theunknownmuncher
@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
- Comment on target demographic 1 day ago:
IN 20+ CARTS
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- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 2 days ago:
Move those goalposts! Yeah I guess they’re only option is to pirate the books then, it’s not like NVIDIA has access to OCR or anything 🙄
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 2 days ago:
A yes, of course, the legal challenges of selling a copy of a book that is already for sale 🙄🙄🙄
Yeah the existing deal with publishers is “sell my book” dummy.
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 3 days ago:
Yeah, no, this genuinely doesn’t make sense as there are legitimate repositories for these books and can do business-to-business negotiations for access to them. Even libraries have access to ebooks at bulk scale.
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 3 days ago:
Allegedly most valuable company on the planet in all of history (can’t afford books). Allegedly not a bubble or fraud.
- Comment on Cloudflare shows a massive drop in http traffic 4 days ago:
Did they accidentally turn off their DoS for sites that don’t pay for Cloudflare?
- Comment on I’ve hit a wall with tech. 1 week ago:
Why not trade the illusion of digital control for actual peace, get a dumb phone, a CD player, and check out books, movies, music, and games from the library as my entertainment?
You can do this, while also choosing to use some self-hosted services or internet-services that work for you.
- Comment on Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps? 2 weeks ago:
Being a short haired dude I struggle to understand how hair, which is basically dead tissue would benefit from moisturizing
What about leather, could it benefit from applying a layer of oil? Or a wood? Or rubber? Living tissue is not the only thing physically affected by moisture levels.
Oil seals in moisture to prevent hair from drying out, which, obviously, will change it’s texture and elasticity.
- Comment on Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps? 2 weeks ago:
Soap and conditioner have opposite and incompatible roles. Soap strips away dirt and oils. Conditioner replaces the oils stripped away by soap that your hair needs, to maintain health.
You don’t really need separate shampoo and body wash, you could wash your hair with standard bar soap. You do need separate conditioner.
Shampoo+conditioner combined together can either clean or apply oils to the hair, but chemically, it cannot do both, despite marketing.
- Comment on Massive Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits 4 weeks ago:
Huge agreement on the operator count.
Also I could not tolerate making quick match quicker with pre-reinforced walls and pre-made rotation holes. It felt like a lot of the fun to the game came from the setup, and it was so impactful and rewarding throughout the round. They just took that away. Plus, as attacker, the setup time was so short that you sometimes barely had time to even enter the building with the drone, let alone gather any useful information or position the drone as a good camera. Just stupid. Who asked for that??
I exclusively played the “quick match” mode because competitive felt way too long and serious, and there was a strong expectation of using microphone and voice, which I am not willing to subject myself to.
- Comment on Massive Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits 4 weeks ago:
There was a time when the online team vs team gamemode was really good. Easily one of the best shooters of the format, in my opinion. That time has long passed, however.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 4 weeks ago:
So… just like… KDE?
- Comment on AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory 4 weeks ago:
Ha, my system is exactly identical! I really have no reason to upgrade, besides maybe 5950X/5900XT for more cores for compiling software (I run Gentoo on it).
My 6900XT is a slightly cheaper frankenstein with the 6950XT full chip but 6900XT clocked VRAM. It’s so efficient. The fans don’t even spin for some games. There’s nothing it can’t play at max settings, but I’m also rendering af 1600x1200 on a CRT.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 4 weeks ago:
If you think the number of people that use ad blockers is not a fraction of a percent of internet users, you’re in a bubble.
Go outside, talk to people, friends, family, especially of different generations. Even people I know that I consider much more “tech savvy” than average have no clue about ad blockers or how to begin using them.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 4 weeks ago:
I think I must have got it on sale or a very low point. Definitely was a nice upgrade! I had been non-seriously looking at 5950X or 5900XT as a sidegrade but I can’t really justify that cost for something that is not a substantial upgrade.
- Comment on Nanobots will be used to attack people, rendering guns obsolete 4 weeks ago:
We live in a terrifying time
Well, the nanobots that you are describing do not exist, so they aren’t what is making the time terrifying
- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 4 weeks ago:
True, however TLS does not encrypt the hostname/IP address of the servers that you are connecting to, so your ISP can monitor the servers you visit. A VPN provides an encrypted tunnel for your traffic, so your ISP can only see that you are communicating with the VPN server. However, the VPN provider can see the hostname/IP of the servers in order to forward the traffic to its destination.
Ideally the VPN provider does not monitor or keep logs of the connections, however this is not always the case. A VPN offers privacy from the ISP or from other clients connected to the local network when using public WiFi.
It can also provide some level of anonymity, because the server that you are connecting to will only be able to see the VPN IP address connecting to them, instead of your home IP address. However, it is possible to still be identified by other means besides your IP adress, like using cookies or browser fingerpinting.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 4 weeks ago:
This is how I do it, yeah the first couple glasses were kinda weird but then once you’ve experienced it and know what to expect, it really isn’t bad at all.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 4 weeks ago:
Oh believe me, I know about psyllium husk. Best shit of my entire life. The kind you genuinely have to resist the prideful urge to take a picture of.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 4 weeks ago:
Way too late
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 4 weeks ago:
I imagine there would be regulations preventing one single individual billionaire from pre-purchasing 40% of the global supply of RAM.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 4 weeks ago:
Lol what?? 5800X3D was like $250 when I bought mine. I wouldn’t say it was cheap but its defintely not a “money is no issue” kind of number.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Cryptocurrency has transaction fees. They start out as the newly mined coins, paid from the pool of unmined coins. Once the finite number of coins have been mined and that pool is empty, the miners will begin charge fees for each transaction directly to the users making the transactions.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
They genuinely don’t make sense as “currency”. Having a public, permanent ledger of all transactions is pretty bad. Buy groceries, pay your rent, and get paid in crypto? Now your landlord, employer, and grocer can see every transaction you’ve ever made, how much your account is worth, and how much you spend. Wonderful!
Sure, you could use a service to obfuscate your transactions, except oopsies, you’ve just reinvented centralization but worse! Wasn’t the whole purpose decentralization??
Cryptocurrency sucks because it genuinely doesn’t make sense at a fundamental level. That’s not even getting into the economic problems, like deflationary currency, or technical problems, like the exponential cost of hosting a node or the fact that it can only be scaled up to handle at most a teeny tiny fraction of a percent of transactions that a service like Visa handles every day.
What is actually a good currency? Cash.
- Comment on A dummy's request for Nepenthes 5 weeks ago:
I think the feeling is the same, but the cause is a bit different. It is more similar to the dot-com bubble, where investors (for some reason?) are hyped to throw their money into AI. So if you can market yourself as AI, you can get big investments. Now that you have all that investor cash, you need to justify it somehow by using AI somewhere, anywhere.
- Comment on A dummy's request for Nepenthes 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m not saying its perfect and LLMs are non-deterministic so it could give you some crap. How do you verify some random stranger from the internet wasn’t an asshole and gave you malicious config? 🤷 The best answer is probably just that OP should heed the warning on the website the linked, if they have no confidence or relevant skills:
THIS IS DELIBERATELY MALICIOUS SOFTWARE INTENDED TO CAUSE HARMFUL ACTIVITY. DO NOT DEPLOY IF YOU AREN’T FULLY COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
- Comment on A dummy's request for Nepenthes 5 weeks ago:
Nah, they suck for programming or anything involving imperative logic, but they are pretty decent with things that are declarative. I know people want to hate or deny any usefulness of LLM, and it doesn’t help that corpos insist on crammin LLMs into usecases that aren’t applicable to LLMs at all, but this is actually one of the things they are good at.
- Comment on A dummy's request for Nepenthes 5 weeks ago:
Ironically, an LLM can generate you’re nginx config
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 5 weeks ago:
I like celery. I add it when making stock (both ribs and leaves), chop up a few ribs and cook it in soup with carrots and onion, and I like to eat it raw as a snack.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 1 month ago:
Javascript will be an issue