Kay Ohtie

Huh, kinda cool. I mean it makes sense too since it’s got that “copying someone’s homework” benefit for updates too.

All 3 mechanisms are native to a yubikey, and do not require yubikey-specific software/drivers to function as they use USB standards like FIDO2, keyboard for HMAC, and PIV/CCID for OpenPGP.

FIDO2 is built-in out-of-the-box, HMAC just requires adding the key to HMAC on slot 1 or 2 (tap vs long-hold key-inputs) using the personalization tool, or using gpg(2) to card-edit for OpenPGP.

None of these require YK software to operate.

Honestly this is basically a non-gaming Bazzite using Arch as the base instead of Fedora Atomic, which is technically mutable. I’ve been trying it out and maybe I should give distrobox a whirl for some things. Overall I’ve been happy with it.

Including the limitations of options, albeit worse than Apple. I really don’t understand the hubris of that team.

I only learned about them at all because of the Weird Little Guys podcast. I listened to a bunch of it but then had to stop for a while because it was starting to actively depress me in ways Behind the Bastards never has.

But much more loosely-so, not nearly as heavily. It was more like a seldom-used term to say that it might be like what machine learning actually was.

Now they’re all being called it heavily, forcefully, by corporations which started using it for capitalistic hype reasons. Hence, the push for strong distinctions between a field that’s been around for quite a while as algorithms in mathematics being a variety of types, and lazy slop that “just one more prompt bro” and “we can replace workers”. Even DLSS wasn’t called “AI” until the hype train started, and now Jensen Huang can’t call it that often enough lest he be unable to afford yet another leather jacket as if they’re disposable glasses wipes.

It’s not AI, it’s neural network models in the same way voice recognition in devices has been working for over a decade. Even Dragon has been utilizing language models vectors for a very long time, just requiring voice training instead of utilizing a premade research or open-source data set.

I hate generative AI and it’s slop too, but getting angry about neural network models in general is not only absurd, but playing exactly into what corporations want – conflation of the underlying basic technology concepts with the capitalistic vampirism of art.

EDIT: to add, “research” here can be closed source – voice models utilized with these tend to be internally-sourced for much of them, at least earlier ones do.

It’s not irritation at it being popular, it’s irritation at the bombardment specifically, the direct of it. A lot of the folks who skipped out on Undertale didn’t do so because it was popular, they did so because lots of people personally bombarded them with “omg you haven’t played you have to play”, combined with the whole “you have to play it this way” thing too in particular. I think that last bit made it especially bad.

But mostly it’s unsolicited pushing to Do Thing in a pushy, bombarding fashion.

There’s plenty of popular things I get excited about when I’m told by lots of folks about, or get intrigued by. It’s just a specific flavor of bombardment that pushes people back.

Like one person who keeps quite literally yelling “hey Kay bake my ___ recipe!!!” Like… The louder they get about it the less inclined I am to do that versus find something else to bake because the pushy behavior is off-putting.

Idk how this is even remotely the same thing as being contrarian other than ignoring the pushiness for specific situations.

It’s satire; all of brands.town is satire.

I’m getting the same vibes as when I spike taxes in Sim City for Palm OS just before the year rolls over and then drop it back after.

Weird how the chart just prioritizes other corporations and only shows true open-source or self-hosted solutions when there are no non-US options realistically. Hmm.

I don’t think that the point here was trying to do anything to say that the user did anything wrong. I think it’s simply pointing out how frustrating it is that Microsoft’s Insistence on various things, as part of their EEE policy, created this situation to begin with, and that it wouldn’t have even broken if not for that.

I’m pretty sure that the person you replied to was really just lamenting that that this is what broke it. And that fundamentally, Microsoft is getting exactly what they wanted as a result. And it’s just frustrating.

I figured and I know it’s shorthand, it’s my own frustration that said shorthand has partly enabled the anthropomorphism that it’s enjoyed.

Leave the anthropomorphism to pets, plants, and furries, basically. And cars. It’s okay to call cars like that. They know what they did.

whether it’s telling the truth

“whether the output is correct or a mishmash”

“Truth” implies understanding that these don’t have, and because of the underlying method the models use to generate plausible-looking responses based on training data, there is no “truth” or “lying” because they don’t actually “know” any of it.

I know this comes off probably as super pedantic, and it definitely is at least a little pedantic, but the anthropomorphism shown towards these things is half the reason they’re trusted.

That and how much ChatGPT flatters people.

I thought the intent was obvious I guess; the comic artist seems to be saying “being a pretentious dick puts people off you, be kind instead.”

Which like…yeah agreed 1000%.

I saw this! Been using this on my laptop, a Latitude 2-in-1, testing over the one I was using before. So far so good! Nice to see them working on their own, not just having the API for it. Having to dig around to figure out how to install one for it sucked.