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jarfil

@ jarfil @beehaw.org

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Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.

  • Revisiting Beehaw merchandise

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  • Beware that CC NC licenses are a minefield:

    NonCommercial turns on the use, not the identity of the reuser.

    https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_interpretation

    The BY-NC-SA is especially thorny. In this particular case, it could be equally argued that:

    • ✅ The non-profit is not profitting
    • ⚠️ The printing service IS profitting
    • ⚠️ The non-profit has NO right to allow the printing service to profit (-SA)

    Given how fluid the NC interpretation can be, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. Combined with current copyright law, it's not only about whether the creator decides to sue, but also whether their heirs/estate decide to sue... for 70 years after the creator's death!

  • xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show

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  • Ani = weird goth waifuRudi = fascist AI agent of chaos

    At least they've kept them separate... kind of.

  • Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

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  • Entities care about art... as much as they can benefit from it. Large entities make sure to get the rights for peanuts, small ones are fine with dropping it and replacing with someone else's, still without paying. Pretty much the only way for small artists to get a fair compensation, is from people who want to support them... a case in which —ironically— copyright is irrelevant.

    It isn't US centric either. Corporations have used the US to pressure everyone into accepting a similar set of rules, with similar effects all over the world.

    But I'm not even strictly against copyright itself. I'm against how the laws have been pushed over and over towards a twisted parody of the initial goals, while the real world has been going in a completely different direction.

  • My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

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  • I'm running ollama in termux on a Samsung Galaxy A35 with 8GB of RAM (+8GB of swap, which is useless for AI), and the Ollama app. Models up to 3GB work reasonably fine on just the CPU.

    Serendipity is a side effect of the temperature setting. LLMs randomly jump between related concepts, which exposes stuff you might, or might not, have thought about by yourself. It isn't 100% spontaneous, but on average it ends up working "more than nothing". Between that and bouncing ideas off it, they have a use.

    With 12GB RAM, you might be able to load models up to 7GB or so... but without tensor acceleration, they'll likely be pretty sluggish. 3GB CoT models already take a while to go through their paces on just the CPU.

  • Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

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  • Is it protecting "small artists", though?

    Suing for copyright infringement, requires money, both for lawyers and proceedings.

    Small artists don't have that money. Large artists do, small ones don't, so more often than not they end up watching as their copyright is being abused without being able to do anything about it.

    To get any money, small artists generally sign off their rights, either directly to clients or studios (work for hire), or to publishers... who do have the money to enforce the copyright, but pay peanuts to the artist... when they even pay anything. A typical publishing contract has an advance payment, a marketing provision... then any copyright payments go first to pay off the "investment" by the publisher, and only then they give a certain (rather small) percentage to the artist. Small artists rarely reach the payment threshold.

    Best case scenario, small artists get defended by default by some "artists, editors, and publishers" association... which is like putting wolves in charge of sheep. The associations routinely charge for copyrighted material usage... then don't know whom to pay out, because not every small artist is a member, so they just pocket it, often using it to subsidize publishers.

    Copyright laws, as of right now, primarily benefit publisher dynasties (like Disney), then large publishers, then large studios and large artists, a few lucky small artists... and leave most small artists SOL.

  • YouTube Forces Dubs Now

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  • Doesn't seem to work on Firefox on Android. Do I need a YouTube API key?

  • YouTube Forces Dubs Now

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  • Settings (gear icon) → Audio Track → (whatever) original

  • YouTube Forces Dubs Now

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  • It's still "world-changing great". All the knowledge sharing, all the collaboration, all the scientific advances, have been growing at the same rate as the "commoners" have been joining it and getting trapped in the slop.

    The only change, is the Internet is not just for nerds anymore, it's also for preachers, scammers, and the average brainwashed populace.

    It used to be easy to ignore the peasants from inside an ivory tower's echo chamber. The Internet has brought those voices out for everyone to hear... and to realize humanity is not as idealized as they thought. Time to put some real work into fixing some real problems.

  • wooden PUBG loot crate

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  • Looks decent. I think you could easily improve the tarp on top with some random "weathering", and a light touch from a heat gun on the corners, to get closer to the original look (just don't set it on fire 😉).

  • What's the REAL minimum power supply needed for a RTX 5060 Ti?

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  • Overclocking usually requires overvolting to keep things working. Underclocking though, is a good way to gain stability.

  • What's the REAL minimum power supply needed for a RTX 5060 Ti?

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  • (Σ (max TDP of all system components) ) + 20%

    Rationale:

    • PSU works best at 20–80% load
    • Component TDP are an average; actual power usage can go way down, but also spike above spec for short bursts
    • Brownout is one of the messiest issues to troubleshoot

    Additional considerations:

    • Check the PSU rail distribution
    • If separate rails, make sure the GPU rail can meet GPU's TDP+20%
    • If multiple rails, each should meet whatever is connected to it +20%
    • If using HDDs or other start-heavy components, factor in the initial power spike (staggered start is also an option). GPU starting at almost idle should compensate for the overall power requirement, but still factor it into the rail calculations

  • My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

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  • Therapists are not supposed to bond with their patients. If you find one whom you can stand for half an hour, then take what you can and leave the rest, they're not to be your friend or lover. The fact that chatbots let people fall in love with them, is a huge fail from a therapy point of view.

    Bouncing ideas back and forth is a good use though. A good prompt I've seen recently:

    I'm having a persistent problem with [x] despite having taken all the necessary countermeasures I could think of. Ask me enough questions about the problem to find a new approach.

    If you worry about privacy, you can run an LLM locally, but it won't be fast, and you'd need extra steps to enable search.

  • My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

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  • You can use local AI as a sort of "private companion". I have a few smaller versions on my smartphone, they aren't as great as the online versions, and run slower... but you decide the system prompt (not the company behind it), and they work just fine to bounce ideas.

    NotebookLM is a great tool to interact with large amounts of data. You can bet Google is using every interaction to train their LLMs, everything you say is going to be analyzed, classified, and fed as some form of training, hopefully anonymized (...but have you read their privacy policy? I haven't, "accept"...).

    All chatbots are prompted by the company to be somewhat sycophantic so you come back, the cases where they were "too sycophantic", were just a mistake in dialing it too far. Again, can avoid that with your own system prompt... or at least add an initial prompt in config, if you have the option, to somewhat counteract the company's prompt.

    If you want serendipity, you can ask a chatbot to be more spontaneous and suggest more random things. They're generally happy to oblige... but the company ones are cut short on anything that could even remotely be considered as "harmful". That includes NSFW, medical, some chemistry and physics, random hypotheticals, and so on.

  • Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

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  • Aren't copyright laws awesome?

    • Buy digital copy... no you can't, you can only license one
    • Buy physical book, now you have a copy
    • Want a digital copy? No you can't, copyright forbids it...
    • ...unless you destroy the physical copy in the process, then it's only a format migration
    • Donating the books after digitizing, would be "stealing"!

    And still, they are suing them for migrating formats without authorization 🤦

    All hail Disney's lobbying and the 150 year copyright term!

  • Trump says US has attacked three nuclear sites in Iran

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  • Based on this:

    Hassan Abedini, deputy political head of Iran’s state broadcaster, said Iran had evacuated the three sites some time ago.

    “The enriched uranium reserves had been transferred from the nuclear centres and there are no materials left there that, if targeted, would cause radiation and be harmful to our compatriots,” he told the channel.

    The International Atomic Energy Agency also said Sunday morning it had detected “no increase in off-site radiation levels.”

    ...this other one would make more sense now:

  • Has anyone migrated from a Markdown notes app to another or use them simultaneously?

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  • TLDR: It's a mess.

    Back in the day, I started migrating notepad stuff to Markdown on a Wiki. Then on a MediaWiki. Then DokuWiki. Then ZimWiki. Then Joplin. Then GitHub Pages and a self-hosted Jeckyll.

    Each, single, one, of, them, uses a slightly different flavor of Markdown. At this point, I have stuff spread over ALL OF THEM, much of it rotting away in "backups to migrate later". 😮‍💨I've been considering "vibe coding" some converters...

    As for syncing... the Markdown part is easy: git.Working with a Markdown editor to update GH Pages, was a good experience.Having ZimWiki auto-sync to git, was good, but didn't find a decent compatible editor for Android.I switched to Joplin lured by the built-in auto-sync options, but kind of regret it now, when it has a folder with thousands of files in it.

    Obsidian is not OSS itself, but has an OSS plugin to sync to git.I've read that using Logseq alongside Obsidian should be possible... and was planning to test that setup, keeping Obsidian in charge of sync. Possibly with GitHub/Jeckyll, git-lfs for images and attachments.

    PS: assuming one could have working back-and-forth converters for the different Markdown flavors, and everything stored in git, then one could theoretically use git hooks to convert to/from whatever local version used by a particular editor.

  • Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps

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  • The Play Store has become way more restrictive, they've purged tons of old and/or "inactive" apps... including some I happened to have bought some time ago.

    It's made me even more of a fan of F-Droid.

  • Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones

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  • replacement cycles for phones extending past 40 months

    Rookie numbers. Unless disaster strikes, I fully expect to ride my current phone for the 60 month official support period I was promised.

  • Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening

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  • Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening

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  • BTRFS, with periodic snapshots and scrubbing, in RAID 1, only accessible remotely.

    Just saying, that can be a "2".