Bloefz
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- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
I would but I’ve always been opposed to systemd anyway.
But for me it’s a slippery slope I don’t think we should even get on.
- Comment on Did we win? 2 weeks ago:
What do they mean reauthenticate after 24h? I can’t authenticate as I don’t have a Google account. Although I do unfortunately have Google play installed, my phones can’t have it removed.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 2 weeks ago:
Torrents, you can’t peer with other people behind NAT.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. I’d actually pay for an in browser VPN, it’s handy to be able to switch countries on the fly. Ideally even per browser tab.
I would not however pay for Mozilla’s mullvad thing. I don’t like mullvad since they dropped port forwarding and OpenVPN. I use proton now for that. But in the browser is a different usecase for me.
It’s just weird that it’s not possible to pay for this but only for the thing I don’t want.
- Comment on ‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ 2 weeks ago:
True though I block all the cookies anyway so accepting it doesn’t actually do anything :)
- Comment on The US in one image 2 weeks ago:
And children are only sacred until they’re born.
- Comment on ‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ 2 weeks ago:
It feels like we need a new internet yes. With all the enshittification, commercialisation, surveillance by governments and industry, age verification etc.
Maybe something like the dark web but more mainstream and less creepy.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft don’t care about file shares anymore anyway, they want you to sign up for OneDrive :(
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft also make the one app that actually shines in electron: vs code. It’s really quite optimised. But somehow they didn’t bother learning lessons from that and keep rolling out terrible slop like teams and new outlook.
It’s weird how one company can do things right and also be do incompetent at the same time.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 3 weeks ago:
Probably but Jira makes it so hard.
For example if I type 1h 33m it’s ok but 1h33m is not. It’s just a really awkward UI.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 3 weeks ago:
We don’t do any of those things. We’re not even developers. We just use Jira to log hours (which is basically one big fantasy obviously)
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 3 weeks ago:
Nothing. I really hate the agile thing anyway.
- Comment on Cheapest 14x4tb NAS 3 weeks ago:
Ehhh one thing I’ve learned over the years, it doesn’t matter how much storage I buy. Within a few weeks it’ll be full.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 3 weeks ago:
Nothing, personally. Jira at our place only serves the bean counters in the programme management department. The data is a mess anyway, it just gives them the illusion is control.
I work in a, large enterprise and most of our work is just stupid red tape satisfying processes and other teams’ rules, many of which just exist to keep those teams employed. There’s so much unnecessary work and BS going on.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 3 weeks ago:
I hope they will go down the drain. No more Jira! 🙏
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 4 months ago:
Thank you so much!! I have been putting it off because what I have works but a time will soon come when I’ll want to test new models.
I’m looking for a server but not many parallel calls because I would like to use as much context as I can. When making space for e.g. 4 threads, the context is split and thus 4x as small. With llama 3.1 8b I managed to get 47104 context on the 16GB card (though actually using that much is pretty slow). That’s with KV quant to 8b too. But sometimes I just need that much.
I’ve never tried the llama.cpp directly, thanks for the tip!
Kobold sounds good too but I have some scripts talking to it directly. I’ll read up on that too see if it can do that. I don’t have time now but I’ll do it in the coming days. Thank you!
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 4 months ago:
I don’t think that’s a problem. I live in Spain and speak Spanish daily with real people, many of them my friends. They’ll correct me if needed, they often do.
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 4 months ago:
Agreed. The way they just dumped support for my card in some update with some vague reason also irked me (we need a newer rocm they said but my card works fine with all current rocm versions)
Also the way they’re now trying to sell cloud AI means their original local service is in competition to the product they sell.
I’m looking to use something new but I don’t know what yet.
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 4 months ago:
I have one server with a cheap MI50 instinct. Those come for really cheap on eBay. And it’s got really good memory bandwidth with HBM2. They worked ok with ollama until recently when they dropped support for some weird reason but a lot of other software still works fine. Also older models work fine on old ollama.
The other one runs an RTX 3060 12GB. I use this for models that only work on nvidia like whisper speech recognition.
I tend to use the same models for everything so I don’t have the delay of loading the model. Mainly uncensored ones so it doesn’t choke when someone says something slightly sexual. I’m in some very open communities so standard models are pretty useless with all their prudeness.
For frontend i use OpenWebUI and i also run stuff directly against the models like scripts.
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 4 months ago:
I mainly use it for Spanish which I have a basic proficiency in. It just accompanies me on my learning journey. It may be wrong sometime but not often. Like the other reply said, LLMs are good at languages, it’s what they were originally designed for until people found out they could do more (but not quite as well).
And as for filtering, I just use it as a news feed sanitizer with a whole bunch of rules. It will miss things sometimes but it’s also my ruleset that’s not perfect. I often come across the unfiltered sources anyway and even if it misses something, it’s only news. Nothing really important to me.
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 4 months ago:
I work with AI and use it personally, but I have my own servers running local models which solves tons of privacy concerns. The inaccuracy is another problem but not a big one for me as I know it and will simply fact check. Also, I don’t really use it for knowledge anyway. Just to filter news to my interest, help with summaries and translation etc.
People use AI as some all-knowing oracle but an LLM is not meant for that at all.
- Comment on At least the movie was good. 4 months ago:
Nice segue from Split Second to Silence of the Lambs 😂
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 4 months ago:
I know, but at least they are making a case which most news outlets probably would but don’t have the means for a long legal fight. They might get some precedent out of this from which the whole news industry will benefit.
I don’t think AI training should ever be fair use. These companies are making billions of other people’s work and giving nothing back.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 4 months ago:
The problem I’ve been seeing with email on my own domain is that some services refuse it, saying “please enter a real email address” 🤬 some others just silently refuse to send a confirmation code so I can’t register either (I think tinder did this)
And with proton I got “Anonimisation services are forbidden” once at least.
I forget which services, but it’s Hella annoying…
The marketshare of Google and Microsoft on email is really becoming a problem.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 4 months ago:
True, the NYT does seem to have a significant impact on OpenAI though.
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 4 months ago:
Like I said I don’t advocate erasing languages. Just to have a common international language whichever it is. Local languages can still play a big role in cultural matters (eg literature and life on the street)
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 4 months ago:
I’m not bot :P
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 4 months ago:
I don’t know if it was clear but I don’t subscribe to any ideology. I just align loosely with them based on my own values.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 5 months ago:
It was indeed very bad for the democracts to support Israel so staunchly. This is the problem with the US ‘left’. They’re not really left, they’re neoliberal. Money is all that matters to them.
You really need a real left there.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 5 months ago:
I’m very left-wing but the thing with ‘us’ is, that we still have principles. The extreme right is long past any kind of principle or fact. They just live in a fantasy world inventing things to get themselves angry about. Anyone whi disagrees in the slightest with today’s narrative will be cancelled from their community. But for us the facts still matter. And that meand we sometimes disagree.
I wouldn’t call someone like Newsom ‘left’ though. He’s left by US standards but for the rest of the world he would still be pretty right-wing.