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Life's a lot easier when you just close your eyes and pretend the problem disappears, huh?

> Just the idea that watching some ads in a search engine can fix the world, that's the problem I'm having an issue with.

I agree with you, it won't change the world. But again I think it's mainly just marketing. They do what they claim and they do seem to care about actually making a difference and are somewhat consistent with their efforts so I wouldn't call that "greenwashing". I don't think their efforts are minimal but what do I know about planting trees and stuff. You can check their youtube channel :

https://www.youtube.com/@Ecosia/videos

It's not. That's why I suggest people outside of the US should stop buying and using American products as much as possible.

There are options. Uruky is a great European search engine where you can use an European search index (EUSP) alongside other smaller ones. Their entire stack is USA free.

They also use Yandex. https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio... , which is why I cancelled.

They have since removed all mentions of it and other names of the indexes that they use from their docs.

Basically you have no transparency and no clue how much of your money is going where. Could be that 80% of your results are Google index, 10% Bing, 5% Yandex and 5% independent indexes and you have no way of knowing.

That's why I switched to Uruky, where I have actual control over where my money goes. I mainly use EUSP, Mojeek, Linkup, Marginalia and if I can't find what i'm looking for only then go to a fallback search engine (that you can set inside) like DDG, Brave, Ecosia. There's a couple of other smaller open source indexes that they use (including their own).

Ecosia uses Google's index by default. Qwant = Bing's. (at least for now). DDG also uses Bing's.

Kagi uses a lot of different providers, including [Yandex](https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...).

I would recommend trying out [Uruky](https://uruky.com/) You can choose your own indexes to use. So if you want to support European companies you can try to use as much as possible European or open-source indexes and only when you can't find stuff to back to google's (they even have a private google index that they use called Serper). You can also configure fallback search engines like DDG, Brave...

Not true. 1. They actually do the things they claim, check their transparency reports. 2. They use Google / Bing. That's true. But they partnered with Qwant and launched an European index (EUSP), and it's pretty good. They're starting to roll it out, but you can use the index yourself via API.

Still better than using Google directly.

I thought this was about https://www.bearblog.dev/

I think the book is seen more of as a complementary thing to the teacher, not something you're expected to read and understand on your own (unless you're really smart). They give you the cold hard theory, exercises with little explanation and wish you off after that.

I'm from Eastern Europe and studied a bit of math in undergrad and I referenced mostly from American books as everything else was just terrible to learn from. I even read a portion of Spivaks Calculus, which was difficult but great.

>250k trees seems like a lot from you looking out your window. From the perspective of trees we cut down every year (that we account for) it is close to a rounding error.

Because there's a bigger bad the smaller bad is totally fine and nobody should care?

And it seems it was 400k in total :

"In addition to the 250,000 trees felled at Muhos, Annala estimates that an additional 150,000 trees were felled at Otanmäki"

I don't care how sick our society is to normalize cutting 400k trees for data centers. It's wrong.

"Around 1 in 10 Japanese people reach their 30s without ever having had sex"

I actually assumed it's way more. Interesting.

Pretty much. Porn is also getting better and more varied, filling more niches people have. And by porn I don't mean the things you only see on pornhub and from professional studios. Anything that gets you off.

Have you guys seen how beautiful some of the women in Kpop are? Not only that, but they are also idols, meaning they have a strong presence on social media (post pictures, shorts), appear on variety shows, interact with fans through all sorts of fanmeets, online services and so on... They make fans feel like they have a relationship with them. After an event/concert you can usually easily find 4K fancams of the idol. They fill that gap both emotionally and sexually as they're really lovely girls. Japan also has a strong idol culture, although it's not as popular as Korea's internationally.

Then there's things like onlyfans, live-streamers and so on... Of course people are having less sex. On top of what you said of people just generally choosing to interact less because of the amount of digital entertainment. 50 years ago if you didn't get of your house the most entertainment you would have is probably books or TV, situation is wildly different these days. With AI probably gonna get even worse.

All that said, I don't think it's necessarily bad. But for future generations human interaction won't be the default anymore. They will have toto re-discover the value of that interaction.

I'm always amazed how entitled people are these days for free stuff. That being said, it does show costs are piling up for these AI companies if even Google is restricting free access to a relatively smaller model amid the AI hype train. Good!

Qwen 3.8 flash-next or Gemma 26B because I care about responsible and sustainable usage of LLM's.

I hope you also know they're using Yandex as one of their indexes.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

Uruky is the way. 2x cheaper also.

More novelty and marketing than anything useful. Anyone who has done any cleaning will most likely agree.

The moment something becomes a clear signal for brilliance, it immediately stops being useful as it will be imitated.

Reminds me of this xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2899:_Goodhart%27...

I don't understand why they have this option. Why would anyone toggle this on?

Twitter has gone from relatively open to instagram / facebook level of closedness where I can't even share a video with my friends because it asks them to log in. I had to rely on nitter and xcancel for that... Now that no longer works either

I have one niche that I use twitter for. If it wasn't for that - would have deleted my account long time ago. Things like this push me towards that direction, though.

It feels restrictive, especially since it’s part of a broader pattern of limiting user freedom on platforms. For instance, on PC you can't simply right click on a video and save it on bluesky. They add some frontend bullshit to prevent you from doing that. On "new" Reddit I remember when you saved an image it would always have a watermark on it. On PC, you can't preview the raw image/video either. On Instagram you can't save images at all easily. Cant view content without being logged in, etc.. Now contrast this with platforms like Mastodon where I can do whatever I want with the uploaded media there and there are barely any such restrictions.

Strange... I don't ever recall ever coming across an image linking somewhere outside of lemmy. Most people just upload images directly into their instance when creating posts.

In general never felt like I saw some dodgy link or anything nefarious

Nope, I can see them just fine without any account. Not sure what the problem might be on your side. They're in the same place as on HN.

Lemmy (part of of fediverse), HN, Tildes, Lobste.rs.

"Guys over 40 shouldn't hit the gym; do Tai Chi walking instead. In 30 days, people won't recognize you anymore."

Thanks! I don't have any knowledge of running models locally.

I assume it would not be able to handle an unquantized Qwen3.6-35B or is it irrelevant as you almost always would want to run a quantized version of the model on consumer hardware?

Mind sharing your laptops specs? Just interested to see what is needed to locally run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

I see! Thanks.

Kinda was expecting to see Gemma 4 26B in benchmark comparisons :(

> Imagine a world where only one country has AGI/ASI.

You've fallen for the hype. The only way these AI companies can justify their bullshit worth and burn of capital is by promising a magical AGI. It's just marketing and it is still unclear if LLM's will ever be profitable.

If they won't - then EU is doing the right thing laying low.

> Or a world where Europe only gets access to frontier models 6 months later.

What a calamity!

Yep, B12 is a solved issue. It's pretty cheap to supplement.

I do want to mention that you do also have to look out to get enough of : Omega 3, Calcium, Iodine, Iron, Selenium, Protein.

Takes a bit of work at the start to adapt but it's very doable, and it's not like Omnivores don't have comparable deficiencies from not eating enough plants and fruit. Not to mention other problems that come with eating animal products...

I only supplement with Omega 3, Vitamin D, B12, Iodine (although sometimes I go for wakame). Have been on a plant-based diet for around 4 years now, feeling healthy.

Personally, I don't use them because I feel they're: unsustainable (burn through too many tokens), over-complicated, have privacy/security problems and creating an unhealthy reliance on them to do basic stuff.