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- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 1 week ago:
I like it a lot, because it’s clean and lets me switch between the two indexes with one click, and it’s pretty fast and responsive. It’s been my main search while i was a mullvad client, and i dearly missed it after switching my VPN provider. I’m happy they decided to open it up for the public.
- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 2 weeks ago:
I currently use mullvad leta, which uses either the google or brave index. It was only for their VPN users before, but they opened it up to everyone. It’s a nice, simple interface - a “no bullshit”-experience.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Right now i play “A Game about digging a Hole”. I feel very dwarfy rn.
- Comment on [The Neverhood] “Unintentionally Scary” - Earlybird 2 weeks ago:
This channel is really nice!
Another recommendation i can give is Charlatan Wonder, who specializes in the quite fuzzy “Immersive Sim” category: www.youtube.com/@CharlatanWonder/videos
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you think after 5 months without oversight who exactly has access to that server that the difference between this and a random s3 bucket is nearly nil? But you are right, in the light of integrity the title should reflect the facts as they present themselves currently.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 weeks ago:
The votes on the posting itself should reflect if the content is worth your time. I’m not even American and I have a really bad feeling after reading the article, but it’s better to know than being in the dark, and the article itself is full of details which make it pretty reasonable to believe it’s the truth.
Mr Borges really brought the receipts on this one, and he is one of the heros of the american people that will probably pay dearly for his courage, and he still did what’s right.
- Comment on They didn't stop to think if they should 2 weeks ago:
I would be less concerned if that rectum actually were a rectum, those are actually built to stretch, even if not that far.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 weeks ago:
I’m happy to see that all around the games industry and the surrounding areas like game journalism the value of unions is rediscovered. Work to rule is very effective against these insidious tactics of one layoff round after another while announcing record profits, because if noone cares that work piles up because of not enough hands, it hurts the owners in the only way they understand - in their finances.
This greedy thinking of only next quarter’s numbers must end.
- Comment on Police search Australian bush for gunman after two officers killed 2 weeks ago:
Less cops is normally good, but in this case i would have wished for a different outcome - probably abused his children because those laws don’t exist for him. At least the rest of the family is free of this nutcase now.
- Comment on Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day - Kyodo News 2 weeks ago:
It would be wise to do the same with stuff like working hours too, to stop the “attendance epidemic” that is so harmful to people that they have a word for “death by overworking”. But regarding this one, as long as it stays on a level of a PSA that’s fine by me.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 3 weeks ago:
There are analog clocks that move the minute hand only when the next minute starts. But to be honest, you might profit from a little less rigidity in your “time usage” - it’s good for your mental health to not plan everything down to the minute. If i make a private appointment, i try to set time windows of 10-15 minutes for meetups; i aim for the beginning of the window, and if i get delayed it’s of no consequence.
Can you imagine that it’s not so long ago that people called a phone number that told you what time it will be at the next signal tone?
- Comment on Depth psychological psychotherapy is like unblocking a pipe with a plunger: You shake deep-seated problems until everything almost works normal again. 3 weeks ago:
Therapy while being on ketamine i think. Seems to work pretty well in particularly stubborn depression.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
There’s a distinctive difference between american evangelists and other christian groups, for starters that the evangelists have been integrated in the state-religion the USA has been running at least since the cold war., and they are actively utilized by the Republicans. This also means that those evangelists believe that in the US white nationalists should be in power.
Please note that the “christian” part in this has gone pretty far from any christian roots - it’s for the most part just utilized to identify the in-group and to radicalize members. The quip “Y’all qaeda” comes pretty close to the truth - they are just as radical and socially regressive as any other islamic sect that would use terror to achieve their goals.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 3 weeks ago:
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Always have Jeans.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t laugh. Those people fulfill a basic human need in a way they feel safe with - probably because this safety is missing from their life. It’s not healthy to be so attached to LLMs, but to become so attached they must feel pretty isolated. And LLM’s are a lot more interactive and responsive than Severus Snape, and he had lots of women “channeling” him.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 3 weeks ago:
I can fully understand? The average human, from my perspective and lived experience, is garbage to his contemporaries; and one is never safe from being hurt, neither from family or friends. Some people have been hurt more than others - i can fully understand the need for exchange with someone/something that genuinely doesn’t want to hurt you and that is (at least seemingly) more sapient than a pet.
- Comment on Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia 3 weeks ago:
Google has co-operated with the ACCC, admitted liability and agreed to jointly submit to the Court that Google should pay a total penalty of $55 million
$55 million penalty for Google is a joke.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 4 weeks ago:
and if the content is something to download, most of the time you can grab the clean steam files from a website of a russian counterstrike community and drop the files into your game install folder and then use the aforementioned tools.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 4 weeks ago:
yeah that might work, but what will happen to all the data they store currently?
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 4 weeks ago:
I mean the discovery queue is pretty much on point except for the blockbusters they insert “because they are popular”. I don’t care whats popular, i care about what i like, roguelike indies and metroidvanias for example.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 4 weeks ago:
“There were more sports cars in the parking lot in the PS1 era than there were in the PS4 era, …"
dude, fuck you, your parking lot and i wish that giant acme anvils drop on every fucking sports car you’ll ever own.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
I just tried it out and it worked flawless, and i had a lot more luck than you with different apps. we can at least agree that it isn’t consistently stable depending on configuration, and i feel pretty lucky that my nobara installation is one of the happy ones.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
@HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
That’s also my experience, and with experimental wayland and ntsync support in wine 10 it feels even smoother (but i don’t have numbers to back it up - maybe i’ll benchmark wine 9 & 10 parallel, if i do i append the info here)
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
Why is the 4070 an issue regarding linux? Nvidia drivers have come a long way since the beginning of the year, currently running modded cyberpunk on my 3070 Ti without issues.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
if getting psychogically profiled and targeted does not count as harassment (i do count it as such) then you are right.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 4 weeks ago:
Adding the cost for training, which is a one time cost, to ChatGPT raises the power consumption from 3W to 4W. That’s the high-end calculation btw.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 5 weeks ago:
Buzz off.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 5 weeks ago:
Regarding energy use see my other reply. It’s like if you scold people for running their microwave 10s too long. Watching 2 hours of Netflix is a lot worse. go read up here
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 5 weeks ago:
The energy costs are overblown. An response costs about 3Wh, which is about 1 minute of runtime for a 200W Pc, or 10 Seconds of a 1000W microwave. See the calculations made here and below for the energy costs. if you want to save energy, go vegan and ditch your car; completely disbanding ChatGPT amounts for 0,0017% of the CO2 Reduction during Covid 2020 (this guy gave the numbers, but had an error in magnitude, which i fixed in my reply, calculator output is attached. It would help climate activists if they concentrated on something that is worthwhile to criticize.
If i read a book, and use phrases out of that book in my communication, it is covered under fair use - the same should be applicable for scraping the web, or else we can close the internet archive next. Since LLM output isn’t copyrightable, i see no issues with that - and copyright law in the US is an abomination which is only useful for big companies to use as a weapon, small artists don’t really profit from that.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 5 weeks ago:
Ah ok, yeah the anticheat should be linux compatible, but they simply don’t activate it for whatever stupid reason. But maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel; since Microsoft is banishing third party drivers from Kernel in the near future, because of the Crowdstrike disaster. That could mean that those anticheats can be run with proton. Only time will tell. gL&hf!