While I agree with what youbsaid it also took me like ten years before my first DS9 rewatch so I’ll withhold judgement for a while

dare I ask… gritty? If anything the new series (except Picard arguably) were a hyper hug fest compared to TOS, DS9 and Voyager

I love this, because it’s exactly the same sentiment “fans” when TNG premiered.

Yeah I thouroughly enjoyed this new generation helmed by Kurtzman but I’m also ok with letting it sit, and not trying to force the next MCU or whatever.

LLMs can quickly produce outputs that can fool people into thinking a human wrote it, but they cannot write “good” code for the same reason they cannot write good prose, and that’s because they have no understanding of what the code means. The only thing they are rewarded with in training is “are humans able to tell that this thing wasn’t made by a human?” and if the answer is “no” it gets it’s digital training cookie. That’s all LLMs “know”.

So getting back to your question, there is no reason LLMs can’t be used to assist a programmer, or even one day quickly create bespoke software for single use/short term purposes. But a project being FOSS kind of definitionally implies collaboration to ensure reliability which is very difficult when LLMs are used, since again, they don’t have an understanding of what specific code actually means.

IMO anyone ascribing ethics or morals to LLMs (not its use but the technology itself), even in a negative light is grossly exaggerating their capabilities, often unintentionally. LLMs do not have will, they cannot develop a will. They are not curious, they cannot become curious, they cannot understand the world. They do not understand English or Javascript.

How did WTC7 burn and collapse when the only thing that hit it that day was a massive skyscraper? 🤔

But LLMs can’t update databases?

Thank goodness for Cory for banging this drum, I’m so tired of having the same frustrating discussion with people who are actually smart.

You know more than me

Look into NGINX Proxy manager and DuckDNS

Portainer has worked well for me but it has so much that I don’t need or use. It looks like Dockhand has a Home Assistant integration which is nice, so I’ll check that out thanks for the rec.

Oh yeah, to be clear I don’t think Freakonomics is worth listening to, but trying to draw a link between the views of a single host and community funded media at large is not honest.

Attempting to discredit trusted orgs like NPR is a long beloved conservative tactic

You’re falsely linking two different things, Freakonomics never connected the superpredator myth to abortion, just crime.

It’s also disingenuous to imply that Stephen Dubner (a libertarian) could speak for the views of every single NPR affiliate. It doesn’t work that way.

I watched the Price is Right! It was actually really fun and they had a lot more little Trek details than I would have suspected.

I’m a crypto-Trekkie; if you walked into my home and really looked closely you’d only see multiple starship models, action figures shirts, lego sets and a handful of props. Not a single ceramic stoneware baking dish (unless we’re counting mugs and decorative plates in which case there are dozens).

Same and same! I don’t think it’s fully sunk in for a lot of Linux die-hards the game changer that is immutability/flatpaks.

I spent my retirement to buy five as an investment