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  @coreysnipes@hachyderm.io This is fantastic. Can I ask what types of laptops you're talking about? T420s or similar? Great machines, really just a fantastic thing, and I hope that they get some solid second life in the hands of people who could use them.

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  From random quote that jumped into my brain file- "You speak five languages. Why isn't one of them french?" "I speak fine french!" "You just called me your little cheese."

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  @Sustainable2050 Unfortunately this image was slightly edited ( I personally think the original is at least as damning, but the head is significantly moved.) https://bsky.app/profile/pbump.com/post/3mkarhseu4k2i If you watch the video he's definitely asleep, though, and wakes up after a moment

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  @gwynnion Things that fill me with rage: -ai summation - anything that plays audio unprompted. - auto fill - any website that greets me with whatever nam I put in - actually any attempt to anthropomorphize shit, I am not going to call your problem solver Skippy or Jill - infinite scroll - dynamically loading as you 'scroll' down - wildly overcomplicated sites that don't hit the key information - bad anti ad block I started thinking about what angers me most when browsing, and.....

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  @thomasfuchs @aphyr It was always a thought experiment on the nature of humanity and ascribing human characteristics to deterministic systems. Eliza passed a -lot- of turing tests! Honestly trying to codify it always struck me as the Adams joke/example of 'performing Schrodinger's cat' (which was itself a thought experiment on how stupid and illogical quantum mechanics was) We like to anthropromorphize EVERYTHING, and it's suddenly acquiring a dramatically steep unpleasant co...

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  @gairdeachas Have you seen Heated Rivalry? I swear I'm going somewhere with this, but I also don't want to spoil something (even if it's not plot-critical) if you aren't familiar and the mental bridge of it is going to be lost if you haven't seen it. But to put it mildly, I absolutely agree. When I first came out to my sister, she immedately said 'Well I guess you're not having kids' and when I said I could adopt she replied 'I hope that's not legal&#3...

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  @cstross@wandering.shop Yeah dictation software is just absolutely not there, which is kind of funny because we definitely have had it for the past 30 years in various forms. The limited vocab is a huge portion of it, I think - it just can't grasp that in each writer's personal lexicon there will be swaths of words that aren't common use, and those words are generally non-overlapping. LLMs make this -worse-, not better, because people use uncommon words often! (then might edit the...