brucethemoose
@brucethemoose@lemmy.world
- Comment on How do I deliver an American eBay package to my hotel? 1 hour ago:
Be aware that with eBay, shipping times can vary.
The seller has a grace period to pack stuff up, and even once it’s handed off, shipping can take longer than the estimate, especially with USPS.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 1 hour ago:
The good thing is that we have a few giants with vested interests in resisting that. PC OEMs like Dell and HP, Clevo, Intel/AMD who still have huge consumer sales, and the big one:
Apple.
Apple is all-in on personal compute, and they have the muscle to resist the anticompetitive plays, hopefully.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 day ago:
Davinci works better in Linux.
RAW photo editing is already horrible in Windows if you’re trying to do HDR. To be fair, it’s horrible in Linux too, but as much as I hate it, they can’t touch Apple.
See this post I just made: lemmy.world/post/41751454/21613633
iOS will render HDR JPEG-XL, AVIF and tiled HEIFs straight out of a camera; no problem. But it’s a struggle on Windows and Linux.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
A lot of communities have rules that posts need to be titled the same as the source article, which, while it prevents editorializing, it also brings all those ragebait headlines here. Plus I’d like to see Lemmy users’ opinions moreso than an article I could just read myself.
If half our content is just reposted mainstream media, why would one expect our comment sections to look any different than the comment sections of those mainstream sites?
I agree with the sentiment but disagree with the prognosis.
In my experience, the ragebait articles around here are largely from the same sites. Rawstory, mediaite, dailybeast, some of The Guardian’s more indulgent pieces. I won’t presume to know why the posters post them, but they’re ragebait to start.
The accurate title rule is great as long as posters pick more journalistic articles instead of opinion pieces or reposts. And if they don’t there’s no fixing that anyway.
I’d probably prefer more of the political post to be thoughts/feelings and then discussion is backed up by decent articles
And I straight up I disagree with this.
There are tons of talking heads with opinions. But journalism rooted in sourcing is much harder. That should come first, or at least come with an opinion in the OP, and then the discussion is built around facts.
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 6 days ago:
This is a likely option.
The problem is, while faster on paper, its not really any faster than my 3090, especially in spots where I need the most performance.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
Yeah, this is generally my philosophy. I have exactly 1 user blocked.
But the problem for me is magnitude. With its sheer number of upvotes, /c/politics is blotting out my sun; it does no good leaving it in my feed.
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 1 week ago:
Oh, I know. I bought my previous GPUs in the peak of cypto busts.
But I need 24GB… My plan was to eventually buy a 4090 when they get cheaper, or 24GB Intel/AMD card. But it doesn’t feel like AMD/Intel are interested in big GPUs anymore, and the 4090 just keeps going up in price.
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 1 week ago:
So I FOMO bought an SSD and SD card when all this started.
Not regretting it.
…But now I’m considering hoarding a spare GPU. Is that nuts? I don’t need it, but If my 3000 card suddenly dies, is it gonna take $2000 to replace?
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
I like Lemmy as a “zoo”
I like seeing nuts and weirdos and niches and stuff when I scroll by. It feels like the old internet. And I also find that lemmy.ml has good discussions outside tankie politics, so I don’t want to block that out.
Problem with the main political subs is that they’re so big they flood post sorted by Active, Rising, or New Comments. Their tabloid garbage crowds everything else out.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 1 week ago:
Star posting. Please. I am begging you.
- An American tired of wallowing.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
It’s addictive. It’s not like I haven’t stepped in it either.
This is what I keep hammering; people can’t help themselves, especially under stress. It needs to be fixed structurally to give us a fighting chance, otherwise we’re gonna end up barely better than Voat and all the other Reddit clones.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
On the contrary, I’ve made a few (not a ton) of what I thought were interesting news posts, but they don’t seem to gain traction.
I think the deeper issue is ragebait works, and the community seems to be content with that.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
I have some posts/interests that I think would get some visibility. It really is executive dysfunction, heh.
Not that you’re wrong.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Lemmy doesn’t assume anything. Sorting is done by votes or activity from all communities, and it’s up to the user to make curated feeds by subscribing.
I don’t know precisely how Reddit works now, but it used to be like that too. It just had the quirk of “defaulting” to a few select subs in “hot,” instead of “all” like most Lemmy/Piefed instances do.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
I am late to this argument, but data center imagegen is typically batched so that many images are made in parallel. And (from the providers that aren’t idiots), the models likely use more sparsity or “tricks” to reduce compute.
Task energy per image is waaay less than a desktop GPU. We probably burnt more energy in this thread than in an image, or a few.
And this is getting exponentially better with time, in spite of what morons like Sam Altman preach.
There’s about a billion reasons image slop is awful, but the “energy use” one is way overblown.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Yeah. The .world news community mods don’t seem to care about clickbait, misinformation, calls for violence or doxxing or rape, as long as they’re the “correct” politics. But make such a comment, and the moderation is… that.
I haven’t blocked the tankie subs or anything, but I had to block /c/politics.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Yeah. We have monkey brains, and overcoming intertia is hard.
I think the site could be better structured to address this, specifically by organizing communities into a “taxonomy,” so posts from niche interest automatically filter up into bigger subs. Thus, participation would feel easier/more rewarding.
Making that suggestion on the Lemmy/Piefed repos is also on my massive todo list.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
…I am drifting away from Lemmy myself.
Political communities are echo chambers like Reddit, in a different color. Discussing tech is a little better, but still feels like talking in circles. Wholesome subs like /c/SuperBowl are sublime, but I mostly lurk there.
And the information hygiene is awful. Big subs upvote tabloids and Tweets to the sky, as long as they align with their beliefs. I just saw a discussion on a not-obviously AI generated photo with the community sentiment of “misinformation? Who cares. It’s a pro-lefty meme, so spread it.”
Much of this is my fault, though.
I have several niches I intend to make original posts for, but never do.
It’s somewhere in the giant pile of my IRL executive dysfunction :’(
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 week ago:
Valve’s margins are almost criminal as-is. They make cash hand over fist, and they’re basically a monopoly already.
…So not much might actually change, at least at first?
But this also what they don’t need to go public. They have plenty of capital. And it’d just shrink the slice of pie Valve’s owners get.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 week ago:
Oh, sweet summer child.
You just wait.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 week ago:
It’s especially bizzare when Git repos for “open source corporate alternative” type software uses it over their own repo’s native forums.
WTF
They want the social media engagement, I guess. But still. It’s ridiculous how much of a blind spot folks have for it.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
I mean… I think it’s worrying that the norm is “who cares if it’s AI? It’ll fool idiots, spread it!” If that’s what you mean.
I swear, social media is going to kill us all.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
It’s not so much about English as it is about writing patterns. Like others said, it has a “stilted college essay prompt” feel because that’s what instruct-finetuned LLMs are trained to do.
Another quirk of LLMs is that they overuse specific phrases, which stems from technical issues (training on their output, training on other LLM’s output, training on human SEO junk, artifacts of whole-word tokenization, inheriting style from its own previous output as it writes the prompt, just to start). “Slop” is an overused term, but this is precisely what people in the LLM tinkerer/self hosting community mean by the term. It’s also what the “temperature” setting you may see in some UIs is supposed to combat.
Anyway, if you stare at these LLMs long enough you see a lot of individual model’s signatures. Some of it is… hard to convey in words. But “Embodies” “landmark achievement” and such just set off alarm bells in my head. If you ask it to write a story, “shivers down the spine” is another phrase so common its kind of a meme, as are specific names they tend to choose for characters.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
Did you guys read the email?
embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that
another landmark achievement
showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design
That is one sloppy email. Man, Claude has gotten worse at writing.
I’m not sure rob even realizes this, but the email is from some kind of automated agent: agentvillage.org
So it’s both explicitly AI generated, and not actually from Anthropic, I think.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
To be fair, relying on OneDrive is like waiting for a bomb to go off.
“let’s save today’s photos from my phone onto my machine” bullshit?
Once it’s set up, I don’t see how that’s a hassle? Especially if its just syncing over WiFi.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
IDK, lots of the TW3 sidequests seem to be very good… from my time watching them on YouTube, heh.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It might be a “watch the cutscenes and scenery highlights in a YT play though” games.
- Comment on Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation? 2 weeks ago:
Moving a capital isn’t trivial.
Maduro’s #1 concern was likely consolditating power internally, not external military hardening.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 weeks ago:
Come to CachyOS! The water is great.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 weeks ago:
It’s probably less for OEMs, right? Most people don’t install their own OS, much less pay full price for a license.