brucethemoose
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- Comment on Putting my kid on adhd meds. 37 minutes ago:
Are they the same meds?
Not all ADHD meds are the same. And not all patients are the same.
I was on methylphenidate (a relatively low dose), and that was very positive for me. But my personality is different than others, and that drug is going to be very different than whatever’s being perscribed now.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 4 hours ago:
I’m assuming there are sarcasm tags here, as immigration proportional to the US would almost solve their birth rate issues.
The US, in contrast, is rapidly losing that advantage. A birthrate disaster is coming for them.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 14 hours ago:
Gits are backed up and migrated quick, so I’m not as worried about that I suppose.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 19 hours ago:
Ugh, that is very compelling.
Add in a bit more cyberpunk, with how the country uses tech these days.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 19 hours ago:
+100
For what it’s worth, Ubuntu is still on Twitter. You don’t want Ubuntu to quit before you do, do you?
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 19 hours ago:
If someone starts trying to make money off modified images via Grok, then that becomes a much easier case to win.
They can use it to farm engagement. Is that the same thing?
And yeah, that’s the icky part. This is a dream for spammers and “cheap SEO” types who don’t really care about copyright law in this context.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 19 hours ago:
Sigh
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 19 hours ago:
Still though. I don’t want to be on an internet where Chrome is basically the only develoment target, and for anything to work properly you have to be on Google’s browser. Safari forces at least some generalization.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 20 hours ago:
MAGA isn’t as competent as Nazi Germany though. That was a enonomically devestated country that voted in a dictator to fix things.
This is more like the fall of Rome or the Soviet Union: a country at the apex of power and efficacy, finally buckling under the weight of its decedance and delusions.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 20 hours ago:
No. They should be worried. It’s pretty clear Mozilla’s leadership has “AI fever” that every CEO seems to be going mad with.
Still though, people need to take a breath. This isn’t Microsoft. And Mozilla’s “local first” approach is quite interesting (even if the reality is that hardware isn’t ready for stuff outside of lightweight tasks).
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 20 hours ago:
That’s kind of a blessing in disguise; otherwise basically all web traffic would be Chrome.
Apparenty this is softening some: techspot.com/…/108965-japan-gives-apple-december-…
And Safari is quite performant on iOS.
Honestly, I know it sounds crazy, but I wouldn’t mind if that continues, just so there’s some chunk of traffic that isn’t Chrome and that web development doesn’t turn into a complete monoculture.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 21 hours ago:
Mozilla might be the only company trying to provide privacy first AI features.
They are not. There are boatloads of privacy friendly “AI” implementations, they just aren’t very high profile.
But I do think people are over-reacting. This is a less bad approach. And if you can turn it off and leave it off, what’s the big deal?
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 21 hours ago:
There are some good iOS browsers, they’re just out of the way.
At the moment, I use Orion (from Kagi) and Narrow32. Quiche Browser is good, DuckDuckGo is fine.
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 1 day ago:
I blocked /c/politics over this, but it seems like none of the big communities care about tabloid sourced/clickbait headlines.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 day ago:
Spread the word too! When it comes up.
I feel like a ton of people are in your situation but don’t know something like Slate exists.
Same with a lot of products TBH, especially software. Discoverability is really hard these days, with so much spam everywhere.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 day ago:
What you want is the upcoming slate EV. It’s cheap, looks like an old Bronco, comes in 1 color, and the interior is completely plain. There aren’t even any speakers, but the specifications are all open and it’s designed to easily allow you to install your own (or get a shop to do it).
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 days ago:
Nah, I’m a hardcore Rimworld fan who’s been with it since the early forum Alphas, and that’s completely true, heh. IIRC was explicitly expired from DF, more obviously in the early days.
That being said, I’ve never played DF. I’m more into sci fi and tech than Tolkien-esque fantasy, hence I’ve passed on stuff like Necesse and… what’s that massive city builder? That, and many I’ve forgotten the names of.
Maybe I will give DF a look though. Maybe it has automation/tech mods that would make it more appealing, like Minecraft and Rimworld?
- Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems 3 days ago:
I keep trying to hammer this on Lemmy, but no one listens :(. Most mods aren’t interested in information hygiene either.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 4 days ago:
CPU makers can’t really make system memory affordably, unfortunately. That’s why it’s separate in the first place :(
Intel has actually done this in the past, with a little eDRAM cache for their integrated graphics on some older 5000 series CPUs, like the 5775C. It topped out at 128MB.
AMD already does something similar with their X3D CPUs, albeit with SRAM… it tops out at 64MB.
They will sell you a bigger version, with IIRC 768MB of L3 memory, for many thousands of dollars.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 4 days ago:
Strix Halo (AI Max CPUs) are basically that.
But they’re still DDR5 hanging off a bus, manufactured in the same place as sticks, so that wouldn’t really affect the price.
- Comment on YSK: if you dont have Kagi, the next best thing is to search DDG with date range set before 2012 (ish) 4 days ago:
On desktop Linux, between Helium (relatively new and lightweight), Cromite (more hardcore antifingerprinting), and Firefox, I’m quite satisfied.
- Comment on YSK: if you dont have Kagi, the next best thing is to search DDG with date range set before 2012 (ish) 5 days ago:
Another is to use ublacklist (if you aren’t already using ublock origin for some inexplicable reason) and add in AI/SEO slop blacklists. They will be filtered out of search.
Oh, and use the wiki redirect extension.
It doesn’t fix everything, but it’s a massive improvement for when the information you need is pretty recent.
- Comment on Behold! The Ultimate Recipe! 6 days ago:
Maybe I missed the joke, but street corn is so delicious it’s unreal.
Try some if you’re in Texas.
Is the joke that is AI slop b/c the recipe is so wonky?
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
I was just about to bang out that they must lose a lot of heat from the compression. But apparently not! That’s amazing.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 week ago:
A prudent strategy would be a 2nd account for orders, maybe?
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 1 week ago:
Yeah :(
Still though, Intel has their own fabs not really restricted by any of this. And not as easy to spin down as mono making. So the CPU is likely to be the cheapest of anything.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
You don’t need LLMs for that. An iPhone is plenty powerful enough for image recognition and text classification.
That’s sorta the funny thing about AI. There’s tons of potential, but it’s just unimplemented. Even on PC, you pretty much have to have some Nvidia GPU and fight pip setting up python repos to get anything working.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
The later is the mildly interesting one, but in my experience just not useful enough to do much, even on specific browsing finetunes or augmented APIs.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
Does anyone even talk about what the “AI features” are?
Could I, liked darken webpages? Automated ublock filters? Create a price/feature table out of a shopping page?
See, this would all be neat like auto translate is neat. But I’m not really interested in the 7 millionth barebones chatbot UI. I’m not interested in loading a whole freaking LLM to auto name my tabs, or in some cutsie auto navigation agent experiment that still only works like 20% of the time with a 600B LLM, or a shopping chatbot that doesn’t do anything like Amazon/Perplexity.
That’s the weird thing about all this. I’m not against neat features, but “AI!” is not a feature, and everyone is right to assume it will be some spam because that’s what 99% of everything is.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
Again, they’re tools. Some of the most useful applications for LLMs I’ve seen are never even seen by human eyes, like rankings, then ingesting documents and filling out json in pipelines. Or as automated testers.
You just need to put everything you’ve ever seen with ChatGPT and copilot and the NotebookLM YouTube spam out of your head. Banging text into a box is not AI. “Chat” tuned decoder-only LLMs are just one tiny slice that a few Tech Bros turned into a pyramid scheme.