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namecheap actually went full retard and indiscriminately booted all Russian customers in the first days of the invasion

I actually rep namecheap more now

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=plumber%E2%80%99s+bread&addo...

afaik Ecosia is a blend of Google and Bing now while they work on their own engine

How does this compare?

I was like are we using the same teams app?

I duno, I still can't make a payment on the net without Visa or Mastercard, still a problem to be solved to me

Looks like other people still trying to solve as well:

Earlier this year, Coinbase changed online payments forever with a new protocol called x402. But could this technology really usher in a new age of 'machine to machine' payments? Let's run it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6wc6yvoZLY

Yep, that's what I thought nano had done:

https://nano.org/en

instant, fee's a fraction of a cent, I thought this was it, international payments that don't rely on visa/mastercard!

and then it just went no where :\

over time you would assume the models will get more efficient and the hardware will get better to the point that buying a massive new gpu with boatloads of vram is just not necessary

maybe 128gb of vram becomes the new mid tier model and most llms can fit into this nicely and do everything one wants in an llm

given how fast llms are progressing it wouldn’t surprise me if we reach this point by 2030

i don’t quite see the point in waiting, if you’re using something like lm studio just download the latest and greatest and you’re on your way, where is the fatigue part?

i can understand maybe if you’re spending hours setting it up but to me these are download and go

don’t know why you’re being downvoted, seems reasonable to me

Highly recommend Lemmy, the people who make it are a bit iffy but it definitely gives old school reddit vibes https://lemmy.world/

just quickly your website doesn't have https so it says that the site I'm going is insecure:

Secure Site Not Available

You’ve enabled HTTPS-Only Mode for enhanced security, and a HTTPS version of businessbooksandco.com is not available.

I was legit taken back for a second wondering what I just clicked on

But cheers, I just realised how far we've come if yours was the first site in years? that I've seen this on

Tokyo-based ispace

I cannot believe the old Apple naming scheme is still hanging around, I get that I'm irrationally hating this style of name but I just don't understand, why do I see it as peak lack of creativity?

It's like whenever you can't think of a name for something just go with e-thing or i-thing

Lemmy is 1000x better even if the total amount of users is less in absolute numbers

This is so true, I've had to put a timer on how much I can use it as I'm addicted like the old school reddit days

I think all it'll take is reddit messing up and lemmy.world might be the new front page of the internet

I wouldn't put 100% of the blame on the Democrats, here in Australia we are frequently voting for the least worst option not the best, and I'm not sure how the Democrats weren't the least worst option when compared to the other option

but for some reason a whole heap of people decided to stay home this time and this is the result, hope they still feel happy with their decision

it does look like nitter but I thought it was dead after twitter changed the api after musk took over?

how does chatgpt paid compare to perplexity.ai ?

And if this ends up being endemic and all the slaves are beaten for missing their quotas and no one is making any money then they'll be forced to move onto something else, because the crime lords are in it for money no other reason

On what grounds did you advocate against it?

It is incredibly addictive inducing drug like state:

You’ll just be in this pleasurable dopamine state, carried away. It’s almost hypnotic, you’ll keep watching and watching. - Dr. Julie Albright

You keep scrolling, she says, because sometimes you see something you like, and sometimes you don’t. And that differentiation — very similar to a slot machine in Vegas — is key.

I detest slot machines, so many lives wasted away, and I feel like we already spend too much time on computers to the detriment of both ourselves and society, let alone giving the CCP a hand to manipulate people on top of everything else

I 100% agree, I think social media has been a complete mistake, facebook's creation is my version of eternal november since I joined the web in 1999

The big reason I think it changed is that the internet went from being a place for nerds and geeks, when there was a technical barrier to getting online, to a place where there is essentially no barrier. As a result the web now reflects the innocence, openness, and intellectual curiosity of the average person, since the internet has become a daily part of everyone's life not just a subsection of the world that appeals to us.

You think it's easier to require setting up a third party account, adding your card to it, getting the card authorised, and doing the payment that way, with fees.

- You don't have to setup an account

- You don't have to get the card authorised (I don't know what this means)

- Adding your card numbers in takes me 10 seconds, in the case of Paypal, it's already there so no time

- Fee's are minimal, not even worth wondering about

In terms of donation, entering in the amount to donate and clicking submit is yes, easier than going into my bank's website, bringing up the international transfer, and it's asking me for SMS confirmation that I want to do this, and I can't be bothered going further.

edit: I think maybe we are fighting the wrong battle.

You think IBAN is super easy, and maybe in Europe it is.

I'm not in Europe though and neither is the other chap, so maybe the donations are very easy in Europe but not so much out of it.

I've never done an IBAN payment in my life but I've donated thousands and thousands of dollars to loads of places all over the world without issue for years including Ukraine, this is the first time I've seen a place only accepting an IBAN donation, which feels like a friction that is not there for other places.

As an Australian we have payid to transfer free and instantly between banks instead of needing a 3rd party app but I think he's right that if you are relying on IBAN and needing to do an individual bank transfer then it's not ideal.

It should be as easy as possible to donate, imo it would be better even setting up a basic kofi or buy me a coffee account, or I see the Ukrainians using paypal all the time.

It should be a 3 click payment not a bank transfer requiring copying and pasting IBAN numbers and bank account numbers etc

To poke fun at the Germans at least they are not requesting we fax a copy of the money in :P

Only thing I'm surprised about is the intel+nvidia combo not an AMD/AMD or AMD+Nvidia combo

Based on this I'm wondering whether it was straight up they did not expect it to be this popular?

Some Cricket graphs of our #Netflix cache for the #PaulVsTyson fight. It has a 40 Gbps connection and it held steady almost 100% saturated the entire time.

https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/113491103342509883

I get what you're saying, I was watching this the other day:

Titanic (1997) - Iceberg,Right ahead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYOn3-PhA9c

It's all so incredibly manual, from the guys who literally stand at the front of the ship just looking out for icebergs, to the man running and pulling on a giant ringing lever of some kind to tell the engine room what to do, the guys in the engine room running around in a panic, yelling orders across the room, turning giant wheels, the levers being pulled to shut the engine down, the guys manually shovelling coal stopping and shutting the boilers... it's all so manual

Meanwhile today a majority of that is fully automated and/or a few clicks of a button

The movie would be a hell of a lot more boring today!

Titanic 2024 edition:

Some random person most likely: Iceberg right ahead!

Random staff member: We know... we're going around it

But your comment reminds of this:

What will AI Programming look like in 5 Years? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaedq1Jl2fc

It's the same I see with ICE engines vs EV's, and smart phones and laptops compared to desktops

All the manual work in the world is going away... but I guess if you're really itching for manual work farming and the trades don't seem to be going anywhere... yet

As to AI, I quite like it, I use:

https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all

Which runs LLM's on my local PC which is running on my solar and solar battery, so no co2 emissions ^^

and as I have trouble learning, sometimes I have to search for 5 to 10 websites explaining something before I 'get it', with AI it helps for me to poke it and go, explain this, almost like a second person is there just to try and help, sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't.

Same with coding, sometimes it might just give me an idea or a thought that I wouldn't of had without it that gets me closer to where I want go.

Are you able to test on https://chat.mistral.ai/chat as well? With large2 and coedestral?

I'm interested !

Co-incidentally Mullvad recently mentioned they're fighting back

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-defense-against-ai-g...

They probably should implement E2EE for everything

He explained in his blog why he doesn't like E2EE:

https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by...

Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default?

Pavel Durov August 15, 2017

He's saying why would Ukraine tolerate Telegram if it was so Pro-Russian? Since he's saying it directly leads to their conversations/data being handed directly to the Russians

Yep, can add Australia to the list as well:

Live updates: ASX plummets more than 3pc in worst two-day performance since 2022 after recession fears spook Wall Street

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-05/asx-markets-business-...

I duno how this isn't getting more views tbh

Ecosia and Duckduckgo and Bing are down, there's at least 5% of the search engine market (the non-google part) down at the moment

ty!