GunnarGrop

joined 5 years ago
[–] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

There are lot of synonyms, people just choose some words in different contexts based on how they sound. Why use the word "begin" when the word "start" exists?

[–] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Damn, would've been obvious from from the username and post history. If I'd bothered to look at that. Thanks for your comment.

[–] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

Much of it might be freely available data, but there's a huge difference between you accessing a website for data and an LLM doing the same thing. We've had bots scraping websites since the 90's, it's not a new thing. And since scraping bots have existed we've developed a standard on the web to deal with it, called "robots.txt". A text file telling bots what they are allowed to do on websites and how they should behave.

LLM's are notorious for disrespecting this, leading to situations where small companies and organisations will have their websites scraped so thoroughly and frequently that they can't even stay online anymore, as well as skyrocketing their operational costs. In the last few years we've had to develop ways just to protect ourselves against this. See the "Anubis" project.

Hence, it's much more important that LLM's follow the rules than you and me doing so on an individual level.

It's the difference between you killing a couple of bees in your home versus an industry specialising in exterminating bees at scale. The efficiency is a big factor.

[–] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really? I remember Nemo being my favorite GTK file manager, but that was some years ago. When I started using Dolphin I thought that it was the best file manager I've ever used. I still think that, but as mentioned above, I've not tried Nemo in years.

[–] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

IDK guys, do you think a web browser should be a "broader ecosystem of trusted software" or a web browser?

[–] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My absolute favourite thing about them is that they allow me to play games designed for mouse and keyboard from my bed! Like any old PC games (fallout, wasteland, baldurs gate, etc).

I don't play enough "first person" games to have any valuable input, but when I've played things like Elder Scrolls I've honestly preferred using the track pads for controlling the camera.

[–] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Indeed. I very much liked the original steam controller in concept, but the execution left a lot to be desired. Like not using the most "plastic" feeling controller I've ever touched...

Yeah I love that I can play old PC games from my couch! I recently played through Fallout 1 (partly) on the Steam Deck. Amazing times.

[–] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I used to think XBox controllers were the best controllers on the market. I still think they're very good. That changed when I held the Steam Deck for the first time. The feel is better overall, and in my opinion the track pads are such an obvious and great improvement on the traditional controller design.

Nowadays when I use other controllers, they just feel "bare bones" and like they're missing something.

[–] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

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