I’ve read a lot of Harkaway. More than a couple of his books I gave up trying to understand what’s happened and go along for the ride, then try piece together the chronology on a re-read.
Gone Away World is a coming of age story, that is the story of a coming of an age, then it’s a coming of existence, then there’s Mimes that drink milk (for some reason). Sure Nick, take me where we’re going, I’ll figure it out later.
Here’s an idea…
Sum total of my hardware:
Ugreen dxp 4800, the Pentium one. 32gb ram. My main box: jellyfin, arrs, immich, pihole, nginx, etc… It can’t go down. I don’t think I want an LLM here.
Beelink n100 16gb ram. Local back up, redundant pihole, immich machine learning… Generally under utilised, I’d like to move some services around, does proxmox have an auto balancer?!
Spare no name n100. 8, or 16gb, I can’t remember. Abandoned box, It’s what I would put the LLM on, I did have it reserved for a remote back up.
I think it would need a ram upgrade, see corporate AI pricing me out of personal computing. Currently Amazon has a Crucial 32gb ddr5 sodimm module for £280. Which is too high a price for what I’d use it for.
Oh, and I have an abandoned gaming rig with a gtx970, and some rPi0/3s
I’ve put Ollama on an n100 before. It obviously ate all of that box and made everything on it chug, and it was too slow for human use. But if it’s just generating logs, and resetting containers then I wouldn’t mind how slow it is.
I’ve been dreaming of local AI for a hot minute. Sadly corporate AI has priced me out of personal computing, and current hardware isn’t up to it.
Maybe my n100 could, I don’t really care how slow it’s generating the tokens if it’s just resetting containers and logging errors.
Does your setup handle automagic updates, how do you handle prompt injection if so? Or, just error correction/logging?
I appreciate this isn’t an AMA, I don’t expect an answer. But, beyond rashes are there any other ill effects?
Sure. If you actively turn it on, and all involved know it’s on. But this is always active as far as I’m aware.
I’m guessing it’ll be toggle off, and it’ll toggle itself back on every update.
In other words, they’re taking your data for their use all the time, and sometimes they’ll share your data with you.
I’m sure there’s more than a little Baader-Meinhof happening. I did expand my privacy a bit; pihole, searxng, some other stuff and I notice it less now. Or I think I do, humans are notoriously bad at this.
Honestly, I thought they already did that.
One of my motivations for becoming more privacy minded, was the amount of times a subject of conversation was delivered through an algorithm later.
It was creepy, talk about hose pipes> receive hosepipe content/ads.
A hosting service for games. Feed it games and it allows you to download them from your server, manage saves, emulate in browser… A bunch of stuff. It’s a good project.
Dopamine management system
Is there a, err, nsfw instance? Asking, like, for a friend.
Let me get my robe, and wizard hat real quick.
Flesh and Code had the name ‘Daniel Todd’ repeatedly coming up in whatever model Replika uses.
Respectfully, his last words were ‘gurgrlrlrlr’. Smartest thing ever ever said.
What I dislike about it is the infantilising of our own governments and the conspiratorial nature of the accusations. Also, anyone using white-nationalist talking points deserves to be side-eyed untill they prove otherwise
Infantilising: Our governments are quite capable of being shit on their own. Them taking bribes and acting accordingly is not an argument they are occupied. They aren’t being forced to do these things, they’re choosing to do these things because they’re paid to. No one says their government is occupied by BP, or Marlborough, it’s called ‘corruption’. This, I think, is my strongest point. This seeming double standard that when it comes to Zionism they call it ‘occupied’, but for other forms of bribes it’s just corruption. America wasn’t labeled ‘Russian occupied’ while trump was acting in their interests. Corruption not occupation is more explanatory so a better insight of how our governments will/behave/d. You kick out AIPAC, good job you treated a symptom of the disease but America is still sick. Everywhere, in every argument, you’ll see people distracting from the Epstein class, zog is merely one of them.
Conspiratorial nature: life isn’t as simple as one puppet master pulling the strings. Our governments are a series of individuals acting accordingly, this tendency to over simplify leads people to - gestures at other conspiracies. This is my weakest point it’s I’ll defined and thought through. The ZOG conspiracy just ‘feels’ wrong no matter who is saying it, I’m not sure I could properly articulate why.
I don’t think I need to justify why people using white nationalist talking points do not deserve the benefit of the doubt, they deserve suspicion. They can overcome that suspicion, but they deserve it, stop quacking if you don’t want people to think your a duck. We can talk about Israel’s genocide, and it is a genocide they are committing and we are supporting, without the nazi rhetoric. I encourage anyone to stop using white nationalist tropes, lest they wish to invite white nationalists - see meme
I appreciate you asked me direct questions, here are my answers: I am concerned using the language of Nazis, invites Nazis into a space they have no business being, Nazis can fuck off. As I am not using ZOG, my definition of Zionist isn’t relevant at all. The nation of Israel is committing genocide, the nation of Israel is exploiting the corruption of our governments.
The number of ZOG comments I’m seeing, even here on Lemmy, is pretty disgusting.
Ne, mi ankaŭ ne volis lerni esperanton.
I joke, it was fun, esperantists are good people. I did it to ‘cheat’ at being bi-lingual, I don’t think that was the best motivation. Toki pana would’ve been easier.
I like to meet art where it is. If it’s selling itself as a brain-off kids film, I’m judging it as a brain-off kids film.
When I hear/use the word condescending, I will look at someone and say: “That’s when you talk down to people”. Then let them get through their rant until they realise what just happened. I used to force it with “what do you call a kleptomaniac Dwarf going down a set of stairs? A little condescending, that’s when you talk down to people”.
Simple joke:
Knock knock, who’s there, Europe, Europe who? No you’re a poo.
I for one, like Roman numerals, that’s perfection.
I’ll throw Locked Tomb Trilogy.
It’s a good mystery series that’s well paced (for me) in that I had my moments of realisation only about a chapter before each reveal most of the time.
One of the books is written in second person, and it’s about an unreliable narrator, so that’s… fun? I spent a lot of my time, when not reading the book, wondering who the ‘I’ was to narrative’s ‘you’, then not being able to answer how the ‘I’ knew the things the ‘I’ knew, so ‘I’ couldn’t be the ‘I’ I think ‘I’ am. But no-one else makes sense, and the second guessing continues.
Also, doesn’t do mystery through vague language much, which I dislike most of the time. The viewpoint characters are doing their best, you know what they know, it’s just they don’t know enough yet. You never really zoom out into an omnipotent narrator, to then not describe what’s happening beyond vibes.
All the characters are unlikable though, the universe is unlikeable, it does unlikeable things to everyone, so their unlikability is undertandable at least. But, if you can’t get past a purposefully unlikeable cast, that might be a barrier. I don’t want to meet any of them (the ones I would be most willing to meet, I’m sure I just don’t know well enough), but I’m content reading about their exploits, or rather how they’re exploited.