I still use a stepladder that my parents bought (used) in the '90s.

Because I could do that with the Anarchist Cookbook over 2 decades ago as well.

It has been a very long time since I read that book, but I don’t remember it covering electronic missile guidance

He’s still at it lol https://www.youtube.com/live/KALYYH1pWCM

It would be better to go to Reckless Bricks instead

Shutting it down would be a LOT harder than steering it

Oh. Good joke.

plant-based mock-meats

Why make plants taste like meat?

Man, every reply seems to be answering a question that was not asked (not intentionally, anyway).

Understanding that I’m blursed with a neurodivergence that comes with communication challenges, I can usually narrow down the source of confusion in situations like this. However, I can’t seem to figure this one out.

At my age, I have enough wisdom to know that I should just give up by now… Yet still enough foolishness to keep going anyway. So here I go :/…

eminent domain is just something the government can do in the USA.

So, going back up to the top-level comment where this all started, they said “We should use Eminent Domain to take majority control in stock in every publicly traded company.” Also, you said “you take the land and all the equipment and/or resources on it.”

If it’s just something the government can do, how do “we”/“you” use eminent domain to do these things? Like, I don’t even know what the first few steps would be, so I’m literally asking how to do this.

You might not have that in your country and I totally understand you not getting how it works.

I’m in the USA :/. Do most people know how to do this?

it is a tool that has overwhelmingly been used to fuck over minorities and the poor. With your questioning, you sound like you are supporting it only being used that way.

I feel like it’s extremely foolish to ask this again, but…

How???

I reviewed all of my previous replies, and can’t find a single thing that sounds like I support literally anything at all.

If anything… If my replies were written by someone else, and I tried to reach really far as a reader… I suppose asking how to take action could maybe imply support for – not against – “[using] Eminent Domain to take majority control in stock in every publicly traded company.” How did I manage to convey the opposite tone (or any tone at all) while not even understanding how to do the thing?

Multiple people have replied to me in this thread, so I’m clearly the common denominator. It would be valuable for me to understand how we got here. Can someone please help me untangle this? TBH, I’m interested in understanding these interactions more than eminent domain.

I don’t want to speak on behalf of them, but the comment includes a hint that strongly implies an answer to your question: “I’ve never heard of […]”

So, you take the land and all the equipment and/or resources on it.

Great! Sooo… How?

Maybe my question of “How?” is not specific specific enough?

For example, if you just walk into the building and tell everyone to leave because you want to take it, that approach would not work. They would call the police, who would then force you to leave.

Does this clarify my question?

Yeahhh… That’s just kinda how it is for a lot of people, unfortunately. In survival mode, you don’t really have the luxury of quitting a job just because you hate it. I mean, maybe if you’re just a single guy with a car or tent to sleep in, just in case… But if you have a family to support (or will soon), you just have to tough it out until you can secure another job (or until you get fired in a way that qualifies for unemployment benefits while searching for a new job).

Having been raised in poverty, I can’t remember a single time my parents liked their jobs.

…I wonder if I may have become stupid, or if I just missed some context somewhere :/

They literally just said so:

Who? I thought I was replying to a top-level comment, and I don’t see anything that says how we’d use eminent domain in that comment, in the OP, or in the article linked in the OP. Is it somewhere else?

Eminent domain,[a] also known as land acquisition,[b] compulsory purchase,[c] resumption,[d] compulsory acquisition,[e] or expropriation,[f] is the compulsory acquisition of private property for public use. Wikipedia - Eminent domain

I don’t see the answer in this excerpt either, or in the Wikipedia page.

Given the tone of your response, I must have overlooked something glaringly obvious, but I’m just not seeing it 🤦🏻‍♂️

There’s some public assistance available, but for some things (like housing, sadly), they’re not always immediately available, and there can be long waiting lists.

“Average person” might depend on age group. You’re probably right about the average 20-something, but as we age, family members die and friends move away or start families of their own. (Though, in this context, you’re probably right because it’s about people who are pregnant. The average pregnant person probably has at least one person they could ask for help.)

How?

Edit: Wow. I should not have assumed that my single-word reply was specific enough. I’ll expand the question:

How do we “use Eminent Domain to take majority control in stock in every publicly traded company”?

🤔 though, it might be better to narrow the scope of the question a bit: How do we even do it for one publicly traded company? Probably better to start with one first. Baby steps while learning.

Yeah I used to use dev containers. Containers aren’t generally a secure sandbox. They’re a great guardrail for preventing accidents, but not so much with a malicious prompt injection. (I might be overly paranoid about these things.)

For tool version management, I usually set up a Nix Flake for each project (which also works inside dev containers).

Tool use with Gemma has been hit or miss. I wouldn’t rely on it for anything unsupervised.

Tool use for Qwen3.6 has been great lately, but I do remember seeing some issues with it too, a while back. I don’t remember when/why the issues cleared up (I have tweaked configs a bit over time), but switching to Pi definitely helped.

I do remember having a lot more problems in OpenCode and it was practically unusable (which is why my recent experience with VS Code was surprising). I’d definitely recommend trying Pi.

A fresh Pi install is very minimal by design. The system prompt is tiny, so it’s a pretty good fit for small LLMs like these. It’s sort of like Neovim: Nothing fancy out of the box, but you can add lots of fancy things to it. I containerize it because I don’t like giving LLMs (especially these small ones) unrestricted access to my host computer – though, I have not seen any signs of it accidentally doing something destructive, which is surprising.

There are similar alternatives to Apple Container for Linux (e.g. Docker Sandboxes, muvm, Firecracker). There’s also this thing made specifically for Pi called Gondolin. I haven’t tried it yet, but I may end up switching to that if it could simplify my stack.

Here’s my current llama-swap/llama.cpp config for Qwen3.6 35B-A3B:

qwen3.6-35b-a3b:
    name: "Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (Coding)"
    proxy: "http://127.0.0.1/:$%7BPORT%7D" # If you're seeing a `/` after `127.0.0.1` here, don't include it. I think something in Lemmy is trying to "sanitize" this input by adding the `/`.
    cmd: |
      llama-server
      --port ${PORT}
      --no-webui
      -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL
      --jinja
      --parallel 1
      --flash-attn on
      --no-mmproj
      --load-mode none
      --reasoning-preserve
      --ctx-size 190000
      --temp 0.6
      --top-p 0.95
      --top-k 20
      --min-p 0.0
      --presence-penalty 0.0
      --repeat-penalty 1.01

A few notes about this config:

• Now that I think of it, --reasoning-preserve might be another thing that helped with tool calls.
• Note the -MTP part of the -hf param. MTP helps speed things up. Here’s the Huggingface page for this model
• You can also omit --no-mmproj if you need vision, but it might mean sacrificing speed or context size, so I usually just enable vision in a separate llama-swap model entry to use as needed.
• Unsloth recommends --repeat-penalty 1.0, but I saw the LLM enter a thinking loop in VS Code, so I bumped it up just a tiny bit to 1.01. I have since seen it do something that resembled the same thought loop, but it was able to recover on its own. Not sure if it’s a coincidence or if 1.01 was actually the solution, so worth some experimentation.

Heh, I remember another distro called Floppix — small enough to fix on two floppy disks

Clearly, the focus is on local AI development — a timely move as cloud AI token costs start to rise.

AI token costs are only rising for people with low AI proficiency who compensate for that by just using expensive models for everything. For others, the costs are dropping quite a lot, largely thanks to Chinese models (GLM, Kimi, Qwen, etc.)

Ohhh lol. Yeah it’s Llama-swap, running llama.cpp for now, but might add vLLM to the llama-swap config to experiment with NVFP4.

I mainly use MoE models so I can get decent speed while using a 150-200k context window. My go-to model has been Qwen3.6 35B-A3B for a while. I tried Qwen3.8 27B, but it was too slow.

Gemma4 26B-A4B also runs nice and fast, but I generally get better results from Qwen3.6. I don’t remember exactly how much CPU offloading is happening, but it’s not much. As long as I can get like 40-50 tokens/sec, I’m usually satisfied enough.

For the coding harness, I’ve been running Pi in an Apple Container (sort of like Podman, but better isolation in a microvm). Though, I recently configured VS Code to use LLMs on my server, and it was actually pretty decent. Still need to explore a bit more, but so far VS Code’s AI capabilities seem much better than they were a year ago (they seemed way behind, back then).

Also, I don’t connect any harness directly to llama-swap. I have another container running Caddy, which acts as a gateway to AI providers. For other services (e.g. OpenRouter), the API key is injected in the Caddy container. I don’t like having API keys or secrets anywhere where LLMs can read them. It’s not so bad for my own self-hosted LLMs, but not cool to send secrets to a server owned by someone else.

There’s not really anything interesting to show. It’s just a home server in a 13 year old desktop ATX case.

There’s no desk, monitor, keyboard, or mouse… But also no cool server rack.

Function over form, and it sits in a spare bedroom out of sight.

EDIT: I found the receipt for the case. It’s a Cougar Volant Black Steel mid tower, purchased in 2013. So my server just looks like this: