MalReynolds

@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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Joined 1 years ago

Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.

Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.

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And everyone thinks about real time implications, what about historical ? Seems pretty likely that the NSA has been storing an appreciable fraction of the internet for a long damn while. Come Q-Day that all gets opened and searchable. What would Trump do ?

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Yup, call the virtue signalling bitches out, open weights is fine, which is not to say I don't appreciate local LLMs being given out, even if it's just for the free research on their models, but open source it is not.

Thanks, got a new term today.

You're no fun, orange turnip was merely an example of a bad actor getting control (going Reagan would be confusingly amusing) and it's not about anyone in particular, more so the entire worlds' dirty laundry out to dry

I like FreshRSS in a container, works great from a browser, and you can hit it from your phone on the loo...

Well, that says more about you, who broke your btrfs?

Seriously tho, it's fine, why would you even tell me ?

Probably unenforceable, like so much of EULAs, but enough to deter the small guys who can't afford the lawyers to defend themselves. Bully tactics. Shame, because an open playing field would benefit everyone but nvidia, also a shame that AMD, who probably could defend themselves, dropped financial support for ZLUDA.

Also,

I hate them more for pioneering Software as a Service rent seeking crap. Why own software when you can become a revenue stream for Adobe. Die in a fire.

This is crap too tho.

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No longer taking new papers for a couple of years? now. Crying shame and a pox on scientific advancement.

Got as far as

I can install the driver from Nvidia itself and install it that way

and noped out. Protip, never, ever install the driver from Nvidia, that's windows thinking. Find out how to install it from your distro (in this case RPMFusion, or better for this person, bazzite). It might even work, but it will break on updates.

Edit: Also foot shooting behaviour with cinnamon, get things working using distro default, then try on cinnamon.

Remember GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out). Due to years of SEO and content farming (which google profited from, so you get what you deserve assholes) most of the internet, by volume, is self-congratulatory, for profit, garbage, or, you know, reddit garbage. Hopefully someone points a large LLM at the library of congress or other large, well curated data source, but of course copyright will not allow, thanks mickey mouse. Wouldn't surprise me if the military is already on it, hopefully that leaks...

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You're probably after the vizier. Apocryphally, the queen's moves as currently seen originated when Queen Isobella I of Spain was pissed that the queen was a weak piece, it did indeed arise in Spain during her reign, whether for that reason is left to the reader's imagination.

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Narrator: They were lying about not using the data. They already had.

3D Curve. Horseys jump...

obstruct ... search engine spiders

An interesting way to nobble search competitors and potential LLM competitors too. Strategic now that their search results have gone to shit due to profiting from SEO and content farming. Could see then having advantage on fresh data.

Syncthing-Fork (F-Droid)

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As a linux dev, this conspicuously misses mentioning Visual Studio.

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The general datahoarder hive mind seems to be moving away from shucking and towards manufacturer refurbished drives, see https://serverpartdeals.com/ for example, especially in RAID where you can lose a drive with impunity and warranty is uncomplicated by shucking.

In RAID and similar strategies the redundancy comes from a parity drive, which protects against the loss of one (or more with some schemes) drive, so if you only have two drives of the same size it's just a mirror (50% of total pool) but you can have a drive die without data loss. With four drives you get to use three of the drives (75%), five you can use four (80%) etc. Classical RAID uses identical sized disks but there are other approaches that allow different sizes e.g. mergerfs + SnapRAID or Unraid, here you lose your largest disk to parity.

RAID is generally faster than the individual drives, e.g. mirroring is nearly twice as fast.

Perhaps go with another 2*8Tb which will get you 24Tb usable and use the 16Tb for offline, preferably offsite backup (remember RAID is not a backup, it protects you from disk failure, but not user error for example accidentally deleting things)

Generally well reasoned and interesting, but, the only thing that defends against EEE is

ActivityPub enjoys the support and brand recognition of Mastodon.

Ima guess that Meta's support and brand recognition dwarfs Mastodon's, not re-assuring and rather self absorbed imo.

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Is it time to coin 'Late Stage America' or should we go straight to ' The Decline and Fall of the Roman American Empire'

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Ditto on the hate, technical, but important distinction here, they support open-weight ML. They do not release training source code or data sets to actually make your own (granted you'd need millions in video cards to do it, but still). Open-source gets thrown around a lot in AI, presumably virtue signalling, but precious few walk the walk.

Never underestimate the value of getting hordes of unpaid workers to refine your product. (See also React, others)

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Oddly specific, but totally a red flag.

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Welcome to enshittified search, many have noticed it's approach for years. Although this specific issue indicates you may be going about things ass backwards, if no-ones done it you're either a pioneer who should be aware or you're on hard mode coz you didn't think it through or do your research.

It all boils down to content farms for advertising dollars and SEO borking search engines for profit, not going away soon. Two approaches to mitigate, git gud at prompting llms like GPT or find a better search solution. Apparently kagi gives some good results, or at least has a lot of stans. I stood up a personal SearxNG instance, so now I get results from multiple engines and have the ability to blacklist content farms, and a whole bunch of other things (personal bangs!), it's significantly better, not 2010 better, but better. A local 8x7B mixtral helps quite a bit as well.

Garbage In, Garbage Out. One of the oldest and most immutable laws of computer science.

Evaporate it to solid, store it if need be, or distribute it back into the sea in absorbable chunks. The water's ending up back in the sea eventually anyway, see water cycle, so it should be zero sum, just need to avoid local overloads. Seems eminently solvable.

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doesn't it rely on them ? more of an indexer...

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Xitter ! love it, now lexicon

Usage: Can’t wait to watch Xitter (pronounced Zit - ter) pop after Musk wrecks the train.

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Bazzite, but whatever... Variety is good.

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Craziest all week for me, guess I curate my feeds different...

If it's suss use a vm before your main OS.

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Does the set of all sets that are not members of themselves, contain itself?

Russel's Paradox lit a fire under mathematics, leading to all sorts of good things (and a few bad).

I have read some headline

Really.

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Kodi will let you switch engines to VLC.

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I fucking hate discord

It's Cancer, have an upvote.

Please let local, open equivalents be available (see LocalAI for an example of not being far off) before this. The sheer scale of data harvesting this will enable boggles the mind.

Pirate, learn to back up, own forever.

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The Chinese corruption of the internet is collapsing in full force

My deep sympathies, truly I am sorry at a level I cannot effectively express. Many need the bravery of journalists we cannot know, faint praise, but you are respected.

Rather obvious that 'What product did live up to its advertised claims?' is a more useful question...

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It's the XY Problem. Champion.

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