a_wild_mimic_appears
@a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Ask the crickets 1 day ago:
Nope, 0 / 3 = 0 -> 0 + 4 = 4°C Division/Multiplication always goes before Addition/Subtraction.
- Comment on Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others 3 days ago:
I’m no fan of AI “answers”, because if i search for something, i’d like to have access to the source or at least know if i depend on a random social media post as my answer. I’m also pretty sure that - if they are smart, and they (mostly) are - caching of questions and answers will cut down on the amount of total questions asked.
and then there are things like grok, which fuck with air quality because elon couldn’t wait until the power grid was usable at his datacenter (or open a datacenter where you have access to the required amount of power) and uses dozens of gas turbines for power (without permits, because when the penalty is a fine, it’s just the cost of doing business)
desmog.com/…/xai-data-centre-emits-plumes-of-poll…
Because if there is something that can be done in a responsible way, you can count on elon to do it in the most braindead way possible.
- Comment on Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others 4 days ago:
just to set the record straight:
“For example, having DeepSeek R1 (70 billion parameters) answer 600,000 questions would create CO2 emissions equal to a round-trip flight from London to New York. Meanwhile, Qwen 2.5 (72 billion parameters) can answer more than three times as many questions (about 1.9 million) with similar accuracy rates while generating the same emissions.”
i’d say that makes the average usage for personal reasons an non-issue.
- Comment on Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others 4 days ago:
Generally, heating and cooling are the main energy consumption for domestic purposes. next up is the car, and then electrical consumption. (from what i remember).
as long as you don’t take a transatlantic trip your fine:
“For example, having DeepSeek R1 (70 billion parameters) answer 600,000 questions would create CO2 emissions equal to a round-trip flight from London to New York. Meanwhile, Qwen 2.5 (72 billion parameters) can answer more than three times as many questions (about 1.9 million) with similar accuracy rates while generating the same emissions.”
i don’t know y’all, but i can say it takes me a long-ass time to ask that many questions.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 4 days ago:
GenX here, my father was a racist and ran with a similar racist crowd, and i was disgusted pretty soon after i started to comprehend the shit they spew.
That crap they said sometimes still comes into my mind when seeing non-whites (i heard that stuff a lot, as my father descended into his alcoholism over 2 decades), and then i firmly disagree with those thoughts and feel icky. Racism (and i believe it’s the same for sexism) is an active choice, even when growing up in a racist environment.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 5 days ago:
damn, your description reminded me of my experience with laptops running off a 5k rpm hdd using windows 8. sorry for assuming.
- Comment on Dems Demand Answers from Palantir About Plans to Build IRS “Mega-Database” of American Citizens 5 days ago:
Americans, your Social Credit system is on its way, which is the perfect tool for fascism to crush dissidents.
I am truly sorry for you if you cannot mount effective resistance against this monstrosity.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 5 days ago:
try to get a ssd from somewhere, that gives devices like yours a second life (and if you switch to linux it gets even smoother - sorry i couldn’t resisit)
- Comment on I want a boyfriend, but I feel like I don't deserve to have one, and I keep alternating between those two thoughts which is making me feel confused. Is this normal? 1 week ago:
Please get an appointment with an psychiatrist and start looking out for an therapist before the ruminations (that’s what that is called) turn darker. A partner will not help with this more than in the short term, I speak from long years of experience.
There are multiple probable causes for ruminations: depression, trauma and personality disorders are the most common ones. only a psychiatrist can get you an correct diagnosis, which will help pinpoint where the ruminations come from, but the way out is always therapy.
But you can be sure that you are not bad or gross or something like that - your mind is just fixated on bad thoughts and experiences. Others will have a completely different picture of you. Knowing how my mind works when caught in my “loop”, you don’t believe one word of that, but it still needed to be said :-)
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 week ago:
IIRC that was caused by a buffer underflow, his probability to try to go nuclear was set to literally zero, which was stored in an unsigned int, and in-game policies reduced it further, causing a nuke-maxing ghandi
- Comment on Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement 1 week ago:
when disney wins there will be nothing left to sue, with the result that now the entertainment industry, which has the available training data, will also have the AI technology, and the only one who profits is disney - because in this situation all open source GenAI is fucked.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 1 week ago:
If the penalty is a fine, then for most it’s just the cost of doing business. I agree that the 50% is probably a bit harsh, but executive boards and CEOs must start facing real consequences like jail time or painful fines that make it impossible to just ignore it - so it has to be based of a percentage of revenue at least in the double digits, not profits or a fixed amount.
- Comment on Only $50? 2 weeks ago:
in the “supporting information” is a video of all 5 study participants btw
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
Premium Lite does not include access to YouTube Music - or else the ads on music videos wouldn’t be seen. (That’s the only thing i can understand on this bastardized version of a premium service)
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 weeks ago:
I am not a native speaker, but my knowledge of the english language is better than most people i know, having no issues reading scientific papers and similar complex documents. Some wikipedia article intros, especially in the mathematics, are not comprehensible for anyone but mathematicians, and therefore fail the objective to give the average person an overview of the material.
It’s fine for me if i am not able to grasp the details of the article because of missing prerequisite knowledge (and i know how to work with integrals and complex numbers!), but the intro should at least not leave me wondering what the article is about.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they get open sourced by publishing them over the usual channels during disputes on the War Thunder discord server.
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t fully agree with you, we don’t have enough details. From what i’ve read mom could have been abusive towards dad (at least emotionally), and that makes doing everything in the open pretty scary. I’d forgive someone who cheated to get out of an abusive situation.
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
it was kbin, the first one i registered on because it played nicely mastodon too, and i thought it would be nice to have less tabs permanently open.
now i have accounts on mastodon, dbzer0’s lemmy, piefed, pixelfed and even friendica goddamnit it’s like collecting pokemon
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 3 weeks ago:
The top Youtube comment by Ridley Combs explains it pretty well:
FFmpeg maintainer here, and the details behind the caption decoding issues you’re seeing in VLC are complex and horrific. They largely stem from how the EIA-608 caption format expects text to be laid out in a monospace grid onscreen, which isn’t really how the text rendering stacks used for modern subtitling work (this is probably why changing the font caused problems on those Sony players); beyond that, the behavior can just end up pretty complex, and there’s no convenient public-domain corpus of sample files for open-source software developers to test against. These kinds of issues also affect the Japanese (ARIB) and European (Teletext) formats to varying extents. These days, a lot of the focus ends up being on converting the text into modern Unicode text formats, styled using modern techniques, so direct rendering of the legacy formats hasn’t had as much attention lately.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 4 weeks ago:
If they could make them small / sensitive enough to make them subdermal, without the risky brainsurgery, that would be an absolute gamechanger and would increase acceptance by a lot. if the process would be like getting a few piercings under local anesthesia, it would make servicing the hardware much less of a life and death decision, and i wouldn’t mind getting something like that - especially if it’s on the hackability scale of a steam deck lol
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve set up my SO with adfree alternative clients for Youtube 3 times now, and she always defaults back to the adinfested youtube app. i cannot wrap my head around it, but it’s her time and attention she’s wasting, not mine.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 4 weeks ago:
hardcode all the ip’s!
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 4 weeks ago:
Dead Island 2 is free on Epic currently, and probably more fun than Borderlands 4; BL 3 wasn’t written well, and i assume the same for BL 4. A shame, BL2 i one of my most played FPS
- Comment on noyb sends Meta 'cease and desist' letter over AI training. European Class Action as potential next step 5 weeks ago:
a quick overview of the legal battles of Max Schrems / NOYB: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
- Comment on noyb sends Meta 'cease and desist' letter over AI training. European Class Action as potential next step 5 weeks ago:
Max Schrems and his team have done a lot of good regarding user rights in the face of giants like meta. I’m pretty sure that at least a handful of Meta employees regulary have nightmares because of NOYB.
- Comment on My PC is tired 1 month ago:
nah, it’s only if you are to lazy to learn. i bet i can play more games on a budget pc than on a ps5, even with integrated graphics nowadays, because PC’s have a back catalogue from the last 4 decades, and thats before getting into emulation of classic consoles like NES, Megadrive and a lot more platforms.
Consoles are just good for switching your brain off, which is a valid reason to get one. But the price of 5 console games gives you enough wiggle room to get a decent graphics card which will run pretty much everything you want, and it will do so for the forseeable future.
- Comment on My PC is tired 1 month ago:
and don’t forget repairability - i recently broke the digitizer of my steam deck, i just went to ifixit and ordered a new one for 100€. you can repair everything on that thing with a simple screwdriver, which is whack
- Comment on Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes... 1 month ago:
for the modern child with liver cirrhosis
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 1 month ago:
I disagree on the premise that a rock cannot be used for much. I mean, the available actions for a rock ARE pretty limited, but it can be used in a variety of ways!
- Comment on When you fail the DC 8 "JD, CHILL!" Persualsion check 1 month ago:
How many hit points had the Pope, an high level archpriest? he was sick, so he definitely wasn’t at max hp, but he fumbled that roll hard.