It is pretty bad. It’s specifically Enterprise that is effected, and if they’re pushing these kinds of bugs on Enterprise customers then they really don’t have the QA they need. Think about how much they care about what they push on standard customers.
It also means the US could be held to account for what we’ve done internationally (and internally) too, or what we may do. Maybe that isn’t being discussed yet, but it could be in the future.
They aren’t as bad as .ml or Hexbear, but some of the communities are apparently not great. I haven’t been banned, but I’ve heard from other people who have for pretty minor things. They definitely aren’t the least aggressive. There’s a lot of instances out there.
Regardless, it’s the largest instance. We should I courage people to spread out.
Lol. Reddit hasn’t been leftist in a long time if it ever really was. There were some leftist spaces, and I guess a lot of users were left-of-center, but the platform certainly wasn’t.
I came over here when they blocked third party apps. I didn’t join earlier because I thought it’d be similar to Voat, which was apparently horrible and an alt-right cesspool. I was pleasantly surprised. I like that people can have actual discussions here without things being flooded by thousands of comments.
Also, since you’re new, I’d recommend against Lemmy.world. They’re a little aggressive with moderation. They’re the largest instance, which is another reason to go somewhere else. The fediverse works best when no one instance controls it.
I’ve got a lot of privacy stuff, but I also know that I’m being tracked. I’m not using the VPN for privacy though. I’m using it to watch porn, so I don’t really care. If I did want privacy there’s a lot of things I could improve, but I’m not that worried about it.
As for the targeted advertising, I don’t see any of that. I wouldn’t be surprised if that were in French but I wouldn’t know.
This might not be totally the right definition, but I think it is:
Latin is dead, but we still understand it. There’s no one left who speaks it really, but we know how to use it.
I VPN to Montreal servers. Everything is still displayed in English.
One potentially useful thing that they could be used for is finding radioactive contamination. Presumably it grows best at higher radiation, so instead searching with ginger Geiger counters for radioactive contaminants you could spread this stuff out over the environment, then just look for where it is growing a while later. Engineer it to be bright orange or something.
Ah, cool. I was not aware. I haven’t played much of it, but it seems like the perfect mobile game.
There are tons of modern indie games that would work great on a phone. Modern does not mean performance hog necessarily. Silksong would be great. I bet a lot of people would love Stardew Valley on mobile. Hades II would probably be good. There are tons that would be amazing.
That’s only true if they trust them. If the goal is to ensure they can keep track of dissidents then no.
My family had one at one point growing up. As everyone else has said, there wasn’t much content. There was Avatar and maybe four or five others. The real killer though was the glasses sucked. You didn’t want to sit there for two hours with them on. I preferred 2D but comfortable.
I did play EU5 (and 4 ages ago) and didn’t notice the issue. I guess I just don’t pay attention to it.
I don’t know any that take a long time to unpack from developers. They do have to pre-compile shaders, but that’s different. Maybe I just don’t pay enough attention, or maybe it’s just because I don’t play many big budget games.
The thing about compression is you have to process it to decompress it. It may be benificial to people with limited bandwidth, or for peer-to-peer sharing, but it’s probably better for most users for someone like Valve to share the uncompressed version. Bandwidth isn’t the issue it used to be.
It also makes progressive updates harder. The best you can do is compress each update individually, not the whole package.
The way that could be done would be significantly worse than 15 slower. That’s the issue. Even with the fastest storage, moving things between RAM and storage creates massive bottlenecks.
There are ways to reduce this overhead by intelligently timing moving pieces between storage and RAM, but storage is slow. I don’t know how the models work, if it is possible to know what will be needed soon, so you can start moving it into RAM before it’s needed. If that can be done then it wouldn’t be impossibly bad, but if it can’t then we’re talking something like 100x slower maybe. Most of these are already pretty slow on consumer hardware, so that’d be effectively unusable. You’d be waiting hours for responses.
This is probably the easiest tool I’ve used to run them: https://lmstudio.ai/
There’s tons of models available here, some of them fairly large: https://huggingface.co/
No, I’m pretty sure there’s no way to run any larger than your RAM/VRAM, at least not automatically. You can use storage as RAM, but that’s probably not a good idea. It’s orders of magnitude slower. You’re better off running a smaller model.
Yeah, most likely, and it’ll only bind users and protect the businesses, as always.
It already is broadly accessible to the general public. They just don’t know about it or just accept using one of the cloud versions. It’s trivial to get up and running at this point.
The model should take into account income. For an open-source model it should be free. It’s using public data to produce a public product. For a for-profit model it should be paid. If they’re profiting off of public data then they should have to pay for the right to use it.
We can’t afford to make any of this. We don’t have the money for the compute required or to pay for the lawyers to make the law work for us. It should benefit the people, so it needs to change. It needs to be “expanded” (I wouldn’t call it that, rather “modified” but I’ll use your word) in that it currently only protects the wealthy and binds the poor. It should be the opposite.
I like that you imply people should do whatever they want, regardless of consequences, if there’s other bad things happening too. Fuck that. Do the right thing as often as you can. It doesn’t matter if that’s being more conscious of pollution and consumption, keeping cats indoors (for their health and for the environment), or whatever else you can do to improve yourself and the world. Just because other people do bad things doesn’t give you an excuse to also. If you can recognize the failure of others then you’re perfectly capable of recognizing it in yourself too.