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  1. Telefónica to offer free ChatGPT Plus to Movistar customers for 6 months

    There is no minimum contract period – but will the freemium model work and how long will AI…
    #Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #Telefónica #ChatGPTPlus #ll-you-can-eattariffs #Movistar #OpenAI #PerplexityPro
    europesays.com/spain/21771/

  2. CW: shitpost, :ice_t:, :ice_3_velaro:

    Gestern stand noch der BR 415 Tz „Karlsruhe” hinter den BR 411 Tz „Mainz” in #LL. Heute wurde der Karlsruher entfernt. Dann wann bekommen wir ein BR 408 „Karlsruhe” mit :trans:-Streifen? :3

    #ll
  3. @maid if you don't know already, by RE42 i mean the franken-thüringen-express that went all the way from #NN to #LL

  4. #windows #LL
    Je cherche un conseil pour rendre un ordinateur neuf, livré avec Windows, vaguement utilisable :
    - virer les différents logiciels en version d'essai
    - virer tout le bloatware Microsoft (Xbox, la météo, les "news", les cours de bourse)
    - pas de création de compte Microsoft
    - pas de Onedrice, de cortana, et tutti quanti

    Je sais, yaka installer Linux. C'est le cas sur tous mes ordis depuis... 1997 quand j'ai laissé mon Amiga ! Mais là c'est pas pour moi...
    Un script ? Un tuto ?

  5. Targeted like a Stormtrooper

    The below comment made it through the WordPress spam filter and into my moderation queue. I don’t know why – it’s clearly garbage spam, and it’s on a 2006 post I did clearly trying to farm hits from John Scalzi’s large fanbase.

    Hey! Just launched TurboJot — the AI-powered outreach tool that actually wrote and submitted this message. It auto-fills forms with human-like messaging and precision targeting, consistently driving more conversions than email or ads. Book a demo on our site: https://go.turbojot.com/discover

    I’m leaving the link in because you should know what this company’s product is. It frankly isn’t bad at sounding like a person. Unfortunately, it sounds exactly like a person writing a spam comment or email. And the targeting – back at the height of this blog, I got a decent amount of traffic for the poorly written ramblings of a completely unfamous person. But this particular post (I don’t have hit counters from the beginning any more) has three hits this year. Probably all AI scrapers that managed to trick WordPress into thinking it was a “view”.

    Hat tip to Adriano for the post title.

    #ll #spam

  6. Terron Armstead: ‘I’ll stand on’ comparison of Miami Dolphins Tua to New Orleans Saints Drew Brees

    Recently retired left tackle Terron Armstead made an appearance on NFL Network’s Good Morning Football on Mo…
    #NFL #MiamiDolphins #Miami #Dolphins #Armstead #Brees #comparison #Drew #Football #former-miami-dolphins #front-page #i #ll #miami-dolphins-historical-perspective #miami-dolphins-news #New #of #on #Orleans #phinsider #saints #stand #Terron #the #To #Tua
    rawchili.com/nfl/152567/

  7. @lenaontrans Warten auf Anschlussreisende aus 2448 von #DH - #LL, Abfahrt von #LH mit +11 prognostiziert

  8. **Some thoughts on my AI/LLM usage**

    Read it on my blog, it has a nicer image/text layout.

    This time I will skip my usual (energy, water, ethical) rants and criticism of AI / LLM (large language model such as ChatGPT) and write how and when I use it.

    It would be hypocritical from me if I wouldn’t admit that I use it sometimes too. I use it in privacy of my office with a lot of shame and I deeply despise public posts like ‘Look what I made with AI’. No, you didn’t make anything, ok?

    Stories? Naaa.

    When ChatGP was released, I played with it and was mildly amused with stories it could spit out. After some tries my interest for generating stories and poems with it faded. I rather write stories by myself, because I enjoy it. I really don’t need something that mimics it can replace my creative activities.

    Learning content? No.

    Then, I experimented with it for creating learning content. I could re-use some story-like narratives, but professional/expert parts … weren’t usable. They sounded real and authoritative, but were wrong. Usually in some details and nuances, which spoiled the meaning of the text (for those who know what they’re reading). So I ditched it for this purpose (writing learning content).

    Project proposal? Not a chance.

    Then, I thought I could use it to help me to write project proposals. I ditched it, because it generated boring, over-chewed ideas. No, I don’t need help with generating ideas, I have enough of them. The problem aren’t new ideas, the problem is everything else (finding good consortium members, balancing the budget and activities etc.). Moreover, sometimes I’m in the role of proposal evaluator. If I detect something is generated with LLMs, I will be more critical than usual and reject it.

    Improving text/language?

    I tried it to improve language of my texts, because English is not my primary language. But then, everything sounded the same. I ditched it. I don’t mind anymore if I my English sounds Slavic or strange.

    Exploring what is out there? Maybe…

    I found a potential use of LLMs. In my spare time I tinker with my homelab a lot. There is never-ending stream of technical challenges. For example: Which filesystem should I choose (ext4 or zfs)? How do I stop monitor to flicker?

    After I exhaust various forums, I ask ChatGPT or Mistral. It usually gives me 10 wrong answers and maybe 1 with a potential.

    For example: I’m testing Ubuntu with Firefox and when I was scrolling with my mouse, it didn’t detect the first tick after reversing a direction of scrolling. Quite a niche issue. ChatGPT gave me at least 10 ways to resolve it. For 7 of them I knew they were nonsense from the first glance. For 4 of them I wasn’t sure. One of them was – check if your desktop runs X11 or Wayland. It was X11. Then it gave me instructions how to switch to Wayland. It worked.

    If I tried all of proposed solutions, I would probably f**ked some configuration and couldn’t roll it back (yeah, it happened).

    I don’t even know how to explain this type of usage. Brainstorming? No. Exploring possible options (wrong ones included)? Not sure. Very vague and broad search? Maybe. Sensing what kind of information exist?

    Local models and home assistant?

    The next thing I’m planning to use LLMs for is to use it with HomeAssistant. Interacting with it, recognizing objects on my webcams, finding patterns of energy usage and similar. Didn’t started it yet (except studying some projects).

    Prompt engineering?

    Don’t make me start on this. Chatting with a bot, typing questions, and adding a context to them is not and will never be ‘engineering’. Let’s skip this phrase, pretty please.

    To ask smart questions, a person doesn’t need prompting skills, but a good background/expertise and years of study and experience from a real profession. In Computer Science we call it (for example) Requirements Engineering . Knowing how to ask questions about a specific field is only a skin on the milk.

    I definitely can not ask good questions about … marine biology for example, because I know nothing about it. Whatever LLM generates about it, I could took as a good answer, because it sounds authoritative. But I know it’s not, because I’m aware of my and its limitations.

    Do I sound as an old grumpy guy yelling at the clouds?

    Probably. I can fully understand the attraction of LLMs which can help not-so-bright people sound more competent as they are.

    But still, I can hardy wait ‘AI’ hype to pass and crash.

    I can hardly wait for a better energy/water consumption regulation, better ethical/authorship regulations, usage transparency, source data disclosures, possibly compensations to authors. Don’t @ me with false dichotomies like ‘scraping of content is like reading’ or ‘scraping content is like search engine indexing’ ).

    I can hardly wait the change of ‘AI’ development direction. I wouldn’t mind if all ‘AI’ development efforts went to cancer or other diseases research. But generating funny images, authoritative, but wrong texts and videos that looks like cheap spam? No, I don’t need that.

    Until then, I will:

    • disable scraping of my content by AI bots (already did that on my reverse proxy)
    • limit myself using big corporations’ LLMs for answer generation and focus on local models that could help me to pick up my dog’s shit or do the dishes
    • treat it as illusion or hopium, if you want. Because it is being sold as such. It gives people hope that something is different (better?) than it is.

    Image source (Open Clipart Vectors)

    Tags: #AI #LLM #ethics

    https://blog.rozman.info/some-thoughts-on-my-ai-llm-usage/

    #AI #ethics #LL #LLM

  9. CW: voice dysphoria

    she was replaced by a guy because of yet another personalwechsel in #LL! Bye bye sweet voice :neocat_cry:

    #ll
  10. @vias_lena #LL erreicht mit +26, heute auf Gleis 13
    *Kopfmachen*

    #ll
  11. 4812 037-3 | Tz 9037
    und wieder zurück, warum hat meinen Eistee ausgefallen und den RE10 nach #LL in #LF nicht auf uns warten? :omya_db: (@ ICE 603 ➜ München Hbf) #NowTräwelling traewelling.de/status/3029685

  12. Ich wollte danach mit RE10/11 nach #LL fahren, und von dort den 603 nehmen zurück nach #MH, aber RE10/11 wartet nicht, also musste ich den selben Hamster zurück nach #LH und von dort direkt den 603 fahren

  13. @vias_lena Nach lange Aufenthalt verlassen wir #LL pünktlich

    #ll
  14. @vias_lena #LL erreicht mit +2
    *Kopfmachen*
    *Personalwechsel*

    #ll
  15. So, after several attempts, I finally finished watching Season 3 of Picard. As I watched the final scene, I realised why it took me so long to finish it. Because I really didn't want it to be over. As much, I'm certain, as those actors sitting around the table at the end. Thank you for such wonderful memories, I love you all. And @JeriLRyan you were amazing! I so hope you get a series of your own! #LL&P #startrek #picard

  16. KiN: Reisende nach #LL bitte in #UKO umsteigen, die RB20 ist hinter uns

  17. KiN: Reisende nach #LL bitte in #UKO umsteigen, die RB20 ist hinter uns

  18. KiN: Reisende nach #LL bitte in #UKO umsteigen, die RB20 ist hinter uns

  19. KiN: Reisende nach #LL bitte in #UKO umsteigen, die RB20 ist hinter uns

  20. Вот все то, что необходимо для работы с МК STM32F407VGT6, разумеется нужен и программатор, но можно и через DFU (замкнуть выводы Boot0 и 3v3, подключить USB data кабель) прошивать. А еще среда разработки: CubeIDE.
    #stm32f407vgt6
    #stm32
    #embedded
    #electronics
    #cube_ide
    #reference_manual
    #datasheet
    #hard_abstraction_layer
    #hal
    #low_layer
    #ll

  21. Вот все то, что необходимо для работы с МК STM32F407VGT6, разумеется нужен и программатор, но можно и через DFU (замкнуть выводы Boot0 и 3v3, подключить USB data кабель) прошивать. А еще среда разработки: CubeIDE.
    #stm32f407vgt6
    #stm32
    #embedded
    #electronics
    #cube_ide
    #reference_manual
    #datasheet
    #hard_abstraction_layer
    #hal
    #low_layer
    #ll

  22. Вот все то, что необходимо для работы с МК STM32F407VGT6, разумеется нужен и программатор, но можно и через DFU (замкнуть выводы Boot0 и 3v3, подключить USB data кабель) прошивать. А еще среда разработки: CubeIDE.
    #stm32f407vgt6
    #stm32
    #embedded
    #electronics
    #cube_ide
    #reference_manual
    #datasheet
    #hard_abstraction_layer
    #hal
    #low_layer
    #ll

  23. Вот все то, что необходимо для работы с МК STM32F407VGT6, разумеется нужен и программатор, но можно и через DFU (замкнуть выводы Boot0 и 3v3, подключить USB data кабель) прошивать. А еще среда разработки: CubeIDE.
    #stm32f407vgt6
    #stm32
    #embedded
    #electronics
    #cube_ide
    #reference_manual
    #datasheet
    #hard_abstraction_layer
    #hal
    #low_layer
    #ll

  24. Jetzt fahren wir echt über die 6345 und #LAH nach #LL 🤯

  25. Jetzt fahren wir echt über die 6345 und #LAH nach #LL 🤯