chisel

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serverless rules? [edited*, no ai]

*the image of cat and the green > symbols were there before I edited the image ...

a cat looks intrigued but co fused at the camera.Text says "Serverless API? I look inside. What do I see? Servers". Small text all around the cat says "boneless chicken. never had any btw", "literally why is it called serverless if there are servers", "uf it wouldn't have servers, woukd it be local?", "can I run qwen 3.5 locally?", "just say that it has servers!", "this doesnt make any sense!". text in bottom right coner "edited by Maria on Lemmy"
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chisel ,

The concept is that you basically upload code directly to the hosting service, then set up an endpoint that points to the code, and magically run it. "Serverless" because you never deal with server setup/config/load balancing/etc... And can pretend that your code runs on nothing if you so please.

Why does non-profit Upsolve.org, a free bankruptcy tool for the poor, need facebook analytics in a bankruptcy evaluation tool?

If you check out Upsolve.org because you are considering bankruptcy due to any sort of reason, there is a tool to help you evaluate whether bankruptcy is appropriate at my.upsolve.org/bankruptcy-screener. (Don't click that before reading more.) ...

chisel ,

Non-profits want to maximize their impact and spend efficiency. If they track how people use their services, they know better where to focus their efforts for improvements. If they know how people are finding their site, they know where to focus their marketing spend to help the most people per dollar spent. Marketing and user analytics are an important part of even altruistic goals.

chisel ,

360 photo of a wood stack is soo overkill, but I love it! What did you use to take that photo?

chisel ,

Lmao, I promise streaming services and CDNs employ world-class experts in encoding, both in tuning and development. They have already poured through maximized quality vs cost. Tuning your encoder to allow for more bits in some scenes by definition ups the average bitrate of the file, unless you're also taking bits away from other scenes. Streaming services have already found a balance of video quality vs storage/bandwith costs that they are willing to accept, which tends to be around 15mbps for 4k. That will unarguably provide a drastically worse experience on a high-enough quality tv than a 40mbps+ bluray. Like, day and night in most scenes and even more in others.

Calibrating your tv, while a great idea, can only do so much vs low-bitrate encodings and the fake HDR services build in solely to trigger the HDR popup on your tv and trick it into upping the brightness rather than to actuality improve the color accuracy/vibrancy.

They don't really care about the quality, they care that subscribers will keep their subscriptions. They go as low quality as possible to cut costs while retaining subs.

Blu-rays don't have this same issue because there are no storage or bandwith costs to the provider, and people buying blu-rays are typically more informed, have higher quality equipment, and care more about image quality than your typical streaming subscriber.

chisel , (edited )

They don't care about quality, they care about cutting costs and keeping subscribers. That's why they employ experts and why some even invent their own codecs and custom hardware to go with it.

Regardless, I'd bet anything that you are not able to reencode blurays to 15mbps without substantial quality loss.

chisel , (edited )

Bad, sure, but also a well-known fundamental issue with basically all agentic LLMs, to the point where sounding the alarm as much as this seems silly. If you give an LLM any access to your machine, it might be tricked into taking malicious actions. The same can be said to real humans. Though they are better than LLMs right now, humans are the #1 security vulnerability in any system.

LLMs can get around this by requiring explicit permission before being able to take certain actions, but the more it asks for permission, the more the user has to just sit there and approve stuff, defeating the purpose of an autonomous agent in the first place.

To be clear, it's not good, and anyone running an agent with a high level of access with no oversight in a non-sandboxed environment today is a fool. But this article is written like they found an 11/10 severity CVE in the linux kernal when really this is a well-known fundamental thing that can happen if you're an idiot and misusing LLMs to a wild degree. LLMs have plenty of legitimate issues to trash on. This isn't one of them. Well, maybe a little.

chisel ,

Oh, for sure, the marketing is terrible and makes this into a bigger issue by making people over confident. I wouldn't say the lack of sandboxing is a major problem on its own, though. If you want an automated agent that does everything, it's going to need permissions to do everything. Though they should absolutely have configurable guardrails that are restrictive by default. I doubt they bothered with that.

The idea is sound, but the tech isn't there yet. The real problem is that the marketing pretends that LLMs are ready for this. Maybe Anthropic shouldn't have released it at all, but at this point AI companies subsist on releasing half-baked products with thrice-baked promises so at this point I wouldn't be surprised if OpenAI, in an attempt to remain relevant, tomorrow releases an automated identity theft bot to help you file your taxes incorrectly.

chisel ,

Fuck you and everything that you think you know. If you don't step outside, those things that you believe, they're gonna kill you... No one's gonna stop you from dying young and miserable and right. If you want something better, you gotta put that shit aside.

- From Here to Utopia by Ramshackle Glory

chisel ,

That's partly the point. Use words that accurately describe your evil group to incorrectly describe other groups and all of a sudden the words lose meaning and nobody can call you that anymore. Hooray!

marriges rule ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )

transcription: just saw a straight woman CONFIDENTLY say lesbian marriage isnt a real marriage its just "two best friends who get each other off" and like bestie, idk what has gone wrong in your life but thats exactly what marriage is supposed to be, regardless of the genders involved. as opposed to real marriage, where you have ...

chisel ,

Tbf, I do feel spouses have a duty to hold eachother to a higher standard than friends do. For mutual improvement, growth, etc... And shared ownership/finances is huge. And often raising kids. Marriage is a lot more than just friendship, though that is a massively important part.

chisel ,

In my experience, it's less PIP and more "let's schedule daily check-in meetings and please send us hourly updates in Slack."

The trick is to be overly communicative before it gets to that point and push back on things when you can. People are generally understanding, but watching time pass without having any clue what progress is being made is scary. Especially when there are important deadlines and you have no control over or insight into the project status. Quell those fears without impacting your productivity too much and everyone will be much happier.

chisel ,

Will someone please give me a step-by-step guide on how to make new friends under 60 and have consistent daily "human experiences" outside of a city center?

I'd love to give up my phone and possibly TV... if it everyone else does too so there are other humans to interact with. Society is in a depressing cath-22 of loneliness.

Though it can't be impossible. Group hobbies, sports, etc exist. Just gotta pick one and go to meet ups. But phone is so much easier 🤤

chisel ,

A can of beans a day keeps the heart disease away! 🫘

chisel ,

This has to be fake... right?

chisel ,

When the human cleans up your vomit and now you have to urgently induce one AGAIN in the exact same spot 😾

chisel ,

You mean for a nanny to gain full custody of his child? Yeah, I'm sure that'll go over well in court.

chisel ,

Yeah, this is the breaking point 🙄

chisel ,

It grows next to shrew bars and microbreweries

chisel ,

The article clearly states that the plants aren't needed, not even to power AI. They're literally keeping them running purely to pollute and own the libs.

chisel ,

My dog drinks just fine from the creek on the farm he ran off to when I was 7.

chisel ,

Back of the envelope it is!

chisel ,

Except that reactions count as upvotes, so I don't think it'd actually be a good way to express disapproval without downvoting.

chisel ,

Police! This one, right here!

chisel ,

Anywhere from 5 to 7 bananas. Or about 0.01296 football fields.

chisel ,

Oh no! Who's going to tell their subscriber?

chisel ,

Hey now, fusion will be ready around the same time AGI is achieved, so it is a brilliant investment to tie the two together.

chisel ,

You forgot a few.

Iron Man: Plot revolves around a man who is clearly made of flesh having his fleshy, non-iron, body break down on him.

Wizard of Oz: Despite there being multiple witches, there are, in fact, no wizards at all in the movie.

Titanic: The ship is clearly established as being unsinkable early in the movie. However, later in the movie, it sinks.

They're all pretty good movies despite the blatant plot holes.

chisel ,

The question you should be asking is does the audience have enough faith in some random commenter's intelligence.

chisel ,

The article says they offered to color Carrey's eyes green with CGI but he opted for the painful contact lenses anyway.

chisel ,

You don't need to take away their right to vote, just give a fair and proportionate voting power, which is a hell of a lot less than the voting power they have now.

chisel ,

Everyone else is very much not on the and page.

chisel ,

Do it! I just replayed it recently after having last played it when it came out. It still holds up. Fun and really charming, plus nostalgic af to boot.

chisel ,

Engagement bait

chisel ,

Is this vetoable? Not every decision made by Congress is subject to a presidential veto, that would be insane. It's just new bills, I thought. Releasing the Epstein files isn't a law they're trying to pass.

chisel ,

I lost my girl yesterday to kidney failure. The first 24 hours are the hardest. So many missed routines and the constant reminders everywhere. All we can do is give them the best life during the time they have. Stay strong, the time spent together is worth the pain of the loss 100x over.

a picture of my perfect passed cat

chisel ,

It's a tactic to get the Dems, who actually give a shit about starving children, to fold and allow the Republicans to take away our already shit healthcare and to protect pedophiles and child traffickers.

chisel ,

Hey we're eating Grandma and you'll like it!

chisel ,

Wait... rizz is short for charisma?? 🤯

chisel ,

Slang has always been shorthand for longer words or phrases, but I didn't realize rizz fit that category.

Even things like "speak of the devil" were once longer phrases. It's a natural pattern in language that common sayings are shortened over time. Really fascinating just how common it is.

chisel ,

Am I crazy, or is that code drawing every line twice?

chisel ,

Nice! This is a fun demo btw, makes me want to play around with canvas. I've never really come across a need for it besides things like hacky camera implementations.

chisel ,

If you ever listen to Vance

Imma stop you right there. You lost me.

chisel ,

"Bottom like, the well has run dry" lmao get fucked you soulless ghouls.

Pros: People will get fed and Republicans are once again caught in their obvious lies and attempts to literally starve the American people

Cons: Voters will learn nothing from this

chisel ,

Tbf, the article never said that they actually found the guy and brought him back.

chisel ,

Um, the government has been filing frivolous lawsuits against some of the largest companies in the country for the past year. Companies then settle out of court and pay a multi-million dollar bribe settlement to encourage their mergers to go through. No sign of companies fighting back. If anything, they're encouraging it by being massive pushovers.

chisel ,

He is a fat fuck, you got that right

chisel ,

Whenstay

chisel ,

Huh, TIL

https://www.kqed.org/science/1446777/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-snail-sex

When snails copulate, two penises enter two vaginal tracts. Both snails in a pairing transfer sperm, but whichever snail got in the best shot with the dart has a better chance of ultimately fertilizing eggs.

First they stab eachother. The better the stab, the more effective the stabber's sperm will be. Then they exchange fluids. Then they settle down, buy a minivan, and waste away in an office until they die.