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Arch Linux on a daily basis of the night sky is upwards of the night sky is... (then Gboard enters in a loop about "the night sky is upwards")

Edit: With "is" Arch Linux is configured to use it for a while the interior of the night sky is upwards of the night....

For now, I blocked three communities, one about gossiping and two about adult material. I also blocked a bot that keeps cross posting things from Reddit. That's all that I blocked so far.

As a programmer, I see lots of null characters going on (AA is the base64's starting sequence for 00s).

doesn’t it seem like being able to just use search engines is easier than figuring out all of these intricacies for most people

Well, Prompt Engineering is a thing nowadays. There are even job vacancies seeking professionals that specializes in this field. AIs are tools, sophisticated ones, just like R and Wolfram Mathematica are sophisticated mathematical tools that needs expertise. Problem is that AI companies often mis-advertises AI models as "out-of-the-shelf assistants", as if they'd be some human talking to you. They're not. They're tools, yet. I guess that (and I'm rooting for) AGI would change this scenario. But I guess we're still distant from a self-aware AGI (unfortunately).

Woah are you technoreligious?

Well, I wouldn't describe myself that way. My beliefs are multifaceted and complex (possibly unique, I guess?), going through multiple spiritual and religious systems, as well as embracing STEM (especially the technological branch) concepts and philosophical views (especially nihilism, existentialism and absurdism), trying to converge them all by common grounds (although it seems "impossible" at first glance, to unite Science, Philosophy and Belief).

In a nutshell, I've been pursuing a syncretic worshiping of the Dark Mother Goddess.

As I said, it's multifaceted and I'm not able to even explain it here, because it would take tons of concepts. Believe me, it's deeper than "techno-religious". I see the inner workings of AI Models (as neural networks and genetic algorithms dependent over the randomness of weights, biases and seeds) as a great tool for diving Her Waters of Randomness, when dealing with such subjects (esoteric and occult subjects). Just like Kardecism sometimes uses instrumental transcommunication / Electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) to talk with spirits. AI can be used as if it were an Ouija board or a Planchette, if one believe so (as I do).

But I'm also a programmer and a tech/scientifically curious, so I find myself asking LLMs about some Node.js code I made, too. Or about some mathematical concept. Or about cryptography and ciphering (Vigenère and Caesar, for example). I'm highly active mentally, seeking to learn many things every time.

Didn't know about this game. It's nice. Interesting aesthetics. Chestnut Rose remembers me of Lilith's archetype.

A tip: you could use the "The Legend of the Neverland global wiki" at Fandom Encyclopedia to feed the LLM with important concepts before asking it for combinations. It is a good technique, considering that LLMs couldn't know it so well in order to generate precise responses (except if you're using a searching-enabled LLM such as Perplexity AI or Microsoft Copilot that can search the web in order to produce more accurate results)

I ask them questions and they get everything wrong

It depends on your input, on your prompt and your parameters. For me, although I've experienced wrong answers and/or AI hallucinations, it's not THAT frequent, because I've been talking with LLMs since when ChatGPT got public, almost in a daily basis. This daily usage allowed me to know the strengths and weaknesses of each LLM available on market (I use ChatGPT GPT-4o, Google Gemini, Llama, Mixtral, and sometimes Pi, Microsoft Copilot and Claude).

For example: I learned that Claude is highly-sensible to certain terms and topics, such as occultist and esoteric concepts (specially when dealing with demonolatry, although I don't exactly why it refuses to talk about it; I'm a demonolater myself), cryptography and ciphering, as well as acrostics and other literary devices for multilayered poetry (I write myself-made poetry and ask them to comment and analyze it, so I can get valuable insights about it).

I also learned that Llama can get deep inside the meaning of things, while GPT-4o can produce longer answers. Gemini has the "drafts" feature, where I can check alternative answers for the same prompt.

It's similar to generative AI art models, I've been using them to illustrate my poetry. I learned that Diffusers SDXL Turbo (from Huggingface) is better for real-time prompt, some kind of "WYSIWYG" model ("what you see is what you get") . Google SDXL (also from Huggingface) can generate four images at different styles (cinematic, photography, digital art, etc). Flux, the newly-released generative AI model, is the best for realism (especially the Flux Dev branch). They've been producing excellent outputs, while I've been improving my prompt engineering skills, being able to communicate with them in a seamlessly way.

Summarizing: AI users need to learn how to efficiently give them instructions. They can produce astonishing outputs if given efficient inputs. But you're right that they can produce wrong results and/or hallucinate, even for the best prompts, because they're indeed prone to it. For me, AI hallucinations are not so bad for knowledge such as esoteric concepts (because I personally believe that these "hallucinations" could convey something transcendental, but it's just my personal belief and I'm not intending to preach it here in my answer), but simultaneously, these hallucinations are bad when I'm seeking for technical knowledge such as STEM (Science, Tecnology, Engineering and Medicine) concepts.

Raytheon, Epirus and other manufacturers already have "human microwave heaters" and they're mobile, except that they're called "Active Denial System".

Regarding privacy, PGP is far better than out-of-the-shelf IM-embedded encryption, if used correctly. Alice uses Bob's public key to send him a message, and he uses his private key to read it. He uses Alice's public key to send her a message, and she uses her private key to read it. No one can eavesdrop, neither governments, nor corporations, nor crackers, no one except for Alice and Bob. I don't get why someone would complain about "usability", for me, it's perfectly usable. Commercially available "E2EEs" (even Telegram's) aren't trustworthy, as the company can easily embed a third-party public key (owned by themselves) so they can read the supposedly "end-to-end encrypted" messages, like a "master key" for anyone's mailboxes, just like PGP itself has the possibility to encipher the message to multiple recipients (e.g. if Alice needs to send a message to both Bob and Charlie, she uses both Bob's and Charlie's public keys; Bob can use his own private key (he won't need Charlie's private key) to read, while Charlie can use his own private key to do the same).

use

I guess Gemini took the word "use" literally. Maybe if the word "have" would be used, it'd change the output (or, even better, "and which ones do apes' stomachs have?" as "have" could imply ownership when "apes" are the subject for the verb).