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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers figured out how to run a 120-billion parameter model across four regular desktop PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, EPFL researchers Gauthier Voron, Geovani Rizk and Rachid Guerraoui, from the Distributed Computing Laboratory (DCL) in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, have released new software that allows users to download open-source AI models and use them locally, with no need for the cloud to answer questions or complete tasks.

  It’s cool that they got LLMs running on local clusters of computers, but with the way it’s written, they make it sound like people have not already been using local LLMs for a long time (including GPT-OSS 120B).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I install and use Orcaslicer on Tails OS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run appimages in Tails

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there’s stigma. Most users use package managers to get their software. For large operating systems, a torrent does help make downloads faster and less expensive when many people begin to seed it (and many FOSS operating systems do offer torrents), but most projects won’t benefit from that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW scrolling Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand, one moment everything’s normal, and then the next day I come back and it’s corn everywhere 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are non-binary and asexual flags Wario and Waluigi colored, respectively?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe it’s the other way around 🙀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s hoping GrapheneOS decides to support it! 🤞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was trying to read this while driving, but there wasn’t enough contrast between the white text and the light gray cat 😿

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What specifically do you think is hard to avoid? I’ve never accidentally triggered a quick answer, personally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Paying for access to Yandex APIs is a product of their goal to be the best search engine available. They pay for access to nearly every major search provider and wouldn’t want to lose access to Yandex results just because of the country they’re located in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, it’s the only search engine I haven’t wanted to get away from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the majority of people on Lemmy don’t want to be served an AI-generated feed about AI. Maybe try a more AI- or LLM-focused community?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satellite Snooping Reveals Sensitive Unencrypted Data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What confuses me is what they mean by “corporate VPN data containing unencrypted login details.” Unless the VPN server connects to the backend servers with unencrypted traffic through these satellites (which definitely should not happen) then this should not be possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do this asap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except current methods can never lead to a “superintelligence.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly University of Florida has also started becoming a sort of “AI first” university 😣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumbphones are ridiculously insecure, and they only support SMS communications which don’t have any end-to-end encryption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thunderbird plans on expanding offerings with additional services⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thundermail domains are thundermail.com and tb.pro. I’m curious to see how they will compare to the top privacy-respecting email providers today, and how they think they will “provid[e] a better service than the other providers out there,” which would include Protonmail, Tutanota, etc.