Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on TikTok plans to lay off several hundred of their moderation team in the UK in favor of AI content moderation 4 days ago:
How much will the fines cost vs paying these people I wonder? 200*25k is approximately £5m/annum. Come on £10m fine!
- Comment on Next time I swear bro 4 days ago:
I’m also not saying LLMs and Markov Chains don’t have a use. Just it’s a dead end towards general artifical intelligence
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X strikes tentative agreement to settle $500 million lawsuit over Twitter firings 4 days ago:
Don’t be so sure. Very little of his net worth will be liquid. Meaning giving up a big chunk of something
- Comment on Next time I swear bro 4 days ago:
They are basically just giant markov chains. Knock your heart out
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 5 days ago:
Prospect in the UK
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 6 days ago:
So as much as I dislike crypto, it is basically built to be enshitification proof. And hence a good fit for the fediverse. But I wouldn’t want to touch the crypto ecosystem with a ten foot pole, nevermind a lemmy/mastodon integration
Which leaves us at the behest of traditional payment processors, and they are all faceless conglomerates who care not for anyone. Meaning we’re fucked there too
Maybe we should instead not bring transactions to the fediverse
- Comment on Do I need the ISPs home router? 1 week ago:
You might be able to do mac address cloning for fiber ports, if you have openwrt or similar it usually offers it.
A firewall may not offer full routing and NAT though for ipv4 devices, or wifi if you need it, or ipv6, or many other features. I’ve also used a cable modem and stuck the router in the dmz which essentially makes it a passthrough device also in the past
Basically, play with it and good luck!
- Comment on What foss MP games are still active? 1 week ago:
Xonotic still has a few servers running and 385 players yesterday
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 2 weeks ago:
Me too. I don’t regret the Series X either, the SSD is great for online loading times and play
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 2 weeks ago:
SSDs - they are very nice. Series S is very affordable too if you aren’t a disc gamer
- Comment on Picked this up for only $20 3 weeks ago:
$50 sounds a bargain for the amount of time this may take! Order today, you’ll be booting by the weekend
- Comment on Picked this up for only $20 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, I’ve blown up some transistors in my time (crack!), but never seen one go bad. But it is quite old!
- Comment on Picked this up for only $20 3 weeks ago:
It’ll be the caps. Best of luck! Even for the other parts it is worth a packet more
- Comment on Wes Streeting says striking doctors ‘will lose a war with this government’ 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t sound like a Labour government to me
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 4 weeks ago:
More facism from Trump. And he won the popular vote. Americans love facism
- Comment on The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later 4 weeks ago:
Nah, most of the banks solved this years ago already
- Comment on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? 1 month ago:
Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Page ruined the internet for us. That’s who to blame
- Comment on Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts 1 month ago:
It encourages dog-piling essentially
- Comment on Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it. 1 month ago:
Because AI sucks at basically all tasks. And if I wanted the simple article I’d have visited the simple article. What you have done is denied entry to one of the most valuable resources ever created: wikipedia
- Comment on Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it. 1 month ago:
Thanks, I hate it
- Comment on The Education Crisis: How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market 1 month ago:
I suspect people (not billionaires) are realising that they can get by with less. And that the planet needs that too. And that working 40+ hours a week isn’t giving people what they really want either.
There’s also the value of money has never been lower either. Working for less isn’t rewarding. And so demand is getting intensely squeezed, and this is likely to continue with a planet that is full of enough stuff
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t bet on that. American military might is still untouchable, and America is still a huge oil producer
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 1 month ago:
Trump understands that it doesn’t matter about the debt. Who does he owe it to after all? The banks won’t call the debts in, cause they don’t need to, and if he devalues the dollar he sees it as a win for exports
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 month ago:
I work in this field. I’m trying to change these numbers! We are heading the right direction is the good news. China may well save us all with cheaper panels and battery manufacturing. And if 97% reduces our emissions even 50% on todays emissions then we can start talking about actually meeting some climate targets.
So this is all good news, but as I also said: I work in this field and know we have a long way to go yet. There also isn’t a single answer. Batteries, smart grids, grid-interconnects, efficiencies, supply mixes, demand offsetting; power is the best thing in the world to work in right now, it touches sooo many aspects of humanity and is changing so fast!
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 month ago:
Coal has long been unprofitable, and nuclear has always needed huge state funding (you get weapons as the byproduct of nuclear power, hence the subsidies). Until it beats gas it still isn’t cheap enough imo. Gas of course is still massively subsidised too though, and that’s where we need to continue to work: our policy makers need to end fossil fuel subsidies
- Comment on I want a community to exist like 4chan greentext here 1 month ago:
Fesshole
- Comment on Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence 1 month ago:
I’ve got some bad news for you. They will never fix the mistakes as it cannot reason, it has no actual intelligence. LLMs are already plateauing and are miles away from being trustworthy. And they steal copyrighted work every request
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 1 month ago:
Gemini protocol is fab btw. Come join the tildeverse
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 2 months ago:
I will chortle a lot
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 2 months ago:
Clearly never played proball, a quake3 mod which was a fucking hoot and laid a lot of groundwork for Rocket League. Did hours of this at LAN parties
Soccer tournament for unreal was also excellent. Deathball for 2004 for was also brilliant. I’d love to see CoD or Fortnite do a modern fps take on the concept