The process is broken at Zomato but their #chatbot is ... hiding a human behind it? 🤔

Or did Nugget get #LLMs into the mix?

I saw a lag in the response to that query. Could have been retrieval, token processing or ... human handoff.

@vanderwal my mind can't handle the F & °C conversions well 🥶

@vanderwal I do apply warm ghee drops when it's too dry

https://share.google/aimode/0DsAYyvsc6qj7Cese

@vanderwal uh oh! Last month was like that for me ... Do you get nasal spray with salt water over there?

RE: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116004565705087997

Who decides what's "best" 🫣

@strypey and then there's this

https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/whats-at-stake-preserving-what-makes

I just heard about two accounts cloning my account and impersonating me on mastodon.social - I definitely do not have an account there. If you have been pinged by them as well, please report them to your instance.

@mwichary also, the typewriter effect for the streaming text makes it look like they are chatting with a human, instead of the old chatbots that just sent all text at once because the text was being retrieved from a database and not being generated, even if some retrieval has happened to generate from.

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115722360006034040

What to call it ... jagged intelligence or general cleverness?

Hmmm...

@thedarktangent true ... Somehow the real voice inflection does lend a better experience than the dubbed ones, even though the meaning comes from reading ... Accuracy isn't the issue, BTW ... They are ... It's just that some of the subtle cultural aspects are lost in the translations ... Still, I too prefer reading the subtitles rather than listening to the dubbed ones. But not my wife 😪 she doesn't like to read

@thedarktangent do you watch it with subtitles in English or change the audio to English

@webmink so, then WebTorrent? I haven't used it though.

@webmink so, would it kinda be like torrents?

@gautamghosh Agree! BTW, I've never re-read a book, even it made me feel that way ...

@Gargron thank you, God bless and godspeed!

Yes, #fediverse is the last bastion for community platforms against the corporate model that eventually, and inevitably, devalues into a self-sustaining greed cycle.

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/

I meet web developers who cannot accept that most smartphones in the world, and even in the US, are not iPhones. And that keeps them from understanding that the "i" in "iPhone" stands for "inequality":

@simon and that too which model will do how for which tasks ...

@slightlyoff sigh ... The politics is too difficult for me to keep track of / make sense of ... Never been my cuppa ... Hence trying to limit myself to actual code quality, standards adherence, performance etc technical stuff, and financial viability

@slightlyoff BTW, have you written your POV about ladybird? Or is it too early for that?

Found it to be an interesting premise. Not sure about financial viability in the long run. So looking for opinions from people with expertise in this field. 😀