@fireborn Out of curiosity, What LLM helped you compose this? Editing to be clear that I'm not against AI writing at all, but this is pretty obvious and I'm curious on your tools.

@TheQuinbox I used Claude 4.6 to grammer check and typo check, mostly because I was wviting on my phone. I did notice it stripped out my seperators, which I'm not thrilled about and clearly didn't proof read hard enough.

@fireborn @TheQuinbox huh. the whole flow feels very Claude, but that might just be convergence between your writing style and Claude's

@fireborn @freya @TheQuinbox I also find myself writing so much like an LLM that I've been asked if something I wrote 100% by hand, without so much as a grammar suggestion from Claude, was written by AI. The person who asked me was my supervisor for several years before that, and we have a good working relationship. I just ... write like an AI, apparently. I also just really enjoy the way Claude writes when you give it a bit of creative freedom, and i'm sure that if I were to put up a blog now, people would suspect me of using Claude far more than I actually would.
All this to say, write however you like; use whatever you use. i'm fairly sure the ideas are still your own. And if i'm wrong about that, I'm honestly just more impressed with Claude.
"It failed with such consistency, such total and unbroken commitment to not working, that at some point it stopped feeling like a bug and started feeling like a philosophy." ... is such a relatable and well-crafted line that I feel like I'm not going to be able to avoid writing something similar to it at some point in the future, because so much of modern tech feels exactly like that.

@simon @freya @TheQuinbox the way I write might have something to do with this too. I draft something and then I listen to it with reader mode and then I listen to it again with Eleven Labs. I don't publish until it sounds correct and engaging with both.

@fireborn @simon @TheQuinbox query: would any of you like to listen to the recording I just made demonstrating, very briefly, my blackberry?

@freya @fireborn @TheQuinbox Wait. Blackberry OS Blackberry? Or the Android thing they made more recently?

@simon @fireborn @TheQuinbox blackberry screenreader demo

@freya @simon @fireborn Wait, I've heard that voice before. That's compact vocalizer!

@TheQuinbox @simon @fireborn close, but no

@freya @simon @fireborn How the hell is it not? Compare how kate compact says dialog to how that says dialog, compare password, they must've at least used the same voice data.

@TheQuinbox @freya @simon @fireborn Yeah that sounds like Kate to me.

@KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox @simon @fireborn blackberry 10 is surprisingly actually relaly nice to use, given that it's a bespoke screen reader on a completely closed platform with zero prior work

@freya @TheQuinbox @simon @fireborn I thought they stopped making BlackBerries.

@KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox @simon @fireborn they did, bloody eons ago

@freya @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox @simon rip Blackberry

@fireborn @freya @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox I never could get along with those portrait keyboards and I wonder if that's just a blind thing or a me thing. The best keyboard phone I've ever owned was the LG VX9200, better known as the Verizon enV3 in the US. The best keyboard phone I ever saw was the Astro Slide 5G, which was a gorgeous piece of hardware with the most god awful underpowered Mediatech chip you could imagine. I would buy a refreshed, modern version of that phone without hesitation.

@[email protected] I loved my nv3, remember? we both had one at the time, and I gave you an nv2 YOu even put custom tones and junk on my phone, with this odd little app thing, why do I not remember what that program was pin something? @fireborn @freya @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox

@cordova5029 @simon @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox weird little semi-inaccessible thing for loading ringtones and other data onto the phone via a data cable?

@freya @simon @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox that's the stupid damn fucking one :)

@cordova5029 @simon @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox was only workable with a set of jaws scripts afaik