Irdial

Every time I see a headline that contains the word “slams,” I want to slam my head on the table

Google Glass finally making a comeback?

In general I agree with the sentiment of the article, but I think the broader issue is media literacy. When the Internet came about, people had similar reservations about the quality of information, and most of us learned in school how to find quality information online.

LLMs are a tool, and people need to learn how to use them correctly and responsibly. I’ve been using Perplexity.AI as a search engine for a while now, and I think they’re taking the right approach. It employs LLMs at different stages to parse your query, perform web searches on your behalf, and summarize findings. It provides in-text citations as well, which is an opportunity for a media-literate person to confirm the validity of anything important.

Amnesty International provides a FOSS tool to check your mobile backups for traces of the Pegasus Spyware. I’d trust that over a sketchy proprietary app. Link: https://docs.mvt.re.

My thoughts exactly… If there’s a FOSS tool to check, then we’d be talking.

“A quick peek behind the curtain”

I watched “Buy Now!” last night. The editing was a bit campy, but overall it was interesting. I appreciated seeing both iFixit and Framework being represented!