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Comment Re:This is nothing new (Score -1) 30

I used Bella's 4g+ smartphone in 2019 in splitscreen mode. Was a hassle though, every music streaming site was different (I listen to music every waking hour, sometimes when I sleep too). You actually have to *pay* to use multi-tasking with Youtube on "smart" devices, or it just stops the music as soon as you use another window. Same goes for tiktok / youtube/instagram "stories" on PC. I can't even have notepad.exe in focus without it pausing the video. This is sorta outrageus, since I multitasked way back in windows 3.11. I actually remember having a dozen browser windows open back in the days, and this was with 16MB RAM. Now if I boot up my 8GB Windows 11 laptop, 50% memory is already used by background processes. Even stranger, the more RAM I use by whatever program, the more background processes use memory as well? I don't get the reasoning here. Microsoft obviously don't want you to multi-task at all anymore either. I was gonna use my own LLM / AI, but when i tried it, it complained about lack of memory, I used a ½GB one. So it doesn't even support scratching? Strange... And yes I have 768MB dedicated to the graphics card, so that shouldn't've been a problem. BTW, Chrome and Brave is slower and use more RAM than any other browser, and Brave says it's "faster", but I found the loading times were longer than Opera. That it would be a "Privacy" browser I also highly doubt, and if you want to get Bitcoin while using it, you have to upload your driver's license? Gee, wonder what they do with that...

Comment where do they get the data from? (Score -1) 24

ok i watched the 1 hour presentation of blackwell some weeks ago. he just talked numbers the whole time i dont know why i bothered. but he never mentioned the storage they used, how many "petabytes" or "exabytes" or whatever the numbers were. the SETI project nowadays stores petabytes per day so the magnet tape tech for this is obviously available.

Comment outdated tech (Score -1) 166

the nanochip has read your mind since 2020 people talked alllllll the time on social media then that they thought of something while scrolling and a moment later they got an ad for it if you pretend that "the microchip" (?) doesnt exist youre in denial please stop. look up the pfizer docs (1300 sideeffects) they also cooperate with openly admit to cooperating with biontech no its not "MRNA". if youre a sheep though you obviously got the saline solution congrats except shedding is for real graphene is 1 nm = atom size it goes through any organ substance in the body including the lungs blood brain barrier and your breathing air. youre geeks you should know this since it communicates with bluetooth its obviously hackable i know someone has kracked the sourcecode years ago it can heal your organs and make you immortal this was plainly stated on google scholar before at least. anyway the internet is dead i know everyone on slashdot is a bot nowadays you all write the same way as a 1-2 decades ago and its still the same spelling "missstakes".

Comment Re: Smarrphones are planned obsolescence (Score -1) 80

Well, I don't remember what smartphone my friend was using, but it wasn't Apple.

I did notice it on an old laptop. There was no probs in installing the bank ID program, and it loaded when trying to authenticate. Except, after just a few secs, it said "timeout, you have waited too long to sign in". So there was no problems with updates, it was just custom made to not work on old computers.

Comment Re:invented data (Score -1) 81

Now if you say ChatGPT can help improve the English grammar of the paper

It would be great if you could configure it, I remember reading about some AI where that was possible on Slashdot some time ago, but didn't put it to memory.

Anyway, I was baffled by it at first, and also with the image generation. This "amazement" has been reduced over time. The problem with text checking, is that it only has one setting, you can't just ask "Capitalize words and sentences correctly", "Structure this enjambment into prose", or "Replace bad words". The last one was surprising, I had written a review on Literotica on a short story, and figured, since everything there is reviewed before posting, the text needed to look better. It was late at night, I was tired, so i just put it in chatGPT and added it to the site.

Then, the next day, I looked at what it had actually done to the text. "Get your rocks off", was censored to "Thrilled". I didn't know that was a slur? I guess "Get off" is sorta offensive in some way whatsoever, but why does it need to do all 3 sorts of these edits, and you can't even chose which one(s)? There's also no simple "copy & paste" button. And for mathematical things, copying the equation to another program, or just pasting it in chatGPT itself breaks the formatting. Again, it would be nice if you could configure it more, or, well, at all...

Comment Smarrphones are planned obsolescence (Score -1) 80

I haven't heard anyone mention this online. Anyway, if your smartphone is around 3-6 years old, tech companies force updates on it, that removes its functionality, by maxing out the internet memory. I don't remember the exact details, as I haven't had a smartphone for awhile. But basically, browser caching doesn't even work, and you can't install new apps either. It's basically rendered useless at that point.

Comment Substack fills in this void in writing (Score -1) 48

People started linking articles to this site on Bitchute since may, for example: The vitamin scam, The Neo-Enclosure of the Whole World - which is based on the HUGE article Debt From Above: The Carbon Credit Coup, and some linking arrived at one SQUARE MILE dominates the entire planetary civilization, Geo-engineering, The Ukraine 'War', Generative AI and working futures, On scythians, our ancestors (Warning: Truther content. People that have come so long in their spiritual evolution, that still think the Corona vaccine contains a "micro"-chip need not apply)

Comment Re:This is a step to make everyone use cloud compu (Score -1) 169

Well I don't know about other European countries, but in Sweden they are forcing people to install Smart Meters in their homes. If you refuse, law enforcement is involved. I saw one of the contracts a person had to sign, basically saying "you agree that this might hurt you", then "you agree that this will not hurt you, nor that it radiates at all, and doesn't cause any illness whatsoever, and the landlord is indemnified from everything no matter what under any condition". They are also putting 5G towers absolutely everywhere, like out in the wilderness where only a couple of people live.

Comment This is a step to make everyone use cloud computin (Score -1) 169

So, I hadn't heard about Copilot before this article. I've looked it up now, and it seems like the most stupid invention ever. One site says Copilot will use 10GB of storage space in 35 hours. So basically, in a few weeks, your SSD drive will be full, and for non-techy people, they'll think they'll have to buy a new computer. I looked up the most expensive Copilot laptops. I couldn't find one which had a storage capacity beyond 1TB. I keep getting ads on Facebook for a 10TB HDD which costs next to nothing. And as I've said previously, there has been no "evolution" in RAM and storage space for over a decade. Back in 2013 I bought a new laptop for $444 (4000sek), it had 8GB RAM and 570GB HDD. This new laptop I bought ½ year ago for $600 has a 120GB SSD and also... 8GB RAM. I know they brag about new RAM capabilities, but that's not the main thing, it's the amount that's more important.

Anyway, what I realized after doing some research, that this is a step to force everyone into renting cloud computer usage, so they can charge us even more for less, get us to invest in even faster internet connections, and mine our computer usage even more for a more detailed deep data profile, and of course to turn off our computers at will, if we do something the government or AI deems wrong.

Comment Re:Never going to work for many use cases... (Score -1) 69

Startup valuation is deeply related to forecasts.

No, it's only related to hype. No AI companies are going plus. They never will. Somehow Spotify's CEO is the richest man in the music industry, and Spotify is still bleeding money. And the AI hype is only to usher in Agenda2030. And Spotify's hype is only so record companies can do business as usual.

Comment Re:Never going to work for many use cases... (Score -1) 69

re: 1st problem

The maximum text length in a single input or output for ChatGPT-4 (both in terms of the length of your prompt and the length of the response) is generally determined by token limits.

In ChatGPT-4:

Input: The total number of tokens (which include both input and output tokens) you can use in a single session is approximately 8,000 tokens (for GPT-4) or 4,000 tokens (for GPT-3.5).

Output: The model's response can include up to the remaining tokens after accounting for the tokens in your input. If your input is 4,000 tokens, the response would be limited to about 4,000 tokens.

A "token" can be as short as one character or as long as one word. For example, the word "ChatGPT" counts as one token, and so does the letter "a." However, complex words and punctuation can split into multiple tokens.

In practice, this means that the maximum text length is approximately:

Around 6,000 to 7,000 words per full exchange if the text is simple.

Shorter for dense or highly punctuated text.

This makes the effective maximum input text length typically a few thousand words, depending on the complexity of the text.

It’s important to note that this limit includes both the input (what you write) and the output (the response from the model). So, if you provide a very long input, the space left for the model's response will be reduced accordingly.

So paying for it actually doesn't increase the limit? And I wonder if it's only me, but since a few weeks back, you don't even have to pay for the image generator? And I'm annoyed that 1) Gmail still only supports 25mb attachments, which I figured was made back in the day so you couldn't pirate a whole album. 2) Google Translate only supports 5000 characters at a time (it also cuts off words if they are exactly at the limit). Again, probably so people couldn't translate whole books and print them and make money off of doing nothing. Which is exactly what AI is enabling people to do nowadays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.bitchute.com/video...

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but I've always balked at adding another $20/mo bill

This is really don't understand, maybe. Just like piracy, but I've written about that previously here (I think?). Back in the 90s, it costed more to download an mp3 on dial-up than it took to buy an entire album, but my parents were paying then so I didn't care, and mp3 was cool! And hip! And you didn't have to go to a record store! I ended up forgetting my CDs then.

in a little over a year, thousands of users have signed up for Cursor

So they have $ 400 million in financing, but only "thousands" are using it? And it's even worse than that, it's only people who have signed up, not how many are actually using it, or are paying for it.

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