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- Comment on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation 5 weeks ago:
Damn, are we watching live growth of digital Fascist cancer here ? We all get spammed with this worthless, non-special OS in every information outlet, YT, SN’s and other for-profit junk outlets. People are getting paid to keep posting about it everywhere.
Pretty disgusting to see how rich Pschos think and act, and pretty disheartening to see our ‘non-enshittified’ world be enshittified in front of our eyes! Enshittification = Capitalization.
Boycott Omarchy by all means necessary, and help not spreading this Capitalist/Fascist cancer project anywhere.
- Comment on Any external NPU that can be hooked to a proxmox miniPC? 5 weeks ago:
USB is not good as its a huge bottleneck, and most external accelerators are (was?) passive without any ram onboard. Google Coral was/is ‘passive’ in that it resends all data all the time over the interface - Npu<->system ram.
I were going to recommend these: shop.geniatech.com/…/m2-ai-inference-acceleration…
40tops, ARM + Npu + 16gb ddr4 - a whole little Inference computer on a NVME interface. Kinara (Ara240) is a homegrown Chinese chip. While they are usually selling b2b, you can ask anyway. YMMW atmo. Also note that some NPU’s are less efficient at llm’s vs vision.
…but I see that they also rose almost 4* in price since I asked for, and were offered the price of 179$ ~7M ago, which is already a long time in this space. Not sure how the current ~650$ stacks up to the rest of the offers out there at the moment, but these small active AI systems on NVME are a great way of upgrading a piss-old server, enhance a new cheap 4-8port NVME mini-NAS or similar, and there’s no clear bottleneck in the interface.
Look for something like this instead of Nvidia Coral and other ‘passive’ sticks, that are all - imho - overpriced/underperforming.
- Comment on UK/EU homelabbers: would you host a hardened Pi so I can watch baseball I already pay for? 1 month ago:
“MLB only checks your location at the moment a stream starts.”
This is/was what Pandora.com did, and the solution was to run a small proxy that directed the exact login url through Tor with a Merican endpoint while stream was normal, but you can just select an EU/UK endpoint instead.
I used a Tor proxy - privoxy, I think - from the openwrt package repo, but others exist, and for other platforms…
- Comment on I built a tiny self-hosted corner of the internet made entirely from HTML pages 1 month ago:
‘$1 HTML’
Why tf do US/western kids always think its okay to monetise everything they touch !? Just make something that are free because it doesn’t cost you anything, because it was fun, or because you want to share with others, ffs ! This is the same annoying ideological mindset as new game-programming kids that have setup ad-servings in their games before they have a gameplay, assets or any other working code.
You managed to enshittify your entire ‘fun’ project before it was even released. I think that is a horrible, childish, capitalist mindset/project, and I don’t think sharing/open-source people would want to support your selfish for-profit kid-project - ‘fun’ or not…
- Comment on Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a 1 month ago:
…hm, knee jerked a little, but you are right, it is a slow and difficult route. Perhaps sometimes also the most thorough, surprising, or rewarding way ? not sure tbh…