Mastodon, in my experience, is unequivocally left-leaning. People that use mastodon (/the Fediverse) want more people to use it, to help free us from centralised tech overlords. But, apparently, there now needs to be some gatekeeping because people are seeing things they don’t like? The irony.
Author Archives: Phil
This somehow passed me by… apparently Israel’s own records show that at least two-thirds of them (46,200) were civilians. Absolutely lunacy.
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
Not my choice for family pizza ‘n’ film night…
It was just about bearable. Unusually, I don’t think there was much wrong with the flim. I’d even go so far to say that the lead was good and Courtney and Teller made genuinely hissable villains.
But the souce material is pretty lame. It’s all very laboured and predictable.
★★½
Always found it weird that your Steam wishlist appears under the Store menu rather than {username} menu. It’s MY wishlist after all. I guess this is one of those things that gets A|B tested and I was on the losing side #ux
This happened to someone I know who worked a charity. Reckon it’s rife in the public sector. Senior leaders protecting themselves rather than the organisation.
Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.
I’ve been using an LLM for support while I set-up a new Linux environment. It gives me a sounding board and, I hope, some idea of good/best practice.
It also gives me commands, with most of which I am already familiar, so I am happy to copy/paste… BUT, even in a single conversation, I can see it deviating for it’s own suggestions, or making subtle tweaks to commands it already advised me to run and not always explaining why.
It’s clearly not building a holistic “mental” picture of what we’re trying to achieve. It keeps assuring me it is, but it is evidently not actually able to do that. Maybe this is demonstrated by the way it often regenerates ALL the advice it has previously given when asked for clarification on an apparent caveat. This is when the unexplained tilts can creep in.
Knowing a little of how an LLM works, I think I can understand exactly why that is.
With all that in mind, I can completely understand how it can’t reliably develop an actual code base!
It is pretty great at tedious shit like combining and transforming two simple JSON datasets, though!
“extremes are pushed, nuance is out and polarisation is in”
Ain’t that a fact? What makes it worse is that this is both sides of the political spectrum. On one side we have people refusing to use simple trans pronouns. On the other, we have people saying we should always use preferred pronouns (of any nature), which is equally ridiculous.
PhilUnless this REALLY picks up in the final two episodes, I’m baffled by this review. I can’t wait to get it over with. The plot is “Spooks” levels of “espionage” nonsense. Thompson’s character, while likeable and against type, is hardly transformational. Whereas, Ruth Wilson playing an e...
It did not pick up. It continued to be mostly ordinary and more than a bit daft.
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
I made a *monkey user script that simply hides the #related sidebar on YouTube. I use YouTube for ambient noise (like this video) to help my concentration but (ironically), I often get distracted by the sidebar content when I go to switch it on #adhd