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Little bit of everything!

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Gaming (Mass Effect, Witcher, and too much Satisfactory)

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I live for 90s TV sitcoms

  • Go ahead and reward yourself with a very small cookie, or maybe a string cheese.

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  • Right? (I know it's not the same) but come on look at all of this fat you can burn! You're not hungry, you're lazy, you know, like I want to be.

  • Thanks to all of you folks

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  • Step one: you don't go looking for a money wife. You go looking for a dedicated life partner who you will encourage and support for many decades.

  • Split Bill

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  • Top: Seeing a boy complain about having to pay for dinner

    Bottom: Having a man have a reasonable conversation about splitting expenses

  • Split Bill

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  • Eh that's a personal rule. We had that for a while but it quickly was clear it was unfair. There are a ton of expectations that one person invites the other, it just doesn't work out. First date I'd say play over the check, everything after that hopefully is a 50/50, or if one person can't afford becomes a conversation.

  • Split Bill

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  • Some weird sexist crap. My spouse and I have always split everything, in fact I was in college while she was already working, and paid for me most of the time. Generalizing like this only solidifies your own personal prejudices.

  • Three-Time Trump Voter Delivers Blistering Takedown of President in Stunning CSPAN Call: Now I See How Hitler ‘Was Able to Brainwash Millions’

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  • That's why I included that they need to realize it.

  • Three-Time Trump Voter Delivers Blistering Takedown of President in Stunning CSPAN Call: Now I See How Hitler ‘Was Able to Brainwash Millions’

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  • No, I disagree. People can do horrible things, but forgiveness is our humanity. If they truly are sorry, I will forgive them. If they recognize the damage they did, and how their views hurt other people, I will forgive them.

  • remove the car and it's every german industry

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  • Car, Power, Electricity, they're all falling behind. US is doing so many stupid laws right now because it's the last place that the lobbies are desperately holding onto. Rest of the world has already been moving away, and the companies know it. Now the shareholders are starting to know it. You literally can't beat free electricity from the sun. They could only prolong it so long, and you can tell they're desperate with forcing the US to act against it's best interest.

  • Revolution required

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  • In the 40s it was as much as 90%, and that caused the boom in the 50s

  • What are your worst tech purchases?

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  • Hey I did the same! Thought hey I know tech, I know car audio, this will be great. It wasn't. Some bottom of the barrel android tablet that barely run a music player let alone navigation. Ended up putting back the stock and getting a 15 dollar phone mount instead. Worked way better.

  • Is AI inference getting cheaper or more expensive over time?

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  • That all makes sense to me, and lines up with what I've been reading too. I saw the model download and I was like "guhhhh" to it because I was also excited to try it on my 3090. I'll be waiting for the quants.

    Yeah I like the end there too, that OpenAI / Anthropic have been desperately trying to figure out how to do this, and a few guys with limited hardware did it. When you have unlimited resources, you end up needing unlimited resources. When you only have 300 GPUs, you make it work. It's why tech is littered with people starting in garages, they found a way to make it work.

  • Is AI inference getting cheaper or more expensive over time?

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  • How do you do that, I checked it out and it was 700 gb or something

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  • Sure, but that's not my point. Social pressures aside, there is no way for instance a to control what instance (or server, or data collector) B does with it. Unless you audit every server federated, there is no way to know if anyone is doing anything with your data.

    3 letter agencies can and may even already have servers that look like ordinary fediverse servers already just happily listening and storing everything. No amount of social pressure here is going to stop that. So all users need to understand this about the fediverse, that anyone can do whatever they want with your data whenever. For privacy, go to Matrix.

  • Is AI inference getting cheaper or more expensive over time?

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  • I think we're seeing a lot of optimization right now. The most exciting one I've seen is TurboQuant. Short version, every message you send to a model has context, the entire conversation you've had, instructions, skills, everything. That takes up an exponential amount of ram, and this is what is causing the VRAM/RAM shortage. TurboQuant (and other copycats now) claims that it can reduce that VRAM usage of the context by 20x. That's absolutely huge, that's 1M context models running on consumer hardware potential huge.

    Deepseek v4 also boasts some large claims, saying they have a model that does better than Anthropic's or OpenAI, while being 1/10th the size. That also is a huge reduction in compute and VRAM, but I'll be looking for the proof.

    We've seen other items too, with upgrades in running models, how quickly results are streamed, to me TurboQuant is the most exciting.

    I think it's good that they're finally looking at optimization. Yes, their cost has been power and compute. NVidia is more than happy to keep things inefficient because they sell GPUs that way. Software companies are doing the opposite now, reducing the compute overhead to start saving them money, which they desperately need to do if this is going to continue. New technology has always been horribly inefficient, it's only once more people see it does it start to get optimized.

    I think this is what is going to be required to finally push past the horribleness of AI companies, and they need to do this quickly.

  • If you had to track someone, what tech would you use?

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  • If you use Google Maps (I know, I know), but if you have it on your phone already, there's a sharing function that I use. It's pretty easy, just select your photo, location sharing, then send it to them. I like it because you can timebox it to so long. So if I'm going out to drinks I can say for the rest of the night, then if my wife doesn't hear from me she doesn't have to worry or anything. Then it expires the next morning.

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  • Great. You show me an 10 foot fence I'll show you an 11 foot ladder. Go ahead and audit every server that federates with you, send them a questionaire. There's absolutely nothing stopping the next lemvotes from setting another server up, and there is nothing stopping any three letter agency from setting up their own listening server.

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  • Of course, apologies if my comment came off as you independently are doing something crazy that we should all defederate. You absolutely are not in my book doing something outlandish.

    My point only was that I don't know why someone on piefed.social feels the need to post in lemmy.world about something that is what appears to me to be an internal instance choice.

    Db0 to you directly, and for everyone reading, you have done more for the fediverse than the vast majority here and are up with the developers in my book. You have built tools for the fediverse that most will never see that keep onslaughts of abuse from hitting our servers. Personally, you have helped me with my own server helping me debug now almost three years ago. It will take much more than rimu's personal issues with you to burn through the goodwill you've built up with me, and I assume the other admins.

    Personally, while I am not a mod or an admin of this channel, I would argue that a personal vendetta is not relevant to the fediverse channel amd I hope these posts are both removed. I agree that they are thinly veiled attempts at trying to manipulate admins.

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  • This is a good take, and I appreciate it.

    The cold hard fact is that there are a lot of bad actors, even here on Lemmy. Most users are sheltered from it because of good mods and admins. It's easy to shit on them, but these people sort through the absolute muck. There's a reason we don't have racists and gore and CP here, and it's because they keep all of it at bay away from eyes here. I know this because I firsthand have seen some of the permanently scarring shit, and it was only a small fraction of what mods on world deal with.

    Soi don't blame moderated arching out tools that help them not see it.

    However each admin and mod have to decide for themselves and their users what is best for them, and that is purely an admin level decision for their server. The fediverse is very cool that everyone can make their own rules, and I like that nuance.

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  • You are correct, and it's what I was suggesting op do if they don't like what other admins do. It's right there.

    As for viewing votes there's a whole site dedicated to showing everyone's votes, it's called Lemvotes. Feel free to say please, but people are still going to do it. Votes and everything elsewhere are very much public, best to get used to that now.