bridgeenjoyer

I thought of this recently (anti llm content within)

The reason a lot of companies/people are obsessed with llms and the like, is that it can solve some of their problems (so they think). The thing I noticed, is a LOT of the things they try to force the LLM to fix, could be solved with relatively simple programming.

Things like better searches (seo destroyed this by design, and kagi is about the only usable search engine with easy access), organization (use a database), document management, etc.

People dont fully understand how it all works, so they try to shoehorn the llm to do the work for them (poorly), while learning nothing of value.

The past few years I've been disgusted with the internet. Rediscovering small sites has made me love it again!

So I own over 500 vhs tapes. And dvds, but those are easy to rip. I am trying to archive all my tapes before they go bad. However, that takes a lot of time. Should I just try to find all the movies I can for tapes I own?

I've been out of the game for a few years now. How vast are the resources for 90s movies and such ?

Didn't even know they had a free tier until yesterday. Is it any good? I've been using it with no issue on low data situations.

Yes, I know about the original dev political issues.

So trying to get rid of all the g00gle I can. Realized the Samsung calendar is unfortunately really good with nice features. But I am sure it's not private at all. Any good recommendations ? I share calendars with others too which may be an issue.

What's your guys general thought on how everything is web based now? For me, I don't really like it. I would just rather have an actual program that runs. But I am merely a user, not a programmer.

I really never have believed times improved, and i am almost positive things will only get worse.

30 years ago we had a future to look to, the unshittified internet, great music, affordable land/housing, affordable durable cars, people actually interacted in real life, no social media trash. Now, we have billionaires and LLMs. I don't see how anyone can possibly think times are better or going to improve.

Yes, everyone will say "civil rights improved" and yes thats maybe the only thing that has changed, however it's getting taken away every day again so I don't think you can even use that point anymore.

I've seen some sites/programs mentioned before for this, but thought it may be good to have a solid list.

What tools do we have today to identify slop, whether it's video, audio, text etc.? I know right now most of us can identify it just because it's off or feels wrong in some way, but we are going to need better tools in the future to be able to truly tell. Also bonus if it's an offline tool.

This is what drives me nuts. It's pure laziness that drives this shit.

You know what would actually improve productivity? Allowing use of ad blockers so I can study work related content or instructional videos without a million ads. An email client that isn't a piece of shit like outlook. A chat program that is not the horrendous teams. A cloud storage solution that is not one drive. Everything I've mentioned could/would be improved by open source implementation, but they think throwing an llm at it will improve productivity. Its just laziness. AND the fact that millions are spent on a business llm account per year is utterly stupid. I've not seen one scenario at our work where an llm has actually improved productivity. Sure, maybe some have used it for fixing bad grammar or writing an email they were too lazy to come up with, but to me if you are that dumb or lazy, you don't deserve a good job.

To add. I've actually tried using the llm for certain things, and it maybe helped 5% of the time. Every other time it was wrong, or wasted more time than it took to actually do the work. Its scary how many blindly trust it and think they are working efficiently, while those of us in the background fix all the shit they screwed up because they were lazy.

Maybe something good will happen and the dumb will be easier to weed out because of this. That is one potential upside.

Not like 1912, but say 1979 instead of 2003 for a gen z. Now, if you would retain the knowledge you have now or not, thats up to the genie.

Things we see all the time, but no one can really describe, like

Docker

Federated

Self host

Fork

Container

Instance

Flatpak

Tailscale

Distro

Wayland

Nginx

Etc.

Sure we can search but the terms are just so abstract I can't understand some of it.

*this is for helping some new users as well as myself -

Something from work I noticed today that will unfortunately become the norm.

If you gibbity an answer, you're regarded as smarter than someone who searched it. The funny part is I've actually given it a try, and it's wrong so often that it actually wastes my time. And, if it's right and I don't agree, I can say it's wrong, and with a 98% confidence level it changes the answer.

Side note, this is exactly why the fascist tech bros are pushing hard to shove this tech down our throats.