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- Comment on Tiny Corp heralds world's first AMD GPU driven via USB3 — eGPUs tested on Apple Silicon, with Linux and Windows also supported 2 days ago:
Tinycorp generates these headlines every once in awhile, but as far as I can tell no one uses it. At least not in the tinkerer space I can see.
It’d be cool if they can eat away at PyTorch, XLA and whatever else… Some day…
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 days ago:
No, we think you’re pirating something. We’re going to lock your system and make it entirely unusable.
Microsoft would 100% do this with Windows if they had the technical competence, heh.
Apple’s just closing off practical workarounds.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 days ago:
Nintendo be Nintendo.
- Comment on Researchers unveil LegoGPT, an AI model that designs physically stable Lego structures from text prompts and currently supports eight standard brick types 2 days ago:
A pretty long time.
Niche models are tons of fun though.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 3 days ago:
I am a huge BGS and “game cinema,” and Starfield felt so… boring. Both the first bit I played before I dropped it, and YT videos to see what I was missing.
For lack of another explanation, its like all those fun side quests and nooks individual writers lost their fire. Even ME Andromeda had more compelling bits.
- Comment on Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App 4 days ago:
Completely depends on your laptop hardware, but generally:
- TabbyAPI (exllamav2/exllamav3)
- ik_llama.cpp, and its openai server
- An MLX host with one of the new distillation quantizations
- Text-gen-web-ui (slow, but supports a lot of samplers and some exotic quantizations well)
- SGLang (extremely fast for parallel calls if thats what you want).
- Comment on Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App 4 days ago:
True, though there’s a big output difference between the 7B distil (or even 32B/70B) and the full model.
And Microsoft does host R1 already, heh. Again, this headline is a big nothingburger.
Also (random aside here), you should consider switching from ollama. They’re making some FOSS unfriendly moves, and depending on your hardware, better backends could host 14B models at longer context, and similar or better speeds.
- Comment on Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App 4 days ago:
Thing about deepseek is you can get it from many providers (including US hosts, or various other nationalities). Microsoft even has their own anti-CCP finetune, MIT licensed: huggingface.co/microsoft/MAI-DS-R1
…Banning the app is reasonable, and honestly a tiny inconvenience for anyone who needs it.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 5 days ago:
And you are bringing up a red herring (salutes) that doesn’t matter, because, well, I don’t know. But that’s the whole point of the saying.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 5 days ago:
Tim Waltz does not have eugenics-adjacent beliefs.
Also, I think you may have missed what “red herring” means.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 5 days ago:
Nah its much simpler label than that.
“Troll”
The topic doesn’t matter, it more about fishing for provocation. In this case I couldn’t help myself, but… you know, don’t feed the trolls.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 5 days ago:
As a serious answer, Musk is into modern variants of eugenics and some scary techno-authoritarian stuff he shares with Peter Theil and other Silicon Valley royalty.
Maybe he’s a techno-neonazi? That’s just semantics.
His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring. But “Nazi” is an reasonable enough descriptor for his beliefs.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 6 days ago:
That’s the point though, basically no-one used VPNs back in the day.
Now its basically required.
- Comment on Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency 1 week ago:
So… Microtransactions.
They want more microtransactions?
Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, is there any game dev or gamer currently dissatisfied with existing payment systems? Are people in certain countries struggling with the mechanics of paymernt? Like, there are tons of ways to shoehorn in random charges or in-game ownership systems, and I don’t see what crypto brings other than moving the purse-holder.
Again, devil’s avocate: one could argue current platform fees (30%) are very high, but this is more of a monopolization issue than a fundamental payment system one,
- Comment on This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
Yeah honestly I agree with you.
But like others said, not sure iffy translations would be enough to save the company.
- Comment on This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
Not following that at all…
AI Bro is pretty specific. To me, its evangelists worshipping nebulous ideas and figures like Altman or maybe Musk, looking down on others for not “understanding” how amazing their vision of AI is, all in on the enshittification and impracticality, all in on the raging hype.
It feels very much like crypto fanaticism.
Even if we interpret OP as cynically as possible (lazy AI-only translation when they have another option)… that’s bad, but not “AI Bro” to me.
- Comment on Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available? 1 week ago:
Heh, you shouldn’t be paying for LLMs. Gemini 2.5 Pro is free, and so are a bunch of great API models.
I have technical reasons for running local models (instance cached responses, constrained grammar, logprob output, fine tuning), and I can help you set that up if you want, but TBH I am not going into a long technical proof of why that’s advantageous unless you really want to try this all yourself.
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 1 week ago:
At risk of going of topic, is this a Millennial meme?
Like, I really hope younger folks have seen this.
- Comment on This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
I don’t think OP came off as “AI Bro.”
Pure machine translation would indeed be sloppy, but games have done it before. An automated 1st pass with a last check from a human contractor seems reasonable for a studio about to fold.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
F me…
Does no one see the propaganda potential for this? Yeah, let’s give one guy influential control of the psyche of hundreds of millions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah I mean it really depends on the app.
If it just occasionally peaks, sometimes modest zram is all you need.
But sometimes i crack it up (and basically disable zram) because I’m paging like 4x my RAM pool size with big files.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
Try it here instead, set the temperature to like 0.1 or 0.2, and be sure to try 2.5 Pro:
It is indeed still awful for things. It’s a tool, not a magic box, even though everyone advertises it kinda like the later.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
Gemini 2.5?
The one they use in search is awful, and not the same thing.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
It can be grounded in facts. It’s great at RAG. But even alone, Gemini 2.5 is kinda shockingly smart.
…But the bigger point is how Google presents it. It shouldn’t be the top result of every search just thrown into your face, it should be a opt-in, conditional feature, and only if it can source a reliable website.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
The irony is Gemini is really good, and cheap for them, yet somehow they made it utterly unbearable in search.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 weeks ago:
The heck is this title?
YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design
Meanwhile, the article itself just cites a few tiny aesthetic changes and like four random Reddit comments… That’s justifications for 460 upvotes?
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 2 weeks ago:
It’s a plausible trap. Depending on the architecture, the image decoder (that “sees”) is bolted onto main model as a more discrete part, and the image generator could be a totally different model. So internally, if it’s not ingesting the “response” image, it possibly has no clue they’re the same.
Of course, we have no idea, because OpenAI is super closed :/
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 2 weeks ago:
Comment from the source:
Microsoft poisoned their own well with all the changes they have been forcing on users lately. The update nagging, resetting the default browser to edge, the the ads in windows features, and integrating bing into the start menu have all trained users that when Microsoft starts pushing something new, it probably isn’t great and should just be ignored, like ads in phone apps.
That ^. So much that.
Also, the copilot llm itself sucks. Local models are neat within their limitations, and they’d be even better if Microsoft made them trainable/customizable, did better RAG, or whatever, but they just shoved a bad thing down user’s throats, and now they’ve poisoned another well.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, its more than that. Low weight helps acceleration, braking (so safety), handling, range, wear on every component, and most of all, cost. If the car is lighter, you don’t need as stiff a chassis, nor as much braking to lock the wheels, less battery, motor, which means you can take even more weight off the car… You get where I’m going.
Racecars are fast because they are light, not because they have big engines and expensive bodies. Little 1500lb cars can lap a $3 million 1500hp (and quite heavy, because of all the stuff in it) Bugatti around a track.
Heavy cars can handle OK, but the cost is big.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 weeks ago:
+1
Weight is everything. Removing it makes almost literally every aspect of a car better.