From: punditster@gmail.com
On 1/16/2026 6:00 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> 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.
>
Nick is unemployed, Boomer! I'm trying to get him a position in Austin
as a programmer to make some money to feed his baby.
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