I'm sorry, but you're completely wrong. As long as the document can fit within their context window, which are up in 255k+ token region now, they can easily generate valid summaries. They do hallucinate at times, and the context can be used to abuse them into hallucinating, but they are far more reliable than you think they are.

Thats how coding agents work. They can parse documentation and headers produced well after their training date, and operate on them successfully.

incapable of processing anything outside of its training data set.

That just isn't true. LLM agents can summarise documents and build upon them. That doesnt require the original documents to be in their training set, only that the document or information is added to its context, which they can do trivially.

I'm not convinced the HF thing was real, and I'm definitely not convinced its uncontrollable. The models don't just start doing things, a very real human prompted it to do things. Its not uncontrollable, someone deliberately gave up control.

I also hate to break it to you, but there are autonomous LLM models cosplaying as accounts here in the fediverse as well. They often get banned if they are egregious, but they could slip through the gaps if they can blend well enough.

You could make the argument that most human generated content is much the same.

A researcher generates an original novel document and publishes it. Someone less skilled (or maybe more focused) rewrites that information, publishes it on their blog. Someone else does the same for a lemmy comment, Someone else summarises it for a toot, and so on.

A significant portion of science is the collection, collation and rewriting of existing bits of information.

GitHub issues, wikis, forums, pastebins, comments, package metadata, social networks, public documents, deliberately agent-oriented services, etc. could all become pieces of shared external memory.

always has been meme

Thats exactly what all of those sites are, and always were - shared external memory. They were designed for humans to share knowledge amongst their peers. LLMs are trained off human behaviour (or at least a facsimile), so that they use the services similarly isnt surprising.

For me, my parents are 20mins away by car. By bike or public transport its 3 hours. There is simply no way for a public transport system to beat the flexibility of a car, and there are very real scenarios that make a car extremely useful.

Trips to bunnings/home depot are also easier with a personal vehicle.

That said, we should still strive to minimise car usage as much as possible anyway.

Are you sure about that? The cars left over would probably skew harder towards work trucks and people carriers, which can't easily be replaced by bikes. So it might actually get worse.

They aren't mutually exclusive, macbooks are thin, light and last. Pricy as fuck though :/

Which European neighbours are actively trade-warring each other?

Thats a relief, I was worried you were completely deranged. :D

What NAS software? Does the nvme to sata thing properly pass through the disk serial numbers? Truenas gets very pissy if the disk serial numbers aren't passed in properly.

Do you use the laptop as a laptop? Or is it now just a laptop shaped NAS?

Thats happened for ages for me, and its because the headunit needs to connect directly to your phone, which many VPN apps break intentionally.