brucethemoose
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- Comment on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran 6 days ago:
To be fair, I’m not sure every single Palestine supporter in the US could have tipped the vote.
I know there are communities in PA and such, but still…
- Comment on USA | Trump speaks with Putin and advises him not to escalate Ukraine war – report 6 days ago:
The US president-elect advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of “Washington’s sizeable military presence in Europe”, the Post reported.
It added that Trump expressed interest in follow-up conversations on “the resolution of Ukraine’s war soon”.
This is so weird, almost worded like he just discovered/barely grasps the war in Ukraine.
“We have a big military in Europe. Huge.”
Putin nods. “Ah. I didn’t know that.”
His grudge against Zelensky though… there’s no way he forgot that.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, they should fight fire with fire? Another vision model (like Qwen VL) would catch this
You can ask it “does this image seem fake?” and it would look at it, reason something out and probably conclude it isn’t, instead of… I dunno, looking for smaller patters or whatever their internal model does?
- Comment on Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see. 2 weeks ago:
I agree.
But also downvoting is very useful as community moderation. I participate in some communities with regular, scummy spam posts that are technically off topic and not quite bannable, and I like that there’s a community mechanism to bury them.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 2 weeks ago:
The localllama people are feeling quite mixed about this, as they’re still charging through the nose for more RAM. Like, orders of magnitude more than the bigger ICs actually cost.
It’s kinda poetic about how Apple wants to go all in on self-hosted AI now, yet their incredible RAM stinginess over the years is basically derailing that.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I am just out of touch, but I smell another bubble bursting when I look at how enshittified all major web services are simultaneously becoming.
It feels like something has to give, right?
We have YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Google Search, and more just racing to enshittify like I can’t even believe, yet they’re also at the ‘critical mass’ of ‘too big to fail’ and shoved out all their major competitors already (other than Discord I guess).
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 2 weeks ago:
Also imagine being in the water with all those jellyfish the turtle didn’t eat.
- Comment on Meta is reportedly working on its own AI-powered search engine, too 2 weeks ago:
There are already open source/self hosted alternatives, like Perplexica.
- Comment on Microsoft accuses Google of secretly funding regulatory astroturf campaign 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium. 2 weeks ago:
CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as
nobody reads it.they keep generating sign-ups and selling ads… till next quarter, at least. - Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Soldered is better! It’s usually faster.
But TBH the only thing that really matters his “how much VRAM do you have,” and Qwen 32B slots in at 24GB, or maybe 16GB if the GPU is totally empty and you tune your quantization carefully.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
TSMC doesn’t really have official opinions, they take silicon orders for money and shrug happily. Being neutral is good for business.
Altman’s scheme is just a whole other level of crazy though.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
I dunno about that.
I keep Qwen 32B loaded on my desktop pretty much whenever its on, as an (unreliable) assistant to analyze or parse big texts, to do quick chores, to bounce ideas off of or even as a offline replacement for google translate (though I specifically use aya 32B for that)
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
the model seems ok for tasks like summarisation though
That and retrieval and the business use cases so far, but even then only if the results can be wrong somewhat frequently.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
the term AI will become every bit as radioactive to investors in the future as it is lucrative right now.
Well you say that, but somehow crypto is still around despite most schemes being (IMO) a much more explicit scam.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Current LLMs cannot be AGI, no matter how big they are. The architecture just isn’t right.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
It’s selling an anticompetitive dystopia. It’s selling a Facebook monopoly vs selling the Fediverse.
We dont need 7 trillion dollars of datacenters burning the Earth, we need collaborative, open source innovation.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
web.archive.org/…/openai-plan-electricity.html
When Mr. Altman visited TSMC’s headquarters in Taiwan shortly after he started his fund-raising effort, he told its executives that it would take $7 trillion and many years to build 36 semiconductor plants and additional data centers to fulfill his vision, two people briefed on the conversation said. It was his first visit to one of the multibillion-dollar plants.
TSMC’s executives found the idea so absurd that they took to calling Mr. Altman a “podcasting bro,” one of these people said. Adding just a few more chip-making plants, much less 36, was incredibly risky because of the money involved.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Well there is a very specific architecture “rut” the LLMs people use have fallen into, and even small attempts to break out (like with Jamba) don’t seem to get much interest, unfortunately.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
And he things its great at, namely brainstorming, fiction making, a unreliable intern-like but very fast assistant and so on, get overshadowed by OpenAI and such trying to sell it as an omiscient chatbot and (most profitablly) an employee replacement.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
I mean… it is machine learning.
- Comment on Wake up babe - new conspiracy just dropped. 2 weeks ago:
I swear, I want a extension that blocks videos with pointing arrows in the thumbnails.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
As a fervent AI enthusiast, I disagree.
…I’d say it’s 97% hype and marketing.
It’s crazy how much fud is flying around, and legitimately buries good open research. It’s also crazy what these giant corporations are saying what they’re going to. TSMC’s allegedly calling Sam Altman a podcast bro is spot on, and I’d add “manipulative vampire” to that.
Talk to any long-time resident of localllama and similar “local” AI communities who actually dig into this stuff, and you’ll find lots of healthy skepticism, not the crypto-like AI bros like you find on linkedin, twitter and such and blot everything out.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Speaking as someone who worked on AI, and is a fervent (local) AI enthusiast… it’s 90% marketing and hype, at least.
These things are tools, they spit out tons of garbage, they basically can’t be used for anything where the output could likely be confidently wrong, and the way they’re trained is still morally dubious at best/ And the corporate API business model of “stifle innovation so we can hold our monopoly then squeeze users” is hellish.
As you pointed out, generative AI is a fantastic tool, but it is a TOOL, that needs some massive changes and improvements, wrapped up in hype that gives it a bad name… I drank some of the kool-aid too when llama 1 came out, but you have to look at the market and see how much fud and nonsense is flying around.
- Comment on Resource efficient AI model for LocalAI 3 weeks ago:
To actually answer this, you could look into free APIs of open source models, which have daily limits but are otherwise largely catch-free. You could even mirror endpoints on your VPS if you need to, or host “middleware” like prompt formatters and enhancers.
I say this because, as others said, you cannot actually host AI on a VPS…
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 3 weeks ago:
…was designed and manufactured by Boeing Space Systems and launched in 2016. It provided broadband services, including internet and phone communication services, to parts of Europe, Africa, and most of Asia.
IS-33e was the second satellite to be launched as part of Boeing’s “next generation” EpicNG platform. The first, dubbed IS-29e, failed due to a propulsion system fuel leak. Intelsat declared the satellite a total loss in April 2019, later attributing it to either a micrometeoroid strike or solar weather activity.
What caused IS-33e to break up in orbit remains unclear, however. Intesalt officials did observe that it was using far more fuel than it should be to maintain its orbit shortly after launching eight years ago, shaving off 3.5 years of its 15-year lifetime.
Could be a coincidence, but I feel “Boeing leaks” approaching “Samsung exploding” levels of memification (where they had washers, phones and some other things all exploding, and the look was not great).
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 weeks ago:
Small LLMs are quite fast these days, even the more compute heavy multimodal ones. Same with small models explicitly used to filter diffusion output.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
What star said, but what it also does is turn hard matrix multiplication into simple addition.
Basically, AI will be hilariously easy to run compared to now once ASICs start coming out.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 weeks ago:
Don’t they flag stuff automatically?
Not sure what they’re using on the backend, but open source LLMs that take image inputs are good now, and this is apparently a field thats been refined over years due to the legal need for CSAM detection anyway.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 weeks ago:
Because at this point, I trust the Irish government more than Reddit to make proper moderation judgements.
It’s not a high bar, and not ideal…
