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AI is just slop, it doesn't work, so don't use it

Actual Experts
seems to work pretty well

https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3myjcs6g7zc2q

#AI #LLM #Priors #EchoChamber

what is marriage or a long term relationship ?

my spouse has a little thing to for milk for coffee - a creamer or cream pitcher

and she loves it, cause it was mom's

thing is, it is a crappy creamer, cause it is almost impossible to pour the milk without drip

but god has given me the wisdom to be silent for 30 years

many times over the last 15 years, I have found a wikipedia article that isn't that good, and then found a website, often for profit, that is better on the same subject

eg compare the not very good wiki with the better one from the for profit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority

https://www.keyfactor.com/blog/certificate-chain-of-trust/

I have no idea what a CA or trusted certificate is, so I asked google

these two URLs might charitably be described as poorly written and unhelpful
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-cs/certificate-trust

https://securew2.com/blog/certificate-authority

this is also not very good
https://www.entrust.com/blog/2019/03/difference-between-a-public-and-private-trust-certificate

but this one is pretty good
https://www.keyfactor.com/blog/certificate-chain-of-trust/

and it is better then the wiki article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority

Update: Okay, now I better understand what the heck is going on. Thank you for patiently explaining this.
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Who wants to explain to us non-tech folks what the whole php vulnerability means for us? We keep hearing that this affects 60 to 70% of the internet. Okay. But, like what exactly? Are we talking websites, applications? Can you give examples? And what are users supposed to be doing about it? Pretend I materialized here from 1990.

#php

stolen from bluesky
so so true

RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:awb53yhfco464fm6qz4a32zi/post/3myfd6l4t222j

IMO, a crappy effing blog post from streets blog

why ?

cause this (screenshot in reply is only way way below the fold

…Acton’s campaign provided extensive documentation, from court records & contemporary reports in local media, that corroborated her account that she & her brother were removed from their mother’s home after her second husband, Cledith Arthur, was arrested & indicted in 1978 & charged with #rape of “Amy Stearns being less than thirteen (13) years of age.”

The arrest came after Acton’s biological father, Gerald Stearns, made a report to police.

#VoteBlue #midterms #AmyActon #OHpol #USpol

A new report by @etany.org is out recommending that IBX use automated light metro technology. https://www.etany.org/reports/ibx-automation

story on teh boston globe website

charged with vehicular homicide
R.I. Democratic Party chair resigns after husband indicted in $20 million fraud scheme

I am pretty sure no one here will post about this story, but if this had been the GOP party chair, everyone would be chortling

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/20/metro/ri-democratic-party-chair-calls-to-resign-husband-indicted-fraud-charges/

I don't know much about computers, but far as I can tell, based on a bluesky post and my own "research"

An iphone 17 pro is about 2,500 GFLOPS

which makes the iphone17 ,already outdated, about 1,000 times faster then the CRAY2, which was the fastest supercomputer in the world when it was released in 1985

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117473875057831588

Do people still say "cause that is where the money is " as the tag to a meme ?

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@glitzersachen/116850558073277195

this post is the perfect setup for "story of Mel"

that feeling when you have a great interaction with a real human here and then you go to their timeline and hte 1st post shows they have a total lack of understanding about US politics

which is a complex way of saying we are all human and we all have flaws

@emmadavidson interestingly enough, the Stanford prison experiment was totally faked. The organizer wanted to prove a specific point so that he could get status, and gave instructions to each participant on how to behave. It was largely believed by the public (bc marketing) but eventually word got out that it was all fake. The information leak was barely published, and it remains used as an example of a real experiment to this day. The more you know! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31380664/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/117473722377820579

Call me a nattering nabob of negativism, but I can't believe that Mississippi will elect a black guy as a US Senator

RE: https://datasci.social/@mszll/117466758878379942

me, with snark knob at 11

based on the images, this course would be a lot better if a collaboration with an artist

Consumer reports used to be the only unbiased reliable source of the price of a new car

now they just sent me a car buying email that is just spam

sigh

or I think it is from CR; maybe the email is fake, dunno

RE: https://social.coop/@fraggle/117463508266590259

for a certain kind of nerd ie me, this is so much fun !