Breve
@Breve@pawb.social
- Comment on Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
I can understand the convenience of these algorithms, but they always have the same subtly undermining goal: to make people addicted. The fact that TikTok’s algorithm is so good at this is worrying to me even if it doesn’t have an overt bias. It’s also why I think people are having such crazy reactions to the pending ban, even the thought of withdrawal is too much.
- Comment on Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
I think the problem is that people aren’t hooked to the short video format of TikTok, which there are already many alternatives for, but they are hooked to the algorithm that feeds them endless personalized content with simple guidance (show me more/less like this).
It’s possible to create curated and algorithm-like feeds on Bluesky, but they don’t allow for easy personalization in the same way.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 week ago:
They want control of governments so they can wield total authority over the working class and exploit them even harder than they already do. Amazon will make showing up to work late a felony punishable with jail time. Oh and the jail is actually an Amazon fulfillment centre.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah for sure, I’ve run Llama 3.2 on my RTX 4080 and it struggles but it’s not obnoxiously slow. I think they are betting more software will ship with integrated LLMs that run locally on users PCs instead of relying on cloud compute.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 2 weeks ago:
Data centres want the even beefier cards anyhow, but I think nVidia envisions everyone running local LLMs on their PCs because it will be integrated into software instead of relying on cloud compute. My RTX 4080 can struggle through Llama 3.2.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Something similar happened to my brother when he realized our parent’s wedding anniversary wasn’t too long after his birthday and they were married the same number of years as his age… 😬
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t making graphics cards anymore, they’re making AI processors that happen to do graphics using AI.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 2 weeks ago:
I would take the pink one, then find my least favourite people and make the infinite poop copypasta into reality…
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 2 weeks ago:
I agree chicken and waffles is good, but I also would try tuna and mushroom soup waffles not gonna lie.
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 3 weeks ago:
Wait till you hear about chicken and waffles! How ridiculous! /s (or is it? 🤔)
- Comment on What happened to techbros from the 90s to now? 4 weeks ago:
Crypto bros aren’t the geeks, they’re the popular kids who did well by cheating and copying off other people’s work. None of them actually helped make anything even vaguely useful, they memorized enough technical jargon to sound convincing and got lucky betting on digital ponzi schemes.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 4 weeks ago:
For cheap plastic “thingies” if you know a friend with a 3D printer they can be of massive help. Even if you don’t have such a friend, there are domestic businesses that will print and ship things for you. Granted they aren’t always as cheap, but easily better for the environment due to being more local.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 4 weeks ago:
Quitting Amazon to use AliExpress or Temu is like quitting drinking alcohol by switching to heroin instead.
Environmental issues aside, cheap disposable shit that you have to replace constantly actually costs you way more in the long run.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 4 weeks ago:
This is always the problem: Monopolies are popular with consumers because their centralization makes everything easy. The trappings of convenience.
Buy stuff directly from stores. Every time I’ve looked, the price elsewhere often exactly matches what Amazon charges because their pricing algorithms are constantly price matching anyhow.
- Comment on Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit 1 month ago:
No, he did try it back in 2017:
“In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was to create a for-profit entity,” OpenAI said. “Elon wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO. In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding. Reid Hoffman bridged the gap to cover salaries and operations.”
Elmo is just throwing a tantrum because he wanted to be the one to take them private and roll them into Tesla but the rest of the board said no.
- Comment on If I go to Canada can I retire there and draw SS from the US? Also can I go to Canada buy a cabin or house with a plot of land and not work? Unless I just needed some walking around money? 1 month ago:
Even though cannabis is legal to grow for personal use (under certain conditions), it is illegal to sell unless you get a proper license and there are tons of regulations.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 1 month ago:
And the twist is 99.9% of Republican voters think they are in the in-group just because the leopards haven’t eaten their faces yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It also strongly encourages people to return their ballots in person likely because the GOP is already set to challenge mail-in ballots as “rigged”.
- Comment on After Gorging on Stock Buybacks for Years, Boeing Announces Mass Layoffs 3 months ago:
I understand the actual market reasons that buybacks and layoffs raise a stock price, but it’s always been counter-intuitive to me that shrinking the workforce that actually produces the capital and divesting money that could have been used to grow the company would be seen as positive indicators to investors.
- Comment on Anon explains the 2nd amendment 4 months ago:
I sure hope those 2nd amendment fanatics can afford the naval vessels and foreign military bases they’re going to need to get involved in the South China Sea! 💸
- Comment on Anon explains the 2nd amendment 4 months ago:
Military spending in 2023 (in billions of US dollars):
United States: 916 China: 296 Russia: 109 India: 83.6 People who own a “don’t tread on me flag”: 0
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 4 months ago:
Money corrupts absolutely everything: science, politics, people…
- Comment on Anon tries to connect with a coworker 5 months ago:
I’ve just had this Chinese dynasty, it is fucking minging! Suck your dad!
- Comment on What makes it “Legitimate Interest“? 6 months ago:
Advertisers believe they are doing you a favour by using personal information to serve “better” ads that would be more “interesting” to you.
- Comment on Falling 7 months ago:
The gravitational force equation actually takes into account the mass of both objects and their distance. The only reason we can throw out a gravitational constant of 9.81m/s^2 for most objects on Earth is because the mass of the Earth is so large that the relative difference in the mass and distance of the other object have to be equally large in order to make any significant change in that value. Technically though, a bowling ball at sea level falls slightly faster than a bowling ball at the top of Everest, as does a bowling ball and feather from the same height. The reason is more accurately that they are experiencing slightly higher or lower gravitational forces, which cause them to accelerate (in conjunction with all the other forces acting on them).
- Comment on Every base is base 10 7 months ago:
The number x when written in base x is always 10 for any value of x.
- Comment on near zero 8 months ago:
The infinitesimal has entered the chat.
- Comment on Zero to hero 8 months ago:
How are those the same? You need to define “religion” and “sport” rigorously first.
This is really the crux of the argument. There are no absolute authorities on religion, sport, or in the case of the original post, mathematics. We can have definitions by general consensus, but they are rarely universal and thus it’s easy to cherry pick a definition that supports any particular argument with no ability to appeal to authority.
I have no idea what you’re on about with not golfing being a sport.
It’s mostly a troll argument, but you can easily trip up people with interchanging the definition of “sport” as a thing (“golf is a sport”) or an activity (“playing golf is a sport”). Then after trying to hammer down the definition more exactly, you can often poke holes in it with more questions like is chess a sport? Is playing Counter Strike a sport? Is competitive crocheting a sport? All of these ambiguities are possible because of the lack of a universal authority in the realm of sports, though some people try to pick an authority such as the Olympics to prove their point.
- Comment on Zero to hero 8 months ago:
Other fun arguments in the same vein: Is atheism a religion? Is not playing golf a sport? For extra fun, try explaining the answers to both in a non-contradictory way.
- Comment on Thanks AT&T! 8 months ago:
Then why can I buy a prepaid SIM with cash and no ID? I do this when travelling because it’s cheaper than international roaming.