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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t know much about cybersecurity but from what I understand about how LLM models work, there was always going to be a limit to what they can actually do. They have no understanding; they’re just giant probability engines, so the ‘hallucinations’ that happen aren’t something solvable, they are inherent in the design of the models. And it’s only going to get worse, as training data is going to be more and more difficult to find without being poisoned by current llm output.





  • I can’t wrap my head around how it would ever be better to have a landlord than to own the dwelling yourself.

    There’s only two situations that I can think of, and one of them kind of only exists on paper.

    One is that some people genuinely want to be a bit more nomadic and not be as tied to one place. Getting to the point of signing a lease does take time, but not nearly as much time as closing on a property, so some folks want to rent because it provides them a bit more freedom of movement. I tend to believe this group is very small compared to the genealogy population.

    The other is that people will say “oh when you rent you aren’t responsible for maintenance/ repairs/ upkeep because you don’t own the property so you don’t have to deal with those things.” This is true on paper I think, but a lot of places allow lease agreements to shift some of that responsibility back on to the renter, and I’m sure most renters will have plenty of experiences where something breaks and then they have to fight with their landlord for ages and then nothing gets done so they end up just saying fuck it and fix the damn thing themselves so they can just go on living their lives.


  • Obligatory reminder that saying the USPS has “struggled financially in recent years” is straight up sanewashing misinformation. They used to be one of the only public services to actually be profitable (not that i think that should matter; government shouldn’t have any kind of profit motive) and the only reason they aren’t technically still is because Republicans have been trying to privatize and ratfuck USPS for decades. A few years ago they passed a law requiring the USPS to fully fund retirement pensions for the next like 70 years, thus on paper the service now looks like it’s in the red.