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- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 4 days ago:
OCR was more my thinking, not Pandoc. LLMs enable OCR to achieve greater accuracy through context enhancement for example.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 5 days ago:
I would argue we have seen return. Documentation is easier. Tools for PDF, Markdown have increased in efficacy. Coding alone has lowered the barrier to bringing building blocks and some understanding to the masses. If we could hitch this with trusted and solid LLM data, it makes a lot of things easier for many people. Translation is another.
I find it very hard to believe 95% got ZERO benefit. We’re still benefiting and it’s forcing a lot of change. More power use? More renewable energy, and even (yes safe) nuclear. These tools will also get better and improve the interface between physical and digital. This will become ubiquitous, and we’ll forget we couldn’t just ‘talk’ to computers so easily.
I’ll end with, I don’t say ‘AI’ is an overblown and overused and overutilized buzzword everywhere these days. I can’t say about bubbles and shit either. But what I see is a lot of smart people making LLMs and related technologies more efficient, more powerful, and is trickling into many areas of software alone. It’s easier to review code, participate, etc. Literal papers are published constantly about how they find new and better and more efficient ways to do things.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 2 weeks ago:
I’m. So. Reassured.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 2 weeks ago:
What prevents them from getting bigger and doing the same thing. This cycle of sadomasochism needs to stop at the root cause.
- Comment on Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released 4 weeks ago:
Can I still get it anywhere? I love Tetris
- Comment on Microsoft exec admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 4 weeks ago:
Well, I don’t want to credit tumor, oop typo for Trump but I’ll allow it. So tumor and vance.
It was more that Encryption is constantly under threat. I don’t know how that gets downvoted.
- Comment on Microsoft exec admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 4 weeks ago:
Sounds good until you remember that they keep trying to backdoor encryption. It’s asinine.
The only good thing the
Trump adminJD Vance has done: UK will back down over its demands on Apple for an encryption backdoorThis isn’t the first time it’s come up. In EU too.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 4 weeks ago:
Yes it sucks. And it’s not the only one. I’ve recently been seeing scam ‘official site’ of a real site. Then in another occasion it was looking for a product. I couldn’t remember if it was just .com or .net. The product was not even within the first two pages of results.
I also tried DuckDuckGo.
Meanwhile I tried Kagi, first result for both, each time. I was swapping to Linux and didn’t have my Kagi login handy at the time. Anyway
It’s a HUGE difference today in search. To find what you need through all this other extra shit. Good Search is more important now than ever imho.
- Comment on Abiotic Factor review - Abiotic Factor is an instant survival classic, and one of the best games I've played in years. 5 weeks ago:
Man that site is such an ad dump haven… a ad disaster when on iOS.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 weeks ago:
Maybe the problem is the advertisers and not the consumers. Jeeeesus.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 1 month ago:
Right? Haha 😂 Oh did we suddenly clean up the entire Earth from free roaming microplastics?
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 month ago:
I love this. To quote an expert: “Life, uh, finds a way.”
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
Like Kagi for web searching.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 months ago:
That is definitely how I read it.
History can’t just be ‘rewritten’ by A.I. and taken as truth. That’s fucking stupid.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 2 months ago:
I own something from that. I tried running it once and it would barely load. I gave up. Didn’t try again even on a new pc
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 months ago:
They said if they PAY to use… and get ads. They are right, I ditched tv for streaming because less ads. Now they want to go full circle? I feel like I can’t even open up the fridge these days without having some agenda or ad start.
- Comment on Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors 3 months ago:
Bond, James Bond. Junior.
- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 3 months ago:
Klarna sucks balls. “We’re your friend! We help you buy things!*”
*APR 69%; yearly fee: Left limb. Firstborn children no longer accepted.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
We did this when I was between 7-9 years. Once they had us line up on one side, and we could only cross the room, using those. Some tried to push and got ‘stranded’ between. One kid, put one in front of the other then swapped. Then again. Using two to cross. Soon many were trying to. I still remember this decades later 😁
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 3 months ago:
Sorry, uh… I didn’t mean run them at the same time. I had to have a DHCP server stand in for it when I had to take that device itself down (the pi). That was ages ago. But I was still starting out!
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 3 months ago:
Yes especially if you’re using DHCP on Pi-hole
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 3 months ago:
How much of that was seeing what all those decades actually DID, and a generation later realizing it needed to be changed.
Still it’s crappy we are so crappy with our home. I do think we should work exceptionally hard to fix things here. Find real solutions to problems. Else what’s the point of going to other planets? We need those same skills to survive, terraform, geoengineer, know the potential for ecology, etc.
- Comment on A million batman origin stories. Parents brutally murdered by whoever. But instead of a family fortune you are approached by a friendly CIA agent who offers to fund your career of vengeance. 3 months ago:
I dunno, he gets treated like a ‘normie’ but continually surprised people who underestimate him.
It wasn’t the best movie but not the worse. It has some fun moments. Made me want to watch Mr. Robot (only seen pieces).
- Comment on A million batman origin stories. Parents brutally murdered by whoever. But instead of a family fortune you are approached by a friendly CIA agent who offers to fund your career of vengeance. 3 months ago:
I just saw this movie.
Tap for spoiler
He blackmails his superiors to get training… he isn’t offered to get revenge on his wife’s killers. They laugh at him…
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 3 months ago:
When they monitor what you watch and how you share it with, it’s enshittified. Fuck Plex. I used to be a lifetime drum thumper. Stopped a few years ago.
Plex doesn’t care about you, your comfort, ease. It wants your money and it wants to monitor and control what you do with your own data.
Fuck. That.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 3 months ago:
Could happen to a nicer piece of shit.
- Comment on Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to 3 months ago:
“You clean poop chutes.”
- Comment on In 2024, 62% of all child sexual abuse webpages found were traced to an EU country, and the Netherlands remains the most abused global location for hosting CSAM. 4 months ago:
Taking this with a grain of salt coming from the UK. The same UK who really wants to backdoor encryption, and isn’t subject to the EU (Brexit).
It’s shitty that CSAM is a problem, but it’s not a solution to backdoor encryption and vacuum everyone’s data. This is what would happen. It starts with ‘protecting the children’ and moves quickly into abuse of privilege.
- Comment on Self-hosted PDF manager? 4 months ago:
I third this! I saw title and came to say.
It’s actively being developed still, I get emails like once every 1–3 weeks, sometimes more. Sometimes less.
I use docker desktop for this. I also lowkey learned how to set up a multi-database for this at one point, but kinda stopped after I got it working. More to see if I could.
I also tried bare metal building this, but had shit luck. It’s been a couple years though. Docker just makes it easy as hell.
I still keep all the originals separate just in case, and the tool can help you make multiple copies too (like PDF-A). I’ve never needed to go back and use those though, as Paperless just works so well once you get the hang of it and how you want your data stored.
I picked a structure that kind of lets me find stuff easily even if the tool is not running (like just by folder structures).
I’ve yet to make this online available for obvious reasons. But it would be nice to be able to pull up pretty much any document you need, any time.
Any suggestions on safe web access quickly from a phone might be helpful (WireGuard maybe?) if you have them.
- Comment on Day 276 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 4 months ago:
Is the game worth the premium? I was thinking of this or Indiana Jones. Or what else is solid right now? Last game I got into was Baldurs Gate 3
