greyscale

@greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t even tell if its normal face, or shrunken just a little any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That would require the humans controlling the experiment to both be willing to input altruistic goals AND accept the consequences that get us there.

  We can’t even surrender a drop of individualism and accept that trains are the way we should travel non-trivial distances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Until computers can be genuinely creative, and not emulate creativity, its not gonna happen. And when that happens, we’re either getting the startrek luxury space communism, or a boot smashing our head into the kerb for eternity. No middle ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If the humans can’t see the flaws and correct them now, what do you think the AI would learn from the training data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  the problem with the current model for building AI is training it based on existing policy and thought. Which means it’d just be what we have now but somehow hallucinate more contradictory policy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the electric car transition really means for autoworkers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean? They’re arguing that EVs require less labour-hours of human work, you’re agreeing with them by saying that battery manufacture will be more automated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The very first code pre-teen me wrote was in QuickBasic a thousand years ago.

  Core memory unlocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony expects a delay in smartphone market recovery till 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be nice if they’d stop being terminally boring too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do You Deep Clean a Mattress? What Tools Do I Need?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A dumpster and $300

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS vs larger server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  relatedly, I used to use a 4x bay USB3 caddy for some disks… It was OK, but didn’t expose the raw disks and the controller was pretty fucky swallowing things like SMART.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS vs larger server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It and some other network appliance bits draw ~ 100W continuous.

  I think a good chunk of that is the disks, but I could be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS vs larger server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How much power does just the NAS use?

  the NAS is the bulk of the 100W.

  Are you running something like Unraid or TrueNAS, or are you just running a ‘regular’ Linux distro?

  Ubuntu + ZFS. I don’t see the appeal of running a non-mainline distribution. All I did was set it up so ZFS sends me emails and a crontab to run a ZFS resilver weekly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS vs larger server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another reason to avoid a Synology. I had a HP Microserver gen 8 that I ditched due to CPU constraints and ECC ram. Just got 32G of cheap DDR4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS vs larger server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Run your fun things in containers and you can’t make a mess of the host.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS vs larger server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d consolidate to let it pay for itself over the longer term in electricity savings.

  My single NAS runs everything I could ever want, though I regret not finding a used 6700k, finding out teh 6600k didn’t have HT.

  Also, I run frigate on it inside a container and use a Google Coral Accellerator to people-detection from 4x2k camera streams. Its pretty swish, though it took some fiddling to get the kernel to be groovy with it and do container-device passthru from PCI-e.

  In total, my single NAS runs the following in containers:

  • Personal projects
  • Home Assistant
  • MQTT for Tasmota
  • Game servers
  • Deluge for yarr harr fiddly dee
  • Frigate NVR

  The whole shebang, NAS, UPS, ISP Modem and Ubiquity Dream Machine run ~100W.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS vs larger server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you just put stock ubuntu on it? Is the CPU worth a damn?

  If it can’t do either of those, it is manufactured ewaste, imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS vs larger server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t buy a synology. For less money you can make a better system. I use a cheap itx board, a used 6600k, Silverstone DS380 and 8x4TB disks of spinning rust and a 256G NVME as my current iteration of my NAS. its basically silent, and runs ubuntu + zfs + shit in containers. Its excellent.

  I am however considering 10G ethernet cards for it and my desktop and just doing point-to-point. Not that 1G is too slow for my needs, but because it’d be fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The current state of search engines (music video)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  eyetwitching

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a Rapid Rethink on my NAS/Docker Setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, this is why my NAS is just ubuntu and zfs and garden variety docker.