How are you connecting to Slashdot from the year 2024?

If you have ~128 GB of RAM, consider Qwen 3.8 Flash + Freetoken. You'll only get half the tok/s as 27B but the quality is significantly higher than 27B - it beats it solidly in all compared benchmarks (for example, DeepSWE 1.1: 42,2% vs 58.7%).

Grok is a "discount model". It's cheaper than Claude Sonnet yet better than it. Doesn't compare to Fable or Opus, but then again, they're way more expensive models.

Note: I avoid using Grok - not just for the Musk factor, but because there are better options, e.g. GLM-5.3 and Qwen-3.8. Also, if you really want to save money, GLM-5.3 Flash and Qwen-3.8 Flash are amazingly good for their price range.

The most effective way would probably be to split the jobs of the head of the state and the head of the government.

Gentle reminder to idiots at the back. Computing power is not measured in watts. DC watts are your costs of running the kit. 1MW hydro plant will generate zero tokens for Scam A.

I saw an interesting proposal from a film industry guy today proposing that laws ought be put into place specifically denying copyright protection to AI shit. While currently its not available mostly, there are loopholes that can be exploited to get around that lack of protection.

Its an "everyone wins" scenario too. AI companies can do their nonsense. Researchers can research. You can even make AI imagery and texts as before. But it forces companies to hire people to actually create IP, so it also protects workers.

The only people that would lose out are those who plot to enrich themselves by stealing art. But as a society we've always been comfortable denying criminals the proceeds of crime. So theres no moral patient to worry about in that respect.

Leather jacket Jeffrey wannabe or his DLSS enhanced version.

They love security data that they control. Once they realize that cameras tell the world who loves kids most, cameras will be pointing at the birds.

Selling shovels during gold rush is good business. Renting them will come at a cost when gold rush is over.

Every time people hear what it actually involves is outrage and opposition, at least all the way back to when Intel first announced that they wanted to hardcode identity numbers inside CPUs in 1999. But the corporations involved have been relentless, and have sunk countless billions of dollars steadily forcing it forwards, and building front organizations to obfuscate and whitewash it.

With Windows 11, Microsoft was finally able to FORCE Trusted computing hardware into every new computer. Not just every new Windows computer, but every computer.

Every new Intel PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. Every new AMD PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. Every new ARM PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. The only processor lines that DON'T have it are the microcontrollers.

There are some unlocked smartphones available, but as far as I can determine it's literally impossible to buy a smartphone that doesn't have hardware trusted computing built in.

I specified that enforcing Trusted Computing at the internet access level is still a long term goal, they couldn't get away with it today. However they are well on the way to success. Virtually all new hardware supporting trusted computing, all the front groups rolling out standards and systems, and as it gets incorporated into things everyone is going to increasingly running into situations where they get locked out of stuff if they're not Trusted Computing compliant. Streaming already restricts you to the worst quality if you're not compliant, and it's only going to get worse as pre-Win11 computers fade out and as more things require it.

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It's more a case of the fox being in charge of the chicken coop; or bank robbers gaining control of the bank.

The job of the press in a democracy is to hold officials up to scrutiny.

The President simply does not have the power to rename the things he's claimed to rename. Lake Ontario straddles two countries, so its naming ultimately is a matter for the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. In the case of the Gulf of Mexico, theres a different maritime committee that governs that.

Trump can certainly make the executive branch insist these new names are real, but theres no real legal weight to it. Its just some dumb shit by a demented old fool.

Yep, a friend of mine uses a Mac Studio with 256gig ram completely airgapped to run a local DeepSeek instance to pour over documents from his legal practice (he's a lawyer). The airgap thing is the key part because his obligations to his clients data security is paramount, so its a mac studio, living in a gun safe bolted to the wall. It runs fine, apparently.

He's doing a crime again isn't he? And we're gonna let him, aren't we?

Ever since the supreme court basically ruled that he was above the law, he's been crimeing pretty much non stop.

America is in *desparate* need of SCOTUS reform.