Jrockwar

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[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 15 points 6 days ago

You can do this with not that much setup:

  • Obsidian app on the phone
  • Make a shortcut on your desktop so that it's easily accessible and there's minimal friction to make a rough note (you can write on your daily note)
  • Have obsidian synced to your computer, either through their paid service or something like Google drive / etc.

And now what makes it magic for me:

  • Have a bash script that runs on your computer every once in a while and combines your notes into a single file
  • Append that file into your LLM of choice (either online or a local one if you have that setup) and make a prompt that goes something like "you're a NotebookLM style assistant with access to my notes, answer from knowledge of my notes unless explicitly asked otherwise..."

Depending on how sophisticated your setup is, you might get the LLM to automatically pick up changes in your notes. I do this at work and it feels like magic.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Source? I'd expect a more realistic claim is running a microwave for 30 seconds to a minute.

I don't think generating a sora video can definitely take 2-4 hours of GPU time as your claim suggests.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 15 points 6 days ago

And probably on iOS too, which isn't linux either.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kurzgesagt? I didn't know this, how come?

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is not news though? This is a 6 year old article about the 2018 Christmas period. So much has changed since then.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 44 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

These figures are too cherry picked for the shock value. You could go the opposite end and say that (these are all true, I've tried my best to research them):

8.5 Wh (average of all daily queries for a user) is also...

  • Equivalent to running a 2000 W hair dryer or a kettle for 20 seconds
  • Equivalent to idling a car during a traffic light and not turning off the engine
  • A quarter of the energy required to reheat a ready meal in the microwave (roughly 45 Wh)
  • The power usage of a Macbook screen over just 30 minutes.

850 MWh (whole consumption of all AI queries in the world) is also equivalent to...

  • The power consumption of ONE single cruise ship for 12h (link)
  • Charging 0.002% of the 75 million electric cars in the world
  • The energy stored in the fuel tanks of 2000 petrol cars - a small stadium car park in Europe
  • The amount of energy the largest solar plant in Spain or Germany generate... In a couple of hours.

So yes - AI bad... But for other reasons. This is a diversion. Datacentres powered by coal are bad. Cruise ships are worse.

The problem isn't that the whole world needs less than a solar farm's worth of energy for AI. The bigger problem is the social damage of AI - including the fact that this "expansion at all costs" is justifying getting that energy from non-renewable sources.

But seriously, one single cruise ship uses more energy than all of the AI in the world. They serve no useful purpose and there are hundreds of those.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

After the whole article, I still don't know is she's voting for or against trans people being forced to use a bathroom matching their biological sex rather than gender.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

Duh. It's weak because of Brexit, it needs to be soft touch because it's lost the influence to be anything else.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 12 points 3 weeks ago

My flatmate used to call that Tomb Raider (the first of the new trilogy) "PTSD Simulator". It's as you say, the first few deaths are entirely survival-driven, with her constantly crying and then she becomes an emotionless one-woman army.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 28 points 3 weeks ago

I would recommend people buy their books off ZLibrary instead, where they come with no DRM.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At this point I think Keir Starmer is actually a covert conservative trying his hardest to undermine and destroy the Labour party for decades to come.

 

There is a petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, which has a good name but creates a system where we are trading off encryption for backdoors and privacy for age verification. This is literally the opposite of "Online Safety" and I believe it threatens our digital rights as UK citizens.

I'd like to encourage everyone who believes in digital safety and privacy to sign it. The petition is sitting right now at 180k signatures—already past the point for it to be considered for debate in parliament, but higher support would still flag the urgency and importance of this.

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