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LesserAbe , in Experimenting

There’s no way this isn’t a known spell somewhere within the wizarding world. Another example of the shitty education system found in the Harry Potter universe

arefx , in Amd fan

Ryzen gang

My 7800x3d is incredible, I won’t be going back to Intel any time soon.

OutlierBlue ,

So glad I went full AMD for my latest build.

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

I’m still staying with my 5950X. So many cores!

SuperIce ,

Not sure how much longer I’ll be using the 5950x tbh. We’ve reached a point where the mobile processors have faster multicore (for the AI 370) than the 5950X without gulping down boatloads of power.

r00ty Admin ,
r00ty avatar

Also on the 7800X3D. I think I switched at just the right time. I've been on Intel since the Athlon XP. The next buy would have been 13/14th gen.

nerdovic ,

Also glad to picked the AMD version when ordering a new laptop yesterday.

velox_vulnus ,

7800X3D is so damn good, it also outperforms the newer Zen5 processors 💀

felsiq ,

To put this into context, the zen5 X3D chips aren’t out yet so this isn’t really an apples to apples comparison between generations. Also, zen5 was heavily optimized for efficiency rather than speed - they’re only like 5% faster than zen4 (X series, not X3D ofc) last I saw but they do that at the zen3 TDPs, which is crazy impressive. I’m not disagreeing with you about the 7800X3D - I love that chip, it’s def a good one - just don’t want people to get the wrong idea about zen5.

Fades ,
arefx ,

I’m not that worried about it effecting me lol, i would be more concerned about my intel cpu dying, especially since it’s been around for decades.

Xanis , (edited )

tldr: Flaw can give a hacker access to your computer only if they have already bypassed most of the computer’s security.

This means continue not going to sketchy sites.

Continue not downloading that obviously malicious attachment.

Continue not being a dumbass.

Proceed as normal.

Because if a hacker got that deep your system is already fucked.

Blue_Morpho ,

It’s more serious than normal because if your PC ever gets owned, a wipe and reinstall will not remove the exploit.

“Nissim sums up that worst-case scenario in more practical terms: “You basically have to throw your computer away.””

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Okay, so what gets permanently “owned?” The BIOS on the motherboard, the CPU? is the GPU also hosed?

Blue_Morpho ,

The CPU is hosed. I assume the throw away is in reference to laptops or mini PCs where the CPU isn’t socketed.

arefx ,

Yeah the Intel issue is definitely a bigger problem. Imo.

Blue_Morpho ,

I agree.

Rakonat ,

Me who bought AMD cpu and gpu last year for my new rig cause fuck the massive mark up for marginal improvement on last gen stats.

dosuser123456 ,
@dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

is still on the atom n270

mrmanager , in Firefox + Ublock = 👑
@mrmanager@lemmy.today avatar

Still the best browser, even though the majority left it for the speed they think chrome has.

anas ,

I’m back on Firefox now, but I did originally leave it because Edge had the speed. Not sure if that’s because it’s more optimized for Windows.

mrmanager ,
@mrmanager@lemmy.today avatar

I mean yeah, all these big tech companies are trying to make their products feel faster, because that’s the only space they can compete. When it comes to privacy, they all lose.

time_fo_that ,

YouTube videos for some reason won’t load for me on Firefox. I switched to the Waterfox fork and it’s fine.

timestatic ,

Google just maliciously makes their websites work way worse on Firefox. For YouTube I personally just use FreeTube on desktop and Tubular (A NewPipe fork) on Android so I never have to interact with that goddamn website

foreverandaday ,
@foreverandaday@lemmy.ml avatar

As someone who uses tubular I wish it got updated more tho. The number of debug versions I have installed from pull requests is like 5 at this point 😭

timestatic ,

I’m fine with a slow update cycle as long as they don’t wait too long to actually merge app breaking features, like when recently youtube changed a few things and videos would no longer load.

mrmanager ,
@mrmanager@lemmy.today avatar

Well, Google has been caught trying to make their sites slower / malfunctioning on Firefox. Usually they get away with it by saying it’s a mistake.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

Chrome definitely has the more sleek and responsive UI.

But that’s all Chrome has.

shiroininja , in I usually take the piss put of people but respect

Her Morrowind high elf cosplay is impeccable though

Prunebutt , in Jeff's magic money machine

Ever heard of this game called “Star Citizen”?

DmMacniel ,
@DmMacniel@feddit.org avatar

from 714 millions to 814 millions in one day. nice :D

Dagnet ,

Surely that will be enough for them to finally finish the game right? COPIUM

DmMacniel ,
@DmMacniel@feddit.org avatar

I don’t think that money is the issue any more, time and scope would be the issue. Lets see if 4.0 actually arrives this year

Dagnet ,

Oh I know, but tell that to the people still pouring millions at them

III , in Follow me for more deep political analysis

Maybe instead of “Alive” you should go with “Currently able to form full sentences”. Because Biden is just as “alive” as Trump in regards to how you are trying to frame him. The same issues Biden has, Trump has - just Trump’s cult doesn’t care.

ouRKaoS ,

Trump makes full sentences, the fullest sentences ever by any candidate current or past, no one could ever make fuller sentences, especially the losers and suckers that Trump is running against that hate America and want to turn us into a weak nation that only produces organic electricity that can’t run our great country because it can’t go through all the rivers and lakes because the water just stops it in its tracks and it stalls like those foreign import cars that Trump is going to put tariffs on because our great capitalist America doesn’t need a bunch of foreigners telling us how to drive our cars in our country because America is great and we can do whatever we want unlike Taiwan, which isn’t even a country, and needs to go away just like NATO and NASA and NOAA and all those other government agencies in the swamp that needs to be drained because it’s full of gators that are making it difficult for people to use their yachts in all of this electric water that’s taking over this great country!

twei ,

Don’t forget the 🫲🫱✋👐🙏💅☝️☝️👉👈👂🪓

neidu2 , (edited ) in Offline version of Chat GPT

Technically possible with a small enough model to work from. It’s going to be pretty shit, but “working”.

Now, if we were to go further down in scale, I’m curious how/if a 700MB CD version would work.

Or how many 1.44MB floppies you would need for the actual program and smallest viable model.

PixelatedSaturn ,

Might be a dvd. 70b ollama llm is like 1.5GB. So you could save many models on one dvd.

DannyBoy ,

It does have the label DVD-R

ignotum ,

70b model taking 1.5GB? So 0.02 bit per parameter?

Are you sure you’re not thinking of a heavily quantised and compressed 7b model or something? Ollama llama3 70b is 40GB from what i can find, that’s a lot of DVDs

PixelatedSaturn ,

Ah yes probably the Smaler version, your right. Still, a very good llm better than gpt 3

9point6 ,

Less than half of a BDXL though! The dream still breathes

Steve ,

For some reason, triple layer writable blu-ray exists. 100GB each

www.verbatim.com/prod/…/bd-r-xl-tl/

errer ,

It is a DVD, can faintly see DVD+R on the left side

lidd1ejimmy OP ,

yes i guess it would be a funny experiment for just a local model

kindenough ,

Maybe not all that LLM, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Naz ,

squints

That says , “PHILLIPS DVD+R”

So we’re looking at a 4.7GB model, or just a hair under the tiniest, most incredibly optimized implementation of <INSERT_MODEL_NAME_HERE>

curbstickle ,

llama 3 8b, phi 3 mini, Mistral, moondream 2, neural chat, starling, code llama, llama 2 uncensored, and llava would fit.

BudgetBandit ,

Just interested in the topic did you 🔨 offline privately?

curbstickle ,

I’m not an expert on them or anything, but feel free

Num10ck ,

ELIZA was pretty impressive for the 1960s, as a chatbot for psychology.

veroxii ,

pkzip c:\chatgpt*.* a:\chatgpt.zip -&

Kusimulkku , in Do or do not, there is no try

I think you’ll see plenty of attempts after this, some inspired by it and others in retaliation. Fun times for the US

magic_lobster_party ,

Secret service will step up their security after this, so another attempt as close as this is unlikely

Kusimulkku ,

Failed attempts are enough to escalate things. And with enough attempts, some especially against smaller targets might succeed. It’s gonna get intetesting

magic_lobster_party ,

I’m pretty sure Secret Service is well aware of this, so they will escalate their security accordingly.

Kusimulkku ,

I don’t doubt that, I’m sure they’re doing their best

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

The same Secret Service who left one of the only buildings in the area unsecured? Who when told there was a shooter by the crowd, ignored them? Making a lot of assumptions about competency here when that’s already directly in question.

xthexder ,
@xthexder@l.sw0.com avatar

Damn, did they hire the Secret Service from Uvalde or something?

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

Umm… Shouldn’t the first attempt have been unlikely? This literally proves Secret Service isn’t as competent as you believe.

nikaaa , in Probably, yeah
nikaaa ,
Prunebutt , in though i recommend listening to audiobooks

Bonus points if it’s not just multiple books by people with basically the same ideology.

“Wow, you’ve read Marx and Engels? That must mean you have a thorough understanding on all things political!” /s

Juice ,

Have you read Marx or Engels? What have you read?

Prunebutt ,

Not the point I was trying to make.

Juice ,

How does one make a point using an example they know nothing about? To be clear, I agree with you, but as someone who has read a fair amount of M&E and know a ton of people who have read M&E, they are among the top 1% of readers in terms of sheer volume, but also curiosity and intellectual honesty.

Combined with the fact that the vast majority of Marx and Engels was social science, not ideological polemic, I get the impression that you are giving advice that you haven’t actually taken. Which would be fine, we are all contradictory beings to some extent. But it does beg the question.

And if you had read them, then I would want to know your insights on what you had read

Prunebutt , (edited )

That’s a lot of conclusions you jump to there, buddy.

I simply got the feeling that I got to a real Marx-head, when mentioning him and Engels in passing gets that reaction. Since I don’t particularly enjoy these kinds of conversations, I backed off.

I’ve read a bit of both Marx and Engels and watched a lecture on Marxism. I enjoy parts of Marx and don’t really like what I’ve read of Engel’s original work., is that enough?

Juice ,

What have you read of Engels? Socialism: Utopian and Scientific is one of my favorites. Other than some of his letters, forewords, and some essays, I’ve been really wanting to read The Conditions of the Working Class in England, since it’s referenced in Capital; and I think I have something else saved by him on my Kobo, can’t think of it ATM. I think Engels is really easy to grasp; Marx is a phenomenal writer but unless you’re in the mood to read about 1. Economics 2. Dense academic history or 3. A blistering criticism of some “Young Hegelian” scholar like Feuerbach or Bruno Bauer its hard to find something of his to just easy-read. The Manifesto is pretty accessible but it was mostly written by Engels, the two men were really one author most of the time, and I’ve read the manifesto several times and while its good its not my favorite work.

Sorry for coming off confrontational, but you picked two very good and influential thinkers to target. You could have said “don’t just read Malcolm Gladwell and Sam Harris” or “Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro,” who are all hacks, but very popular authors; whereas Marx and Engels have fallen out of fashion. It’s conspicuous, is all.

Geez the downvote brigade is out in full force

Prunebutt ,

Dude, I told you that I’m not into that kind of discussion. And it turned out exactly the way I was afraid it would. I think that’s why you got downvoted, btw.

Also, you sound like the kind of guy I was making fun of in my first comment.

Socsa ,

Good sir or madam, you are mistaken, for I have also read Lenin.

Let us not speak of the time I read Chomsky, for I was quite confused by the open disdain for autocracy.

Ok, well I didn’t actually read all of it, just the excerpts on Marxists.org.

Prunebutt , (edited )

You can hardly be taken serious if you haven’t read Stalin, too, you know. /s

Achyu ,

Which work of his would you recommend?

CyberMonkey404 ,
PolandIsAStateOfMind ,
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar
Prunebutt ,

Nothing. I was sarcastic. Anything of value that Stalin wrote, you can find by better authors.

Achyu ,

Which all ones would you recommend? (To a beginner)
Any that you like?

Prunebutt ,

?

Achyu , (edited )

You said that there were better authors & works. Any ones that you like or recommend?

Prunebutt ,

To a beginner, the Graeber Books are great (e.g. Debt, or the dawn of everything).

The conquest of bread by Kropotkin is awesome, too.

And if it should be a little bit less traditionally anarchist: Murray Bookchin is great, too.

Achyu ,

Thank you.

Juice ,

I’m not a fan of Stalin, but his interview with H.G. Wells is hilarious.

MeDuViNoX , in Lasagna or doom level?
@MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works avatar
massive_bereavement ,

What a terrible day to have internet.

TunaCowboy , in I need to achieve this stage, too

Sometimes I just agree with people so they can stop talking.

-Jet Li

lugal ,

True

AceFuzzLord , in Also "parasite".

I personally like to reserve “parasite” for the investors, the ones who will literally send you to court if you try to be human to your employees.

Jakeroxs ,

It’s the same picture

jaybone ,

No you are Spiderman dot jpg

rockerface ,

Parasite species at least actually require resources from their host to survive. I think it might be too generous of a label

10_0 ,

True and the worse the people are the higher up they go, great for the inverters tho, bad for society as a whole (www.yewtu.be/watch?v=STYgeA9VSc) (the video goes over how the biggest investment companies stagger society as a whole, and how the normal person buying shares in a company DONT use their voting power to change the company for the better.)

ultratiem , in This company is the laughing stock of gaming right now
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s sad how consumers have zero rights when it comes to digital content. Companies can retroactively make changes, removing content legitimately bought by consumers with no repercussions. I get “not owning” but for a company to collect money for services provided and not actually provide those services will never not astound me.

BigBananaDealer ,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

idk how madden players can put so much time and money into ultimate team only for the service to end after 2 years. and they do it every single year

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Same way FIFA players do and have been doing, to the tune of over 1 billion dollars since 2018.

SturgiesYrFase ,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Jfc…

Churbleyimyam ,

This is basically why I don’t buy anything that I don’t think I can protect from being fucked with.

That’s all ownership is really.

Nommer ,

If buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing.

KredeSeraf ,

Yarr, matey.

deathbird ,

Right? Call it what you will, changing terms of sale or use after taking someone’s money is wrong.

ultratiem ,
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah I can’t even comprehend how that just passes as totally normal these days. Make it all make sense…

UpperBroccoli ,
weeeeum ,

Because the FTC is toothless when it comes to EULAs. You can sign your rights away by agreeing to it (which is required to play the game).

hydroptic , in Amazing app ideas

I’m actually somewhat surprised that “smart” TVs and phones don’t already have attention-aware ads

MegaUltraChicken ,

Oh Sony is all over it, here’s one of the diagrams of their patent.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/975fc799-1aa1-432b-a2ee-fb0c179dafc7.png

MrSoup , (edited )

Did Sony used “McDonald’s” brand in a patent diagram? Can you link the source?

MegaUltraChicken ,

Yeah absolutely, here’s the filing:

patents.google.com/patent/US8246454?oq=8246454

jballs ,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

I would destroy my television and burn the house down before I yell McDonald’s to keep watching something.

elvith ,

Please drink verification can to continue destroying your TV

Iheartcheese ,
@Iheartcheese@lemmy.world avatar

From like 15 years ago. If they were gonna do it they would have done it by now.

MegaUltraChicken ,

I mean, Telly is giving away TVs that have a camera and second screen to play ads. Sony might not think they could get away with it a decade ago, but consumers seem to slowly accept more bullshit over time so I could definitely see their calculus changing in the future.

brbposting OP ,

Oh it has a second screen… have to answer ~100 questions about your viewing habits to get it… so they must only ship to likely profitable demographics. Yeah pretty much hate it :D

MegaUltraChicken ,

Yeah it’s awful, I really hope they fail but I’m not entirely sure they will. Most people who sign up are probably pretty good advertising targets.

hydroptic , (edited )

But they haven’t released a TV with that feature yet though, and if I remember right that patent’s fairly old – something like 10–15 years.

Wonder what’s kept them from actually doing it. Maybe even Sony suits understood it’d be a fucking disaster from a marketing perspective?

Edit: the patent was filed in 2009

MegaUltraChicken ,

Honestly I think it’s just a shit idea. Only way I could see it flying is if you heavily (or completely) subsidized the cost of the television. There’s already a company giving away free ad supported TVs.

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKE…

hydroptic ,

Oh yeah it’s obviously a shit idea, but that generally doesn’t stop executives when they think there’s money to be made – considering how eg. YouTube’s trying to stop you from blocking ads and will apparently start showing ads when videos are paused, requiring attention seems like a logical next step to drive that CPM up to fund the CEO’s new yacht

brbposting OP ,
0x2d ,

ive been wondering for a while how hackable the telly is

Jakdracula ,
@Jakdracula@lemmy.world avatar

Came here to post that too.

Gork ,

If you don’t say it, the commercial never ends

Nath ,
@Nath@aussie.zone avatar

There is nothing that I want to watch badly enough that I would put up with this behavior.

darthelmet ,

It’s crazy that this is real. It looks like a comic someone would make to make fun of the idea. Like the fact that they’re watching some guy shoot someone, then the burger commercial comes on and the guy stands up and cheers “McDonalds!” Before sitting back down to watch more of guy shooting other guy.

This is peak “dumb Americans” humor, and they’re using this unironically to describe their business idea.

Zerush ,
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar
Purplexingg ,

Something tells me you haven’t drank your daily verification can of mtn dew

SoleInvictus ,

Gary M. Zalewski is listed as the inventor. He is listed on 99 patents, several of which are related to increasing advertising proliferation and penetration. He’s basically a driver of enshittification. My favorite was “System and method for taking control of a system during a commercial break”. Can’t have the plebs changing channels!

I looked him up on LinkedIn and he looks exactly like you’d imagine. Fuck you, Gary. Fuck you.

Lekip ,

Kneel before your McGod

Kneel before your McGod

FiskFisk33 ,

wait what the fuck this is actually real

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