Tue 29 October 2024

In Part I, I discussed the state of "Native Messaging" services in FOSS Android forks/builds, and why RCS might never be coming to these OSes.

What does that leave us with? Well, SMS and MMS, of course, but using what client?

Unfortunately, there is (of course) no one good …

Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Non-religious post Polemic Productivity

Mon 28 October 2024

Now that I've piqued your curiosity with an reference to a children's book I've never actually read (because I'm an alien, apparently), let me pause the narrative train by carefully defining some terms:

• FOSS: Free and Open Source Software
• ROMs [sic]: Custom builds of the Android mobile operating system from …

Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Non-religious post Polemic Productivity

Sat 02 December 2023

LLMs (Large Language Models, colloquially referred to as "A.I.") are perfect...

Perfect exemplars and the very embodiment of the brain-rot of our society.

Much like so many loud voices in society today, the LLM is incapable of discerning reliable from unreliable sources, identifying the origin and validity of a …

Category: Ethics Tagged: Computing Ethics Life Non-religious post Philosophy Polemic