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T156

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  • Brave is charging $60 for a version of its browser that removes the features you probably never wanted

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  • Mozilla, the company that recently added a "disable AI" toggle to Firefox?

    It's not as good as not implementing the things in the first place, for people who don't want it, but making it a paid model for removing features would net them more flack, I feel. They'd be accused of trying to squeeze their user base, when Firefox is traditionally free.

  • Brave is charging $60 for a version of its browser that removes the features you probably never wanted

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  • Or they rebrand it, and pull the "lifetime is only to the end of the product lifetime" trick.

  • What was the internet like before Y2K happened ?

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  • I feel like this comment could at least benefit from a rough explanation of what Eternal September was. Someone unfamiliar with Y2K isn't likely to be familiar with the term.

    Back in the day, it used to be that every September, there would be an influx of new users on the internet, BBS, what have you, every September, because of the school/uni holidays. Because they were unfamiliar with internet etiquette, they'd be confused by the existing terminology, or be a little annoying to the existing users, by not being familiar with the culture there.

    Eternal September was a point where every day on the internet was September. There would always be people new to the internet on it, enough for there to be a major impact.

  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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  • Although, most people aren't talking about Alphafold when they're talking about AI. They're usually specifically referring to the generative transformer models that are currently all the rage.

    I doubt anyone would care too much about a linear regression model, or multi-layer peceptron , for example.

  • School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

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  • China celebrity dog stolen, sold for US$25 and eaten

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  • How strange, since I don't see any button at all. It's just the end of the page and the footer for me.

  • China celebrity dog stolen, sold for US$25 and eaten

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  • Am I missing something?

    Nothing in the article itself suggests that we know what happened to the dog after it was stolen other than the headline.

    The article just ends after this part:

    Guo cut short his trip and rushed back to China to search for him.

    Checking the archive didn't turn up any more of the article.

  • Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds

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  • I wonder how much of it might also have been to deliberately show off American wealth compared to communist countries during the cold war. Like the whole comparisons of having shelves of different brands of the same food.

  • GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

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  • Ever run an AI model locally? If you want the most capability you need a fast GPU with 32-48gb RAM. And that's all for you, ONE user.

    Even then, that's quite small. Top of the line frontier models would be looking at hundreds of gigabytes of video memory, and just as much RAM.

    A terabyte of VRAM/RAM needed for something like CoPilot is probably a fairly sensible estimate.

  • Cuba to suspend Visa and Mastercard transactions, citing US sanctions

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  • Or at least, diversified so it's not only those two, and there's a multitude of options.

    A fair few countries do that, for example, with payment being diversified into other systems like Alipay, and the other QR-based payment systems. Australia has EFTPOS, HK lets you use your Octopus to buy things in addition to paying for the train fare.

    Otherwise, you'd be in trouble if MasterCard/Visa decided that they didn't like something you did very much, so you're barred from their services.

  • AI Has Ruined the Job Market

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  • Its the most soul crushing thing to be looking for a job right now, anything to make you stand out of a crowd is ignored, volume of applications and adherance to posted requirments are the only way to get a fleeting interaction with a human.

    Or none at all.

    The advice is not helping either, since you're told to both make your resume and cover letter stand out, but also to make it generic so the automated system doesn't parse it wrong and disregard it.

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    MacBook Neo Outsold Every Other Mac in Its Q1 2026 Debut Quarter

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  • It's also decent for people who want a low-power MacBook for cheap, but don't need a lot of bells and whistles, without the limitations of an iPad.

  • Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

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  • Wouldn't even need that. Just give it a mid-way complicated pile of nonsense with reasoning on, and it'll be crunching on that for the whole day, burning money to do so.

  • Oddly specific

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  • Especially since it very obviously does not physically turn into flesh and blood. Any priest with half an eye would see that. It's reconciling it with what transubstantiation is supposed to do in doctrine that's the hard part.

  • UK police face backlash for handcuffing dying student stabbed by Sikh man

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  • From the sounds of it, the newspaper is being deliberately misleading to drum up something or other.

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    Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games

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  • But developers are also customers of valve. And this is arguably where valve makes their money. They take a cut from the developers sales. Devs cannot just use a different platform without cutting out a huge userbase. This gives valve a real monopolistic control over developers.

    Can they not? I was under the understanding that developers aren't limited to steam. They can use any other platform in addition to it, the main restriction being that they can't sell the game for cheaper on platforms other than Steam.

  • The Definition of Non-Judgemental

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  • It might also be their version of the uncanny valley applies for different things.

    A dog's uncanny valley could be something that smells slightly off, but humans wouldn't think much about a human that smells funny, for example.

    Whereas a pigeons may well focus on other features instead of the face.

  • The Definition of Non-Judgemental

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  • That diagram literally says that they don't look the same to the pigeons, and seems to suggest that pigeons may place more value on the beak than they do on the eyes.

  • Where did the dust settle on Syncthing Fork?

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  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    T156 @lemmy.world

    If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
    T156 @lemmy.world
    Feature requests

    Reopen thread if the app is closed while editing

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    T156 @lemmy.world

    What happened to Kbin.Social?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    T156 @lemmy.world

    How do you ask for a haircut?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    T156 @lemmy.world

    What caused the change in electronic terminology?

  • Fitness @lemmy.world
    T156 @lemmy.world
    Stupid Question

    Why cut/bulk in cycles instead of doing it all in one go?