brucethemoose
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- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 8 hours ago:
It’s GLM 4.6 underneath, which is a good model and has a really helpful “default” tone without a system prompt. And it’s open weights! I host it locally, sometimes.
But what really sets the website apart is its “deep research” tool, specifically. It’s just good at scouring the web for references, relatively speaking.
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 8 hours ago:
I’m with others. An offline ‘smart’ TV is a dumb one, and with game mode they have lower input lag than any plasma I’ve used.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 16 hours ago:
Look, I like off-roaders! Right? Desert racing trucks are the coolest thing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nR1-J676ao
And that includes solid axle/mixed variants like the rock crawling Pro4 trucks!
speedhunters.com/…/if-a-trophy-truck-rock-crawler…
Old land rovers and land cruisers are equally cool, hence they still use them in Africa almost exclusively.
…But lifted full sized trucks are so boring. They’re literally everywhere in this part of Texas, to the point where they advertise mass conversion shops on billboards. They’re usually macho assholes on the road, and even stock-ish ones tend to be customized and slob into parking spaces or stick out of places.
I loathe them. I couldnt care less about them. Hence, I know what older RAM 1500s look like, but I don’t really keep up with the style changes for the RAMs/Chevys + GMCs/Toyotas or whatever, other than observing how ridiculously big and tall their front grills have gotten.
…Hence this one threw me off. The grill is tiny! It makes it look small, when in reality the owner/shop likely ripped it out for that front skid plate (which looks way better).
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 16 hours ago:
Discussing conspiracies is basically the worst case for mainstream LLMs. They’re both extremely sycophantic (so they try to figure out and tell you what you want to hear), and not grounded in real references.
If you must, use something like z.ai’s deep research mode, with a single even, neutral question.
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 16 hours ago:
That’s because it got mixed up with the very real and muddy “lab leak vs natural jump” debate.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 20 hours ago:
RIP my truck taxonomy skills.
- Comment on Got my invite 20 hours ago:
Maybe this is an “Okay Millenial” thing, but I feel like emojis were getting uncool and overused commercially even more LLMs.
Like there was this one “meme” locally runnable LLM finetune in the very early days (before anyone knew what LLMs were) that would only communicate in emoji. They were already making fun of them.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 22 hours ago:
Yeah…
I hardly ever see Rangers in Texas, to the point I actually point them out like a rare car. But a ton of the traffic is full sized pickups.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 22 hours ago:
Desert offloading is a popular thing in the US southwest. I’d do it as much as I could if I lived there, and had a truck like that.
To be clear, unlike most lifted trucks, I’m just saying it has a plausible use. You could be right.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 22 hours ago:
I’ve seen 5K some.
IMO the only ostensible benefit is for computer type stuff. It gives them more headroom to upscale content well, to avoid anti aliasing or blurry, scaled UI rendering, stuff like that. 4:1 rendering (to save power) would be quite viable too.
Another example would be editing workflows, for 1:1 pixel mapping for content while leaving plenty of room for the UI.
But for native content? Like movies?
Pointless, unless you are ridiculously close to a huge display, even if your vision is 20/20.
- Comment on Got my invite 22 hours ago:
Oh man, smells a little like ChatGPT with the emoji.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 23 hours ago:
At least it has a decent looking suspension, widened stance and big wheels of a prerunner. If this guy lives out in the desert, he likely has some fantastic fun with it.
What I don’t particularly like are the lifts that are terrible off road, like feet off the ground to the point where they’re tippy, yet have no travel
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 day ago:
Are you sure about that? You likely use DPI scaling at 4K, and you’re likely limited by physical screen size unless you already use a 50” TV (which is equivalent to 4x standard 25” 1080p monitors).
8K would only help at like 65”+, which is kinda crazy for a monitor on a desk… Awesome if you can swing it, but most can’t.
I tangentially agree though. PCs can use “extra” resolution for various things like upscaling, better text rendering and such rather easily.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 day ago:
I respectuflly disagree here. Folk’s eyes are just ‘used’ to 24P, but native 48 or 60 looks infinitely better, especially when stuff is filmed/produced with that in mind.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 day ago:
(Most) TVs still have a long way to go with color space and brightness. AKA HDR. Not to speak of more sane color/calibration standards to make the picture more consistent.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 day ago:
It’s all about the baseline.
Cinematic, Blu Ray bitrate 1080p vs 4K is not too dramatic.
Compressed streams though? Or worse production quality? 4K raises the baseline dramatically. It’s much harder to stream bad-looking 4K than it is 1080p.
- Comment on Posers 1 day ago:
Ashamed but not ashamed to admit it, but I have quite a fascination with this, and am working/thinking on a fanfic that explores Avatar lore more scientifically. That’s where my brain goes.
- Comment on Posers 1 day ago:
And the doctorate courses are sub-elements.
- Comment on Posers 1 day ago:
For airbending? Yeah, atmospheric science and fluid dynamics is probably a better manga.
- Comment on From the outside looking in 3 days ago:
I mean, Americans have turned blind eyes for decades.
What feels different is the curtain is pulled back now, at least for the rest of the world and many folks here, because everything turned into Idiocracy.
Americans may not be doing anything about it, but I also have a lot of family that’s sorta realizing “Oh… Reconstruction failed really hard, didn’t it?” And are looking back on lives and seeing some nasty shit (like bigoted aunts/uncles and worse) for what it was.
- Comment on ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay 3 days ago:
You don’t have to overclock, but I’d at least look at your mobo’s settings. Many mobos set really, really bad, non stock settings by default, especially with XMP memory.
An example: they might default to 1.3V VSOC which is absolutely a “default overclock” and is going to make idle power skyrocket, and your CPU potentially unstable because infinity fabric doesn’t like that. For reference, I personally wouldn’t go over 1.2V VSOC myself and shoot for lower.
I’d recommend Buildzoid’s videos:
And Igor’s Lab for general text info.
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 3 days ago:
Depends on the culture.
The Air Nomads were segregated in Avatar, but they were sexually progressive forever, and raised children communally. That’s fine.
I know nothing of Smurf lore, but they don’t seem like one of those repressive segregated cultures.
- Comment on ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay 3 days ago:
For DDR5? Depends how much you care about latency:
pcpartpicker.com/products/memory/#ff=ddr5&Z=13107…
The $342 Crucial kit is kinda a no-brainer. Its timings aren’t great when overclocked, but it’s 5600 MHz out of the box, low voltage, and significantly cheaper per gigabyte than many 64GB/96GB kits. See for yourself:
The overclockability matters even less if you are on a 7000 series CPU.
I got the 1.25V Flare X5 kit because I wanted tighter timings for sim games, albeit at a MUCH lower price ($390).
RAM prices seem to be rising (hence the price of my kit spiked), so now is not a bad time to buy.
- Comment on ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay 3 days ago:
To what?
64G would be good, as that’s enough to fit GLM Air. There are some good 2x64GB kits for 128GB as well.
- Comment on ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay 3 days ago:
I have access to GLM 4.6 through a service but that’s the ~350B parameter model and I’m pretty sure that’s not what you’re running at home.
It is. I’m running this model, with hybrid CPU+GPU inference, specifically: huggingface.co/…/GLM-4.6-128GB-RAM-IK-GGUF
You can likely run GLM Air on your 3060 if you have 48GB+ RAM. Heck. I’ll make a quant just for you, if you want.
- Comment on ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay 3 days ago:
Not anymore. I can run GLM 4.6 on a Ryzen/single RTX 3090 at 7 tokens/s, and it runs rings around most API models. I can run 14-49Bs in more utilitarian cases that do just fine.
But again, it’s all ‘special interest tinkerer’ tier. You can’t do ollama run, you have to mess with exotic libraries and setups to squeeze out that kind of performance.
- Comment on ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay 3 days ago:
Anything even tangentially AI gets mass downvotes on Lemmy.
Don’t get me wrong, Sam Altman is an even bigger con artist than Musk. But outside the self hosting niches, Lemmy skews towards the opposite extreme of ‘tech bro’
- Comment on ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay 3 days ago:
Net might get to where you need AI
I hate to say it, but we’re basically there, and AI doesn’t help a ton. If the net is trash, there’s not a lot it can do.
Hopefully by then they will have figured out a way to make it free.
Self hosted is 100% taking off. Getting a local agent to sift through the net’s sludge will be about as easy as tweaking Firefox before long.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
And the setting!
Imagine what they could do with Changeling crewmates, mixed with an Android one from Picard. They’d be perfect vehicles to explore more modern issues(trans issues/AI, for instance. Maybe neurodivergence?) in a Star Trek coat of paint.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Yep, LLM.
YI this is today’s Wikipedia front page news, if you wish to look it up.