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- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 hours ago:
If the cost of using it is lower than the alternative, and the market willing to buy it is the same. If the current cloud hosted tools cease to be massively subsidized, and consumers choose to avoid it, then it’s inevitably a historical footnote, like turbine powered cars, Web 3.0, and laser disk.
There’s another scenario: Turns out that if Big AI doesn’t buy up all the available stock of DRAM and GPUs, running local AI models on your own PC will become more realistic.
I run local AI stuff all the time from image generation to code assistance. My GPU fans spin up for a bit as the power consumed by my PC increases but other than that, it’s not much of an impact on anything.
I believe this is the future: Local AI models will eventually take over just like PCs took over from mainframes. There’s a few thresholds that need to be met for that to happen but it seems inevitable. It’s already happening for image generation where the local AI tools are so vastly superior to the cloud stuff there’s no contest.
- Comment on AI music creates unease as it tops the charts 20 hours ago:
In other news, turns out pop music is very formulaic and easy for a machine to generate!
The distance between, “all of this was made on a computer with minimal effort” and, “this music was entirely generated by AI” is very short indeed.
- Comment on The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access 20 hours ago:
I hope the SCOTUS justices aren’t using 3-strikes-you’re-out ISPs! All it would take is three random DMCA takedown notices and they’d lose Internet.
- Comment on Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled 3 days ago:
You jest, but if conservatives have their way, you’ll soon have to verify your ID by uploading a video every time you visit the site (if not logged in). Even for non-adult content!
Because the reason for the ID isn’t to “protect the children” or anything like that. It’s about control. Conservatives want the power to decide what people get to see and ID verification systems are just a small part of that.
- Comment on How would a feminine Doppelbock be named? 3 days ago:
Doppelblume. It means “double blossom”.
Alternatives:
- Domina Doppel
- Endowed Doppel
- Satin/Silk/Velvet Doppel
- Double-D Doppel
- Comment on Standardization rule 4 days ago:
It took until 2021 but we can finally say, “we live in a society.”
Because we have standards.
- Comment on Standardization rule 4 days ago:
Bunch of asses, that’s why!
- Comment on [NSQ Friday] Are sunchips really from the sun? 1 week ago:
No. They’re off the old block.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 week ago:
What should be illegal is patents like this!
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 1 week ago:
If you don’t like your current open source AI, just use a different one or an embedding that works around whatever bias you don’t like. Maybe open a ticket?
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 1 week ago:
The takeaway here is: Open source doesn’t suffer from enshittification.
Learn and contribute to FOSS or stop bitching 🤣
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 1 week ago:
Yeah… The big commercial models have system prompts that fuck it all up. That’s my hypothesis, anyway.
You have to try it with an open source model. You tell it to turn the titles, URLs, and nothing else. That seems to work fantastic 👍
I’m doing it with Open WebUI and ollama cloud which is open source models that you could run locally—if you have like $5,000 worth of hardware.
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 1 week ago:
Ok how would that work:
find me some good recipes for hibachi style ginger butterAI model returns 10 links, 4 of which don’t actually exist (because it hallucinated them)? No. If they didn’t exist, it wouldn’t have returned them because it wouldn’t have been able to load those URLs.
It’s possible that it could get it wrong because of some new kind of LLM scamming method but that’s not “making shit up” it’s malicious URLs.
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 1 week ago:
You’ve obviously never used an open source AI model (running locally on your PC) if you think that’s how it’d go.
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 1 week ago:
Today, when you search for something you get a handful of ads, SEO-sponsored bullshit, and maybe the 6th link will be what you were actually looking for.
When you tell the AI agent (in your browser) to search for something, not only do you get the most relevant results (because you can make your prompt vastly more specific and detailed), you completely skip all that other stuff that you didn’t want.
I’ve been saying for some time now that AI is going to kill free search engines because it’s such a better way to search for stuff. Free search engines like Google and SEO-optimizing companies are hindrances to efficient browsing and drowning the web in bullshit. Poisoning search results.
An AI agent will skip past all that stuff and give you just what you want; you never see any ads!
- Comment on Why did Montreal need to prove that it's a real place? What happened to the people who called it Montimaginary 2 weeks ago:
Because Montunreal was the little engine that could.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
I’ve done a 3-hour session playing Beat Saber multiplayer with a friend. It was the most intense workout I’ve ever experienced.
The only break was in the middle to refill my enormous water bottle and to clean up the huge pool of sweat on the floor that was getting gross (I was wearing socks, LOL).
My arms hurt for like three days straight after that. I still played every night though 😁👍
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 weeks ago:
Just place a fan on the floor in front of you. Bam! No nausea. Because now you body instinctively knows your position and orientation in the space you’re in.
It’s such a simple thing but it really works!
- Comment on A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists 2 weeks ago:
You know they’re just buildings full of servers, right?
I mean, I’d rather have a data center than some toxic chemical factory or a busy warehouse in my neighborhood. Data centers just… sit there. They use a lot of power and some use a lot of water, but if your region doesn’t have power/water problems it’s not really much of an impact.
A nation’s supercomputing power used to be something people celebrated. Especially one owned and operated by a place like Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Comment on A brain transplant is one of those rare cases where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient. 2 weeks ago:
[waves hand] It’s fine. Just have to 3D print the new body and a regulation that requires everyone take a body of the opposite sex. That way trans people can get the right body and the rich can gain some empathy for trans people real fast.
- Comment on You live in Clown World when guys are using bathroom hand dryers 2 weeks ago:
Must be some serious bathroom if “balls to the wall” is a real concern. Must be some full throttle pissing going on!
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, that’s what an AI video generator thinks an FPS is. That’s not the same thing as AI-assisted coding. Though it’s still hilarious! “Press F to pay respects” 🤣
For reference, using AI to automate your QA isn’t a bad idea. There’s a bunch of ways to handle such things but one of the more interesting ones is to pit AIs against each other. Not in the game, but in their reports… You tell AI to perform some action and generate a report about it while telling another AI to be extremely skeptical about the first AI’s reports and to reject anything that doesn’t meet some minimum standard.
That’s what they’re doing over at Anthropic (internally) with Claude Code QA tasks and it’s super fascinating! Heard them talk about that setup on a podcast recently and it kinda blew my mind… They have more than just two “Claudes” pitted against each other too: In the example they talked about, they had four: One generating PRs, another reviewing/running tests, another one checking the work of the testing Claude, and finally a Claude setup to perform critical security reviews of the final PRs.
- Comment on CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement 3 weeks ago:
This is how the software works:
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 3 weeks ago:
The business model is hoping that non-professional users will sign up for canva subscriptions in order to take advantage of the AI features. There’s zillions of users like that—far more than the number of professional graphic artists that would pay for this software.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 weeks ago:
FYI: That’s more Windows games than run in Windows!
WTF? Why? Because a lot of older games don’t run in newer versions of Windows than when they were made! They still run great in Linux though 👍
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 4 weeks ago:
NO! It’syour device, you should have root! The fact that the manufacturer gives their product owners root is a good thing, not bad!
I will die on this fucking hill.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 month ago:
It’s possible that a huge number of sites that are currently free will turn to paywalls but that won’t make the local AI useless. You’ll just give it your login credentials for any sites you want it to search and it’ll do it’s thing (and no, captias don’t work with AI models… They’re only good at stopping basic crawlers).
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 month ago:
I’ve been saying this for some time now: AI is going to kill so many business models because it’s really great at creating summaries.
You don’t even need a huge cloud-basrd AI! Local AI—running on your PC—can search the web, summarize the news (and Wikipedia articles), and perform similar tasks without a human ever visiting the site.
It’s like having your own personal secretary that you can tell to go do stuff.
I think it’s going to kill free search engines because it can go do a search on all of them at once in seconds and no human will ever see those ads.
- Comment on If the USA ever rewrites their constitution it will likely have embedded ads. 1 month ago:
It’ll be 90% complete and just end there with a simple statement:
Usage limit reached - Comment on Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom 1 month ago:
Does anyone have the data on the total number of data centers that were being built over time? I’m not convinced that AI is causing that many more data centers to be built. From everything I’ve read, is just that they’re putting more GPUs into them.
