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Glad they're looking out for me
I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it further.
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Glad they're looking out for me
I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it further.
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Trump says it may never be known who was at fault for strike on girls' school in Iran
It was you. You started the war, you're responsible. Mass murderer.
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Who is serving whom?
V for Vendetta - Governments Should Be Afraid Of The People
TLDW: skip to 2:00, but don't, context is good.
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Little evidence that Australia's under-16 social media restrictions have curbed use among adolescents
As expected, and tangential to the true goal, de-anonymizing the internet. Bet Meta got plenty of identifying information from adults though.
Isn't it about time to go after the real source of harm, the deliberately addictive algorithms used by the major social media players?
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Ok, time to move from Ollama + OpenWebUI
OpenWebUI works with plain llama.cpp
16 is a bit small so try a MoE (e.g. QWEN 3.6 35BA3B) model and put experts on the CPU (although DDR4 may be underwhelming) which you can do with llama ( with offloading and drafting for T/s) but not ollama (spitting noise). Here's a good starting point. You'll likely get 60+T/s on say a 6 bit quant.
You can use a container approach, but llama.cpp is a bit of a moving target, with new cool features coming along regularly to support new models. I build it in a distrobox and running it is a simple call. When it doesn't want to build anymore because dependencies have changed too much, I just spin up a new distrobox and leave the old one there for older models. I find it a good balance between flexibility and ease of maintenance, and technically it's also a container approach. Take notes so you know how to set up the new one.
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SpaceX’s stock slide costs founder his trillionaire title
Piece of shit still gets to say 'I was the first trillionaire', likely the big thing for him.
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What helps you sleep better?
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my wife is pregnant and i hope things will not get worse
I have bad news regarding sleep. "Things will not, calm down, Daniel Jackson. They will, in fact, calm up." ;) Chin up, it's not forever.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Flew In And Out Of The Solar Corona And Found A Source Of High-Energy Particles That No Existing Model Had Predicted
The sound of scientific discovery is not 'Eureka', but instead, 'That's odd'.
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It’s just become impossible to de-Google from Volkswagen, say GrapheneOS users
Impossible, no, the app is optional, car still drives, just not sucking data for VW (or not if you disable its network in gOS). It is however grounds for a lawsuit seeing as they're arbitrarily removing functionality that was likely advertised. Yoti is UK specific I believe, and those companies are little loss anyway, more of a prompt to divest. It's an unhealthy pattern, sure, but the sky is not falling.
The cultural effect of Android requiring developer registration and otherwise trying to kill third party stores like F-Droid, to get their precious walled garden, is a much more significant threat.
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Damn right
The customer is always right is what management says when they want you to be subservient to the customer because they believe it gets sales, or maybe just for the bosses amusement. Sacrifice dignity, agency, relevant subject knowledge. Given the choice between 'yes, massa' and an actual informed discussion on the merits of options, the latter every time.
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Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more
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Yup, cause implies mechanism, of which there is very little here, seems a lot more like correlation. Also, it's Harvard nutrition public health, which is, problematic.
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I Finally Tried Niri, The New Way Of Tiling Linux Users Are Going Crazy About
Looks interesting, and I thought KDE when? But, of course, it's already there as Karousel. On the list of things to audit when I feel like futzing with UI again.
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Billionaires Announce Peaceful Protest No Longer Considered a Credible Threat
Satire, I know, but “Those who make peaceful reform impossible have made violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy.
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Use the force, Number One!
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Stargate
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What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”?
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Agreed.
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Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins
Let me guess, defaults to on. Everyone around you is being recorded, always. You're saying the quiet part out loud google. Wonder in how many jurisdictions is this illegal surveillance? Governments like to keep that for themselves, but hey, Amazon Alexa got away with it, sadly.
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Doctor Who and Star Trek showrunners discussed possible crossover
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call out something like space whales and you’ll be good.
Already done, The Beast Below
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While on my Journey, I find myself constantly having to refer to this
"Those who would trade liberty for security, deserve neither and will lose both" - KMFDM, Shake the Cage, by way of Ben Franklin.
Privacy is a liberty.
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Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins
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There's a whole world out there...
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rule machine
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There's a cage match I'd pay to see. Tell 'em it's for VRAM and then take all of theirs away.