circuscritic
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20·25 days agoI can’t wait for the nonfiction historical accounts of the FEMA deathcamps, or revised textbooks that accurately tell the story of how a devout group of Salem men saved the country from witches and witchcraft.
God damn I’m excited. Let’s go Texas, let’s get even stupider with it.
Projectivy launcher, problem
solvedadequately duct taped.Stop connecting your TVs directly to the internet, I don’t care what OS it’s running. The trend is clear with TV makers, and the OS version is currently running doesn’t already inject ads into your streaming boxes HDMI stream, why risk it updating? Because that’s coming soon enough, and I imagine what it does, it will then require internet to work.
2·1 month agoUnless there’s a way to secure public funding for them, this seems like a reasonable middle road.
Like Patreon, which while having its own unique set of problems, enables a paid content distribution ecosystem for independent creators unlike anything else available.
So, absent inserting invasive advertising, and lacking public funds, I can’t see how else they’re supposed to maintain infrastructure and development costs.
You know they have canceled the majority of the Disney Plus shows they had in the pipeline, and in production, right…? The wheels came off, a year ago.
This article takes a rosier view by not listing all the shows they canceled or permanently delayed, like Iron Heart, but you can find a complete list if you’re so inclined to search for a few minutes.
Two of the three movies you named, lost hundreds of millions of dollars…
And you really think that Deadpool’s performance has reversed the fortunes of the MCU….?
Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think audiences have forgotten that the Deadpool franchise that was made successful outside of MCU, much less X-Men.
Point is, call me skeptical that that the enthusiasm for that one off event, will be carried over into the next MCU turd they plop into theaters.
Does anyone actually watch MCU movies anymore…?
Honest question, I saw every film from mid phase 1 to Endgame, in theaters.
Then came Disney Plus, Loki was great, Wanda vision was different, and the rest range from forgettable, to complete garbage.
I would rewatch Agents or SHIELD, and any Netflix Marvel show (sans Iron Fist), a dozen times each, before I ever paid for another MCU movie.
Before you dismiss me of some hater, I used really enjoy the MCU. I even tried to watch Agatha, and gave it like 2 1/2 episodes before I couldn’t take it anymore, it’s bad.
These aren’t director movies, their producer and studio movies. There’s only so much turd a talented director can polish up, and all of these movies are gigantic stinking studio turds.
2·1 month agoNo… Containers are just sandboxed normal browsing sessions.
The cookies and other site data they gather, will remain and able to track your browsing habits within that container, until you clear it. But it can be sustained between browsing sessions, for months or years at a time.
They’re very useful, and I highly recommend using them, but they’re nowhere near as convenient as opening up a single incognito tab to read a shitty article on a shitty website. Once I’m done reading it, all I have to do is close that incognito session, return to Lemmy, rinse and repeat.
Do whatever works best for you, but just be aware that you seem to be under some important misconceptions about what data is saved between different types of browsing sessions, or how certain privacy features work.
Incognito mode will basically put all the cookies and other site data into a temp directory.
So, they can track you across that session as long as you keep it open, like if you went from the article to your banking or online shopping websites.
But, once you close out of that session, that directory should be cleared.
Just make sure you don’t use incognito or private modes with a bunch of sites, at the same time, that you don’t want to share information between.
My default browsers, on mobile and desktop, both open incognito/private tabs by default.
I’ll still click no, or don’t accept, if it pops up, but when a page is shitty like this, I’m not too worried about them collecting data on how I browser this page while reading this one article.
No, I’m living in this thread. I’m talking about very specific issues related to LLMs, that I’ve highlighted ad nauseam.
Reread if you’re confused.
If anything, it shows that you believe in the concept of “AI” way more than I do, as you’re conflating LLM and FSD.
I don’t believe in AI, it doesn’t exist. Just specific advanced machine learning algorithms, some better than others, and some all smoke and mirrors. But here, now, I’m talking about LLMs.
Who’s talking about investing…? I’ve exclusively been talking about what LLMs can do now, today, for free (aside from energy costs).
None of what your throwing out there has anything to do with what’s being discussed here. It’s a red herring.
I mean, it probably will eventually, but that has nothing to do with LLMs, nor is it a technology that I want to exist.
I can definitely see a world where lobbyists for automakers and insurance companies create such a financial and regulatory burden, where only the wealthy can afford to drive their own cars, if they choose to. Where as everyone else must rent or lease their self driving car as is if it’s a IaaS or SaaS subscription.
But none of that has anything to do with using LLMs for the tasks they can accomplish, or telling people to stop bitching about them not being able to complete the tasks they aren’t good at, or even capable of.
Yes and no, I have self-hosted models on one of my Linux boxes, but even with a relatively modern 70 series Nvidia GPU, it’s still faster to use free non-local services like ChatGPT or DDG.
My rule of thumb for SaaS LLMs is to never enter in any data that I wouldn’t also be willing to upload cleartext to Google Drive or OneDrive.
Sometimes that means modifying text before submitting it, and other times having to rely entirely on self-hosted tools.
Llama is the model I use most often, followed by ChatGPT and Claude.
Others as well, but yes, it is incredible helpful for the tasks I use it for.
Weasel phrase? You mean the fact that I don’t treat them like their actual Ai, but just a tool that needs to be used properly, monitored, and verified?
There’s a reason why I never call them AI, because they’re not. They’re just advanced machine learning tools, and just like I keep a steady hand when using a table saw, I only use LLMs for tasks that they can help me do something faster, but are easy to verify they did it right.
And as someone who has been using them very regularly, I feel confident in saying that. It’s not a weasel phrase, I’m not trying to sell anyone snake oil about what they can actually do, and I acknowledge that they’re an oversold and overhyped means of cooking the planet faster, so it’s not like I would be mad if they were banned tomorrow, but until then, I will keep using them in ways that are actually fruitful.
But sure, if all you need to do is find one word in a single body of text, that’s not really a good use of an LLM, but that wasn’t what I was talking about.
If I need examples of various legal or ethical concerns documented in one, or multiple, pieces of writing, or other conceptual topics, I can give it a list, and then ask it to highlight all examples of those issues, and include the verbatim text where their present. I can then give that same task to a multiple different LLMs, with the same prompts, and a task that would have taken me hours to complete, takes me 30 to 45 minutes, including the time it takes me to give it quick read through see if anything was missed. But yeah, that requires a well crafted prompt, and it’s not infallible.
Replace belt sander with CBD. A compound with very real and tangible benefits for specific use cases, but is marketed as a modern day snake oil cure all.
Imagine seeing people regularly complaining on bluelight, erowid, or whatever forums educated drug users frequent these days, bitching that CBD didn’t cure their asthma, or STDs, so therefore it has no medical value.
They know it’s a tool, yet they keep complaining about how the gas station CBD isn’t magic and failed to cure their gonorrhea, even though they already knew it was never going to be able to, no matter what the packaging said.
But my analogy wasn’t meant to be critically analyzed and dissected, it was a throwaway example to highlight the problem of people on Lemmy, who actually know better, but keep whinging about LLM’s providing bogus URLs for citations, etc.
I’m not advocating for openai, their business model, or the environmental and financial cost benefit of current LLM technology.
They suck, it’s dogshit, and it’s not worth cooking the planet for.
I also don’t disagree about the very real possibility that the average user may actually get dumber and more misinformed by relying on LLMs.
But we’re on Lemmy, and I’m just tired of all these comments incessantly complaining about about how LLM’s can’t do x,y, or z.
Imagine being on a carpentry forum, and every day people complained about how their new belt sander was dogshit at cutting 2x4’s or screwing in fasteners, so clearly the problem was with the concept belt sander technology.
Star Wars is dead. Long live…wait, no…sorry, it’s definitely dead.