probable_possum

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Debian + Incus :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3147: Hiking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, what about escalators? …for the escalating part of the hike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good times.:)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  " Can I come with you?"
  – little boy in Screamers (1995)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. What a strange companionship. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed today that Nvidia will contribute “GPU chiplets” that Intel can place alongside its x86 CPU cores instead of the Arc integrated graphics it develops in-house today.

  They could buy AMD Radeon chiplets too, that would be something.:)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub introduces hybrid post-quantum SSH security to better protect Git data in transit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  data in transit

  Yes, but then it is stored unencrypted on github. Ready to be used as training data. Which isn’t bad per se. Just pointing out, that the weakest link in your chain of security mrasures is the… weakest link.

  If you wanted to secure your code, you could store it on-site, behind a firewall, in its own network segment, with encrypted offsite backups. Elliptic curves would help too in this scenario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what LLM are made for;

  Hence the Name? :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the automatic speech recognition and transcription capabilities are quite useful. But that’s about it, for me for now.

  It could be interesting for frame interpolation in movies at some point maybe, I guess.

  I dream of using it for the reliable classification of things. But I haven’t seen it working reliably.

  For the creation of abstracts and as a dialog system for information retrieval it doesn’t feel exact/correct / congruent enough to me.

  Also: A working business plan to make money with actual AI services has yet to be found. Right now it is playing with a shiny new toy and the expectations and money of their investors. Selling the business while it is still massively overrated, seems like the only way forward. But that’s just my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The h4 already can be a managed switch itself (2" 2,5gbit + 4*1gbit with the nic addon.) if you want it to be one. Linux as the host OS (VLANs, bridges) - netplan works well for me. Some VMs and containers on top (lxd, incus, some use proxmox) for router/ firewall/ vpn-gateway (opnsense, ipfire,…) and other functionality which you don’t want to run on the host OS directly. The cpu is fast enough to run all your services at once. It all comes down to RAM.

  IMO there is not one right way. It all depends on what you want to achieve. Also a lot depends on, whether you want results fast or if you enjoy the tinkering while learning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They took our free break!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So the evil version of a footstool? Squattypotty tried to sell theirs with an explanatory video with unicorns and ice cream a while ago.