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[–] phx@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The cheap system I have with a Google Coral and FOSS software is pretty good about detecting people and dogs from my camera streams. Sometimes it detects my one dog as a small bear if I haven't cut his hair recently.

Having such systems as a later if defense is good. As the only defense, not so much.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

At this point I question even how much is that is really from him. I'd it sounds close enough without even he remember going on a late night rant?

Dude could be dead for weeks and they'd be able to post enough AL generated videos, social rants, and autopen orders that we'd likely never know.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I - way back when - bought a Switch 1 because it played a bunch of the games that I could easily involve my kids/family in, and can come the times I've used it on battery with one hand.

However, that was also before the Steam Deck became a thing and haven't really given Nintendo my patronage since.

The Deck also has an internal-only battery but replacing that at least is fairly straightforward (I have not needed to do so but was in the area when upgrading the storage card).

[–] phx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I have one of the aforementioned 90's style trucks. Still had an extended cab and a proper sized bed even then (late 90's at least).

It's also not my daily driver, but if I could get something off similar capability in a fairly simple EV I'd gladly swap it and my regular car over.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depends on what you want to do, the model, and optimization or quantization.

A lot of LLM stuff that seemed pretty amazing a few years ago - chatbots and the like that respond to questions in plain language - can run in comparatively light hardware. Coding agents can take more, but could also be optimized against a particular language and spit out useful snippets.

Image stuff can be pretty complex especially at higher resolutions and detail, and creating seamless video segments gets expensive on hardware, fast.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Sinking the market for all the hardware hoarders is a good counter too. I'm fairly convinced that this move isn't just about AI, but consolidation of resources into Cloud services that lets them squeeze out competitors and force consumers and businesses alike into a perpetual-rent model. AI is just a convenient way to allocate the money to corner the market

[–] phx@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. I generally don't have an objection to pride flags but I could definitely see somebody stretching the same arguments to have a Confederate or MAGA flag (or just Trump's face as he's so fond of putting it on fucking everything)

[–] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I do wonder about that though. The Big AI operating costs include being able to service a certain number of customers within a certain amount of time. So if they need to service 10,000 requests per minute and fulfill them within 2-4 seconds, that's a big datacenter.

Now if a company does a few dozen requests a minute and on average needs double-digit response times... the costs to implement could be much different. The thing is finding a model that will do that and provide accurate (enough) output versus how much it Claude's pricing is built around speed+volume versus accuracy.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Wasn't the one used against the corner Japanese PM essentially a home-made blunderbuss?

[–] phx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

One of the reasons I've been avoiding or actively moving off Ubuntu these days. The snap ecosystem is bloated AF

[–] phx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Maybe it'd be like military service, except they sign up at 18, get shipped out at 70, and arrive... at 18

[–] phx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Lance, the intern at the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D.

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