Discord Update that enables Streaming on Wayland
A few weeks a go discord on linux had an update that enabled you to do screensharing on wayland even with audio.
There are a few bugs. For example, you can not change the window and sometimes have to reactivate the audio check box to have the audio work.
Sadly the flatpak could not shit that update, because the chromium version shipped has to major bugs in flatpaks (issue).
But the stable .deb has now working screen sharing with audio. That is something that x11 does not have.
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Hi there,
here kinda "long shot wild idea".
To a certain extent the activityPub (or fediVerse) related coder and helpers community is some how scattered not only in the federation itself but also over tons of platforms, including github, own wikis and forums, git instances and alike.
At the same time friendica itself is and pretends to be like the interconnecting node between as many platforms as possible.
Wouldn't it be reasonable and positive for the fediVerse as a whole to gather around some place to improve communication, interoperability and so on?
Same consideration might apply for git.friendi.ca.
Not sure how much work for example in terms of moderation this very support forum implies, and if such a proposal would mean more work load for those who are in charge of both subdomain projects, but in general it looks to me that on one hand a lot of work is wasted on maintaining all those scattered sites and on the other, this could be a step towards escaping centralized dependencies, better support for the fediVerse in general and in the case of github maybe even a step forward for the independence of the coding community around actvitypub.
friendica and it's community has a long enough trajectory in the space to imply enough trust as for being a serious and respectful offer to all I think.
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To begin with @Hypolite Petovan, the original idea is to offer for example to projects like @YunoHost :neopossum_box: or @Castopod :podcasting2: a profile on forum.friendi.ca, the same way our very @Friendica Support works.
Most #fediVerse platforms have profiles on their own platform and/or a #mastodon profile, because that's the kinda standard thought and behavior. But actually to me it looks like the #friendica #communityForum page capabilities exceed by far what mastodon or others have to offer. Well, I haven't digged into the fedi clone of reddit to see if that would be an even better option. What is true tho is that forum.friendi.ca is already long standing and our community has gone a long way, so there is in general terms "no single point of failure" like in other projects that depend on one main figure and that's it.
I consider our helpers community experience here, with all the followers of our helpers page getting resend the help requests posted to the forum, chiming in to help out and solve issues, very positive. So this is a proven setup and could help lot's of other projects out here too. Actually I do think that if implemented and adopted, it even could have a positive feed back loop for friendica itself, but that's like something on another page.
So having forum.friendi.ca already up and running, why not support the fediVerse community opening our doors to those who fulfill certain basic community standards?
This server here (tupambae.org) as well is only mend to be a forum server, and of course it's doors are open for any #fediPlatform that likes to have an own forum page over here, yet somehow to me it look's like forum.friendi.ca is the first natural and ideal candidate for something like that.
Of course same goes for a #fediAdmin, #activityPub or #APIdeveloppers community support forum, if that is desired or useful.
Right now in general terms the fedi lives on using some tags or maybe some a.gup.pe addresses, but it's actually us who hold and develop that option for more than a decade now inside the federation itself.
Was that more clarifying @hypolite
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@utopiArte Unfortunately some features of Friendica groups are only available from Friendica, like the !-mention that transfers post ownership to the forum account, which means it isn't distributed to your followers that don't also follow the group.
So I don't think it's a good all-purpose solution for the larger Fediverse.
Looks to me that I have to disagree @Hypolite Petovan in the sense that their may be certain specific extras only friendicans have, but that doesn't mean that the rest is available for others and that that is already a lot.
Actually my main experience and focus is with mastodon federation, and for what I can see, addressing forum pages I follow makes those toots show up on the forum page and is reflected back to federated instances of followers.
(or am I wrong 🤔 )
Also, if the the !-mention that transfers post ownership to the forum account is something implemented by activityPub specifics and useful, it's more likely that other platforms start to consider to code that implementation too, if they see that it's used and useful. So in any case that would be one of the positive feed back loops I was referring to.
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> The ! simply is meant to transmit that post only to the group account that then reshares it.
In other words, it acts on the server side that sends the post, addressing only the forum page at the other instance as recipient with a public post, right?
Doesn't sound like any negative or restrictive effect for the rest of the fedi platforms.
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Traviling thru helpers profile here on troet.cafe (mastodon).
Looks normal, besides the disruptive display of single answer toots.
jesuiSatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ ha scritto:
That's spanisch my friend, don't tell me the batteries a fully drained ..@EDIT | don't follow! @utopiArte my dear @Friendica Support as it looks like those guys are lost in translation, time, space, the #fediVerse and everything ..
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follow us @jesuiSatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ ?
> ¡Why do you tell people to not
follow us @jesuisatire ?
What are you talking about @utopiarte, are you out of your mind?
I only told them to edit you.
👩⚖️ @jesuiSatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ,
can you please stop with your #rolePlay #profileActing stunts in places like this @Friendica Support forum on a distant instance?
It's hard enough to work things out. Just consider this forum a working environment where there is no place for foolish children having fun disturbing the precious minds of hard working freestyling unpaid coders so you can do your recreational #contentCreation stuff.
Even tho it might seem reasonable to point out that it can have unexpected consequences and lead to people feeling offended by the naming of the profile @EDIT | don't follow! @utopiArte, please ignore #whiteHatTroll's like @jesuisatire
, and have him at bay, other wise this administration might have a look into the conditions of your profile contract, consider further restrictions, temporary suspension or even en entire freezing of it's activities.
@all, sry .. kidd's you know.
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@Steffen K9 🍮, here are some questions and consideration that I guess concern you in the first place, can you have a look at them?
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Not sure how much work for example in terms of moderation this very helpers support forum profile right here implies, and if such a proposal would mean more work load for those who are in charge of the subdomain project.
Steffen K9 🍮 26/01/2024 ha scritto:
Concerning the need for moderation on the groups node forum.friendi.ca:
If I remember correctly, I took over the hosting and administration of our community node in 2016. In all these years there were only one or two cases where moderation was necessary. The administration is not a big deal, either.From my point of view the best way to advance and improve community support is having people answering questions and giving hints how to use and run Friendica. We have made much progress in that. Some years ago there were only a few active supporters in our groups/forums. These days I see much more people who are helping others.
tupambae.org/display/c7f7fa91-…So we can assume that in general terms this shouldn't be much different for other developer projects and communities. At the same time the back end moderation panel is related to the admin account and can't be handled by other than the admin or an admin team. That moderator panel access basically would be needed for server and user blocking. Being more exposed to general attention that pressure in theory could increase.
The first line of moderation is of course as always the side of the community profile as it is able to block or mute contacts.
Than there is:
Inicial post ha scritto:
Same goes for the server setupsHow is the server load right now and what could be expected if other projects open helpers forums on forum.friendi.ca?
Sorry, I didn't get any DM.Concerning the need for moderation on the groups node forum.friendi.ca: If I remember correctly, I took over the hosting and administration of our community node in 2016. In all these years there were only one or two cases where moderation was necessary. The administration is not a big deal, either.
From my point of view the best way to advance and improve community support is having people answering questions and giving hints how to use and run Friendica. We have made much progress in that. Some years ago there were only a few active supporters in our groups/forums. These days I see much more people who are helping others.
Can you try to mention @Steffen K9 🐰 for me please, somehow it feels like he doesn't get my mentions and respective questions on this topic here.
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Is there a way to help you or chime in on moderation or administration of forum.friendi.ca to make things like the proposed happen @Steffen K9 🐰 ?
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Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off
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Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off
Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off
DeepSeek launched a free, open-source large-language model in late December, claiming it was developed in just two months at a cost of under $6 million.Jenni Reid (CNBC)
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It's coming, Pelosi sold her shares like a month ago.
It's going to crash, if not for the reasons she sold for, as more and more people hear she sold, they're going to sell because they'll assume she has insider knowledge due to her office.
Which is why politicians (and spouses) shouldn't be able to directly invest into individual companies.
Even if they aren't doing anything wrong, people will follow them and do what they do. Only a truly ignorant person would believe it doesn't have an effect on other people.
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It's coming, Pelosi sold her shares like a month ago.
Yeah but only cause she was really disappointed with the 5000 series lineup. Can you blame her for wanting real rasterization improvements?
Everyone's disappointed with the 5000 series...
They're giving up on improving rasterazation and focusing on "ai cores" because they're using gpus to pay for the research into AI.
"Real" core count is going down on the 5000 series.
It's not what gamers want, but they're counting on people just buying the newest before asking if newer is really better. It's why they're already cutting 4000 series production, they just won't give people the option.
I think everything under 4070 super is already discontinued
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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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Or from the sounds of it, doing things more efficiently.
Fewer cycles required, less hardware required.
Maybe this was an inevitability, if you cut off access to the fast hardware, you create a natural advantage for more efficient systems.
That's generally how tech goes though. You throw hardware at the problem until it works, and then you optimize it to run on laptops and eventually phones. Usually hardware improvements and software optimizations meet somewhere in the middle.
Look at photo and video editing, you used to need a workstation for that, and now you can get most of it on your phone. Surely AI is destined to follow the same path, with local models getting more and more robust until eventually the beefy cloud services are no longer required.
The problem for American tech companies is that they didn't even try to move to stage 2.
OpenAI is hemorrhaging money even on their most expensive subscription and their entire business plan was to hemorrhage money even faster to the point they would use entire power stations to power their data centers. Their plan makes about as much sense as digging your self out of a hole by trying to dig to the other side of the globe.
Hey, my friends and I would've made it to China if recess was a bit longer.
Seriously though, the goal for something like OpenAI shouldn't be to sell products to end customers, but to license models to companies that sell "solutions." I see these direct to consumer devices similarly to how GPU manufacturers see reference cards or how Valve sees the Steam Deck: they're a proof of concept for others to follow.
OpenAI should be looking to be more like ARM and less like Apple. If they do that, they might just grow into their valuation.
It’s a reaction to thinking China has better AI
I don't think this is the primary reason behind Nvidia's drop. Because as long as they got a massive technological lead it doesn't matter as much to them who has the best model, as long as these companies use their GPUs to train them.
The real change is that the compute resources (which is Nvidia's product) needed to create a great model suddenly fell of a cliff. Whereas until now the name of the game was that more is better and scale is everything.
China vs the West (or upstart vs big players) matters to those who are investing in creating those models. So for example Meta, who presumably spends a ton of money on high paying engineers and data centers, and somehow got upstaged by someone else with a fraction of their resources.
Looking at the market cap of Nvidia vs their competitors the market belives it is, considering they just lost more than AMD/Intel and the likes are worth combined and still are valued at $2.9 billion.
And with technology i mean both the performance of their hardware and the software stack they've created, which is a big part of their dominance.
Yeah. I don't believe market value is a great indicator in this case. In general, I would say that capital markets are rational at a macro level, but not micro. This is all speculation/gambling.
My guess is that AMD and Intel are at most 1 year behind Nvidia when it comes to tech stack. "China", maybe 2 years, probably less.
However, if you can make chips with 80% performance at 10% price, its a win. People can continue to tell themselves that big tech always will buy the latest and greatest whatever the cost. It does not make it true. I mean, it hasn't been true for a really long time. Google, Meta and Amazon already make their own chips. That's probably true for DeepSeek as well.
Yeah. I don’t believe market value is a great indicator in this case. In general, I would say that capital markets are rational at a macro level, but not micro. This is all speculation/gambling.
I have to concede that point to some degree, since i guess i hold similar views with Tesla's value vs the rest of the automotive Industry. But i still think that the basic hirarchy holds true with nvidia being significantly ahead of the pack.
My guess is that AMD and Intel are at most 1 year behind Nvidia when it comes to tech stack. “China”, maybe 2 years, probably less.
Imo you are too optimistic with those estimations, particularly with Intel and China, although i am not an expert in the field.
As i see it AMD seems to have a quite decent product with their instinct cards in the server market on the hardware side, but they wish they'd have something even close to CUDA and its mindshare. Which would take years to replicate. Intel wish they were only a year behind Nvidia. And i'd like to comment on China, but tbh i have little to no knowledge of their state in GPU development. If they are "2 years, probably less" behind as you say, then they should have something like the rtx 4090, which was released end of 2022. But do they have something that even rivals the 2000 or 3000 series cards?
However, if you can make chips with 80% performance at 10% price, its a win. People can continue to tell themselves that big tech always will buy the latest and greatest whatever the cost. It does not make it true.
But the issue is they all make their chips at the same manufacturer, TSMC, even Intel in the case of their GPUs. So they can't really differentiate much on manufacturing costs and are also competing on the same limited supply. So no one can offer 80% of performance at 10% price, or even close to it. Additionally everything around the GPU (datacenters, rack space, power useage during operation etc.) also costs, so it is only part of the overall package cost and you also want to optimize for your limited space. As i understand it datacenter building and power delivery for them is actually another limiting factor right now for the hyperscalers.
Google, Meta and Amazon already make their own chips. That’s probably true for DeepSeek as well.
Google yes with their TPUs, but the others all use Nvidia or AMD chips to train. Amazon has their Graviton CPUs, which are quite competitive, but i don't think they have anything on the GPU side. DeepSeek is way to small and new for custom chips, they evolved out of a hedge fund and just use nvidia GPUs as more or less everyone else.
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The Chinese companies probably use SIMC over TSMC from now on. They were able to do low volume 7 nm last year. Also, Nvidia and "China" are not on the same spot on the tech s-curve. It will be much cheaper for China (and Intel/AMD) to catch up, than it will be for Nvidia to maintain the lead. Technological leaps and reverse engineering vs dimishing returns.
Also, expect that the Chinese government throws insane amounts of capital at this sector right now. So unless Stargate becomes a thing (though I believe the Chinese invest much much more), there will not be fair competition (as if that has ever been a thing anywhere anytime). China also have many more tools, like optional command economy. The US has nothing but printing money and manipulating oligarchs on a broken market.
I'm not sure about 80/10 exactly of course, but it is in that order of magnitude, if you're willing to not run newest fancy stuff. I believe the MI300X goes for approx 1/2 of the H100 nowadays and is MUCH better on paper. We don't know the real performance because of NDA (I believe). It used to be 1/4. If you look at VRAM per $, the ratio is about 1/10 for the 1/4 case. Of course, the price gap will shrink at the same rate as ROCm matures and customers feel its safe to use AMD hardware for training.
So, my bet is max 2 years for "China". At least when it comes to high-end performance per dollar. Max 1 year for AMD and Intel (if Intel survive).
China really has nothing to do with it, it could have been anyone. It's a reaction to realizing that GPT4-equivalent AI models are dramatically cheaper to train than previously thought.
It being China is a noteable detail because it really drives the nail in the coffin for NVIDIA, since China has been fenced off from having access to NVIDIA's most expensive AI GPUs that were thought to be required to pull this off.
It also makes the USA gov look extremely foolish to have made major foreign policy and relationship sacrifices in order to try to delay China by a few years, when it's January and China has already caught up, those sacrifices did not pay off, in fact they backfired and have benefited China and will allow them to accelerate while hurting USA tech/AI companies
Does it still need people spending huge amounts of time to train models?
After doing neural networks, fuzzy logic, etc. in university, I really question the whole usability of what is called "AI" outside niche use cases.
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Something is got to give. You can't spend ~$200 billion annually on capex and get a mere $2-3 billion return on this investment.
I understand that they are searching for a radical breakthrough "that will change everything", but there is also reasons to be skeptical about this (e.g. documents revealing that Microsoft and OpenAI defined AGI as something that can get them $100 billion in annual revenue as opposed to some specific capabilities).
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Giving these parasites money now is a bail out of their bad decisions...
Let them compete, they should lay for their own capex
Shovel vendors scrambling for solid ground as prospectors start to understand geology.
...that is, this isn't yet the end of the AI bubble. It's just the end of overvaluing hardware because efficiency increased on the software side, there's still a whole software-side bubble to contend with.
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there's still a whole software-side bubble to contend with
They're ultimately linked together in some ways (not all). OpenAI has already been losing money on every GPT subscription that they charge a premium for because they had the best product, now that premium must evaporate because there are equivalent AI products on the market that are much cheaper. This will shake things up on the software side too. They probably need more hype to stay afloat
The software side bubble should take a hit here because:
- Trained model made available for download and offline execution, versus locking it behind a subscription friendly cloud only access. Not the first, but it is more famous.
- It came from an unexpected organization, which throws a wrench in the assumption that one of the few known entities would "win it".
…that is, this isn’t yet the end of the AI bubble.
The "bubble" in AI is predicated on proprietary software that's been oversold and underdelivered.
If I can outrun OpenAI's super secret algorithm with 1/100th the physical resources, the $13B Microsoft handed Sam Altman's company starts looking like burned capital.
And the way this blows up the reputation of AI hype-artists makes it harder for investors to be induced to send US firms money. Why not contract with Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence directly, rather than ask OpenAI to adopt a model that's better than anything they've produced to date?
I really think GenAI is comparable to the internet in terms of what it will allow mankind in a couple of decades.
Lots of people thought the internet was a fad and saw no future for it ...
I don't know. In a lot of usecase AI is kinda crap, but there's certain usecase where it's really good. Honestly I don't think people are giving enough thought to it's utility in early-middle stages of creative works where an img2img model can take the basic composition from the artist, render it then the artist can go in and modify and perfect it for the final product. Also video games that use generative AI are going to be insane in about 10-15 years. Imagine an open world game where it generates building interiors and NPCs as you interact with them, even tying the stuff the NPCs say into the buildings they're in, like an old sailer living in a house with lots of pictures of boats and boat models, or the warrior having tons of books about battle and decorative weapons everywhere all in throw away structures that would have previously been closed set dressing. Maybe they'll even find sane ways to create quests on the fly that don't feel overly cookie-cutter? Life changing? Of course not, but definitely a cool technology with a lot of potential
Also realistically I don't think there's going to be long term use for AI models that need a quarter of a datacenter just to run, and they'll all get tuned down to what can run directly on a phone efficiently. Maybe we'll see some new accelerators become common place maybe we won't.
Lots of techies loved the internet, built it, and were all early adopters. Lots of normies didn't see the point.
With AI it's pretty much the other way around: CEOs saying "we don't need programmers, any more", while people who understand the tech roll their eyes.
I believe programming languages will become obsolete. You'll still need professionals that will be experts in leading the machines but not nearly as hands on as presently. The same for a lot of professions that exist currently.
I like to compare GenAI to the assembly line when it was created, but instead of repetitive menial tasks, it's repetitive mental tasks that it improves/performs.
Let's talk in five years. There's no point in discussing this right now. You're set on what you believe you know and I'm set on what I believe I know.
And, piece of advice, don't assume others lack tech literacy because they don't agree with you, it just makes you look like a brat that can't discuss things maturely and invites the other part to be a prick as well.
Especially because programming is quite fucking literally giving computers instructions, despite what you believe keyboard monkeys do. You wanker!
What? You think "developers" are some kind on mythical beings that possess the mystical ability of speaking to the machines in cryptic tongues?
They're a dime a dozen, the large majority of "developers" are just cannon fodder that are not worth what they think they are.
Ironically, the real good ones probably brought about their demise.
Especially because programming is quite fucking literally giving computers instructions, despite what you believe keyboard monkeys do. You wanker!What? You think “developers” are some kind on mythical beings that possess the mystical ability of speaking to the machines in cryptic tongues?
First off, you're contradicting yourself: Is programming about "giving instructions in cryptic languages", or not?
Then, no: Developers are mythical beings who possess the magical ability of turning vague gesturing full of internal contradictions, wishful thinking, up to right-out psychotic nonsense dreamt up by some random coke-head in a suit, into hard specifications suitable to then go into algorithm selection and finally into code. Typing shit in a cryptic language is the easy part, also, it's not cryptic, it's precise.
You must be a programmer. Can't understand shit of what you're told to do and then blame the client for "not knowing how it works". Typical. Stereotypical even!
Read it again moron, or should I use an LLM to make it simpler for your keyboard monkey brain?
That's not the way it works. And I'm not even against that.
It sill won't work this way a few years later.
I'm not talking about this being a snap transition. It will take several years but I do think this tech will evolve in that direction.
I've been working with LLMs since month 1 and in these short 24 months things have progressed in a way that is mind boggling.
I've produced more and better than ever and we're developing a product that improves and makes some repetitive "sweat shop" tasks regarding documentation a thing of the past for people. It really is cool.
In part we agree. However there are two things to consider.
For one, the llms are plateauing pretty much now. So they are dependant on more quality input. Which, basically, they replace. So perspecively imo the learning will not work to keep this up. (in other fields like nature etc there's comparatively endless input for training, so it will keep on working there).
The other thing is, as we likely both agree, this is not intelligence. It has it's uses.
But you said to replace programming, which in my opinion will never work: were missing the critical intelligence element. It might be there at some point. Maybe llm will help there, maybe not, we might see. But for now we don't have that piece of the puzzle and it will not be able to replace human work with (new) thought put into it.
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And it may yet swing back the other way.
Twenty or so years ago, there was a brief period when going full AMD (or AMD+ATI as it was back then; AMD hadn't bought ATI yet) made sense, and then the better part of a decade later, Intel+NVIDIA was the better choice.
And now I have a full AMD PC again.
Intel are really going to have to turn things around in my eyes if they want it to swing back, though. I really do not like the idea of a CPU hypervisor being a fully fledged OS that I have no access to.
I'm way behind on the hardware at this point.
Are you saying that AMD is moving toward an FPGA chip on GPU products?
While I see the appeal - that's going to dramatically increase cost to the end user.
No.
GPU is good for graphics. That's what is designed and built for. It just so happens to be good at dealing with programmatic neural network tasks because of parallelism.
FPGA is fully programmable to do whatever you want, and reprogram on the fly. Pretty perfect for reducing costs if you have a platform that does things like audio processing, then video processing, or deep learning, especially in cloud environments. Instead of spinning up a bunch of expensive single-phroose instances, you can just spin up one FPGA type, and reprogram on the fly to best perform on the work at hand when the code starts up. Simple.
AMD bought Xilinx in 2019 when they were still a fledgling company because they realized the benefit of this. They are now selling mass amounts of these chips to data centers everywhere. It's also what the XDNA coprocessors on all the newer Ryzen chips are built on, so home users have access to an FPGA chip right there. It's efficient, cheaper to make than a GPU, and can perform better on lots of non-graphic tasks than GPUs without all the massive power and cooling needs. Nvidia has nothing on the roadmap to even compete, and they're about to find out what a stupid mistake that is.
Huh. Everything I'm reading seems to imply it's more like a DSP ASIC than an FPGA (even down to the fact that it's a VLIW processor) but maybe that's wrong.
I'm curious what kind of work you do that's led you to this conclusion about FPGAs. I'm guessing you specifically use FPGAs for this task in your work? I'd love to hear about what kinds of ops you specifically find speedups in. I can imagine many exist, as otherwise there wouldn't be a need for features like tensor cores and transformer acceleration on the latest NVIDIA GPUs (since obviously these features must exploit some inefficiency in GPGPU architectures, up to limits in memory bandwidth of course), but also I wonder how much benefit you can get since in practice a lot of features end up limited by memory bandwidth, and unless you have a gigantic FPGA I imagine this is going to be an issue there as well.
I haven't seriously touched FPGAs in a while, but I work in ML research (namely CV) and I don't know anyone on the research side bothering with FPGAs. Even dedicated accelerators are still mostly niche products because in practice, the software suite needed to run them takes a lot more time to configure. For us on the academic side, you're usually looking at experiments that take a day or a few to run at most. If you're now spending an extra day or two writing RTL instead of just slapping together a few lines of python that implicitly calls CUDA kernels, you're not really benefiting from the potential speedup of FPGAs. On the other hand, I know accelerators are handy for production environments (and in general they're more popular for inference than training).
I suspect it's much easier to find someone who can write quality CUDA or PTX than someone who can write quality RTL, especially with CS being much more popular than ECE nowadays. At a minimum, the whole FPGA skillset seems much less common among my peers. Maybe it'll be more crucial in the future (which will definitely be interesting!) but it's not something I've seen yet.
Looking forward to hearing your perspective!
I remember Xilinx from way back in the 90s when I was taking my EE degree, so they were hardly a fledgling in 2019.
Not disputing your overall point, just that detail because it stood out for me since Xilinx is a name I remember well, mostly because it's unusual.
FPGAs have been a thing for ages.
If I remember it correctly (I learned this stuff 3 decades ago) they were basically an improvement on logic circuits without clocks (think stuff like NAND and XOR gates - digital signals just go in and the result comes out on the other side with no delay beyond that caused by analog elements such as parasitical inductances and capacitances, so without waiting for a clock transition).
The thing is, back then clocking of digital circuits really took off (because it's WAY simpler to have things done one stage at a time with a clock synchronizing when results are read from one stage and sent to the next stage, since different gates have different delays and so making sure results are only read after the slowest path is done is complicated) so all CPU and GPU architecture nowadays are based on having a clock, with clock transitions dictating things like when is each step of processing a CPU/GPU instruction started.
Circuits without clocks have the capability of being way faster than circuits with clocks if you can manage the problem of different digital elements having different delays in producing results I think what we're seeing here is a revival of using circuits without clocks (or at least with blocks of logic done between clock transitions which are much longer and more complex than the processing of a single GPU instruction).
Yes, but I'm not sure what your argument is here.
Least resistance to an outcome (in this case whatever you program it to do) is faster.
Applicable to waterfall flows, FPGA makes absolute sense for the neural networks as they operate now.
I'm confused on your argument against this and why GPU is better. The benchmarks are out in the world, go look them up.
I'm not making an argument against it, just clarifying were it sits as technology.
As I see it, it's like electric cars - a technology that was overtaken by something else in the early days when that domain was starting even though it was the first to come out (the first cars were electric and the ICE engine was invented later) and which has now a chance to be successful again because many other things have changed in the meanwhile and we're a lot closes to the limits of the tech that did got widely adopted back in the early days.
It actually makes a lot of sense to improve the speed of what programming can do by getting it to be capable of also work outside the step-by-step instruction execution straight-jacked which is the CPU/GPU clock.
From a "compute" perspective (so not consumer graphics), power... doesn't really matter. There have been decades of research on the topic and it almost always boils down to "Run it at full bore for a shorter period of time" being better (outside of the kinds of corner cases that make for "top tier" thesis work).
AMD (and Intel) are very popular for their cost to performance ratios. Jensen is the big dog and he prices accordingly. But... while there is a lot of money in adapting models and middleware to AMD, the problem is still that not ALL models and middleware are ported. So it becomes a question of whether it is worth buying AMD when you'll still want/need nVidia for the latest and greatest. Which tends to be why those orgs tend to be closer to an Azure or AWS where they are selling tiered hardware.
Which... is the same issue for FPGAs. There is a reason that EVERYBODY did their best to vilify and kill opencl and it is not just because most code was thousands of lines of boilerplate and tens of lines of kernels. Which gets back to "Well. I can run this older model cheap but I still want nvidia for the new stuff...."
Which is why I think nvidia's stock dropping is likely more about traders gaming the system than anything else. Because the work to use older models more efficiently and cheaply has already been a thing. And for the new stuff? You still want all the chooch.
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.
Your assessment is missing the simple fact that FPGA can do things a GPU cannot faster
Yes, there are corner cases (many of which no longer exist because of software/compiler enhancements but...). But there is always the argument of "Okay. So we run at 40% efficiency but our GPU is 500% faster so..."
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.
You are thinking of this like a consumer where those thoughts are completely valid (just look at how often I pack my hatchback dangerously full on the way to and from Lowes...). But also... everyone should have that one friend with a pickup truck for when they need to move or take a load of stuff down to the dump or whatever. Owning a truck yourself is stupid but knowing someone who does...
Which gets to the idea of having a fleet of work vehicles versus a personal vehicle. There is a reason so many companies have pickup trucks (maybe not an f150 but something actually practical). Because, yeah, the gas consumption when you are just driving to the office is expensive. But when you don't have to drive back to headquarters to swap out vehicles when you realize you need to go buy some pipe and get all the fun tools? It pays off pretty fast and the question stops becoming "Are we wasting gas money?" and more "Why do we have a car that we just use for giving quotes on jobs once a month?"
Which gets back to the data center issue. The vast majority DO have a good range of cards either due to outright buying AMD/Intel or just having older generations of cards that are still in use. And, as a consumer, you can save a lot of money by using a cheaper node. But... they are going to still need the big chonky boys which means they are still going to be paying for Jensen's new jacket. At which point... how many of the older cards do they REALLY need to keep in service?
Which gets back down to "is it actually cost effective?" when you likely need
I'm thinking of this as someone who works in the space, and has for a long time.
An hour of time for a g4dn instance in AWS is 4x the cost of an FPGA that can do the same work faster in MOST cases. These aren't edge cases, they are MOST cases. Look at a Sagemaker, AML, GMT pricing for the real cost sinks here as well.
The raw power and cooling costs contribute to that pricing cost. At the end of the day, every company will choose to do it faster and cheaper, and nothing about Nvidia hardware fits into either of those categories unless you're talking about milliseconds of timing, which THEN only fits into a mold of OpenAI's definition.
None of this bullshit will be a web-based service in a few years, because it's absolutely unnecessary.
And you are basically a single consumer with a personal car relative to those data centers and cloud computing providers.
YOUR workload works well with an FPGA. Good for you, take advantage of that to the best degree you can.
People;/companies who want to run newer models that haven't been optimized for/don't support FPGAs? You get back to the case of "Well... I can run a 25% cheaper node for twice as long?". That isn't to say that people shouldn't be running these numbers (most companies WOULD benefit from the cheaper nodes for 24/7 jobs and the like). But your use case is not everyone's use case.
And, it once again, boils down to: If people are going to require the latest and greatest nvidia, what incentive is there in spending significant amounts of money getting it to work on a five year old AMD? Which is where smaller businesses and researchers looking for a buyout come into play.
At the end of the day, every company will choose to do it faster and cheaper, and nothing about Nvidia hardware fits into either of those categories unless you’re talking about milliseconds of timing, which THEN only fits into a mold of OpenAI’s definition.
Faster is almost always cheaper. There have been decades of research into this and it almost always boils down to it being cheaper to just run at full speed (if you have the ability to) and then turn it off rather than run it longer but at a lower clock speed or with fewer transistors.
And nVidia wouldn't even let the word "cheaper" see the glory that is Jensen's latest jacket that costs more than my car does. But if you are somehow claiming that "faster" doesn't apply to that company then... you know nothing (... Jon Snow).
unless you’re talking about milliseconds of timing
So... its not faster unless you are talking about time?
Also, milliseconds really DO matter when you are trying to make something responsive and already dealing with round trip times with a client. And they add up quite a bit when you are trying to lower your overall footprint so that you only need 4 notes instead of 5.
They don't ALWAYS add up, depending on your use case. But for the data centers that are selling computers by time? Yeah,. time matters.
So I will just repeat this: Your use case is not everyone's use case.
I mean...I can shut this down pretty simply. Nvidia makes GPUs that are currently used as a blunt force tool, which is dumb, and now that the grift has been blown, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and all the others trying to make a business center around a really simple tooling that is open source, are about to be under so much scrutiny for the cost that everyone will figure out that there are cheaper ways to do this.
Plus AMD, Con Nvidia. It's really simple.
What "point"?
Your "point" was "Well I don't need it" while ignoring that I was referring to the market as a whole. And then you went on some Team Red rant because apparently AMD is YOUR friend or whatever.
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One of the most remarkable aspects of this self-evolution is the emergence of sophisticated behaviors as the test-time computation increases. Behaviors such as reflection—where the model revisits and reevaluates its previous steps—and the exploration of alternative approaches to
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A particularly intriguing phenomenon observed during the training of DeepSeek-R1-Zero is the occurrence of an “aha moment”. This moment, as illustrated in Table 3, occurs in an intermediate version of the model. During this phase, DeepSeek-R1-Zero learns to allocate more thinking time to a problem by reevaluating its initial approach. This behavior is not only a testament to the model’s growing reasoning abilities but also a captivating example of how reinforcement learning can lead to unexpected and
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This moment is not only an “aha moment” for the model but also for the researchers
observing its behavior. It underscores the power and beauty of reinforcement learning: rather than explicitly teaching the model on how to solve a problem, we simply provide it with the right incentives, and it autonomously develops advanced problem-solving strategies. The “aha moment” serves as a powerful reminder of the potential of RL to unlock new levels of intelligence in artificial systems, paving the way for more autonomous and adaptive models in
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My understanding is that DeepSeek still used Nvidia just older models and way more efficiently, which was remarkable. I hope to tinker with the opensource stuff at least with a little Twitch chat bot for my streams I was already planning to do with OpenAI. Will be even more remarkable if I can run this locally.
However this is embarassing to the western companies working on AI and especially with the $500B announcement of Stargate as it proves we don't need as high end of an infrastructure to achieve the same results.
500b of trust me Bros... To shake down US taxpayer for subsidies
Read between the lines folks
It's really not. This is the ai equivalent of the vc repurposing usa bombs that didn't explode when dropped.
Their model is the differentiator here but they had to figure out something more efficient in order to overcome the hardware shortcomings.
The us companies will soon outpace this by duping the model and running it on faster hw
I’m using Ollama to run my LLM’s. Going to see about using it for my twitch chat bot too
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My understanding is that DeepSeek still used Nvidia just older models
That's the funniest part here, the sell off makes no sense. So what if some companies are better at utilizing AI than others, it all runs in the same hardware. Why sell stock in the hardware company? (Besides the separate issue of it being totally overvalued at the moment)
This would be kind of like if a study showed that American pilots were more skilled than European pilots, so investors sold stock in airbus... Either way, the pilots still need planes to fly...
Perhaps the stocks were massively overvalued and any negative news was going to start this sell off regardless of its actual impact?
That is my theory anyway.
Yes, but if they already have lots of planes, they don't need to keep buying more planes. Especially if their current planes can now run for longer.
AI is not going away but it will require less computing power and less capital investment. Not entirely unexpected as a trend, but this was a rapid jump that will catch some off guard. So capital will be reallocated.
Good. That shit is way overvalued.
There is no way that Nvidia are worth 3 times as much as TSMC, the company that makes all their shit and more besides.
I'm sure some of my market tracker funds will lose value, and they should, because they should never have been worth this much to start with.
It’s because Nvidia is an American company and also because they make final stage products. American companies right now are all overinflated and almost none of the stocks are worth what they’re at because of foreign trading influence.
As much as people whine about inflation here, the US didn’t get hit as bad as many other countries and we recovered quickly which means that there is a lot of incentive for other countries to invest here. They pick our top movers, they invest in those. What you’re seeing is people bandwagoning onto certain stocks because the consistent gains create more consistent gains for them.
The other part is that yes, companies who make products at the end stage tend to be worth a lot more than people trading more fundamental resources or parts. This is true of almost every industry except oil.
It is also because the USA is the reserve currency of the world with open capital markets.
Savers of the world (including countries like Germany and China who have excess savings due to constrained consumer demand) dump their savings into US assets such as stocks.
This leads to asset bubbles and an uncompetitively high US dollar.
The root problem they are trying to fix is real (systemic trade imbalances) but they way they are trying to fix it is terrible and won't work.
1) Only a universally applied tariff would work in theory but would require other countries not to retaliate (there will 100% be retaliation).
2) It doesn't really solve the root cause, capital inflows into the USA rather than purchasing US goods and services.
3) Trump wants to maintain being the reserve currency which is a big part of the problem (the strength of currency may not align with domestic conditions, i.e. high when it needs to be low).
Agree, but the market doesn’t think rationally.
Better access to software is good for hardware companies. Nvidia is still the best company when it comes to this kind of computing hardware.
Hm even with DeepSeek being more efficient, wouldn't that just mean the rich corps throw the same amount of hardware at it to achieve a better result?
In the end I'm not convinced this would even reduce hardware demand. It's funny that this of all things deflates part of the bubble.
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Maybe but it also means that if a company needs a datacenter with 1000 gpu's to do it's AI tasks demand, it will now buy 500.
Next year it might need more but then AMD could have better gpu's.
Hm even with DeepSeek being more efficient, wouldn’t that just mean the rich corps throw the same amount of hardware at it to achieve a better result?
Only up to the point where the AI models yield value (which is already heavily speculative). If nothing else, DeepSeek makes Altman's plan for $1T in new data-centers look like overkill.
The revelation that you can get 100x gains by optimizing your code rather than throwing endless compute at your model means the value of graphics cards goes down relative to the value of PhD-tier developers. Why burn through a hundred warehouses full of cards to do what a university mathematics department can deliver in half the time?
you can get 100x gains by optimizing your code rather than throwing endless compute at your model
woah, that sounds dangerously close to saying this is all just developing computer software. Don't you know we're trying to build God???
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The way I understood it, it's much more efficient so it should require less hardware.
Nvidia will sell that hardware, an obscene amount of it, and line will go up. But it will go up slower than nvidia expected because anything other than infinite and always accelerating growth means you're not good at business.
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Back in the day, that would tell me to buy green.
Of course, that was also long enough ago that you could just swap money from green to red every new staggered product cycle.
It requires only 5% of the same hardware that OpenAI needs to do the same thing. So that can mean less quantity of top end cards and it can also run on less powerful cards (not top of the line).
Should their models become standard or used more commonly, then nvidis sales will drop.
Doesn’t this just mean that now we can make models 20x more complex using the same hardware? There’s many more problems that advanced Deep Learning models could potentially solve that are far more interesting and useful than a chat bot.
I don’t see how this ends up bad for Nvidia in the long run.
Honestly none of this means anything at the moment. This might be some sort of calculated trickery from China to give Nvidia the finger, or Biden the finger, or a finger to Trump's AI infrastructure announcement a few days ago, or some other motive.
Maybe this "selloff" is masterminded by the big wall street players (who work hand-in-hand with investor friendly media) to panic retail investors so they can snatch up shares at a discount.
What I do know is that "AI" is a very fast moving tech and shit that was true a few months ago might not be true tomorrow - no one has a crystal ball so we all just gotta wait and see.
There could be some trickery on the training side, i.e. maybe they spent way more than $6M to train it.
But it is clear that they did it without access to the infra that big tech has.
And on the run side, we can all verify how well it runs and people are also running it locally without internet access. There is no trickery there.
They are 20x cheaper than OpenAI if you run it on their servers and if you run it yourself, you only need a small investment in relatively affordable servers.
And you should, generally we are amidst the internet world war. It's not something fishy but digital rotten eggs thrown around by the hundreds.
The only way to remain sane is to ignore it and scroll on. There is no winning versus geopolitical behemoths as a lone internet adventurer. It's impossible to tell what's real and what isn't
the first casualty of war is truth
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Yeah I'd say so - but you can't put the genie in the bottle.
It's just fighting for who gets the privilege to do so
I think this prompted investors to ask "where's the ROI?".
Current AI investment hype isn't based on anything tangible. At least the amount of investment isn't, it is absurd to think that trillion dollars that was put in the space already, even before that Softbanks deal is going to be returned. The models still hallucinate as it is inherent to the architecture, we are nowhere near replacing the workers but we got chatbots that "when they work sometimes, then they are kind of good?" and mediocre off-putting pictures. Is there any value? Sure, it's not NFTs. But the correction might be brutal.
Interestingly enough, DeepSeek's model is released just before Q4 earning's call season, so we will see if it has a compounding effect with another statement from big players that they burned massive amount of compute and USD only to get milquetoast improvements and get owned by a small Chinese startup that allegedly can do all that for 5 mil.
I have a dirty suspicion that the "where's the ROI?" talking point is actually a calculated and collaborated strategy by big wall street banks to panic retail investors to sell so they can gobble up shares at a discount - trump is going to be pumping (at minimum) hundreds of BILLIONS into these companies in the near future.
Call me a conspiracy guy, but I've seen this playbook many many times
What the fuck are markets when you can automate making money on them???
Ive been WTF about the stock market for a long time but now it's obviously a scam.
Was watching bbc news interview some American guy about this and wow they were really pushing that it's no big deal and deepseek is way behind and a bit of a joke. Made claims they weren't under cyber attack they just couldn't handle having traffic etc.
Kinda making me root for China honestly.
It took weeks to move big money around.
Lol this is just either a statement out of ignorance or a complete lie. Wire transfers didn't take weeks. Checks didn't take weeks to clear, and most people aren't moving "big money" via fucking cash app either.
"Big money" isn't paying half for an Uber unless you're like 16 years old.
Education doesn't make a tech CEO ridiculously wealthy, so there's no draw for said CEOs to promote the shit out of education.
Plus educated people tend to ask for more salary. Can't do that and become a billionaire!
Because the silicon valley bros had convinced the national security wonks in the Beltway that it was paramount for national security, technological leadership and economic prosperity.
I think this will go down as the biggest grift in history.
Kevin Walmsley reported on Deepseek 10 days ago. Last week, the smart money exited big tech. This week the panic starts.
I'm getting big dot-com 2.0 vibes from all of this.
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For the cost of an education we could end up with smart people who contribute to the economy and society. Instead we are dumping billions into this shit.
Those are different "we"s.
Tech/Wall St constantly needs something to hype in order to bring in “investor” money. The “new technology-> product development -> product -> IPO” pipeline is now “straight to pump-and-dump” (for example, see Crypto currency).
The excitement of the previous hype train (self-driving cars) is no longer bringing in starry-eyed “investors” willing to quickly part ways with OPM. “AI” made a big splash and Tech/Wall St is going to milk it for all they can lest they fall into the same bad economy as that one company that didn’t jam the letters “AI” into their investor summary.
Tech has laid off a lot of employees, which means they are aware there is nothing else exciting in the near horizon. They also know they have to flog “AI” like crazy before people figure out there’s no “there” there.
That “investors” scattered like frightened birds at the mere mention of a cheaper version means that they also know this is a bubble. Everyone wants the quick money. More importantly they don’t want to be the suckers left holding the bag.
I follow EV battery tech a little. You’re not wrong that there is a lot of “oh its just around the bend” in battery development and tech development in general. I blame marketing for 80% of that.
But battery technology is changing drastically. The giant cell phone market is pushing battery tech relentlessly. Add in EV and grid storage demand growth and the potential for some companies to land on top of a money printing machine is definitely there.
We’re in a golden age of battery research. Exciting for our future, but it will be a while before we consumers will have clear best options.
Look at it in another way, people think this is the start of an actual AI revolution, as in full blown AGI or close to it or something very capable at least
I think the bigger threat of revolution (and counter-revolution) is that of open source software. For people that don't know anything about FOSS, they've been told for decades now that [XYZ] software is a tool you need and that's only possible through the innovative and superhuman-like intelligent CEOs helping us with the opportunity to buy it.
If everyone finds out that they're actually the ones stifling progress and development, while manipulating markets to further enrich themselves and whatever other partners that align with that goal, it might disrupt the golden goose model. Not to mention defrauding the countless investors that thought they were holding rocket ship money that was actually snake oil.
All while another country did that collectively and just said, "here, it's free. You can even take the code and use it how you personally see fit, because if this thing really is that thing, it should be a tool anyone can access. Oh, and all you other companies, your code is garbage btw. Ours runs on a potato by comparison."
I'm just saying, the US has already shown they will go to extreme lengths to keep its citizens from thinking too hard about how its economic model might actually be fucking them while the rich guys just move on to the next thing they'll sell us.
ETA: a smaller scale example: the development of Wine, and subsequently Proton finally gave PC gamers a choice to move away from Windows if they wanted to.
It's easier to sell people on the idea of a new technology or system that doesn't have any historical precedent. All you have to do is list the potential upsides.
Something like a school or a workplace training programme, those are known quantities. There's a whole bunch of historical and currently-existing projects anyone can look at to gauge the cost. Your pitch has to be somewhat realistic compared to those, or it's gonna sound really suspect.
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Why? If you automatize away (regardless of whether it's feasible or not) all the workers, what's stop them for cutting them out of the equation? Why can't they just trade assets between themselves, maintaining a small slave population that does machine maintenance for food and shelter and screwing the rest? Why do you think they still need us if they own both the means for the production as well as labor to produce? That would be a post-labour scarcity economy, available only for the wealthy and with the rest of us left to rot. If you have assets like land, materials, factories you can participate, if you don't, you can't
While I don't think that this is feasible technologically yet by any means, I think this is what the rich are huffing currently. They want to be independent from us because they are threatened by us.
And you could pay people to use an abacus instead of a calculator. But the advanced tech improves productivity for everyone, and helps their output.
If you don’t get the tech, you should play with it more.
“Improves productivity for everyone”
Famously only one class benefits from productivity, while one generates the productivity. Can you explain what you mean, if you don’t mean capitalistic productivity?
I’m referring to output for amount of work put in.
I’m a socialist. I care about increased output leading to increased comfort for the general public. That the gains are concentrated among the wealthy is not the fault of technology, but rather those who control it.
Thank god for DeepSeek.
confidently so in the face of overwhelming evidence
That I'd really like to see. And I mean more than the marketing bullshit that AI companies are doing...
For the record I was one of the first jumping on the AI hype-train (as programmer, and computer-scientist with machine-learning background), following the development of GPT1-4, being excited about having to do less boilerplaty code etc. getting help about rough ideas etc. GPT4 was almost so far as being a help (similar with o1 etc. or Anthropics models). Though I seldom use AI currently (and I'm observing similar with other colleagues and people I know of) because it actually slows me down with my stuff or gives wrong ideas, having to argue, just to see it yet again saturating at a local-minimum (aka it doesn't get better, no matter what input I try). Just so that I have to do it myself... (which I should've done in the first place...).
Same is true for the image-generative side (i.e. first with GANs now with diffusion-based models).
I can get into more details about transformer/attention-based-models and its current plateau phase (i.e. more hardware doesn't actually make things significantly better, it gets exponentially more expensive to make things slightly better) if you really want...
I hope that we do a breakthrough of course, that a model actually really learns reasoning, but I fear that that will take time, and it might even mean that we need different type of hardware.
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Yeah it'll be exciting to see where this goes, i.e. if it really develops into a useful tool, for certain. Though I'm slightly cautious non-the less. It's not doing something significantly different (i.e. it's still an LLM), it's just a lot cheaper/efficient to train, and open for everyone (which is great).
Have you actually read my text wall?
Even o1 (which AFAIK is roughly on par with R1-671B) wasn't really helpful for me. I just need often (actually all the time) correct answers to complex problems and LLMs aren't just capable to deliver this.
I still need to try it out whether it's possible to train it on my/our codebase, such that it's at least possible to use as something like Github copilot (which I also don't use, because it just isn't reliable enough, and too often generates bugs). Also I'm a fast typer, until the answer is there and I need to parse/read/understand the code, I already have written a better version.
I currently don't miss it... Keep in mind that you still have to check whether all the code is correct etc. writing code isn't the thing that usually takes that much time for me... It's debugging, and finding architecturally sound and good solutions for the problem. And AI is definitely not good at that (even if you're not that experienced).
Yes, I have tested that use case multiple times. It performs well enough.
A calculator also isn’t much help, if the person operating it fucks up. Maybe the problem in your scenario isn’t the AI.
As you're being unkind all the time, let me be unkind as well 😀
A calculator also isn’t much help, if the person operating it fucks up. Maybe the problem in your scenario isn’t the AI.
If you can effectively use AI for your problems, maybe they're too repetitive, and actually just dumb boilerplate.
I rather like to solve problems that require actual intelligence (e.g. do research, solve math problems, think about software architecture, solve problems efficiently), and don't even want to deal with problems that require me to write a lot of repetitive code, which AI may be (and often is not) of help with.
I have yet to see efficient generated Rust code that autovectorizes well, without a lot of allocs etc. I always get triggered by the insanely bad code-quality of the AI that just doesn't even really understand what allocations are... Arghh I could go on...
So unreliable boilerplate generator, you need to debug?
Right I've seen that it's somewhat nice to quickly generate bash scripts etc.
It can certainly generate quick'n dirty scripts as a starter. But code quality is often supbar (and often incorrect), which triggers my perfectionism to make it better, at which point I should've written it myself...
But I agree that it can often serve well for exploration, and sometimes you learn new stuff (if you weren't expert in it at least, and you should always validate whether it's correct).
But actual programming in e.g. Rust is a catastrophe with LLMs (more common languages like js work better though).
If you are blindly asking it questions without a grounding resources you're gonning to get nonsense eventually unless it's really simple questions.
They aren't infinite knowledge repositories. The training method is lossy when it comes to memory, just like our own memory.
Give it documentation or some other context and ask it questions it can summerize pretty well and even link things across documents or other sources.
The problem is that people are misusing the technology, not that the tech has no use or merit, even if it's just from an academic perspective.
Long story short: I'm faster just not caring about AI (at the moment).
As I said somewhere else here, I have a theoretical background in this area.
Though speaking of, I think I really need to try out training or refining a DeepSeek model with our code-bases, whether it helps to be a good alternative to something like the dumb Github Copilot (which I've also disabled, because it produces a looot of garbage that I don't want to waste my attention with...) Maybe it's now finally possible to use at least for completion when it knows details about the whole code-base (not just snapshots such as Github CoPilot).
It depends on the bank and the amount you are trying to move.There are banks that might take a week (five business days) or so though very rare and there are banks that might do it instantly. I once used a bank in the US to move money and they sent a physical check and this was domestic not international.
Edit: I thought he meant a week not weeks. Normally a max of five working days.
How do you solve the problem that half the country can't even be bothered to participate once every four years?
Don't get me wrong, I'm with you 100%, but how would we get people to engage with such a system?
I think you’re victim blaming. I can’t blame half the country for not wanting to participate in a symbolic gesture that will have no impact on the end result in this corrupted system.
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How do you solve the problem that half the country can’t even be bothered to participate once every four years?
I assume you're talking about the US electoral system?? That's very different.
but how would we get people to engage with such a system?
By empowering them.
Consider how the current electoral system disempowers people:
1) Some people literally cannot vote or risk jeopardizing their job taking the day off, others face voter suppression tactics
2) The FPTP system (esp. spoiler effect) and the present political circumstances mean that there are really only two viable options for political parties for most people, so many feel that neither option represents them, let alone their individual positions on policy
3) Politics is widely considered to be corrupt and break electoral promises regularly. There is little faith in either party to represent voters
But, in a system where you are able to represent yourself at will, engagement is actually rewarding and meaningful. It won't magically make everyone care, but direct democracy alongside voter rights reform would likely make more people think it's worth polling.
I hope you're right. I would love to see it. I actually support mandatory voting like in Australia. With mostly current laws everyone could get a mail in ballot. If you don't want to participate just check that box at the top, sign it, and send it in.
Your system sounds much better but would require a lot more legislation.
That you had to qualify it with a date after it had been corrupted by the west, implies that you’re well aware of how well communism served for half a century before that.
They went from a nation of dirt poor peasants, to a nuclear superpower driving the space race in just a couple of decades. All thanks to communism. And also why China is leaving us in the dust.
There are many instances of communism failing lmao
There are also many current communist states that have less freedom than many capitalist states
Also, you need to ask the Uyghurs how they're feeling about their experience under the communist government you're speaking so highly of at the moment.
How many of those instances failed due to external factors, such as illegal sanctions or a western coup or western military aggression?
Which communist states would you say have less freedom than your country? Let’s compare.
The Uyghur genocide was debunked. Even the US state department was forced to admit they didn’t have the evidence to support their claims. In reality, western intelligence agencies were trying to radicalize the Uyghurs to destabilize the region, but China has been rehabilitating them. The intel community doesn’t like their terrorist fronts to be shut down.
LMAO found the pro-Xi propagandist account
Either you're brainwashed, are only reading one-sided articles, or you're an adolescent with little world experience given how confidently you speak in absolutes, which doesn't reflect how nuanced the global stage is.
I'm not saying capitalism is the best, but communism won't ALWAYS beat out capitalism (as it hasn't regardless of external factors b/c if those regimes were strong enough they would be able to handle or recover from external pressures) nor does it REQUIRE negatively affecting others as your other comment says. You're just delulu.
Remember, while there maybe instances where all versions of a certain class of anything are equal, in most cases they are not. So blanketly categorizing as your have done just reflects your lack of historical perspective.
you need to ask the Uyghurs how they’re feeling about their experience under the communist government
Everytime people ask regular Uyghurs, they're usually happy enough with it. I'm guessing you mean ask Adrian Zenz and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to tell the Uyghurs what they think.
It sounds like you don’t know what “capitalism” means. Market participation exists in other economy types, too. It’s how the means of production are controlled and the profits distributed that defines capitalism vs communism.
And you don’t lift 800 million people out of poverty under capitalism. Or they’ve done a ridiculously bad job of concentrating profits into the hands of a very small few.
I don’t think you understand how China’s economy works. Seems very clouded by anti-China propaganda.
In reality, the working class exercises a great deal of control over the means of production in China, and the 996 culture you’re referring to is in fact illegal.
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Again, capitalism vs communism is not defined by the existence of production/profits/markets, but how control and benefit of those systems is distributed.
China steps in to regulate brutal '996' work culture
Workers in China are fed up with the brutal 12-hour work days once seen as a key driver of success.Waiyee Yip (BBC News)
I disagree. Under the right conditions (read: actual competition instead of unregulated monopolies) I think a capitalist system be able to stay ahead, though I think both systems could compete depending on how they're organized.
But what I'm more interested in is you view that China is still Socialist/Communist. Isn't DeepSeek a private company trying to maximize profits for itself by innovating, instead of a public company funded by the people? I don't really know myself, but my perspective was that this was more of a capitalist vs capitalist situation. With one side (the US) kinda suffering from being so unregulated that innovation dies down.
Capitalism will by its very nature always lead to monopolies and depressed innovation. You cannot prevent corruption, while concentrating control of the means of production in the hands of a very few.
They released DeepSeek for free. It was a side project the company worked on. How is releasing it for free in any way profit seeking?
I disagree.
Like it or hate it, crypto is here to stay.
And it's actually one of the few technologies that, at least with some of the coins, empowers normal people.
I should really start looking into shorting stocks. I was looking at the news and Nvidia's stock and thought "huh, the stock hasn't reacted to these news at all yet, I should probably short this".
And then proceeded to do fuck all.
I guess this is why some people are rich and others are like me.
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It's been proven that people who do fuckall after throwing their money into mutual funds generally fare better than people actively monitoring and making stock moves.
You're probably fine.
I never bought NVIDIA in the first place so this news doesn't affect me.
If anything now would be a good time to buy NVIDIA. But I probably won't.
Wth?! Like seriously.
I assume they are running the smallest version of the model?
Still, very impressive.
True, but training is one-off. And as you say, a factor 100x less costs with this new model. Therefore NVidia just saw 99% of their expected future demand for AI chips evaporate
Even if they are lying and used more compute, it's obvious they managed to train it without access to the large amounts of the highest end chips due to export controls.
Conservatively, I think NVidia is definitely going to have to scale down by 50% and they will have to reduce prices by a lot, too, since VC and government billions will no longer be available to their customers.
They have made it harder, but it's not really hard.
Just buy any regulated crypto and convert. Cake Wallet makes it easy, but there are many other ways.
I myself hold Bitcoin and Monero.
I’m not sure. That’s a very static view of the context.
While china has an AI advantage due to wider adoption, less constraints and overall bigger market, the US has higher tech, and more funds.
OpenAI, Anthropic, MS and especially X will all be getting massive amounts of backing and will reverse engineer and adopt whatever advantages R1 had. Which while there are some it’s still not a full spectrum competitor.
I see the is as a small correction that the big players will take advantage of to buy stock, and then pump it with state funds, furthering the gap and ignoring the Chinese advances.
Regardless, Nvidia always wins. They sell the best shovels. In any scenario the world at large still doesn’t have their Nvidia cluster, think Africa, Oceania, South America, Europe, SEA who doesn’t necessarily align with Chinese interests, India. Plenty to go around.
Extra funds are only useful if they can provide a competitive advantage.
Otherwise those investments will not have a positive ROI.
The case until now was built on the premise that US tech was years ahead and that AI had a strong moat due to high computer requirements for AI.
We now know that that isn't true.
If high compute enables a significant improvement in AI, then that old case could become true again. But the prospects of such a reality happening and staying just got a big hit.
I think we are in for a dot-com type bubble burst, but it will take a few weeks to see if that's gonna happen or not.
They'll probably do that, but that's assuming we aren't past the point of diminishing returns.
The current LLM's are pretty basic in how they work, and it could be that with the current training we're near what they'll ever be capable of. They'll of course invest a billion in training a new generation, but if it's only marginally better than the current one, they won't keep investing billions into it if it doesn't really improve the results.
fascinating. my boss really bought into the tech bro bullshit, every time we get coffee as a team, he's always going on and on about how chatGPT will be the savior of humanity, increase productivity so much that we'll have a 2 day work week, blah blah blah.
I've been on his shit list lately because i had to take some medical leave and didn't deliver my project on time.
Now that this thing is open sourced, I can bring it to him, tell him it out performs even chatgpt O1 or whatever it is, and tell him that we can operate it locally. I'll be off the shit list and back into his good graces and maybe even get a raise.
Your boss sounds like he buys into bullshit for a living. Maybe that’s what drew him to the job, lol.
I think believing in our corporate AI overlords is even overshadowed by believing those same corporations would pass the productivity gains on to their employees.
DeepSeek proved you didn't need anywhere near as much hardware to train or run an even better AI model
Imagine what would happen to oil prices if a manufacturer comes out with a full ice car that can run 1000 miles per gallon... Instead of the standard American 3 miles per 1.5 gallons hehehe
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more efficient use of oil will lead to increased demand, and will not slow the arrival or the effects of peak oil.
Energy demand is infinite and so is the demand for computing power because humans always want to do MORE.
Yes but that's not the point... If you can buy a house for $1000 nobody would buy a similar house for $500000
Eventually the field would even out and maybe demand would surpass current levels, but for the time being, Nvidia's offer seem to be a giant surplus and speculators will speculate
Maybe, but there is incentive to not let that happen, and I wouldn’t be surprised if “they” have unpublished tech that will be rushed out.
The ROI doesn’t matter, it wasn’t there yet it’s the potential for it. The Chinese AIs are also not there yet. The proposition is to reduce FTEs, regardless of cost, as long as cost is less.
While I see OpenAi and mostly startups and VC reliant companies taking a hit, Nvidia itself as the shovel maker will remain strong.
In europe i can send any amount (like up to 100k ) in just a few days since 20 years, to anyone with a bank account in europe, from my computer or phone.
Also, since 2025 every bank allows me to send istant money to any other bank account. For free.
That's becoming less true. The cost of inference has been rising with bigger models, and even more so with "reasoning models".
Regardless, at the scale of 100M users, big one-off costs start looking small.
The data on the blockchain is not private.
However data can be encrypted before it hits the blockchain and it can also be cryptographicly manipulated in ways that remain private.
True, but training is one-off. And as you say, a factor 100x less costs with this new model. Therefore NVidia just saw 99% of their expected future demand for AI chips evaporate
It might also lead to 100x more power to train new models.
It's not a statement out of ignorance and it's not a lie. Most people don't try to move huge money around so I'll illustrate what I had to go through - I had a huge sum of money I had in an online investing company. I had a very time critical situation I needed the money for, so I cashed out my investments - the company only cashed out via check sent via registered mail (maybe they did transfers for smaller amounts, but for the sum I had it was check only). It took almost two weeks for me to get that check. When I deposited that check with my bank, the bank had a mandatory 5-7 business day wait to clear (once again, smaller checks they deposit immediately and then do the clearing process - BIG checks they don't do that, so I had to wait another week). Once cleared, I had to move the money to another bank, and guess what - I couldn't take that much cash out, daily transfers are capped at like $1500 or whatever they were, so I had to get a check from the bank. The other bank made me wait another 5-7 business day as well, because the check was just too damn big.
4 weeks it took me to move huge money around, and of course I missed the time critical thing I really needed the money for.
I'm just a random person, not a business, no business accounts, etc. The system just isn't designed for small folk to move big money
It's easy to mod the software to get rid of those censors
Part of why the US is so afraid is because anyone can download it and start modding it easily, and because the rich make less money
Yes and no. Not many people can afford the hardware required to run the biggest LLMs. So the majority of people will just use the psyops vanilla version that China wants you to use. All while collecting more data and influencing the public like what TikTok is doing.
Also another thing with Open source. It's just as easy to be closed as it is open with zero warnings. They own the license. They control the narrative.
How are you the product if you can download, mod, and control every part of it?
Ever heard of WinRAR?
Audacity?
VLC media player?
Libre office?
Gimp?
Fruitloops?
Deluge?
Literally any free open source standalone software ever made?
Just admit that you aren't capable of approaching this subject unbiasly.
You just named Western FOSS companies and completely ignored the "psyops" part. This is a Chinese psyops tool disguised as a FOSS.
99.9999999999999999999% can't afford or have the ability to download and mod their own 67B model. The vast majority of the people who will use it will be using Deepseek vanilla servers. They can collect a mass amount of data and also control the narrative on what is truth or not. Think TikTok but on a work computer.
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You wouldn't, because you are (presumably) knowledgeable about the current AI trend and somewhat aware of political biases of the creators of these products.
Many others would, because they think "wow, so this is a computer that talks to me like a human, it knows everything and can respond super fast to any question!"
The issue to me is (and has been for the past), the framing of what "artifical intelligence" is and how humans are going to use it. I'd like more people to be critical of where they get their information from and what kind of biases it might have.
You wouldn’t, because you are (presumably) knowledgeable about the current AI trend and somewhat aware of political biases of the creators of these products.
Well, more because I'm knowledgeable enough about machine learning to know it's only as good as its dataset, and knowledgeable enough about mass media and the internet to know how atrocious 'common sense' often is. But yes, you're right about me speaking from a level of familiarity which I shouldn't consider typical.
People have been strangely trusting of chat bots since ELIZA in the 1960s. My country is lucky enough to teach a small amount of bias and media literacy skills through education and some of the state broadcaster's programs (it's not how it sounds, I swear!), and when I look over to places like large chunks of the US, I'm reminded that basic media literacy isn't even very common, let alone universal.
I did. The answer it gave is clear and concise with no judgement. Instead it talks about the argument on both sides. Not the "magical Hasbara dance" you promised me.
Try asking Deepseek about Taiwan independence and watch how it completely ignores all (/think) and gives a false answer.
The question of whether Israel is currently committing genocide is a subject of intense debate among international organizations, scholars, and political entities.
Accusations of Genocide:
Amnesty International's Report: On December 5, 2024, Amnesty International released a report concluding that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The report cites actions such as killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza.
UN Special Committee Findings: In November 2024, a UN Special Committee found that Israel's methods of warfare in Gaza are consistent with characteristics of genocide, noting mass civilian casualties and widespread destruction.
Scholarly Perspectives: Israeli historian Amos Goldberg has stated that the situation in Gaza constitutes a genocide, pointing to the extensive destruction and high civilian death toll as indicative of genocidal intent.
Counterarguments:
Israeli Government's Position: The Israeli government asserts that its military actions in Gaza are aimed at dismantling Hamas, a group designated as a terrorist organization by multiple countries, and emphasizes efforts to minimize civilian casualties.
Criticism of Genocide Accusations: Organizations such as the American Jewish Committee (AJC) reject the genocide label, arguing that Israel's actions are self-defense measures against Hamas and do not meet the legal definition of genocide.
Legal Definition of Genocide:
According to the UN's 1948 Convention on Genocide, genocide includes acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. These acts encompass killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction.
Conclusion:
The determination of whether Israel's actions constitute genocide involves complex legal and factual analyses. While some international bodies and scholars argue that the criteria for genocide are met, others contend that Israel's military operations are legitimate acts of self-defense. This remains a deeply contentious issue within the international community.
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So you expect that an AI provides a morally framed view on current events that meet your morally framed point of view?
The answer provides a concise overview on the topic. It contains a legal definition and different positions on that matter. It does at not point imply. It's not the job of AI (or news) to form an opinion, but to provide facts to allow consumers to form their own opinion. The issues isn't AI in this case. It's the inability of consumers to form opinions and their expec that others can provide a right or wrong opinion they can assimilation.
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If you're of the idea that it's not a genocide you're wrong. There is no alternate explanation. If it were giving a fact that would be correct. The fact that it's giving both sides is an opinion rather than a fact.
If their ibtebtion was fact only. The answer would have been yes
Okay, cool...
So, how much longer before Nvidia stops slapping a "$500-600 RTX XX70" label on a $300 RTX XX60 product with each new generation?
The thinly-veiled 75-100% price increases aren't fun for those of us not constantly-touching-themselves over AI.
Try buying Monero, it is very hard to buy.
- Acquire BTC (there are even ATMs for this in many countries)
- Trade for XMR using one of the many non-KYC services like WizardSwap or exch
I haven't looked into whether that's illegal in some jurisdictions but it's really really easy, once you know that's an option.
Or you could even just trade directly with anyone who owns XMR. Obviously easier for some people than others but it's a real option.
Both of these methods don't even require personal details like ID/name/phone number.
Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off
Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off
DeepSeek launched a free, open-source large-language model in late December, claiming it was developed in just two months at a cost of under $6 million.Jenni Reid (CNBC)
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Study: COVID can trigger changes to the immune system that may underlie persistent symptoms
Covid 19 always bringing us new and terrifying things. Thanks Trump for fucking us all over and allowing this to run rampant through our country. So far its killed my grandmother (not big lost there she was a horrible person who loved trump) and now my best friend after almost 5 years since he first got it. I even gotten it once and I was vaxxed three times (I made sure to get my boosters). But unfortunately I'm uninsured and unable to get a updated one now.
That's my rant but goddammit we about have RKJ in charge of America Healthcare and I fear this going get worse before the year is out.
Got very severe ME/CFS which is a subtype of long COVID.
This semi-personal page, written by the son of the leading stanford researcher on the illness, the son being severly ill with it himself, explains it well I think: whitneydafoe.com/mecfs/whatism…
Whitney Dafoe - What Is ME/CFS?
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A bridge isn't really necessary. Both Lemmy and Pixelfed use the same communication protocol. Lemmy just doesn't let you follow users, and PixelFed is a user-based, rather than group-based, program.
If you want to follow both groups and users, you should just use a site that's running software that supports that. Mbin, or nodeBB, or something.
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The problem with hashtags is that the post itself won't be federated unless someone is following the user who made the post (or someone who boosted it). So Lemmy would be unable to see those posts anyways.
I have thought about a simple ActivityPub service that pulls a Mastodon RSS feed of a hashtag and boosts them all from a group/community actor, I think that would work for following from Lemmy.
Hashtags doesn't have universal thing.
For example, hashtag for #red can mean anything, from a mere color to political association.
Twitter trending tag often filled with two trending topic that shares same hashtag hut nothing do to with each other. Especially for same langauge but different region like English America vs English Asia.
This has been long discussed and deemed part of a problem space that Lemmy isn't meant to solve. So probably never.
But there are Fediverse apps like Friendica or Mbin that support both, and it lookes like Pixelfed is going to sooner or later support the reverse, i.e. subscribing to Lemmy based groups.
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I don't understand this mentality. Reddit allows this, and it seems like it wouldn't require much retooling of anything.
Sure, I could move to these other services but I don't want to leave the slrpnk community. While I'm increasingly frustrated with the state of Lemmy and particularly the devs, our instance is still great.
Well, would it make sense for Peertube to add this?
It's just an entirely different concept of social media and while I personally would not be against adding it to Lemmy, I also do not miss it here and can understand that the devs are not enthusiastic about implementing it.
I think the interoperability of the Fediverse is its main advantage. We don't need to be constrained by what we previously thought our focus was before the ideals of the fediverse were mainstream. If people don't want to follow individuals there's nothing that would force them to, but I think being able to connect with much wider portion of the fediverse would really help Lemmy grow.
If there's another, better way to do this then I'm open to it but allowing the following of individual accounts seems like a very simple and easy way to accomplish this.
Couldn't you subscribe to a user the same way you do to a community, and see their posts show up in your feed? Is there some reason I am missing that can't work?
I'm not saying Lemmy should change its whole schtick and become like Mbin, but if there is a small change that can allow more widespread connections across the fediverse, it's hard to see the downside.
Mastodon etc. doesn't really differentiate between posts and comments. So imagine your Lemmy feed having all comments from all communities you are subscribed to just there scrolling through and no real way to know what they even comment on without clicking though to try to find the originally referenced message.
In addition Mastodon has no concept of consistent threads, so basically every person sees something different and you can't really comment on comments without it getting completely confusing.
Ah, this is probably what I wasn't understanding. Thanks for answering all of my questions. I can see how that might be a problem.
Seems like Mastodon needs some way to handle threading better before this could really work then. Kind of surprising that they don't have that.
I still hope there is some way we can connect with the entire fediverse at some point in the future but we'll have to see what form that might take.
you can already follow other users (i.e. watch their activity) via rss feeds. For example your accounts feed is slrpnk.net/feeds/u/LibertyLiza…
I can paste that link into my rss reader (which is an external program or website), subscribing to your accounts feed, and stay updated about your activities that way.
Interesting. Is there a way to set this up so I could follow a user on pixelfed here on Lemmy for example?
And would you see just my posts or also a bunch of contextless comments? The latter might not be too useful.
At least, a compability with Misskey groups would be great.
So far, Misskey has varied groups that actually active that feels like close friend groups on Facebook.
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Green Building Market Size, Share, Trends, & Insights Report, 2035
The green building market size is projected to grow from USD 0.453 trillion in 2024 to USD 1.315 trillion by 2035, representing a CAGR of 10.15% during the forecast period till 2035.Shaurya (Roots Analysis)
Google celebrates India’s Republic Day with ‘wildlife meets culture’ doodle
Google Celebrates India’s Republic Day with ‘Wildlife Meets Culture’ Doodle
The colourful artwork, which borrows an element of surrealism, depicts the six letters of ‘GOOGLE’ artistically woven into the theme, giving the appearance.....shajil kumar (Indiaweekly)
Could possibly not be the best doodle considering it is also Holocaust Remembrance Day and India has a bit of a Nazi glorification and Holocaust denial problem.
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Bollywood film accused of trivialising Holocaust with Auschwitz scenes
Calls for Prime Video to remove Bawaal after using death camp as relationship metaphorHannah Ellis-Petersen (The Guardian)
India’s cultural diversity, military might on display at Republic Day parade
India’s Cultural Diversity, Military Might on Display at Republic Day Parade
INDIA'S rich cultural diversity, military prowess, economic progress and the strides it has taken in sectors, such as science and technology, were on full display at the 76th Republic-Day celebrations on Kartavya Path in Delhi on Sunday (26), in the …shajil kumar (Indiaweekly)
DRC conflict: M23 rebels enter Goma after claiming capture of city
DRC conflict: M23 rebels enter Goma after claiming capture of city – live
Rwanda-backed rebels have captured largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as United Nations reports ‘mass panic’Tom Ambrose (The Guardian)
Colombia lifts ban on deportation flights after Trump tariff threat
Colombian president Gustavo Petro says he will not accept US deportation flights
Petro blocks US military aircraft carrying migrants being deported as part of Trump’s immigration crackdownTiago Rogero (The Guardian)
Tbf for nations like Colombia, who have a very small GDP, it would be almost impossible to survive the orange asshole's bullying.
Let's see what'll happen if/when he attacks a nation who's in the same league as America.
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I don’t agree, I think a lot of nations want to try to stay off of trumps radar for the next 4 years.
Unless something terrible happens, this should be over in 4 years.
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This was all theatre where nothing in reality changed, to show how tough and intransigent this admin wants to be: the real problem is that if formally and informally allied nations start to think that the USA would really commit to bullying as a real negotiation tactic, they will start to divest from it and expand their pool of partners to make these tactics less impactful.
This could be disastrous in the long run, with decades of integration and diplomacy going in smoke. But in the short term there will be a lot of "winning", as they keep saying. I guess.
The first Trump term was seen as a short term derailing. The second one has a complete different international impact.
Goodwill is a real diplomatic form of currency and it is getting burned at a real fast pace.
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Well, if they are flown there, take them no matter the circumstances. What else could I have possibly meant by that?
If they're your citizens and they've been nabbed off the street in a hostile foreign country (USA) don't make them suffer for your principles and let them end up in some camp or holding cell, because that's what these nuts are gonna do. They 100% will be abused if they get rejected back out of Columbia, because that's a clear sign no one cares about their well being.
The fascism persists only because it promises to be of benefit to its supporters.
Fascism falls apart when it fails to deliver them tangible benefits.
Trump's coalition is a house divided, he cannot provide his billionaire sycophants with economic benefits without taking them away from his voting base, and he can't do economic populism without disadvantaging the billionaires.
We're already seeing this with the H1-B visa debate. Musk, Zuckerberg, and Thiel want them for the cheap exploitable labor, and non-rich Republicans want the program to end for both anti-immigrant and economic nationalism reasons.
If the Democrats were allowed to be competent then they'd be hammering on this contradiction 'til the Republicans lose all their electoral relevance, but they won't because they're faced with the same contradiction among their own supporters.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome: First death in Maharashtra; over 100 cases in Pune
It was not about ending it, but about financing and actively enabling it...
Israel would have run out of bombs 20000+ dead children ago if Biden would have wanted to let those children live.
Biden deserves to spend the rest of his days in prison. Trump does as well.
That's the fatal flaw in the logic though. The democrats only want to uphold the status quo, they don't care about regular americans, they just pretend to. If they actually cared, they would have run Bernie when they had the chance.
The US has been funding/providing military aid to Israel throughout the 70's, 80's, 90's and now. All presidents throughout this time are complicit, including your favourites.
Funding a genocide while straight faced lying about it has completely destroyed America's global reputation. Even George Bush might not have been as damaging to the "rules based order" as the Democrats were this time around
This was not a status quo moment. Democrats went more mask off than any Republican in history.
Wait what is your point then? I'm criticizing those that were critical of Biden's administration for funding the genocide, when all administrations in the US pretty much since the 50's have been funding the genocide.
I never mentioned anything about masks off or on. I just mean that anybody criticizing only that administration and not every administration since the 50's is clearly not paying attention. They are all the same.
When I say the dems purpose is to uphold the status quo, I mean the actual status quo, not the status quo they want the average American to believe. I mean the oligarchy, because they are part of it.
not a tankie
...cool? So glad you have an opinion about the 1956 Hungarian revolution and whether the Soviets sending in tanks to crush it was a reasonable reaction... not sure how that qualifies your opinion though.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek overtakes ChatGPT on Apple App Store
The milestone highlights how DeepSeek has left a deep impression on Silicon Valley, upending widely held views about U.S. primacy in AI and the effectiveness of Washington's export controls targeting China's advanced chip and AI capabilities.
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has prompted U.S. tech executives to question the effectiveness of tech export controls.
It worked well against Russia and the Soviet Union, but it's been my claim for years now, that this won't work against China anymore. Because China is way more advanced now than the Soviet Union ever was by comparison for the time. And all it does is delay China while they build their own competing supply industries. And the end result will be that China will just dominate the backbone industries too.
The difference is in raw power, China has 10 times the people Russia has, and an economy that in real value more than matches USA now. In short China has all the advantages for long term developments. Except for not being ahead on chip manufacturing already.
China is already competing at top level in almost all key industries, and has absolutely unparalleled manufacturing capacity. but also technologically they are in the top of EV, Batteries, solar panels, and 44 other technology areas.
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all of the world’s top 10 leading research institutions are based in China and are collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country (most often the US).”
Trying to hold back China is simply not a viable option anymore.
China leading US in technology race in all but a few fields, thinktank finds
Year-long study finds China leads in 37 of 44 areas it tracked, with potential for a monopoly in areas such as nanoscale materials and synthetic biologyDaniel Hurst (The Guardian)
I think you can effectively compete with China but you would need a giant coalition of democratic countries that would move fast and stay focused.
With oligarchs completely taking over the US, this is unlikely to happen. But that's hardly the sole roadblock to such a coalition.
With oligarchs completely taking over the US, this is unlikely to happen.
It could still happen, it’s just that oligarchs will be the only ones to profit and it might require even more coercion than usual.
I think you can effectively compete with China but you would need a giant coalition of democratic countries that would move fast and stay focused.
Exactly, like EU and USA working together, but then Americans go ahead and elect Trump!?
As it's going we were already losing, when China was behind. There is no way we can beat them when they are ahead, unless we dramatically up our game.
I've been cursing our (Denmark) government for cutting education and reducing taxes for 20 years. Instead of increasing education, and focus and invest in the sectors we are good at.
That's what made us rich in the past, it's like they think we don't need to invest anymore, because we are economically doing fine cutting taxes and undermining the quality society we built in the past.
It's not just people, it's also that China invests heavily in the building blocks of effective industries. They're serious about education and healthcare as public services, they invest heavily in transit. You can't expect life to bloom in a desert, but the US keeps acting like stripping away everything necessary for industries to prosper will somehow make them prosper harder.
Requisite disclaimer; The CCP are an appalling autocracy with a litany of crimes against humanity to their name. Just because they do some things well doesn't make them worthy of admiration. Yes, I'm looking at you, .ml
I clearly write: "China has 10 times the people Russia has,"
So why are you arguing a strawman?
Because you used Russia and USSR interchangeably in your argument
It worked well against Russia and the Soviet Union, but it’s been my claim for years now, that this won’t work against China anymore. Because China is way more advanced now than the Soviet Union ever was by comparison for the time
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China has 10 times the people Russia has
You first say what worked again Russia and the USSR (which is a bit weird, like writing new york and the USA) wont work against China, then say its because China has 10 times the pop of Russia.
Because you used Russia and USSR interchangeably in your argument
No I did not, I very consciously made some comparisons to both, and some separately because USA used this tactic successfully against both Russia and the Soviet Union.
Soviet Union and Russia are NOT the same. But the tactic worked for half a century against them. And can still work against Russia, except if China goes all in on supporting Russia.
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I was more of talking about if the program was actually performing as advertised. Guess I could have phrased that better.
I am all for this bs AI bubble popping. Extra points for it being China who did it, since there is a bunch of American propaganda fed about how China is pure evil.
So I'm still on the fence about the AI arms race in general. However, reading up on DeepSeek it feels like they built a model specifically to work well on the benchmarks.
I say this cause it's a Mixture of Experts approach, so only parts of the model are used at any given point. The drawback is generalization.
Additionally, it isn't a multimodal model and the only place I've seen real opportunity for workflows automation is using the multimodal models. I guess you could use a combination of models, but that's definitely a step back from the grand promise of these foundational models.
Overall, I'm just not sure if this is lay people getting caught up in hype or actually a significant change in the landscape.
they built a model specifically to work well on the benchmarks.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that's what everyone is doing. If you're not measuring against something, there's no way to tell if you're doing anything at all.
What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?
In a sense, what attention alarmists seek is protection from a competition that they're losing.
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I read your comment and hit back while still processing it.
More input Stephanie. More!
That can only lead to dangerous places. Like The Three Stooges...
EDIT: sigh Guess I'm the only one who caught the Short Circuit reference... r/fuckimold
Article disputing attention crisis. Does not put "bottom line up front". Behind paywall. Archive formatted for much wider screen.
Maybe we don't need more attention? Maybe we need higher pay so we don't need distractions?
Will read later on a computer. Maybe
You're not missing much. The author rambles for many, many paragraphs, and I don't use that word lightly. It reads like a college essay, where the goal is to produce an X-page paper, so they just cram as many quotes, attributions, and subjects as they can to pad the length.
It feels like they're trying to go for a Pulitzer, but it's just reactionary garbage that rambles on and on, jumping from topic to topic, taking quotes from scientists and philosophers from antiquity—as if their ideas were still valid today simply because they once existed. The author appears to have a lack of attention, methinks...
Also they appear to be an ADHD denialist, so fuck them.
This article is BS. Here are some quotes:
What is doomscrolling if not avid reading? If people are failing to focus in some places, they’re clearly succeeding in others.
This is like saying channel surfing (flipping through Netflix or whatever videos but never picking one) is focus.
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One place they’re succeeding is cinema, which is in a baroque phase. A leading Golden Globe winner this year, “The Brutalist,” exceeds three and a half hours... Hollywood’s reliance on sequels and recycled intellectual property—we’re a hair’s breadth from a crossover in which Thor fights the Little Mermaid—may have been terrible for cinema. It has, however, made for complicated movies tightly packed with backstory and fan service.
Something being long doesn't indicate focus. I haven't seen The Brutalist, so I'll use other long movies as an example: Avatar, King Kong, and The Hobbit series. What do those have in common? It's not deep plot or complex character arcs, but action sequences. In other words, you could space out for 30 min and not miss anything.
Shorter movies require more attention and focus because they move faster, so you can't miss even 10 min (or even 5) or you'll have trouble keeping up.
As writers stopped worrying about viewers losing the thread, their shows started resembling ultra-long films. Viewers responded by binge-watching, taking in hours of material in what Vince Gilligan, who created “Breaking Bad,” has called “a giant inhalation.”
Newer shows are way less dense than they used to be. I just binged The Queen's Gambit and literally fell asleep for an entire episode and didn't feel like I missed anything. That show would've been much more interesting as a feature length film instead of a mini-series.
Or consider video games, which have grown mercilessly long.
Not because of content that requires focus, but collecting random stuff. There's actually less story and problem solving in many of these longer games than older point and click games had, and those weren't known for complexity...
But deep dives into niche topics have become the norm. The wildly popular podcaster Joe Rogan runs marathon interviews, some exceeding four hours, on ancient civilizations, cosmology, and mixed martial arts. A four-hour video of the YouTuber Jenny Nicholson dissecting the design flaws of a defunct Disney World hotel has eleven million views (deservedly: it’s terrific). Hayes himself confesses to spending hours “utterly transfixed” by watching old carpets being shampooed.
Something being long doesn't mean it requires focus.
In fact, the opposite is true. My most difficult textbook in college was something like 100-150 pages, and it took us the entire class to finish. What made it difficult was a complete lack of hand-holding, and it's perhaps my favorite pig of all the textbooks I had, and the only one I read cover to cover. It's something I can reference, so it's still useful years after mastering the material, but getting through it took an immense amount of focus.
Above all, they demand patience, the inclination to stick with things that aren’t immediately compelling or comprehensible. Patience is indeed a virtue, but a whiff of narcissism arises when commentators extoll it in others, like a husband praising an adoring wife. It places the responsibility for communication on listeners, giving speakers license to be overlong, unclear, or self-indulgent. When someone calls for audiences to be more patient, I instinctively think, Alternatively, you could be less boring.
This isn't narcissism, it's the definition of focus. It's about using your mental faculties to extract information, and it requires a lot of effort and patience. Watching a movie for a long time doesn't. If I want to learn something, I'd rather struggle for a few hours with an information dense text than watch a dozen hours of YouTube hand holding, and I'll get much more from the text than the video series.
Given this statement and the sheer length of and lack of information in the article, I think the author has a focus problem.
To ascribe our woes to a society-wide attention-deficit disorder is to make the wrong diagnosis.Which is unfortunate, because our relationships to our smartphones are far from healthy.
Seems like the author rebutted his own argument, but fails to acknowledge it.
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Don't gatekeep. It really depends on what you're reading, not where you're accessing it. A lot of the most popular books (trashy romance and self help books) require similar if not less focus vs quality online content.
That said, I think you're right it we're talking about average readers. That said, don't jump to conclusions, and instead ask what they like to read. Who knows, maybe you'll find something interesting. I wrote off graphic novels for years, and then I read one and it was quite good.
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Agreed. The truth, in many cases, is somewhere in the middle.
Here's my perspective, for whatever it's worth:
- smartphones are addictive, and many (most?) people wish they spent less time on them
- social media is addictive, and many (most?) people wish they spent less time on them
- low effort trash is addictive, and many (most?) people wish they spent less time with them
That doesn't mean smartphones or social media is causing the problem, or really any problems at all, it's the behaviors that drive people to overuse smartphones and social media that cause problems, as well as what they're expecting to get from it. It's the same idea as gambling and many forms of substance addition, something is driving them to that activity, and that is the core of the problem.
If we dig a bit deeper, I think the actual causes of this behavior involves some of the following:
- poor mental health - people rely on social media for validation
- peer pressure - you'll be excluded if you're not attached to your phone
- escapism - many people are in tough circumstances, and use their phone/social media as a momentary escape (also includes gambling and substance addiction)
These are problems we've had for a long time, and I think we're making progress since therapy is now less taboo than it was.
That said, I do think we have a focus/attention problem. If you look at recent tech advances, it's all about getting you a faster dopamine hit. Instead of building up anticipation for a new feature film launch, we binge shows on Netflix or whatever. Instead of reading technical documentation about how something works, we follow a video, understanding very little, if anything, about what's going on. Instead of writing out messages to each other in forums, we copy/paste memes. Instead of earning stuff in games, we buy loot boxes. Everything is being designed to hit that dopamine button as frequently and easily as possible.
People are getting more used to entertainment being readily accessible, and I think that leads to overuse. Why limit how many shows you watch when you can run them back to back w/o any issues? Not having to wait for the next installment means you probably watch way more content than you otherwise would, which means you're doing less of the other things in your life that you find value in.
Self discipline is hard to master, especially when you have an easy stream of lower-effort options available. And that shift is what's causing the overuse of things like SM and smartphones and leading to attention/focus issues.
I could totally be wrong here. I'm not a psychologist, just someone on the internet that has read a few books and observed a few things.
Peertube is now available on f-druid
After a lot of work, we're happy to announce the #PeerTube Android application is available on #fdroid 🎉f-droid.org/packages/org.frama…
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Yeah, I don't think so either. For lots of creators, YouTube is about earning money with ad revenue with their videos. And the audience comes to watch their videos. So unless we introduce lots of ads to PeerTube and pay the creators, it won't become an alternative to Youtube (in specific).
I think Peertube will stay it's own thing and not become a clone of Youtube. And as such it'll always target a different audience and have different content available. So it can't really become an "alternative".
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Might be wrong but doesn't majority of the money come from sponsors and such? I was led to believe ad revenue was just a nice little bonus.
Biggest issue probably will be how small it is so it would not be worth it to sponsors.
I guess you're right. Reportedly, ad revenue is getting worse all the time. I've tried finding some recent numbers from some channel but seems very few of them make their income transparent. I know one or two, but they don't do sponsoring in the usual way... But I guess it's true and lots of channels rely on sponsorships and Patreon these days. From what I read. That would certainly make it easier to switch to a platform that doesn't have ads in the first place. I kind of missed that. That'd mean it's down to the network effect. But I'd like to see some exact numbers. Ultimately, we'd need to cater for a lot of different creators, from Mark Rober to Kurzgesagt to someone doing it for fun. And ad revenue would have to be really bad, because lots of the popular and big youtubers earn their livelihood on the video platform. And even a paycut of like 20% might be unacceptable to them...
I think this is a really good point. If we now get the Fediverse bigger, and regular people start to have accounts on federated and interconnected platforms, we'd be okay without advertisements and invading privacy, if that's not the predominant business model anyway.
Even minor revenue cut is a revenue cut, that's true. The creators would need to be believers, or YouTube would need to do a fuck up.
Realistically though, best we can hope for for now is them crossposting to both YouTube and PeerTube
I'd say it depends on your uses.
If you're an organization looking for a platform in which to publish your videos so that they can be spread in your newsletter/social media and embedded on your website, it's probably a very good alternative.
If you're a content creator who runs on donations and has a dedicated following already, it might be good. And as the fediverse grows, it will only get better.
For a lot of the content creators who live off engagement and clicks, it's much less likely to become a viable alternative. The kind of content people will watch for hours, but that nobody would ever consider paying for.
I think it's not about one platform replacing all of YouTube, but about providing viable alternatives for specific uses.
YouTube is about earning money with ad revenue
If you watch anyone who actually discloses their income, adsense is usually a fairly small %.
Most of it comes from donations, direct sales, product placements, etc.
Ideally the solution would be finding alternatives for creators to make money, sponsorships is one, they can make money on those no matter the platform and where they get viewers, same with support platforms like patreon and kofi.
The goal would be to watch videos there so creators have a reason to cross post and then support them in other ways, if possible, mentioning peertube as the avenue you watched them.
Cross posting to a peertube instance should be pretty light weight for creators and we should encourage it.
Ah, I came here to ask that question... If this is finally the version with log-in.... It isn't.
We have to be patient then. They've promised to add it. And Framasoft usually follows up on their promises. But looking at the commit log on the project page, they dont seem to be actively working on the Android app. It's mostly noise, translations and dependency updates there. Nothing that'd indicate someone is working on adding features. So it could take some time.
But you're not the only person waiting for this to be added.
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Yes it’s very much a beta test.
Cool that they are working on an app, though.
Although I personally find the UI to be confusingz
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In fact, the word "pagan" appears to be slightly derogatory, along the lines of "hillbilly" or "redneck."
The word "Celt" does not carry that kind of connotation, at least not in the word by itself.
pagan | Etymology of pagan by etymonline
person of non-Christian or non-Jewish faith, from Late Latin paganus pagan, in… See origin and meaning of pagan.Etymonline
The Celts originally occupied the Iberian peninsula, Gaul, Germania, Ireland, and Britain. What we know of the Celts comes primarily from the Romans, since the Celts didn't have a written language. What little bits of writing remain from the Celts was near the early Roman Empire, and in vulgar Latin.
Of course, the Romans ultimately conquered a lot of those areas, into Britain up to about Hadrian's Wall. I believe they semi-conquered Cornwall and Wales, to the extent that they "ruled" those areas, but still left them generally to their own devices. Only Wales really retained its relative independence, as is evidenced by the fact that Welsh still exists, while Cornish is barely holding on after having become extinct and then revived.
The reason I compared "pagan" to "hillbilly" and "redneck" is because plenty of people wear those names with pride, too, even while many other people continue to use them in derogatory ways.
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The word "Celt" is largely meaningless. There were no such specific societal group as "Celts".
"Celts" refers to speakers of similar (though not the same) languages within a celtic language group which includes Gauls (Who became Germans), Celtiberians, who became Portuguese, the Gaels, who became the English and Irish, etc... etc...
Saying that "Celts" are a society is like saying Peru, Argentina, Mexico, etc.. are all one single people. (pro tip...they're not)
So no, "celt" isn't derogatory, and it certainly isn't a synonym for "druid".
NewPipe has been there for a long while, with the ability to watch Peertube videos.
However, with its strict no account policy, you aren't able to leave comments, for example. So, nice to have!
any desktop gtk client like lemoa?
Unfortunately lemoa has stopped development and its repo is now archived since a year now. Current install on AUR (Arch, Artix, ...) doesn't even render...
But I like gnu+linux native clients, in particular gtk ones. On the apps recommendations I see no real gnu+linux native client similar to what lemoa was. Are you aware of any fork, or any similar client, hopefully low on resources?
Thanks !
GitHub - lemmygtk/lemoa: Native Gtk client for Lemmy
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‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media
‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media
As major platforms face mounting scrutiny over content moderation and user privacy, a developer's vision for ethical social media draws supportEsat Dedezade (Forbes)
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They've fixed it now by the way, after someone contacted them about it. 😀
I think it's cool that someone who knows nothing about Mastodon is even writing about this. Though I would wish journalists had the time to double check just a little bit more.
I think (!) the idea is that I could text you using your fediverse handle, and that it could somehow become integrated in other fediverse services.
It makes sense through the following storyline:
- Dansup creates Pixelfed
- People start texting each other using direct messages on Pixelfed, making Dansup uncomfortable as it is not at all encrypted
- Dansup creates sup to provide integrated E2EE direct messaging in Pixelfed/associated platforms
I have no idea if it'll be good or if it'll be used. I struggle enough to get people on Signal. But if it can somehow provide E2EE while benefiting from the social graph of ActivityPub, it might not be the dumbest thing ever.
Plex migration from Windows to Linux
Hey guys! Has anyone had success migrating a Plex server from Windows to Linux in recent years? I'm mostly concerned about losing watch history / users (having to reinvite).
I found this Reddit thread on the issue and it seemed like a simple copy and paste of the DB file. I attempted following both the official directions from their guide and from the Reddit post and ran into a SQLite DB error. It was similar to what another user experienced in the Reddit thread:
soci::soci_error() that sqlite3 prepare failed..Error: Unable to set up server: sqlite3_statement_backend::prepare: file is not a database for SQL: PRAGMA cache_size=512 (N4soci10soci_errorE)
Has anyone done a migration in the recent years? Seems like something might have changed within the last few and this copy and paste of the DB file will not work anymore?
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Proton CEO Andy Yen Interview
This VPN is the resistance tool of choice for millions
Proton VPN executives and engineers tirelessly work to outmaneuver internet firewalls in Russia, Venezuela and China in a digital war for a free and open internet.Peter Guest (Compiler)
Does Proton Still Stand for Anything?
Proton's CEO Andy Yen, praised Trump on Twitter, and the company doubled-down in support of the Republicans and JD Vance. Here's why ditching "Swiss Neutrality" is a big problem for privacy.Carey Lening (Privacat Insights)
Please summarize in what way he betrayed anyone?
Because I see nothing in that article.
People and businesses are allowed to have political opinions. I can disagree with them (or not) while still respecting the service they provide.
From a previous reply that I made :
Firstly, the proton CEO took the position of supporting Trump by saying that "they are standing up for little people". Saying that reps are good supporters of antitrust laws.Secondly, the official proton account replied to his post and agreed on the fact that reps are more likely to defeat big corps against monopoly.
They deleted their post later. (The proton official post)So since then we cannot stand in a corp that is promoting these people.
That's why I asked about riseUPSource : lemmy.world/post/24301835
He doesn't have to be incorrect in order for people to feel betrayed by his comments. The commenter was answering the question of why people felt betrayed. Demonstrating the incorrectness of the CEO's take is out of scope.
(Although, he definitely is also incorrect. Republicans love corporations and monopolies even more than Democrats do. They're slightly more nationalistic about it though, which is the only reason they ever make noises to oppose corporations that aren't sufficiently US-owned.)
I think the "he" there was @anonymous@lemm.ee, not the CEO of Proton.
The comment from anonymous implied that there was no real betrayal. Just because someone fights for digital privacy does not mean he's on the same side for other topics. Feeling betrayed and actually being betrayed are not the same thing.
This specific comment thread is focused on that because that was the topic started by the choice of words of the first comment.
The conversation would not have continued in that direction if instead of doubling down there simply were an admission that what really was meant to say is not that Proton betrayed some hypothetical anti-Trump principles they had, but that they have proven now being sympathetic towards Trump and this made people feel unsafe (and some branches of the thread implied that conclusion).
What's being argued is that this is not surprising. This is as silly as thinking that Zuckerberg is a betrayer because of the recent changes in moderation policy, as if Facebook was ever on the side of any particular political ideology other than their own interests.
What makes you think tuta is against all and every policy coming from the far-right including the ones that align with their stated goal of digital privacy? If (hypothetically) tuta had some level of relationship with a left-wing party (pick your favorite) and made a post about how they are happy about certain changes that party is pushing that are beneficial to privacy, would that be a betrayal of their own principles? I would say it's not, regardless how many alt-right customers might "feel betrayed" if they had some parasocial alt-right image of tuta.
Please summarize in what way he betrayed anyone?
People feel betrayed that he kissed Trump’s ring, so to speak. But that’s CEOs for you. The bourgeoisie have class solidarity.
I won't touch anything microsoft with a long pole, so no bitwarden
Just use KeePassXc/Dx as you were meant to
Bitwarden is associated with Microsoft...?
Edit: I wasn't able to find anything suggesting they're connected, I'd love to know what you mean... I don't keep up with stuff super closely
Ah, gotcha. Yeah I can't say that really bothers me too much... 😅
I'm not sure there are really any big names in that space that don't suck anyway. Like the other two I'm familiar with are google and Amazon, and they're hardly saints.
A "roll your own" solution with keepass and something to sync might sidestep that problem but is hardly a drop in replacement that appeals to all the same users
Convenience shouldn't be prioritized over distribution of services one uses. Single point of failure and all that jazz.
- Tuta
- KeePass XC
- SyncThing
- VeraCrypt
- pCloud + Cryptomator
- Mullvad VPN
- Librewolf
- IronFox
- openSuse Tumbleweed
Nothing in that article suggests Proton doesn't care about privacy. Every country has laws that must be abided by. Their verbage on not logging IPs was misleading but not inaccurate as they weren't until ordered to by law. At that point the law was able to find the person because of lack of opsec on the perp's part.
Besides that, to my knowledge all of Proton is open source and encrypted. It has been audited and proven to be secure.
Quit letting politics ruin our collective privacy by suggesting to people that Proton is now an evil company. They support Trump because they think his business policies will benefit their company. True or false as that may be their company is still great for privacy and we shouldn't be infighting about that.
Unless I'm missing something, didn't Yen just praise 🍄's pick for antitrust AG? I forget her name, but her Wikipedia page didn't make her sound all that great, so I'm not sure what exactly he was praising her for. If that's all it is (and it might not be!) that hardly sounds like a betrayal.
EDIT: I was missing something! See this.
Praising the pick wasn't so bad. The issues really arose when he was called out on it and chose to use Proton's official accounts to affirm his view and went on to state:
- the republican party is now the party of the people and most likely to crack down on big tech
- The democrats have effectively betrayed their voters in favour of corporate donations
- This was Proton's official stance
It was insane boot licking and incredibly poorly thought through. It's fine for him to have an opinion but completely inappropriate to use their official accounts to spew such drivel and to state it was the official stance should have resulted in him being fired for damaging their reputation.
edit: I was asked to provide sources so please find them here: feddit.uk/post/23386970/148884…
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the republican party is now the party of the people and most likely to crack down on big tech
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The democrats have effectively betrayed their voters in favour of corporate donations
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the republican party is now the party of the people and most likely to crack down on big techyes🤡
Why do you think that?
No indeed.
But supporting an administration (in any medium) whose inauguration included a Nazi salute does, in fact, make you a fascist.
And no: it doesn't matter if you previously did something good.
It's really not that complicated,
When you look at it now, it looks like it was more or less a threat that led to a closer relationship between "tech bros" and the current administration instead of the "take down" of them.
I’m reminded of this Nate Silver quote from the election:
Democrats, however — and here, I’m not referring so much Silver Bulletin subscribers but in the broader universe online — often get angry with you when you only halfway agree with them. And I really think this difference in personality profiles tells you a little something about why Trump won: Trump was happy to take on all comers, whereas with Democrats, disagreement on any hot-button topic (say, COVID school closures or Biden’s age) will have you cast out as a heretic. That’s not a good way to build a majority, and now Democrats no longer have one.
In 2024, Nate’s model accurately predicted the exact electoral map.
He doesn’t do any polling. He aggregates other pollsters, weights it based on past performance and then uses other factors (he calls them fundamentals) to produce an outcome. And I think it’s misguided to suggest that Democratic leadership is looking at Nate’s polls to reinforce their own positions.
Here’s a quote from a column he wrote for the NYT
It may even feel as though we’re Ping-Ponging between radically different futures, never quite certain what lies around the bend. Yet on the whole in 2024, polling did not experience much of a miss and had a reasonable year. Ms. Harris led by only one point in my final national polling average. And Donald Trump led in five of seven key states, albeit incredibly narrowly. The final polling averages were correct in 48 of 50 states.
The final Times/Siena national poll (including third-party candidates) had Mr. Trump one point ahead. There was plenty of data to support a Trump win.
Remember that the Biden campaign had an internal poll showing Trump winning \~48 states in a total landslide victory, but they maintained that Biden was the best candidate.
Opinion | Don’t Blame Polling for Our Infuriating Politics
Why it can’t fix our messy politics.Nate Silver (The New York Times)
Fair point. But no adult who is paying attention needed the salute to understand the contempt that Musk has for the rule of law.
He marshalled an attack on the capital. No non-fascist does that.
He marshalled an attack on the capital. No non-fascist does that.
uh, you sure about that?
Yes. We all saw it on national television.
Then he pardoned the offenders.
GTFO with your stupid pretend skepticism and gas lighting.
Martin Luther King marched on the capital.
But if you think I'm using a definition that makes Martin Luther King a fascist then I'm going to conclude you're not discussing the issue in good faith.
Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds
Exclusive: In-vitro gametes are viewed as the holy grail of fertility research
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Welcome to the Microsoft Excel World Championship: The ‘Super Bowl for nerds’
At stake was prize money, a championship belt and the title of world’s best spreadsheeter.
Archived version: web.archive.org/web/2025012706…
Welcome to the Microsoft Excel World Championship: The ‘Super Bowl for nerds’
At stake was prize money, a championship belt and the title of world’s best spreadsheeter. Read more at straitstimes.com.The Straits Times
Why all that rage against windmills?
Because of his playground sightseeing:
bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north…
Scottish government wins Donald Trump wind power legal costs
Donald Trump had claimed the 11-turbine wind farm off Aberdeen would spoil the view from his golf course.BBC News
No video links, articles only.
Trump is also not World news unless there's some other country involved.
Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards
Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards
From driving licence to local air quality, app offers myriad of features and has been rolled out to little oppositionJakub Krupa (The Guardian)
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Much is being said about Poland’s economy potentially overtaking Britain by 2030, but in some areas Poles are already ahead.
A bit of a cunty header init? Let's see Poland overtake the UK in 2030 with the cooling down of the German economy and potential reduction in subsidies from the EU which represent 1,6% of Poland’s GDP plus ancillary effects from job creation and direct German investment.
The Guardian view on economic comparisons: Poland’s rise is not about our faults
Editorial: Labour ought to realise that growth is important, but it may not be what really matters to votersEditorial (The Guardian)
Why do people have such trust that a national ID won't be misused to further erode personal privacy? I have no idea why this policy is seen as at all positive.
(Any responses along the lines of "you've already lost your privacy" or "the government already has the data" won't convince me. There wouldn't be a push for a national ID if the scheme could be built out of the data the government already have)
I am from Ukraine, where we have a very large uptake of digital national IDs and even government service mobile applications (municipal, health, military etc.). These service were relatively popular when launched, but there was a massive increase in uptake after the full scale invasion.
One of the main strengths of the digital national ID/mobile government services is that they are so convenient. A bureaucratic process (that was actually very simple) could take 4-5 hours waiting in line in say 2012, now it can be done almost immediately. The government constantly adds different useful modules and systems. For example, during COVID up to date vaccination status was present in the app and you could use it while travelling (at least to the EU, no clue about US). I like the Kyiv municipal app as well. It's relatively well designed and offers a bunch of services. Broad uptake also means that there are network effects; with companies and government services integrating these services (e.g. in situations where you need to confirm your identity).
I would also argue the notion of privacy isn't as linear and simple as might seem at first glance. There are legitimate situations where the government needs access to data to find traitors and collaborators. This saves lives as it weakens the russians' ability to target their air strikes. That being said, we already had a national ID system (legacy of russian occupation under the USSR) before, so you only benefit from digitization.
In the UK, which I had assumed this article was targeted at convincing as the Guardian is a UK paper, we already have a very good online government portal for taxes, driver licenses, car registration, and loads of other things.
Taxes use your national insurance number. Drivers license things use your licence number. Car tax uses the car registration number. Not unified. Works fine.
I don't disagree with you. There are trade offs is the thing. I'm not getting a digital ID until I'm forced, but many people are fine with it.
The other commenter from Ukraine explained it well, and to add, the Diia app they use is open source. Other countries can use it if they pay a one time "licensing fee" that is basically a donation with the from line "we're not shitbags."
According to people super into digital IDs: In terms of trade offs, especially for Americans, interoperability means unifying state and Federal systems so that you can renew your driver's license, register a car you just bought, file your taxes, and renew your passport online in the same portal. You would rarely set foot in a government office ever again. Your ID hash can be used online and IRL to validate only a part of you identification, like age, so a bouncer at a club can't take a photo of a young woman's ID and stalk her later. So there are some added privacy benefits...in theory.
Obviously, there are the same downsides to any consolidation of digital anything. A stolen phone, even a dead battery, means you have no identity anymore. Data leaks are inevitable. This likely opens the door for far less privacy online when LinkedIn or Reddit starts asking for an age or name check. But plenty of people are oblivious to that anyway. Andb the same argument was probably made in the 1950s and 1960s about paper ID cards. So once there's utility and pressire applied to having a digital ID, adoption will follow.
In terms of trade offs, especially for Americans, interoperability means unifying state and Federal systems so that you can renew your driver's license, register a car you just bought, file your taxes, and renew your passport online in the same portal.
I think they need to see gov.uk.
Any government closed source app is a trojan.
Same thing with obligatory scanning fingerprints for a new ID. They say it's only for "hash" generation.
AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’
Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up
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Syrian fighters execute 35 in three days, war monitor says
Syrian fighters execute 35 in three days, war monitor says
Authorities have arrested dozens of people accused of taking advantage of the chaos in Syria to settle old scoresGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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I do not know nearly enough about the situation to say either way, but while this sounds unsavory, I often think back about how different things might be in the US, had we actually allowed Sherman to "clean out" the South as it were, after the US Civil War.
It's nasty business, but perhaps necessary for the long term stability of a country emerging from a long, bloody, civil war.
Again, not clear to me that this is the case here, just playing devil's advocate for the people who are coming out against this as a knee jerk reaction to political violence... That maybe these things need to be done sometimes, when failing to do so will result in far more bloodshed.
Prius Prime 2024 Followup: More Tests
/c/technology was the most active by far (more so than /c/cars), so I'll post here again first.
Stats
The following stats are winter tests (10F to 30F. Or -10C to 0C).
- L1 Charger from Home is 2.05 mi/kwhr (12.0 mi/electric-$$. 17.1c per kwhr home costs) in this deep cold.
- L2 Charger from Work is 2.8mi/kwhr (14.0 mi/electric-$$. 20c per kwhr work-charging costs).
- 43 Miles per Gallon gasoline (13.9 mi/gasoline-$. $3.10 gasoline during test).
- L1 Charger is closer to 2.8 mi/kwhr during 60F (15C+ temperatures).
- L2 Charger is closer to 3.5 mi/kwhr during 60F (15C+ temperatures).
Conclusion: The cold (10F to 30F) has made the Li-ion batteries of this car SIGNIFICANTLY less efficient. We're at the point where L1 chargers are more expensive than gasoline, while L2 chargers are roughly on part with gasoline.
I recommend anyone who gets an EV to get an L2 charger. Not only for the convenience of far faster charges, but also because of the incredible improvements to cold-weather charging efficiency.
There were some pro-EV fans asking me to more carefully test the gasoline usage in the winter. And now you have the stats. I can solidly say that gasoline is worse during the Winter (down from EPA estimated 48), but not dramatically worse like the electric engine gets.
The above gasoline test was done over an entire week of driving to reach the 200+ miles I thought was needed for a solid test. I performed it by running out of electricity (all the way down to 0%), then driving to a gasoline station and filling up. I memorized the exact pump I filled up at.
Then, after 200 miles across a week, I came back to the same pump and filled up exactly the same. I then counted the gallons that came out of the pump and divided out based on my trip odometer. I was 203.5 miles of driving total with 4.734 gallons reported from the pump.
I own a Prius (not a PHEV though, just a hybrid) and can corroborate that my mileage goes down significantly in the winter months. It is a combination of a couple factors in my experience.
- Needing to run the engine more to heat things up for defrosting and heating the cabin.
- Related to the above, I tend to idle a lot more in the winter while cleaning ice/snow off the car, letting it warm up, or clearing the driveway.
- Switching to winter tires (Blizzaks) negatively impacts rolling resistance compared to the LRR tires (Ecopias) I use the rest of the year.
I tend to average ~45 mpg in the summer and ~37 mpg in the winter over the past two years.
The Prius PHEV manual states that there is a battery conditioner: both battery-cooling when its hot and and battery-heating when its cold.
I assume that a significant amount of the electric charge from L1 charger is going towards battery-heating. Ex: I have a 1000W L1 charger (measured from the wall). If 100W is going to heating, then that's a 10% loss before other voltage-conversion losses. (The Prius is a 400V battery, so 110V to 400V will incur additional losses).
The L2 charger likely has 100W of heating in these cold nights as well, but at 3,300W charging, that's only a 3% loss. Far more efficient. Furthermore, 220V is closer to 400V, so there will be less voltage-conversion losses associated with L2 charging.
A lot of reasons to favor L2 charger installation. So that's going to be my recommendation to anyone doing Electric.
Gustavo Petro responds to Trump: “Overthrow me…the Americas and humanity will respond”
Gustavo Petro responds to Trump: “Overthrow me…the Americas and humanity will respond" : Peoples Dispatch
Trump announced retaliatory measures against Colombia after Petro refused to let a US military plane full of deported Colombians land in the South American nation, citing inhumane treatment.Peoples Dispatch
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MBFC:
Overall, we rate The People’s Dispatch as Far-Left Biased based on promoting Marxist-Leninist perspectives. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to consistent one-sided reporting that lacks context and a complete lack of transparency.
The People's Dispatch - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
LEFT BIAS These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation.Media Bias Fact Check
I'm curious, do you think there is some bias in this article? What is it?
In case you doubt their translation, you can find the original source of the statement by Petro here.
Is there some other source, which you consider less biased, which has published an English-language translation of his response to Trump?
Or, would you consider any reporting at all of this head of state's response to be intrinsically biased?
Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo)
Trump, a mi no me gusta mucho viajar a los EEUU, es un poco aburridor, pero confieso que hay cosas meritorias, me gusta ir a los barrios negros de Washington, allí ví una lucha entera en la capital de los EEUU entre negros y latinos con barricadas, q…Nitter
I used that link to look up the source. It wasn't here so I posted it here. I do the same with archive links.
I didn't report this and don't have a problem with it. In general, the fact that they don't disclose the country they operate out of is problematic since we can't know if they're operating from a place where telling the truth is illegal.
Edit: I should also say that it's important they've never failed a fact check. I don't really care about them having editorial bias as long as we know what it is.
I used that link to look up the source. It wasn’t here so I posted it here. I do the same with archive links.
Do you post MBFC links on articles from outlets they classify as "unbiased" too, or just the "biased" ones?
As others have pointed out many times before, the entirely flawed premise behind MBFC is that centrism correlates with credibility and/or factualness.
I didn’t report this and don’t have a problem with it.
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In general, the fact that they don’t disclose the country they operate out of is problematic
Who doesn't disclose where People Dispatch operates out of? MBFC? Yeah, they don't, because they're lazy hacks who's job it is to impugn the reputation of anyone doing any journalism that isn't in service of the status quo.
since we can’t know if they’re operating from a place where telling the truth is illegal.
A couple minutes of research shows that (although their contributors are all over the world) their legal entity People's Dispatch Ltd. is registered in New York. So, the way things are headed, I guess actually you might be on to something here soon 😬
Edit: I should also say that it’s important they’ve never failed a fact check. I don’t really care about them having editorial bias as long as we know what it is.
The notion that any outlet could have no bias in what they decide is and isn't worthy of reporting on, especially the people MBFC says are unbiased, is ridiculous. And it's usually not difficult to see what an outlet's bias is without relying on a 3rd party using their own bias to classify someone else's.
Do you post MBFC links on articles from outlets they classify as “unbiased” too, or just the “biased” ones?
I post links if I'm unfamiliar with a source and look them up, regardless of their conclusions. Sometimes I'll do research on a news source if they don't have an MBFC entry and share that as well. I assume there are others who are like, "cool story but... who the fuck is this?" I hope it spares them the extra steps.
If some people don't like that, I don't care. I count MBFC downvotes as upvotes. It helps people I'm overjoyed to help and pisses off people that I'm pretty okay with pissing off. I'm not letting a bunch of greasy misinfo ghouls call the shots.
A couple minutes of research shows that (although their contributors are all over the world) their legal entity People’s Dispatch Ltd. is registered in New York.
First, registering and operating are two different things. Human beings are not just bound by the laws of the country their corporation is registered in.
But... so what? If the information we have shows something that's problematic then new information becomes available that addresses our concerns... that's fine. That's how shit's supposed to work. MBFC is an information source, not the information source.
As others have pointed out many times before, the entirely flawed premise behind MBFC is that centrism correlates with credibility and/or factualness...
etc etc etc
Look, I've met my quota on debating weird MBFC conspiracy theorists. The reality is there are a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about posting links to webpages they haven't read. I'm not interested in someone's poorly thought out take on how they say the Guardian is quadruple Mein Kampf, or whatever. If you have links to peer-reviewed research that support those conclusions, I'd be happy to see them. You don't, though, because every bit of academic work on MBFC says those people are dead wrong.
Gustavo Petro's statement, worth a read:
Trump, I don’t like traveling to the U.S. much, it’s a bit boring, but I confess there are worthy things. I like to go to the Black neighborhoods of Washington. There, I saw a whole fight in the capital of the U.S. between Blacks and Latinos, with barricades, which seemed to me like nonsense, because they should unite.
I confess that I like Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, Noam Chomsky, and Miller.
I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the U.S., are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered for being labor leaders with the electric chair by the fascists who are inside the U.S. just as they are in my country.
I don’t like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species with greed. Maybe one day, along with a drink of whisky—which I accept despite my gastritis—we can talk frankly about this, but it’s difficult because you consider me an inferior race, and I am not, nor is any Colombian.
So if you are looking for a stubborn person, that’s me, period. You can try to stage a coup with your economic power and arrogance, like you did with Allende. But I will die by my law, I withstood torture, and I resist you. I don’t want slave owners on Colombia’s side, we already had many and we freed ourselves. Who I want to be on Colombia’s side are lovers of freedom. If you can’t join me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world, and you didn’t understand it. This is the land of the yellow butterflies, the beauty of Remedios, but also of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, one of whom I am, perhaps the last.
You will kill me, but I will survive in my town, which came before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and freedom.
You don’t like our freedom, fine. I do not shake hands with white slave owners. I shake the hands of libertarian whites, heirs of Lincoln, and of the Black and white rural boys from the U.S., in front of whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking through the mountains of Tuscany and after saving myself from COVID.
They are the US, and before them, I kneel, before no one else.
Overthrow me president, and the Americas and humanity will respond.
Colombia, now stop looking to the north, look to the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization of that time, from the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood carries the resistant Black people who were turned into slaves by you. In Colombia lies the first free territory of the Americas, before Washington, of all the Americas, I take refuge there in their African songs.
My land is of the goldsmiths that existed in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.
You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, and who is called Bolívar, opposes you.
Our peoples are somewhat fearful, somewhat shy, they are naive and kind, lovers, but they will know how to win back the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all over Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, before Colombia, whom you murdered.
I raise a flag, and as Gaitán said, even if I am alone, it will remain raised with Latin American dignity, which is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather didn’t know, but mine did, Mr. President, immigrant in the US.
Your blockade does not scare me because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know you love beauty as I do, don’t disrespect it, and it will offer you its sweetness.
COLOMBIA FROM NOW ON FACES THE WHOLE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE, AND HUMANITY.
I have been informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruit of our human labor to enter the US, I will do the same.
Let our people plant corn, which was discovered in Colombia, and feed the world.
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I'm not sure where are you exactly aiming with your remark but I'm going to retort based on what I want to perceive from it.
It's better to have national airplanes pick up your nationals than to condone allow them to be transported in military aircrafts, handcuffed and who knows what else, like criminals.
To my knowledge, Colombia refused military airplanes to land/cross their airspace, while at the same time calling out the social upturn being enacted by the new american cabinet. They denounced the attitude of a wannabe dictator, and in a very straightforward way. The rest of the world should be ashamed and banding together by now.
So you would rather have your kin handled like waste, than secure their safe return to their country?
For what? Bragging rights? Bragging over blood? Would those be acceptable losses to further a cause?
Would you want your kin killed for the sake of making a vanity moral stance?
What I'm okay or not with we can discuss after you answer my question.
Do you think he won't just start killing anyway? Do you know how much these flights cost?
You don't negotiate with Nazis because they don't give a shit and will do whatever they want regardless.
Who cares about the cost? Nothing is more costly than spilled blood that can be avoided. Refusing military flights to carry your people is not condoning with the fascist regime currently in place in the US.
And, again, to my knowledge, all military flights are being refused to enter colombian air space, for the reasons you are pointing. Colombia went to get their people, after giving the US a piece of their mind. By contrast, Brasil received theirs handcuffed like dangerous criminals.
Leaving those they want to deport to die is coward. The statement issued by the colombian president should be undersigned by every other country in the world.
Who cares about the cost?
Read some history. That's exactly why the Nazis came up with the Final Solution. It was the most cost-effective way to deal with what they viewed was a problem.
The statement issued by the colombian president should be undersigned by every other country in the world.
Thanks, Neville Chamberlain. What could go wrong with trusting Nazis to keep their word?
The US is using military planes to carry unwanted individuals, under inhumane conditions. Colombia refuses to allow those flights, sends their own means to get back theirs... and that is to condone the new US regime?
What am I missing? I admit to be confused.
And the highest representative of a country publicly and openly denounces the attitude and actions of a dictator in trainning, when other nations haven't, and that is not enough to make a position? What else, then?
After calling the entire current american cabinet fascist a few times in previous replies, doing that would be, at the least, intelectually dishonest.
That part is already well defined.
What I want to know, from you, is who is negotiating with them.
That's funny.
I remember reading the push was over the US deporting colombians, on military plains, handcuffed, as if they were prisoners of war.
El Chato threats - and announces - tariffs in retaliation of Colombia not accepting such flights.
Colombia sends their presidencial airplane to ferry the deportees - to my understanding, this is akin to retrieving POWs - after which Chato Cheetah balks and the military flights are replaced by civilian freight.
Win for Colombia. They get their people back, in humane conditions.
The fascists can still turn back on these terms, granted, but then it will be back to the beggining, with the threat of commercial tariffs, etc. Colombia goes back to sending their planes to pick up their people.
What else do you want?
Colombia to abandon their people on unfriendly foreign soil?
I thought I did say what I meant, but apparently whatever I say, as usual, is stupid and wrong and worthless.
So maybe you and everyone else should just tell me to fuck off and never talk to any of you again. It's probably for the best.
I've spent a good time of my day going back and forward with you exactly because I want to understand with you keep defending Colombia cooperated with fascists when they did not.
They had people there, in need of help, in the hands of very bad actors.
What were their options? Abandon those people? Become as bad as the fascists in the process? Worst, in my view. A fascist is an enemy, someone who abandons their kin is a traitor of the worst kind.
What was Colombia supposed to do, in your view? Give me a straighforward answer, not a circular comeback as you have been giving. Blurting you do not want nazis to ethnic cleanse is not an answer to my question.
The fascist american regime (not Nazi; that was the late National Socialist Party of Germany) is currently expelling foreigners by force. I am sure many have already died but we are not seeing mass graves and killings of elements of certain population groups. Be intellectualy honest, please. I am engaging in good faith.
No one here is saying they support that cadre of criminals. No one is attacking you or your position.
I was pretty sure I gave you a straight answer multiple times, but apparently everything I say is wrong lately, so I guess this is just one of all of those times.
Doesn't matter, we'll all probably dead in a year anyway. If I'm lucky, it will be less than five for me as it is.
That was unnecessarily cruel towards yourself.
Have I been engaging you in bad faith? Have I resorted to insult or personal attack? If so, that was uncalled for and I sincerely apologize.
I'm too stupid to know what that's supposed to mean, but I'm sure whatever it means I deserve it.
You're free to tell me to fuck off and die too, it's also what I deserve.
Yes. Seriously.
You're talking to someone who's lesbian daughter is going to end up in a conversion therapy camp because he's too much of a fuckup to take advantage of emigrating to the UK because he was stupid enough to think he could actually save her life.
I mean I don't know why you keep talking to me, but...
Good news though: when that does inevitably happen, you will be free of me forever.
Why do you care? Anyway, I am in the UK already. I'm just fucking it all up like I fuck everything up. And when we run out of money and have to go back to the U.S. and she gets put in a camp, it will be my fault.
And when that happens, be sad for her torture and be happy I won't be around to fuck up the world anymore.
Because empathy costs nothing, yet it is so hard to see it be spent.
Because I take no joy of seeing another human being suffer.
Because I want to show, even if only for a brief and fleeting moment, concern for you and your troubles.
Because I want to.
Why is going back the only option? Can't you work there?
Using a gif for a visual cue of my mental state isn't trolling. It's just me lacking words to perfectly express myself.
I'm not going to arm wrestle you to decide if I'm putting up a fake caring facade or if I'm being honest. That is solely up to you.
And to borrow your words: you are free to stop talking to me and be rid of me for ever.
I didn't say you were free to stop talking me and be rid of me forever. I said when my daughter gets taken away from me, the universe will be rid of me forever.
Should have been rid of me forever before she was even born honestly.
But why will your daughter be taken from you?
Again, isn't it possible for you to stay in the UK indefinetely? Just settle there? Or perhaps on some other european country?
But can't your daughter apply for a work visa herself? Or a school one?
And what are your skills? If my countrymen, dumb as doorknobs go there and find work, it can't be that hard.
She's 14, so no work visa. And there's no such thing a grade school visa.
As far as my skills, years of media production and post production, but between chronic health issues and having to put my daughter in online school due to severe bullying, I am 5 years behind the times and, unsurprisingly, no one is interested.
She's too young, obviously. But being so young is she in risk of deportation? Families tend to enjoy a bit more liniency.
You may be a bit outdated but I'm going to risk you are not "unusable". I can't fathom what you actually do but there must be something you can do with those skills.
Yes, she is only here on a travel visa. She can stay a maximum of six months until she's here illegally.
And you would think there would be something worth hiring me for, but apparently not.
Strange laws. Children from immigrant families can enroll to school in my country even while their families are waiting for have their requests processed to become declared immigrants.
Squid, I'm going to be level with you. I risk we're in the same time zone. It's getting late and I've been awake since four a.m.; I'm running on fumes here.
Feel free to message me if you feel like chatting a bit. I spend way too much time here, under the excuse of getting some information in my head.
Keep trying, both for work and for a way to get your daughter to be safe there, here, in Europe, permanently. Please, Squid. From a father to another. We can never give up.
Nope.
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Colombian president Gustavo Petro says he will not accept US deportation flights
Petro blocks US military aircraft carrying migrants being deported as part of Trump’s immigration crackdownTiago Rogero (The Guardian)
That article doesn't contradict what he said.
From the article:
“I cannot force migrants to remain in a country that does not want them. But if that country returns them, it must be with dignity and respect – for both them and our nation. In civilian planes, and without treating them like criminals, we will welcome our compatriots. Colombia deserves respect.”
The Trump admin explanation doesn't line up with the timeline of events.
Sadly the president of El Salvador wouldn’t do anything but lick Trump's nutsack. I have been warning everyone in my family about that fascist oligarch crypto bro and everyone just points to lower crime rates, ignoring the suspension of civil liberties and the unacceptable prisons they built. Prisons in which innocent people surely rot among the criminals. And of course now he’s bowing to trump and musk.
Reminder he was the only one who refused to denounce Putin for invading Ukraine
He already backed down and kowtowed to Trump.
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There are no heroes, sorry.
Colombian president Gustavo Petro says he will not accept US deportation flights
Petro blocks US military aircraft carrying migrants being deported as part of Trump’s immigration crackdownTiago Rogero (The Guardian)
No, his position has always been that the US could send migrants back, but it had to be done humanely. Petro objected to the military transports with underfed and cuffed people in it (same thing Brazil is complaining about). It's also why he sent the presidential plane to pick up migrants in a humane way instead.
After that Trump threw his hissy-fit and threatened tarriffs, Colombia reiterated that it only needs people to be taken care of properly and treated like people, and the US caved to those (imo very reasonable) demands.
Ofc Trump bullshits his way through what should normally be a political humiliation, but here we are.
Wow, a lot of people emotionally disagree with that quote. You can tell because 30+ down voted and you maybe see 1 of them commenting to take a stance.Cowards who are afraid of reality deserve no respect.
Maybe... it got all those downvotes because it was a ridiculous thing to post in reply to an article which is simply reporting facts without any bias whatsoever, and posting that comment here in this context appears to be an attempt at discrediting Petro (who is, in fact... a leftist 😱 ...watch out) in response to his standing up to to Trump?
And maybe all those other people downvoting it didn't bother replying because I had already posted my reply (which adequately pointed out the absurdity of it) right after the comment was posted? 🤔
Gustavo Petro responds to Trump: “Overthrow me…the Americas and humanity will respond”
Gustavo Petro responds to Trump: “Overthrow me…the Americas and humanity will respond" : Peoples Dispatch
Trump announced retaliatory measures against Colombia after Petro refused to let a US military plane full of deported Colombians land in the South American nation, citing inhumane treatment.Peoples Dispatch
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petro is not wrong; but he's given the americans full blessings to regime change colombia and absolutely no one in the west will come to his aid; not even his fellow latin americans out of fear of pissing off the americans.
PLEASE prove me wrong!!!
difference is that now they don't have to invent a reason like iraqi wmd's
the point is moot however, the colombians have already caved like the americans wanted them to.
The US and (some of) its vassal states also happen to be more or less the only majority English speaking countries in the world, and so get to set the meaning of "America" (singular) when used in English.
With that said, the translation reads "the Americas" (plural) which unambiguously refers to the two continents.
The Murder of John Lang: A Cautionary Tale on the Importance of Online Privacy
I want to share a deeply concerning story that highlights the critical importance of online privacy, especially for activists and those who speak out against authority. The death of John Lang, a well-known figure in the Fresno activist community, raises serious questions about surveillance, privacy, and the potential consequences of being targeted by law enforcement.
John was found stabbed inside a burning home, and what’s particularly alarming is that just days before his death, he expressed fears that Fresno law enforcement was stalking him and might end his life. He had been vocal about his experiences with police harassment, including a disturbing pattern of unethical practices by Fresno law enforcement, such as scanning license plates in retail parking lots to generate revenue.
In his efforts to protest these injustices, John posted his thoughts on the Fresno Bee, believing he was doing so anonymously. However, it later came to light that an employee at the Fresno Bee was sharing identifiable information (IP addresses) with law enforcement, leading to John being targeted. This tragic situation serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities we face when we do not take proper precautions to protect our online privacy.
John’s case illustrates the dangers of not using tools like VPNs or Tor for online activism. Had he utilized these privacy measures, he might have been able to shield his identity from those who sought to silence him.
This tragic story serves as a cautionary tale about the risks of online exposure for activists. We must learn from John’s experience and recognize the importance of safeguarding our privacy in an increasingly surveilled world.
The Murder of John Lang and Police Gangstalking
From: Activist Predicts Death, Says The Cops Killed Him | Fresno People's Media Posted By: Dylan Donnelly January 26, 2016 The man who was found stabbed inside a burning home in Fresno last week is confirmed to be John Lang, a frequent poster in…Hack Liberty
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Shit's about to get real, on the internet, I would strongly recommend.
The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.www.torproject.org
I hate to +1 but yeah, this. get familiar with Tor. learn what it can do and when to use it. play around with hosting .onion sites to distribute information safely. use orbot on your phone similarly.
some distributed messaging apps like briar use Tor as their internet transport mechanism, so... why not go all in and really learn to use Tor for real. now. while is easier to do so.
Long, wild read. Also, wtf is this website?
Huh?
Hack Liberty
We are a group of cypherpunks, privacy advocates, engineers, and philosophers dedicated to the pursuit of truth, liberty, and knowledge for all. We believe technology is a tool for liberation, not enslavement.Hack Liberty
His writings sound like that of someone suffering from paranoid delusions. We'd have to take every claim he makes about the news site feeding info to law enforcement, the gps trackers, the FBI being in on it, the undercover cops tailing him, AT&T being in on it at face value. He's seeing patterns where there are none.
Apparently all this started during a messy divorce. Our minds can do funny things under stress, like deluding ourselves into a persecution complex and making everything fit that, rather than having to deal with an uglier truth.
That makes sense, I reviewed the footage and it doesn't look like a thermal camera. I read this one of the comments:
"Professional photographer here. That was not a thermal imaging camera. That was a canon 1DX camera. A popular photography and video camera. The big thing around it was a camera stabilizer gimbal, most likely a Movi M5. That set up is used for filming high-end videos and commercials, sometimes TV shows. A police department would not have a set up like that. I use set ups like this to film car commercials. That was not a thermal imaging camera."
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Yeah I'm inclined to believe it based on the actions of numerous other police departments, but I'm also highly skeptical of it because of things like his message about if they find him dead naming not only the Fresno Sheriff but also his neighbor and a coworker. If I came across this on Facebook I for sure would write this guy off.
I do find it odd they ruled his death a suicide but then stated that he had three separate stab wounds to the chest. I have a hard time believing that someone could do that to themselves a second or third time, but who knows.
forum.hackliberty.org
Can't find'em in ground.news/ either...
Breaking News Headlines and Media Bias | Ground News
The biggest source for breaking news around the world. Compare headlines across the political spectrum using media bias ratings driven by data. Spot misinformatGround News
Is it American police or American mafia?
So better not to trust any feds at all.
Awful. Rest in peace.
Thank you for this story, but anyway, "we have nothing to hide"
P.S. US once were a "police of the world" so I think it's harder to hide your identity (in case of privacy and legal things) there, or I'm wrong?
Gaza checkpoint shell company outs itself as led by former CIA paramilitary chief
Gaza checkpoint shell company outs itself as led by former CIA paramilitary chief
Or, how access journalism is used by the U.S. intelligence community to divert narratives away from their covert activity.Jack Poulson (All-Source Intelligence)
Let me copy and paste that secondary title for my re-reading it when reviewing my comments later:
"Or, how access journalism is used by the U.S. intelligence community to divert narratives away from their covert activity."
thank you
edit: honestly i had long thought that TOP GEAR's international episodes were part of the British espionage network.
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A spokesperson who phoned the author at 10:36 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday spent the majority of a more than 90 minute discussion attempting to pursuade this publication to stop digging into who was running the Safe Reach Solutions shell company: “I'm not trying to run you off a story, you can do whatever you want. Someone else is going to break that one,” the spokesperson continued, in an apparent reference to their process of burying the detail into a story at The Washington Post. “The next story to write if I'm you, is a piece about the humanitarian [aid] and hostages."
What pieces of shit. He subtly threatened the person trying to interview him, telling them to leave the story alone and stop looking into it.
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Looking for an Android data migration tool
This is native android functionality.
Transférez vos données sur votre nouvel appareil Android | Android
Découvrez comment utiliser le transfert sans fil pour copier vos données facilement entre deux appareils Android, y compris vos contacts, vos messages, etc.www.android.com
NeoBackup is the only one I've run across that seems to really fill the role of backup and restore thoroughly. The trouble is, in order to work it needs root, so I've never actually been able to try it. Almost reason enough to root in my book 😅, I love a good back up system.
Seedvault is another fairly well developed option, but it needs to be hardcoded in to the OS by the ROM developer.
You'll probably benefit from a series of different backup apps in combination. Here's a few that I've used and benefited from:
SMS import/export - backs up all SMS, MMS, call logs and contacts. Does not backup RCS.
Applist backup - back up your installed app list. This includes data on where you installed the app from and where you can get it again along with other useful info. The apps still have to manually installed.
Aside from those two, most FOSS apps include a backup and restore function, such as: signal, neo launcher, fossify calendar, newpipe, metro (music player), aegis (2 factor), obtainium, etc...
I hope this helps. I tend to tinker and install various ROMs, so am well aquainted with the pain of setting up a fresh OS without a system wide backup program. Its not as bad as it seems though, and as long as you get your messages, contacts and call logs moved over it goes pretty smooth.
GitHub - NeoApplications/Neo-Backup: backup manager for android
backup manager for android. Contribute to NeoApplications/Neo-Backup development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Regarding Applist, does this copy the app’s data?
I have a game on a phone I’d like to copy to a tablet so progress is not lost. App is in both devices already. Would that work?
Sorry for piggybacking on OP.
If you can't or choose not to use the Google provided backup solution, consider this openandroidbackup.me
Source code is here: github.com/mrrfv/open-android-…
Companion app is available on F-Droid f-droid.org/packages/mrrfv.bac…
Hope that's close to what you're looking for
GitHub - mrrfv/open-android-backup: Back up your device without vendor lock-ins, using insecure software or root. Supports encryption and compression out of the box. Works cross-platform.
Back up your device without vendor lock-ins, using insecure software or root. Supports encryption and compression out of the box. Works cross-platform. - mrrfv/open-android-backupGitHub
If it's really just pictures and contacts, do it manually. Contacts app should have an export function. Pictures you can just copy via USB.
Messages are usually cloud-stored nowadays right? Do you have more than idk 5 different messaging apps? If you don't, and one or some of them for some reason don't store messages on some server, find out if you can do it manually, most apps should have export/import functionality (not just messaging apps btw). For standard SMS though, no idea.
I use DAVx⁵ on my android devices, so calendar and contacts are synced to a private CalDAV/CardDAV server. (I self-host Radicale, but you could pay for such a service if you don't want to host your own.)
Pictures should be easy, since they're just files. Swapping microsd cards, copying to/from a computer via USB, file transfer app, KDE Connect... there are lots of options.
By messages, do you mean SMS/text? I suggest checking your old phone's messaging app for an export feature, and trying to import it on the new phone's messaging app. If that features is missing or incompatible between versions, maybe try one of these apps temporarily, just to get the backup/restore done:
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f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fo…
Edit: More backup/restore options here:
DAVx⁵ | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
CalDAV/CardDAV Synchronization and Clientf-droid.org
Takeaways:
1. If you care more about salvaging data than privacy, use a Google account on your phones, otherwise, if you still value privacy but not so much security, root a phone as soon as you get it (not always possible or desirable) so you can use other backup solutions that require root access.
2. Prefer installing apps that have an embedded backup functionality so you can be sure it's always possible to get the data out regardless of what you did about point 1
3. (Bonus) Ask for said backup functionality to be added to apps you'd like to use with a feature request on the app's repo when it's open source, I've been doing that for the past year or so and I saw that quite a few have gone and implemented it, love these dudes 😀
4. (super extra bonus) Fuck Google for artificially preventing a full backup solution that doesn't rely on their cloud being involved
Reddits antiwork has a fed mod! (edited)
Full disclosure on Friday night my brother chill-left showed me this conversation and I believe it is worth sharing.
"Teia Rabishu" has been the top mod of antiwork since the massive scandal of a moderator appearing on Tucker Carlson who spoke about their part time job as a dogwalker. She appears not to understand the concept of the Overton window. Her defense of the decision to ban, "Platforms affiliated with the CCP, such as TikTok and Rednote, because China is a hostile foreign government and these platforms constitute information warfare." despite the opposition of the moderators and users of the sub is suspicious, unethical, and totalitarian. In typical "dictator fashion", her entire stance seems to be "china bad" and she constantly argues via logical fallacies. Not only this but, "Caledric" from the beginning of being a moderator for antiwork openly admits to working for US intelligence and expresses sympathy as well as agreement to their ideological framing and conclusions. "Teia" defends and supports "Caledric" as well as upholds the ideological anti-communism and red scare propaganda which led to this entire debacle.
This document and photos where leaked by u/chill-left before he was banned from the anti-work subreddit. He was a moderator dissenting within their internal communication discord. The supposed reason for his ban was calling for democratic elections to replace the head moderator of the antiwork subreddit. As well as disagreeing with "Teia Rabishu".
Please share this with any interested individuals or parties, especially anyone associated with antiwork.
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antiwork mod team chat leak
anti work mod chat logDownload There is the entire chat log from the beginning to the end of chill-lefts conversation. There’s also three screenshots of the chat.Leak
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I had to read all the way to the bottom to know what the context is: Reddit’s r/antiwork.
Edit to add: Relatedly, r/neoliberal was created by a neoliberal think tank » BPR Interviews: The Neoliberal Project
Edit to also add: Anti-China feds have been spotted on Reddit before: A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
Last night an AMA started on Reddit claiming: “Hi, I’m Rushan Abbas. I’m one of the Uyghur People of central Asia, and the Chinese Government has locked up many of my friends and relatives in…Richie Brown (Medium)
I had to read all the way to the bottom to know what the context is: Reddit’s r/antiwork.
thanks I Fixed the post! I don't know if this is the right place to post this but i feel it is important to share.
Meta AI in panic mode as free open-source DeepSeek gains traction and outperforms for far less
Meta AI in panic mode as free open-source DeepSeek gains traction and outperforms for far less - Tech Startups
Late last year, we reported on a Chinese AI startup that surprised the industry with the launch of DeepSeek, an open-source AI model boasting 685 billion parameters.Nickie Louise (Tech Startups | Tech Companies | Startups News)
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How will DeepSeek affect the business viability of OpenAI?As an AI assistant, I don't have access to internal company information. For more details about DeepSeek, please visit the official website.
Don’t be coy, DeepSeek.
Why would Meta AI be in "panic mode" when they provide the "service" for free anyway?
OpenAI though, or Anthropic, and others who are "pure player" in AI and do charge for a service might be in a pinch ... BUT even then it requires a lot of resources that the random computer user do not have (e.g. a GPU and a large disk), so that even in such case (sadly, as IMHO self-hosted open-source AI is much saner in most cases, cf my fabien.benetou.fr/Content/Self… live wiki page) the average consumer would still better pay for a model to run.
CPU Time vs Usage
I'm self studying for a server+ cert and ran into this paragraph. Am I right that CPU time is a set of ticks utilized, the CPU Capacity is the total capacity, and the CPU usage is the percentage of ticks:capacity?
I have been making notes from this chapter, and the more I get into it the more I seem to find things like this that seem slightly off.
Does anyone have a physical copy of the 2ed McMillan CompTia Server+ study guide I can compare against? I feel like someone is messing with me.
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Guess we'll get there eventually.
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But "with audio" is actually a new feature. Previously I was manually sending the audio through my voice channel which worked pretty well but it would be nice to have a separate stream for the streaming audio.
Probably not enough for me to install the spyware though, I'll keep using Discord via Firefox.
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