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I find it equally fascinating that in order to get anywhere near an integrated computing experience in 2024 we apparently need constant recording and transformer models. No structured file systems, no permission models, no shared stores, no capabilities - just firehose the display output and hope for the best. 11 comments
  @sarahjamielewis We could certainly get a simpler & more capable solution to the problem Recall addresses with modern Computer Science by essentially reimplementing the entire OS to use CRDTs, but who's got the time for that? The next best thing would be filesystems with efficient backups... Like BTRFS!   @sarahjamielewis it's infuriating to me that every operating system is full of APIs for rendering text to the screen, only for us to take pictures of that text and scrape it back out with OCR.  @tedmielczarek @sarahjamielewis definitely, definitely not trying to defend Microsoft at all here but it does seem the only rational response to a world which birthed Electron apps. if only they used their near monopoly power to actually innovate actually futuristic operating systems and not this mundane dystopia bullshit. shame  @sarahjamielewis to be fair, this feature where you looked at ugly fish a while ago but don't remember where and then just type "ugly fish" and it gives you the site if you're lucky seems hard to obtain in any other way. Not saying it's worth it, though.  @hllizi @sarahjamielewis I’m having trouble understanding how what you’re describing is different from browser history @sidereal @sarahjamielewis funny, I asked the same question yesterday. Answer is that it may well find the ugly fish even that wasn't part of the text but just depicted. That at least was the pitch in a propaganda video by MS, where the ugly fish was a brown bag.  @sarahjamielewis They've finally invented a black box that produces moderately appropriate outputs as long as you shove literally everything into them first. Apparently that's good enough to supersede the entire field of Computer science, not to mention all human knowledge and skill, at least, according to Capitalists. |
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@sarahjamielewis Yep. The whole point of these AI tools is that they "think" for us, "organize" our information, make inferences and send out agents to do our bidding. And we become useless blobs of flesh and bone and blood.