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- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 6 hours ago:
I’ve heard of vibe coding but in the context of being able to identify music that fits a “vibe”. What are you talking about?
This is when you give some LLM a prompt such as “write a game like Minecraft except cooler” and the system will output some code that might run and might vaguely resemble a block game.
So then you go back ask for more, it does something to the code potentially improving or breaking it, go back again ask for more, and repeat over and over. I’m being a little bit sarcastic because most serious developers look down on this, but really this is how a lot of coding is happening these days. There are tools to make this process somewhat usable and they are getting better every day.
- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 9 hours ago:
Interesting. I can buy that idea, a model that’s designed to be general and answer all questions is going to have to make compromises in a lot of ways.
So it’s possible that model benchmarking needs to be revised in some way to give more useful analysis of its capabilities.
The industry is quickly moving towards using agents, MCP connections (sources of real-time data for the model to pull from, and apis that allow the model to perform tasks, like putting things on a calendar), and RAGs (augmentation with sources of truth, such as a 100 page pdf guide for example), and models that seem to be more aware that they can get data from other sources.
The future might become specialized models all the way down.
Just today I’m playing with “vibe coding” and using one agent as an orchestrator that assigns and monitors tasks to other agents. The result is still slightly bullshit code but it’s amusing to watch it work. Not sure yet if this is a strategy to spend all my money through API fees or will result in something useful 😂
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 1 day ago:
You can do due diligence as a buyer forever but if the seller lies or doesn’t disclose… Problems like these happen. Lawsuits are potentially incoming to figure that one out.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 1 day ago:
It kind of looks like the new owners of VPN Secure got screwed - the last owner made all these costly lifetime deals and didn’t tell them. The obligation/liability to service those deals wasn’t transferred to the new owners.
Which means the old owner is probably the bad guy here and still owes these customers for their lifetime subscriptions.
- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 1 day ago:
Just curious if you’re a developer or using LLMs often.
I like Anthropic’s sonnet 3.7 model for agent and code related tasks more than the Open AI models at the moment.
Deepseek and LLama can be run offline, which is great for certain uses especially the aforementioned BS tasks that can perhaps burn through API tokens. Quality of output doesn’t match the top models but this is second to privacy for many.
Not sure where things are at with Dall-E 3 image generation but the last time I was looking it seemed like Stable Diffusion has gotten damn good and is extensible in ways that dall-e is not.
Voice recognition, and TTS output w/emotion OpenAI has the best I’ve ever heard.
Image recognition openAI might lead but the llama4 multimodal stuff is pretty awesome
Anyways I’m just some rando but my observation is that OpenAI better get on that IPO fast unless they have some magic in the pipeline because they are being attacked by competent solutions from every side in a niche that is showing diminshing promise to change everything the father we go.
- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 2 days ago:
A lot of their staff will be finished with needing to make any money ever again in their lives if they IPO.
But that will also throw OpenAI into the public sphere of needing to make money quarter after quarter forever, which inevitably leads to them sucking and no longer being innovative. Actually OpenAI is already teetering on this already as others are catching up. Sam and other top guys will leave because they hate people telling them what to do and don’t need it.
Facebook and Deepseek are literally giving it away for free now to kill the competition and in some areas other competitors are producing better products already.
It’s a weird space. I used to think we were on the verge of entering a whole new era of technology but now I think it’s going to be muted. Perhaps AI (as we know it now) eased some tasks and eliminated some BS stuff that used to waste our time, but we’ve not yet completely eliminated most professional jobs - if anything I think we just added more for them to learn and do to remain competitive.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 4 days ago:
I think Google can never really hope to disrupt itself. The entire company is oriented towards selling those ads. So any other internal division that tries to eliminate the ads division is going to have a very uphill battle.
IMO the industry is ripening for disruption and someone will come along with a new idea for how to incentivize content generation and it will very likely continue to involve some heavy commercial marketing.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 5 days ago:
The state asserts its sovereignty and backs up the claim with the consensus of the people and a lot of guns.
A sovereign citizen makes the same claim but fails to convince or compel others to agree.
They very well might believe in some god-given authority but that’s not how any of this works.
But maybe an SC will uncover a deeply hidden loophole someday and win an argument. The law affords them the opportunity to try.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 1 week ago:
GTA 6 is just going to be client app to a universe of micro transactions. They should probably just give it away free.
- Comment on Math is amazing! 2 weeks ago:
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Damn you’re right
- Comment on Waymo Partners with Toyota, Opening Door to Sell Autonomous Vehicles to Consumers 2 weeks ago:
I was in San Francisco last week and got to take Waymo several times. Truly a surreal experience and if properly implemented seems like it’s very much our future.
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 1 month ago:
This. Your data is stored in .md text files so even if Obidian somehow stopped being the best your data is so easy to move around.
Also add to your list mega.nz works for syncing Obsidian across many systems.
- Comment on What is going on behind the scenes when searching for a lemmy post in a search engine? 1 month ago:
I think most search engines are not optimized for this. I’m sure it’s changing but might take some time.
Google historically penalizes duplicate content and selects one source as canonical, usually whichever domain is the most authoritative. When it comes to lemmy, whichever instance hosts the community should probably be the canonical source.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 month ago:
Fascinating… I knew some of this and it is indeed troubling.
It seems that Brave’s mission is actually about generating revenue by any method possible (including manipulation of end users) more than anything to do with privacy.
If you’re cool with all that then Brave is for you I guess.
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 2 months ago:
Because spinning disks are a bit cheaper than SSD?
- Comment on Immich: opinion revised 2 months ago:
Haven’t checked in a while but is there any hope for cloud storage of the image library yet? I’m kind of holding out for S3 support because I don’t want to manage multiple terabytes locally.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
Obsidian has a plug in for this… here is an announcement from the plugin author: reddit.com/…/alpha_release_of_my_handwriting_plug… (sorry for a reddit link)
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
Switched from Onenote to obsidian. There was a small learning curve and I had to install some plugins, but I love it. It looks amazing and runs so much faster than OneNote ever did.
- Comment on 3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain 2 months ago:
Smart move by the new owner, anything else would have looked out of touch
- Comment on Bluesky Proves Stagnant Monopolies Are Strangling the Internet. 3 months ago:
If you start a competitor that starts to gain some legitimate traction, Meta will offer you more than your company is worth to sell out.
You’d be insane to not accept the offer and retire to only fun projects for the rest of your life.
Because if you refuse the offer, they’ll put an army of software developers 10x larger than your whole company on their team replicate your product to kill you before you can hope to reach escape velocity.
If you had investors, or a spouse, they will kill you for not having made the right choice.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 5 months ago:
I guess this device needed to connect to some remotely hosted server that enabled its functionality. And the company was losing money and hoping that sales would eventually pick up enough to make them profitable. But their latest investor decided not to put any more money in, and the company ran out of cash and can’t pay its bills anymore.
The entrepreneur thought he could get more investor cash and ran the business in such a way that it would fall off a cliff if he didn’t. And… He failed to secure more financing.
I have mixed feelings about products like this… If the device somehow needed to host an entire internet’s worth of data to function, it certainly wouldn’t have cost only $800. But when you buy a product that depends on the ongoing viability of the seller, you’re in a position of caveat emptor - You better vet them out yourself, especially if they’re new.
Hopefully the founders feel some emotional attachment to their product and the trust bestowed upon them by their unknowing customers, and release whatever on the back end makes the thing work so that motivated customers could reactivate their devices somehow.
- Comment on Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing 5 months ago:
The buyer of chrome could make bing the default search engine and re-enable whatever broke Ublock origin (the ad blocker)
They could also cripple gapps and gmail a bit. It would also be harder for google to unilaterally develop new web standards.
That would no doubt consternate a few at Google and knee cap them forcing web shit down our throats that only improves their ad business.
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 5 months ago:
Me too but here’s one useful function:
Perhaps you are aware there is an ongoing event, say for example a football game, or an election, or an outage of your email service provider. You go to one of these “scream into the void” social sites, search on the topic, and learn what people are saying about it. Maybe someone knows what’s really going on, maybe some of those people have some interesting insights and you engage with them, not unlike you and I are engaging right now. Others can observe, perhaps contribute, and after the event has concluded, everyone goes their own way. Hopefully in the end the interactions are beneficial for all.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 6 months ago:
Could build a reverse proxy to mask Lemmy links behind something that seems more legit
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 6 months ago:
And if you work for a company that supports causes you don’t agree with… Move on.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 6 months ago:
I could lend out my old computer with old games installed to somebody else to use, right?
What if instead i lend my hard drive, is it still the same thing? Or what if I lend out my remote access screen sharing password to my old PC. Still the same?
Maybe the legal workaround is to game the system here a bit - forget downloading executables which feels a lot like pirating and just lend access to a system that is legally running the original license.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 6 months ago:
You are correct. Later drives sometimes had a cable select dip switch/pin or different ports on the motherboard.
- Comment on Help Identify This Connector 6 months ago:
Yeah there’s so many manufacturers of various connectors that it can be really tricky to nail down the exact model numbers
- Comment on Help Identify This Connector 6 months ago:
Looks a lot like MX23A series
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 6 months ago:
It’s important to realize that in most democracies this isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of the system. The founders of these systems wanted to ensure that major decisions were deliberated, not rushed into, and that there wasn’t a lot of room for an executive power to make snap choices that would determine the future of the nation.