I think LLMs and generative AIs are a really interesting technology with many potential applications in the future and even today.

But it is ridiculous how tech bros and marketing are pushing and overselling the capabilities of a technology that is yet in its early childhood. Infancy is already past as it knows basic motor functions.

And it is m funny when these companies publish their ambitious attempts and hilarious failures like this article right here. It reminds me of a more funny and diverse and geeky internet when nerds got money from investors to do whatever with a domain name. Maybe it is still there, behind the wall of marketing execs.

I believe they can be read by anything that can read rfid and can access the online database for information for that serial number.

Here in Sweden too but my biological chip reading abilities are somewhat lacking.

“Eehh, du?” in Swedish. I’ve done it, I’ve been it.

Coin toss:

1. Heads or tails are 50/50 probability.
2. It is possible that the coin lands on its side.
3. It is implausible that it splits in two.

Glue the remote to your telly. You know where it is and get some exercise zapping channels.

I want it curled up and snoozing on my chest.

Nah. We still have the family computer that connects to the internet.

The family is pretty much just me and my dog though.

A civilization on a planet without a moon would probably say the same about earth. I wonder how they would imagine life on our planet to be in comparison to their sad, stable moon-less lives.

It was a mistake to leave the oceans in the first place.

If you are comfortable with command line and want to learn the Swiss army knife of such uses for future scripting and whatnot - curl.

I’m on the fly right now but search for “curl crawl web pages” and you’ll find.

Star McStarface.

Session musicians are technical instrumentalists that excel at being able to play in many different styles as requested by the producer without letting their ego get in the way.

I don’t care much for pop music, but with age I’ve reconsidered my youthful music snobbery antagonism for pop music being “unauthentic” to instead think that they excel at being entertainers with a mass appeal and that it is not necessarily a bad thing either. Not everybody has interest in seeking out auteurs. Who am I to judge how other people bring happiness into their lives.

And I’ve realised that a lot of bands that are considered “authentic” are the day job for the band members and is that one project of many that worked out well enough to be a career.

Regardless of opinions, this article opinion piece is written like by an angry teenage nerd.

I don’t understand what these angry anti FF people want that keep on having weekly rants on the topic. You are free to not use the software if you don’t like it or the company or whatever. Just move on and be happy.

I’m getting tired of these haters any time Mozilla does literally anything and there is not a single constructive idea ever but the demand that Mozilla must operate like a benefactor for nerds that do not have to pay for anything ever.

Damn, I almost wish Mozilla went commercial with FF to fund the development of it just because.

Unrelated: The top bar in this article indicating the article position is so fucking stupid. Guess what the scroll bar on the right hand side is for?

A toddler can pretend to be good at chess but anybody with reasonable expectations knows that they are not.

Anybody using obfuscation for securing algorithms is fooling themselves. It can be useful in fringe scenarios when you know and accept the limitations but for general use it is not. There is no obfuscation clever enough that can not be broken down and figured out.

Example - delaying cracking of copy protection for the first few weeks of a game release. It will be cracked eventually though, regardless the obfuscation and protection. Nobody expects it to be secure - but complicated enough to buy some time.

Other example - obfuscating assets loader for your game app to make it slightly harder to steal the graphics for scams and knock offs. It will not stop anybody dedicated to it but it can make the lazy skip it and go for the next game instead. Nobody expects it to be secure, but it might work as a deterrent because the next bicycle has a simpler lock to cut.

Counter example - thinking you’re clever by obfuscating your homebrew cryptographic algorithm. Just don’t. Use a FOSS crypto library, learn how to secure keys and be done with it. It’s not secure or safe in any possible way ever and it is a really bad idea all over.

Consider other streaming services than Spotify, like Deezer or Tidal or Qobuz, that pays the artist better and don’t do deceiving garbage like this.

The little death does not risk reincarnation.

Dude, go out for a walk. Enjoy the sun, the wind, the birds and the grass. You are overthinking things that do not exist.

Well, on the other hand. Meat bags can’t really do neuron stuff either, despite that is essential for any meat bag operation. Humans are still here though and so are dogs.