brucejackson

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by brucejackson 2mo ago
Sadly, I had no idea that this was the case. I will be moving on to another solution for local model testing. Thanks for letting me know.
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by brucejackson 2mo ago
Have been using a "rubber duck" for decades to talk things through when there is no human available. By talking it out, it uses different neural pathways to help solve problems faster. My first rubber duck was given to me when I j
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by brucejackson 2mo ago
That is excellent news, been running ollama locally since 2024 testing out running local models to compare them against the big frontier models and for times when I want to keep my conversations local and private.
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by brucejackson 3mo ago
Have used it in my homelab for the past 2 years, can recommend it. Easy to run in docker and helps both get better search results and keeps your search history local and in your control.
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by brucejackson 3mo ago
I have 2 Synology boxes, both DS1618+. The first one is my media storage, the other one is a backup target for both the media storage and other devices on the network. I also don't use the API, these are just "dumb" storage b
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by brucejackson 3mo ago
Like the author, CarPlay is table stakes for any vehicle purchase. I literally installed a Sony screen receiver in my 2016 F150, that was given to my by my father after he lost his license due to his age. That was a fun weekend with the das
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by brucejackson 3mo ago
Same stack here — proxmox as the hypervisor, packer for the golden images, opentofu to deploy, ansible to configure, whether the vm runs bare services or hosts containers. The separation is what keeps it low-effort: image build is one job,
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by brucejackson 3mo ago
A long time ago a wise person said to me is it better to be kind or right. I live with that decision matrix every time I engage with a human. At the end of the day the humans carry significant ego and emotions that for me to be right, most
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by brucejackson 3mo ago
This rings so very true. Have been in the software business for too many decades and having inherited other people's code many many times, there is always the decision about what to do going forward. Leave it running, refactor it gentl
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by brucejackson 3mo ago
Happy to see that Fable is back, was sad to see it go after getting to use it for only 1.5 days before. Add on top sonnet 5 availability and coding is looking fine again.