2023-12-17

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2023-12-17 Sun 09:53

@bitprophet never got into Evernote mostly because it’s been a tale of gradually increasing disappointment from my friends for oh lord at least ten years.

hackers.town: 2023-12-17 Sun 11:52

Messing about with ollama and it’s actually kind of enjoyable. Helps that there’s no server latency while running local.

hackers.town: 2023-12-17 Sun 11:58

Took me about 30 seconds to get in a disagreement about reality with llama2. This is less promising.

hackers.town: 2023-12-17 Sun 12:51

Trying to use these various local chatbot models like an agent and so far that’s not happening. It might be useful as a piece of a bigger system, and I’ll probably keep puttering with that in mind.

But — if you already have Taskwarrior and know how to use it, how useful would a chatbot task manager really be?

hackers.town: 2023-12-17 Sun 15:59

It’s not much #knitting but it’s more than I’ve done for a while. Working up a scarf with a simple lace pattern kinda getting lost in the chunk. It’ll be fun to fidget with though.

hackers.town: 2023-12-17 Sun 18:41

I have been informed that it is profoundly unfair that we ate dinner before them.

Bouncy Dog, Jumpy Dog

hackers.town: 2023-12-17 Sun 20:07

@CyberneticForests Been thinking about all the spectrum of vulnerable to non-functioning IoT devices we have around, and not particularly looking forward to the AI-driven versions of those.

hackers.town: 2023-12-17 Sun 23:11

I suspect a few of my friends will enjoy this.

This is longtime Python developer Tim Allen at a Django conference, not the actor. Talking about hype curves of the last few decades. A trip down bad memory lane.

Don’t Buy the A.I. Hype with Tim Allen - YouTube