IT/Tech

An interesting (and slightly controversial due to basically being opt-out by default instead of opt-in, but apparently this is fixed) project is back. Holos Discover is a A #Fediverse search engine that uses standard #ActivityPub federation. It now follows you like any account, respects indexable flags, #nobot, #noindex, locked accounts. Deletions, edits, blocks are processed instantly through ActivityPub.
You have full control. Block it, mention it with “unfollow”, or disable indexing in your settings.

It’s still early days so the index will take some time to build up.

A great article by Ed Zitron explaining the stupidity behind the current push for Genrative AI/LLMs into our everyday lives and organisations:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

The main tech companies are sinking tens of billions of dollars on the success of generative AI. But what if it isn’t the next big thing? What if it’s failing in almost every way? AI companies burn obscene amounts of money with little return. How long can that last for? AIs dispense useless and sometimes dangerous advice. A recent study showed that tech companies have run out of new training data to improve their AI models. If AI is really so costly, unreliable, and limited, what happens to the industry that has bet so big on it? And what happens to the economies depending on the stock prices of that industry (and your pension)?