I've been piholing everything. Duckduckgo can feel clunky at times and having more than one search engine is a blessing. Duckduckgo is for obscure direct searches where as Google for me is the popular enriched searches.

I'm for reciprocal tarifs. I'm just not for the politics and narcisism of the government.

I don't use Facebook except for messenger. Not for me but for family. I keep getting sussy videos on my feed, I can keep blocking or saying I don't want them. They still pop up. Facebook is just full bait videos to try and get engagement.

Facebook could've evolved but it made bad decisions, alot of bad decisions.

Their decisions couldn’t have been that bad, as you are still an active user.

No. I would say they got my family hooked using it. If someone could produce a facebook alternative I would be satisfied.

I mean google was always an ad company and search engine. SOOOO hasn't changed much.

Google can still (albeit with enormous difficulty) die as a company. If LLM search eclipses SEO and Gemini doesn't work out they're in trouble.

I'm actually very much for another level of sites for AI to parse metadata without overloading them. This is because metadata is much easier on sites than being flooded. You can often serve it as static content making it faster to load and faster to process.

I am not in the sams context. As we shift in job roles lots of people will get uprooted and it will have a negative impact on life in a general sense.

Similar to any industrial advancement in human history.

AI cough LLMs don't discover things they simply surface information that already existed.

You're assuming there aren't "new things" latent inside currently existing information. That's definitely false, particulary for math/physics.

But it's worth thinking more about this. What gives humans the ability to discover "new things"? I would say it's due to our interaction with the universe via our senses, and not due to some special powers intrinsic to our brains that LLMs lack. And the thing is, we can feed novel measurements to LLMs (or, eventually, hook them up to camera feeds to "give them senses")

No it isn't false. If it is new it is novel, novel because it is known to some degree and two other abstracted known things prove the third. Just pattern matching connecting dots.

The vast majority of work by mathematicians uses n abstracted known things to prove something that is unproven. In fact, there is a view in philosophy that all math consists only of this.

Between you and me telnet is not dead. Sometimes I use it to probe a port to verify it is working.

You might wanna use netcat for that instead [1]. Or, for example, socat [2]. Netcat has been around for a long, long time now.

[1] nc (1) - arbitrary TCP and UDP connections and listens

[2] socat (1) - Multipurpose relay (SOcket CAT)

That's not really telnet. Yeah, it's using the same client, but the server and underlying protocol are what's relevant here.

The modern replacement for telnet used in the "probe a port" fashion is nc/netcat.

Yep it is why the work getting over the threshold is just as long as it was without AI.

Someone mentioned it is a force multiplier I don't disagree with this, it is a force multiplier in the mundane and ordinary execution of tasks. Complex ones get harder and hard for it where humans visualize the final result where AI can't. It is predicting from input but it can't know the destination output if the destination isn't part of the input.

My opinion use the database that is the most compatible with the software you are currently using. Don't shoehorn in a database that is less compatible.