TheGrandNagus

Americans always try to paint British Indian food as not being British, but they’ll happily claim Tex-Mex as American. Same goes for pizzas and such. Funny that.

Oh wow, tiktok? Must be true.

The only reason Britain still has that reputation is because Americans repeat it mindlessly in media that the whole world consumes. Like the teeth thing. In the 2000s, the UK alongside Germany had the joint healthiest teeth in the world (although now they’ve fallen to 8th after the Scandinavian countries upped their game). Did it stop the “Brits have bad teeth” gag in US media? No. The US, for whatever reason, has been engaged in a cultural pissing match with the UK for a long time.

Chip shops in London are always shit. It’s rare you get good fish and chips outside of seaside towns.

British food is unironically great, and based on WW2 rationing. It’s made funnier that the people who say it comes from a country where people spray cheese from a can

Some of Mozilla’s AI integrations have been amazing, despite the community crying about it. Like private, offline translation (I don’t care what anybody says, this is much better than sending the contents of your web page to a proprietary Google Translate server), and enhanced screen reader functionality. But this one puzzles me. They’re not being very descriptive, but it seems like it’s just integrating generic LLM stuff? Not really what I’m after personally. At least it’s opt-in, I guess.

I work in IT and have since 2011… most people are buying $800+ phones for no reason I do actually agree, but it’s funny you say this in a post where you’re glazing the Galaxy S4. Adjusted for inflation that thing would cost $876 today.

If you look at the top sellers, SATA SSDs still occupy a few of those spots, including 4th place. There is still demand for SATA SSDs.

On the contrary people expect this to be a step towards a general redistribution of manufacturing capacity towards HBM for parallel compute products. That is where much of the overall wafers are going. But that would be happening regardless of whether the Crucial brand is around or not. Even if Crucial was still a thing going forward, those same wafers would still be going towards HBM. Who says the Samsung NAND couldn’t be bought by other OEMs to make consumer SSDs His point is that Samsung (the manufacturer) is scrapping production, not that Samsung (the brand) is stopping selling products that otherwise are still being produced. Stopping production of something sold under many brands is obviously a lot worse than a brand stopping sales of something that other brands will still sell (albeit in lower quantities due to HBM production being ramped up at the cost of typical DRAM).

There are plenty of reasons to put SSDs in a home server.

Unless the dataset, weighting, and every aspect is open source, it’s not truly open source, as the OSI defines it.

OpenAI is pretty well established. I know Lemmy users avoid it, but a lot of people use LLMs, and when most people think LLMs, they think ChatGPT. I doubt the average person could name many or even any others. That means whenever these people want to use an LLM, they automatically go to OpenAI. As for to the degree of $300bn, who knows. Big tech has had crazy valuations for a long time.

Oracle recently put out a ridiculously optimistic forecast that had them matching AWS within 5 years. At first the market loved it. Now I think people are beginning to realise that was a load of bollocks.

Brand recognition cannot be overstated. If there was a better-than-YouTube alternative right now, YouTube would still dominate. If there was a phone OS superior to Android and iOS, they would both still dominate. If there was a search engine that worked far better than Google, Google would still dominate. The average person won’t look into LLM reasoning benchmarks. They’ll just use the one they know, ChatGPT.

There are other even more dyslexic-legible fonts that IMO look better

The UK has among the lowest road deaths in the world. I’m not quite sure why that is (although anecdotally as a pedestrian, you seem to be treated like royalty in the UK in comparison to other places I’ve been - so much as glance at a zebra crossing and cars come to a stop). Given how UK drivers often use summer tyres year-round, the weather is dark, and the roads are usually damp, you’d logically expect poor results, but we see the opposite. Perhaps it’s due to the rather strict yearly MOT safety check? Who knows.

I don’t really think it’s the same. Micron just became like Samsung. Samsung also doesn’t have a consumer DIY market brand. Companies like Kingston or G.Skill can still buy Samsung/SK-Hynix/Micron’s RAM, there’s been no actual reduction in supply. If Intel did the same as Micron did, it’d be more like third parties could sell the consumer stuff, and Intel only sold Xeons directly. The anger for the RAM shortage should squarely be on OpenAI - they’re the ones who bought 40% of the world’s RAM supply (and not even from Micron, mind you, just Samsung and SK-Hynix) and kicked off panic buying. Maybe throw Nvidia in there for handing them the money to do it. I feel like people are for some reason unwilling to blame OpenAI for this.

OpenAI abruptly bought 40% of global supply, and announced it. Other companies found out about it when OpenAI announced and thought holy shit, if we hadn’t heard of this massive deal, what else haven’t we heard of?!, and so they started panic buying. On top of that, because of US tariffs and trade restrictions, the Chinese “B-tier” memory companies, who usually buy old machines from the big 3 (SK-Hynix, Samsung, Micron) and sell this lower spec RAM at lower margins, didn’t buy up these machines as much as they usually do. They weren’t sure they’d be able to make profit given their lower margins, should tariffs suddenly change again or other restrictions get put in place.

On the one hand, I actually think this is a very good thing. Social media is especially damaging to children. However: The government says platforms must take “reasonable steps” to keep kids off their sites and use age assurance technologies, such as uploading official ID or facial/voice recognition, but they haven’t specified what technology platforms should use. I hope the law stipulates that Meta is not allowed to keep this data, or use it for any purpose other than the verification itself. Not for training, not for building a profile on someone, nothing. Unfortunately the article doesn’t elaborate on that. If they’re allowed to keep that data, then that needs to be addressed immediately. It’d be all kinds of fucked up.

There’s probably a distinction between a Meta account and a Facebook account.

I have experience in KDE being a bit buggy too. It’s kinda crazy how powerful it is, but I guess more “moving parts” means more breakage. After a while, I moved away from KDE. I haven’t used KDE Plasma since Plasma 6 came out, though. I’ve heard people say it’s a lot less janky, so maybe my experience is no longer the case. Nowadays the only interaction I have with KDE is the 1% of the time my steam deck spends in desktop mode.

OpenAI bought 40% of the world’s DRAM. They bought them as whole wafers (not finished chips!) from SK Hynix and Samsung. Then they put them in a warehouse All of that is confirmed, btw. The part below is my speculation: To me, that reads as if they’re using VC money to drive up RAM prices, hoping that their competitors (who are catching up) can’t buy more RAM. It’s so anticompetitive it’s unbelievable. And of course, normal buyers are the most fucked over.

Indeed. I have a model running locally on my NAS that does image recognition for photos in my Immich app (think Google Photos, but private). It does a decent job and runs well on AMD integrated graphics on a Ryzen 5 3400G. I just search for [daughter’s name], and there she is. I use Firefox’s translation feature (that also runs locally and can run on low end hardware). My sister is blind and uses an AI assisted screen reader that works way better than what she was using before. The issue isn’t AI/machine learning in itself, it’s this tech bro arms race. It’s them manipulating models to push agendas. It’s them shoehorning an LLM into every fucking Google query. It’s them telling companies they can fire all their staff and rely on LLMs.

A decent chunk of that is due to DDR4 production shutting down. If you look to the past you can see that DDR3 prices rose a while after the introduction of DDR4 too. Another thing driving up prices is tariffs and trade restrictions - usually when the main players like Micron, SK Hynix, or Samsung want to stop selling certain chips (say, DRAM at a certain binned frequency), they sell to Chinese manufacturers who are willing to sell slightly lower quality NAND for a lower profit margin. But that’s not happening - the Chinese companies aren’t buying up the machines like they used to, because a tariff could easily wipe out their margins. It’s not worth the risk. Add AI to that (not that many are using DDR4), and it makes a bad situation worse. The AI aspect may get better soon, but the top two won’t. I don’t think you’ll be able to get new DDR4 for a good price at any point going ahead. Your best bet is to buy used if you see a reasonable deal.