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Re:Gemini in Chrome on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:18AM (#45299246)
I recommended FUTO keyboard in sibling comment. FlorisBoard is a nice FOSS option, but some features are still WIP. Personally, I've switched fully to ThumbKey, but that's got quite a learning curve.
Re:Gemini in Chrome on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:15AM (#45299225)
You can always opt out of using gboard altogether.

FUTO Keyboard is quite nice.

erm acktually not an anime
Re:Claude 4 on Friday May 23, 2025 @12:05PM (#44074044)
while this is obviously a very damning example, tbf it does seem to be an extreme outlier.
that looks like a dinosaur now
Re:LTXVideo 13B AI video generation on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:33AM (#43945947)
>It’s likely their is a higher parameter count model in the works and this makes it easy to distinguish between the two.

in this case it looks like this is the higher parameter count version, the 2b was released previously. (Not that it excludes them from making an even larger one in the future, altho that seems atypical of video/image/audio models)

re: GP: I sincerely wish 'Open'AI were this forthcoming with things like param count. If they have a 'b' in their naming, it's only to distingish it from the previous 'a' version, and don't ask me what an 'o' is supposed to mean.

Re:So Much Blood on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @05:38PM (#43920824)
days? Pretty sure I could survive at least a couple years off snicker bars
>You probably want to replace Llama with Qwen in there. And Gemma is not even close.

Have you tried the latest, gemma3? I've been pretty impressed with it. Altho I do agree that qwen3 quickly overshadowed it, it seems too soon to dismiss it altogether. EG, the 3~4b and smaller versions of gemma seem to freak out way less frequently than similar param size qwen versions, tho I haven't been able to rule out quant and other factors in this just yet.

It's very difficult to fault anyone for not keeping up with the latest SOTA in this space. The fact we have several options that anyone can serviceably run, even on mobile, is just incredible.

Anyway, i agree that Mistral is worth keeping an eye on. They played a huge part in pushing the other players toward open weights and proving smaller models can have a place at the table. While I personally can't get that excited about a closed model, it's definitely nice to see they haven't tapped out.

Re:Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @01:48AM (#43912609)
I feel like these are all great examples of things people think they want. Making a post about it is one thing, actually buying or using a product, I think the majority of nostalgic people will quickly remember why they don't actually want it in their adult life.
unless I somehow skimmed over it, they only appear to refer to "prompt injection"
Re:Internet in a Box on Sunday April 27, 2025 @07:29PM (#43816031)
Well, I have a few flash drives with USB-C connections built in, and 1 or 2 with USB-B
Maybe you shouldn't base your assumptions of the world on politically charged clickbait headlines... Did her and Bernie use a private jet? Quite possibly. Does that mean they fly "everywhere" on private jets? Certifiably false.
tbf, I think pre-AI social media will barely receive a paragraph in a 2075 history book.
Re:A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane on Sunday April 13, 2025 @05:53PM (#43676138)
Would you mind explaining what keeps these sites from becoming victim to the same thing?
Re:Blue Prince Is a Roguelike Puzzle Masterpiece on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:21PM (#43661050)
it seems like it might be mostly attributable to the RNG element of the game
Re:Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash on Friday April 11, 2025 @09:15PM (#43660420)
who else has would ever have a significantly large store of licensed material?
exactly this! a whole lot of people above suggesting stripping away all the fun
Re:The Llama 4 herd on Saturday April 05, 2025 @03:58PM (#43596356)
reality*
Re:The Llama 4 herd on Saturday April 05, 2025 @03:14PM (#43596051)
their huggingface page doesn't actually appear to have been updated yet
Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? on Saturday April 05, 2025 @02:52PM (#43595829)
well, web search is one thing that would look very different
Re:My 16-month theanine self-experiment on Sunday March 09, 2025 @03:20PM (#43312677)
experiencing withdrawal symptoms seems to me quite different than regular use having a positive benefit
Re:All Kindles can now be jailbroken on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:14PM (#43074665)
my kindle oasis has been largely collecting dusk since I've got my kobo. I do really miss the buttons tho, perhaps this can prolong my buying a third device.

the only thing giving me pause is that I apparently have to register the kindle, which if possible, I'm sure I've avoided. any insight on why this is necessary?

Re:ChatGPT Search on Thursday October 31, 2024 @06:05PM (#42012043)
>It's an interesting showcase of essentially an evolutionary algorithm/swarm optimizer falling into a local optimum while a much better global optimum is out of reach because the real world is something like a Rastrigin function with copious amounts of noise with an unknowable but fat tailed distribution.

I've never heard it framed like this before, that's beautiful.

Re:ChatGPT Search on Thursday October 31, 2024 @05:44PM (#42011851)
They're definitely still using your data though
I remember learning about this a few years ago and being really interested, then I read the reviews on Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.akiliinter...

Edit: seems they've added a (also terrible) version for adults: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.akiliinter...

I think it's fair to say that a lot of users have no idea they're doing so, hence why changes like the one in TFA are necessary to encourage transparency around these practices
>Twitch, Instagram and TikTok have so much less of it for example.

I'd be interested in any sort of evidence that supports this

There is an english translated audio track, actually. (sound quality is not fantastic though)
Re:418 I'm a Teapot on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @06:00PM (#42000919)
Re:418 I'm a Teapot on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @05:55PM (#42000859)
So, it was swapped for a :thumbs_up:, right?

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