brucethemoose
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- Comment on New Steam study alleges that Valve's store is home to extreme right-wing "wars" 1 week ago:
Why not both? One section for owners, one for pre-purchasers (maybe it has to be in their wishlist?)
- Comment on Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser 2 weeks ago:
They probably don’t know.
- Comment on Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser 2 weeks ago:
Yep.
Vivaldi is basically the real Opera now, including some of its devs IIRC.
- Comment on Mr. Pope 2 weeks ago:
I think all of Twitter is probably better to ignore?
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 2 weeks ago:
This is spot on.
And on the apparently contradictory “AGI” development, I’ll add the Big Tech kingpens like Altman/Zuck/Musk are hyping that while doing the opposite. EG hyping that up to investors on one hand, but turning around, cutting fundamental research, and focusing more on scaling plain transformers up or even making ‘products’ like Zuck is.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 2 weeks ago:
I said it in too many words, but everything’s magnified. ‘AI’ is an extremely useful tool, yet the current overhype is even more insane. It’s like a caricature of the dotcom bubble, but real.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t work because people like the algorithms, unfortunately. They win the attention war, and Trump is perfectly emblematic of this.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 2 weeks ago:
There are local ML honbyist/tinkerers here. I’ve seen it on zip, db0, itjust.works.
But it all gets downvoted, and I think those folks (me included) tend to keep their heads down.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 2 weeks ago:
Allegedly Google, early in this craze:
“We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
semianalysis.com/…/google-we-have-no-moat-and-nei…
Ultimately the dotcom fantasy kind of panned out. A few tech companies have massive control over society now, with what is essentially cloud/internet business. They have a moat.
…But with the AI bubble, I think folks are underestimating how fast and low the “race to the bottom” is.
As random examples:
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Look at something like Nemotron 4B, which makes a lot of mundane ‘AI’ data processing people assumed to be big and power hungry (with these data centers) basically free: huggingface.co/jet-ai/Jet-Nemotron-4B
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Look at GLM 4.6. I can run it on my Ryzen/3090 desktop, for free, and for the first time, I feel like it’s beating Claude and Gemini in some stuff, at 7 tokens/sec.
And all this is accelerating. Alternate attention is catching on, bitnet is already proven and probably next.
In other words, AI as a “dumb tool” is rapidly approaching “basically free to run locally on your phone,” and you don’t need all these megacorp data centers for that. There’s no profit in it.
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- Comment on Cause and Effect 2 weeks ago:
I think the flip side of this is Facebook or wherever the link was pushed to them (which is what I’d guess happened) feels… empowering. Those apps are literally optimized, with billions of dollars (and extensive science, especially psychology), to validate folk’s views in the pursuit of keeping them clicking.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 2 weeks ago:
That’s the issue, isn’t it?
I see this on the internet a lot. People posit things like “wouldn’t it be awesome if these fired devs got together” or “Why don’t they make good stuff anymore? Wouldn’t it be great if somone made a thing like this old beloved thing…”
…Except it’s already happening. Or happened.
And there’s just so much noise on the internet, it’s largely unknown to the folks who’d be interested.
To be clear, I’m not blaming OP, and I’ve done the exact same thing myself. But I still find it kind of… sad.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 2 weeks ago:
This makes me think of the Ellisons buying Star Trek and Avatar.
Why wouldn’t they shutter or castrate two notoriously ‘woke’ franchises?
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. There’s domestic pressure for this anyway, unfortunately.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 weeks ago:
Gundam
The physics of the mechs are pretty questionable, lol, which is fine because they’re there to be spectacular.
- Comment on DeepSeek-V3.2 released 2 weeks ago:
…Or are they an LLM? I mean, the handle is BroBot, and the emojii makes me suspicious, lol.
- Comment on DeepSeek-V3.2 released 2 weeks ago:
Deepseek is only bad via the chat app, and whatever prefilter (or finetune?) they censor it with.
The model itself (via API or run locally) isn’t too bad. Obviously there are CCP mandated gaps, but its not as tankie as you’d think.
- Comment on DeepSeek-V3.2 released 2 weeks ago:
With sparse attention, very interesting. It seems GQA is a thing of the past.
GLM 4.6 is reportedly about to drop too.
- Comment on OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind has a first Release Candidate with gamepad support and a gamepad UI 2 weeks ago:
The git repo appears to be abandoned, with the newest progress being in small forks:
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 weeks ago:
Hard, relatavistic sci fi can still get super weird, see: www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48545a0f6352a
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 weeks ago:
To add to this, Jason Schreier is a well known, and well sourced, gaming journalist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Schreier
But you aren’t wrong. There’s literally no way to know that via Bluesky unless you’ve happen to read his stuff from Bloomberg and before.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 weeks ago:
It would be interesting if EA pulled away from lootboxes for their owner’s ideological reasons.
- Comment on Megrez2: 21B latent, 7.5B on VRAM, 3B active—MoE on single 8GB card 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, MoE is not new, and we already have a couple of good ~20Bs like Baidu Ernie and GPT-OSS (which they seem to have specifically excluded from comparisons).
You can fit much larger models onto 8GB with the experts on the CPU and the ‘dense’ parts like attention on GPU. Even GLM 4.5 Air (120B) will run fairly fast if your RAM is decent.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 3 weeks ago:
I see a lot of folks trying to blame this on Unreal, but that makes no sense in light of other Unreal games being smooth for the visual fidelity, and Gearbox having worked with Unreal for literally forever.
This is all on Gearbox, and their CEO/devs throwing gas in the fire via Twitter.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 3 weeks ago:
They did not.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 3 weeks ago:
I’d recommend Cromite. For desktop and Android, it’s awesome.
DDG browser if you want multi device sync.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 3 weeks ago:
I find that Chromium derivates do perform much better as long as a Wayland+Nvidia combo isn’t freaking them out.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 3 weeks ago:
Their browser, I mean.
You can still use Google search in DDG browser.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 3 weeks ago:
What I meant is there are tons of alternatives to Google-branded Chrome, that are basically Chrome underneath but at least stripped out. Including ones with browser sync across devices.
I am using DuckDuckGo for mobile/desktop sync at the moment.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 3 weeks ago:
I mean, if the alternative is vanilla Chrome (like it is for the vast majority), it hardly matters at this point. They’re both so loaded with tracking your computer will dent the floor.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 3 weeks ago:
Bingo.
To steal the term: ‘virtue signaling’