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  • How good is /e/ privacy based LineageOS fork?

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    Sounds like either a terrible bug or user error. Which in both cases should be fixed.
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    Which Democrat said we should "clean out Gaza?" Which one wants their son-in-law to have first dibs on the new beachfront property once all the Palestinians are gone? They are also better than Trump on literally every domestic issue you can possibly name. The two sides are not the same no matter how much you want to pretend they are.
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    Signal is just like WhatsApp. Same features. So yeah, that’s incorrect.
  • Bizarre story.

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    Not small but... smaller than you would expect. Most companies aren't, and shouldn't be, training their own models. Especially with stuff like RAG where you can use the highly trained model with your proprietary offline data with only a minimal performance hit. What matters is inference and accuracy/validity. Inference being ridiculously cheap (the reason why AI/ML got so popular) and the latter being a whole different can of worms that industry and researchers don't want you to think about (in part because "correct" might still be blatant lies because it is based on human data which is often blatant lies but...). And for the companies that ARE going to train their own models? They make enough bank that ordering the latest Box from Jensen is a drop in the bucket.
  • I'm doing my part

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    "Lemmy is reddit methadone." Is my go-to answer.
  • Linux is fucking awesome

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    Aww, thank you
  • Any Kiwis here? Hardware advice?

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    Pbtech is one of the major retailers. Their reputation is so-so (in terms of service level and dealing with warranties) but at least will give you a good benchmark on what you can buy and it's cost.
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    Your assessment is missing the simple fact that FPGA can do things a GPU cannot faster, and more cost efficiently though. Nvidia is the Ford F-150 of the data center world, sure. It's stupidly huge, ridiculously expensive, and generally not needed unless it's being used at full utilization all the time. That's like the only time it makes sense. If you want to run your own models that have a specific purpose, say, for scientific work folding proteins, and you might have several custom extensible layers that do different things, N idia hardware and software doesn't even support this because of the nature of Tensorrt. They JUST announced future support for such things, and it will take quite some time and some vendor lock-in for models to appropriately support it.....OR Just use FPGAs to do the same work faster now for most of those things. The GenAI bullshit bandwagon finally has a wheel off, and it's obvious people don't care about the OpenAI approach to having one model doing everything. Compute work on this is already transitioning to single purpose workloads, which AMD saw coming and is prepared for. Nvidia is still out there selling these F-150s to idiots who just want to piss away money.
  • Topsy (elephant) - Wikipedia

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    Tl;Dr Bob's burgers lied.
  • I couldn't find a suitable door threshold, so I made one

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    Very nice! How did you go about it?
  • Elon Musk Is Giving Europeans a Headache

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    Most sensible folks have been saying that lobbying without complete transparency and strict regulation would become a problem.
  • Gaza residents stream home to the north after hostage breakthrough

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    A lot of times it takes the form of an ESOP. IMHO, it usually founders trying to cash out from the company. There is still usually a board and CEO, however shares are owned by the employees. The ESOP companies I’ve been involved with did not sell voting shares to employees, which to me was disenfranchising. The benefit was that you had shares and stake in the company, so if the company did well, you did well, however cashing out was tightly controlled. I suppose they could be great and hope that everyone else has better experiences but to me, I see an employee-owned company and I tend to think it’s a farce.
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    Good recc! Yeah they're both pretty morbid. The older one is going to have a goth phase, no doubt. The younger one wants as many details as she can get on whatever true crime stories I know.
  • Thank you Microsoft, for the final push

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    Bitwarden Do you mean Bitdefender (the antivirus)? Bitwarden is free. Before anyone well ackhuallys me yes, there is a very cheap $0.80/mo plan if you want an authenticator.
  • What's even an "Echo Chamber"?

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    Were they kicked out solely for having a differing opinion? Then it's indisputably an echo chamber Do the members seldom here opposing opinions outside of strawmen arguments or the occasional troll? Then it's a defacto echo chamber All organizations with common interests run the risk of becoming one, but the trap is particularly insidious for (and often weaponized by) online communities
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    The worst thing is none of the executives are getting fired (in a proper more manner, no golden parachutes and clawbacks on any stock based compensation). lol, welcome to the west
  • Hyprland 0.47 Lands With HDR Support and Squircles

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    It's an idiom about admitting you're wrong. In other words, you could write the sentence as: "If there has been significant positive change since then, I admit that what I wrote was wrong."
  • I really hope this is the beginning of massive correction on AI hype.

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    Prices rarely, if ever, go down and there is a push across the board to offload things "to the cloud" for a range of reasons. That said: If your focus is on gaming, AMD is REAL good these days and, if you can get past their completely nonsensical naming scheme, you can often get a really good GPU using "last year's" technology for 500-800 USD (discounted to 400-600 or so).
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    Initially, I thought that I needed to stock up on Colombian coffee before the prices skyrocketed. Now I feel like I need to stock up on non-Colombian coffee before something similar happens elsewhere.