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brucethemoose

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  • Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what slopperations are funneling all their money into in 2026

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  • This has been happening forever. The local LLM folks poke them with riddles all the time, but then they get obviously trained in.

    What’s more, standard tests like MMLU are all jokes now. All the major LLMs game the benchmarks and are contaminated up and down; Meta even got caught using a specific finetune to game LM Arena. The only tests worth a damn are those in niche little corners of the internet no one knows about, or niche private ones.

  • 4 ways Trump is sabotaging climate action around the world

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  • War is bad for the climate, and the plug is almost certainly temporary, unfortunately.

    Trump is losing a lot of political capital here, but TBH I think he’s being used by everyone. US petrol got far more they paid for, Tech is getting what they paid for, and someone else will just take his place…

    TVH, I hope Trump makes it.

    Hell, Id rather have him for a third term than JD Vance for the next (or after the skip of however the Democrats manage to screw themselves over). Vance scares the shit out of me.

  • Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game

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  • Oh yeah, definitely. Lines enshittify.

    I just mean, generally if you look at a 2014 TV and a 2025 one, the experience of that old one is likely not represenative of the new.

  • Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game

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  • Yeah, the ASICs in newer TVs are crazy powerful, and crazy good at it. They're nothing like what you'd find in a phone or even a PC, and even a one-generation jump for our Sony TVs was an improvement.

    That's what I was trying to emphasize. I think interpolation on old TVs, and maybe early versions of SVP, left a bad taste in people's mouths. Kind of like fake HDR.

    ...But I also think there's a lot more sentiment against any kind of "processing" since the rise of AI slop.

    As an example I often cite, there was this old TV show I helped touch up for a "fan" release, a long time ago. One small component in a very long pipeline was a GAN upscaler... It worked fine. The original TV release was broken as hell, and people loved the improvement.

    Fast forward many years later, and I mention this was used in the "remaster" still floating around, and the same subreddit goes ballistic. They literally did not believe me, or cooed about the "flaws" of the original, or called it slop and against the rules and wanted me banned.

    And I suspect frame interpolation and resolution scaling in other contexts get tossed in that same bucket. Not that I blame anyone. AI does suck.

  • This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian

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  • Trump briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay

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  • I mean, I’d put money on it being clickbait (for money) instead of actual govt propaganda. It fits the NY Post.

  • Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game

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  • I’d like an oled, but with the prices, I really have no need for it for gaming and the TV I have is fine for normal watching.

    That is entirely fair. Electronics are all crazy expensive, really.

    Yeah, LCDs went from bad to “mixed” and stayed that way for a long time. Granted, some things like absolute sharpness are not great on a CRT, but still.

  • Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game

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  • But the younger women in those screenshots are absolutely "sexified."

    I'm an AI evangalist as far as Lemmy goes, but that is a problem. It's beyond a "sensible fear" problem, its unignorable and unacceptable. I'm kind of shocked DF didn't point it out.

  • Trump briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay

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  • In case it's not obvious, this is a fishy source. Per Wikipedia's own guidelines:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

    There is consensus the New York Post is generally unreliable for factual reporting, especially with regard to politics, particularly New York City politics. A tabloid newspaper, editors criticise its lack of concern for fact-checking or corrections, including examples of outright fabrication. Editors consider the New York Post more reliable before it changed ownership in 1976, and particularly unreliable for coverage involving the New York City Police Department. A 2024 RfC concluded that the New York Post is marginally reliable for entertainment coverage; see below. This consensus does not apply to the broadsheet publication of the same name, that existed from 1801–1942.

    It is original reporting, at least.

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • In the US, not necessarily. Connecting power generators to the grid without a permit from an electriction is technically illegal. Most utilities will charge you or even get you in trouble if it's reported to them, or you send power back through the meter, hence the standard approach is to dump the power into batteries and just run devices off that.

    And even in places like Utah (which just legalized this), the battery-less panels are still expensive.

    I don't know why. Maybe scaling+competition hasn't kicked in to bring prices down? It could also be that 120V inverters are less common and more expensive?

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • Consider the source.

    We've basically always had to do this for decades, and kinda didn't. The internet marched on without caring about source credibility too much. It's just that the downsides are now very apparent.

  • do you see linux ever having 10 - 20 % market share in desktop space?

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  • Only because the desktop market will shrink.

    I think most people's computing will go to phones, tablets, or phone/tablet-like devices (like Chromebooks or the Macbook Neo) that don't really count as desktops. I think the PC hardware market will shrink.

    What's left will be PC enthusiasts and gamers clinging to their existing hardware, and TBH I can see 15% of those moving to some linux flavor as Microsoft basically sunsets desktop Windows.

    Business workstations will be stuck with Windows forever, though.

  • Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game

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  • I have. I A/B test it all the time. I pause and pixel peep.

    And I don't watch any sports, nor any marvel movies.

    "huh, I guess the lag on my flat screen isn’t too bad for gaming"

    I've had CRTs. And I have one of those "zero latency" overclocked LCD monitors with no internal scaler. As much as I like them, they feel sluggish compared to something newer.

    Yeah sorry I’m not into high def TV myself.

    In that case, I suspect you haven't tried it on more modern displays, or when its baked into transcoded footage with one of the better filters.

    Yes, it looks awful and artifacty processed by older LCDs. But it looks really good these days.

  • Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI

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  • It wouldn't be long monologues. It's short bits of conversation, or maybe 1 sentence descriptions.

    Again, throw everything you think you know about chat models out of your head. Throw everything related to multi-turn conversation and prompt engineering out.

    The prompt would look like a mess of programming variables: Rimworld skill levels and passions, traits, injuries, clothes and their state, logs of events, maybe a plot of entities around them. It would condense a bunch of information down (to, say, some reasonable quip of dialogue this character would say,) which is what text modeling was supposed to do before these stupid chatbots came in and spammed everything up.

    I get the sentiment that, sometimes, imagination is better. I like to read, or write out stories stuck in my head.

    ...But sometimes I'd rather play a game.

  • Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game

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  • Agreed.

    The effect is waaaaay too strong in those screenshots, but a more subtle version would be alright.

    And yes. It's definitely "sexifying" the woman in the shot. Transformers img2img models are notorious for basically:

    I could speculate why. Could be that it's (unfortunately) mostly male Tech Bros developing them? Or it could be that a massive fraction of the dataset is sexualized photos of women scraped from social media. But TBH, while I don't know why this is the case, pretty much all diffusion models tend to "Instagram" women more than men.

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  • Hard disagree on motion interpolation. Bad interpolation looks awful, of course, but when it's good, it's like night and day to my eyes, and every TV I've ever used can disable it.

    Sometimes you can't disable "jitter reduction" or whatever that's branded as, but that's not the same thing.

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • I checked the state of this locally. Turns out we have utility monopoly, and it's basically illegal...

    For now.

  • Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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  • Actually, I think it's just a linux problem. Now it's happening on other sites in this particular browser.

    Heh...

  • Iran vows to “pursue and kill” Netanyahu

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  • Wow. That is one sloppy header image.

  • Hardware @lemmy.world
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    Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

    investors.micron.com /news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business
  • News @lemmy.world
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    "Mockery of science": Energy Department climate report riddled with errors

    www.axios.com /2025/09/02/doe-climate-energy-environment-climate-science
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Embattled MAGA rallies behind Trump after leak of alleged Epstein letter

    www.axios.com /2025/07/18/trump-epstein-letter-maga-documents
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Trump to supply missiles to Ukraine, gives Russia 50-day ultimatum

    www.axios.com /2025/07/14/trump-missiles-ukraine-weapons-attack-russia
  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    MTG accuses Trump of "bait and switch" over Iran strikes

    www.axios.com /2025/06/23/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-iran-criticism
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump floats regime change in Iran

    www.axios.com /2025/06/22/trump-iran-regime-change
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast

    www.axios.com /2025/06/16/iran-state-tv-bombed-israel-strike
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Scoop: Four reasons Musk attacked Trump's "big beautiful bill"

    www.axios.com /2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-white-house-relationship
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip

    www.axios.com /2025/05/05/israel-gaza-destroy-trump-deal
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Trump threatens Putin with new sanctions after meeting with Zelensky

    www.axios.com /2025/04/26/trump-zelensky-pope-funeral-meeting
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Trump's "final offer" for peace requires Ukraine to accept Russian occupation

    www.axios.com /2025/04/22/trump-russia-ukraine-peace-plan-crimea-donbas
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump 2.0 initial approval ratings higher than in first term

    www.axios.com /2025/02/09/trump-approval-ratings-poll
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    Behind the Curtain: Meta's make-up-with-MAGA map

    www.axios.com /2025/01/11/meta-maga-zuckerberg-trump-rogan
  • Enough Musk Spam @lemmy.world
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    Elon Musk's headline dominance squeezes other CEOs

    www.axios.com /2024/12/31/elon-musk-headlines-bezos-zuckerberg
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump sides with Musk in H-1B fight

    www.axios.com /2024/12/28/musk-war-h1b-racists-maga-doge
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    Elon Musk pledges "war" over H-1B visa program, calls opponents racists

    www.axios.com /2024/12/28/musk-war-h1b-racists-maga-doge
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Musk calls MAGA element "contemptible fools" as virtual civil war brews

    www.axios.com /2024/12/27/elon-musk-contemptible-fools-maga-doge
  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    MAGA vs. Musk: Right-wing critics allege censorship, loss of X badges

    www.axios.com /2024/12/27/musk-x-loomer-h1b-maga-verification
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender @lemmy.world
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    Brainstorming Post LoK/Avatar Seven Havens Story Ideas

  • Avatar: The Last Airbender @lemmy.world
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    'Avatar: Seven Havens' Rumors Emerge

    knightedgemedia.com /2024/12/avatar-seven-havens-twin-earth-avatar-series-will-initially-be-26-episodes-long/