Been watching this TV Show called “Falling Skies”. It has many parallels to modern day society across the globe. Quite a good watch 👌

The amazing thing I find by everything I ever try that isn’t OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is that basically it’s all pretty useless at small scale. What do I mean by this? Well, in trying a few different models and tools that you can run locally (not connected to any “cloud” service), the results are pretty underwhelming. For example with Tabby connected to VSCode (locally), you get “okay” results for pretty trivial shit. The moment you try to do anything interesting at all, you either get completely garbage code or copyright headers as suggestions.

I just don’t have time or energy to waste hours of a weekend on basically what amounts to statistical probabilistic models trained on complete garbage that generates or predicts in pretty awful ways.

I event spent a few hours today learning about a statistical model used for natural language processing (NLP) called n-gram(s) or ngrams, and ended up with pretty abysmal results. It all depends on the quality of the dataset, and then it can only predict what it has seen.

Home | Tabby This is actually pretty cool and useful. Just tried this on my Mac locally of course and it seems to have quite good utility. What would be interesting for me would be to train it on my code and many projects 😅

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Same to you too! 👌 What are you up to? 🤔

Watched a bit of it and honestly I’m already sick of this shit. The injustices between peoples is just astounding and I agree with you in that people like Ben don’t make this any better. If I ever was there in person in his audience I’d probably tell him to “shut the fuck up” already.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci

@prologic@twtxt.net, I don’t know how you go on defending Ben Shapiro, but in the context of US society, what Shapiro is saying is reprehensible and unacceptable. He’s a right-wing troll with disgusting, not to mention flat out stupid, opinions.

I’ve not once defended him at all. I’ll have a watch/read of this though. Truth be told, I’m actually quite tired of all of this. Why can’t people just get along?!

@mckinley@twtxt.net I use ipinfo.io

@xuu@txt.sour.is Interesting, I probably agree with this really.

Evening y’all 👋

@shreyan@twtxt.net I really like Iridium for this reason 👌

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net I never saw this happen myself 😳

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net But are folks aware of the alternative choices? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes but this is easy with unshare

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net Solve a real problem or need 👌

@osnews@feeds.twtxt.net What the hell?! Browsers now send images to a central service for further processing?! 🤦‍♂️

This is why the PID Namespace controller exists in Linux 👌

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Oh man that sucks 😱 Fuck Facebook and Meta 😆

Have we really gotten that lazy and inefficient? 🤔

~160MB of memory just to show an empty window?! And some think a few (single digit) MB of memory is bad for Go web apps that serve “Hello World” 😅

I guess people (those that write clickbait headlines) are really that stupid eh? 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Damn straight 🤣

@thiegui@twtxt.net It’s all just Twtxt feeds 😅

Creativity flows from the process of reevaluating assumptions and constraints.

There’s some great commentary in this thread about startups and VCs and so on. Worth reading / skimming

@movq@www.uninformativ.de boring 🤣

One thing I agree with is this quote:

We have a disconnect between power and responsibility

EMERGENCY EPISODE: Ex-Google Officer Finally Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI! - Mo Gawdat | E252 - YouTube – I’m listening to this podcast, an interview with a former Googler, and this struck me:

And very soon they’ll come up with things we’ve never seen before.

But how?! if the transformers and the trillions of pages of text ChatGPT was trained on just predicts the next token/word, what possible mechanism will get to that next level of “Oh, now it learns and creates new things on its own”? 🤔 I don’t get it 🤷‍♂️

The upcoming Apple Vision Pro looks good 🤞

@thiegui@twtxt.net it should be able to follow feeds and cache them

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci wasn’t me 😁

Well of course it does 😆 It was trained on code written by humans who make mistakes 🤦‍♂️

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci And yeah re the death threats, that’s really fucked up 😳😱

I hope the plaintiffs win and sue GitHub and Microsoft to kingdom come! 😆

Has anyone tried to call Mr. Putin and say please stop? 🤔

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Ahh I see. Admittedly I haven’t been really following the the war, maybe I should have, but I find the whole things a waste of human existence 😢 I only hope one day Putin and his “henchmen” pay for their crimes.

Yeah I get what you mean; but Putin is a mad man 😱

Hmmm whilst I agree with you, I worry about this sort of thing s lot.

Violence begets violence

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci is the information ecosystem really getting that bad? 🤔

@thiegui@twtxt.net Happy to help answer any questions you have 🤗

Amazingly (haven’t worked on it in a while) GoNix still builds and runs (on QEMU), even on my new Mac Studio M1 😅 Nice!

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no I just purchased one of these ones instead just now 😅

NanoPi NEO3 LTS

Let’s see if it arrives at a reasonable timeframe 🤣 Cost me $110 AUD so not too bad, nice and compact.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Ahh I upvoted it! 😅 Looks like it’s #4 now, let’s keep it up there 🤣

Based on some experimentation of the “Shipping Estimator” on the site, looks like they charge $70/kg for shipping. I’d better get two of ‘em then 🤣

NanoPi R2S – Thinking about getting a NanoPi R2S to play with, but if you try to get just one (which presumably ships from China) its estimated to cost about $70 in shipping to Australia 😱 That’s 2x the cost of the product just in shipping alone?! wtf?! 🤦‍♂️

James Mills - vDSL2 sucks NBN sucks Copper sucks

@thiegui@twtxt.net Welcome to my pod (twtxt.net) 🤗 How are you going? New to Twtxt? 🤔

@thiegui@twtxt.net Someone on my pod (twtxt.net) follow that feed, so that’s why.

Milk-V This is pretty cool! 👌 RISC-V is coming along nicely 🤞

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no One day I gotta get you to run GoNix 🤣