Fantastic, it is always interesting to see how early spring comes to the UK compared with Sweden, I took this photo a few days ago as I was walking home from the office:

And it pops, pops, pops, the AI bubble, the AI bubble.

I saw an article yesterday about how there are still areas where you can’t hunt and eat wild boar in Sweden due to them containing way too much radioactive cesium in the meat.

Hehe, I ment no disrespect towards you, I just find that to be an excellent expression to explain the importance of testing backups to non tech people.

Repeat after me:

“An untested backup does not exist”

Fucking lol.

Well deserved.

Yesterday, I decided to take a long drive through the lovely area Roslagen, an hours drive north of Stockholm.

And I got to drive this lovely road:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/AQu6fdhgqN9z9QdG9

I love roads like these, beautiful and fun.

The ground was covered in windflowers so ir looked fantastic.

I also bought three audio books and finished one:

Adrian Tchaikovsky - Alien Clay

Jack Scalzi - Old Man’s War

Michael Crichton - Congo

I finished Alien Clay, it was a bit too focused on the hardships for me.

I have heard the Old Man’s War is good, and I enjoy Michael Crichton’s works

To be fair, I never saw any fire, and when the bus was evacuated, the driver drove on, probably to a garage or so.

I don’t have one as dramatic as yours, but a month ot so ago, I was on the bus to the office, I had my Bose headphones on and was half asleep with closed eyes.

The bus were stopped, and I suddenly noticed an acrid smell, like burning plastic.

I opened my eyes and saw the interior or the bus filled with a haze of smoke.

The doors were open and the last few other passengers were spontaneously evacuating.

So I knew I had to leave and got out in 5 sec.

Yeah, the whole humanizing of AI is far more dangerous than most people seem to realize.

The fact that an AI can understand human conversations, and even respond like a human, is very dangerous.

One of, if not the largest danger facing humanity by AI is it being seen as an authority or expert on a given subject.

This will bring an era of far less critical thinking and make people far less able to use reason to question what the AI is telling them.

I liken it to the rise of smartphones and tablets replacing actual computer, and “it just works” technology, which sharply reduced the computer skill of the common man.

I know I am shouting doom and disaster about AI, but as someone who strongly value personal skills and abilities, AI deeply worries me for the future.

One of the biggest issues with AI is how it keeps engaging positively with the user regardless of what they are doing.

Has anyone had an AI respond with somwthibf similar to:

“NO! This is a bad idea.”

“STOP! This is dangerous!”

“It sounds like you might need professional mental health, this is normal and not something to be ashamed of”

I am in general an optimist, so I probably painted a rosier picture than we can expect.

You are absolutely correct that it is very hard to distinguish if AI has been used or not.

And as you say, companies and in many cases governments have stopped thinking in longer terms.

It sucks

You’re completely right about 418.

No, you are both wrong, the 418 error is not

“im a teapod”

It is

“I’m a teapot”

Spelling and grammar are important.

With my Lumix S5 I can mount a 600+mm super telephoto lens and can get the same shot from much further away.

What it has become kind of implies some recent change from a historical version of Israel which wasn’t genocidal. There were some very early idealistic views of Zionism in the 1940s, but it has pretty much always been a fascistic ethnostate. Most people just haven’t been aware until recently.

That is a perfectly fair point, I used the word “become” as I wasn’t completely sure on how the behavior developed or if it had been part of Israel from the start.

I can also see the logic of the jewish perspective after the holocaust, as a people they were hunted and exterminated across Europe, and wanted a country of their own to feel safe and secure.

However, that doesn’t give them the right to hunt and exterminate another people, which is where Israel lost the plot.

I love my linnen bedsheets in the summer, expensive as hell, but damn, they have the perfect temp for me.

The more I read about Israel’s behavior, the more anti-zionist I become.

One thing however needs to be made clear however:

Anti-zionism is not antisemitism.

Don’t let the propaganda convince you otherwise.

There are plenty of jews who hate what Israel is doing and what it has become.

If someone accuse me of doing something, I should have a right to reply, this is the same thing.

Someone publicly accuse social media of deliberately being addictive, then the company accused should have the option to answer the accusation in the same way it was fires at them.

That is a perfectly valid criticism of the glass theme, I just think it looks better than the old flat icon theme

They are cheaper and easier to make, which sucks as it will take a long time for companies to spend the money/time ):