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Zangoose

@ Zangoose @lemmy.world

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  • You don't use keyboard shortcuts because you have ADHD and can't remember them

    I use keyboard shortcuts because I have ADHD and would never be able to stay focused on anything without them

    We are not the same

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  • Does anyone else feel like tech peaked around 10+ years ago?

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  • I'm not trying to say LLM's haven't gotten better on a technical level, nor am I trying to say there should have been AGI by now. I'm trying to say that from a user perspective, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, etc. are about as useful as they were when they came out (i.e. not very). Context size might have changed, but what does that actually mean for a user? ChatGPT writing is still obviously identifiable and immediately discredits my view of someone when I see it. Same with AI generated images. From experience, ChatGPT, Gemini, and all the others still hallucinate points which makes it near-useless for learning new topics since you can't be sure what is real and what's made up.

    Another thing I take issue with is open source models that are driven by VCs anyway. A model of an LLM might be open source, but is the LLM actually open source? IMO this is one of those things where the definitions haven't caught up to actual usage. A set of numerical weights achieved by training on millions of pieces of involuntarily taken data based on retroactively modified terms of service doesn't seem open source to me, even if the model itself is. And AI companies have openly admitted that they would never be able to make what they have if they had to ask for permission. When you say that "open source" LLMs have caught up, is that true, or are these the LLM-equivalent of uploading a compiled binary to GitHub and then calling that open source?

    ChatGPT still loses OpenAI hundreds of thousands of dollars per day. The only way for a user to be profitable to them is if they own the paid tier and don't use it. The service was always venture capital hype to begin with. The same applies to Copilot and Gemini as well, and probably to companies like Perplexity as well.

    My issue with LLMs isn't that it's useless or immoral. It's that it's mostly useless and immoral, on top of causing higher emissions, making it harder to find actual results as AI-generated slop combines with SEO. They're also normalizing collection of any and all user data for training purposes, including private data such as health tracking apps, personal emails, and direct messages. Half-baked AI features aren't making computers better, they're actively making computers worse.

  • Does anyone else feel like tech peaked around 10+ years ago?

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  • And if I asked you 2 years ago I bet you'd think LLMs would have gotten a lot better by now :)

  • Does anyone else feel like tech peaked around 10+ years ago?

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  • My current phone has less utility than the phone I had in 2018, which had a headphone jack, SD card, IR emitter (I could use it as a TV remote!), heartrate sensor, and a decent camera.

    My current laptop is less upgradable than pretty much anything that came out in 2010. The storage uses a technically standard but uncommon drive size, and the wifi and RAM are both soldered on. It is faster and has a nicer screen, but DRMs in web browsers make it hard to take advantage of that screen, and bloated electron apps make it not feel much faster.

    Oh but here's the catch! Now, thanks to a significant amount of stolen data being used to train some autocorrect, my computer can generate code that's significantly worse than what I can write as a junior software dev with under a year of job experience, and takes twice as long to debug. It can also generate uncanny valley level images that look about like I typed in a one sentence prompt to get them.

  • It's a cruel system

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  • Internet sarcasm is hard. Poe's law and all, there's probably someone who would say this unironically

  • Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X

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  • I like the idea of the local feed, especially for smaller, less generalized instances, but the default should definitely be federated and the wording could also be changed if only because the word "federated" would probably be confusing to non-technical people. Replacing it with something like "All" might be a better idea

  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

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  • Piggybacking off this comment because I completely agree with it.

    Did we not learn anything from CrowdStrike? If a comparatively simple fix was able to wipe out half the world, how would something that requires an active choice (where to get certs from) not completely cripple all of our infrastructure?

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  • The problem is that it won't stop people from using Google. Most people probably wouldn't even notice aside from having to spend more time searching for local things, which incidentally will give Google more ad money.

    The average person probably doesn't know that search engines other than Google or Bing (or maybe Yahoo if they're old enough) even exist. As much as it worries me that most of Firefox's revenue comes from having Google as the default search engine, regulating that practice might actually give other search engines a chance to be seen.

  • "GitHub CI is easy", he said. "It's just bash ", he said.

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  • Zangoose is a Pokemon, there's probably hundreds of sites with it

    You have found neither my site nor a site talking about me

  • Hyperspace: a p2p VPN solution that doesn't require a server

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  • Hey did you know that any JSON file is also a valid YAML file? I bet you'll love YAML a lot more now that you have this information

  • "GitHub CI is easy", he said. "It's just bash ", he said.

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  • I don't have any GitHub.io sites but I appreciate the joke :)

  • "GitHub CI is easy", he said. "It's just bash ", he said.

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  • How did you find one of my GitHub repos?

  • News from Alabama. Sky still so blue.

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  • News from New Jersey:

    It rained yesterday!! For the first time in a month and a half!

    Baby steps 🙃

  • On a scale of 1 to 5, how offensive is the middle finger?

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  • here questions right the asking

  • Its Time

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  • I'm going to assume no to your first part since a lot of the documents surrounding the project are only being declassified now (and a lot of the details are still classified apparently)

    To your second part, I was paraphrasing but the video I linked also called it a "backyard bomb" so the the project was probably being worked on around the time the terminology for that "scale" was made

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  • ELI5 for people who don't know what project sundial is because I didn't know about it until I saw that video:

    In the 1950's the guy who invented the Hydrogen nuclear bomb made a theoretical design for a bomb that would send the entire planet into a nuclear winter. The bomb would be detonated in somewhere in the US because it was so powerful that both the US and whoever on the globe they were trying to hit would get destroyed either way.

    Here is the video the meme is referencing: https://youtu.be/E55uSCO5D2w

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    Series: What's your favorite [Gameboy/GameBoy Color] soundtrack or at least one that is worth experiencing?

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  • Gold Silver and Crystal also! Pokemon OSTs in general are pretty good.

    I was actually listening to the Gold/Silver surf theme when I clicked into this thread, it's pretty relaxing.

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    What insulting words or phrases have you heard americans being called ?

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  • It's probably the government-subsidized corn syrup but wheat works too

  • Amazon looks to advanced nuclear reactors to meet climate goals

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  • There are actually relatively easy (easy compared to building a nuclear reactor) ways to deal with the waste that involve mixing it with concrete and glass so it can be safely stored in a way that won't impact the surrounding environment. Kyle Hill has a great video about this on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k