salith @salith@computerfairi.es

If "AI" worked they'd be using it, not selling it.

I.E. if it did what they claimed it would be proprietary secret sauce, not "come use this for free so we can figure out what it might be good for". Still, in 2026.

Remember when blockchain was going to have a zillion world-changing uses, real soon now? Same guys, they pivoted.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-12/crypto-miner-hive-drops-blockchain-from-name-pivoting-to-ai

DuckDuckGo adds a no-AI version

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

it disables slop generation and claims to remove slop images from the results, too

“The cuts to your healthcare, all that extra money —nearly a trillion dollars that was taken out— was given to ICE. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face."💵🔫 #press #healthcare

I remember the times when I was into Dilbert. Even liked that cartoon adaptation they did.

With Scott Adams' fall from grace and his death today, Dilbert will get cast off into the land of comic strip obscurity, to be something people remember existing and that's it

It's never gonna be remembered fondly like a Calvin & Hobbes, it's never gonna get reran like a Peanuts, it's not even gonna get a modern reboot like Nancy.

It'll be a Jeopardy clue nobody gets right in 5 years.

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I believe that the main reason people believe ChatGPT is intelligent is that we correlate speech with intelligence. If someone speaks confidently and uses big words, then they're seen as intelligent. ChatGPT is literally a machine designed to speak well, so people think it's intelligent, even tho it doesn't actually think, it just mimics.

This also applies to tech CEOs, politicians, etc.

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

Friends, I have £1,000 that I want to donate to a UK trans support charity.

I've donated in the past, but I was hoping someone (with experience) could recommend a charity that they think would benefit from the donation (and helped you in some way).

It's a single donation to make a greater impact.

If you have any questions, please do ask me too (or DMs/email)

The US is currently offering rewards for snitching on european antifa organisations that are more and more considered foreign terrorist organisations.

This is part of a wider strategy to establish and support fascism in europe.

Calling all office nerds 😎 the Office Mimics are now available (for free) in my Kofi! These are a set of .ico files to customize your folder/program icons with!

https://www.ko-fi.com/s/3683ca94cb

These were super fun to make, hope you have fun customizing your desktop using these!

#pixelart #mimic

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It has come to my attention that Calibre has started adding AI shit into its functionality.

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT CAN I MAYBE HAVE JUST ONE PROGRAM THAT DOESN"T TRY TO DO AI BULLSHIT?

Just one? Maybe?

Anyway, if you want to have an AI-free calibre, you'll need to not upgrade past version 8.10. 😡