you do have to appreciate how much time he put into doing all the measurements he did take though

I think I'm on an A/B test on the Facebook app, now whenever I open the app it goes straight to reels and starts playing videos with sound enabled. I looked through all settings to try to disable this but couldn't, so I finally just gave up and uninstalled it

I open the app to keep up with what my friends are doing, and also check the dating portion of the app for new matches. I purposely always avoid reels on any app, because I hate them and what they do to people. So when I open the app and it immediately starts playing reels with sound on and no way to disable it, it feels like a slap in the face

An nvidia engineer in a discord server said it should work fine

there's still an annoying pause in there on video load (and sometimes video skip/scrub) due to how youtube tries to thwart ad-blockers

with a lower power cap set, it runs cooler, which sometimes allows the GPU to reach higher boost speeds. This is a real effect on gaming GPUs - however I have no idea if it applies to datacenter GPUs

Why do our browsers even allow that?

When done properly you don't even notice! It is very beneficial when needed. But, as we know, very awful when done improperly.

> When done properly you don't even notice!

This lame argument should be added to the List of Fallacies. It's used everywhere as a "wild card" argument.

> Makeup

> MLB Pitch Framing by catchers

> Surveillance States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies?useskin=vect...

When it’s used properly you don’t even notice it. Like plumbing.

For websites like Gmail when you open an email

To enable JavaScript crapware

I always assumed ubuntu was brought down to prevent ubuntu servers from patching copy.fail, so that hacking group could exploit as many targets during that time as possible

> I always assumed ubuntu was brought down to prevent ubuntu servers from patching copy.fail

On Ubuntu copy.fail could be mitigated against with some modprobe(8) config tweaks:

    # echo "install algif_aead /bin/false" > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-algif.conf
    # rmmod algif_aead

There may be some processes that use this functionality ("lsof | grep AF_ALG"), but it is not that widespread AIUI, and so disabling it should not be an issue for the vast majority of systems.

But the Ubuntu update servers are necessary to serve the update. Taking them down prevents the users from downloading the update. I don't know whether the update servers were affected though.

They were affected, update service was intermittent for a couple days

It is apparently still intermittent as it no longer works when I'm on a VPN, but does work when I disconnect from the VPN.

question: why not use something like Claude? is it for security reasons?

Some people would rather not hand over all of their ability to think to a single SaaS company that arbitrarily bans people, changes token limits, tweaks harnesses and prompts in ways that cause it to consume too many tokens, or too few to complete the task, etc.

I don't use any non-FLOSS dev tools; why would I suddenly pay for a subscription to a single SaaS provider with a proprietary client that acts in opaque and user hostile ways?

I think, we're seeing very clearly, the problem with the Cloud (as usual) is it locks you into a service that only functions when the Cloud provides it.

But further, seeing with Claude, your workflow, or backend or both, arn't going anywhere if you're building on local models. They don't suddenly become dumb; stop responding, claim censorship, etc. Things are non-determinant enough that exposing yourself to the business decisions of cloud providers is just a risk-reward nightmare.

So yeah, privacy, but also, knowing you don't have to constantly upgrade to another model forced by a provider when whatever you're doing is perfectly suitable, that's untolds amount of value. Imagine the early npm ecosystem, but driven now by AI model FOMO.

We do make Claude and Mistral available to our developers too. But, like you said, security. I, personally, do not understand how people in tech, put any amount of trust in businesses that are working in such a cutthroat and corrupt environment. But developers want to try new things and it is better to set up reasonable guardrails for when they want to use these thing by setting up a internal gateway and a set of reasonable policies.

And the other thing is that i want people to be able to experiment and get familiar with LLM's without being concerned about security, price or any other factor.

Because it's a great tool and the second it's not we can just do what you're doing :)

That’s quite the hot take. My wife has more boyfriends than i do girlfriends, does that make us bottom of the barrel humans?

It’s a landmine for low carb gluten free people