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#Fedihelp Ich muss im Job eine #Veranstaltung im kommenden Jahr (2-tägige #Tagung ) in #Mannheim für ca. 30-50 Personen planen. Hat jemand eine Idee für ein #Abendprogramm mit #Tech oder #IT oder #Umwelt -Bezug?
Gerne #boost
Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #AI flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way:
Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.”
Stage 2: “Here are the steps in the flow and the instructions I feed to this agent / custom GPT / Claude project. I tell it to do X, reference document Y, and aim for Z.”
Stage 3: “Now, let me show you the results it gives.”
*Writes task, presses to run the prompt.*
Stage 4: “Umm sorry it’s taking a while. It’s fast but not instant. And by the way, the prompt isn’t perfect, you can definitely make it better. I just threw this together real quick the other day. It makes some mistakes, but it’s really good.”
Stage 5: “Uuuuuuh actually don’t look at the output.” *scrolls or stops screen share or pulls device away.*
“You know it’s already doing so well, if I do more prompt engineering it will get really good but I need to give it better instructions. And it ran just fine last night, I don’t know what’s up with it. And this is a cheap model, if we use another model it will be better.”
Stage 6: “You know, you really shouldn’t judge this so much. The technology will improve, it will get there sooner than you know and then you’ll regret not trying it sooner.”
So curious that this keeps happening 🤷♀️
#Fedihelp Ich muss im Job eine #Veranstaltung im kommenden Jahr (2-tägige #Tagung ) in #Mannheim für ca. 30-50 Personen planen. Hat jemand eine Idee für ein #Abendprogramm mit #Tech oder #IT oder #Umwelt -Bezug?
Gerne #boost
📸🏛️ In 1838, inventor Louis Daguerre created what historians believe to be the first photo featuring humans when he captured a busy #Paris boulevard using his daguerreotype process.
The 10-minute exposure time meant moving people disappeared from the image, but one man getting his boots shined stood still long enough to become permanently recorded in photographic #history.
👉 https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-first-photograph-of-a-human-being-1838.html
#photography #invention #daguerreotype #science #technology #tech #art
OpenDocument Format (ODF) turns 20 with the release of ODF 1.4 🎉
The update improves accessibility, cross-suite compatibility, and layout control — reinforcing open standards as an alternative to Microsoft’s closed formats. 🧩
A quiet win for user freedom and interoperability 🌍
🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/odf-1-4-release/
#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Interoperability #Accessibility #OpenStandards #ODF #LibreOffice #Microsoft #Software #Innovation #Tech #DigitalFreedom #Standardization #Office
One other pattern that I kept experiencing last year when I was actually trying these tools in my work (because I had so many people pushing them on me I started to think I was crazy):
Them: “oh you are struggling with X? I have been using AI to solve it and it gives me the solution in less than 10 minutes! You HAVE TO try it!”
Me: “X is really annoying, I’d love to get help with it. I’ll try that, thanks!”
* I go and try to do X, spend hours prompting AI back-and-forth as it keeps messing up and doing things wrong. I give up and do the thing manually, spending 2-3x the time I would have spent if I did it myself from the start.*
*days / weeks later*
Me: “hey, person, I tried to do X with AI and it didn’t work. I kept getting issues like Y and Z. Did I prompt it wrong? This is what I tried.”
Them: *nods, maybe chuckles* “oh yeah, it does that. I still haven’t been able to figure out how to reliably do X. I tend to redo the output completely too. But sometimes it helps me do like this tiny part. Anyway, these tools will improve soon and we won’t have to do so many manual revisions. “
I kid you not, this stuff happened every other week.
📸🏛️ In 1838, inventor Louis Daguerre created what historians believe to be the first photo featuring humans when he captured a busy #Paris boulevard using his daguerreotype process.
The 10-minute exposure time meant moving people disappeared from the image, but one man getting his boots shined stood still long enough to become permanently recorded in photographic #history.
👉 https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-first-photograph-of-a-human-being-1838.html
#photography #invention #daguerreotype #science #technology #tech #art
Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #AI flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way:
Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.”
Stage 2: “Here are the steps in the flow and the instructions I feed to this agent / custom GPT / Claude project. I tell it to do X, reference document Y, and aim for Z.”
Stage 3: “Now, let me show you the results it gives.”
*Writes task, presses to run the prompt.*
Stage 4: “Umm sorry it’s taking a while. It’s fast but not instant. And by the way, the prompt isn’t perfect, you can definitely make it better. I just threw this together real quick the other day. It makes some mistakes, but it’s really good.”
Stage 5: “Uuuuuuh actually don’t look at the output.” *scrolls or stops screen share or pulls device away.*
“You know it’s already doing so well, if I do more prompt engineering it will get really good but I need to give it better instructions. And it ran just fine last night, I don’t know what’s up with it. And this is a cheap model, if we use another model it will be better.”
Stage 6: “You know, you really shouldn’t judge this so much. The technology will improve, it will get there sooner than you know and then you’ll regret not trying it sooner.”
So curious that this keeps happening 🤷♀️
my name is ember. im a trans girl in the south of england. i am expremdnting with #art and even some fiber craft (current big project is sewing a flag). i like #tech but notible im not trained and also good enough to seem clever to people who dont know stuff but not so good that im achuly good. i also write sometimes. i often have lofty plans but fail a great deal in the execution
i try to be careful with my CWs but if you spot something i msised that you think should ahve a warning let me know
im trying to imrpove my local queer communtiy and i will post about it, and i also do some #Activisim nothing hugely existing, and may post about that.
im #poly and have 2 amazing people in my life (who i refere to as nesting partner, who i live with, and girlfriend, who i dont but is amazing).
im #adhd and #autstic and also #dyslexic so if the spellings shit thats why
hi o/
Is it just me or are we seeing these recalls more frequently?
Fire hazard prompts recall of three Belkin power banks and stand models
#Tech
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/11/13/fire-hazard-prompts-recall-of-three-belkin-power-banks-and-stand-models
Is it just me or are we seeing these recalls more frequently?
Fire hazard prompts recall of three Belkin power banks and stand models
#Tech
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/11/13/fire-hazard-prompts-recall-of-three-belkin-power-banks-and-stand-models
OpenDocument Format (ODF) turns 20 with the release of ODF 1.4 🎉
The update improves accessibility, cross-suite compatibility, and layout control — reinforcing open standards as an alternative to Microsoft’s closed formats. 🧩
A quiet win for user freedom and interoperability 🌍
🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/odf-1-4-release/
#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Interoperability #Accessibility #OpenStandards #ODF #LibreOffice #Microsoft #Software #Innovation #Tech #DigitalFreedom #Standardization #Office
In my new article "The rebellion will be federated – 2025 edition" I discuss the key role of the Fediverse in this political and cultural climate... and argue that digital sovereignty and the ability to self-host are now more important than ever:
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-rebellion-will-be-federated-2025-edition/
Plus I had a chance to look back at my Fediverse advocacy in 2025 😊
Psst: my Ghost blog is now federated thanks to @jannis and his amazing @hey 🥳 🪄 📄
#resist #resistance #TheFutureIsFederated #tech #BigTech #FOSS #blog
In my new article "The rebellion will be federated – 2025 edition" I discuss the key role of the Fediverse in this political and cultural climate... and argue that digital sovereignty and the ability to self-host are now more important than ever:
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-rebellion-will-be-federated-2025-edition/
Plus I had a chance to look back at my Fediverse advocacy in 2025 😊
Psst: my Ghost blog is now federated thanks to @jannis and his amazing @hey 🥳 🪄 📄
#resist #resistance #TheFutureIsFederated #tech #BigTech #FOSS #blog
