Zworf
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- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 1 week ago:
I didn’t think it was super creepy but I thought the voice was so overly enthusiastic and overacted and soooo sugary. bleh.
This won’t work for me unless that can be customised and toned down a lot.
- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 1 week ago:
The audio from the AI also seemed to cut out a lot during the demo. So it does appear like no shenanigans to me.
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 1 week ago:
It depends on your prompt/context size too. The more you have the more memory you need. Try to check the memory usage of your GPU with GPU-Z with different models and scenarios.
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 1 week ago:
Hmmm weird. I have a 4090 / Ryzen 5800X3D and 64GB and it runs really well. Admittedly it’s the 8B model because the intermediate sizes aren’t out yet and 70B simply won’t fly on a single GPU.
But it really screams. Much faster than I can read.
PS: Ollama is just llama.cpp under the hood.
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 1 week ago:
Training your own will be very difficult. You will need to gather so much data to get a model that has basic language understanding.
What I would do (and am doing) is just taking something like llama3 or mistral and adding your own content using RAG techniques.
- Comment on Why do mobile games suck nowadays? 2 weeks ago:
And the longer the time between episodes, the smaller the chance it would generate new sales because existing users lost interest.
True, but with that particular game what didn’t help either was that there were many years between episodes, it was pretty awful. It’s one thing I really hate about episodic gaming. But Valve already proved it to be a failure, only Telltale And Dontnod still do it (and they do it consistently right, to be fair).
The rest of the gaming industry has gone on to “Early access” which is even more awful. Rather than buying the first part of the story for a lower fee, you now pay top dollar for a game which isn’t even finished and never might be because once you pay them there is no real incentive to actually finish it :)
- Comment on Why do mobile games suck nowadays? 2 weeks ago:
For me they have always sucked. The only one I liked a bit was “1112” (also known as Fade), BUT the developer actually cancelled the last episode because they didn’t feel like making it anymore 🤬 So yeah it also sucked big time.
- Comment on Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals 3 weeks ago:
Yeah she clarified that literally, it’s not linked in the article.
twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/…/1677480809450835969
I can’t find the source of her saying it was about the IME thing but I recall reading that from a person close to her. She had just raised it before all this happened.
And yes she’s a great person, she was often criticised for being a CCP stooge but that was BS. She was as outspoken as one can be being in China (and unfortunately, clearly a bit more than that).
- Comment on Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals 3 weeks ago:
This is something that the amazing Naomi Wu brought up for years before, and was ordered to stop publishing by the local government 😢
I really miss her content.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 3 weeks ago:
The LLMs for text are also based on “theft”. They’re just much better at hiding it because they have a multitude more source material. Still, it does sometimes happen that they quote a source article verbatim.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 3 weeks ago:
A lot of translation and summarisation. ChatGPT is extremely good in absorbing a whole mix of comments in different languages and summarising them in English (or whatever other language).
For programming I don’t use it so much anymore because it hallucinates too much, calling APIs that don’t even exist. And when I lower the temperature the output is too sparse.
I’m also trying to build an assistant that can also communicate proactively (I intend to auto-prompt it when things happen and then evaluate if it should cause a message to me). But I need to get a local LLM going for that because running that through the ChatGPT API will be too costly.
- Comment on Steam Deck is the ❝Biggest Threat❞ to Xbox [Fan The Deck] 3 weeks ago:
Nah. Playstation is the biggest threat to the Xbox.
- Comment on It's finally up! Please sign it if you're in the UK :) Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I agree, it’s a better solution. But something that meets the requirement too.
After all if they stop selling the game, why bother with activation? Just patch that shit out.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
That’s true. They actually stopped supporting Nginx recently which really bothered me too because I want to keep using self-signed certs (my server is only reachable internally and I do not want to expose it to the internet). And the new server they use (I forgot which) didn’t really have that option.
And yes it is totally feasible to use upstream! Not a problem at all.
I would recommend to use the dockers though, as the whole debian thing becomes a bit of a mess with different python requirements for some of the bridges. I tried that in a long forgotten past and there is a reason I’m trying to forget that 🤭
Like you I know the ansible playbook has its limits (for example one other thing I run into is that I want to run several instances of the same bridge to bridge eg. 2 whatsapp accounts!) but I do think docker is the way to go. I’m interested to hear how you’re faring though as it’s a long time ago since I tried that.
- Comment on The race to decarbonise the world’s economy risks repeating the mistakes of the colonial era by building industries on forced and child labour, rights advocate warns 5 weeks ago:
True, nobody should ever have billions. There’s simply no need for that much money, you can’t ever use it up.
- Comment on The race to decarbonise the world’s economy risks repeating the mistakes of the colonial era by building industries on forced and child labour, rights advocate warns 5 weeks ago:
most personal trips can be done safely and easily using an E-bike (much smaller batteries that can be produced en mass with existing supply chains) and cars should be reduced in usage outside of particularly rural areas where they truly are a necessity (which is a tiny portion of the overall population).
E-bikes are often not an option for many reasons. Needing to bring cargo, bad weather, danger from other traffic. If they were actually such an amazing option everyone would be using them because they are hella cheaper than cars.
- Comment on Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off 5 weeks ago:
Maybe this research and language is intended to suggest that there is a point past which “confusingly and unintuitively designed” strongly resembles “intentionally deceiving”? We’re probably not going to get internal emails saying “make it complicated so that we can collect users’ data”.
This is Apple that pride themselves on UX. If they do it a certain way there is a reason, which is not always with the user’s interests in mind.
- Comment on Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off 5 weeks ago:
Depends on whether you consider dark-patterns to be “lying”
www.apple.com/privacy/ “Apple, that’s privacy”. That and then doing dark patterns, I consider that lying, yes.
- Comment on Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off 5 weeks ago:
Much better for sure.
Also a lot less functionality of course.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
Yeah for sure. I run the server + a bunch of bridges (whatsapp, signal, telegram) on an old atom NUC with 8GB RAM and it only actually uses 2 GB.
Here’s the documentation for the playbook: github.com/…/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
I can really recommend it.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
Actually the ansible playbook creates a bundle of docker containers so you get the best of both :)
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
It’s not as snazzy as Discord but it’s fully open-source and federated. So everyone can run their own server (I do, too). If you don’t care about running your own you can just sign up at https://app.element.io/ .
It also offers many “bridges” to other protocols, like WhatsApp, Telegram, even Discord. Those are not quite as mature and mostly third-party provided but they generally work well.
There’s a really great ansible playbook for installing your own. If you would like to have the full bridged experience, beeper is probably best.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
All these maintainers of all these lemmy servers would have to do the exact same thing if Nintendo came to them.
yes but then the community would move to another lemmy host and it would turn into a game of whack a mole for Nintendo.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
Yes but it’s a small effort to sign up for somewhere else. Matrix is just as good and they do care about your privacy.
I find it really weird for a project like Home Assistant where the whole goal of the package is to wrestle control of your home from the big tech clouds. Only to put their own comms data in a big tech cloud… :X
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
In other words: Matrix.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
Yeah me either. It spies on your computer, they ban third-party clients. It’s owned by bytedance. When I use the web version it kicks me out every day and I have to log in again.
I don’t mind it being around but I really hate the way open source projects (e.g. Home Assistant) use it as their only platform for collaboration.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
The Netherlands is extremely docile to big business interests.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 1 month ago:
Yeah I understand, Kagi is a good service!
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 1 month ago:
Ah I see. I didn’t really understand the requirement. That would indeed be a nice one though pretty hard to configure for general search because the results can come from so many sources.
As well as that, for special-purpose things like movies it does in fact have a ranking for those by querying common sites like IMDB directly as an engine. So in that case you can use the weighting system to show preference. It doesn’t seem to support letterboxd as a source but it does some others:
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 1 month ago:
Yeah but accuracy isn’t a given with the other methods either. If I ask some randos on reddit I won’t get a perfect answer either. If I google specs or reviews online they are often biased (or even literally fraudulent paid reviews) too.
So yeah for me the LLM output is more than good enough.