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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI controls is coming to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  None of what is considered ‘AI’ is actually AI, it’s just a rebrand of machine learning tech that has been around for a few years now (and is genuinely useful in certain circumstances). It’s all ‘AI’, only the generative AI is worth getting mad about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check mate, Libertarians⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can try it yourself, sit in a chair or the edge of your bed, and tap your knee just below the kneecap with your fingertips. You should be able to feel your leg twitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The combat is fine, my only issue with it was the camera trying to get you killed, especially around corners. Still one of the best games Ubisoft have ever made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a fediverse alternative of Discord be possible?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you use voice chats in the same way that Discord allows you to? Can you hop in to an empty voice channel without having to initiate an end to end call?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not quite, he doesn’t demean himself by ‘buying’ anything, he just built a place where other people can buy stuff for a dollar and sell it for two, and Jeff takes a cut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a 1-bit LLM inference framework. It let's you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs. 6.17x faster inference and 82.2% less energy on CPUs.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No that would require AI (Actual Intelligence)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I only get my information from lemmy comments

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually anti-lock breaking system, super high end; not many cables have it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not told much about the Independant Planets, certainly nothing suggests that they themselves did anything wrong (other than secede). You seem to have a problem with their superficial resemblence of the confederacy.

  Mal and his crew are thieves and smugglers, not pirates or murderers. The ‘Mal is latin for bad’ line another commenter mentioned was a red herring in an episode. They aren’t evil people intent on subjugation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no indication that slavery was a factor, only political self-determination

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'A den of bandits': Rwanda closes thousands of evangelical churches⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t about personal beliefs, it’s about organised religion (where the church dictates to children their beliefs)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then explain Denmark

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Local ML translation was pretty cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar concepts have been developed before, Microsoft and Southampton University were working on glass cubes with 3D laser etchings in the centre around 2015-16

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  EpicMegaGames was legit back in the 90’s, regardless of what a slimy, backwards, CEO Tim is today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted TinyPNG alternative with Docker (imgcompress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This may just be a usecase thing, but what is the advantage of this over imagemagick? I can already magick photo1.jpg -resize 50% photo1.png and when the process ends it’s not constantly using resources in a webserver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also bought a lifetime Plex pass a few years ago, but I’ve migrated to Jellyfin because Plex is no longer a trustworthy project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you turn it on it boots to a controller friendly UI that shows you all your steam games. No setup, no hunting for drivers, no bloat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you’d be surprised how cheap a politician can be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Now pay us lots of money and we’ll give you more genius insights”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Evil has no birthplace, it has always existed in all people. Evil was there long before ‘The West’ or ‘Middle East’ were things. Religions don’t cause evil or intolerance, but some religions can be easily used to justify stoning gay people to death, or killing women for daring to be independant. If the bible didn’t command that gay people be murdered, or if Islam didn’t command that apostates be slain, it would be much harder to justify these evil acts. This isn’t a problem of religion, it’s a problem of cultures that take their religion too seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This pressure is coming from the payment providers without whom no storefront can operate. We need alternatives to Visa and Mastercard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sources to purchase mp3s?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could also buy CDs and rip them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summoning Circle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they’d be sandwitches

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They could stop paying their CEO so much and hire a few more devs, refocus their identity on privacy and performance (their offline ai translation is actually really useful), and actually give people the sense that their donations will be well spent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My latest hyperfixation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have lots of jpgs you can losslessly reencode them to jpegxl and make them ~20-30% smaller (or absolutely shrink them with barely any noticable quality loss)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Asking an llm isn’t research, he might as well have been consulting a magic 8 ball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Half Life came out in 1998 (27 years ago) and this post is from 2003 (22 years ago). Half Life is retro gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All I see is *******?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t cited any laws or said what they did was wrong, just that the government doesn’t like having its toys broken. Absolutely setting fire to a nazi train may be the morally correct thing to do, but you can still understand the nazis not being happy about it: these aren’t mutually exclusive propositions.