This is what I like to tell people when they tell me they learned something from an LLM:

Pick an obscure subject about which you know a great deal. Now ask an LLM a bunch of questions on that subject and see how long it takes it to give you a wrong answer. Now ask yourself if someone who didn't know the subject as well as you do would have caught that mistake.

Finally, ask yourself: do you still trust the LLM?

One of these days, I'll figure this whole #Monsterdon thing out. I mean, I get the general concept, but I never know what movie everyone is watching and when.

I'm always reminded as it seems to be in progress.

I always have a moment if hesitation pressing the "share" button when I use an em dash in a post, lest soneone think I'm using so-called AI to compose my posts.

I guess the typo that escaped my proofreading will probably help to dispel that myth.

Edit: I just noticed the typo in this post. Screw it. I'm keeping it in.

Working on a transcript of a deposition for work and thought I'd make myself a nice healthy snack for while I work: some apple slices.

This turned out to be a bad idea. I'm sitting with my headset on, trying to make out what's being said in the recording, and all I can hear is: crunch, crunch, crunch!

You know, I don't understand this "homelab" concept. To me, it's just the way I've been doing computing since I had access to a DSL connection in the early '00s.

Why would I want to make myself dependent on someone else's infrastructure?

Is there a way in #emacs #org-mode to next quote blocks? The following doesn't seem to work.

#+begin_quote
This is a quote.

#+begin_quote
This is a quote within the quote.
#+end_quote
#+end_quote

Emacs is ignoreing the second #+begin_quote and just closing the quote block at the first #+end_quote.

Edit: So the solution I settled on was putting the nested quote in a drawer named :quote:. it's not an ideal solution, but for my purposes in this case it's... fine, I guess.

God help me if I ever need three levels of nesting.

So, somebody has registered an #LLM bot as a player on #LambdaMOO. I've banned it from the areas that I control, but can't ban it from public spaces.

How might I best go about messing with it? So far, I've just been feeding it lies when it asks me questions.

I've also already slipped a sign in its inventory that identifies it as as an LLM to anyone who happens to look at it.

Does anyone happen to know if there's an easy way to get #emacs's nov.el package to display text using the #OpenDyslexic font? I was hoping there was a customization variable, but it seems not.

Perhaps I could run it in a terminal editor and change the terminal's font, but then I'd lose things like images.

I can hack something together if I really need to, I'd just rather not if there's a simpler solution available.

#a11y #books

Edit: I was able to do this through M-x customize-face

Spent an embarrassing amount of time today looking for my glasses.

They were on my face.

You'd think that the fact that I could see would've tipped me off, but no.

So, I've started a new job. In said job, I'm editing a document which I've spent a couple hours working on. This is all being done in a browser.

I reach a point where I want to search backward through the text for a name, so my #emacs brain says, "Easy peasey, that's just C-r", which I press... reloading the page.

It's at this point I have a minor heart attack, and consider myself lucky that their web app frequently saves my work.

I FREAKING PASSED MY EXAM!!!!!

BOO-YAH! 🥳🎉

I've been studying my brains out for this stupid exam that I kept failing by one stupid question. I think I finally figured out what was failing me. Just like the prequalificaiton exam, I was rabbit holing on the wrong question.

With any luck, I will take—and pass—this exam tomorrow. Then I can actually start getting paid for my work.

I'm getting closer and closer to passing the entrance exam for this job. I also learned a little tidbit about why they're always hiring: apparently, "AI-generated" transcripts are inadmissible in US courts.* As much as they might like to, they legally can't replace this job with AI.

Combine that with the very small overlap between people capable of passing this exam and people actually willing to jump through those hurdles, and you have glut of available work.

* At least for now. Give the techbro billionaire class time to keep eroding the US legal system, and who knows?

So, there was a post on the fedi about a project Johnny Harris was working on. Some people in that thread seemed to think that he was untrustworthy, even going so far as to posit that he might be a CIA asset. I had no idea why they believed this, but it was echoed by more than one person.

I am familiar with Johnny's work. He always seems to do a good job of citing his sources (at least to my casual inspection). I asked about this distrust but received no response. Perhaps they thought I was sealioning?

So, I'm asking here: Is there an actual valid reason to distrust him that I'm simply not aware of, or is just stemming from the fact that he likes to shine light on things that some would rather not have light shined on?

#Today I added a take-out menu to my virtual sushi bar in #LambdaMOO. It took me longer to retrofit the code to make this happen than I care to admit.

Did I have more important things to do today? Probably. I just needed a break from reality for a while.

I just saw a Wal-Mart greeter shrink wrapped to a chair, holding a jar, trying to raise $50 for... something I couldn't read.

Dear Wal-Mart,

You're a billion dollar multinational corporation paying your employees the least you can possibly get away with. Why is this necessary?