From: fedora@fea.st
On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:30:49 +0000, Creon wrote:
>At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:32:11 -0500, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:15:29 -0800, dart200
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On 1/16/26 11:05 AM, Creon wrote:
>> >> At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:31:12 -0800, dart200
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On 1/16/26 6:08 AM, Creon wrote:
>> >>>> At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:46:38 -0500, Noah Sombrero
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:41:16 +0000, Creon
>> >>>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:14:17 -0800, dart200
>> >>>>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> On 1/15/26 7:19 PM, Dude wrote:
>> >>>>>>>> "Apple will not be among the tech leaders in this golden age of
>> >>>>>>>> AI. That
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> more like a fool's golden age
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I'm sure many said the same about the printing press.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> That does not mean that every supposed new tech idea is equivalent
>> >>>>> to the printing press.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> So perhaps a grading system should be devised, with
>> >>>> "printing press" as a unit of measure. Would probably
>> >>>> need to be logarithmic to measure the "quake" left in worldwide
>> >>>> phenomena.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I think generative "AI" is as important as desktop publishing,
>> >>>> but not as important as the development of the worldwide Net.
>> >>>
>> >>> we're still in the dark ages of computing before we've actually
>> >>> decided that cooperating to build total knowledge systems is better
>> >>> than haphazardly doing whatever the fuck we can scrabble together
>> >>> while locked in uncooperative competition with each other...
>> >>>
>> >>> AI as a search tool is mostly just making up for us not doing that,
>> >>> except it's more unreliable because it's prone to just make up shit.
>> >>>
>> >>> just yesterday i was pulled into skimming an article by an AI summary
>> >>> where this logician i follow was quoted saying AI was useless in
>> >>> terms of math development. guy wasn't actually quoted in the article.
>> >>> curiously he did actually say that in a different article... but not
>> >>> the article that was summarized. it's just really fucking bizarre
>> >>> error a human summary would not make.
>> >>>
>> >>> it's still a total toss up to me whether using gemini or googling it
>> >>> with "reddit" after is more useful to me.
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> BTW: guess what I've done with "AI"? You're soaking in it!
>> >>>
>> >>> idk what u mean
>> >>
>> >> I'm reading you with my newsreader that I wrote mostly
>> >> with "vibe coding".
>> >
>> >let me know when it does something that hasn't been implemented 1000
>> >times over by now
>>
>> nntp being one of the simplest internet protocols. A step up maybe
>> from rss.
>
>I haven't implemented NNTP -- I use the Net::NNTP class that comes
>with perl.
>
>I do have an option in the server menu to force ipv4 on a
>connection, which has come in handy for those times that ES
>has had trouble with their ipv6 connection.
>
>Text editing gets tedious when using the app's editor, so I
>need to add the ability to call an external editor.
>
>So many things to do with it. But mostly, it's something
>I fiddle with to keep "in the game" and "semi-sane".
Retire from work, but not from thinking.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<>> to <<>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away
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