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Had the same research issue from multiple models. The website it linked existed and was relevant but often the specific page was hallucinated or just didn't say what it said it did.

In the end it probably created more work than it saved.

Also a programmer and i find it OK for small stuff but anything beyond 1 function and it's just unmaintainable slop. I tried vibe coding a project just to see what i was missing. Its fine, it did the job, but only if I dont look at the code. Its insecure, inefficient, and unmaintainable.

It's from this report https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69411a3eadb5707d9f33d7e8/E03512978_-_Un-Act_The_National_Security_Act_in_2024_Accessible.pdf

I emailed my MP about this before Christmas and am yet to get a reply

Varies by phone. Pressing power 5x on mine dials emergency services.

No. Its had external library support for quite a while now

Obtainium can solve that. It will check websites for updates and then download the new apk and install it. I use it more than fdroid now, can get apk straight from the developers github repo usually.

Yeah, I'd rather they did better in the first place too. But I'm not going to complain when they finally do the right thing. That's just going to lead to them not changing unpopular policies at all.

I genuinely don't understand everyone complaining about u-turns. Setting aside that this isn't really a u-turn, they're still doing it, just won't be mandatory.

Would you rather a government that dogmatically sticks to every single idea they have regardless of public opinion, or a government that changes its policies in response to feedback?

Sort of related, I was fact checking some of the content on my own website that had been provided by someone who later turned out to be less than reliable.

There was one claim I was completely unable to find a source for and suspected it was an AI hallucination. Turned to chatgpt and tried to find a source with that and it provided nearly the exact same sentence and cited my website as the source thus completing the hallucination cycle.

I just deleted it all from my site and started over.

100%. It irks when software has messages in the first person. The human-like TTS are very uncanny valley to me.

I needed voice over for a video recently and everyone is telling me to use AI, I tried dozens and they'll all just off. Ended up getting a friend to record it. I don't have a decent mic so my own recording sounded bad.

I have to use windows at work, have 32gb and regularly get browser tabs unloaded for low memory. I'm not running VMs or anything. Usually just Firefox, visual studio, and slack.

Personal computer is Linux with 16gb and that's more than enough.

I've found the same thing. I've turned off the auto suggestions while tying because by the time I'm typing i already know what I'm going I'm to type and having mostly incorrect suggestions popping up every 2 seconds was distracting and counterproductive.

Built mine about 12 years old before YouTube existed. Honestly can't remember where i learned. I think i just guessed. I'd previously taken apart my parents because i was that kind of kid so that's probably it. There's not many things that can go in the wrong place and cause damage.

My dad saw me doing it and quit his job as a butcher to start a business doing pc repairs and sales. This was around 2001.