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New comment by brokenmachine in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

brokenmachine — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:51:32 +0000

How large is a model, like Mythos for example? Multiple Tb?

If that happened, what would people need to run it?

New comment by brokenmachine in "I make good money. Why do I still feel like this?"

brokenmachine — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:18:44 +0000

What's odd to me is that companies don't seem to be targeting the niche anymore?

When there's no cheap but ok product, common sense would dictate that somebody would try to fill that niche.

Is everything a monopoly now?

New comment by brokenmachine in "The AirPods Effect"

brokenmachine — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:27:55 +0000

Australian public transport is pretty good in my experience. I certainly don't expect to be stabbed or sit in piss.

New comment by brokenmachine in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

brokenmachine — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:03:09 +0000

I feel like I've seen that creepy image on 4chan or reddit before.

New comment by brokenmachine in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

brokenmachine — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:26:07 +0000

Great rant. Agreed on all points. Bravo.

New comment by brokenmachine in "Anthropic confident of re-enabling Mythos, Fable 5 access 'in coming days'"

brokenmachine — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:09:25 +0000

I guess they paid the extortion fee. I wonder how many Trump phones they had to buy.

New comment by brokenmachine in "Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer"

brokenmachine — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:05:52 +0000

Are those expats allowed to freely express their views on the matter?

You might as well just quote Russian poll results.

New comment by brokenmachine in "Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer"

brokenmachine — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:02:42 +0000

You're the one who called it punishing. It's just doing business with who you want.

It's just dumb for Russia to do it when they have so few cards to play.

Originally I thought you were talking about military "punishing".

New comment by brokenmachine in "Nobody clicks your share buttons"

brokenmachine — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:56:45 +0000

That hasn't worked for me in a lot of instances, and still copies a lot of tracking info.

New comment by brokenmachine in "'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today"

brokenmachine — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:54:29 +0000

I'm Australian but I downloaded that show to listen to it.

It was surreal hearing him say, "we're under attack" when the second plane hit.

He did a great job.

New comment by brokenmachine in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

brokenmachine — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:53:56 +0000

The bank makes money on chargebacks, so they have an incentive to allow a certain level of scams.

New comment by brokenmachine in "Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer"

brokenmachine — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:17:08 +0000

Seems fine to me. The US is representing their interests, just as Russia does. I believe Russia has put sanctions on the US as well.

Russia has their good friends like North Korea and Iran to depend on.

If they want new friends, maybe they could reconsider their foreign policy.

New comment by brokenmachine in "AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier"

brokenmachine — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:10:39 +0000

They believe the marketing.

Billionaire hype men couldn't be wrong, could they? Otherwise how could they get so rich??

New comment by brokenmachine in "AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier"

brokenmachine — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:18 +0000

You might be doing the same thing, if you think that your medical professional father would have any understanding of how an LLM works, an area in which he has no expertise.

To him, and most other people who don't know anything about the tech and how it works, it's probably just a magic intelligent box that can answer many things that he can't.

The marketing says it's this close to AGI and taking all our jobs, so that must be true!

New comment by brokenmachine in "AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier"

brokenmachine — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:52:10 +0000

I'm exactly the same, but unfortunately I think we're in the minority.

People are absolutely dying to outsource their thinking.

New comment by brokenmachine in "Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer"

brokenmachine — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:43 +0000

Unpunished is an odd choice of words.

Why shouldn't "the West", actually many separate autonomous countries, be able to sell to whoever they want?

Literally nobody is interested in invading Russia. Nobody wants any part of that shitshow.

Russia needs to start worrying about their own internal problems, which are both significant and numerous.

New comment by brokenmachine in "Firefox 152 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support"

brokenmachine — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:46:39 +0000

https://caniuse.com/?search=jpeg-xl

Doesn't look very good.

New comment by brokenmachine in "You can power on a Mac remotely"

brokenmachine — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:23:45 +0000

DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

https://dearrow.ajay.app/

New comment by brokenmachine in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

brokenmachine — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:41:16 +0000

Maybe every vibe-coded app?

New comment by brokenmachine in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

brokenmachine — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:30:28 +0000

You haven't listed the competing company that does not make one feel "some kinda stockholm syndrome".