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FrankLaskey

@ FrankLaskey @lemmy.ml

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  • files.md is an open source alternative to Obsidian

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  • SteamOS 3.8.3 Beta

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  • This would indeed be amazing for battery life. I noticed the change was indicated only under the original LCD deck BIOS and not the OLED. Is it coming to OLED later? Already implemented on it and I didn’t know it??

  • Little Wins and Small Victories

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  • Great idea! I will take anything that helps me focus on achievements and growth however small. Subscribed!

  • Qwen3.6-35B-A3B released

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  • Yes I did see that as well. That does seem to be the real Achilles heel here. Will have to try it myself to see how much it exacerbates context size limitations given I would be running it on a single 24 GB VRAM GPU. I wonder if adjusting reasoning effort parameters could make a difference without affecting quality too much?

  • Qwen3.6-35B-A3B released

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  • Was just looking at the benchmarks for it on artificialanalysis.ai and it looks great for the size. Probably best available for general use if you’re looking for something under 40b parameters I’d say. Even more impressive is the agentic capabilities and the fact that it is actually decent in terms of hallucinations (not amazing given it’s a small-medium size model but decent).

  • [Steam] Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands (-60% | $7.99 USD)

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  • This game looks pretty cool. Anyone play it and want to give their thoughts?

  • Is cryptocurrency good for anything?

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  • Very low fee cross-border (remittance) transfers using stablecoins (cryptoassets that are pegged to a fiat currency like the dollar) allow people to avoid getting ripped off by companies like Western Union.

    On crypto platforms like Ethereum that support smart contracts (basically computer programs that run on the blockchain and allow you to automate transfers etc), you can provide liquidity to money markets and asset exchange platforms and earn many times the interest yield (APY) of what you might get at a bank for a similar thing (like 12-60% vs 2-5%). If you’re a real finance nerd you can also access various exotic financial instruments on other platforms that otherwise wouldn’t be available to you unless you were at a huge investment bank or hedge fund and even some that aren’t possible there. These are often called DeFi platforms (Decentralized Finance)

    Another huge use of crypto networks are money laundering and scams though so beware. It’s still a largely unregulated black market. Never put more money into a crypto network than you can afford to lose.

  • Just like me fr

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  • Hmmm.. if an ‘organism’ has no organs, is it still an organism? 🤔

  • Reported strikes as part of the US-Israel-Iran war

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  • This is interesting but I feel like it should show which country is doing the strike.

  • Crossing China with no map (part 1)

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  • Sounds cool. Gave it a minute or two and can’t deal with the banter haha not my cup of tea.

  • Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures

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  • It is now better than ever to find alternatives to fossil fuels, do you have any plans?

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  • Absolutely. They do tend to be quite a bit more expensive per watt though. From my research you can get cheap panels and just plug them into a LiPo4 battery or even lead acid batteries as well. It’s just that batteries (even though they’ve gotten a lot cheaper) are still expensive enough to nearly double the cost of the system in many cases so the plug-in option with 400 watts of panels etc gives you the best bang for the buck for sure. But it’s not legal or possible in many US states (though that is changing fast)

  • It is now better than ever to find alternatives to fossil fuels, do you have any plans?

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  • Biking (e-bikes are great if you can afford one and greatly increase range and decrease effort in many environments)

    Installing solar (I’m currently renting but my state is debating a new law which seems likely to pass modeled on the Utah law - and others which started in Europe - which allows small solar systems to be plugged directly into a home outlet to supplement energy needs with minimal cost)

  • Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced

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  • Yeah if you get further along in the video (it’s long so I understand many people may not get 30 mins in or whatever) they talk about how someone on Reddit noted that the tone mapping was way out of whack and they edited some of the images to show what it would look like if it was corrected and it’s way more natural looking with less blown out highlights and uncanny more yassified stuff.

  • Gaming @lemmy.ml
    FrankLaskey @lemmy.ml

    Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced

  • Games @lemmy.world
    FrankLaskey @lemmy.ml

    Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced

  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
    FrankLaskey @lemmy.ml

    200 Million Face 'Dangerous' Weather This Week in the US

    ground.news /article/200-million-face-dangerous-weather-in-the-us_284bb6
  • News @lemmy.world
    FrankLaskey @lemmy.ml

    200 Million Face 'Dangerous' Weather This Week in the US

    ground.news /article/200-million-face-dangerous-weather-in-the-us_284bb6
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  • I agree that the tech is very impressive. To paraphrase another comment I made in a post about the tech reveal video (which apparently was also unpopular based on the number of downvotes) I think many people are completely misunderstanding how it works. It doesn’t change textures or 3d models (what are often called game ‘assets’) at all. The only thing it changes is lighting and for that it does use AI (machine learning) to create a much more realistic lighting presentation. You may find this hard to believe but lighting can dramatically alter appearance. The notion that it sexifies or slopifies everything by making faces sexier etc is just not true except to the extent that the lighting changes have this perceived effect on the characters for you.

    That said, concerns about artistic intent vs these changes are definitely valid here for these demos since it’s a very different look to how the original devs intended and Nvidia have basically modded this into existing games which weren’t designed around it to show it off. This has the affect of some of it looking a bit off I agree. In the future, when devs can decide to create assets around it or not I think those concerns will become less relevant. That said, PC power users and modders will likely hack it into a game if they want to even if the devs don’t enable it as an option. Modding and hacks are just the nature of PC gaming though. I don’t see a bunch of people crying about artistic intent because someone modded Thomas the Tank Engine into a game etc.

  • Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game

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  • DLSS of course does use machine learning (transformers or CNNs) which you can call AI if you want, but I think there may be a bit of a misunderstanding about what this new version is actually doing. If you watch the video or read the breakdown they note that DLSS 5 is NOT replacing or altering the original graphical assets in the game with generated ones. There’s no new textures or 3d models being changed here. It only alters the lighting of the game to add more realistic shadows and reflections etc. It’s just that it does that so extensively that it gives the impression of being an almost entirely different image. Kinda nuts that lighting can do that but that is apparently what is happening here.

    That said, arguments about artistic intent are still very relevant here since it’s a very different look to how the original devs may have intended.

  • Energy mix of the world’s 10 largest economies (2024)

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  • For sure, but I was still surprised to see that renewables are as low as they are in the mix here tbh. And I figured they would have at least reduced coal more in favor of less polluting fuels like oil or natural gas.

  • How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%]

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  • My biggest takeaway here is that choosing the context length and (to a lesser extent) the temperature carefully is important for reducing hallucinations. I expected model families to vary widely between themselves but not for context length to have such a massive impact tbh.

    It seems from this like reducing context length in applications where it isn’t essential for the model to hold very large amounts of context simultaneously would be best practice no?

  • Iran begins mining Strait of Hormuz as Washington's tanker escort claim collapses - Türkiye Today

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  • And diesel prices (which underpin essentially all industry and production) have gone even more brrrrrrrrrr. Which means just about everything else will be shooting up in price soon if the strait remains closed…

  • news @hexbear.net
    FrankLaskey @lemmy.ml

    Scylla and Charybdis [on Iran Protests] — Sidecar, NLR

    newleftreview.org /sidecar/posts/scylla-and-charybdis
  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    The measurements on my water bottle are not uniform

  • GameDeals @lemmy.world
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    Steam

    Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic ($9.99 / -75% / All-Time Low)

    store.steampowered.com /app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/
  • GameDeals @lemmy.world
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    Steam

    Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut ($9.89 / 45% off / All-Time Low)

    store.steampowered.com /app/1989270/Slay_the_Princess__The_Pristine_Cut
  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Search function won't show hidden posts?

  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    Best LLMs for PC/Tech Troubleshooting?

  • news @hexbear.net
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    Italy sends warship to accompany Gaza flotilla following Israeli attack

    www.middleeasteye.net /news/footage-shows-apparent-attack-gaza-bound-global-sumud-flotilla
  • Nintendo @lemmy.world
    FrankLaskey @lemmy.ml

    Donkey Kong Bananza: DK Island & Emerald Rush DLC – Nintendo Direct 9.12.2025

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
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    Is it possible to set a minimum number of upvotes for a post to be shown in my feed?

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Bioshock creator Ken Levine discusses the future of narratives in games

    www.gamesindustry.biz /the-future-of-storytelling-with-ken-levine
  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Images blurry / low res

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    How do Graphics Cards Work? Exploring GPU Architecture - YouTube by Branch Education (28:29 minutes) from Oct 19, 2024

  • GameDeals @lemmy.world
    FrankLaskey @lemmy.ml
    Epic Games

    Alan Wake 2 | ($24.99 / 50% off)

    store.epicgames.com /en-US/p/alan-wake-2
  • GameDeals @lemmy.world
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    Steam

    Resident Evil 4 (2023) | ($16.79 / 58% off)

    www.fanatical.com /en/game/resident-evil-4
  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    FrankLaskey @lemmy.ml

    YSK about the app Yuka which lets you scan food and cosmetics to identify harmful chemicals or additives

    yuka.io /en/