msage

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because many cities are already draining aquifers which aren’t being replenished due to the lower rains and higher demand, and once those are gone, both servers and people will be absolutely fucked?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t Google going to do it themselves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 2 | Available May 15, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I finished Eternal on Nightmare and almost never used the hook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 2 | Available May 15, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Both 2016 and Eternal were best on the Nightmare difficulty.

  The start sucks, as you don’t have all the tools, but it teaches you how to approach the arena combat. Once you figure it out, and you start to enjoy running around the map blasting everything in the face, you just do that for the rest of the game.

  (I have not played DLCs, as even Eternals EULA angered me too much).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Tesla to delay US launch of affordable EV, a lower-cost Model Y, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla has promised…

  Oh my god, stop the fucking presses!

  The Tesla has made a promise!!1!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My mother and sister is on my homeserver.

  Also my SO.

  And my every friend.

  And we use Jitsi for calls during gaming or whatnot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best approach to selfhosting Synapse (Matrix)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use the pip install without issues for 8 years.

  Never join matrix.org from your server (or ideally any other) and you’ll be fine.

  I have my entire inner circle on my homeserver without issues, sharing pictures and texting a lot, and in that time we are on like 25ish GB in disk space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anime fans lose big after Crunchyroll still in business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is fucked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ja?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But even senior devs don’t know that.

  I’ve seen a senior describe the chatbot as ‘expert senior colleague to discuss ideas with’.

  Which is horrifying. Cause that’s the most wrong take there could be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For fucking WHAT?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  never

  … and therein lies the problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that’s not the intention, but saying it like that slides into apology territory.

  We should be absolutely appalled at the firing, maybe to a lesser extent, but there is no better time to point out this than during a big event.

  It’s kinda like saying ‘protestors should not disrupt public spaces’, like they have done everything else, what else do people need to wake up and draw the line?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen people on the internet suggesting Darktable as a solid Lightroom replacement… I don’t know anything about photo editing, but am curious - how bad is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve just had survey at work about genAI, a large part of the devs use Linux and LLMs, yet nobody could explain how genAI works.

  I was very surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would be surprised.

  An awful lot of people, including Linux users, are into genAI. And not many understand anything behind it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the neat part.

  Ever since ‘journalism’ has been reduced to reposting social media posts, there is very little reputation to be had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait for the next year when he screams in the corner about other countries being mean to the US, so he is forced to do military incursion into the Greenland.

  Fuck everyone who voted for this, btw. But also fuck every single motherfucker who enabled this orange bafoon long before he got there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The community notes appear many hours after the original has been posted, meaning that majority of interactions will be before any notes will be attached. And even the process of choosing the community notes is not transparent, so you can never be sure that the note does its job even after it’d added.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Release the kraken⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, everything coming from contemporary generative AI is a slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The current drive behind AI is not progress, it’s locking knowledge behind a paywall.

  As soon as one company perfects their AI, it will draw everyone to use it, marketing it as ‘time saver’ so you don’t have to do anything (including browsing the web, which is in decline even now). Just ask and you shall receive everything.

  Once everyone gets hooked, and there won’t be any competiton left, they will own the population. News, purchase recommendations, learning, everything we do to work on our congitive abilities will be sold through a single vendor.

  Suddenly you own the minds of many people, who can’t think for themselves, or search for knowledge on their own… and that’s already happening.

  And it’s not the progress I was hoping to see in my lifetime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favourite part of the day: commenting LLMentalist under AI articles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really depends on many factors. If you have everything in RAM, almost nothing matters.

  If your dataset outgrows the capacity, various things start to matter, based on your workload. Random reads need to have good indices (also writes with unique columns), OLAPs benefit from work_mem, >100M rows will need good partitioning, OLTP may even need some custom solutions if you need to keep a long history, but not for every transaction.

  But even with >B of rows, Postgres can handle it with relative ease, if you know what you’re doing. Usually even on a hardware you would consider absolutely inadequate (last year I migrated our company DB from MySQL to Postgres, and with even more data and more complex workflows we downsized our RAM by more than half).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Postgres is so quick if you know how to use it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah, I selfhost everything, but I hate that i have to learn and support the most useless shit ever just to earn a living.

  It used to be fun being a dev, now I’m just repeating the same warning phrases about technologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m losing my will to live lately at an alarming rate.

  I used to love IT, way back at the start of 00s.

  Soon after the 10s started, I noticed bullshit trends replacing one another… like crypto or clouds or SaaS… but now with the AI I just feel alienated. Like we’re just all going to hell, and I hate the first row seating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So we are moving away from >1GB node_modules finally? Or is it too soon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What ‘both countries’ are we talking about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GalapagOS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Drink verification can