MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today 22 hours ago:
through a means that doesn’t directly fund Rowling
YoHoHo, it’s Christmas on the high seas :)
- Comment on My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today 22 hours ago:
And now I’m whistling in my head…
Also a good British one : Hogsfather
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 2 days ago:
They’re not law as long as you can afford the lawyers and legal costs to fight them. Which is, of course, the problem and the system working as designed. Image
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 days ago:
Get the SSDs pronto…
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 days ago:
Hmpff, when I added the image it overwrote the original URL, not exactly intuitive, probably makes sense for memes.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 days ago:
Sorry, thought I had, apparently I don’t understand the post creation mechanism as well as I thought. Thanks for the catch, I’ll edit the text.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 days ago:
Eh, I hadn’t bothered to read the comm rules and doing a filesystem check is a suitable pain in the ass. BTW the last word was originally shitfuckery.
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- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 3 weeks ago:
Using wireguard to VPN into your home network is mostly trivial (using tailscale to do so is actually trivial, for my usage of the word, but introduces an untrusted company into the mix), opening your local network to the outernet is not, expect pain.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 3 weeks ago:
Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”
TLDR as soon as you have a system like this people will game it…
- Comment on What budget friendly GPU for local AI workloads should I aim for? 4 weeks ago:
Nah, NVLink is irrelevant for inference workloads (inference nearly all happens in the cards, models are split up over multiple and tokens are piped over pcie as necessary), mildly useful for training but you’ll get there without them.
- Comment on Tax strike? 4 weeks ago:
General Strike.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 1 month ago:
Sigh, time to rewrite my scraper so I can have just the facts in my top panel again. Last one got like 5 years I think, hopefully they’re not going to up the pace…
- Comment on The AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead. The US can’t provide the submarines. The UK can neither make up for the shortfall nor co-develop such a submarine in a reasonable timeframe 3 months ago:
If this is so, well, thank fuck for that. Such a bad, expensive idea. One good thing to come from Trump is a severe loss of faith in the US, long overdue.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 4 months ago:
Didn’t take as long as I expected, but I expected it (which is why I didn’t bother to read, even if it’s not all the way there, it’s coming).
Seriously, advertising (or propaganda to use the older name that Goebbels used) really needs to be seen as a much more serious enemy than most do. Propaganda for capitalists is super effective at sucking up peoples mental bandwidth, they’ve been selecting for it going on a century now and they’re depressingly good at it, if you don’t actively counter it, straight to the subconscious, along with all the background crap in it. /rant, but seriously…
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 4 months ago:
'Twould be sweet irony and a blessing for the earth.
Although the best method for removing it I’ve found is donating plasma (PFAs down 30% in 6 months of regular donation, the hope is nanoplastics are also removed…) so it might be the poors (in USA) and generous that get to have kids, so that’s nice…
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 4 months ago:
plastic is inert
wat? In no way is it inert.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 4 months ago:
What did plastic replace? Good chance we can go back, if we can convince some people the line doesn’t need to go up. Good joke, everybody laughs…
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 4 months ago:
Yeah, but the nanoplastics get past the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier), what’s it, a plastic spoon in every human brain? Enough for some psych effects I guess. Oh, there’s 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics spread across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic
Shit’s pervasive and in your brain.
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 5 months ago:
Is a VPN needed to keep your ip from being exposed ? No more so than using any search engine directly, it’s a nice to have. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Is just using an existing searxng instance just less secure then? By the time you’ve investigated it, you could have stood up your own instance…
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 5 months ago:
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.
Oz gov yet again doing something unfathomably stupid with tech privacy, shocked I tell ya. Might have to point my SearxNG instance VPN endpoint somewhere else, maybe, see how it pans out…
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 5 months ago:
Sounds like a them problem then.
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 5 months ago:
podman exists and doesn’t force root…
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 5 months ago:
It’s yours, no issues trusting a public instance with your searches. Pages full of settings to tweak as you like. Less problems with an algorithm ‘helping’ you. It averages searches over multiple search engines that you choose, you can set up your own (or a curated) block list of crappy AI slop sites, don’t like fandom.com or something, gone. Manage your own bangs, e.g. !aa for annas-archive. Pipe it through a VPN with gluetun for better isolation. If you have your head around docker already it’s more like half an hour to set up, so why not?
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 6 months ago:
know truth from fiction.
You jest, but…
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 6 months ago:
You are aware that Netflix et.al. put compression on their streams (usually quite a bit in regards to bitrate) ? It is often the case that BluRay rips etc. are available better on the high seas…
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 6 months ago:
While I generally agree and consider this insightful, it behooves us to remember the (actual, 1930s) Nazis did it with newspapers, radio and rallies (… in a cave, with a box of scraps).
- Comment on InlineStyle, open fediverse based cloud 6 months ago:
Not sure I’d use either, but may I suggest both? Throw stuff at the wall, see what sticks…
- Comment on How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI? 7 months ago:
Sure, works fine for inference with tensor parallelism, USB4 / thunderbolt 4/5 is a better (40Gbit+ and already there) bet than ethernet (see distributed-llama). Trash for training / fine tuning, that needs higher inter GPU speed, or better a bigger GPU VRAM.
- Comment on Advice for a newbie trying to selfhost 8 months ago:
Seems like data integrity is your highest priority, and you’re doing pretty well, the next step is keeping a copy offsite. It’s the 3-2-1 backup strategy, 3 copies, 2 media (used to mean CDs etc but now think offline drives) 1 offsite (in case of fire, meteor strike etc), so look to that, stash a copy at a friends or something.
In your case I’d look at getting some online storage to fill the offsite role while you’re overseas (paid probably, but a year of 1 or 2 Tb is quite reasonable) leaving you with no pressure on the selfhosting side, just tailscale in, muck around and have fun, and if something breaks, no harm done, data safe.
I’ve done it for what seems like forever and I’d still be worried about leaving a system out of physical control for any extended period of time, at the very least having someone to reboot it if connectivity or power fails will be invaluable, but talking them through a broken update is another thing entirely, and you shouldn’t make that a critical necessity, too much stress.
