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Cake day: June 30th, 2025

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  • How is emptying a database table not easy? If you’re hosting your own public forum that should be child’s play.

    … supporting and endorsing genocide. … The entire fucking internet already caters to you people.

    This is what I’m upset about. Why does every minor fediverse problem have to devolve into “us vs them (and 'they’re definitely nazis btw)”? Piefed doesn’t control the entire fediverse platform. If you want propoganda in your feed you can join an instance that allows it. And if you’re going to accuse people of supporting genocide bring some fucking proof.

    Not everyone on the fediverse is a free speech absolutist and that’s fine. Having blocklists doesn’t make an instance equal to the corporate hellscape of facebook and reddit. Be upset about things that matter please




  • AMD Ryzen CPUs have reportedly seen over a 50% price increase in Japan, likely due to AI.

    … CPU prices could reportedly increase as software developers shift toward running cloud-based AI-related applications locally.

    Who tf is running ai models on cpus? The source seems to be a Chinese report by intel:

    … The goal was to achieve a cumulative price increase of 30% based on 2025 prices, thereby recovering the investment in capacity expansion and meeting the return expectations of the capital market and investors…

    … some users, especially software developers, are choosing to deploy AI-related applications locally, thus creating strong demand for AI PCs … The core growth is concentrated in the high-end thin and light laptop and thin and light gaming laptop user groups…

    So the reason AMD’s desktop cpus suddenly got more expensive in Japan is because Intel is expecting an increase in ultrabook sales? I’m unsatisfied



  • To me agentic ai seems to be a futile attempt at making llms useful in a work context. The idea of having virtual workers who will accomplish tasks and lift their own weight seems appealing until you realize not even hiring actual human workers increases throughput until they can get their bearings. Tools that consistently and accurately do repetitive things is more valuable for an individual than an open ended tool with the potential to solve it all in one go imo.

    I find it hard to believe that llms trying to cover up for their weaknesses with increasingly token intensive methods like thinking or planning will stay economically viable after the “capture the market” phase of the ai industry. It is remarkable that such methods work at all. I can’t imagine there’s nearly enough training data about non-final work or thought processes or planning that went behind producing something, not to mention people might not accurately describe how they reached their solution even if they try to. And even if they manage to print those thoughts into their context, llms don’t produce words through a thought process so it’s dubious how much benefit they can ultimately obtain.

    I think once the ai craze is over people might make tools that use machine learning to automate tasks but I don’t think the repackaged chatbots are it.

    I’ve tried agentic coding using a bunch of llms from ollama couple weeks ago, most couldn’t manage to consistently find the correct file, glm4.7 got pretty far but lost context and produced some irrelevant code.