Human brains just aren’t wired for citations. Especially outside academia I guess.

I’ve been meaning to make git issues, but in a nutshell, one is “community taxononony”

Instead of being pigeon-holed into a single community, every community would be part of an inherited hierarchy, like a class system in programming. /c/thelastairbender might be part of /c/animation, or /c/television; perhaps both?

Organization would be mutual. Moderators of each have to approve to join and remain in the hierarchy, though the “initial structure” of the community could be set up by admins I suppose. The sub community inherits “global” rules from their parent communities, but can have their own rules as well.

And what’s the point of all this, you ask? Well, way I see it, Lemmy has a “niche” discoverability/attention issue, where big engaging communities like politics crowd out smaller niches. But being a sub community would show all its posts in the communities up the hierarchy as well, getting them the visibility of a “big” community while remaining in the niche. It would allow focused communities to exist, but users browsing bigger communities to see them as an appropriate topical thing. This aggregation is user configurable, of course, but I think it’s very important that this visibility be the default.

And in terms of programming, I think it would be feasible? Admittedly I don’t know the architecture, but it seems like it would fit with existing paradigms.

Another idea I have is a replica of Twitter’s “community notes” feature. Perhaps if a comment gets enough upvotes and is flagged by the comment writer as a “community correction,” and fits certain criteria (like being below a word count, maybe a certain percentage of upvotes being from the host instance), it’s automatically displayed below the original post’s title.

This would allow, for example, clickbait or questionable sources to be called out, or misleading titles to be clarified.

Theoretically this is a mod’s job, but I feel that:

• Mods don’t want to be heavy-handed

• They’re often overworked/short on time.

• And frankly, let a lot of clickbait/ragebait posts slide anyway.

And for all of Twitter’s failures, this particular feature is a good idea.

Again, it ties into the idea of “attention control,” to try and give information hygiene a chance over people’s impulses.

That Lemmys’s not too different from Reddit.

Clickbait gets upvoted to the top if it makes people feel good; no one even checks the source. Niche content gets absolutely smothered by this, too, and the niche posters give up.

These are structural problems Lemmy/Piefed can improve, but that doesn’t seem to be the priority :/.

Or Lemmy.

Information hygiene in the news subs is terrible, at least here on .world.

We certainly did. We learned Chicago/APA style, types of sources, and how to make citations in reports.

And that Wikipedia is not appropriate as a source to cite.

A Mediaite repost of Daily Mail…

I keep saying this over, and over, and over again in this community. Keep information hygiene in mind, please. Post the original source at least, and try to avoid serial reposters, like Mediaite. Mention Mediaite in the body as your original reference, if you wish.

…And try to avoid tabloids like Daily Mail, too, or at least mention a “take the source with a grain of salt” in the post’s body if its an interesting original report. This is good reference to start with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

But no one ever cares.

Past commenters seem to agree when I bring this up, yet poster and mods don’t do anything.

This is the final straw for me. I don’t like blocking anything; I’ve only blocked two other Lemmy communities, one a bot spamming one. But I’m blocking /c/News, as apparently it isn’t going to change, and I came to the fediverse to get away from mass-upvoted tabloid reposts flooding the top of my feed.

That’s not true at all. It’s not economical to transplant RAM ICs once they’re packaged and soldered onto something.

And if they’re produced as, say, HBM modules, they absolutely cannot be repurposed for, say, DDR5 or LPDDR5 CPUs, or GDDR GPUs. There’s no reworking, the memory buses on processors simply do not support them, and altering them would have a massive development cost.

That’s not true, from what I’ve read:

https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20251113-12780.html

despite higher ASPs boosting profitability across the memory industry, capital spending on DRAM and NAND Flash is only anticipated to increase modestly in 2026. This limited investment growth is unlikely to significantly affect bit output.

Memory makers are skeptical, too.

Too late, I’m afraid. The supply for DRAM basically can’t adjust, and already-manufactured chips can’t be repurposed, so even if Oracle, Meta, and OpenAI went bankrupt tomorrow, it would take some time to build up inventory again.

The issue with AI is “now”

Can they power with solar? Nuclear? Hell, even a natural gas plant? Nope, the data centers need the power right this second, so they get gas turbines on site. Same with cooling; evaporative is just the quickest and cheapest to set up.

Same with its architecture. There’s no time to fix temperature/sampling issues, no time to try bitnet or any of a bazillion interesting papers that came out. A shippable product (model) is needed yesterday; just scale up what we have. “Fail” a single experiment? Your team is fired, which is exactly what happened at Meta.

Everything has to happen right now because of corporate FOMO. So, while this is an interesting musing and maybe Intel or someone will play with it, the actual AI labs could not care less because they can’t get it immediately.

“Dismissing Wikipedia” is my political litmus test.

To be clear, it’s never been a reliable source; we learned that in middle school. You take everything written on it with a grain of salt.

…But it’s still an oasis in a desert. When some of my family started questioning its utility because of its “liberal bias,” like post-grad-educated family saying this as Fox News blares in the background, I knew things had gotten bad.

I haven’t seen any extreme left question it IRL, but I feel like that’s coming too, with how tankies are skeptical of it.

Yeah. Wine/Proton is an incredible achievment. DirectX->Vulkan translation is a miracle by itself.

• You can run DXVK in Windows, too.

• Antivirus (even Windows Defender with defaults) can massively slow down disk IO in some games. As an example, my Rimworld loading times were over 2X as long with Defender realtime active, and it caused all sorts of hitching.

I’m not trying to dunk on Linux here; it can help a ton, sometimes. Sometimes it is Linux that provides the massive boost.

…But sometimes it’s just about a good default configuration, with linux gaming OSes provide. Windows can be like this too, once it’s stripped down.

Again, not trying to dunk or tout either OS; I use both, though linux mostly. But I think attribution is important. And the assertion that Linux provides a big performance boost is not always true; I’m still stuck on Windows with several games just because (in spite of my best tweaking/modding efforts), they still perform better on Windows in A/B tests.

And better security, theoretically.

TBH most Android users would absolutely install all sorts of malware if it wasn’t literally impossible with the OS’s architecture. Not that Google Play isn’t a scam-infested bog, but I do get the locked-down approach.

You ran it locally? With what; DrawThings?

I love how there’s a ton of comments and upvotes here, but the whole article is paywalled behind a subscription.

It reminds me of a post I just saw elsewhere, with total nonsense in the link. Since it was already upvoted, the moderater left it up as an experiment: it got a boatload of drive-by uploads and comments. No one cared.

…That about sums up the internet for me now. People don’t actually want sourced stuff or long arguments, they just want to scroll and affirm their beliefs :(

The “upgradability” part in a small laptop is questionable to me, anyway.

The GPU is really compromised in that chassis, as having it in a slot compromises cooling big time, and limits how much power it can use. And while I love upgradable RAM for the CPU… it’d be better if they used faster CAMM modules. Many other brands have upgradable SSDs/WiFi.

Swappable ports are awesome, no question.

Well, with how things are going with Windows and laptop OEMs, it’s still a better deal than those.

A lot of people basically need an iPad with a touchpad and keyboard, which is precisely what this is.

+1

Take anything said here with a grain of salt, as we don’t know you, nor these two guys.

I mean, even as-is, it’s a very useful tool. Especially as the capabilities we have get exponentially cheaper.

What people don’t get is AI is about to become a race to the bottom, not to the top. It’s a utility to sift through millions of documents or run simple bots, or work assistants, or makeshift translators or whatever; you know, oldschool language modeling. And that’s really neat as the cost approaches “basically free.”