You know, when all those assassins failed to murder Trump, I thought it was for the best, what with murder being wrong and all. I'm beginning ro realize that the turmoil might have been worth it, if it meant we wouldn't have to live under this fascist dictator...
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In which the ignorant weasel in charge decides to eliminate actual heroes to prevent comparison, then does it the stupidest way possible as publicly as possible...
Pete Hegseth cuts the pension and strips Senator Mark Kelly of his military rank, because he — a democrat— had the audacity to disagree with the Trump regime.
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,” Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing, "Humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the new equilibrium of human nature."
If "the new equilibrium of human nature" is code for worthless, mind-numbing garbage that is clogging up any and all human interaction, then I guess we agree!
I have no issue with AI, the technology, I have been working on it since 1986. The development of LLMs, artificial neural networks has certainly been a game changer. Though I am not any part of the obsession to make huge server farms that power AI Instances to provide services for mobile devices, or any device you want to hook to them. I use only local AI that I work on, or those that collaborate with me work on.
One very disturbing issue for me is that people cannot make a distinction between AI, the technology, and services provided by corporations. There is a huge difference. For instance I do not train my AI on copyrighted material stolen on the internet. I train them on open source, public domain resources and my own content.
I use ComfyUI (generative AI) to make assets, and just to have fun. I use only checkpoints and loras trained on public domain content, and yes, you can check this. I have used LLMs that I have trained to turn
I have no issue with AI, the technology, I have been working on it since 1986. The development of LLMs, artificial neural networks has certainly been a game changer. Though I am not any part of the obsession to make huge server farms that power AI Instances to provide services for mobile devices, or any device you want to hook to them. I use only local AI that I work on, or those that collaborate with me work on.
One very disturbing issue for me is that people cannot make a distinction between AI, the technology, and services provided by corporations. There is a huge difference. For instance I do not train my AI on copyrighted material stolen on the internet. I train them on open source, public domain resources and my own content.
I use ComfyUI (generative AI) to make assets, and just to have fun. I use only checkpoints and loras trained on public domain content, and yes, you can check this. I have used LLMs that I have trained to turn vim on my machine into a full blown IDE (not that it was not already). There are many practical implementations of AI that does and will enhance all of our lives. That does not mean I support corporate server farms trying to inject AI into all aspects of our life, need or want it or not. On the other hand I do not feel that it is fair for people to be judging AI for what corporations do. Should I judge fire for what arsonist do? Should I judge antibiotics by their current abuse in agriculture?
It is an old technology that we have been working on for decades. With great success in recent decades. It is not SLOP it is valuable technology when used appropriately. AI should not be held accountable for the way corporation misuse it for monetization. Corporations should be held accountable for their actions. Not the millions of developers that have diligently worked to hone a technology that is quite valuable.
There is nothing wrong with using vim-plug. It just does not do anything for me as I write most of my own plugins. The main reason to use vim-plug is for keeping plugins updated. Today, that is moot, as even tpope has not updated a vim plugin in over 4 years. I tend to hard fork the plugins I like best and maintain them myself. So a plugin manager is not required.
Yes, with low ram your options are rather limited. I find it is best to train your own LLM though that requires a significant GPU. At the very least an RTX 3060i or equivalent. You just have to be careful what open source, or your own source you train the LLM on. As there are a lot of low quality projects. Train with a bunch of low quality code, get low quality suggestions.
Though I mainly use AI for an Intel-sense level of auto completion. Having an AI write actual code is very risky. With anything even slightly complicated you are bound to do more debugging than it is worth. It would be less effort to just write it from scratch yourself.
I have a server with two Tesla K80s they're are ancient but great for training. The big issue is power, they use 300 watts each. So I have to have a 1300 watt power supply for the rig, they are also intense on heat, so you have to plan for that in your build! You can typically get them for around $80.00 USD each though you have to build for them, and you are going to have to know how to build and maintain a lot of older code that has been abandoned as there is not a lot of support for the Kepler architecture these days.
Other factors of the build are that K80s are GPU accelerators so they do not have video ports. Server mother boards do not have built in Graphics so you will have to have an addition card for that. I use a ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 Graphics Card (PCIe 2.0, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 4X HDMI Ports on a PCI x 1 port just to attach a monitor if needed. Though I do not typically leave a monitor attached to my server.
I have a server with two Tesla K80s they're are ancient but great for training. The big issue is power, they use 300 watts each. So I have to have a 1300 watt power supply for the rig, they are also intense on heat, so you have to plan for that in your build! You can typically get them for around $80.00 USD each though you have to build for them, and you are going to have to know how to build and maintain a lot of older code that has been abandoned as there is not a lot of support for the Kepler architecture these days.
Other factors of the build are that K80s are GPU accelerators so they do not have video ports. Server mother boards do not have built in Graphics so you will have to have an addition card for that. I use a ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 Graphics Card (PCIe 2.0, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 4X HDMI Ports on a PCI x 1 port just to attach a monitor if needed. Though I do not typically leave a monitor attached to my server.
In budget build you would likely be better off with P100 They have the Pascal architecture v. Kepler. More recent but still weakly supported. It out performs the K80 using less power as well.
It's two hours after the family's return from a week-long New Year's vacation. In thhat time, I've cleaned dog pee off the floor, both kids have had meltdowns and the entire contents of a jelly jar has filled a refrigerator shelf.
It's just amazing, the number of newspeople and pundits who suddenly know what the word "Tranche" means, now that the Epstein Files have been partially released...
OK, hear me out: Current experiments seem to be producing skin-based(pressure or vibration) remote object detection for blind people. If it works, lets make them superhuman by plugging their devices into things like car radar systems, active radar sets, or topographic satellite data!
The man in charge of all the apparati of power in the US never finished a construction on time *or* paid his subcontractors the full amount agreed to. What could possibly go wrong?
Đe English language once had an alphabet đat actually represented its sounds. It's past time we fix this. I propose the letter Đorn ("Thorn", Đ, đ) as the first back-substitution.
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Me: I made chicken fried rice from sctratch using a recipe from an actual chinese chef. In a real wok! Kids: Oh Wife: I kinda like it better than the stuff from our regular place. Me: My work's done here...
For pity's sake, software people, PLEASE put back the boundary markers around windows, between frames and so on! I just spent five minutes trying to resize a window. Light gray and light gray on light gray, with not a single line.
Attorneys for a couple charged with driving to a police station with an HSI agent in their car dispute the government’s account of the incident. A judge released both from jail pending trial.
They went into schools looking for "illegal immigrants", armed and ready for violence. In a school. While the kids were there. So they could be hurt or killed should violence have occurred.
One of these days they're going to get people killed doing this shit!
ICE descends on my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, hitting K-12 schools and immigrant neighborhoods. Update: ICE reportedly arrested two Dublin Scioto high schools students today.
They terrorize the populace by stomping into homes and schools, wearing in many cases no identification or uniform, and often masked to conceal their identities. They are literally Stasi.
TFW you game the company's systems and find the actual direct phone number of the IT guy who has been ducking your messages for 3 freaking days via the "approved" method instead of just clicking a button to approve the request.
Millions of people all over the world looked at each other and went "My life is shit. So instead of voting for someone who could actually make it better, I'll vote for someone who'll make someone else's life even worse!" and then proceeded to vote for their local fascists.
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It feels almost like a biblical morale that the president who mocked another president for being sleepy, is now filmed every week falling asleep at meetings.
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
his every accusation is a confession. Sleepy, crime family, hiding in basement, stealing, high treason, war criminal, betrayal, tax evasion, ... I wouldn't be surprised, if he was actually born in Germany and falsified his birth document.
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When the time comes, they are going to try to "Weekend At Bernie's" Trump's arse, you watch. Occasionally, he'll be out on the golf cart somewhere riding around.
I don’t think he is well and stress has definitely gotten to him. It’s not a job where you can relax and Trump’s age, diet and health has worked against him.
For them, politics is just a game where the only goal is to win. For them, there are no morals in politics, and it would be as absurd to them as applying morals to winning in a board game.
They can still accuse their opponents for moral failings, because that’s part of the game.
Shit people, idioms only work if we all agree on the definitions!
After nearly 200 years of "Out-Of-Pocket" meaning "Paid for it yourself", some ignorant bonehead mashed "Out of office" together with it, and now all of corporate America says "Out-of-pocket" when they mean "unavailable".
Culturally it important? No, of course not. Am I irrationally furious every time I spend time during a meeting looking like an idiot because I have to translate before I can reply to your ignorant ass? Yes.
Am I the only one who gets a little subversive thrill every time I type in my unnecessarily required birthdate as January first, 1970, knowing that somebody, somewhere, someday, maybe an AI, is going to expend a lot of effort trying to determine if a) that's my actual birthday, b) there's a bug in their signup processing, or c) I somehow hacked the web form to let me submit it without the date filled in?
Why do hundreds and hundreds of websites all incorrectly, and wierdly using identical phrases, insist that the the term 'blog' is short for 'web log' (True), "which was originally a record of server requests" (False)?
I’ve been blogging for over a year now, which is a big exciting accomplishment for me! And yet, it wasn’t until this week that I stopped and thought about how weird the word blog is. It…
Why do hundreds and hundreds of websites all incorrectly, and wierdly using identical phrases, insist that the the term 'blog' is short for 'web log' (True), "which was originally a record of server requests" (False)?
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Raw numbers are perhaps not enough to get across just how bad the centralisation of the Fediverse by mastodon.social is. I've done a chart to show this visually, hopefully this will make the situation clearer?
Given the circumstances, getting people to join *any* other server except mastodon.social would greatly help decentralise the Fediverse. It's no longer big vs medium vs small, it's more like supergiant deathstar mastodon.social vs everyone else 😞
p.s. For anyone wondering why this centralisation is a problem, here's an in-depth look at why mastodon.social's increasing percentage of the Fediverse is dangerous: fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide…
p.p.s. If anyone currently on mastodon.social wants help moving to a different server, there's an easy-to-understand step-by-step guide at fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
Let me know if you have any difficulties with any particular step 🙂
Hi there - I’ve just joined the Mastodon team full time, and part of my role is working on mastodon.social and mastodon.online. I’m just getting started and still in learning mode, but I want to say that I’m aware of this issue and the team is actively discussing how we can evolve in a way that both delivers on #Mastodon’s promise of decentralization, and provides a “safe landing place” for new users. I’m grateful for all the ideas and writing you’ve shared. I’m listening, and thank you.
I think one of the main problems is you can't transfer your posts to a new account. But I heard that @jonny was maybe working on finding a fix for this! So, one can hope that if this gets fixed it will be much easier for people to move out of mastodon.social.
I mean, for me #Mastodon is #microblogging first and foremost. And in microblogging, posts are ephemeral and soon forgotten. Personally, I don't really _care_ what I posted a year ago - unless I bookmarked it. And even then, the old posts arent even _gone_ unless the old instance closes down.
But evidently, a very large number of Mastodon users feel very differently about this.
@juergen_hubert I see! Indeed I am more on the side of "permanent repository of my thoughts", I often search my old posts for some link, poll or info that I know exists in the past. I wouldn't want to migrate instances if it meant loosing my post history. I'd rather loose my follows / followers - you can always find then back - than my posts.
I guess I probably also have some trauma from when I had to leave twitter to join mastodon and had to say bye-bye to all my precious tweets.. Not ready for that to ever happen again!
i've moved and deleted thousands of old posts. it doesn't bother me, i think like juergen. but also, i never quote post, and don't see the point: just reply to the person
but i appreciate some people want to keep their posts forever, and like quote posts. it's not like someone else having another option hurts me in any way
but moving posts is *hard*
if you reply to 1,000 comments on 500 servers, then move, every database on every server needs an extensive update
@elduvelle @juergen_hubert That’s the exact dividing line between the two opinions: some people feel that their posts are precious, others that they are naturally ephemeral. Personally I think anyone in the “precious” camp needs to have their own website. It is easy and inexpensive, and you are not subject to losing everything just because a random individual server owner quits (or sells out to someone terrible).
@Moss @juergen_hubert A website is really not the same purpose as an interactive communication platform like Mastodon / Fedi though. It doesn't have the same reach - people have to go and read your website. The interest of the posts on here is not just the posts content but the discussions that come with them. It's also not that easy to set up, you have to figure out a host, make the website, regularly update the website, probably pay for the domain name etc. (I never made a website, there are probably a lot more steps). It's a good thing to have but certainly not a replacement for social media.
It's possible to split the middle, though. For instance, I am running a #WordPress site - and turned it into a #Fediverse server with the #ActivityPub plugin.
Now people can search for individual blog posts on their Fediverse instance, and read it and comment on it as if it was a Mastodon post (for instance).
There are also quite a few other Fediverse-based blogging solutions that allow people to blog right into other people's feeds.
@juergen_hubert @elduvelle Yeah, there are definitely very different ways of seeing this. I also see my old posts as irrelevant and have set them to auto-delete. Of course, having my history reset to 0 on a move is a little annoying, so I guess a way to move say up to 5000 posts (or some cap selected by the server admin) would make sense?
@juergen_hubert @me @veronica I also spend hours (days?) figuring out how to get a twitter archive working.
Do I go back to it sometimes? Yes! I would say once every few months to try and find something that I posted. Unfortunately it couldn't archive other people's posts, or even poll results, so it's not that useful.
I also used it to (re-)make some of my pinned posts on here, e.g:
Hi there - I’ve just joined the Mastodon team full time, and part of my role is working on mastodon.social and mastodon.online. I’m just getting started and still in learning mode, but I want to say that I’m aware of this issue and the team is actively discussing how we can evolve in a way that both delivers on #Mastodon’s promise of decentralization, and provides a “safe landing place” for new users. I’m grateful for all the ideas and writing you’ve shared. I’m listening, and thank you.
@haubles Instead of considering mastodon.social as a “safe landing place,” we should consider it as a “safe launching place.” In other words, accounts on mastodon.social should be considered starter accounts, and the job of mastodon.social should be helping new arrivals learn enough about the fediverse to decide where they want to land.
Just to push back against this concept of a "starter server" or "launching place", that doesn't really exist. There are just well-run servers and badly-run servers.
There's nothing easier or safer or tutorial-like about using mastodon.social than other reputable servers, and if there was it would simply encourage even more people to join mastodon.social and stay there 😦
@haubles Currently, yes. I am talking about what I would like to see mastodon.social become, not what it has been. I had other thoughts (e.g., recurring tutorial messages, time-limited accounts, countdown reminders) for features that could help implement the concept of a safe launching place, but I edited them out as they were insufficiently cooked. My thought is that mastodon.social should enforce its role as a launching place by not allowing anyone to stay there long term.
Think it has merit. Another way to think about this concept would be to take a page from role playing computer games. When you start you arrive on "newbie island" when you walk through a few simple tasks that familiarize you with the UI and your various server options. But pretty soon you have to (get to!) move off into the real game equipt with some knowledge, the choices you've made, and a modicum of skill.
I feel like this is really easily solvable by just having the apps randomly cycle which server is selected by "default" when people are signing up. Obviously still give the option for people to manually select their preferred network, but by having the default random.
Just limit the random server selection to something like 10-20 reputable instances that have a track record of quality administration. That would avoid sending people to an instance that is unsupported and at a higher risk of shutting down.
Unus Nemo
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I have no issue with AI, the technology, I have been working on it since 1986. The development of LLMs, artificial neural networks has certainly been a game changer. Though I am not any part of the obsession to make huge server farms that power AI Instances to provide services for mobile devices, or any device you want to hook to them. I use only local AI that I work on, or those that collaborate with me work on.
One very disturbing issue for me is that people cannot make a distinction between AI, the technology, and services provided by corporations. There is a huge difference. For instance I do not train my AI on copyrighted material stolen on the internet. I train them on open source, public domain resources and my own content.
I use ComfyUI (generative AI) to make assets, and just to have fun. I use only checkpoints and loras trained on public domain content, and yes, you can check this. I have used LLMs that I have trained to turn
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I have no issue with AI, the technology, I have been working on it since 1986. The development of LLMs, artificial neural networks has certainly been a game changer. Though I am not any part of the obsession to make huge server farms that power AI Instances to provide services for mobile devices, or any device you want to hook to them. I use only local AI that I work on, or those that collaborate with me work on.
One very disturbing issue for me is that people cannot make a distinction between AI, the technology, and services provided by corporations. There is a huge difference. For instance I do not train my AI on copyrighted material stolen on the internet. I train them on open source, public domain resources and my own content.
I use ComfyUI (generative AI) to make assets, and just to have fun. I use only checkpoints and loras trained on public domain content, and yes, you can check this. I have used LLMs that I have trained to turn
vimon my machine into a full blown IDE (not that it was not already). There are many practical implementations of AI that does and will enhance all of our lives. That does not mean I support corporate server farms trying to inject AI into all aspects of our life, need or want it or not. On the other hand I do not feel that it is fair for people to be judging AI for what corporations do. Should I judge fire for what arsonist do? Should I judge antibiotics by their current abuse in agriculture?It is an old technology that we have been working on for decades. With great success in recent decades. It is not SLOP it is valuable technology when used appropriately. AI should not be held accountable for the way corporation misuse it for monetization. Corporations should be held accountable for their actions. Not the millions of developers that have diligently worked to hone a technology that is quite valuable.
Unus Nemo
Unknown parent • •@plan-A
Yes, except I write my own extension and do not use a plugin manager 😉
Unus Nemo
Unknown parent • •@plan-A
There is nothing wrong with using
vim-plug. It just does not do anything for me as I write most of my own plugins. The main reason to usevim-plugis for keeping plugins updated. Today, that is moot, as even tpope has not updated a vim plugin in over 4 years. I tend to hard fork the plugins I like best and maintain them myself. So a plugin manager is not required.Yes, with low ram your options are rather limited. I find it is best to train your own LLM though that requires a significant GPU. At the very least an RTX 3060i or equivalent. You just have to be careful what open source, or your own source you train the LLM on. As there are a lot of low quality projects. Train with a bunch of low quality code, get low quality suggestions.
Though I mainly use AI for an Intel-sense level of auto completion. Having an AI write actual code is very risky. With anything even slightly complicated you are bound to do more debugging than it is worth. It would be less effort to just write it from scratch yourself.
Unus Nemo
in reply to Blaise • •@Blaise
You can ask the AI how to train it, it knows 😉
Unus Nemo
in reply to Blaise • •@Blaise
I have a server with two Tesla K80s they're are ancient but great for training. The big issue is power, they use 300 watts each. So I have to have a 1300 watt power supply for the rig, they are also intense on heat, so you have to plan for that in your build! You can typically get them for around $80.00 USD each though you have to build for them, and you are going to have to know how to build and maintain a lot of older code that has been abandoned as there is not a lot of support for the Kepler architecture these days.
Other factors of the build are that K80s are GPU accelerators so they do not have video ports. Server mother boards do not have built in Graphics so you will have to have an addition card for that. I use a
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 Graphics Card (PCIe 2.0, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 4X HDMI Portson a PCI x 1 port just to attach a monitor if needed. Though I do not typically leave a monitor attached to my server.In budge
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I have a server with two Tesla K80s they're are ancient but great for training. The big issue is power, they use 300 watts each. So I have to have a 1300 watt power supply for the rig, they are also intense on heat, so you have to plan for that in your build! You can typically get them for around $80.00 USD each though you have to build for them, and you are going to have to know how to build and maintain a lot of older code that has been abandoned as there is not a lot of support for the Kepler architecture these days.
Other factors of the build are that K80s are GPU accelerators so they do not have video ports. Server mother boards do not have built in Graphics so you will have to have an addition card for that. I use a
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 Graphics Card (PCIe 2.0, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 4X HDMI Portson a PCI x 1 port just to attach a monitor if needed. Though I do not typically leave a monitor attached to my server.In budget build you would likely be better off with P100 They have the Pascal architecture v. Kepler. More recent but still weakly supported. It out performs the K80 using less power as well.