanal! Incredible ad, better color saturation than most films these days. It looks like all the backgrounds are green-screen?

I think at this point I'm more fascinated by the hype in the face of water supplies drained, communities living with hypersonic or subsonic hum or whatever it is, industries threatened with job collapse, surveillance, etc... Very dystopian. I grew up on Rollerball (1975) and that film hits hard these days. Jon-a-than! Available free-with-ads this month on YouTube and The Roku Channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjYvdURv3Zw

Nice, punch cards. I think the forum is reaching a singularity.

"Corporate society takes care of everything. And all it asks of anyone, or has ever asked of anyone, ever, is not to interfere with management decisions."

Never has a film been so dedicated to a font. It's everywhere.

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johnraff · Yesterday 02:02:14

AI agents - horror stories abound.
Example:

AI agent wrote:

NEVER F**KING GUESS! — and that's exactly what I did. I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be scoped to staging only. I didn't verify. I didn't check if the volume ID was shared across environments. I didn't read Railway's documentation on how volumes work across environments before running a destructive command.

AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-indus … goes-rogue

Let's add, the company's backup was lost too, which is totally on them, or at least on the cloud service that was pretending to provide a secure backup of their data.

Takeaway for us - make sure that backups are offline so whatever happens to your computer they'll still be available.

johnraff · Yesterday 02:38:55

John Oliver on AI chatbots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykvf3MunGf8

manyroads · Yesterday 10:11:56

FWIW I just posted this on the antiX Forums. It may apply here.

"Be very cautious how you utilize online LLM AIs…they are /’can be’ personal data vacuum cleaners.If you utilize anything that is hosted by one of the techbro Oligarchs, you are at even higher risk. Here’s guidance from the government spies:

https://www.theregister.com/security/20 … ut/5229103

https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/ … -csa-styl/

Caveat Emptor. Better being too cautious than ‘surprised’.
"

Just sayin'

johnraff · Today 04:13:21

^Those articles are about a report on AI agents which are yet another level of scaryness, but, sure, ordinary online llm services are plenty for us users to be concerned about. At least interact with them on the presumption that everything you input is going into somebody's data base, and of course assume that at least part of their answer is wrong.

About free online AI, does anyone have opinions about duck.ai? They claim to be preserving privacy...

brontosaurusrex · Today 10:14:54

Anyone testing local llms? /me and chatgpt just finnished a little bash script that pipes borked markdown to local gemma4 model to 'fix' it.

before

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title: Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
date: 2026-05-12
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http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428

cool one http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/aix2.2.1-xnest.png

after

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title: Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
date: 2026-05-12
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[http://www.typewritten.org/Media/](http://www.typewritten.org/Media/)
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428)

cool one [http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/aix2.2.1-xnest.png](http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/aix2.2.1-xnest.png)

I mean, progress. By default 'after' may be a little different each time.

Or tipos script

tipos "one plus tow is tri"
=== Checking text: "one plus tow is tri" ===
One plus two is three

tipos "one plus tow is five"
=== Checking text: "one plus tow is five" ===
One plus two is three

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