I’m sure they’re shaking in their boots from the prospect of a 10 million dollar fine.

That’s what annoyed me about minio. Started super crazy simple to set up, but I missed two updates and came back to AWS levels of mandatory configuration. Ffs I chose you because you were simple, not because I needed to replace s3

I don’t care for google’s latest tech pet project. I would downvote it on reddit or here. It’s not revolutionary tech, and knowing Google they’ll decommission it in 2 years anyway. So, I downvote.

I up vote things I find interesting. This is not one of those things.

Looking at your past posts you have a lot of good ones, the elastic one is really interesting. Idk why you’re upset about one dude, overall your posts have been good. Don’t let one unpopular post rile you up.

I’m pretty sure I saw a documentary about doing this exact thing back in 2003…

I see 10,000 forks in the near future, and fully decentralized ways of hosting them. God forbid we actually try to regulate real guns, no it’s those damn hobbyists who spent thousands on printers!

And then you are basically hiring an infra team to run the services and have the redundancy, and then with salaries you’re nearing just paying for software again

Revolt I love, but there’s no federation or anything, and I won’t be able to get anyone to switch unless they could join many servers from mine

Except not, this is what social media is supposed to do, allow people to upload things to share. They’ve done perfectly well for all these years on it, it’s not some new crazy problem. It’s existing functionality they are removing, that’s on them.

Ah that AI hype train is still rolling I see. Funny they said the exact same thing 24 months ago.

I have a feeling it’ll happen to us right around the same time Tesla self driving fully leaves beta.

You’re looking for namespaces. Have a public and private namespace

Since I consider non-free software to be unethical and antisocial, I think it would be wrong for me to recommend it to others.

OpenBSD does not contain non-free software (though I am not sure whether it contains any non-free firmware blobs). However, its ports system does suggest non-free programs, or at least so I was told when I looked for some BSD variant that I could recommend. I therefore exercise my freedom of speech by not including OpenBSD in the list of systems that I recommend to the public.

my god. Yeah, he’s technically correct, but he’s so self righteous about it. I think of PopOS, probably the best OS I’ve ever used. However when you open the shop, he would just pass out because they shock recommend discord and others.

But that’s what people want. If you open the shop and don’t see the discord app, people would be frustrated. It’s there because people use it. Hell I use it. But according to him even the act of just suggesting something closed source, even if people want it, is … “unethical”?

Like dude, I love OSS a lot, more than the average, but just suggesting a download, (probably because it’s by the most popular), I think is a far cry from “unethical”.

What was it I saw recently… There was a FOSS podcast player that is completely open and available, but it was demonized because you could (optionally) add the apples/itunes feed. Like reading an RSS feed from apple made it not “FOSS”

That’s where I eyeroll hard. Ffs, having the option to use something proprietary does not closed source make. It was one part of one area of the app, that was like, a dropdown selection.

we can’t track if you accelerate too quickly away from red lights anymore, so we will be unable to insure you.

I can’t wait until we see people flashing firmwares on BMWs. Although I wish people weren’t giving them money in the first place

What they do something about disinformation, or fair pay, or something positive for humanity?

Okay so I had a meltdown last year. I was staring down a startup that was circling the drain, I knew my time there was limited, and I was being bombarded daily with layoffs and friends not being able to find work, while hearing constantly that I was going to be left behind due to AI. (of course the layoffs were happening because tech CEOs heard AI and started frothing at the idea of getting rid of some of their most expensive staff)

So, I took it on myself to learn AI. I figured well, if it’s coming for my job I might as well learn how it works. And oh lorde, did I learn a lot. To the point where I’m running several LLMs now at home, I have them running in k3s, across multiple servers, and have built several apps to interact with them. I’ve trained finetuned LLMs, I’ve played with image generation, voices, I dove headfirst in. Eventually I did lose that job, and that gave me a couple months to focus even more before finding my current one.

My biggest learnings, which I’m sure many of you know:

• AI is a very neat technology, and it has several real applications, but those applications are extremely limited by the limitations of AI
• LLMs and AI are incredibly hard to control. You can’t just say if(nsfw) dont(). You have to spend a lot of time forcing the LLM to not give weight to the users course, and it’s to the point that it hardly seems worth it.
• Companies love the idea of LLMs for their chatbots, but using the above it’s incredibly hard to prevent the chatbot from doing it’s own thing. You can say “We only have a return policy of 14 days” but if someone works at it hard enough and tells the LLM that it can still perform the return because they say so… is it really that useful? LLMs have no hard rules
• LLMs have very real hardware restrictions. At home, it’s a single GPU. In the cloud they have some clever tricks to share memory, but overall it’s still mostly limited by the GPU. We’ll see as we’re moving forward what shenanigans NVidia comes up with, but LLMs and AI are essentially a brute force approach, and we can see that in how much power they soak up. You can see ChatGPT slows down once your conversation goes on long enough, it’s running low on memory
• AI is not new. It’s still ML under the hood, it’s just coming up with unique ways to reuse it. Again with the brute force, I didn’t realize that for every token (word for simplicity), You’re entire conversation is passed in to the model, in which it will spit out one more word. Repeat for every word. That’s all it is. It’s just predicting the next word. Image generation is just predicting the next pixels, and then loops around again until it comes back. There is no consciousness, there’s no real nuance to it, that’s it. A predictive engine surrounded with a while loop.

There’s more but this is too long already. It’s neat, it’s useful, but the hype was just as intense as blockchain. We’re going to see some real great usages out of it, like integration with something like Word or a browser to summarize things is honestly a good idea. But there are so so so many pitfalls.

For coding? I think it’s a great place to get started, or to get an idea. I would never trust it in production. It will take a very long time for us to get to the point where you can say “Go build this feature” and I would blindly trust what it generated.

< 1 year before release: This will be the best game ever, it will be better than real life. It will replace my life completely, allowing me to live in this world until the end of time.

Release: This is garbage. This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen. The <original creators> are turning over in their graves. Gaming is shit now. Devs fucked up. How could they ever release this.

1-2 years after release: Silence

2-4 years after release: You know, I replayed that game, it wasn’t that bad, honestly I kind of liked how it worked

4-8 years after release: That game was honestly one of the best. Back from the old days of gaming before everything became shit. Now it’s all terrible. I hope they don’t fuck up the next one.

8+ years: It’s probably one of the best games of all time. It wasn’t for everyone, but us true gamers knew how great it was. There’s nothing that will ever beat it.

Man Intel really is paying off a lot of journalists to smear AMD while they are dealing with their rotting chips right now

I was just talking to a member of my devops team and I was talking about this exact thing and they said “I didn’t know you could attach a GPU to a container”. So, yup, just stay on top of this stuff at home and you’ll do fine

It shows how shitty they’re being by not issuing a recall immediately. They’re letting unknowing people keep buying these borked products knowing they’re going to have problems.

Meanwhile AMD knows they’re preferred right now and still delayed their CPUs because they didn’t match up to what they were supposed to be.

Right now, I’m all team red