yardratianSoma
@yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Surveillance Without Oversight.. Cameras Follow Palestinians at Every Turn 1 day ago:
Yeah, nevermind the literal genocide going on, lets stop and talk about cameras. . . . .
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 1 day ago:
I honestly only use debian headless, and manage the server via ssh and manage docker containers via portainer’s web ui.
I’m not new to linux though, so 100% stay with a desktop environment like the one that comes with Mint, because that makes things much much simpler. It’s all debian under the hood at the end of the day, and 95% of services provide install guides for debian-based systems anyways. Is this optiplex 3050 your first homelabbing system?
- Comment on TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan 1 day ago:
I mean, when LLMs go out of style, at least we’ll have a bunch of cheap gpus and components to buy when it inevitably floods the used market after the current generation get superseded, coupled with multiple chip fabs going online, it will eventually be raining chips.
- Comment on ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI 1 day ago:
I know it’s a horrible job, but at this point I wouldn’t mind trading some sanity to pay the bills.
Crazy world.
- Comment on System Redundancy 6 days ago:
thanks for this . . . .I keep worrying about security, hardening the system … etc, but forget about the essentials: power and networking. #1 priority for me is to get a UPS this year, once I find a job, that is
- Comment on The holy journey 2 weeks ago:
damn, I didn’t even know there was an inside, ngl pretty damn cool
- Comment on The holy journey 2 weeks ago:
I definitely already knew 1 tab is not a specific quantity, but since I don’t own thousands of dollars of chemical equipment, I never had the things needed to measure said tabs. I did, at least, have reagent tests to at least verify the subtance present on the paper, but not much else.
But in my experience, I’ve never overreacted to 1 tab, so with a tab being anywhere from maybe 50 to 150 micrograms, that’s roughly how much I can handle before basically blacking out. It’s only happened twice and both times ended peacefully. It’s not a constant thing I use, in fact, I haven’t touched any drugs in many years. That’s the main thing I love about psychedelic substances, they don’t have the addictive qualities of things like MDMA or alcohol. But I may trip maybe 1 time this year, or not.
- Comment on The holy journey 2 weeks ago:
anything more than 1 tab always sends me to the dark side
- Comment on If only 2 weeks ago:
you and at least 100 million other feel exactly the same
including me
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 weeks ago:
I doubt the wpm of the average physical keyboard user could ever be lower on average compared to the wpm of users of touchscreen keyboards.
That is to say, if we could somehow make a phone keyboard that was practical to use, but not so large that it defeats the portability of the device, imo, that would be the best.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 weeks ago:
We’ve collectively probably lost years, if not decades of our human lives just trying to fix autocorrect fuck ups.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 weeks ago:
still far better than touchscreens. I used a blackberry keyone for a while, and it was amazing, until I lost it on a walk in the park years ago.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 1 month ago:
“Oh no! We must protect the poor MPA! The poor organization that’s been hell bent on policing what films and media ought to contain and ensuring the multi-million dollar corporations make their millions in peace!” ~ Denmark’s Ministry of Culture, probably
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 month ago:
Well, I’m still glad offline LLM’s exist. The models we download and store are way less popular then the mainstream, perpetually online ones are.
Once I beef up my hardware (which will take a while seeing how crazy RAM prices are), I will basically forgo the need to ever use an online LLM ever again, because even now on my old hardware, I can handle 7 to 16B parameter models (quantized, of course).
- Comment on The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders [15:02] 2 months ago:
I mean, even open source LLM’s at the moment can solve somewhat tedious and tricky problems, and just on somewhat mid-tier consumer hardware. Supercomputers exist, and it just seems, with time, breakthroughs are inevitable.
But I will admit, like you say, we have limits, but in the realm of technology, the only real limitations are energy and hardware.
- Comment on The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders [15:02] 2 months ago:
If you don’t see AI replacing many roles, yet you know that LLM’s are not what many seem to think they are, text generators and not AGI, then it seems you don’t believe that AGI will ever happen.
Technology will continue to develop for decades and maybe centuries to come. To only see the short term possibilities is to forget how quickly technology advances.
And even just limiting the discussion to the short-term, what makes you think billionaires aren’t taking advantage of the hype and coercing governments to forego safety and regulation? Maximizing profit over enhancing the lives of common man?
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 3 months ago:
I know it’s a normal thing, to not instantly look for alternatives to software you might have used for your entire life, and I get it, if it hasn’t harmed you or done you wrong, then it’s probably fine to stick with what you know.
But as someone who first experienced alternatives to Windows back in 2006, and like others who walked the more beaten path, we’ve grown tired of this stuff. The slow, decline of Windows, and the promise of something better with every update.
It won’t surprise me if one day they decide to full send it and charge a monthly subscription to use the full OS, not one bit. Enshittification, it’s bound to happen. I’m teaching my child about linux now, so they’ll be aware that software doesn’t have to suck.
Try something different, it’s a good way to live, to know you don’t have to remain where you are if you don’t want to. Of course, only if you want to!
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 months ago:
well, I have a dual monitor setup, and can concur, have had many issues related to it, but I blame that more on linux/wayland than proton/wine.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 months ago:
really sucks that League doesn’t work . . . I know some people who play and the fact that it used to work just sours the pain.
I guess, at least Dota 2 works? I know they are very different, but I’d say similar enough and worth a shot so long as one isn’t too tied to LoL.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 months ago:
been running an nvidia gpu since 2019, literally switched from windows right as cyberpunk 2077 was being launched, and trust me, it was possible back then, and it’s even more performant now.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 months ago:
thing is, not even protondb is reliable. There’s been many times I’ve tried running a game, and encountered an error not posted anywhere, nor protondb, reddit or steam forums. All the comments on protondb will say, “works great out of the box!”, and I’m just left digging through random forums at that point.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 3 months ago:
If I had to describe what a kiwi tastes like, it’s somewhere between a lemon and a pineapple. More sour than a pineapple, but not so much so that you couldn’t eat it raw comfortably.
- Comment on pick your side 4 months ago:
I respect me dealers, thank you very much
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 months ago:
“In some paleoartistic reconstructions, you will see furry T. rex,” says Tseng. “We think it’s likely that at least at one point in their lives, they probably had bodies that were partially or completely covered in feathers. … Maybe they were more like modern birds, which are among the most extravagant animals.”
~ Jack Tseng, a UC Berkeley vertebrate paleontologist and functional morphologist
- Comment on High fashion 4 months ago:
If that’s a tampon, what does that make the Japanese flag?
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 4 months ago:
Funny how Kaspersky thinks what it comes down to are people who are afraid of change, when there’s also just people who are also not too happy with the direction Microsoft is taking their OS. And then there’s the fact that their stats only come from users who still use Kaspersky, which might be mostly businesses, instead of the average joe, skewing the data.
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 4 months ago:
with flacs on soulseek, who needs music subscriptions?
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits 4 months ago:
Literally haven’t regretted a single day since I left that platform, fuck reddit
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 4 months ago:
Nah, I grew up on Dragon Ball Z, and I always just said it like “Zee”, I’m Canadian but not that Canadian.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 4 months ago:
I mean, ngl, even as a Canadian, the idea of joining the military is always my plan Z, if all else fails.