But did you double check what it generated about the sources? These LLMs are vastly prone to lying about things. Which is why I feel like they’re nearly completely useless.

If I have to treat everything it says as a lie, especially if it won’t source or substantiate its claims, then what good is it? If I have to manually verify everything, I may as well look it up myself.

It’s shitty moves like this that have me feeling deeply grateful about the fediverse. It’s NOT without its myriad of problems, but how lucky are we? We’re insulated from all this bullshit.

Mastodon is every bit as good (and better) as it was when I started using it in 2018. Can the same be said for Reddit, Instagram, Facebook or YouTube? Absolutely the fuck not.

Its amazing to me how consistently the shitty behaviours of these billionaire techbro oligarchs impact disabled or marginalised people… even when the point isnt to directly shit on them. Its fucking vile.

I honestly think many (too many, but certainly not all! I am one) programmers are some of the immoral, ethically spurious people around in the 21st century.

Fuck yeah. As a butch transfem, couldn’t agree more. I think for me the idea of surgery is less around conformity, and more around… Idk, the experience of having different genitals would definitely feel more in alignment. That being said, I’m also trying to find more ways to… idk, embody the “femminine” nature of having a girl dick too.

Christ, thanks so much for this reminder. You commenting this reminded me about how I used to talk about my “lack of dysphoria” before I medically transitioned. No matter what I could say about things, I could never deny that I’d press that magic button in an instant to change myself over. Changing my genitals to a vulva feels literally no different, and I think that should tell me something quite important.

I think the problem I’ve got with taking the leap is: I’ve got several quite serious chronic illnesses. One of them is hEDS, which can make pain relief very difficult and complicated. With my POTS, I also worry about post surgery complications and being out of work for too long. That and, the money would be so much, which I sorely need to make my life livable and accessible.

That being said, I will be preparing all I can to make it possible if I do choose to in future. Worse case scenario? I have a nice chunk of savings in a couple decades time.

I think thats the other thing… Although this smacks of my feelings pre hormones: “what if i hate tits? I’m only gonna know once I have them… Shit!”

I have them now. They’re fucking incredible and I love having them. Maybe that should tell me something.

I soooo feel you on the bulging!!

So bottom surgery in my country is… complicated. I think you can get it done privately, but its prohibitively expensive. We have free state provided healthcare here, but they rarely provide GRS.

I’ve heard about this!! It’s something I’m thinking about as a potential option.

I love how they played such a big part in destroying people’s attention spans TO engage in longer form content… only to have to enshittify their own platform to solve the problem that they helped create

If you like funky Argentine funky indie pop? Bandalos Chinos are the dogs bollocks

Yes but, if you do that you don’t get to completely give away your thinking faculties to the magic misinformation machine 🤡

Thanks, I absolutely hate it.

Badge of fucking honor.

Plus we’ve had contract phones for decades without the manufacturer putting yet more dead switches in our devices… Do we really want more of this shit?

Definitely. While I agree with rolling back some of these tech first policies, I think we need to be focusing on HOW it’s used.

I worry that disabled kids will be caught in the line of fire, too.

Say this stupid bullshit was true: you’re spending so much time baby minding the fucking thing that you’re not saving time?!? I don’t doubt that slop generators can code. But can they generate good code AND save you time? No.

It’s a weird one for me, because it feels inevitable anyway, and I’m at the point where I just wanna get it over with 🫠

I just don’t agree with the sentiment about how FOSS devs need it because theyre usually one man shows.

I’m a FOSS dev, and yes, I’m a one gal show. But, I was doing this before AI and I’ll be doing it the same way long after. I don’t want a so called “tool” that’s going to hallucinate security problems into my work.

Huge thanks for all your incredible work on this!!

What about the word “butch” in your view is exclusive to people with uterus’s? Because doesn’t that mean that trans women (by this definition) can only feel good in certain clothing? Is butchness defined entirely by people with uterus’s enjoying men’s clothing?