— A response to Drew Lyton’s “The Future is NOT Self-Hosted” （Disclaimer: This blog post was drafted with the help of a language model, but all opinio
    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      I appreciate that they mentioned it.

      I’m not particularly good at writing, I can understand why someone would ask an LLM to help them clarify their ideas. The intent here is obviously to improve their content rather than as a crutch to feed us shit. Whether it’s better than just writing this personally I don’t know.

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      Are we at war with em dashes now? —? I’m starting to feel like the only person who actually knows how to type them on a keyboard.

        • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          6 days ago

          It’s sad, because for most people the use-case for an m-dash is relatively narrow—a parenthetic interjection relevant to the topic (but not sufficiently off-topic for brackets), and needing a subtle call to authority—it mostly popped up in academic or pseudo intellectual non-fiction, or in faulknerian ponderous fiction, but also as a hapless crutch for endlesss neurodivergent layers of qualification.

          So I am going to claim disability discrimination about this brutal and unjust sudden boycott, on behalf of crew #adhd.

          Edit: shits and giggles

          • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            My main point is: you need to understand and play this game of tango.

            Very true, and good point. The average technology consumer has no clue of what is going on behind the pretty pictures. I don’'t say that to denigrate them. It’s a lot to digest. If you hit the average Joe with a barrage of information and stuff he needs to stop doing right this minute, he’s going to think you’re a bit paranoid and perhaps a touch mental… message not received.

        • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          They are one of several signs of LLM writing. That said if you’ve always used them then you do you

          Not the person you replied to but allow me to chime in: I’ve been using em dashes for decades and I will not stop using them because AI has started playing with them—no more than I will stop writing because AI can write too ;)

        • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          You’re not getting downvoted for the LLM thing. You’re getting downvoted for doubling down on a stupid argument. Em dashes – and en dashes for that matter – have legitimate uses in the English language. One symptom does not make a diagnosis. English is barely a respectable language in the first place. Dumbing it down even further to satisfy your preconceptions is, simply, stupid.

            • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              6 days ago

              Anti-intellectualism as a defence. Nice. Abandon grammar and take language where an LLM can’t follow. Surely we’ll be able to tell a text written by a human from one written by a machine if the human writes it like a dumbass, I can’t see anything wrong with that. i mean why even use proper punctuation and capitalization an ai wouldnt write sumthin like dis isnnnt it better you can tell a human wrote dis

              Have I made my point?

        • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          I’m not going to let LLMs enstupidify my writing.

          I’ll continue using en dashes and em dashes — they’re very easy to type on macos, iOS, and Android.

  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nlEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    You may self-host your notes or calendar, but you’re forced to either recreate account systems or give up on interoperability.

    I literally just finished setting up Radicale on my old laptop, and now I can access my calendar and contacts through CalDav and CardDav from every single client under the sun. Maybe don’t use AI to write your entire article. I won’t even bother reading the rest of the article if you don’t even get this right.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Caldav, carddav, and email are probably the only easily portable data interops.

      I guess photos can be re-uploaded but that’s not easy.

      Do notes transfer though? I know Outlook, Gmail/GSuite, and Apple all have notes but I don’t know if they transfer.

        • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          Nah, we should strive for it. Imagine how much time I’d have for things like actually touching grass and socializing with real humans if I used an AI to handle all my terminally online activities. It can provide me a daily summary of all the shitposting it did and funny memes it saw and stupid trivia it learned while I do more meaningful stuff with my life.

          It’s a crazy dream, I know.

  • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

    That’s not true. I just need to click the ‘x’ next to the tab. Why should I be bothered with waiting for some JS to be able to read text?