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Cake day: February 15th, 2025

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  • Heres a hot take: as a technology AI (whatever that may mean) can be genuinely useful. In the way it is implemented right now destroying the environment and rising the cost of everything I despise everything that it is. LLMs are the main culprit and the utterly idiotic decision to have one model know everything from embedded coding to ancient Babylonian history.

    Neural networks and even specialized small LLMs that I run on decentralized systems are genuinely useful. I use open weight models that I run locally to help with implementing functions from stubs and even do documentation, which it truly is not bad at.

    I don’t hate the technology, I hate the greedy dystopian hyper capitalistic environment destroying way it is deployed in. And the way that it is trained by literally stealing the work of creative people.









  • You See, Not everyone lives in a dystopian surveillance dictatorship. At least for now. As far as im concerned, the “others are already doing it so what’s the harm” argument is not valid. Meta is a private company. They already use their shit app to track the offline connections anyone with Facebook/Instagram installed has and record everything from SSIDa to BT beacons and connect the data with multiple sources. Having a surveillance camera mounted on someone’s head that can send a live feed non-stop to a private company is not the same as someone blogging or taking a picture with a phone of a camera. You can see those actions and take appropriate actions. The way disabling the recording light is advertised as a service gives us a peek on the most practical use case for the actual consumer: being a creepy little fuck. Glassholes were the beginning, but at least you could spot them easily.