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  Reddit’s UX is *awful* though, at least on the website. But I guess most people use the phone apps?

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  At the time? It was a strict conservative parent thing. *Shrug*. In *hindsight*? Bad call. Early seasons show kids how to be good people. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqx0Lx8gS8Y > *Laughs*. This is a show for children? > Yeah, it's huge. > *Chews*. Surprisingly profound for a narrative about a sponge. But if parents excercised that kind of caution today, and forbade doomscrolling, well, *that would be great*.

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  Yeah, well, science also says Twitter is an information black hole, and few that *need* to see this will see it. I know it’s microblog memes, but still. It’s surprising to me how much scientist believers post about the state of the world… *on Twitter*. It’d be like going into a Nazi bar in Berlin to warn about the Holocaust, or to criticize Catholicism in the Vatican, and thinking you’re somehow in an open forum. …At least it isn’t a blue checkmart Tweeter, though.

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  There's a whole lot of interest in locally runnable ML. It was there even before ChatGPT 3.5 started the tech bro hype train, when tinkerers were messing with GPT-J 6B and GAN models. In a nutshell, it's basically Lemmy vs Reddit. Local and community-developed vs toxic and corporate.

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  Also, for any interested, desktop inference and quantization is my autistic interest. Ask my anything. I don't like Gemma 4 much so far, but if you want to try it anyway: - On Nvidia with no CPU offloading, watch this PR and run it with TabbyAPI: https://github.com/turboderp-org/exllamav3/pull/185 - *With* CPU offloading, watch this PR and the mainline llama.cpp issues they link. Once Gemma4 inference isn't busted, run it in IK or mainline llama.cpp: https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_ll...

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  They seem to have held back the "big" locally runnable model. It's also kinda conservative/old, architecture wise: 16-bit weights, sliding window attention interleaved with global attention. No MTP, no QAT (yet), no tightly integrated vision, no hybrid mamba like Qwen/Deepseek, nothing weird like that. It's especially glaring since *we know* Google is using an exotic architecture for Gemini, and has basically infinite resources for experimentation. It also feels kinda "d...

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  There is no movie in Ba Sing Se. Here, we are safe. Here, we are free.

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  It’s especially bizzare when git repos for “open source corporate alternative” type software uses it over their own repo’s issue trackers and forums. WTF They want the social media engagement, I guess. But *still*. It’s ridiculous how much of a blind spot folks have for it. It also makes giving *or* getting any kind of support a hellish time sink, but that’s almost besides the point…

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  I mean, I use every alternative I can. Vapoursynth scripts, libraw-based projects, random GitHub repos, DaVinci… But there are some features I just can’t get great support for outside of definitely-not-high-seas Lightroom Classic: - Good lens profiles for weird lenses. - Proper HDR PQ/HLG editing and AVIF/JXL export support. - RAW support for newer cameras, like my little R50V I have yet to try DaVinci’s photo editing mode though. That’s very interesting.

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  Were they robbed? I bet they were. Say what you will about cash, but some hacker isn’t taking paper bills from across the planet via some technical exploit *way* over my head. With Etherium, the only thing protecting your money from the entire internet is *you*, and your understanding of complicated intricacies... And when lost, no one is coming to help you. They *might* get my credit card, yeah. But that’s either my own dumb fault, or a very rich bank’s problem. *** …It’s great for scammer...

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  I sympathize with this. As a kid, I’d do the homework, put it in my backpack (thanks to my Mom), yet I’d completely forget to turn it in, despite the whole class getting up to do it, and get a 0%. Turning it in later for ~50% (thanks to sympathetic and confused teachers) saved my butt. …And yes, I’m definitely neurodivergent.