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That, too. It’s a face of many repulsive characteristics.

What? That’s just a normal picture of Vance. Voted “Most Punchable” 2 years in a row!

It’s all been good, since I gave up on NeXTSTEP around '97, but it got next level best with rolling distributions. Arch has been game changing. I’d used Redhat, CentOS, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Gobo - all for one or more years - but until Arch I never felt I’d really escaped dependency hell. I still occasionally will have a hiccup, but it’s more like a dependency heck, not something that turned into something that consumed an entire day to resolve. And it’s the only distribution that hasn’t (yet, knock on wood) screwed up grub so that my machine wouldn’t boot. I’ve screwed it up, by e.g. migrating SD’s and getting the UUIDs wrong, but never has the upgrade process screwed me over.

Thanks! I’ve learned in jobs over the years that there are two good ways to choose names:

1. Descriptive acronyms: AppDev01Loc01. They’re useful in business and large teams, and dull as shit. But practical.
2. Mythos with a lot of variation. Characters from your favorite novel is usually bad, because you quickly run out of names. Mythos are usually good, dinosaurs… anything with a lot of variation.

“Sci fi starships” is a great one! Lots of source material there; the categories basically fall out by themselves. That’s a great choice.

In the past, I used Gimli’s family tree for server names.

Oh, that’s good.

Middle Earth is a great source for this stuff, b/c Tolkien filled out the world like a historian.

Huh. I thought for sure someone else would be using my scheme.

LAN computers are all Tolkien swords: sting, orcrist, gurthang, glamdring, etc. If I run out of swords, I’ll start adding other weapons: aeglost, the spear; dailir, the arrow. We don’t get a lot of named battle axes, which I always thought weird; I’d think dwarves of all people would forge legendary axes, and certainly name them.

My WiFi and VPN networks are forests in Middle Earth: fangorn, bindbole, dimholt, lothlorien, etc. The only exception is my LAN itself which is… “lan”. Because short.

My cloud VPSes are named after Greek Titans: hyperion, phaethusa, tethys, etc.

Mobile devices have whatever names they come with, because they’re so ephemeral.

I don’t want ChatGPT to remember that I was searching for Cafe Flesh by description.

Well, it’s either that or finding a Lemmy community for “what’s that book” and posting a long description of how you remember the book.

I did this recently about a TV show I once saw an episode or two on broadcast TV in the early 90’s. Only I completely misremembered it; I thought one of the main characters was a little girl when, in fact, it was a grizzled old woodworker. I mean, really, Brain? What the actual fuck? Luckily, from the context and time period, someone recognized it, but I no longer trust my own memory (if I ever really did).

“So, I read this book once - I think there were two or three in the series - and it was about some little furry girls who find a magic potion in a cave, but the potion is poison that can kill everyone in the world, and they had to take it to a special magic hole and throw it in. And they’re being chased the entire time by ghosts on ghost horses. I think there are trees in it.” - me, trying to describe the LOTR. Thanks, Brain; you’re a big help.

I’m sure; I just don’t know how. I need to set aside some time and educate myself.

Frankly, this generation of AI I find rather dull. It won’t directly lead a AGI, although I’m sure it’ll be a component, but I think that’ll be another 10-20 years before the next breakthrough. I personally don’t think it’s as interesting as the symbolic, knowledge-based systems of the mid-80’s; at least those were reasoning systems. LLMs look impressive to lay people (including myself - I understand the general concepts, but have no experience with the programming or training, so I’m just another lay user), but there’s no reasoning or understanding behind it, and if what it produces is truthful or accurate, it’s largely on accident. So I’ve had trouble getting excited about it.

I need to catch up on training. I need an LLM that I can train on all my ebooks and digitized music, and can answer questions “what’s that book where the girl goes to the thing and does that deed?”