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• You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shiftwww.windowscentral.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of alcohol is to not remember your poverty 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r/Silksong joins Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bit weird if they already didn’t take into consideration the costs of running a server

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a man of many minds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “in this moment, I am euphoric”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an AI hater but make literally one functioning AI product bro before you say that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences of not building enough housing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China is facing opposite problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the first time people (like me) started realising how he truly was when he called one of those Thailand rescue divers a pedophile. He went fully mask off in barely any time after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man I miss the time when I thought this man was actually gonna be like the next Tony Stark.

  If you read his reddit AmA he sounded like a pretty cool dude who wanted to advance science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ml is run by the devs of Lemmy so unfortunately that’s not realistic, you could be missing on a ton of information if you want to subscribe to Lemmy development or information related communities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zootopia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🥵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The underlying work on Win 8 was really good… Just not the front end

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza styles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck is AP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably controversial but Youtube is my least favourite search because it doesn’t tie in to your Google search at all. Like you search something on Google but YT doesn’t know that so the results are completely different. I WANT it to be fed my normal search history for context, what even is the point of having an interconnected ecosystem? Otherwise I’d just stick to DDG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised at no minecraft, has it peaked?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  💯💯💯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh fuck, yeah, I somehow forgot to put data ingestion as one of major negatives lmao. Yeah those LLMs are gonna know literally everything about you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Serious and long answer because you won’t find people actually providing you one here: in theory (heavy emphasis on theory), an “agentic” world would be fucking awesome.

  Agents

  You know how you have been programmed that when you search something on Google, you need to be to terse and to the point? The worst you get is “Best Indian restaurants near me” but you don’t normally do more than that.

  Well in reality most of the times when people just love rambling on or providing lots of additional info, so the natural language processing capabilities of LLMs are tremendously helpful. Like, what you actually want to do is “Best Indian restaurants near me but make sure it’s not more than 5km away and my chicken tikka plate doesn’t cost more than ₹400 and also I hope it’s near a train station so I can catch a train that will take me home by 11pm latest”. But you don’t put all that on fucking Google do ya?

  “Agents” will use a protocol that works in completely in the background called Model Context Protocol (MCP). The idea is that you put all that information into an LLM (ideally speak into it because no one actually wants to type all that) and each service will have it’s own MCP server. Google will have one so it will narrow down your filters to one being near a train station and less than 5km away. Your restaurant will have one, your agent will automatically make a reservation for you. Your train operator will have one, so you agent automatically book the train ticket for you. You don’t need to pull up each app individually, it will all happen in the background. And at most you will get a “confirm all the above?”. How cool is that?

  Uses

  So, what companies now want to do is leverage agents for everything, making use of NLP capabilities.

  • Let’s say you maintain a spreadsheet or database of how your vehicle is maintained, what repairs you have done. Why do you want to manually type in each time? Just tell your agentic OS “hey add that I spent ₹5000 in replacing this car part at this location in my vehicle maintenance spreadsheet. Oh and also I filled in petrol on the way.” and boom your OS does it for you.

  • You are want to add a new user to a Linux server. You just say “create a new user alice, add them to these local groups, and provide them sudo access as well. But also make sure they are forced to change their password every year”.

  • You have accounts across 3 banks and you want to create a visualisation of your spendings? Maybe you want to also flag some anamolous spends? You tell your browser to fetch all that information and it will do that for you.

  • You can tell your browser to track an item’s price and instantly buy it if it goes below a certain amount.

  • Flying somewhere? Tell your browser to compare airline policies, maybe checkout their history of delays and cancellations

  • And because it’s natural language, LLMs can easily ask to clarify something

  Obvious downsides

  So all this sounds awesome, but let’s get to why this will only work in theory unless there is a huge shift:

  • LLMs still suck in terms of accuracy. Yes they are decent but still not at the level where it’s needed and still make stupid errors. Also currently they are not making as generational upgrades as before

  • LLMs are not easy to self host. They are one of the genuine use cases of making use of cloud compute.

  • This means they are going to be expensiveeeeee and also energy hogs

  • Commercial companies actually want you to land on their servers. Yes its good that your OS will do it for you and they get a page hit but as of now that is absolutely not what companies. How are they going to serve you ads?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Get good or lower the difficultly and stop crying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anish Kapoor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re laughing. Anish Kapoor is trying his best to patent this fish and you’re laughing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Patch 1.5.0 Notes!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TLDR summary: major changes including new areas, lumina, weapons, photo mode, lumina loadouts, FSR4, Steam Deck verified, Breaking Death being not as… game-breaking anymore

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Patch 1.5.0 Notes!store.steampowered.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, I definitely do see the irony of this being posted to X⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter flags if you’re behind a VPN with an exclamation. I mean yeah it might be possible for some VPNs to stealth around that but not all of them can do it successfully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ffs I keep delaying a rebuild of my PC because of crap like this. I don’t use it for gaming nowadays since I have a console but even Sony is bringing their stuff to PC so I was looking to upgrade. Now it’s been pushed even more.

  Hang in there my 8 GB ram PC with GTX 960…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks… Great? Nice work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Tech Tips “disappointed” Steam Machine won’t be priced like a console - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s barely “decent” because it’s not even as powerful as a base PS5 which came out 5 years ago. Consoles are the baseline for any AA or AAA game and it will become outdated very quickly for a PC you can’t even upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Tech Tips “disappointed” Steam Machine won’t be priced like a console - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DOA already if it’s priced more than that

• Linus Tech Tips “disappointed” Steam Machine won’t be priced like a console - Dexertowww.dexerto.com ↗
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• GTA IV Is A Snapshot of the World Before It Changedwww.youtube.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably unpopular opinion: people hate “the algorithm” but you really need one for websites like Twitter; Mastodon feels absolutely dead due to lack of one.

  I wish I didn’t have to use them but Reddit and Twitter are the go to for anything about local news and sports, and I occasionally see some absolutely banging content from people I’m not subscribed to due to the algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mashallah Gabe will cook