Gareth321

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by Gareth321 5d ago
Bitwarden, while not quite as polished, works well. If you have your own server at home you can even self-host, which I do. It's an open source server side app called Vaultwarden [ https://github.com/dani-garcia/vau
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by Gareth321 5d ago
> I'm in favour of people making money from their work. That's completely fair. YouTube offers content creators many ways to do this. For example, they can put content behind a paywall. They can ask for donations. They can ask
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by Gareth321 5d ago
I understand they have an opt-out feature now. With positive interaction one can skip one sponsored segment (which works most of the time). The problem is that it's not automated. It required digging one's phone out of their pocke
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by Gareth321 5d ago
I'm sure content creators would hate it because they would make less money. Billions of YouTube users around the world would be very happy. To be clear, I'm not opposed to the practise, as long as that's clear up front. YouTu
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by Gareth321 5d ago
Thanks! It's great on Mac/PC but sadly it doesn't work on iPhone, Android TV and Apple TV. I have solutions for those now too.
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by Gareth321 5d ago
It helps but I understand that it's not automatic. Is that correct? If so it significantly undermines the functionality. SponesorBlock automatically removes ads. Meaning I don't have to scramble to open my phone or find the remo
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by Gareth321 5d ago
> I mean, the stuff that's in the video is not really under Google's control. It is completely within Google's control. They have a hundred pages of terms of services, dictating everything the content creators may and may
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by Gareth321 5d ago
This is a bigger problem than it may appear. The business lifecycle is well understood, whereby a company innovates, expands, and then when it has a sufficiently large customer base, it monetises. I.e. it enshitifies its products - making
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by Gareth321 5d ago
I strongly agree, and it frustrates me when people and companies claim that advertising their own products "doesn't count." I cancelled my YouTube Premium plan because of ads. These are all the ads they permit on Premium, d
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by Gareth321 5d ago
We don't have a lot of contemporary examples of this, so the research is sparse. If we were to extrapolate the existing research and what we know about how economic and markets work, it would lead to lower wages and higher unemployment
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by Gareth321 5d ago
I played the demo and it's been at the top of my "to play" list for decades. For one reason or another, I just never have yet. Majora's Mask is also at the top.
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by Gareth321 5d ago
This is a topic of interest for me, and I have read a lot of the research about it over the years and like to stay informed. I'll preface this by saying that the topic is highly contentious in economics. There is no "consensus.&qu
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by Gareth321 8d ago
> Amazon prompts me to create a passkey everytime I log in, even when I logged in with a passkey, because my passkeys live in Bitwarden rather than my OS or browser. I haaaaaate this. And every time I'm like, "do I not already
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by Gareth321 8d ago
I agree. The double standard is the problem. People have been imprisoned for IP theft, but when these companies commit IP theft on the grandest scale ever imaginable, they're rewarded with trillion dollar IPOs. Either IP isn't pro
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by Gareth321 8d ago
Are they? I've had excellent success. The confusing part of this is that there are two types of PDF. The first is a "normal" digital PDF. The second is a scanned PDF. The first can essentially be read like a document. LLMs
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by Gareth321 8d ago
I agree, and to be clear, I do not think it is capable of human-like self-actualisation - yet. However we are clearly seeing many indications that, if not human -like self-actualisation, AI -like self-actualisation is emerging. We can eve
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by Gareth321 8d ago
It depends on the cause. 1. The AI chooses, of its own volition, to kill people. It is likely that by the time AI has this level of control and intelligence, it is too late to stop it. 2. A malicious person uses AI to cause a terrorist even
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by Gareth321 9d ago
At what point are people going to start taking this risk seriously? Maybe Eric Schmidt is right: it won't be until a bunch of people die that legislators take action. Let us hope it happens sooner rather than later, before it's ho
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by Gareth321 9d ago
I used [AI Studio.]( https://aistudio.google.com/ ) It's possible the same issues are present there, but AI Studio is intended for serious work. I don't see why they would intentionally hobble the model's capab
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by Gareth321 9d ago
I agree, and I didn't compare them. The users above me did. I was explaining that they are, in fact, incomparable.
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by Gareth321 10d ago
It's very impressive that DeepSeek 4.1 beats Astra in one benchmark, but I presume you are aware that Astra wins in almost all other benchmarks? These are some of them: https://llm-stats.com/models/compare/dee
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by Gareth321 10d ago
No argument that DeepSeek is much cheaper, but you certainly get what you pay for.
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by Gareth321 10d ago
MAYBE operating systems shouldn't have gatekeepers which can deny access to billions of customers for any and no reason at all. Apple and Google are WELL past due for regulation in this space. The fact that we cannot download and insta
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by Gareth321 10d ago
I think 3.8 Flash is on par with DeepSeek on some benchmarks and tasks (not coding or design), but it's not close to Sol/Astra or Opus/Fable. I would not consider a $20 subscription "ridiculously expensive," but I s
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by Gareth321 10d ago
Okay I just tested 3.8 Flash (High) on some real world problems I have used Opus (High) and Sol (high) to solve. The outcome here is terrible. One of the problems is local zoning laws regarding an expansion of my house. Comparison of annex
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by Gareth321 10d ago
To be fair, it has been about six months since I tried a paid Google model. I will give it another go to compare. Hallucinations were the main issue back then but perhaps it has come a long way.
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by Gareth321 10d ago
> You're probably not using OpenAI models for complex or non-standard tasks. It shits the best just as often as Qwen when you need precision and detail in a non-obvious problem. The benchmarks clearly show otherwise. This is your cu
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by Gareth321 10d ago
It's not even close. Some benchmarks show 3.8 Flash as being close to Astra (DeepSWE v1.1), but they are mostly "bench-maxed". Newer benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 4.0 show Astra at 57.9% and 3.8 Flash at 19.1%. For anyone wh
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by Gareth321 10d ago
> I wonder when/if we’ll see Gemini beating Fable and Astra Google has essentially give up the race for the frontier. The gap is widening very fast. Their strategy appears to be to focus on niche areas like voice, small models for o
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by Gareth321 10d ago
I strongly agree. I suspect it's people who have not yet used the paid models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Gemini is comparable to free models from other providers, but not in the same universe as paid models. This is frustrating becau

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