MagicShel
@MagicShel@lemmy.zip
25+ yr Java/JS dev
Linux novice - running Ubuntu (no windows/mac)
- Comment on Plex is rolling out its big app redesign 1 day ago:
Why does plex need all of this shit? I literally only wanted to use it to stream my local stuff. Now that’s just a tiny part of the app.
I say now, but I don’t think I’ve used it at all in the past couple of years.
- Comment on Asking the important questions. 1 week ago:
Something about that story smells fishy.
$1k / jar and brought in $100k… so that’s 100 jars total. Maybe a little extra in case of an accident during shipping. So why did she need to fart 50x per week? Shit, that would be $2.4 million per year of she could actually sell that.
So the way I see it, she was farting in a jar 50x per week but only selling 2 of them… that’s not a business, that’s a fetish she managed to squeeze a whiff of money out of.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround 2 weeks ago:
What it would mean is that someone bought some stock at that price/share.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think so. Not that I have anything better to offer. My wife thinks Biden would’ve won because too many people stayed home, refusing to vote for a black woman. I, frankly, think the election was about the economy. If you look back over the elections, they are almost always about how people are doing financially. If they are scared or hurting, they will vote for change. If they are happy, they vote for the incumbent. My honest opinion is that there wasn’t a scenario or candidate that would’ve changed Trump’s victory.
What I am sure of is that in all of the states where Trump won (even Michigan), if every single person who withheld their vote due to Israel/Gaza had voted for Kamala, that wouldn’t have been enough by itself to change the outcome. Certainly, that issue had an effect, but it didn’t change the outcome by itself. We have to look beyond that.
But, still, if you did withhold your vote thinking you were fighting for Gaza, yeah I think you deserve to have your nose rubbed in that shit.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 4 weeks ago:
I’m 100% for valid criticisms—I don’t even consider myself a Democrat and I have no compunctions about criticizing them when I think they are wrong. But I’m pretty sure that meme is directed at those who withheld their vote.
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 4 weeks ago:
When every letter is a vowel, none of them are.
- Comment on More than 40% of all US PS5 and Xbox play time last month was spent on 10 live service games [VGC] 4 weeks ago:
Spent last month playing only Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man’s Sky. And Disney+ but I’m assuming they mean game play time.
- Comment on brain blowing orgasms 1 month ago:
Me too, octopus, me too.
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified 1 month ago:
The worst people live forever. See: Kissinger.
- Comment on Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks 2 months ago:
You can look at the stats on how much of the model fits in vram. The lower the percentage the slower it goes although I imagine that’s not the only constraint. Some models probably are faster than others regardless, but I really have not done a lot of experimenting. Too slow on my card to really even compare output quality across models. Once I have 2k tokens in context, even a 7B model is a token every second or more. I have about the slowest card that llama even days you says use. I think there is one worse card.
- Comment on ‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot 2 months ago:
AI isn’t the enemy, though, and we aren’t the ones being grifted—that would be companies who think they can make tons of money replacing people with AI. It’s a reasonable useful tool/fun toy/interesting curiosity in certain circumstances. And for an end user it doesn’t use any more power than a video game. But it’s a tool for craftsmen and folks who understand the limitations, not a replacement for workers. And it sure as hell isn’t a production feature. Anyone looking to make money baking AI into consumer products is an idiot and going to lose their hat.
- Comment on Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks 2 months ago:
That’s not the monster model, though. But yes, I run AI locally (barely on my 1660). What I can run locally is pretty decent in limited ways, but I want to see the o1 competitor.
- Comment on ‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot 2 months ago:
Cheaper AI isn’t the pop we want. We want companies to stop trying to use AI for every god damn thing it is terrible at. We don’t want cheaper AI that’s just going to be baked into more stuff.
- Comment on Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks 2 months ago:
I went to go install it this morning to check it out, but I had to decline when I read the privacy policy. I might check it out on my desktop where I have a lot more tools to ensure my anonymity, but I’m not installing it on my phone. There is not one scrap of data you generate that they aren’t going to hoover up, combine with data they get from anyone who will sell it to them, and then turn around and resell it.
I’m sure other apps are just as egregious, which is one reason I’ve been deliberately moving away from native apps to WPAs. Yes, everything you can possibly do on the internet is a travesty for privacy, but I’m not going to be on the leading edge of giving myself to be sold.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Content Is a Challenge for Social Media Moderators - B… 2 months ago:
Mangione has been charged with first-degree murder “in furtherance of terrorism,” which may clarify things for platforms about whether to consider him as a single accused murderer or an alleged terrorist when it comes to content policy.
Convict him of that shit first, otherwise you’re just allowing the government to dictate moderation policies. He’s only being charged with terrorism so the state can murder him. I’m not saying anti-terror policies are bad in general, but this is abuse of the system.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker 3 months ago:
You mean like we’ve suddenly achieved lower denial rates or single-payer healthcare? Nothing so grand, but people are talking and both sides of the political spectrum have found a semblance of unity over this—which is probably the biggest thing they don’t want to see, is people taking their eyes off the culture war and noticing the class war.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker 3 months ago:
I’m with you there.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker 3 months ago:
I think this is about as likely as other conspiracy theories: not at all.
We’re going to find out that he’s just a guy. Which is disheartening when we imagine someone coming along and saving us and setting right all the wrongs.
But also he’s just a guy. I’m not saying killing is the way forward, but he inspires the belief that we can change the world ourselves. We don’t just live in a world controlled by the rich or shadowy conspiracies; we live in a world where we can have an impact.
- Comment on Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of AI Datasets Now [404 Media] 3 months ago:
What??? But… I posted a disclaimer and license! How can they slap???
- Comment on Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News 3 months ago:
I mean… it’s a lot of money. Every day I had to put up with some bullshit—that’s most days—I’d be grumbling to myself about that fortune I’d have if only…
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 months ago:
Why the fuck can’t we make things hot without the internet? FFS
- Comment on green vine sneks 4 months ago:
Snek sees what you’ve done there.
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 4 months ago:
Relatable
- Comment on How else are ypu supposed to check for a beam on your accelerator? 4 months ago:
Was it boofing?
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 4 months ago:
Nothing I enjoy more than asking a good ol’ boy his pronouns.
- Comment on Indiana Bones!! 5 months ago:
“We named the dog ‘Indiana’!”