baatliwala

@baatliwala@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  💯💯💯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Get good or lower the difficultly and stop crying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anish Kapoor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks… Great? Nice work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Tech Tips “disappointed” Steam Machine won’t be priced like a console - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨I knew it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mashallah Gabe will cook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What is your most 'comfy' anime?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haruhi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's role in world’s first AI-driven genocide, in Gaza, exposed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone have a link to the original report mentioned in the article?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s amazing how Americans love poking their nose into everyone else’s affairs yet can be so oblivious. For some people a phone is literally the only device they have, they can’t do anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very cool, but would suggest replacing the 6A some time – read up on its battery problems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Football Manager and FIFA sign multi-year partnership⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As many as Palestinians in Israel? I dunno, what a weird question to ask

• Football Manager and FIFA sign multi-year partnershipwww.footballmanager.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t its customer, businesses are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oppa oppa⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll hear nothing bad about that song, it was fun af. It was Kpop before Kpop was cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What even happened in this generation? There was nothing that separated it lmao. Realistically the only thing the next gen can add over this is full ray tracing from ground up, even something like frame gen would be proper embarrassing because a console is supposed to have all graphics baked in.

  If MS goes Windows on Xbox then that might genuinely be the way forward atp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I’ve tried and most of those games are quite boring aside from exceptions like Mario which are kinda playable. Pretty much all games from that era have a problem in that they don’t respect your time at all and they’re frustrating as hell to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This should have been a feature 10 years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry, guys, it's just not happening⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People in Japan be like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 5 million copies worldwide; new content update to come to celebrate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now introducing Chromatic Simon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 5 million copies worldwide; new content update to come to celebrate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s genuinely one of my all time favourite games, prolly in my top 10. It’s just sooooo good to play and somehow I love it even with its (few) flaws