hperrin

@hperrin@lemmy.world

I’m Hunter Perrin. I’m a software engineer.

I wrote an email service: port87.com

I write free software: github.com/sciactive

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hperrin, (edited )

I think most people consider LLMs to be real AI, myself included. It’s not AGI, if that’s what you mean, but it is AI.

What exactly is the difference between being able to reliably fool someone into thinking that you can think, and actually being able to think? And how could we, as outside observers, be able to tell the difference?

As far as your question though, I’m agitated too, but more about things being marketed as AI that either shouldn’t have AI or don’t have AI.

hperrin,

If you like air but you don’t like pure oxygen, then you actually like nitrogen more than oxygen.

hperrin,

Wow, the new owners enshittified those apps really fast.

hperrin, (edited )

Basically a long time ago Linux/Unix was run on big machines in a separate room with all the fancy graphics hardware, and you’d have a dumb little machine at your desk that could barely draw pixels on a screen. So X11 was designed with all these fantastic neat server-client mechanisms that made it great for running on a mainframe.

Fast forward 30 years and all that stuff is useless now that everyone has built in graphics (as well as several other issues with X11’s archaic design). So some smart people who didn’t know any better made a new thing that everything has to be rewritten for (because they were smart, but didn’t know any better). Then someone who did know a little better was like, what if we take the old bloated one and rewrite it for the new lean one. So now everything runs in an X11 session inside a Wayland server, which has to be rewritten for everything because Wayland is a protocol, not a server.

But one of the really nice things about it is that everything has to be rewritten, so we can make newer, fancier bugs.

Edit: I don’t want you to take the impression that I think Wayland is bad. Wayland is way better than X, it just sucks that we have to rewrite a bunch of stuff for it and figure out new ways of doing things that were dead simple in X, but very insecure.

hperrin,

Pants have the same number of legs as people. This joke is getting absurd.

hperrin,

I have been testing with the original reporter of the problem. This guy came in, said he had the same problem, then cursed at me.

hperrin,

Yeah, I didn’t take it personally. He’s just venting, but doing it toward the person trying to help you is unhelpful. That’s why I posted here, basically saying to remember that you’re talking to a person, not a punching bag.

hperrin,

Easy, just open it with your teeth, then your hands will stay clean.

hperrin,

I’m just sitting here patiently waiting for hexagonal displays.

hperrin,

What am I looking at here?

hperrin,

Don’t forget that you can’t haul much because the dumbass designers sloped the walls of your bed. You have plenty of room for friends though, if you could make any.

hperrin,

Ok, I don’t get it. Can you explain it to me?

hperrin,

You could also try Krita, which is free.

hperrin,

GUIs are for the weak. Monitors are for the weak. My PC is connected to a keyboard and a printer. Hackerman

hperrin, (edited )

Online gaming requires servers to run, and servers require money. Either the game is more expensive, the online is a subscription, or you have to run the server yourself. There are games that do each of these.

Edit: or microtransactions. Fuck microtransactions.

hperrin,

The unfortunate fact is that most people don’t care about their privacy until it’s violated. It’s weird.

hperrin,

We’re all sick and tired of it. That doesn’t mean you have to fuck over the wait staff to make your point.

hperrin,

I donate hundreds of hours of my time every year maintaining several open source projects. Does that count?

hperrin,

My Jellyfin server has become quite useful as I’ve unsubscribed from various services.

hperrin,

I created a new email service that prevents spam and organized your email. If it works out and I become successful, I can imagine Google trying to buy it, and if I say no, all of a sudden Gmail starts having issues receiving mail from my service. Gmail and Exchange together share about 70% of the business email market, so they can destroy smaller competitors if they aren’t willing to sell. Yay capitalism!

hperrin,

Thank you for asking this. I’m going under day after tomorrow for knee surgery, so I’m going to pick one of these to use. :)

hperrin,

That recoil is going to hurt.

hperrin,

Building a great mobile website is much harder than building a great mobile app, so I understand when they just don’t build a great website to begin with, but taking away an existing website, yeah, that sucks.

hperrin,

If The Onion wanted to be even more true to life, instead of some guy, they should have shown a corporate office.

hperrin,

Parents: why is our internet usage so high?

Us: um, Linux ISOs…

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