We used to have working spelling and grammar checkers. Why does everybody in tech pretend you need a whole-ass LLM to check for typos?
DrYak
Medical Doctor and Bioinformatician
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@mossmann It's okay, now you can #PushToProdFriday all your continvouclious morgings!!!
@mossmann It's okay, now you can #PushToProdFriday all your continvouclious morgings!!!
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"My colleague Julius" is now available in French, Korean and simplified Chinese!
Thanks to the translators for that work!
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Claims that #AI can help fix #climate dismissed as #greenwashing
#Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown.
Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to #machinelearning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the sector’s explosive growth of gas-guzzling #datacenters, the analysis of 154 statements found.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/17/tech-companies-traditional-ai-generative-climate-breakdown-report
@mossmann NO! Don't Push To Prod!
...it's not Friday, yet.
@sundogplanets I am surprised it "is real". In my head, this completely impractical asinine idea was merely a scam to get AI investors' money.
@pgcd @sundogplanets ...but on the flip side, lots of the testing steps on the path toward 1million satellites are putting us at risk of Kessler syndrome?
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@adavid @spriebsch @preinheimer And we're still in the early phase of @pluralistic's enshittification cycle with AI.
The likes of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are still locking users and businesses into their platforms.
Tokens are being given away for free, even to people who don't want them.
The real rentseeking fun begins once everyone's locked into a platform.
For example, Imagine a world where most businesses run software created using Claude Code completely unchecked.
What's to stop Anthropic from pushing out a future update of Claude Code that routinely generates code that relies on Anthropic's proprietary APIs to work?
What's to stop Microsoft from pushing out a future update of Copilot that only works with customer data stored in Dynamics?
What's to stop Google from pushing out an update to Gemini where all the generated code is exclusively hosted in Google Cloud?
Why, suddenly you're not just paying for an AI tool that costs the equivalent of a developer's salary.
But also, if you ever stop paying the monthly rent, then your access to the proprietary APIs ends and all your software breaks. Or you lose access to your customer records. Or all the code you've ever generated, stored on the affiliated cloud platform, vanishes.
And beyond coding, there's many other ways these platforms could be enshittified for profit.
For example, if millions of people trust LLMs to manage their daily lives, then suddenly making sure AI agents answer a question like "What should I have for lunch today" with "a Big Mac" is worth billions of dollars to McDonald's.
Worst of all, if the cost of building out all the data centres and infrastructure is in the trillions, it limits the market to just a handful of players.
And any online platforms that use their APIs will have to pay an economic rent of their choosing.
I'm sure there's many other ways they're planning to use this to extract profits and build power.
That's why investors are willing to pour trillions into this thing.
It's not because they believe AGI is just around the corner.
It's because they believe that if enough people and businesses get locked in, they get to put a tax on everything.
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AI slop is so useful and desirable that Google and Microsoft have to spend shit tons of money to have "influencers" shill for it:
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html
Remember when "influencers" were shilling for NFTs? That was fun and ended well for everyone involved, proving NFTs are actually useful. 🤡
@whitequark if you want more cursed, I have a couple of "SD plus" memory cards (you know those that also have an USB connector opposite of the SD one, so you don't need a card reader)
To fit within the SD form factor, they all use some variations of "traces on the PCB itself" hack.
The "old school SD" one by SanDisk fit firmly into usb socket and are functionnal.
The SDHC are flimsy and don't establish nice contact unless you keep a finger on them. They're a nightmare.
@whitequark I genuinely own several of suxh USB-C inserts and use them to plug stuff that has only a USB-A connector (e.g.: USB mini or micro cables, devices with captive USB-A cable, flash drives, etc.) to stuff that only has USB-C (mac, steamdeck without the dock, smartphone, handheld emulator-console, etc.). They are very compact and handy.
I also used to have the microUSB-OTG version for similar reasons (quick'n'dirty way to plug shit into a smartphone's microUSB's port)
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Sinon si vous n’êtes pas encore vacciné·e grippe ou covid, c’est encore possible jusqu’au 28 février, vu que la campagne de vaccination a été prolongée face à la circulation des deux épidémies.
Et pour rappel, ni la grippe ni le covid ne sont anodins. Rien que la grippe c’est 10 000+ morts par an en France (17 000 l’année dernière, soit six fois plus que les accidents de la route 😬).
Et si on a arrêté de compter les morts du covid, c’est probable que le chiffre soit similaire. Et même sans parler des décès, pour info ou rappel, entre autres mauvaises nouvelles, le covid continue d’endommager durablement l’organisme à chaque infection :
Le covid long n’a pas disparu ; des nouvelles infections continuent de provoquer des cas. Ce n’est pas de « l’histoire ancienne ».
Source : l’OMS.
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#socialengineering Avec des collègues on a eu une idée. Faire une affiche tape à l'oeil qui propose d'aider à installer #linux sur les vieux #pc avec nos emails ET notre numéro de bureau où nous trouver. Le tout affiché dans le campus de la fac où je travaille. Peut-être que savoir qu'on est là tout près va lever un frein? Avez-vous déjà essayé de faire ca, sur votre taff, dans votre immeuble...? Avez vous aussi une idée d'affiche à partager? Je sais qu'il y a https://aidelinux.gogocarto.fr mais j'ai peur que les gens qui ont jamais entendu parler de linux n'aille pas spontanément sur le site.
#windows11 #end_of_10 #endof10 #win10 #windows10
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bref, j'ai ajouté un fichier AGENTS.md au dépôt de code de mon blog https://github.com/n1k0/nicolas.perriault.net/blob/master/AGENTS.md
@MadameMollette @Daniii plus nom vs visage.
@MadameMollette @Daniii moi j'ai le probleme inverse: je vais immediatement reconnaitre *le visage* de qqn que j'ai vu il y a une decenie... Mais j'oublie le *prenom* de qqn que j'ai vu la veille et que je cotoie regulierement.
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Mon projet de livre sur #Mastodon et le #fédivers est enfin terminé. Je suis ravi de vous le partager aujourd'hui. Il se veut facile d'accès dans le but de donner envie aux lecteurs de nous rejoindre. Partagez-le autour de vous et n'hésitez pas à me faire des retours. Vous pouvez le télécharger gratuitement ici: https://www.surchauffe.info/p/librairie.html
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