Thanks for reminding me of this. I did see the original post but, how soon we forget.

I heard a different take yesterday from Corey Doctorow that the real concern is global economic collapse!

Not something I’d considered, but I would say a frightening possibility!

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/

Sorry for your loss

Upright piano with the front panel taken off

Not a book, but Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies”

Seconded. And if you want to avoid the Ubuntu sh!t you can go for Mint DE (Debian edition)

This … “Microsoft is a cancer sucking life out of everything it touches.”

Divorce her

Cool. I’ll give you $50 for it 🤪

Take a nap

30 years. Been married for 22.

I get the bitter taste in the mouth, but when the alternative is Windows??? I made my choice and bought an iMac recently so that I could finally ditch the last windows pc in the house (everything else is Linux). And then had my work PC updated to Win11 last week. Uggghhh …

Having more time to spend learning a new distro

Make sure you check out Fair.org too!

You kids, get off my lawn!

Trans fats are from processed vegetable oils though, right?

My understanding is that typically, unmodified vegetable oils are considered the safest oils for human consumption.

“In the past, most of the trans fat in foods came from partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), formed through a manufacturing process that converts vegetable oil into a solid fat at room temperature. Trans fat also occurs naturally in food products from ruminant animals (e.g., milk, butter, cheese, meat products).”

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/trans-fat

You wonder though, with the big players, whether they can lobby / pay off trump in some way to not be affected? I mean look at how the China tariffs changed overnight to not include mobile phones etc. Can’t have the majority of Apple’s production being subject to tariffs (they sure can’t make them in the US for the same cost)!

“It’s not a tech issue. It’s a political issue.”

It kinda is a tech issue if the output is skewed because nefarious parties are feeding the model shit.

If they control the tech and what’s being fed into it then it makes the process rife for manipulation.

Of late, my biggest concern is certain parties feeding LLMs with a different version of history.

Search has become so shit of late that LLMs are often the better path to answering a question. But as everyone knows they are only as good as what they’ve been trained on.

Do we, as a society, move past basic search to a preference for AI to answer our questions? If we do, how do we ensure that the history they feed the models is accurate?

I somewhat agree with that (good for information retrieval).

I say somewhat because they will downright lie , until/unless you call them out.

You need to have an idea of whether what they are telling you is in fact true or not.

I find them very useful for programming snippets because a) I can usual grok whether what they’ve provided is what I’ve asked for and b) the proof is in the pudding (does the code do what I want?)