I find it hilarious and disturbing one chap has blocked most of Scandinavia, Salesforce, Fosstodon, Mastodon.social, the Gentoo Linux community. 1344 instances.
New: X has now for two days blocked all searches for Taylor Swift, one of the world's biggest superstars, during a very newsy weekend for her, because it couldn't stop AI-generated sex images of her and had no other ideas. A blunt and desperate measure to accomplish a basic content-moderation task - made tougher since X, under Elon Musk's leadership, fired 80% of its workers and most of its "trust and safety" team https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/29/taylor-swift-ai-pictures/
So I found out today that a podcast that folk are talking about, an adult podcast, is actually presented and produced by someone I worked with and socialised with for YEARS pre moving to Wiltshire.
Wanted: If anyone in the UK is hoarding or has an old Epson 24 pin dot matrix printer (parallel port) in their garage, loft, in a cupboard forgotten about and wants to sell me it can you ping me?
It's for a project I am writing code for.
There is nothing locally that's available in my neck of the woods that I can find.
I realize I'm becoming a technology therapist for LLM's, trying to convince them to spit out an answer and talk about stuff. No wonder programs hate this stuff, you have to actually be patient and poke away patiently at these opaque boxes, and then figure out ways to validate the output.