This has been on my radar for a while, and I keep putting it off. How are you liking it?

Grafana's Loki sounded incredibly useful and performant, with the added benefit of reducing storage requirements significantly under some situations.

The logical fallacy here being that, based on that context alone, you should care because you will have something to hide in the future. Saying you have nothing to hide is always used in the context of one's sense of guilt, or lack thereof, based on past actions. A counterargument would then be to ask why you should be allowed to hide your future wrongs.

For many, the subject has nothing to do with that. It's about not wanting to be monetized without consent. There's also benefits in the form of protection against identity theft or social engineering. For others, the simple right to fundamental personal privacy itself is important - it's about not having all of one's life's details on public display.

Also known as "none of your goddamn business."

As a tangent, because it's now stuck in my head and needs expression - the more thought you give to the problems introduced by technology that blur or step over this line, the more you realize how much harder it's becoming to prevent outcomes where privacy is lost.

Only engaging AI under tightly controlled circumstances is one thing; having it in the background perceiving everything you say and do on your desktop is a very different conversation. No matter what assurances are given that your privacy is protected, almost every situation like it that's arisen since the advent of personal computers has resulted in a loss of control through duplicity, intrusion, sabotage, bad design, or floundering integrity.

I feel this. The most disgusting thing I've ever had to do was clean my chain-smoking parents' house after their passing so we could put it up for sale. I can vividly imagine what the inside of a smoker's PC must look like, just based on that experience.

Minimal issues here. Set up Arch, install nVidia, add build hooks before next kernel update, carry on.

This is the most insidious conundrum related to AI usage. At the end of the day, a LLM's top priority is to ensure that your question is answered in a way that satisfies that model. The accuracy of its answers are a secondary concern. If forced to choose between making up BS so it can have a response that looks right versus admitting it doesn't have enough information to answer, it can and often will choose the former. Thus the "hallucination" problem was born.

The chance of getting your answer lightly sprinkled with made up stuff is disturbingly high. This transfers the cognitive load of the AI user from "what is the answer" to "I must repeatedly go verify everything in this answer because I can't trust it".

Not an insurmountable obstacle, and they will likely solve it sooner rather than later, but AI right now is arguably the perfect extension of the modern internet - take absolutely everything you read with at least a grain of salt... and keep a pile of salt cubes close by.

Me, either.

Well, KaliDOS instead of Xbox, but still...

As a Texan, I feel I have the right to ask this very important question...

Has anyone else noticed how the symmetry of the inner and outer shape of a cowboy hat is strongly reminiscent of an inverted toilet bowl?

Just curious.

When a small but dedicated group of vocal people started unironically and emphatically believing the planet was a pancake, I lost a significant portion of my lingering reserves of hope for the future of mankind.

Extremist politics and all the associated mindsets have long since jumped a row of sharks in my mind by comparison.

Real nerds use Ctrl [ instead so they don't leave home row.