USE JELLYF-

Be prepared for a barrage of “Jellyfin” in your comments.

Oh.

lol white Jesus and the flag 🤣

Like that religion and the USA ever had anything in common.

I mean, a dead horse does die at some point well before the beatings are done.

lol wtf!

I went to use Marketplace last year which meant signing into my old FB account for the first time since like 2013, even though I barely used it before that. Turns out it had been hacked at some point in the last decade and I had to upload a bunch of pics and ID stuff to get it back with a 48 hr review time or something…

Ooooooor… Just made a new account.

There was less important dt on that account then there was me giving Meta my latest update on where I am in life now.

Edit: Actually, just remembered, that old account a friend got my phone and changed all my details. I still get happy birthday messages in April because family get alerted, know I don’t have FB, and send an SMS. No, I was not born in April. I assume I’m still in a “It’s complicated” relationship as well.

Upload a random selfie?

“We welcome service animals in our stores, but it is unacceptable to expose members of the public to potential danger.”

Don’t they sell guns and ammo?

Yeah, this is what I end up doing. SQL does all the heavy lifting, and python or M usually doing the rest. Though M can be soooo slow.

God, I’m so over SQL.

It’s great, but it is so old and shows it. Feels like 99% of my SQL queries are just cheese.

Works though, and quick.

An AI that lacks intelligence is only ever going to do what mathematics does. If predictive mathematics were accurate, we’d literally be able to see the future and we wouldn’t call it “predictive”.

“Hallucinations” has always been an inaccurate term, but I think it was picked to imply intelligence was there when it never was.

Friend’s colleague needed Excel to, “return the month where the majority of days in the week fall into”. Had Copilot do it and sent it to my friend, apparently impressed by making such a robust looking formula.

The formula:

My friend’s solution a minute later:

I can see it could be slimmed even less, but I assume the table is large so LET is doing performance stuff.

He kinda just looks it too. I know that’s highly assumptions and shallow, but the gaydar has always gone off. Good skin, well-conditioned 80s dad hair, always dressed tidy but a little loose, definitely pays attention to his colours, good clothing combos and shoe choices too…

Like, just the article’s pic, if you didn’t know what Tucker looked like and had to guess who the bigot was in this pic…

I bet he gets around his house in cut-offs because he likes the comfort of shorts but denim is a real man’s material.

I watch the NHL some times and it amazes me how many insurance, car leasing, and drugs ads the US has. And the ads are so weird; they feel like they were made by aliens trying to blend in with humans, so nothing is normal and everyone in the ad is apparently micro-dosing psilocybin.

Yep. I find people that understand what’s actually going on in the back end have much more successful results. They know to introduce their own conditions in the prompt that prevent common or expected failures. The chain can obviously not do this itself as it is not an AI.

I keep saying it for what it is, “genAI” is just Markov chains…AGAIN. And the first chain Markov ever invented was an language model back in ~1904, published in 1905.

Every time in household IT history, people are fooled into thinking tech is doing magic intelligence stuff but it’s just a classic Markov chain. Something that was once done on paper but now ripped through 2025 processors.

In no way does a single algorithm type fit the definition of artificial intelligence. It’s just simple mathematics that can now be done incredibly fast.

All it does is mathematically calculate the likelihood of what’s next based on how things occur in the data it’s been given. It’s prediction to generate is just weighted values and the quality is entirely dependent on the historical data it’s referencing.

What normally comes after A? According to data, B does 76% of the time. Choose B. What comes after B? C 78% of the time but S follows AB 98% of the time. Choose S. Be able to do this thousands of times a second aaaaand, bingo. Perceived “intelligence”.

That’s literally it.

Why is genAI so bad at its job? Because you can never get 100% for everything and the chain can steer down a wrong path based on a single mistake in one of the links. It’s why we call it probability and not fact. But there is no intelligence there to problem solve itself, just deeper and deeper data validation checks on the linear chain to prevent low quality routes. Checks done using Markov’s same fundamentals.

Yeah, that’s the attitude I took. If I don’t care, it can’t be that bad.

Honestly, the vast majority of reports come from one’s ego going “tink” because someone tossed a pebble at it. Rarely did a report actually have serious merit to it.

I’ve always been of the opinion that if you need a mod to sort something out for you, it’s not the nook and cranny of the internet for you and just move onto one of the infinite more. The only things that should be reported and actioned on are those that threaten the nook and/or cranny itself—malicious shit against it’s integrity, basically.

Regardless, I never want to mod an online social space ever again. Oh! I did two, but the other one was just a forum and it too had it’s 1 in 200 bad eggs.

I was a moderator once. I didn’t want to be, but was asked to help. It’s incredibly boring, unfulfilling, and a chore. You are the supervisor of the playground during recess and there’s always some moron eating sand or a fight breaking out over which dinosaur is best.

Though, if there’s concise rules, job’s easier.

“Miiiiiss! Daniels being mean again!”

“I don’t care you little shits.” Taps rule board and sips more wine from a World’s Best Teacher mug

And so letting others know vs. the company is more proactive.

Yeah, it’ll be cool when AI is more publicly accessible though.

Until then we can keep playing pretend with Markov chains…again. But at least we’re a bit faster at running them now than back in 1905.

…why would a professional whatever make a remark for technology doing their job for them and making their career redundant?

Farmer, coder, driver, whatever. “I can’t wait for the bots to do this” is not a common muttering. Except maybe if in the c-suite…

This is another fine example of where assumptions get you no where on the internet. My job isn’t coding but it requires knowing to do it well. If I exit the job market, as per your request, I cannot be replaced by a coder. Believe it or not, most jobs that require a coding skillset are not about coding. Crazy, right? 😲