ChatGPT is a ‘large language engine’ that draws from a big archive of text and generates outputs from statistics, patterns and frequency of words.

It does not ‘think’ the way some people suggest it does.

Let’s stop being afraid of it, being doomers, etc., and start thinking about how we can better participate in the next wave of tech innovation by teaching machines to act with decent American sets of rules.

Answer to yesterday’s anonymous poll question

Most computers connect to the outside world, and the public internet through a Network card or adapter.

The network card is the hardware component inside your laptop or desktop computer (or tablet) that connects your device to the outside world.

This connection is usually made to the public internet. However, with the appropriate hardware components, computers can also connect to large LAN (local area networks), mesh networks built around the extended area of a neighborhood, or a local city. Satellite networks such as Starlink are emerging, which remove dependence on traditional land based, wired connections.

Pictured: Intel Centrino 6205 laptop wifi adapter. 2.4 GHz/5 Ghz. PCIe Half MiniCard. Wifi compatible: 802.11a/b/g/n. Max speed: 300 Mbps. This is a small component. Physical dimensions: 26.80 mm x 30 mm (about 1 inch x 1 inch).

Former #Twitter execs Vijaya Gadde, Yoel Roth, & Jim Baker who helped orchestrate the theft of the 2020 election, as well as my own election for Congress through deliberate censorship, are testifying under oath in front of the House GOP Oversight Committee today!

LOCK THEM UP!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fo_yD8r3w4

Twitter execs admit to censoring millions of Americans

JUST IN - YouTube homepage and app not working for many.

@disclosetv

rms’s “Four Freedoms” of software (1990):

0. The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.

1. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish.

2. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.

3. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions, giving the community a chance to benefit from your changes.

“With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the program and what it does for them. When users don't control the program, we call it a … “proprietary” program. The program controls the users, and the developer controls the program; this makes the program an instrument of unjust power.”

“A.I.” is in a hype phase in the MSM. Consider 2023 the year “A.I.” started to get headlines everywhere.

The emergence of the technology is interesting but it has a long way to go. It will be a big topic of debate in society from here on.

Used to ask the question, “are people waking up?” which misses the point, because these days, people are consistently waking up to the truth about gov’t corruption, pharma and banking cartels, etc., in other words, yes, over time, there’s a steady drumbeat of people who are waking up.

So the better question is, do you think people are waking up faster than say, a year ago. I know it’s easy to say no, no, no one is because all of us are so frustrated and we wish it would be faster.

Yet with sports players, newscasters collapsing on live TV, people losing their relatives to the jab (one of the hardest things to watch, its so sad), record inflation hitting everyone, the start of congressional inquiries, it seems like there is some momentum that wasn’t there a year, two years ago. What do you think? 🤔

If you’re one of the several hundred learners in the Linux for Beginners class run by this channel, your invitations for tomorrow’s Weekend Linux Workshop are being sent out now!

This week, how much safer am I when I switch from Windows to Linux on my computer, and why, exactly? What’s the fastest way to learn Linux on the desktop? The fastest way to learn the command line? Can I use linux with the graphical desktop only, like Windows? Yes, you can! In a complicated world, learn how easy it can be to achieve Digital Freedom, with Linux!

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Burger Time (Arcade version), 1982

Before the Internet and search engines, we had public libraries and card catalogs.

Anyone remember looking stuff up at the library? As kids we used to go to the library to do our homework there. And this writer used to go to the library to check out computer books 😂

“Don’t worry, you can reach me later out in the field!”

“I’ll have my portable phone!” 😂

The DEC-VT100 terminal, first sold in 1978, became the gold standard for “dumb terminals” — input/output devices with little of their own processing power, used to control remote mainframe and minicomputers.

Many “terminal” applications, even today, when they are using a legacy compatibility mode, will “emulate” a VT-100 with control character sequences. These control character sequences have been the same in the tech industry for more than 40 years, now! 😊

United States Democrat Party right now 👆

Truly one of the good guys in the history of computing. Dennis Ritchie was the co-creator of the C programming language, roughly the equivalent of spoken business English, in terms of its importance to the computing world.

Dennis was the visionary co-creator of the UNIX Operating System. His vision and talent were unique in the history of technology where he generally always makes “top 10 influential” lists. One of the best engineer/scientists in modern American history.

While he was a master at his trade, he spent most of his life inventing and contributing his knowledge to humanity and did not create much wealth for himself. So the news of his death was not reported anywhere near as much as that of a programmer of mediocre skill, Apple founder Steve Jobs, who passed away a week prior.

PRAYER

Heavenly Father, we praise Your Holy Name. We Thank You for the changes Your Holy Spirit is making in each of Your children's lives as You mold and make us into the people that You would have us to be.

Give us we pray, ears to better hear Your still small voice and a heart that is willing to walk in the path that You would choose for us to follow. May we be willing to go where You lead, do what You would have us do and give up that which You choose for us to give up, even if we don't understand. May we learn to say, "Thy will be done," and give us the courage to accept Your will for our lives.

O Lord, may we not quench the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives by neglect or by wounding. Instead, help us every day to better know His intimate fellowship.

We ask this in the precious name of Jesus. Amen.

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After 30 years, the result is plain for all to see: Ordinary people, working together in good faith and almost zero budget, built the world’s most powerful computer Operating System, that out-performs the comparable product—your computer’s most important software—built by Bill Gates and Microsoft with their unlimited resources, over the same period of time.

No one would have predicted this, at the beginning. It’s an incredible result, a modern day David vs. Goliath story that is being revealed for the world to see, right now, as Windows continues to lose market share.

What if our other important technologies were built the same way? Transparent, Open Source, citizen backed projects, free for inspection at any time, with verifiable code signatures.