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Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can’t see it. I wish they couldn’t see anything I posted either.

I’ve seen this view in discussions of blocking before and it really bugs me. You’re desiring to unilaterally control what I can see and do on the Fediverse.

This is how it works on Reddit and it’s a terrible mechanism. It means you can preemptively ensure that anyone who might refute misinformation will be excluded from your threads before you post them. It means you can step into a conversation I’m having with someone, derail it, and then prevent me from responding to your derail. Over on Reddit by far the most common use I see of the block tool is to get the “last word” in on whatever argument is going on, posting some sort of seemingly clever comeback and then instantly blocking me before I can point out the flaws.

For anyone wondering how the blocking feature has been weaponized to spread misinformation, in 2022 a redditor did an experiment: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/sdcsx3/testing_reddits_new_block_feature_and_its_effects/

All those Canadian EV makers will be in trouble.

I don’t see why not, but I haven’t really been looking at the origins of particular posts.

I wonder which actor wanted Enterprise to switch to a four-shift rotation.

Mbin supports both Lemmy and Mastodon. Though I have no interest in Mastodon’s “microblogging”/Twitter-like format so I’ve never investigated that, despite being on an mbin instance myself.

No, that’s what the common prejudices about the popular whipping boy of the moment says.

Another tragic victim of the Prometheus School of Running Away From Things.

1 year + 1 day later: turns out all instances are running on non-American servers.

Going to be some wild captchas before this is all over.

Yes, I know. You’re saying that a 32GB graphics card is millionarie hardware? You’ve got a weird view of the cost of these things.

Plus, the hardware to run a full sized LLM is expensive

It’s a regular gaming PC. Are you going to dismiss all gamers as “millionaires”?

I pay for my electricity. It uses roughly the same amount of power when I’m running an LLM as it would if I was playing a game. It’s negligible.

And contrary to all the breathless headlines about water-guzzling data centers, my computer doesn’t consume any water at all when I run an LLM.

So many of the complaints I see about LLM behaviour can be so easily solved by just adding “don’t behave this way” to the prompt. Most LLM frameworks these days let you add stuff like that to the default system prompt so you don’t even have to remember to do it.

The very first comparison fails, though. I run LLMs locally on my own computer, tokens cost me nothing.

Okay? That’s not what the meme was about, that’s a separate thing.

Fortunately FOSS software is often not beholden to companies or profit motives like that, and that’s specifically what this meme is about.

I’m not sure that this meme is using “offline” correctly. I use AI offline, which means I absolutely do know that it’s not going to “go away.” It’s running on my computer, it’s stored on my hard drive. Ten years from now I will still be able to run it regardless of what’s happened in the outside world. I welcome offline AI integration into software, that’s the best way to do it when possible.

Crypto bubble, not bitcoin bubble, don’t move the goalposts.

Okay, where was the crypto bubble, then? The total market capitalization for cryptocurrencies in aggregate had a significant bump in the 2021-2022 timeframe, but it’s since recovered from and far exceeded that so if that was the bubble it didn’t cause any permanent harm. BTC largely follows the overall cryptocurrency market.

As OP said, the crash of cryptocurrency has been exaggerated.

Shh, people don’t like to hear that cryptocurrencies are still around and doing just fine.

I, too, started out on kbin and ended up migrating to an mbin instance. I sent Ernest some money via that Koffi thing he had and I don’t regret it - I hope he found the funds useful, whatever it is that happened to him in the end. He kicked off an alternative to Lemmy and that’s super important for a distributed decentralized system like the Fediverse, you can’t have just one client for it.