Some mod packs are just unstable.

Could be a specific area/item crashing it, and TBH all modded servers need regular maintenance like mob culling and regular server restarts. But it could also be a problem with your host, yeah, and the M3 Pro is going to be way faster than any CPU your host has. Plenty of RAM too.

I’d recommend running it with GraalVM EE as your JVM.

I tend to gravitate towards Enigmatica and ATM myself (as their devs/dev process is pretty good), but not sure about Ozone or skyblock mod packs.

It would be a fast host (and client) for more heavily modded Minecraft.

You could self-host an LLM, but unfortunately 18GB total system RAM (so less than 14GB usable by the GPU?) is pretty skinny.

You can do some stuff to an iPhone with one. Like sideloading, I think?

Probably just “safety” data snuck into its alignment training + an overly zealous system prompt on political topics: I bet it blocks anything it considers “political” or sensitive.

There are models out of Israel that could have a more explicit slant (try Jamba), but this doesn’t seem to be one of them.

To me, a fundamental problem is hiding technical knobs from users. Logprobs, sampling, the system prompt, starting replies for it to continue: there are tons of ways to “jailbreak” LLMs and get them to have an open “discussion” about (say) Palestine, but they’re all hidden here.

Forget physical goods, hit us where it really hurts. Use the intellectual property clause, and start cracking down on Big Tech.

The US makes all its money with power projection through its services, so fuck them up. Please.

And for heavens sake, Europe would be healthier with a little less Twitter and fewer fees payed to the US.

Left populism is a winning strategy too.

Not if its surpressed in (social) media, unfortunately.

As horrific as it sounds, the US very much needs a ‘Democrat Trump.’ But even that can’t happen in the current media environment. There are all sorts of proposals to address that, but the problem seems to be that people can’t help themselves and keep using Twitter, watching Fox, stay glued to Facebook or whatever.

There’s a massive difference between well-off, or even wealthy (think a practicing doctor/dentist or small business entrepeneur) and billionaire.

Saying ‘screw your savings’ to people like that is the conflict the billionare class wants, instead of everyone focusing on them.

And this is why Twitter should be nuked from orbit…

Even lemmy.world is in this bucket (not sure about other instances). See: https://lemmy.world/post/28304534

I’m talking theoretically, heh, I don’t think anyone actually does that yet.

And I am just talking edge cases where existing blockers fail and there’s no manpower to figure out a customization.

Right? It makes Afganistan (the Soviet and US one) look like nothing. A calamity doesnt even begin to describe it.

This ^.

I think people forget the fabled “old” internet was actually a pile of trolls where one had to double check what they read.

Basic sanity checks really aren’t that hard. But its a forgotten habit, I guess.

back-to-basics apps and services.

I think these do exist, but they’re in such a sea of shit that most users scrolling on their phones can’t find them. Shameless apps have an intractable engagement/marketing advantage over them, as do the ‘lets get acquired by Big Tech’ ones.

I guess big companies could engage in this, but… shrug.

Hassle-free self hosting is hard, yeah, AI or not. Not going to argue with that one bit.

There are a few that are “truly” open like IBM Granite, and a handful of others over the 7B range.

Blocklists are a much more efficient way to do this, and TBH many “traditional” adblockers are still huge performance hogs. Ublock is an exception in this regard due to webassembly and its explicit dedication to lightness.

Vision models are a pretty good way to build sponsorblock/adblock databases though, and maybe even engineer HTML workarounds automatically. It would be cool if you, say, encounter an ad or a dysfunctional web page, and you can opt-in to automatically contribute a fix with your own compute.

some bits related to its training data

AKA ANY details about its training data, and its training hyperparameters, and literally any other details about its training. An ‘open’ secret among LLM tinkerers is that the Chinese companies seem to have particularly strong English/Chinese training data (not so much other languages though), and I’ll give you one guess on how.

Deepseek is unusal in that they are open sourcing the general techniques they used and even some (not all) of the software frameworks they use.

Don’t get me wrong, I think any level of openness should be encouraged (unlike OpenAI being as closed as physically possible), but they are still very closed. Unlike, say, IBM Granite models which should be reproducible.

I think Lemmy’s userbase is a bit predisposed to that. Unfortunately, that sentiment isn’t common enough, and while most people don’t want to be monetized if asked, with the convenience the reaction is a collective shrug.

But another thing we are predisposed to is dev bugs, and I think the average person won’t like how unreliable many such features are.

Ugh, you said that way too well.

Still (again, rolling with the reasoning), it’s an existential problem, no matter who’s fault it is or how much of a victim they are or how much fatalism they’ve accepted…

I mean, billions of people would disagree with you. Many would say Ukraine and their western backers are at fault.

But theoretically, I am struggling to picture how Russia’a war goals (again, accepting every reason for its continuation from Russia) could possibly be beneficial to Russia, and the um oppressed Ukrainian people, in light of this measurable effect on demographics. Whatever the reason for Russia staying in Ukraine is, even with the most extreme sympathetic view of Russia and their position, it is clearly not worth it, and they should just capitulate an pull out for their own benefit.

…Wow.

So what’s the tankie angle to this? From that perspective, the war is objectively awful for Russia, even if all the stated war goals are true.

Yeah. But what I’m getting at is the economics may hint at what valve is planning.

Maybe AMD isn’t making a “specialized” monolithic die like Van Gogh? Perhaps Valve is simply customizing blocks of AMD’s existing product (die) stack, which is more financially plausible.

AFAIK one of the current issues with Strix Halo for a handheld would be high idle power, but maybe the next generation is better in that respect.