FauxLiving
@FauxLiving@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 1 day ago:
What was the resolution?
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 1 day ago:
It was a .30-06, a 7.62mm round, similar to an AK-47 (ARs uses5.56mm). They make big exit wounds.
Given how close the round hit to his brain and the fact that it hit a major artery, he likely died due to the hydrostatic shock from the impact.
He likely didn’t even know he was hit, he was seizing immediately and all of his body motion after the impact was involuntary.
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 1 day ago:
You can disagree with political violence and also not be upset that he’s dead.
Conflating the two is disingenuous
- Comment on 2 days ago:
You get what you pay for.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
“It”? Are you conflating the low parameter model that Google uses to generate quick answers with every AI model?
Yes, Google’s quick answer product is largely useless. This is because it’s a cheap model. Google serves billions of searches per day and isn’t going to be paying premium prices to use high parameter models.
You get what you pay for, and nobody pays for Google so their product produces the cheapest possible results and, unsurprisingly, cheap AI models are more prone to error.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
It doesn’t take an AI genius to understand that it is possible to use low parameter models which are cheaper to run but dumber.
Considering Google serves billions of searches per day, they’re not using GPT-5 to generate the quick answers.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Exactly.
The model that responds to your search query is designed to be cheap, not accurate. It has to generate an answer to every single search issued to Google. They’re not using high parameter models with reasoning because those would be ruinously expensive.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Same, I enjoyed the gameplay but every item drop was far less exciting because I’d need to pause and consult a wiki before making a choice.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 4 days ago:
I’m using Deepseek R1 (8B) and Gemma 3 (12B), installed using LM Studio (which pulls directly from Hugging Face).
- Comment on There are algorithms deciding if we're human or not 6 days ago:
It’s pretty different.
Heart rate and vision have objectively correct ways to measure them. Bot detection doesn’t.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 1 week ago:
You need the software, but there’s nothing about that request that should require access to the Internet.
I have a LLM chatbot that controls my Home Assistant and Kodi players. It’s all done locally and the response time is under a second.
On my PC(Arch, btw) I have a global hotkey so I can hold the key to record a message and when I let go of the key it uses a local model to do speech to text and sends the result to the chatbot.
I could probably use a wake word but I’d need to mic up my house and I’d rather not do that. A bluetooth lapel mic and a single button Bluetooth “keyboard” about the size of a key switch (using an ESP32C3 microcontroller) give me the same functionality.
- Comment on [JS Required] Google Fined $3.5 Billion by EU Over Ad-Tech Business 1 week ago:
Yes, they know. It’s right in the OP:
In line with our usual practice, we increased Google’s fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game. But a mere fine in this case is not enough to deliver real and tangible solutions for the market and to protect our consumers.
This is why we have also ordered Google to stop its illegal practices and to put an end to its inherent conflict of interests in the Adtech industry.
Google has 60 days to inform the Commission on how it plans to do so, and if it fails to propose a viable plan, the Commission will not hesitate to impose an appropriate remedy.
They were not just fined. They were fined and given a warning that, because it was the third time, the next move is to enforce the rules with a court order. Which can include things like preventing them from operating in the EU, seizure of assets, and personal consequences for the decision makers (seizure of assets, criminal charges, etc).
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 week ago:
It would be nice if it ever gets as good as the Star Trek bridge computer. Maybe we can save more whales
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
They can hire all of the experts fleeing the RFK clownshow
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 week ago:
LLMs are good as a guide to point you in the right direction. They’re about the same kind of tool as a search engine. They can help point you in the right direction and are more flexible in answering questions.
Much like search engines, you need to be aware of the risks and limitations of the tools. Google with give you links that are crawling with browser exploiting malware and LLMs will give you answers that are wrong or directions that are destructive to follow (like incorrect terminal commands).
We’re a bit off from the ability to have models which can tackle large projects like coding complete applications, but they’re good at some tasks.
I think the issue is when people try to use them to replace having to learn instead of as a tool to help you learn.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 week ago:
I think we can get federal funding, let me run it by Director Big Balls
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 week ago:
I see you skipped that part of academia where they taught that, in science, there are steps between hypothesis and conclusion even if you already think you know the answer.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
There can be disagreement about anything.
I’m just not wasting my time trying to have a conversation with x_h1tt1er42069_x. I can find him at anytime on Reddit if I have a problem that only he has a Solution.
Having such a person in this community wouldn’t be an enjoyable experience.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
Exactly.
Communities are not higher quality with a million people. Small communities where you can know who the other posters are are a much better experience.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much every corporately owned service on the Internet actively spies on you for the police.
An important thing to understand as authoritarians take control of governments and start using this comprehensive spying apparatus to target political opponents.
Learn to use your computer. Use open sourced tools and software, invest in your own hardware and host your own services. It doesn’t require years of learning or study, you can often get by with a video or two.
My Jellyfin server doesn’t call the police. My local language models don’t store everything I’ve ever written. Nobody is scanning my NextCloud server or mining my Signal/Matrix/Jami contacts to determine my social graph.
All of this is running on cheap leftover hardware (with some new hard drives) and I save over $100/mo on the equivalent services. And way more if you consider access to every streaming service with exclusive content.
Windows is spying on you, Meta is spying on you, Google is spying on you, Amazon is spying on you, OpenAI is spying on you.
They do this because they make it slightly easier to use software and so people give up every bit of privacy and autonomy for their entire lives just to avoid reading a wiki or learning a technical skill.
I don’t think that that is a good deal.
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 2 weeks ago:
Ooo
- Comment on A simpler time 2 weeks ago:
You betta axe sumbody
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people don’t realize that votes are public 🤓
- Comment on Microsoft asks customers for feedback on reported SSD failures 2 weeks ago:
Come on in, the water is fine.
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 2 weeks ago:
For readers in the future, NPR was a show from back when we had public radio…
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 2 weeks ago:
Look at meshtastic, it’s only text messages but the underlying system could be iterated on.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 2 weeks ago:
And, if you’re new it’s also an escape room.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 2 weeks ago:
How many years of Windows experience do you have?
If you had that many years of experience on Linux then the shell commands and arguments wouldn’t be obscure.
Now’s the best time to learn, there’s a lot of other beginners now so the Linux communities are full of people learning at the same time as you would be.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 2 weeks ago:
pacman exists specifically to solve dependency issues and prevent that exact scenario
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 2 weeks ago:
The “ai bad” brainrot has everyone thinking that any algorithm is AI and all AI is ChatGPT.