WalnutLum

WalnutLum , 2 days ago to Technology in The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates

It's usually not the water itself but the energy used to "systemize" water from out-of-system sources

Pumping, pressurization, filtering, purifying all take additional energy.

WalnutLum , 2 days ago to Technology in iOS 18 (and AI) will give Siri much more control over your apps

The problem is notably "powerful", AIs need pretty significant hardware to run well

As an example the snapdragon NPUs I think can barely handle 7B models.

WalnutLum , 14 days ago to Free and Open Source Software in FOSS AI painting with Krita

Ahhhh that makes a lot more sense, thanks!

WalnutLum , 14 days ago to Free and Open Source Software in FOSS AI painting with Krita

I didn't realize you could run something like this on your phone

WalnutLum , 15 days ago to Privacy in Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection.

The project was using a way to bypass requiring a backing account to proxy the requests, but the API update broke that

The instances that chose (and choose) to go the extra mile by creating and maintaining proxy account(s) are the ones still working

If the instance gets too popular the twitter goons quickly figure out what the proxy account is and ban it, though. So it's a constant game of cat and mouse.

WalnutLum , 17 days ago to Technology in NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code

This is a good move for international open source projects, with multiple lawsuits in multiple countries around the globe currently ongoing, the intellectual property nature of code made using AI isn't really secure enough to open yourself up to the liability.

I've done the same internally at our company.
You're free to use whatever tool you want but if the tool you use spits out copyrighted code, and the law eventually has decided that model users instead of model trainers are liable for model output, then that's on you buddy.

WalnutLum , 18 days ago to Technology in BBC World Service - lite

Doing gods work here

WalnutLum , 22 days ago to Technology in NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket

Starship was still Elon's brainchild and it is years behind, and threatens the viability of the entire Artemis program. Their finances are also terribly linked to the success of Starlink, which is also shaky at best.

I would not say SpaceX is "on track."

WalnutLum , 23 days ago to Technology in Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.

I feel like this is going to be where I disconnect in a major way from our childrens' generation.

They're likely going to find it completely normal to have an LLM as a friend and I don't think I'll ever be able to bring myself around to that.

WalnutLum , 23 days ago to Technology in OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say

The irony here is palpable

WalnutLum , 1 month ago to Technology in People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you

It doesn't have to be your searches, it could have just been the fact that your phone recognized you were on a road trip and that people in your ad cohort tend to want to buy shoes while on road trips.

I've worked in algorithmic ad space before and I can say that I've never seen evidence of phones listening on conversations but I have seen plenty of evidence from years ago where all your other data is used to form a terrifyingly accurate profile.

We used to do dead reckoning and gps speed gait profiling and we would only need about a weeks worth of GPS data to know height, weight, sex, where you live, where you work, where your kids go to school etc.

We would take that data and cross reference that with data broker info to form a profile, put you in an ad cohort bin, and serve you up as a platform for ad matching services to match to ad campaigns, which get even further targeted.

Millions of dollars spent hyper targeting you but 99 times out of 100 the inaccurate campaign is paying more so they get the adspace but the one time the actual low paying hyper focused campaign gets through it's always scary how accurate it is.

tl;dr: Ad companies don't need to listen to your conversation to know what you want to buy, ads are usually inaccurate because the inaccurate campaign paid more

WalnutLum , 1 month ago to Technology in People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you

It's usually not a case of the phone listening but, more creepily, that your behavior before and after talking to your wife about new shoes signaled that you want to buy new shoes.

Ad algorithms are surprisingly perceptive about signals that aren't obvious.

WalnutLum , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Is Radicale the way forward?

What do you do for file syncing, if you don't mind me asking

WalnutLum , 1 month ago to Technology in Tesla’s in its flop era

The problem is starship, Musk's mars-shot brain child, seems to be increasingly behind schedule for the Artemis missions.

Not to mention using starship is apparently forcing any moon landings to launch between 8-12 rockets to get one SpaceX lander on the moon?

Overall it seems like SpaceX is getting fucked by Musk's involvement as well.

WalnutLum , 1 month ago to Technology in First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says

AI technically already won this debate because autonomous war drones are somewhat ubiquitous.

I doubt jets are going to have the usefulness in war that they used to.

Much more economical to have 1000 cheap drones with bombs overwhelm defenses than put your bets on one "special boi" to try and slip through with constantly defeated stealth capabilities.