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- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 4 days ago:
If it all goes away, I won’t care. Youtube is all about creators and they are the worst. Whatever.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 4 days ago:
Eh, tiktok was already brain rot.
Not sure it really makes any difference.
And I mean this seriously. People staring at their phones to watch little snippets of shit and endlessly scrolling for more is not healthy.
I am not sure there really is a distinction between "real’ or not real to the end viewers brain.
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 1 week ago:
It is secure. It is your wallet, your keys.
It is built from litecoin, which is a fork of bitcoin.
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 1 week ago:
I miss when the satire became a possibility of a real currency. Of all the crypto, Dogecoin proved that there is no point in trying.
Low cost, fairly stable, cheap to send a receive, a ton of clients and places to spend it. I never bought any, but I traded for plenty, and bought many things with it. I never worried about it becoming valuable, so I did not hoard it. I never worried about it becoming worthless either because the inflation rate was constantly shrinking.
But the complaint was always the same: how will I get rich with this?
Which proved that crypto is garbage and a ponzi or pyramid scheme.
- Comment on LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users 1 week ago:
Such a garbage site and always has been. Prior to microsoft owning them they were a shit show. They should never have recovered from this, but people are stupid.
After microsoft bought them, they became nothing more than a data mining operation. Which also should have made people avoid them. But again, people are so damn stupid.
So train AI on these dumbfucks, why not? They are too dumb to walk away.
- Comment on Washington city officials are using ChatGPT for government work 1 week ago:
Does this surprise anyone? Of course they are. Every business is pushing AI as hard as they can.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 weeks ago:
They changed the save to auto store. Super annoying now. If I wanted to keep it I would save it. Now I have extra clicks.
Oh well. Kate works on windows and edit is coming back so notepad just gets removed.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 weeks ago:
Being basically a scratch pad. For anything more I have software to do that.
They ruined it by changing the way it saves.
Then bloated it with crap nobody (except apparently you) want. They also introduced a LOT of new bugs.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, because notepad did one thing well. Now it doesn’t.
I just spent a good portion of my day today fixing stupid crap an AI had put into documents that a person was trying to use. It was wrong, so damn wrong. Like usual.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 weeks ago:
It can. But doesn’t have to. And you could do vs codium if you wanted to.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 weeks ago:
OK, so you haven’t actually looked into any of the studies (there are plenty). It absolutely makes you dumber and lazy while wasting your time.
The amount of garbage that AI puts out is astounding. I am very familiar with it, my department is in charge of facilitating users to use it. I run local LLM’s so I fully understand how offline works.
In the case of copilot+ pc’s "an internet connection is required every so many days. They are explicit that the local processing will be combined with internet processing, and although you can turn it off for periods of time, the model will not be as robust or useful. In addition of course they are still sending all that data back with refresh by simply using windows so there is that too.
Calling VS Code an IDE is a stretch. Are you sure you are not confusing it with VS Studio?
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 weeks ago:
Because everything Microsoft has said, even when using Copilot + AI local still sends data to microsoft. Sound like privacy, is more like pushing the actual resource compute local while still sending data home.
You don’t understand how using AI to help with writing is awesome?
No, I don’t. It is lazy and not awesome at all. Every single research paper that has come out says it does one of two things (often both): wastes your time, making you think you are being more efficient when you are not, AND makes you stupid. Your crutch disengages your brain, and makes it harder and harder for you to do it your self.
And if you are taking notes, what the hell is AI doing?
You said notepad++ which has a lot of features via plug ins. So I would assume you would want more functionality than simply a text editor, hence why I said it. If I am stuck on a windows computer, I use to for code AND notes. It works well for either case. There is even an extension for that.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 weeks ago:
Your username doesn’t check out… Everything you type in notepad goes to Microsoft now… I can’t understand what is awesome about having an ai try and figure out my text in notes pad.
Would you be better served switching from notepad++ to vs code?
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 weeks ago:
Arrg! I didnt mean to delete what I wrote I was just trying to update it.
You confused energy use with pollution.
And what I wrote before was:
I basically said that I was serious, people if they cared would stop using computers. But I am not, you are not, so data centers are going to grow no matter what we do, and computing use is going to increase energy consumption. We need to (even says in the article you posted in the links) improve efficiency, get better hardware, use lower cost training models, use energy recovery and not use lossy evaporator cooling.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 weeks ago:
They said that AI is polluting worse than global air travel. They are mixing up pollution vs energy used. If it was pollution global air travel creates 80 Million Tons of CO a month. All AI in use is 15 million tons a month. Global air travel is far more polluting.
As an aside, and this is crazy: there is a mention, in the article OP posted, that suggests that humans, are far worse than AI for CO creation depending on the task. Which I found surprising.
The data comes a paper in the journal Nature:
Our findings reveal that AI systems emit between 130 and 1500 times less CO2e per page of text generated compared to human writer, while AI illustration systems emit between 310 and 2900 times less CO2e per image than their human counterparts. Emissions analyses do not account for social impacts such as professional displacement, legality, and rebound effects. In addition, AI is not a substitute for all human tasks. Nevertheless, at present, the use of AI holds the potential to carry out several major activities at much lower emission levels than can humans.
Ok I honestly did not see that coming.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for clarifying. You made up statistics, your post is nonsense.
And you responded without any consideration that the consistent reliance on computers, in general, is using a HUGE amount of energy, AI or not, indicate that you simply want to chase windmills and not have a conversation. Well played.
HurrDeeeDurrrr indeed. Next time let the grown ups talk.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 weeks ago:
Well what you said is not true, but since you are so interested in this, why limit it to AI? Just quit using computers all together.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 weeks ago:
Why did you start using straws at all?
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, my point is that it is just a communication tool. I wouldn’t expect them, or want them, to monitor that. If they had been phone calls would they be going after the phone company? If it had been letters would they go after the postal service?
I can’t see blaming them. Whereas I can see how you can blame roblocks as it is marketed to children with the pretense that there are safeguards.
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 2 weeks ago:
Roblox does not seem to care what they do as long as it makes money. This seems like a huge problem.
Discord on the other hand… I honestly don’t care if they go out of business, I really don’t like that platform. But how did they have any responsibility in this matter?
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it is worth saying that it isn’t that it can’t run on it, it is that Microsoft is trying to stop it from running on it. Two registry keys and 11 replaces 10 on anything 10 works on. But they don’t want to tell anyone that.
But the premise is sound: to the end consumer they hear “buy a new computer” while the old one works fine, and the new ones price is starting to climb…
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 3 weeks ago:
so far…
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 3 weeks ago:
That’s nice. I have been streaming lossless for myself for what, two decades now? I see no reason to pay spotify for anything.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 weeks ago:
To be clear: I am talking about running my own sever/stream.
I almost always have it with me because the internet is nearly everywhere. On a plane, in my car, at work, at the place I am typing this to you which is thousands of miles away from my server. When I am at home it still is playing from my NAS on my local network.
How am I supposed to cart around 5 TB of music with me? I don’t want to have to copy a tiny bit to my laptop, tablet, phone, and steamdeck. If I absolutely know I am going to be out of internet range I can have it copied temporarily to a device with downloads, or syncthing. Even doing that at least I can be nearly anywhere in the world to do the download.
Its not like this is hard, or expensive.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 weeks ago:
Hey some good people are here on Lemmy under selfhosted. I am sure there are more.
A server can be nearly anything, a $50 used computer can work, the cost of hard drives can run a bit more. Its a neat little hobby and doesnt have to be expensive. OpenMediaVault (as the OS) is free and get you started as a NAS out of the box.
In any case, lots of people are happy to help and there are tutorial videos as well.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 weeks ago:
You do have it on your computer: your server.
So when I listen to music locally, I just open clementine and it knows all the music on my server.
When I go out, I stream to my phone from the same server. How often is your phone NOT on the internet? I mean its a phone right?
Here I am about 5,000 miles away from my server, and I still stream to myself, to the laptop I am working on. Should I load up my phone, laptop, tablet, and steamdeck prior to leaving the house, or just know I can stream anything from my 6TB collection at any time?
If you DO feel you need to have some offline, it still makes sense to have a server. Just use syncthing or any decent music program to bring over what you want before you leave the internet.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 weeks ago:
Why would you not stream that to yourself? No need to buy hardware to get in the way.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 weeks ago:
My server says streaming is working great. My radio station list says streaming is working great. SomaFM is working great, and the archive fills the rest.
- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t really matter what I think, its a different concept that pirating. Hence a different thing than what was getting ruled on.
I mean AI or not look at it this way: if a company wanted to train their workers and pirated all the training manuals, piracy is the issue, not the training.
- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 3 weeks ago:
Totally different. Anthropic could have bought all the books and trained on them. Pirating is a different topic.