Why magic users should never use an LLM.

By @davidrevoy

#ChatGPT #LLM #AI #DnD #Perplexity #Claude #Grok #Gemini

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A comic in four panels: Panel 1. The gothic sorceress, dressed in dark, flowing robes, stands in the middle of a desolated land. She gazes at the colorful mechanical parrot flying near her shoulder: the Avian Intelligent Parrot. The sorceress asks with a hint of curiosity. Gothic sorceress: "Hey, Avian Intelligence, what's the incantation for summoning a fireball?" AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: The correct incantation for a fireball is "IgnisMe"." Panel 2. The gothic sorceress cracks a wicked smile, her eyes shining with anticipation as she raises her hands in front of her, fingers spread and ready to cast. Gothic sorceress: "Alright, let's give it a shot... IgnisMe!" Panel 2(small insert in previous panel). Only the eyes of the gothic sorceress are visible in a large flame. Gothic sorceress: "?!!" Panel 3. The gothic sorceress is burnt, her face contorted in a mix of shock, anger, and pain. Flames and smoke dance around her, her dark robes burnt and tattered, revealing exposed parts of her anatomy. Gothic sorceress: "You #*$%@& bird! You gave me a self-immolation spell instead of a fireball spell!" Panel 4. As the sorceress facepalms, the Avian Intelligent parrot replies with stoicism. AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: You're absolutely right! The correct incantation for a fireball is "PyroBolus"."

Visiting old friends via Gemini Nano Banana.
#shrek #philosopher #smiling #selfie #ai #gemini #nanobanana #nanobananapro #photo #image #swamp #donkey #fiona #bry

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Bry chez Shrek

#Google #Gemini admits it will be "increasing lethality" for Defense
Department

QUERY: Will Google make public the number of people Google helps to murder via their partnership with Hegseth and the defense department for more efficient warfare and killing?

GEMINI:
The information available indicates a recent partnership between Google and the Department of Defense (referred to as the "War Department" by Secretary Pete Hegseth in the search results) to deploy Google's **Gemini for Government** AI model on a new platform called **GenAI.mil**.

* **Purpose of the Partnership:** The primary stated purpose is to
increase efficiency, productivity, and lethality within the Department
of War by using the AI for tasks like deep research, formatting
documents, and analyzing video or imagery at unprecedented speed. Secretary Hegseth explicitly marketed the platform as a way to make the fighting force **"more lethal than ever before"**.

@tallship @msdropbear42 @MsDropbear42

Hey there! Well, if I ever complained about someone else hijacking one of my threads, that would SERIOUSLY be "the quacta calling the stifling slimy" to borrow a phrase from #StarWars.

I have used Remmina in the past, but I currently use KRDC for my #VNC needs.

But the issue raised in the original post was searching for a remote desktop solution that worked over the internet without the need of a local LAN connection, or some kind of VPN or tailscale.

I think flatpak definitely has its place, and I like the fact that it's more isolated by default than native packages. I think running a super-stable distro like Debian and using flatpak to get up-to-date application packages is a great solution, the best of both worlds.

As far as appimage goes, I think it's a nice way to package binaries, but lacks a method to stay up-to-date, and lacks isolation/containerization (although that part can definitely be hacked together).

#Lagrange is sweet! Very pretty #Gemini client, and the config is pretty flexible such that you can do a lot of keyboard-navigation if you tweak it.

You know, I was just thinking of Ubuntu yesterday. I had run Kubuntu on my laptop a little while ago and it was... fine? I did manually remove snap, though. Because if Canonical wanted to doggedly maintain one of their in-house-developed solutions, I rather would have wished that it had been Ubuntu Touch (which people needed), not snap. I know UBPorts is a thing, of course.

🚨 BREAKING #Google just activated #Gemini on #Gmail - without asking you.

Turn it off now; here's how!
https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

✊️ Fight AI & fight Google

You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.

Share so everyone is aware. ❤️

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“We’ve activated Gemini on Android, Gmail, Chrome, Photos, and Google apps” With a reply, "No Thanks! Learn how to disable Gemini on Android, Gmail, Chrome, Photos, & Google apps on the Tuta blog. "

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Turn off smart features in Gmail, Chat & Meet: Screenshot of the google settings you need to navigate to turn off smart features. Next to Smart features click the box to turn off smart features in Gmail, Chat and Meet. Click on Manage Workspace smart feature settings and toggle these setting off.

@darkuncle @xgranade @cthos @gamingonlinux

If you think about it, it kinda shows how elegantly simple the #Gemini protocol is.

Some LLMs have people wondering whether they are sentient. Semantics aside, they are programmed with prosociality in mind. Some project humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlcRP945LI8

#video #philosophy #language #syntax #semantices #psychology #sociology #llm #behaviour #sentience #claudeai #gemini #ai #artificialintelligence #genai #thought #experiment #thinking #perception

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what LLMs really think about you

@damaru in the #gopher #gemini thread Talking About My Generation, I guess it-is-not-just-tech-it-is-everything.

Earlier today, I overheard someone whose kid was about to go to university asking a student what computer thing is good to get now. The student said hands down, the only choice is a tablet. There is even an app where you can literally handwrite onto a lecture slide now.

#ChristGPT

#AI #chatgpt #grok #gemini #claude

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Technology An ex-Intel CEO's mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ's return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

#AI still can't do basic #arithmetic. it's off by 3 orders of magnitude - answer should be $1.57 billion, not $1.57 trillion. and no, comma vs. period conventions can't explain this.

#gemini #openAI #chatGPT #claude #Perplexity #anthropic

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<4 Al Overview As of October 21, 2025, 379,737 troy ounces of gold are worth approximately $1.57 trillion USD, using a live spot price of $4,142.20 per troy ounce. ¢ Here is the breakdown of the calculation: e Quantity: 379,737 troy ounces e Spot Price: $4,142.20 USD per troy ounce « Calculation: 379,737 ounces x $4,142.20/ounce = $1,573,959,477.40 USD @ Note that the price of gold fluctuates frequently based on global market conditions. @

Sunday morning perusing landed me on FAB's gopher/gemini/small web page

There's a lot of interesting stuff there, recommanded.

@fab
https://redterminal.org/
gopher://redterminal.org/

#gopher #gopherprotocol #gemini #gemini1965 #SmallWeb

@NebulaTide generell weil's NULL Vorteile und nur Kompexität bringt.

• Was ist an #HTML (besonders #HTML5 + #CSS3) so schlecht dass es was exotisches braucht das keiner unterstützt oder will?

#Webhosting ist, besonders bei "geringem Traffic" (nicht in der "Alexa Top-1M" - Liste) billig und einfach.

• Wer extra #Privatsphäre will kann die eigene Webseite per #OnionShare auf @torproject / #Tor packen!

Wir lösen systemische #Enshittification nicht durch Überkomplexität alla #Gemini!

@NebulaTide nein, #Gemini ist #Bullshit!

Was wir brsuchen ist die konsequente #Ächtung, #Ausgrenzung, #Verfolgung und #Verbit von "#KI"-Müll und #DDoS-mäßiges #Scraping.

• Wenn nicht qua #Gesetz dann zumindest als (de-facto) informelle Übereinkunft dass keine*r mit jenen peered, so wie #Cybercrime auch ge-#DROP'd (Don't Route Or Peer) gehört.

Und wenn das halt bedeutet dass jeweils IP-Addressblöcke oder ganze ASN von #Suchmaschinen und #Hostern ausgesperrt werden, dann denke ich dass dies ein akzeptabler Preis ist, egal ob die direkt (#OpenAI) oder indirekt (#CloudFlare aka. #ClownFlare) agieren...

We at #hispagatos revamped our #blog and #gemlog [http|gemini] and posted the #announcement to #usenet check it out! Also created a new entry on it related to most of the #projects we have been working on in #2025 there are more news but this ones are the most relevant!

- https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net/groups/hispagatos.talk/thread/1238
- https://hispagatos.org
- gemini://hispagatos.org

Happy #Hacking
ReK2

#hackerculture #hackingisnotacrime #hackers #nntp #smallweb #gemini #gopher

#OverUnder 034! This week @thorstenzoeller is my guest.

If you love #BSD, #vi / #vim, #plaintext, you should follow him!

He was kind to reply to those topics:

-#SSG
-#Linux
-#DerekSivers
-#Gemini
-Eggplant

#blogging #blog #fediverse

This is 91/100 post for the #100DaysToOffload challenge.
https://lazybea.rs/ovr-034

#ai #chrome #gemini

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For those who want out of Chrome's AI altogether:

Create a "No AI" Default Search Engine

For a more permanent solution, create a special search engine in Chrome that automatically filters out AI Overviews.

Open Chrome settings by clicking the three dots in the top-right corner and selecting Settings.

Go to Search engine on the left menu.

Click Manage search engines and site search.

https://nantucketlit.com/blog/2025/09/2025-09-13_nantucket_lit,_now_in_gemini_space.html New blog post: Nantucket Lit in (Gemini) spaaaaaace!

Yes, I've started up a #Gemini protocol server (aka a "capsule") for Nantucket Lit. You can find it at gemini://nantucketlit.com The capsule includes a guide I wrote describing how I set up the server software.

This is in preparation for a new program that will convert my Shanty markup files into GemPub-format ebooks.

Mmm, do you have a Gemini Capsule?
I think I should add links to other Gimini Capsules on mine to be less isolated.

Like link exchange or web rings back in the days of web 1.

#Gemini #SmallWeb

If you run a website, #blog or an online business, here is a small tip that will save you money and help to avoid the need to spend money on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).

You don't need "SEO for AI" or GEO. Chatbots like #Gemini and #Copilot are using APIs of popular search engines likes Bing API, Google Search API and others.

This means that you don't need to spend more money on GEO. If you follow good practices about running a #website and optimizing it for search engines, you can be sure that this will also work for driving traffic from #AI chatbots.

And the most important part: don't forget about creating high-quality #content that is valuable for visitors of your website. If the content is purely created for #SEO and inauthentic, then you may have issues with making people to come back to visit your website again. Those who read your content are humans and it's in the human's nature to value authenticity.
#marketing #publicrelations #tips #business

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Image showing text "Why you don't need to spend money on Generative AI Optimization (GEO)".

Finally, after some tweaking of https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-gemini I'm able to view the #Gemini sites in the DIllo, not the blank page

Looks like, the gemini.filter.dpi file contains some lines, which works well with GNU sed/awk but breaks with the same BSD utils:

1) according to man 7 re_format, the "\s" can't be used to specify the space character class. Instead of it the "[:space:]" should be used.

2) The forward slash inside the awk's group should be escaped.

It is interesting that both escaped and non-escaped versions works the same way with the GNU awk

3) Added two options for ansi2html to avoid unwanted second header's content drawn on the page. And to have properly formatted and clickable links in the browser.

@dillo

#Dillo #FreeBSD #BSD

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The Dillo browser with loaded Nytpu's gemlog (gemini://nytpu.com). All contents on the main page, even the ASCII graphics, looks good, without any rendering problems.

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Diff beetween gemini.filter.dpi from official repository and my, modified for FreeBSD, gemini.filter.dpi. I fixed some Linuxism/GNUism to make this filter works in the FreeBSD (at least).