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  • What makes this Chatbot client different from just using it in the browser? My first thought was, it might get special permission to better interact with the system, like the agentic tools do. I assume it can better integrate into system with the taskbar maybe. Or maybe this is more efficient than just running the webbrowser. Or it might have special commandline arguments with special options?

    Oh… wait its just an entire browser running a single tab. Alright then. Why does this need to be an app on its own? To me this is as useless as a native browser based Discord app… Just bookmark it in your browser and open it there. You can even customize it even more with browser addons.


  • When you make changes to the comments or pseudo code to maintain the program, then you also need to do the same changes to the actual source code the compiler will use. As the human language comments need to be compiled to C by human, right? And this would end up thinking and maintaining the source code of two languages and hope they always align in their logic.

    I never did this approach and only get this from reading the blog post.



  • I don’t think that most will abandon in the future, as the Ai even becomes better and most people only look at the surface. The biggest problem (besides the unethical training data and not respecting licenses from the original data) is if you don’t know what it produces and don’t check it without understanding. Where it can be useful is aiding in code analysis, but not replacing it. And most will shift to local available models (I hope so), as local hardware becomes better at it too.

    I’m not the biggest fan of Ai at all. But I don’t see a reality where Ai disappears in the future, unless every company is doing it gets bankrupt. Looking at Microsoft and Nvidia, this sounds unreasonable. Because if one major player like Anthropic goes down, another one will rise up, maybe from China.


  • Ah! I’ve seen a few times some artifacts with my RX 7600 on KDE too, but not on max/min, but randomly. I couldn’t reproduce it, so it is really hard to talk about such subject. As it just recently started (I’m on 7.1.6), I guess this is the same issue. Wondered if this is an issue with KDE or Krohnkite extension or my GPU dying.

    So glad it’s “just” a bug in the Kernel. This is just a visual issue right? It doesn’t hurt I hope.



  • “The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility” (44:14mins) by Gamers Nexus on August 14, 2023: YouTube or Invidious or Internet Archive

    This video is not monetized. This video covers our serious concerns regarding the data accuracy of Linus Media Group, including Linus Tech Tips, ShortCircuit, and TechQuickie, particularly as it relates to rushing content out the door to favor – by staff’s own admission – quantity over quality. As the company continues to expand into its LTT Labs direction, the importance of accurate data increases; however, even as ‘only’ entertainment, there are still certain responsibilities to the consumer and the manufacturers to report fairly (and to have defined corrections processes in place). We tried to approach this as objectively as possible and hope that viewers are able to listen to the evidence we present, particularly as it relates to significant and frequent data errors that now present in nearly every technical review video.

    TIMESTAMPS
    
    00:00 - The Last 2 Weeks
    01:40 - LMG is Rushing Too Much: Establishing the Premise
    03:48 - LTT's Own Employees Agree
    06:58 - This Isn't "Drama" & Risks
    09:05 - Bad Data from Linus Tech Tips
    10:12 - GPU Review Errors
    15:02 - CPU Cooler Test Errors
    19:09 - PSU Review Errors
    19:53 - CPU Review Errors
    22:39 - Asterisked Errors
    26:15 - Ethical Concerns: Irresponsible Actions & Conflicts
    28:21 - Ethical Concerns: The Review of Billet Labs
    34:49 - Ethical Concerns: 'Not-Review' of Pwnage Mouse
    36:53 - UNACCEPTABLE & The Community is Disturbing
    39:22 - Unfair to Consumers, Manufacturers, & Reviewers
    

    New video after Linus Tech Tips responds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3byz3txpso (only from 00:48 to 12:57 part)




  • The difference of a private chat with an Ai to a public question on Stack Overflow (or any forum for that matter) is, that on Stack Overflow multiple persons can read and comment. Answers often iterate and fact check if someone hallucinates, because so many eyes sees it. If the answers are helpful is something everyone has to decide themselves, but the principle of an open platform being very useful is undeniable.

    Compare this to your private Ai chatbot. Only one person sees the answer and if something hallucinated is in there or the quality of the answer is not good, then you might not know. And those Ai bots are controlled by the few big corporations, maybe a little less if you use a custom offline bot, but they are probably not as good as the big models. That’s why this is a bad trend. I think the open and user controlled Stack Overflow was a better approach, by principle.



  • Ah I see. I tried Fish several times before. Without getting into why I’m not using it, I totally forgot it had a web interface. I guess it makes sense for a shell, because if you screw the config up, then at least you can reconfigure it in the browser. That is the only use case I could think of that would be useful “to me”. But fastfetch on the other hand, is not a huge thing like a shell. I mean it would be bloat if we suddenly could configure grep or other terminal applications in the browser too. Wouldn’t it? That is how it feels to me.

    Off course I’m not gatekeeping here, don’t get me wrong. Everyone should use and do what they want. I personally just don’t like the idea for fastfetch specifically to have a web interface. Not because it hurts me, but I think it makes the code of the program more complicated and bigger, potentially introducing bugs or security issues. For … nothing (in my opinion).