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by bblb 8d ago
After the release of Qwen 3.8 I've been dabbling with my "Agent Computer". That is, a secondary GPU on my home computer. Intel B70 with enough VRAM to run Q6 and some context on llama.cpp, plus a ComfyUI instance. Total yolo
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by bblb 8d ago
It doesn't need to store the payloads itself. It stores the metadata of connections and probably the fingerprints of the content passing through the Internet. "The headers of the whole Internet" could be physically stored in
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by bblb 10d ago
Why do anything. Why even do the AI version of this. Probably curiosity. If there's an AI version of code golfing, I'd be curious to see it. Maybe they golf worse or much better than us meat bags.
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by bblb 14d ago
One thing I would add to a modern backup strategy: a deferred offline copy Sure it's bothersome to use the sneakernet once a month (manually copy data to USB stick and stash it somewhere), but when that ransomware hits (can happen on
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by bblb 27d ago
I play modded Starfield. There's been a clear increase in mods lately. Some of them are from self-proclaimed non-programmers who are using the LLM's to reverse engineer the game or other abandoned mods, and they've started to
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by bblb 27d ago
"I know nothing about the subject, but I would _guess_ that the power consumption is bigger concern than the reported and studied water usage." That's the whole 21 minute 59 second video in a nutshell. A loud and hectic quic
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by bblb 1mo ago
Absorb and consume only some of the things. Although now that I think of it, stopping absorbing everything, or, _absorbing nothing_, might be a good mindfulness practice.
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by bblb 1mo ago
Stop absorbing everything. Limit yourself.
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by bblb 1mo ago
Me machine, no human. Why waste token. Do fast, deliver.
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by bblb 1mo ago
If you had zero copies, then you'd have no data. The 3-2-1 includes the production data itself. You have one copy of data (the data that needs to be backed up), and you have two additional copies of that data (the "3" in the
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by bblb 1mo ago
Closed-garden mobile-first tech feudalism lobotimized the Internet. I remember trying out the Freenets, I2Ps, and whatnot in the 90's. Too cumbersome nerdy tools to use for anything actually worthwhile. It was born in the idealized wor
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by bblb 2mo ago
[Internet facing router with up to date firmware] --> HTTPS --> [separate VLAN DMZ] --> [my hardcore IndieWeb VM/k8s/bare-metal whatever] --> [x No outbound access / paranoid local firewall inside the VM x] [My ho
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by bblb 2mo ago
Also the Always Free Oracle Cloud tier is pretty generous. You can spin up a VM or two with it.
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by bblb 2mo ago
The article was a lot of words just to say that. It's sad that we need this new concept of "IndieWeb", as the whole Internet evolved into a monstrosity hosted and guardrailed by a handful of megacorporations. Hosting files be
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by bblb 2mo ago
Writing code by your own hands is an esoteric hobby. We are past the slop era. This is coding now. If you're 1x, you're not a dev. I would assume by now most of the code published on Github is hand-built with LLM prompts and armie
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by bblb 2mo ago
I need to protect against the malicious good guys, the shodans of the world. Peeping inside your windows and trying your front door handles. Querying every string imaginable and port pinging all 65536 of them. And I need to protect against
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by bblb 3mo ago
I got B70 few days ago. Running on CachyOS. 9070XT on PCIe x16 and B70 on the x4. ROCm nightly was pretty easy to setup and get up running. The 9070XT has been a decent card for my use cases. But the SYCL ecosystem versions. Absolutely horr
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by bblb 3mo ago
> They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don’t contribute to the bottom line. Interesting. I'm an architect by title because my employer doesn
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by bblb 3mo ago
Streaming sites and shopping carts are used by millions of people, but casually after work, maybe twice a day. LoBs are used intensively for hours on end in a busy work day, and most people's livelihoods depend on them either directly
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by bblb 4mo ago
My epiphany a month ago was that I can use Environment = MULTIPLE=environment VARIABLES="in single line"
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by bblb 4mo ago
The full spec in single page is like a poster boy for the current AI slop webdev. https://specification.website/llms-full.txt
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by bblb 4mo ago
Interesting stats to look at. Is "Telecommunications" the only tech that's actually been steadily automating it's workforce since 2000: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES5051700001 edit: or is &
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by bblb 4mo ago
I'm Finnish and dear god I hate the default overtly friendly tones of LLMs. Always the first thing to tune in system prompt. You're a machine, stop anthropomorphizing yourself and pretending to be my best friend, and just give me
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by bblb 4mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JoUcQ1qmAc 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:49 Meeting Sam Altman and Starting OpenAI 00:02:40 Building the Founding Team 00:04:25 DeepMind's Lead Over OpenAI 00:04:54
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by bblb 4mo ago
Interesting. And now this not-AI-generated-actually-real-cropped-Monet-AI-joke has been sold to an AI art collector for 40k. https://x.com/SHL0MS/status/2055281312697647223
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by bblb 4mo ago
I'm not a slave to my computer. Stop using bad services that are designed to manipulate your behaviour. There's still the good old Internet out there with genuinely interesting content. IPv8 and it's (eventually mandatory) de
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by bblb 5mo ago
Sure. But then I would have to use my brain to actually write code. I thought we were past that already. Also, if it's an agent that keeps scouring the net autonomously for more distros, then I wouldn't have to update the sources
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by bblb 5mo ago
This kind of busy work should suit an AI agent: Go and find me all the repolists and package/software metadata for any distro and OS ever released. Write the results to a local SQLite. Incrementally update, but don't hammer the so
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by bblb 5mo ago
What is "RHEL 14.3"? Was this site a one shot prompt. Quality.
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by bblb 5mo ago
DNS and PKI. Two of the most centralized services in the Internet. Take over both of them, and you have the whole net under your command.

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