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- Comment on Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 22 hours ago:
Agree, this is almost too dumb/obvious - even for the 3-letter psychos and the fanatics the play with…
- Comment on Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 22 hours ago:
Sounds like standard 3-letter agency behavior. Find a known page with some nasty on, store on archive, complain about all the ‘childporn’ on archive. Standard playbook, but they may have gotten some easily propagandized fanatic to act as the moron complainer… Time to support archive.** against the 3-letter psychopaths in the US…
- Comment on Is Perplexity the first AI unicorn to fail? 1 day ago:
Lets hope so! They manipulated the first Deepseek model, and reinserted US propaganda and garbage lies into the llm again. So even before groqopedia (sigh), Perplexity were the first private AI corporation that openly felt they were competent/unbiased enough to decide what ‘truth’ is, and they took it upon themselves to ‘fix’ the information before the information went to their users. Oh, thank you benevolent Perplexity Unt’s, for protecting us all against wewil ! (sigh)
After that ideological stunt, they simple cant be trusted for ANY information! They have shown that THEIR interpretation of ‘truth’ is the real truth, and that they have the GOD-GIVEN right, to alter other sources pf truth, on behalf of their users. So, all their users are victims of that ideological sh*t perspective. Perplexity WILL just re-doctor information as they, and their sponsors, see fit. Perplexity are just another US propaganda outlet - opinions sold for profit - and the sooner they collapse the better for humanity.
Well, oc all the other big AI corporations and their Unt owners/ceo’s do the same - just behind closed doors, so I’m eagerly waiting for the whole US AI bubble to collapse and pull down everything else with it… Go go China, Bricks+ and all of the global ‘south’ !
- Comment on New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient 1 day ago:
OP blocked…
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 1 day ago:
I don’t think “AI” is the problem here. Watching the watchers doesn’t hurt, but I think the AI-haters are grasping for straws here. In fact, when comparing to the actual suicide numbers, this “AI is causing Suicide !” seems a bit contrived/hollow, tbh. Were the haters also as active in noticing the 49 thousand suicide deaths every year, or did they just now find it a problem ?
Besides, if there’s a criminal here, it would be the private corp that provided the AI service, not a broad category of technology - “AI”. People that hate AI, seem to really just hate the effects of Capitalism.
www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html (This is for US alone !) overview
If image not shown: Over 49,000 people died by suicide in 2023. 1 death every 11 minutes. Many adults think about suicide or attempt suicide. 12.8 million seriously thought about suicide. 3.7 million made a plan for suicide. 1.5 million attempted suicide.
- Comment on Anthropic says Chinese hackers used its Claude AI chatbot in cyberattacks 3 days ago:
Primitive propaganda attack on China. Embarrassing that Anthropic goes along with it. Great that the Chinese now have models and coding plans that are on par with claude/claude code, just way way cheaper (Z.ai/glm4.6). I’m ditching Anthropic for Chinese AI… F these coping *sswhipes…
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 5 days ago:
Agree. “Are you perhaps too angry?”, “The HELL I’m not! F*ck off !”, “alrighty then”…
- Comment on The Tech Company Bringing Surveillance Dystopia to Your Town 1 week ago:
This is just a normal “Surveillance Capitalism”. ALL corporations feed on our data and they ALL collect/sell and infringe on our privacy, ALL the time - nothing new here…
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
“And with that, hopefully we can put this argument to rest.”
That’s not how the internet works, but nice try though ;-)
- Comment on In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia 1 week ago:
I dislike the whole idea/musk/maga, but there are problems with wikipedia, and it is naive to think it is unbiased - money and pressure breaks that principle really fast when necessary.
Here, grokopedia were absolutely right about Russia/Ukraine, and surprisingly the first western/US based platform to actually honestly write what Russia says instead of inferring what Russia says/want from ridiculous rumors/claims from the anti-russia campaign/pundits. Wikipedia is filled with biased ‘truths’ on that article and likely all other high stakes pro-liberal views.
All that unfortunately just means that wikipedias leadership is lying, and that we now have not one, but two biased sources of ‘truth’. Each blasting their own path - away from unbiased scientific truth. We cannot trust sources originating from the Western hemisphere where money incentives are above the search for truth. We also see it in our media, where journalists write whatever they are paid to write. Profit and scientific truth only correlate if scientists/oligarchy have the same goal, but usually they don’t. Profit and Truth are orthogonal to each other and only overlap at one point.
I wouldn’t use/support the private/racist grokopedia - even when verifiably less biased than wikipedia on Russia. I suspect that ‘truths’ are biased in both. Wikipedia are pretty good at non-controversial topics, but slightly to heavily biased towards the liberal view on most controversial topics (especially current western propaganda topics, bad Russia, bad China, many sexes good, etc). OC the Guardian is at the forefront of deliberate liberal anti-russia propaganda in the West, so they have to write biased claims to keep their readers convinced, and keep the conflict going (money pouring in).
In the end, it is just two right-wing databases fighting for supremacy - anything not right-wing are shut down and other activist - or non-capitalist encyclopedias have been build around on the net instead of fighting wikipedias bias. (no, a ‘liberal’ is not ‘left’, they are all capitalists, and thus all following the capitalist doctrines).
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 week ago:
Not recommending anything, but; with all the guns Americans have, its pretty wild that such people is still here. Apparently, schools are an easier target…
- Comment on What budget friendly GPU for local AI workloads should I aim for? 1 week ago:
Compute prices are not going down. If you want a budget friendly compute, then you may need to look for NPU’s. They are slower, and is unfortunately also getting more expensive pr TOPS. Electricity prices in the West are going up as a low output gets bought up by datacenters instead. The newest GPU’s are more efficient in re. to power pr Top, but they are not budget friendly.
I have not seen a recent comparison of GPU vs Npu; TOPS vs price vs power consumption, but @ aliexpress, I saw a small 40 TOPS Npu as a nvme stick with 16gb ram that draws 10 watts, or so (search for ‘ai accelerator nvme’). This little thing can scan files 24/7 and your i5 can help out in peaks. Afaik you can run a distributed model that also runs in, and uses your i5 memory/compute, so if you max out i5 memory, perhaps the combined compute is enough for a larger model ? Maybe a few Npu sticks can work together on the same model ?
Alternatively, you could look for the next version of a Huawei gpu card (first had baby kinks afaik), or one of the other upcoming producers from China. They’ll come faster and faster, but are earmarked for local consumption first.
Another suggestion is to buy one of the old P40/80 (from the ‘pascal’ chipset, I think) (or was it k40/80 ??). They should still support a descent range of modern quantization needs and often have 24gb ram. A refurbished miner card cost around 50-70$+ - cant remember exactly tho.
Lastly, you could try something different. If the i5, with enough memory, can run a large model slowly, you could add a dedicated KV cache, so most of the tokens won’t need to be recalculated. Memory and bandwidth are the most important here, but any old server could be upgraded to be a dedicated KV cache server (might need a network upgrade tho!).
Anyway, Ideas are easy and cheap. If I were you, I would ask an AI for a little python app where you can add a product and it returns a graph where it compares with other products and show optimality over time given prices/power and Tops - Gpu vs Npu. Good hunting…
- Comment on China Hackers Exploit Citrix Gateway to Breach European Telecom 1 week ago:
Oi, the US/Plutocratic anti-China propaganda is running in high gears atmo 🙃 Why anyone would believe these obvious moronic claims about ‘other guys’ doing exactly what US Plutocracy and Capitalism have done for centuries, are beyond me. But they do anyway… Perhaps complete ignorance of what the West and their contrived ideology are doing in/to the world ? Who knows…
Anyway, congratulations to China for pushing though all the bullshit and continues attacks from US (and its liberal puppets), and because they won against the US Empire of Lies… In fact, congratulations to all enemies of the psychopathic US Plutocracy: Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and so on and so on. All victims of the Western ideological dictatorship through a hundred years…
- Comment on NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space 1 week ago:
I read 6+ m ago that China are already doing tests with both deep sea and space compute. Nvidia isn’t leading.
Also: "With Starship, we’re expecting launch costs much lower.” Starship ?? Okay, then it will never happen.
- Comment on Introducing UniFi OS Server for MSPs 3 months ago:
MSP’s ??
- Comment on I've just created c/Ollama! 4 months ago:
Thanks for Lemonade hint. For Ryzen AI: github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade (linux=cpu for now)
- Comment on TOR asking to run snowflake to help Iranians with internet access 4 months ago:
Sounds more like Nato and the western elite want to get in to Iran’s information sphere, than to let Iranians access western internet and be ‘free’. Iranians are during external attacks against their nation, protected from the information war - just like borders protect from attacks. I’m not assisting the Western elite. I’m out…
- Comment on Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster? 5 months ago:
I don’t know, but allow me a soft rant about the ‘distributed’ part;
Couldn’t selfhosters try to ‘organize’ and share these burdens ? Why pay for external cloud backup, or anything, when selfhosters can just help each other storing parts of others backup. Then everyone have an automatic back-up.
The tools seem to be there, but Its like there are all these super-skilled infra-structure selfhosters that know everything about self-hosting solutions, but they lack the self-organizing ability to sollve these typical - and a bit trivial, lets be honest - problems in a full p2p style. The result looks to be that all self-hostings solution above the threshold of an average individual selhoster, have to be done in the cloud, and everyone is ‘siloed’ in their own mini data center.
But, with existing tools, AI and a little imagination, it shouldn’t be too hard to ‘organize’ a little (though here) design a self-hosting p2p backup solution from existing tools. …or a solution for most of the other cloud services we still rely on…
But maybe its something else ? …to me, it just seems unnecessary for a high expertise self-hoster community that - when combined - are an absolute gargantuan cloud-service infrastructure …to still have such basic capacity issues (no offense meant to op, or anyone!), and still have so high reliance on cloud services. Seems odd to me…
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 7 months ago:
Absolutely. I’m not as AI-phobic, and I absolutely need both an information gathering agent that searches, follows rss/channels, explores/researches topics, summarizes swats of daily events, and I need a filter between me and corporate internet. Let the AI discard obvious slop, Ads/other propaganda and general informational noise.
However, you should think about how to share search-results so all our agents don’t floor small services/commoners. We really need to get more information out of corporate silo’s, and into public search/knowledge systems. Perhaps you can integrate some distributed search/knowledge properties ? (now that you have AI to help build it)
- Comment on How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI? 7 months ago:
There are several solutions:
github.com/b4rtaz/distributed-llama
github.com/kalavai-net/kalavai-client
Didn’t try any of them and haven’t looked for 6 months, so maybe something better have arrived…
