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• Post #2537837

  Parts of Cape Town are experiencing severe flooding, and this is hitting poorer areas especially hard. Now is a good time to donate some money, if you have some to spare. Decision paralysis? My suggestions: Gift of the Givers -- they're my go-to organisation for disaster response donations. You can make a general donation or specify where and how you want the money to be used. https://giftofthegivers.org/donate-online/ PEP Stores Lay By Buddy -- not disaster-specific, but a lot of peop...

• Post #2175383

  The LLM word vomit has spread to online cooking instructions, which is exactly what you want to see when researching how to prepare a new kind of seafood without getting food poisoning.

• Post #1770963

  I recently listened to the Well There's Your Problem episode about the Therac-25. It's from a few years ago, so it predates the current moment of mass psychosis in the software world. I immediately wondered what the new "AI"-enabled Therac-25 was going to be, and then I remembered that we already have at least one, and probably more that we don't even know about: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surge...

• Post #936437

  It's Wednesday; time for Firefox to break my workflow again. Want the old search bar back? Set browser.search.widget.new to false.