I think there’s a fundamental difference between someone saying “you’re holding your phone wrong, of course you’re not getting a signal” to millions of people and someone saying “LLMs aren’t good at that task you’re asking it to perform, but they are good for XYZ.”
If someone is using a hammer to cut down a tree, they’re going to have a bad time. A hammer is not a useful tool for that job.
Don’t, be evil.
I’m so fucking glad Valve isn’t beholden to shareholders.
The people who create these services will always be more clever and quick to implement workarounds than politicians. It’s a futile battle.
Want to avoid piracy? Make getting things easier and more convenient.
Back when Netflix was £5-10 depending on tier, had a load of content, and an account could be shared between a few trusted people, I practically gave up pirating. Now it’s £18 per month for 4K (and due to rise), and doesn’t have those other positives going for it, I’ve abandoned it in favour of Radarr+Sonarr+Plex, and am having a better experience.
For video games, I predominantly buy from Steam, because it’s a good service, and so far I have not seen any evidence that Valve are going to fuck me over. They’ve made gaming and all the things ancillary to it a lot more convenient. So I happily pay. If they embrace enshittification, guess what I’ll do?
The only games I do pirate are Nintendo/Sega games that haven’t been sold in decades. Why? Because there’s no feasible other way to buy them and keep them!
I don’t pirate music because Spotify. For all the issues I have with it (and boy do I have a few), it still has almost every song I search for, is fairly priced, and hasn’t clamped down on account sharing in the same way Netflix/Disney/etc have. I’m part of a family where we split the cost. All the music I could possibly want for £2.20 per month? Fine by me! If that goes away, I go away, yarr harr.
Aren’t they banned in China anyway?
They only did that because they were forced by AMD’s VRAM choices and unexpectedly great RDNA2 architecture.
Because of the memory bus that the 3060 had, it essentially had to have either 6GB of VRAM or 12GB, and it’d have looked stupid next to AMD with only 6GB, so they changed it to 12GB fairly late on in development.
It led to the bizarre situation of the 3060 Ti (based on the 3070 die) having less VRAM at 8GB.
So yeah, less that they didn’t want to price gouge, more that AMD was giving 12GB for similarly priced cards that were also much faster, and Nvidia knew that 6GB would look like a joke in comparison.
They explicitly said the Republicans were on the side of the little guy. I probably don’t need to explain the awful shit that they’re doing that showcases that that is not what they’re doing.
Saying they’re “fighting for the little guys” while at the same time shitting on their political opponent is a clear show of support.
Now I don’t particularly care about the Proton CEO’s opinions. My opinion of CEOs is that they’re dickheads until proven otherwise. But when you publicly support this shit, and use your company’s official accounts to back yourself up, it becomes a lot more egregious in my mind. And even worse when they pretend they’re not actually doing that.
You’re right, however I’d say that Nvidia has always been stingy with VRAM. The 3060 had 6GB while the RX 480 had 8GB, for example, the 970 had 3.5GB VRAM and the R9 390 had 8GB, and there are similar examples going back a long way.
It has got pretty bad recently. Worse than normal. AI is also very VRAM intensive (even moreso than gaming), so I imagine they’ve been diverting those chips to their AI/enterprise cards.
TL;DR:
Geothermal energy is currently only feasible in very few places where heat comes close to the surface. We are limited by how far we can dig.
The article doesn’t really go into detail on why that is, but basically it’s due to pressure and heat, drill bits last less time the deeper we go, eventually there’s just way too much pressure. It effectively becomes impossible to dig past a certain point due to the cost and materials science of drill bits.
But lasers don’t have this problem, enabling us to dig much much deeper, potentially making geothermal practical in many more locations.
Weird, I read fine with Ublock+Firefox
Sigh. Nvidia and Intel doing paper launches, while AMD has delayed to March.
Meta goes far beyond simply scraping data you consciously send to them.
What? Voluntary rape?
No. Netflix’s earnings actually shows very high user growth recently. Their earnings was a week ago and they had an increase of 19 million subscribers in Q4 2024 - even higher than their COVID growth.
On top of that, their net profit went from $938m in 2023 to $1.9bn in 2024.
From a business perspective, Netflix is absolutely killing it right now.
I’ve cancelled, and so have some others on Lemmy, but we’re an absolutely tiny amount of people. Fuck Netflix. Self-hosting isn’t as hard as it initially seems.
This.
I can easily see the national security argument for people sending queries to CCP-controlled servers (unfortunately people put all kinds of sensitive information into prompts).
Whether people like it or not, that is potentially risky. I don’t know if China has blocked OpenAI-hosted stuff, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they have for similar reasons. If they haven’t, they should consider it.
But attempting any bans the model itself, even when ran locally, would be conclusive evidence that they’re doing it just to harm a competitor.
Many people online have been radicalised into thinking they have to be 100% for side A or for side B.
When you put any criticism towards A or B, the supporters go absolutely wild. They will deny any problems with the side they’ve chosen.
I’m on Mastodon, and while it’s not much more effort to move to, it’s certainly:
Less features
More complicated
Practically unheard of
Lacking in users (unsurprisingly this one is absolutely crucial)
They use it commercially. It’s for commercial use, just not outside of Meta because they want to be anticompetitive.
Indeed. This is what I was thinking of, except I couldn’t remember whether it was OSI or FSF pushing for it and, well, I’m too lazy to check lol
Thanks
Regardless of whether you like AI or not, it’s seems silly to pretend there’s no talent required for building these projects.
Of course there are talented people in the sector.