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- on Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
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on Someone built a visualization of what 1 million tokens actually looks like in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
In what world is a production codebase 75k lines. A single project at my last company was 1.4 million lines of code. Every single one of our microservices had more lines of code than that. And just my team was responsible for 50+ microservices. And thirteen tokens per line is hilariously low.
Holding a week of chat in your head is nothing when 90% of it is stuff that is incorrect or discussed and minds changed. This is exactly why my boss keeps saying conflicting things, the LLM doesn’t know what is true or not. It just regurgitates the random thing from context.
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on Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
It sure is useful at making my boss post a lot of conflicting things because AI can’t understand context at all. “Force multiplier” doesn’t mean it’s multiplying good things. It can just as easily multiply nonsense.
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on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
and also the calculator is actively destroying the planet.
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on Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games in c/games@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
You’re not spelling anything out. This article you are commenting under is literally about the case when YOU ARE NOT BUYING A LICENSE.
Like holy fucking shit you are fucking dense.
And yes you are not buying the fucking copyright. It’s like you don’t understand what that means. If you buy a book from the store you are not buying a license. YOU ALSO AREN’T BUYING THE COPYRIGHT.
Sorry, but you do NOT own any of the copyrighted works that have ever been given to you or purchased.
Yes you do. Buying the copyright has nothing to do with buying the product. Here’s an example. I as a photographer can sell you an image. I own the copyright on that. You cannot duplicate and resell my works as your own. But you can do whatever the fuck you want with the original you purchased. But guess what, I can also sell you a license to use that work instead of selling you the product. So I can say, you can’t do whatever you want with this. You can only use it for personal use cases or in one book. Nothing else. That’s selling you a license. Finally, I can sell you the entire copyright for the photo, transferring that copyright to you entirely, meaning now I can’t do anything I want with my own creation anymore.
These are three different things. You are only buying a license in a very specific context. You are almost never as an individual purchasing a copyright, though businesses buy and sell them all the time.
For the case above, Sony was selling you the full product. They were not selling a license. They were not selling the copyright. They were selling you an item you owned and can resell.
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on Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games in c/games@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
The first-sale doctrine (also sometimes referred to as the “right of first sale” or the “first sale rule”) is a legal concept that limits the rights of an intellectual property owner to control resale of products embodying its intellectual property.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
The first sale doctrine literally has NOTHING TO DO with ownership. It has to do with resale restrictions of the copyright holder. You have completely misunderstood the law and its purpose.
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on Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
It is not lol. You do not understand the laws you are trying to quote.
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on Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
You completely misunderstand the first sale doctrine. The doctrine is that copyrighted works are only controllable on the first sale. The copyright holder can’t do anything past that.
The entirety of sales of things for all of humanity wouldn’t function if it was any other way.
You aren’t licensing anything. You are buying an item.
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on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
I’m just gonna hope you’re joking and not that your username is an accurate description.
Knowing when someone is at your doorbell without ringing the doorbell is pretty useful. Same for knowing if your dog got out, or a number of other things. I don’t like sharing my neighbors data with Amazon or the Feds, so running it all locally is perfect. I get to control how long any data is kept for, what it scans for, and none of it leaves my property.
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on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
The Internet archive doesn’t have an entire data center just for archiving is what I’m saying. Not that they don’t use data centers.
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on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
What on earth am I doing what for?
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on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Which still doesn’t require as much energy as LLMs do. I run exactly that on my own server at home. And my unifi system does it on video all locally with no GPU at all. Video processing for identification is incredibly cheap and easy from a computer processing standpoint these days. You literally can do it on a raspberry pi.
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on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
They’re definitely not. Hard drives use a fraction of the energy a single LLM prompt does. A study calculated that every 100 words uses an entire water bottle’s worth of water. That’s a lot of cooling for 100 words. It’s very likely that these companies use several gpus for every single prompt, meaning huge servers for just a few users.
Meanwhile the internet archive has archived a significant portion of the internet with nary a data center in sight.
You can compress video. You can’t compress the energy needed to generate output.
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on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Anyone talking about AI in any context in a normal forum nowadays is discussing LLMs. Nobody cared about machine learning or neural nets that were actually being used for their designed purpose.
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on Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany🇩🇪 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026
Yeah I update once a month max, and it’s like 5 minutes… a windows update I did on my work computer the other day was an hour and a half of unusable computer.
Windows is just another level of horrible updates. CachyOS might have lots of updates, but you don’t have to do them and they’re also a hundred times faster AND you can use your computer while the update happens. It’s just nothing alike.
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on Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany🇩🇪 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026
Huh? They’re a thousand times better in Cachy. Why wouldn’t anyone like them if they hated windows updates?
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on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
lol what. 1Password literally has one of the best security records out there. They’re the ones actually inventing new more secure ways of doing things. The fact that those are all of the issues over the years and they’re one of the most popular pw managers on the planet is pretty indicative of how strong their security actually is. And they’ve never had a password breach, unlike lastpass.
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026
Using boiling water is still fine, the measurement will work, your comment literally only is a problem if they don’t measure in time. So yes, it’s exactly like sticking it in an oven and not measuring at the same time
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on The unseen dangers of Antarctic documentaries in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
They know, reread their comment.
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026
This is like saying “the physicist’s answer would have errors because they measured the ball and then stuck it in an oven. The volume of the ball in the oven is different than what they measured.”
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026
The physicist’s answer would be correct anywhere, no matter the temperature or density of the fluid.
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on Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Seems to me like everything is instead becoming even more bloated with AI stuff. A Google chat tab uses 2 GIGABYTES on my work computer.
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on What is your cloud backup solution? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
I’m also interested. I use wasabi, for a good number of terabytes. Reducing the costs at all would be great.
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on US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
They’re both problems. Why do you think the water usage isn’t a problem?
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on US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
The article doesn’t seem to be accurate, or at least the CRS research is inaccurate. Literally one of the links stated that one company used 23 billion gallons in 2023. That might be worldwide, but the U.S. has the most data centers of any nation, so it’s unlikely to have offset how much is actually being used. And yet the CRS report says it’s only 17 billion in 2023?
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on America's Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
AI;DR
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on My home server was a totally justified purchase in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Pssh. You bought your home server instead of just assembling it from a box of scraps you had lying around?
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on linux_irl in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Every damn time.
I think rsync is lowercase, and maybe zip. The rest I think are uppercase. Complete guess though.
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on Researchers show off tiny, completely silent drones powered by sound in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Huh? External sound does not mean the object produces sound.
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on intimidating in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
I use vim, but not because it’s good. I’m just not up for learning something else right now
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on I didn't set a cookie. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Aug 2026
For me my fingerprint is unique, but the advertisers list was empty so yeah, it’s pretty pointless when you have Adblock at a dns level. You can be identified by first party sites, but that requires visiting every advertisers site to actually get them to fingerprint you. Otherwise your data won’t and can’t be sold realistically.
Not really. The output of LLMs is massively increased global warming, increased prices of goods and services, decreased number of jobs, increased numbers of bugs in software, massive increase in wealth migration from poor to the rich, and increased surveillance. None of that has to do with the quality of the users. Just using it at all results in all of those things.