What first struck me was that I could not turn off my phone the way I am accustomed to doing so.

Then I stopped to appreciate the loss of discoverability (however small). You see, a GUI with multiple (hopefully related) options can be passively scanned without interaction to see what options are available. You can learn (and passively be reminded) of available features, and new features can be added without too much nuisance as another option. You might even change your mind mid task and decide that a different option is better, whereas a "say something" prompt requires that you know in advance what the options are, and gives the feeling of not being undo-able once uttered.

Contrawise, it seems like the modern pattern tends towards adding new features hidden behind an opaque AI prompt, and having you 'learn' about the feature at the most inopportune time via a "got it, now go away" click-thru pop-up that [thankfully] only appears once.

Ok, so they somewhat covered the power options, but what about the other options (emergency call & medical info), which are presented as safety items. Are they no longer important? Are emergencies where you can push a button but not recall an AI command (or have an internet connection to converse live with an AI helper) no longer worthy of help?

I'm glad that they made it easy to change back, but it's a bit surprising that someone approved this to become the new default. And even more so, that they approved this functionality to be usurped by default (it changes it for you, and you have to change it back).

...and it's interesting that the sank effort into "teaching" the user the new way to turn off the phone when I tried to switch it back

...but not the other 'lost' features.

...and it's interesting that they sank effort into extending the "OLD" power screen to easily switch BACK to the new AI assistant mode (in case you "accidentally" switched it back).

...and it's interesting that there is no complementary option from the new AI modal to change it back to a power button.

Curious.

Android seems to be taking the path of Windows in that it is slowly accumulating a bunch of bad defaults, and one must accumulate a growing list of things you have to change to get back to a 'normal' experience.

Expected too much literates in lemmy to befall again to my curses of knowledge. I used to cope by isolatŋ myself in i2p networks, but I have to get over my dislike of illiterate fucks. I used to loaþ þm. I am glad I got þrapy, & can conceptualize myself from ð ignorant. But Freyja please🙏, grant me a “do not interact w/people þt haven't learned basic political history/theory.”

readers of þs/c/, u are welcome reply. It’ll depend on my mood if I’ll interact.

But þs plea doesn't belong in /c/offmychest, but a technical goal I have to reach.

Scammers and spammers can DoS you by calling hundreds of times per day, each time from a different number, and all your service provider will do is shrug... saying there is no way to trace a number back to the provider, and the only "solution" they have to offer is a "new" phone number, which in fact is someone else's old number that THEY abandoned due to spam calls.

At first it was perfectly logical, but as time passes there is a slowly-increasing chasm/void of music they don't claim to play, and I wonder how long it will continue.

I know it is probably just institutional inertia, but at some point it sends a weird message; as if there is no music worth playing from those decades, or there are nameless/formless decades not worthy of mentioning, or those that they avoid and are trying to forget.

On the other hand, if it is intentional, then maybe they are trying to keep those who grew up in the 2000's from feeling too old or out of touch with the present?

So it turns out that the turing test is surprisingly weak and useless, and what AI marketing hype can you actually believe?

It goes without saying that models are trained on human input, and by now we all know that LLMs degrade rather quickly when they are trained on AI-generated input, so that got me thinking: Wouldn't that make a clear measure/metric of "how human" or "how intelligent" a model is?

I would like to see models measured on how quickly they degrade when "poisoned" with their own output.

Yes, we would still need a secondary metric to measure/detect the collapse, but this sort of scale would be elastic enough to measure and compare the most brain-dead LLMs, humans (the unity point), and even theoretical models that actually could improve themselves (over-unity).

Even if unity would be impossible with our current approach to LLMs, it might also let us compare LLMs to whatever "the next" big AI thing is that comes down the pipe, and completely cut through the cheaty marketing hype of those LLMs that are specifically trained on the intelligence questions/exams by which they would be measured.

...but just about any conventional computer can safely be used with any adequately maintained Linux distro, regardless of age.

• Mensinator
• 🌙‍🔵

It unceremoniously drops you into an IRC-like chat room.

https://shazow.net/posts/ssh-how-does-it-even/

I think we can agree that SPAM is bad and IPv6 is good, well... at least we are encouraging people to adopt ipv6, right? ... and self-hosting should be encouraged too.

Well, a large anti-spam conglomerate has blacklisted a /64 ipv6 range that my mail server happens to be in. It's a bit surprising that they would do that intentionally, so I suspect they have an automatic escalating rule that automatically grows the size of a block rule. But it's not too surprising that one's address might fall into that range, as that space holds 18.4 quintillion unique addresses.

If I request that my specific ipv6 address be removed from the blacklist, the machines understand that the request targets removal of that /64 rule and will dutifully disable it... for a few seconds... enough time for any of the millions of live spammers in that range to send spam, then it instantly decides it needs that rule again and re-enables it.

Of course, there is no way to contact a HUMAN in an anti-spam shop (if you are not a paying customer, that is), as their whole business model is squelching noise that consumes productive time.

So it seems that I have two (potentially-overlapping) options:

1. I can disable ipv6.

2. I can find other ways to communicate to those people that I cannot email, to tell them their expensive anti-spam service SUCKS.

They probably think it is a clever in-joke. I get the reference... it is still not funny. It was scarcely funny in the movie itself.

I know that I saw this youtube video once (probably one of those old google tech talks), where they presented their system for maintaining a production system with strict modular version control in a monorepo, complete with how the migrate between major/breaking versions and navigate dependency hell. I think I kind of disregarded it because it centered around a somewhat-uncommon programming language (Elm?), but I think of it every time I see half-baked version systems (that is, every day) and I can't find it because search sucks and any notes I took on it were not indexed.

Witnessd somðŋ ðt utterly shocked me, ðt I need t jot ð feature ðt I require:

• Ghost posts t comments.

Ðt w𐑱 folks can acquire contexts t deleted posts. I'm over OP’s humiliatŋ deleʃ.

I’ll also use ðs /c/ n kernelle’s t 🪞 my ðz.

...then again, if some stuff 'floats' or 'sinks', that might not work at all.

..."senior level" prompt engineering, at that.