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1,244karma·643submissions·October 21, 2024
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The commits will be under your name :D
9mo ago·view thread
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Not only won't I help you build such a system, I'll hack it if you try :-)
9mo ago·view thread
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No
9mo ago·view thread
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I don't trust god, I don't trust man, why would I trust a god made by man?
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Thanks for this pointer and explanation, I appreciate it. Also my "dev enviornment" is vi -- I come from infosec (so basically a glorified sysadmin) so I'm mostly making little bash and…
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Interesting. Is there a way to load this into Ollama? Doing things in browser is a cool flex, but my interest is specifically in privacy respecting LLMs -- my goal is to run the most powerful one I ca…
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I've been using Ollama, Gemma3:12b is about all my little air can handle. If anyone has suggestions on other models, as an experiment I tried asking it to design me a new latex resumé and it stru…
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now there's some solid ascii, great work sir
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>What's hard in PGP? WebTV crashed when I tried to Ask Jeeves how many thesises (thesii?) have been written on this subject.
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>hard to know with so few data points i've yelled at the interns several times but none have been able to set up a haldane soup focus group yet
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What if we are the bag of organisms? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
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replace bash with qbasic
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Me? I avoid the place like the plague.
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Do you have a Signal username? I hate dealing with PGP. (That's how I've gotten a lot of folks on Signal: "It's like PGP, but usable." The phone number thing was a hangup for …
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At my healthiest weight used to get a quad espresso and an artisinal creme filled donut each morning at one point. It got eyebrows, but it was also a third of the calories of a large Starbucks caffina…
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Pirates of Silicon Valley, which famously features Steve Ballmer turning and talking directly to the viewer ala kevin spacey and Bill Gates Yelling At Steve Jobs also Woz gets gassed and runs like hel…
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Try taking a vacation using only paper maps -- no looking up cool restaurants, no directions etc. You get a lot more done if you can use a smart device.
10mo ago·view thread
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I rarely have issues with uBlock, it's NoScript that gums up the works usually
10mo ago·view thread
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You're looking at it chief.
10mo ago·view thread
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Is there a reason folks don't just use a TV tuner attached to a rather large desktop monitor? (On the desktop? Linux.)
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>"dang is an app?" I guess the cat is out of the bag. Here's a little snippet I was sent back when I ran a valleywide gossip group chat: "dang had grown so rich, he wanted to re…
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I thought the benefit of using a CPA is then it's on them to rectify any errors?
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I get they don't care about me as an individual, but companies tend to be 'lawful evil' -- if something is in their best interest (like a user returning to a site they boycotted for man…
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>For security reasons, we can't delete an account for you. You’ll need to be able to log into your account to request deletion. If you can't remember your password or username, see some t…
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It speaks volumes that simply circumventing a firewall is "fucking with" a regime. I'm guessing Iran is similar to China (restrictions on GPS software etc). They may be simply trying to…
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ty to you and the other poster.
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>Why try to fuck with a nation-state. Because they shoot protesters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan Cross that line, the gloves come off.…
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Can someone elaborate on the meaning of "7m model"? I'm new to AI, and had an LLM spit out an explanation of why some of the "local" models don't work in Ollama on my Air…
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