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- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 50 minutes ago:
You should be running hybrid inference of GLM Air with a setup like that.
I dunno what kind of speeds you absolutely need, but I bet you could get at least 12 tokens/s.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 52 minutes ago:
That’s not strictly true.
I have a Ryzen destkop, 7800, 3090, and 128GB DDR5. And I can run the full GLM 4.6 with quite acceptable token divergence compared to the unquantized model, see: huggingface.co/…/GLM-4.6-128GB-RAM-IK-GGUF
If I had a EPYC/Threadripper homelab, I could run Deepseek the same way.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 55 minutes ago:
No one is really running Deepseek locally. What ollama advertises (and basically lies about) is the now-obselete Qwen 2.5 distillations.
…I mean, some are, but it’s exclusively lunatics with EPYC homelab servers, heh.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 11 hours ago:
Do we get to save mods, too?
That’s a huge factor. It’d put Rimworld and Minecraft on the list for me, and I’d have to think about the others. There are some ridiculous mod communities out there though.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 14 hours ago:
I’m kinda surprised it’s still around, and popular.
I guess it still has a lot of SEO and such.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 day ago:
I don’t really get the analogy… of course a bunch of students using different tools with different inputs will yield different results? But if they use the same model and input at zero temperature, they will, in fact, get the same results.
Predictability has never been a strength of ML, of course.
…That’s not really what it’s for. It’s for finding exotic stars in astronomical data, or interpoliating pixels in an image, for identifying cat videos reasonably well. That’s still a useful tool. And the modern extension of getting a glorified autocomplete to press some buttons automatically is no different if structured and constrained appropriately.
The obvious problem, among many I see, is that these Tech Bros are selling agening LLMs as sapient magic lamps, not niche tools for very specific bits of automation. Just look at the language Suleyman is using:
I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 day ago:
Some linux terminals like cosmic and wezterm support tabbing.
The Windows one is neat though.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 day ago:
It’s trained in to the point its unconscious now.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 day ago:
It will entirely depend on the price.
If it’s expensive, odds are you’re better off, like, finding or cobbling together a used RTX 3080 deskop or something like that.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 day ago:
^ This.
It’s a neat, under-construction tool.
A. Tool. An ‘agent’ to do things in nice.
…But I don’t need a chatbot on my fucking toaster.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
I’m BlameTheAntifa and I have a distro-hopping addiction.
“Hi, BlameTheAntifa.” The circle of disto-hoppers echos.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
Cachy’s not that bad for beginners. We’ve come a looooong way from Manjaro.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 2 days ago:
exempting owner-occupied homes
It would still stuck for anyone stuck with renting.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 3 days ago:
And what I’m getting at is the *era.
As examples, work got a lot harsher post COVID, once mandatory return-to-work kicked in. It’s almost like they’re trying to get people to quit.
Interest rates went up, costs went up, financial pressure went up. Political conflict with older generations in the family is going up too.
IDK where you are; this is just my perspective from the US. But it seems like video gaming could be an early casualty of all that pressure.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 3 days ago:
+1
An anecdote: I know a working couple, well off in a good house, young, no kids, like video games… And they just don’t game (or watch long form TV) as much this past year or two. Work drains them, so more entertainment time now consists of favored YouTubers before bed.
…What I’m getting at is that maybe the ‘gaming population’ is more drained from life, in this age? Especially when you factor in hunting for a good game.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 3 days ago:
I think Ubisoft is poking at a legit issue here. A few games ‘snowball,’ especially with stuff trending on social media, and gamers spread themselves out less.
…They are the absolute worst entity to say it, but still. It’s not just them that’s saying this:
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 3 days ago:
TBH the story with indies seems to be “a few hits have it really good, but the vast majority of indie devs are struggling”
…So I wouldn’t generalized too much just because Hades 2 and Silksong are doing well.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Have not played it yet, but it looks like one of those “better to watch the cutscenes on YouTube” games for me?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I bounced off Witcher 3 too. Watched friends play a lot of RDR2, not interested.
…BG3 was sublime though. I don’t even like D&D combat, or ‘Tolkien-esque’ fantasy, but holy hell. It’s gorgeous, it just oozes charisma, and was quite fun in coop.
- Comment on Is Android really the next big desktop operating system? 3 days ago:
I dunno why everyone is so skeptical.
If it does Android apps, it’s got everything ‘normal’ users want. It’s got a massively anticompetitive megacorp behind it. It’s ‘lean’ and runs on cheap computers.
…How could it not catch on? 99% of the population doesn’t actively seek out modularity of privacy, many don’t really grasp the concept of a filesystem or desktop anyway.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 4 days ago:
Cool. AFAIK FSR4 uses instructions RDNA3 doesn’t even have, so I’d be interested to see if they can squeeze decent performance out of it.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 6 days ago:
I mean, there aren’t a lot of Java games, and C# isn’t that bad if that’s what you’re referencing.
The old Civ games were a lot of Python, which is perhaps the most atrocious of all. But they worked okay.
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 6 days ago:
I think it’s highly contextual.
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Like, let’s take Lemmy posts. LLMs are useless because the whole point is to affect the people you chat with, right? LLMs have no memory.
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…Now let’s take game dev. I think if a system generates the creator’s intent… does it matter what the system is. Isn’t it better if the system is more frugal, so they can use precious resources for other components and not go in debt?
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TV? Could inevitably lead to horrendous corporate slop, a “race to the bottom.” OR it could be a killer production tool for indie makers to break the shackles of their corporate master. Realistically, the former is more likely at the moment.
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News? I mean… Accurate journalism needs a lot of human connection/trust, and LLM news is just asking to be abused. I think it’s academically interesting, but utterly catastrophic in the real world we live in, kinda like cryptocurrency.
One can wobble about all sorts of content. Novels, fan fiction, help videos, school material, counseling, information reference, research, and advertising, the big one.
…But I think it’s really hard to generalize.
‘AI’ has to be looked at a la carte, and engineered for very specific applications. Sometimes it is indistinguishable, or mind as well be. But trying to generalize it as a “magic lamp” like tech bros, or the name of existence like their polar opposites, is what’s making it so gross and toxic now.
And I am drawing a hard distinction with actual artificial intelligence. As a tinkerer who has done some work in the space too… Franky, current AI architectures have precisely nothing to do with AGI.
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- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 6 days ago:
What’s the content?
Like, TV?
News?
Math problems? Lemmy posts?
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 6 days ago:
To be fair, they are too big.
They just have too many employees and costs. The way they’re organized, they’re stuck with gigantic budget, milquetoast, broad appeal games just to attempt sales they need to break even, with all the inefficiency that comes at that team size… unless they fire a ton of people and split up the rest.
My observation over the past decade is that “medium size” is the game dev sweet spot. Think Coffee Stain, Obsidian, and so on.
- Comment on What is the point of posting on the fediverse if it is going to be moderated similarly to Reddit? 6 days ago:
I hate to break it to you, but people on Lemmy call for the death of politicians and their families all the tame.
It’s… icky.
It’s made me really close to leaving the whole platform, and the .world admin’s sentiment against it is about the only thing that stopped me (even if they don’t enforce it very strictly).
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 6 days ago:
There’s certainly no conflict of interest there…
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 6 days ago:
Google gets a cut from the Google Ads click, which takes the user directly to the Play Store (or, if on desktop, the Chrome extension store).
If it’s some free shovelware app, they get a cut from the ads spammed onto the user’s screen. If it’s a sham subscription app, they get a cut of that. I see this a lot test clicking ads these days.
If its legit phishing, that’s a fair point; they don’t get a direct cut of the scam, other than the attention it drives towards their app stores and the data they collect for the user’s profile. But the point I’m trying to make is that it’s incredibly hypocritical to paint 3rd party apps (and indeed any competing app store) as a danger when they do such a poor job policing their own store.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer.
Translation: if they want scamware, it’s gotta be from Google Play, where Google gets a 30% cut.
And if anything thinks I’m being hyperbolic, go on Google Play and search for pretty much anything.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 1 week ago:
It’s a bit of a misconception. Soft-sprung cars can be hella fast on roads.
But modern supercars are sprung so slow for downforce, to try to turn their bottoms into vacuum cleaners. But its mostly for show, as this doesn’t even kick in till like 90mph+. In fact, many racecars are faster around hairpens when sprung looser and higher.