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- Comment on No you don't sit on it. In the olden days people used this to make orange juice 11 hours ago:
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 12 hours ago:
I used to work for a consultancy that tried to bill themselves as experts in VR/AR. This is back in 2017 or so. We helped a client make a 3D tracking system with VR/AR applications, and this client let us kind of run with it.
Anyway, I was sort of head of this AR/VR thing, and we were always desperate for free advertising, so I somehow got pulled to provide my thoughts on the impact of VR/AR on the grocery store for an article in “The Grocer” or some kind of industry mag.
Leading up to the call, I was trying to think of what I’d say. My thoughts were on building out virtual grocery stores to test customer reactions before building them for real. Bring in some test subjects, see how they plan their route, how they react to different placements of goods. Track their eye movements to see if the new end-cap design is working. Time how long they spend in the store, etc. I got the idea from another client who was using VR to test out new detergent bottle concepts (apparently a one-off of a blow-molded bleach bottle is crazy expensive).
Well my consultancy had been purchased by a multinational conglomerate a year or so prior, so I got a phone call from some C-suite ass who wanted to brief me on what they wanted me to say to the magazine.
His idea was a service where you could have a store employee wear some kind of camera rig so the customer could sit at home in VR and pilot the employee around the store. This would essentially replace curbside pickup, but with the added benefit of “allowing the customer to pick which apple they want out of the bunch.”
I resolved to ignore that advice, but the whole magazine thing ended up falling through anyway. I quit within the year.
- Comment on Employa destroya 🫵😫 2 days ago:
Yeah, I haven’t gone since. And I’m not going to not tip because it’s expensive. It’s just that when you’re paying $18 for a cocktail, you don’t exactly expect the bar to turn into a vending machine.
This was also after being told I was “in the wrong line” for the cocktail I wanted to order. And other people were walking in wearing basketball shorts. It was really quite a scene.
- Comment on Employa destroya 🫵😫 2 days ago:
It was $18.
- Comment on Employa destroya 🫵😫 3 days ago:
I once went to a fancy rooftop bar where I was asked to pay in full (with tip) up front for a cocktail. No idea how that place is still in business.
- Comment on Expecto patronum my ass! 3 days ago:
I like how Misfits and Magic handles this where wizards straight just have never heard of nuclear weapons.
- Comment on Gottem 1 week ago:
Double plus good idea.
- Comment on Gottem 1 week ago:
Also, the nocebo effect is real.
- Comment on Bag it and tag it, bby 1 week ago:
A friend of mine studied penguins in Patagonia. When trying to wrangle one to study it, it suffered a heart attack and died. He was destroyed by what had happened.
He kept its ankle band and wore it on a necklace. Despite being just a stamped bit of steel, they’re apparently highly regulated, so it’s rare to have one that’s not on a bird (not exactly sure if him having it was 100% above board).
When he got married, he had it fashioned into his wedding band.
- Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. 1 week ago:
that low-grade sense that something about how we talk to each other has gone thin
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 1 week ago:
I’ll give that a shot.
I’m running it in docker because it’s running on a headless server with a boatload of other services. Ideally whatever I use will be accessible over the network.
I think at the time I started, not everything supported Intel cards, but it looks like llama-cli has support form Intel GPUs. I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!
- Comment on A succulent meal 1 week ago:
Not to mention, if you try to swallow a potato whole (as one does), you risk choking to death.
- Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. 1 week ago:
Thanks for the link. I was gonna ask if you were a writer, heh.
I agree. The tone of the ads this year felt almost like lampshading. Like if we acknowledge the problem, we’re wise to what the audience is feeling, but we’re not going to do a damn thing to address it. It’s just something that needs to be done to make the ad feel remotely relevant.
AI is scary, but don’t be afraid of our surveillance device because we acknowledged that AI is scary
AI will sell you ads. Anyway, you’re watching an ad for AI
Work sucks amirite? Why not let us unemploy you?
There’s a wealth gap. Spend money on our stuff.
And I’m not going to even link the He Gets Us ads.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for taking the time.
So I’m not using a CLI. I’ve got the intelanalytics/ipex-llm-inference-cpp-xpu image running and hosting LLMs to be used by a separate open-webui container. I originally set it up with Deepseek-R1:latest per the tutorial to get the results above. This was straight out of the box with no tweaks.
The interface offers some controls settings (below screenshot). Is that what you’re talking about?
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 2 weeks ago:
Well, not off to a great start.
To be clear, I think getting an LLM to run locally at all is super cool, but saying “go self hosted” sort of gloms over the fact that getting a local LLM to do anything close to what ChatGPT can do is a very expensive hobby.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 2 weeks ago:
Any suggestions on how to get these to gguf format? I found a GitHub project that claims to convert, but wondering if there’s a more direct way.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 2 weeks ago:
GO self-hosted,
So yours and another comment I saw today got me to dust off an old docker container I was playing with a few months ago to run deepseek-r1:8b on my server’s Intel A750 GPU with 8gb of VRAM. Not exactly top-of-the-line, but not bad.
I knew it would be slow and not as good as ChatGPT or whatever which I guess I can live with. I did ask it to write some example Rust code today which I hadn’t even thought to try and it worked.
But I also asked it to describe the characters in a popular TV show, and it got a ton of details wrong.
8b is the highest number of parameters I can run on my card. How do you propose someone in my situation run an LLM locally? Can you suggest some better models?
- Comment on Not that limit 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it would have to be defined as a one-sided limit.
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 2 weeks ago:
Just missed Bandcamp Friday.
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 2 weeks ago:
zip bomb
- Comment on Of course you want to go into the "listening booth" to sample the record before you buy it 3 weeks ago:
Was just in Silver Platters in Seattle. They still have one. Touch screen to boot. But it looks like it’s been broken for quite a while.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Interesting. Didn’t know about the google books case. I agree that it applies here.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s critically important to be very specific about what LLMs are “able to do” vs what they tend to do in practice.
The argument is that the initial training data is sufficiently altered and “transformed” so as not to be breaking copyright. If the model is capable of reproducing the majority of the book unaltered, then we know that is not the case. Whether or not it’s easy to access is irrelevant. The fact that the people performing the study had to “jailbreak” the models to get past checks tells you that the model’s creators are very aware that the model is very capable of producing an un-transformed version of the copyrighted work.
From the end-user’s perspective, if the model is sufficiently gated from distributing copyrighted works, it doesn’t matter what it’s inherently capable of, but the argument shouldn’t be “the model isn’t breaking the law” it should be “we have a staff of people working around the clock to make sure the model doesn’t try to break the law.”
- Comment on There isn't a person on earth that doesn't look cooler with sunglasses on. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That study is six months old. The one I linked is from three weeks ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not it isn’t. Read.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s quite a claim, I’d like to see that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yet most AI models can recite entire Harry Potter books if prompted the right way, so that’s all bullshit.
- Comment on Showerthoughts go meta - The Showerloop, or recirculating shower. 3 weeks ago:
Color me a bit skeptic that such a filtration system can remove soap and oil residue from used shower water.
www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/…/Thesis.pdf?isAl…
I guess they’ve done quite a bit of research. Not sure I’m qualified to comment on the validity of their conclusions.
I’m also curious how frequently the filter materials need to be replaced.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s getting close to the Streisand kiss of death.
