Fucking Perplexity can’t give away licenses. T-mobile is giving Perplexity AI Pro licenses for free (to subscribers), they advertise it as if it’s something worth something, it’s hilarious. Then obviously not many users took the bait because they sent a mass e-mail (from the University) to all of the faculty giving all employees (not just teaching personnel) these valuable Perplexity AI Pro licenses, only hurry up because there’s only 20k of these and it’s first come first served. Still haven’t used their shit and actually don’t know anyone who does.

Preservation!

This shiticle has no insight whatsoever, it’s basically a composite advert for three different product/services.

“For personal users, this SSD can store 11,000 90-minute 4K movies,”

This is less useful than libraries of congress.

They’ve also kind of devalued them by giving the old ones for free. I got Black Flag and Unity for nothing that I haven’t gotten around to playing yet; Unity’s graphics still looks better than the recent ones, scope and world size notwithstanding.

I’d expect it to be a failure because it’s a 70$ ubishit paint-by-numbers, but I’ll find out in two years when it’s 15$

His best work IMO is State of the art

Luckily it’s eight years since I’ve used anything Zuck-owned so I can enjoy the enshittification and pushback this will cause.

It was already barely tolerable, and only because gaben’s webrtc doesn’t have noise filtering as good as discord, but this new shit is either fully toggleable or it can fuck itself.

I quite like it. Once you get used to the timings of actions you can be quite fast and fluid in combat and it’s good enough to carry the game by itself, much better gunplay than gta. And the story is not the worst, though it is a slog occasionaly. Graphics do a lot of heavy lifting

I had a 2400g and sadly the cache is the problem. If you can buy a used ryzen 1600, it’s quite an upgrade

Fool me thrice…

What are you using now?

We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate,

Fuck off Mozilla. Maybe don’t pay CEOs millions and don’t force things like Pocket and LLMs on users if you want to be commercially viable, I’d gladly pay for Firefox that doesn’t make me dodge new features and services. But it would be a donation towards development of a browser that is commons, since you have no product to sell, only GPL’d code that’s mine as much as yours.

You have NO fucking leverage, Firefox is better than Chrome, but there’s projects that will gladly repackage your code with no telemetry whatsoever for any platform while you’re brainstorming just the right amount of monetization to prevent the frog from jumping.

It’s kind of sad I don’t use Chrome and therefore never think of it, while I like and use Firefox and am therefore constantly at odds with Mozilla.

This is the stupidest shit, moral panic levels of miscomprehension. I mean, I was miffed and promptly removed safetycore because I don’t mind seeing sex organs and don’t want shit using battery for no reason, but wow Forbes.

Edit: ok, the article is not so bad, just the shitty blurb from some forum reproduced here on Lemmy.

Good thing you put a permissive license on that so the whole of humanity can benefit.

Yes, no, no nothing. People cluster where they will and things fall in and out of fashion. What’s more records in a database?

kiki / bouba effect

You put a few GPTs in a trenchcoat and they’re obviously AI. I can’t speak about openAIs offerings since I won’t use it as a cloud service, but local deepseek I’ve tried is certainly AI. People are moving the goalposts constantly, with what seems to me a determination to avoid seeing the future that’s already here. Download deepseek-v2-coder 16b if you have 16GB of ram and 10gb of storage space and see for yourselves, it’s ridiculously low requirements for what it can do, it uses 50% of four cpu cores for like 15 seconds to solve a problem with detailed reasoning steps.

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure