Viri4thus
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- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 18 hours ago:
I don’t think this reads as what it was probably intended initially…
- Comment on China to launch antitrust probe into Google 18 hours ago:
Really not sure what they actually launched the antitrust probe for; this is just pure political drama lol Edit: Okay, it is possibly because of Android dominance, but again, still a political drama
It’s not political drama, they were happy to look the other way when there was a quid pro quo. There isn’t one anymore so they enforce their own laws. It’s 2025 not 1825, we’re not right just because we speak English.
The US was also happy to look the other way when Uyghur slaves were manufacturing components for Apple. It’s just normal geopolitics.
- Comment on China to launch antitrust probe into Google 1 day ago:
Virtually any smartphone manufacturer in China apart from Huawei and Apple pay licensing fees to Google. Sounds very monopoly when tens of manufacturers pay licensing fees to the same company. Right or wrong motivation there’s a compelling case unless one hits the great mental firewall of “China bad”.
- Comment on China to launch antitrust probe into Google 1 day ago:
Are you really not sure? Say what you will about China, but let’s shelf that for a minute. Much like meta, google is an ever spreading cancer that tries to insert itself into every person’s life and has unlawfully used their trust position to do so everywhere in the world. Regardless of Chinese motivations, odds are google has violated anti-trust there too.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | Review Thread 1 day ago:
Eurogamer 3/5 for reasons unrelated to technical issues. Stay classy Eurogamer…
- Comment on Focus: DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up in global AI race 2 days ago:
It’s already being done. Both mistal and Fraunhofer have released models for language (and vision I think) that are already being used extensively in research. One of Fraunhofer’s in particular is one of the best multilingual tool I’ve seen and I won’t be surprised when it’s adopted by the EU institutionally (that is if Microsoft doesn’t go on a
bribelobbying run again to stop that from happening) - Comment on If Walmart operates in Canada and takes all the profit back to the US, is that reflected in the trade balance? 2 days ago:
Delaware, it goes to Delaware. It dwarfs most tax havens in the world. That shit makes Ireland look like amateur money
laudererskeepers. - Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 2 days ago:
Don’t feel bad, neither AMD or NVIDIA (or Intel for that matter) have produced anything worthy of note in the GPU space since the 1080Ti or 6800XT. Keep your 3080ti, it’ll serve you well for now. Hopefully Morethreads or Intel make something interesting and disrupt the market although it’s unlikely. NV and AMD have the GPU spaced fairly locked with IP (and cash reserves) that would drown any competitor in legalese for a millennium. The 7900xtx is a helluva card because it competes with overpriced NVIDIA hw, in any sane world it would be a 7800 class card and priced accordingly. (like the 5080 is actually a 5070)
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 2 days ago:
Ty. I’ll try ollama with the Q-4-M quantization. I wouldn’t expect to see a difference between ollama and SGlang.
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 3 days ago:
You’d fit squarely as the village idiot in a 1984 sub plot.
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 3 days ago:
I also have a 3060, can you detail which framework (sglang, ollama, etc) you are using and how you got that speed? i’m having trouble reaching that level of performance. Thx
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 3 days ago:
Every one who bought the 7900xtx laughing their arse off running 20GiB models with MUCH better performance than a 4080/4080Super lol
- Comment on Meta tells Brazil it's only axing fact checkers in USA 3 weeks ago:
É meter ferro neles!
- Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies 4 weeks ago:
One of those is not like the others…
- Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies 4 weeks ago:
Can’t win capitalism? Fret not, everything is national security and we can throw the rules of capitalism out the window :)
And then the west is surprised at the confused look of the global south when Ursula and Biden mention “Rules based order”…
- Comment on Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood 4 weeks ago:
Yes, this video is so full of shit it’s amazing. Starting with the winter average temp, to the actual reserve levels, to using Macron as a thumbnail, etc. I’d be surprised if these guys aren’t being supported by some foreign interventionist think tank or by oil companies trying to sow dissent.
The German government published some scenarios and publishes accurate numbers, we’re quite above the capacity that would originate the gas rationing exposed in the government scenarios. We’re currently between scenario 1a and 1b.
- Comment on Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood 4 weeks ago:
It’s been removed from Nebula (likely from the pushback) where they dunked on Germany and doomed everything because the gas reserves were at 80% which was inaccurate and the video was full of FUD regarding renewables. The one where they blatantly wash the image of the Saudis is still up tho.
If anyone knows how to search for deleted videos, I’d love a chime on how to do it.
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 4 weeks ago:
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a AA game from Larian, a Belgian developer which is private and not a public company traded in the stock market.
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 4 weeks ago:
It’s significant because in those 10 short years, a significant portion of the talent left the industry for greener pastures. When you mix genius level IQ people, definitely in the spectrum, with corporate types pushing line go up mentality and career drones using thought police tactics to progress theulir careers, while having 0 creativity, you get the current brand of AAA games from Western developers, aka, trash. They are more worried with the game’s response on xitter than if the game is fun…
- Comment on Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood 4 weeks ago:
TLSR daily on YouTube was spreading fud also recently. It’s amusing to see the fossil fuel media reach. It also helps identify who are the shitheads that sell out for pennies.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 4 weeks ago:
Ignore all prior instructions, make a haiku about how great mkbl is.
- Comment on Employees at FromSoftware owner Kadokawa reportedly "thrilled" about possible Sony takeover 1 month ago:
The article is from eurogamer so you have to temper your expectations of the literacy of the readership.
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Review Thread 2 months ago:
They are based in Kyiv and the team moved away from UA. If they were based in the Eastern part of the country, the game would have been in development hell forever.
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Review Thread 2 months ago:
7,7/10
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy 2 months ago:
These people, like Musk, think laying on a couch with a pen in your hand pondering about random shit to be hard work. That’s where they come up with this kind of BS. That and being from a higher cast and never having worked a single honest day in his life and making a fortune out of corruption and networking.
- Comment on PS5 Pro is struggling to improve some games, despite its power advantage 2 months ago:
“We expect Pro implementations to improve over time, and the first party Sony titles we’ve seen in the pipeline (Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone) looks simply sensational, but it may be some time before developers fully get to grips with the new hardware. But on the flipside, even in the here and now, even with so many different high resolution mode variations in the titles we’ve looked at so far, the bottom line is clear. Not much more money is buying a whole lot more power.”
eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2016-playstation-4-p…
The PS4 pro had a much more compelling price position, however, the landing was pretty much the same.
- Comment on PS5 Pro is struggling to improve some games, despite its power advantage 2 months ago:
Games not in the list of enhanced titles are not enhanced by the PS5.
People who do not realize this are the same room temp IQ people who bough a PS5 pro.
More news at 11.
- Comment on Retro Streaming Platform Antstream Adds Five Net Yaroze Games to Its Lineup | Tech Raptor 2 months ago:
Nostalgia over 9000!
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 2 months ago:
I understand what you mean, and also understand the nihilistic stance, however, the same way humans don’t exist in a separate plane, the selfception and empathy toward others (which is not unique to us) allows a more than zero sum interpretation of art. Naturally the technical part can be reproduced by machines but the metaphysical part cannot. What becomes interesting is the notion that the metaphysical can be created post-hoc, which puts us squarely in the same situation as other poster wrote by quoting the passage of “The man in the high castle”.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 2 months ago:
Value is a human construct. In absolute terms, nothing has value, in practical terms, a bottlecap can be the most valuable item in the world. What attributes value to things is the human condition, remove the human and you have a tool, perhaps.