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- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 11 hours ago:
Canva’s announcement stresses that the new Affinity app is “free forever” and won’t require a subscription.
Until the gov does something that holds companies liable for straight up fucking lying about this shit, I won’t believe it.
- Comment on An autonomous car for consumers? Lucid says it’s happening. 4 days ago:
I pre-ordered a Slate. This is the only new vehicle you can buy that’s not bloated to high hell. The price is still not great but honestly this is one of those situations where I’m prepared to pay more for less.
- Comment on Threads adds 'ghost posts' that disappear after 24 hours 5 days ago:
So…"stories”?
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 5 days ago:
It also creates a single point of attack for any entity seeking to restrict, shut down, or track people’s communications.
That’s what relays are for.
- Comment on Stress testing and benchmarking tool OCCT gets an essential Linux fix 1 week ago:
Didn’t even realize this was available.
Picked it up and launched it on Steam. Wouldn’t detect GPU.
DL appimage direct from the site. GPU is detected but there’s no GPU benchmark available.
Go to run CPU benchmark and it won’t run without Patreon subscription.
No option to purchase a license. Lost interest.
- Comment on Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir 1 week ago:
The government is demanding more and more stupid stuff for them to do, taking time and resources from more important tasks.
…like what? Keep in mind we’re talking about the federal gov, specifically. The ones that just declared Google a monopoly and then did absolutely nothing about it.
- Comment on Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir 1 week ago:
They know that to be left alone they need to pay tribute to the king.
You make it sound like they don’t absolutely love this. Kissing his ass and personal donations are a whole lot cheaper than hiring lawyers to fight taxes or being held accountable for their shitfuckery.
- Comment on Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir 1 week ago:
Well now I’m saying that too. The Jeffrey W. Epstein ballroom.
- Comment on Valve Just Crashed The High End ‘Counter-Strike’ Skins Market 1 week ago:
The fact that such a thing as “high end skins” exists continues to astonish me.
- Comment on Horror game Fear the Spotlight is free to claim on the Epic Games Store 1 week ago:
That’s totally cool. I wish I could get past their fucking Cloudflare bot detector. Apparently I’m a bot.
- Comment on A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees 1 week ago:
“Professional": Alexa, should I randomly reconfigure the DNS using a Magic 8 Ball?
Alexa: “Wow what a brilliant idea! You’re so smart!” - Comment on YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts 1 week ago:
I mean I would argue you shouldn’t be using anything except 3rd party clients. Preferably one that blocks “Shorts” entirely because vertical videos are insufferable and just wrong.
But regardless only like half of users are using the browser so that’s not useful for those people.
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous | Immich Blog 1 week ago:
Another way Google exploits their monopoly for personal gain.
Good thing the government identified them as such and….did absolutely nothing about it.
- Comment on A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees 1 week ago:
Why did it take them an entire day to fix “a single DNS race condition”?
- Comment on YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts 1 week ago:
I mean I would argue you shouldn’t be using anything except 3rd party clients. Preferably one that blocks “Shorts” entirely because vertical videos are insufferable and just wrong.
But regardless only like half of users are using the browser so that’s not useful for those people.
- Comment on Big change at Alan Wake studio, Remedy, as CEO steps down following failure of Control spin-off FBC: Firebreak [Eurogamer] 1 week ago:
I don’t understand how this was in any way a spin-off, other than taking place in the oldest house.
- Comment on Musk Exploits AWS Outage To Unfairly Slam Signal, Promote His Shittier Chat Software 1 week ago:
Worth noting that Xitter is straight up lying about their service being E2EE
- Comment on YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts 1 week ago:
That only works in the browser
- Comment on $1,000 for a ROG Xbox Ally X? Oh yeah, that was Asus' idea, says Microsoft exec 1 week ago:
I mean they’re the ones that manufactured it and sold it, why wouldn’t it be? MS just leant then the name…
- Comment on Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? 1 week ago:
maybe you should define exactly why you think this?
It’s very simple, copyright. You’re benefitting from someone else’s work without providing them with any compensation for said work. That doesn’t suddenly change because the compute happens on your personal computer.
Today I wanted to know what the tyre pressures should be for my 2002 Corolla and AI gave me the answer
If you had actually looked it up, you might have actually gotten the correct answer, as well as learned that it’s printed on the driver’s door jamb of every car.
my tiny LLM query is going to use far less power locally than a web based search
Why would you think your local LLM would be any more efficient than a web-based one?
- Comment on Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? 1 week ago:
Using a standalone LLM for personal use doesn’t seem like an ethical dilemma to me
What is the ethical dilemma, exactly, and why/how is this different?
Getting small amounts of medium-trust information on a subject, is a good way to get someone interested enough to read a book, watcha a YouTube video or find a website for more information and validate the AI response.
Again, how is this different? At least the web-based ones actually link to where the info came from…
- Comment on Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? 1 week ago:
This isn’t speculative, it’s real and running, and it doesn’t pose a lot of the ethical dilemmas other AI applications face. Here’s why I think this matters: The consumer doesn’t have to do anything beyond pressing a button to use it.
Whose data is it trained on? Seems like an ethical dilemma to me.
Even worse than a web-based LLM, people are going to be even more unlikely to fact-check the often-incorrect information it’s going to feed you.
Using it will not be the complicated part. Setting it up will be.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 1 week ago:
That’s just bad modding.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
can I buy it and share with many people so they can play it on their PC? Or there’s something that prevent me to do that?
You can do that but it’s still illegal and probably against ToS
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Nobody is talking about a centralized distributor. We’re talking about an app. A frontend.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes that’s what I would like to see. No, that’s not silly. It would make it easier to browse the library and launch them without a mouse, which requires a desk.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That’s not an app for browser games, that’s just a browser.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What is?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
We need an app for browser games…
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 2 weeks ago:
The thing is, in the context, it was probably painfully obviously a joke. But AI doesn’t understand jokes. And they removed it from context.