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- palimpsest4
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When was the last time you were happy?
- Yesterday.ideaist
- before I read this post.utopian
- Did you forget that night so quickly, pali?
I'm hurt.Continuity - Yesterday and when this coffee starts kicking inYakuZoku
- Actually on Friday, when I discovered some AI stupid shit that helps me get days of work done in just minutes.utopian
- ^niceYakuZoku
- when was the first time u were happy ?neverscared
- Now O’Clockmort_
- Daily, it's all about outlook.kalkal
- ^ Word, that's Excel-ent.Morning_star
- ^^ yupYakuZoku
- I'm actually having a terrible day now.kalkal
- I’m between the sweetest happiness imaginable everyday with my amazing kids, and absolute devastation looking for work.monospaced
- today when my new wall clock arrived in the post but tbh I woke up happy with tea & wife in bedGardener
- when the ground shook this morning and my pets and I all hopped up together <3PonyBoy
- when i was at inner peace...neverscared
- .. that was at the trump inauguration i think...neverscared
- every second that I'm lucky to exist. I came from billions of years of nothingness and will return to billions of years of nothingness so I may as well enjoy it_niko
- When there were less elons and more melons on QBN.NBQ00
- ^ that's you posting that shit here mo-fo!!YakuZoku
- or maybe i'm getting you mixed up with Ben lolYakuZoku
- With having a newborn, my emotions are going all places every 5 min.milfhunter
- 1996BusterBoy
- prophetone4
Artificial Intelligence
Sensing an impending, overnight, NFT-like rapid lack of interest scenario for the sexier, expensive, subscription-based, heavily-funded AI products as eyeballs focus on the improving open source solutions, and with AGI around the corner it’s going to pivot yet again, as we hopefully get closer to me getting my hoverboard.
- mort_10
- I'm always looking for the perfect plugin and or filter to create the perfect halftone, dot pattern or photocopy...but I can never find one.utopian
- The search for the perfect imperfect.mort_
- @utopian - check out Vectoraster https://lostminds.co…skwiotsmith
- ^ thanks, I've been looking too since Astute went sassyMrT
- interesting, thanks skwiotsmith!utopian
- DAMN. I *need* Vectoraster, but I'm a PC. I did spend last night watching cheap upgrade how-tos on the new Mac Mini, so... maybe time to finally switchNairn
- @nairn Texturelabs has a pretty simple halftone setup: https://www.youtube.…garbage
- Thanks, but it's a vector-first solution I've been long after.Nairn
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- Back in the 2000s there used to be a website where you could upload an image then it'd blow it up to any size with a halftone you could control dots on.microkorg
- It would then output as a PDF which you could print then stick all the sheets together to make a huuuuge print.microkorg
- Ha, you mean The Rasterbator? It's still up.garbage
- I still use the Rasterbator app :)
It's handy, but it's.. well, old.Nairn
- utopian5
Artificial Intelligence
I'm considering closing my $20 ChatGPT account and moving over to Abacus AI for $10 a month. Abacus AI offer so many models under one roof.
Abacus Models Included:
LLMs
- GPT-4o
- GPT-o1
- Deepseek R1
• Claude Sonnet 3.5
• Claude Haiku 3.5
• Gemini 2.0 Flash
• Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
• Gemini 1.5 Pro
- Abacus AI Dracarys
- Abacus AI Smaug
- Llama 3.3 70B
- Llama 3.1 405B
- GrokImage Generation
- FLUX 1.1 Pro
- FLUX 1.1 Ultra
- Dall-E
• Recraft
• IdeogramVideo Generation
- Kling Al v1.6
- Luma Labs
- Runway
• Hailuo AI- me too, but why not just use Deepseek for free?_niko
- Abacus has more stuff and image/ video generation stuffNBQ00
- Because look at all the various models that are on this platform. You get ChatGPT, Google, Meta, etc..and all of the image and video generators as well.utopian
- this one? https://abacus.ai/grafician
- "$10 per user, billed monthly (first month free, minimum 2 month subscription Learn more)"grafician
- https://abacus.ai/ch…grafician
- oh shit, glanced over that, so you get the latest chatGPT as well plus all the other stuff so worse case even if you only use GPT you save 50% each month_niko
- There is a token limit though. It's great if you are a moderate userShenanigansTV
- That's the URL and they're a U.S. company that doesn't share data with China. They also offer the Deepseek LLM within their API environment.utopian
- So both OpenAI and Anthropic are allowing this company to cannibalize their margins on already money losing models?monNom
- I’d be highly suspicious that you weren’t actually getting GPT-o1 but rather some smaller/cheaper model fine tuned to say it was GPT-o1.monNom
- Also, all of the AI data can be integrated and indexed into: Google Drive, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, etc.. You also can build AI agents & chatbots.utopian
- According to information available on Abacus AI's website, their $10 per month plan does not have a strict "token limit".utopian
- I'm probably paying around $500 a month easy for AI shit for work, probably closer to $700YakuZoku
- utopian3
- Patton Oswalt?Salarrue
- "you're full of beans and so is your old man!"YakuZoku
- https://media.tenor.…Krassy
- trump witihout make up..?neverscared
- lol moldystoplying
- palimpsest5
- some cute girl's art-school project whom the professor gave an A++++ to?_niko
- ideaist8
blog
Had an uncle (my moms brother) die unexpectedly overnight.
He was a wild man through life, never really "took off" in life / failure to launch.
Drugs, booze, etc. etc. etc.
Heart attack.
NOT unexpected, BUT start to think about NOT making an effort to see him more, have him over for family meals these last few years, etc. etc. etc.
Just another perspective on time, family, life, etc. etc. etc. on a cool Canadian Monday morning.
I'm trying to practise awareness more these days and perhaps this is a note for you to do the same as time passes.
XO to you and yours.
- 66 years old SOOO again, NOT unexpected AND (generally) an age where this type of lifestyle catches up with you...ideaist
- yeah that always sucks. and we inevitably regret not reaching out/spending time more. It's tough. when you have kids, family, work etc etc._niko
- but even though he didn't take off, it sounds like he enjoyed the ride while he was here :) and hopefully brought some joy and good memories to loved ones_niko
- @_niko I agree; he certainly did whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, which is great for him!
Death (& taxes) just suck, I guess.ideaist
- canoe5
blog
Re: Everything is so fucking tiring.
After Thanksgiving I stopped checking in with the news.
There's been a considerable amount of more time available to think about what I want to think about. Unless you're required to watch the spectacle, turn away. Thank yourself for it later.
- Turn on, tune in, drop out_niko
- we can all do with some unplugging and enjoying life._niko
- Yep it is a good way to be. just remember that when they come for you or it comes for you, don’t expect anyone to care about your plightnb
- They won’t anyway, so you’re good. I mean, most of us “care” to the extent of getting outraged on our screens... no action.nb
- But when your house burns down or your government comes to take away your rights...thoughts and prayers have no value, anyway.nb
- I'm lovin' it!palimpsest
- I also am on a media diet, and man is it great. Even in better times the new's angle is "everything is horrible". Drives engagementrobotinc
- 100% @canoe; this is the way...ideaist
- sucks when you work in the news. i try to zone out anyway,ephix
- YakuZoku5
- nvidiasted
- nah they knew what they had, the retards are the investor bros taking these stocks to the moon,_niko
- i think 1) they knew what they had 2) they knew the real costs 3) everything else was investor fugazijonny_quest_lives
- i just don't think they saw an overseas competitor revealing what was behind the curtainjonny_quest_lives
- puts the whole Sam Altman board of directors of OpenAi drama in a a whole new light...jonny_quest_lives
- for profit vs. open source... real costs vs. speculative hypejonny_quest_lives
- also all the dank tech memes really cheer me upjonny_quest_lives
- I guess the US based AI companies did think that the Chinese were going to steal of the data and models and then recreate all of them for pennies on the dollar.utopian
- I mean one could argue they are more transparent than the Sam Altman led investment vehicle called "OpenAi"jonny_quest_lives
- Deepseek is either being truthful in their documentation and OpenAi has been lying or...jonny_quest_lives
- Deepseek is is being less than truthful and OpenAi has been honest with their cost structurejonny_quest_lives
- i am here for the lulz either wayjonny_quest_lives
- We've had to sit through 2 years of Sam Altman talking about rewriting "the social contract" for the sole benefit of his company...jonny_quest_lives
- this couldn't happen to a better bunch of silicon valley lizard peoplejonny_quest_lives
- https://i.imgur.com/…jonny_quest_lives
- OpenAi employees crying for "protectionism" is biblical schadenfreude: https://i.imgur.com/…jonny_quest_lives
- Biblical: https://i.imgur.com/…jonny_quest_lives
- https://i.imgur.com/…jonny_quest_lives
- neverscared6
Elon Musk
Dani Dayan, chair of Israel’s Holocaust memorial centre Yad Vashem, has warned that Elon Musk’s call for Germans to “move on” from guilt about the Holocaust and other Nazi-era crimes was “an insult to the victims of nazism”.
“Contrary to Elon Musk’s advice, the remembrance and acknowledgment of the dark past of the country and its people should be central in shaping German society,” Dayan said in a post on X yesterday, referencing Musk’s remarks at a far right rally in Germany on Saturday.
“Failing to do so is an insult to the victims of nazism and a clear danger to the democratic future of Germany,” Dayan added.
- apartheid bro does no likey guilt.neverscared
- Musk the Mookutopian
- Bill Gates calls Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians abroad ‘insane shit’neverscared
- 'Take seriously what the enemies of democracy preach," Auschwitz survivor warns against the rise of European far-rightneverscared
- https://www.theguard…neverscared
- He's right. If Germanic nations could overcome their cultural guilt, they'd live happier lives. they could transcend the fear and cult of deathuan
- nazi were the apex of cult of death...and they themselves where pretty happy... just look at the party goebbels throw... never forget that...neverscared
- or history repea..... well u know the phrase...or u forgot that too... damn u idiots...neverscared
- the swiss are fine off though ,,,https://www.wsj.c...neverscared
- https://www.wsj.com/…neverscared
- u c . theres is still plenty of undiscovered guild to dig up... in a lot of countries and corporations.neverscared
- he's slowly legalizing nazism.renderedred
- YakuZoku4
- USA #2
USA #2
USA #2
USA #2utopian - It's ok Trump will add a 25% tariff on Chinese AI and all will be well._niko
- lolYakuZoku
- the excess of "USA #1 in AI" got wiped, nothing interesting. nvidia lolsted
- but trump said golden age...not silver or bronze age... but looking at trumps fat face..its def. bronzer age...neverscared
- AI is simply the newest cash grab in an overhyped market by greedy investors.utopian
- USA #2
- BusterBoy16
blog
Everything is so fucking tiring.
Our political and business "leaders" have just turned into internet trolls...just a giant pissing contest to see who has the bigger ego.
If you have even a slightly wired existence, it's impossible to ignore. Fuck them all.
- Probably should have put in the signs your getting old thread...even the title of that triggers me.BusterBoy
- I'm so tired of it too that I want to be offline as much as possible.ephix
- That's how I feel when I visit Instagram Facebook comment section totally took over Instagram. Instagram is shit nowYakuZoku
- Meanwhile YouTube got all positive n shitYakuZoku
- I feel you. Because of our jobs we can't be disconnected, but the truth is that it burns, and a lot.OBBTKN
- Totally agree. My GF had a go at me the other week for trolling people online for their stupid views so had to stop.Ianbolton
- southland tales babesArchitectofFate
- "If you can keep your head while others are losing theirs". :)mrAtor
- “Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.” we will c how long the rogans, trumps andneverscared
- musks, zucks last....in 4-8 years they highly likely will be the failure a lot of people see now already..neverscared
- your are only one or two breaths away from becoming the next nixon... especially when u run on lies and more lies all the time...neverscared
