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2 days agoWouldn’t a goat be a cheaper and less polluting solution which would also automatically mow the lawn and produce milk…?
(Of course it wouldn’t solve the noise problem, but it’d probably be less offensive than a leaf blower…)
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32·2 days agothere doesn’t seem to be any reason why synthetic data can’t be used for the whole training run
Ah, of course, it’s LLMs all the way down!
No, but seriously, you’re aware they’re selling this shit as a replacement for search engines, are you not?
Obviously, yes.
They knew this when they poisoned the well¹ (photocopy of a photocopy and all that), but they’re in it for the fast buck and will scamper off with the money once they think the bubble is about to burst.
1.– Well, some of them might have drunk their own coolaid, and will end up having an intimate face to face meeting with some leopards…
5·2 days agoReading the screen.
Seriously, about 90% of computer problems would be solved if people just read the fucking screen.
That cat’s gonna be devastated when she starts going to school.
Oh well. Carpe diem, I suppose.
2·2 days agoI don’t think I’ve needed to ask anyone anything when dealing with computers (except when helping someone with a self caused issue, of course, in which case the question is usually “why did you do this?”) since I was a little kid figuring out how to use my 286… I find that usually you just need to read the fucking screen (an extremely rare talent, I’ve come to realise), and in harder cases a bit of googling or, if push comes to shove, RTFMing seems to do the trick… but OK, we’ll see, I’ve been wanting to try NixOS for a while once I have the time, and my computer is getting old… maybe this summer I’ll find some time, better this than updating to Windows 11 in any case. 🤷♂️
13·2 days agoThat’s Sony telling the customers they kicked to the curb that it wasn’t because of the PSN thing.
It was personal.
Denuvo
… is expensive. And a subscription service.
Which means there’s an incentive for studios to remove it as soon as new sales aren’t bringing enough money for its cost to be worth it.
That’s when you want to pirate (or buy, if you’re into that kind of shit) the game. With the added benefit that it’s unlikely that the studio will come up with more updates or DLC, and if the game is at all moddable it’ll probably have a mature community patch that’ll fix everything the studio was unwilling or unable to patch. (Also, I’m not sure how denuvo cracking works, but I doubt it removes all of that shit, so a game with it properly removed will probably run better than a cracked one, even if the cracked one still ran better than the original infected version.)
Batch files¹, powershell, visual basic if you use Office, Lisp if you used AutoCAD back when macros were written in Lisp… 🤷♂️
¹- And, frankly, I doubt setting up NixOS is particularly more complex than setting up an autoexec.bat boot menu back when some programs (well, games are programs) wanted extended memory and some others wanted expanded memory (couldn’t have both modes at the same time, of course), and you had to make sure the drivers loaded in the most optimal order (which could vary depending on the aforementioned memory expanders, and which drivers the specific game actually needed) to fit as many as possible of them and DOS in high memory leaving as much as possible of the 640KB of system RAM free for the program… and I’m not even getting into the whole IRQ thing for soundcards and whatnot… and we had to do it all without Internet, learning by trial and error, or word of mouth, or from magazines…
Or 1984, or Brave New World.
My money’s on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, though.
Late stage capitalism, then. 🤷♂️
Dying is such a pain…
The future rules!
- “That spell is only 99% effective.”
Why is everyone after my junk!?
It’s what Himmel the Hero would have done.
So they’re still feeding LLMs their own slop, got it.
Ah, so it’s going back to the good old days of curated directories like Yahoo. Of course, because that worked so well.
I mean that they’re discontinuing search engines in favour of LLM generated slop. Microsoft just announced it was shutting down the Bing APIs, in favour of Copilot. Google are shoving LLM generated nonsense all over their search. People are asking LLMs questions instead of looking them up in search engines because they’ve been sold the fantasy that you can get useful information out of that shit when it’s evident that all you get is information shaped hallucinated garbage (also because search engines have been intentionally enshittified to the point of being almost as useless). People are being sold dangerous nonsensical misinformation and being told it’s factual information. That’s what I mean.
No there’s not, that’s not how LLMs work, you have to retrain the whole model to get any new patterns into it.
Even if you stick the LLM between an actual search engine and the user, it just becomes a perverted game of telephone, with the LLM mangling the user’s prompt into a search prompt that almost certainly will have nothing to do with what the user wanted, which will be fed into the aforementioned enshittified search engine, whose shitty useless results will be fed back into the LLM, which will use them to hallucinate some answer (with inexistent references and all) that will look like an answer to the user’s question (if LLMs are good at anything it’s brainwashing their victims into believing that their answers are correct) while having no bearing whatsoever in reality.
The tragic fact is that LLM’s offer practically no benefits over 40 year old Eliza if you gave it a fraction of the data and computational power they need, while being many orders of magnitude more expensive and resource intensive.
They have no affordable practical applications whatsoever, and the companies selling them are so desperate to earn back the investment and run off with the money before the bubble bursts and everyone realises that the emperor has been hanging his shriveled little dong in front of our faces the whole time that they’re shoving this shit everywhere (notepad!? fucking seriously!?) whether it makes sense or not, burning off products that used to work, and the Internet itself, and replacing them with useless LLM infected shit so their customers have no option but to buy their useless massively overpriced garbage.