I’m baaaack
Oh dear. Perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned in the Open Thread that today is the Ides of July.
When I was about to start writing, the blog went down. Nor was it the usual “too many requests” problem. This time the glitch was at the level of the host’s server, and it affected quite a few sites. I don’t know how many, but when I phoned the server the agent told me that a whole tranche of their hosted sites were down, and that it would probably take “a few hours” to fix the issue. It seems to have taken close to three hours.
This sort of thing is frustrating. But it happens now and then with all hosts, as far as I can tell. A while back I looked into changing hosts, and there seemed to be many problems reported for all of them. So I’ve stuck with mine, for better or for worse.
Apologies to everyone who was trying to access the site this afternoon. But at least it wasn’t that something was wrong with this particular blog.
Meanwhile, I used part of the down time to work on a document in Word, and discovered that a recent update there had generated a bunch of automatic things that I don’t want. For instance, there were constant AI prompts trying to guess what I wanted to write next. I do not want that sort of “help.” But to figure out how to turn it off was not the easiest thing, although I finally accomplished it.
Technical stuff; gotta love it.
“ For instance, there were constant AI prompts trying to guess what I wanted to write next. I do not want that sort of ‘help.’”
Do I *ever* sympathize with disliking *that* sort of [expletive]!
@neo: For instance, there were constant AI prompts trying to guess what I wanted to write next. I do not want that sort of “help.
Microsoft bet big and badly that users wanted “AI Everywhere” in Microsoft products.
No. We may like some AI under some conditions we choose, but I never want to deal with AI customized by a company I don’t trust like MS.
Even with ChatGPT I always ignore its offers to “help” me with writing.
huxley:
Fortunately I was able to get rid of it. It was highly annoying. It was prompting me every few words, adding a next word it thought I wanted. Autocomplete on steroids.
The Sorceror’s Apprentice.
When I was an estimator,by writing the numbers down myself sometimes I knew something wasn’t right, can’t do that with AI.
Technical stuff; gotta love it.
I am reminded of that Trotsky quote, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” Whether we like it or not, we have to deal with the constant deluge of tech so-called innovations.