drew_lytle

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   Get Smart with Stupid Models(drewlyton.com)

   3 points by drew_lytle 5mo ago|2 comments
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   by drew_lytle 5mo ago

   The AI companies want you to believe you need to pay up to keep up. Don't buy it. Here's how you can get great output out of "stupid" models.
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   by drew_lytle 1y ago

   Looks cool! Thanks for commenting!
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   by drew_lytle 1y ago

   Hahaha thanks for reading!
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   by drew_lytle 1y ago

   Sounds interesting! Good luck and thanks for reading!
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   by drew_lytle 1y ago

   I think collective, democratic ownership is kind of the opposite of authoritarianism, right haha? But I agree choice is important! Thanks for your comment!
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   by drew_lytle 1y ago

   Eh, I can see your point. But Tailscale is a very different kind of centralized. It's just fancy, more convenient Wireguard at the end of the day. If I wanted to move away from it, it's pretty easy. Moving off of something like Go
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   by drew_lytle 1y ago

   Thanks for reading and commenting!
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   by drew_lytle 1y ago

   This is such an interesting point and a great comment. Thank you!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Thanks for commenting!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Thank you for this!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Haha! "Showing a lot of ankle" – I've never heard that before! Thanks for reading and commenting – very cool that you've managed to successfully host email. I'm sad advertisers and spammers have turned that into ess
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Totally agree! I relied a lot on Claude Code to help me with issues I was having setting up hardware encoding in Immich. But I also think – as accessible as LLMs are as a tool – they still don't make the complexities of self-hosting t
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Thanks for your comment! I still think though that this puts way too much on each individual – no matter how easy you make the tech. But, I could see a world where just like running tech support for my parent's computers, I also do so
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Thank you for your comment this is really enlightening! I'd love to learn more about services you're hosting for friends and neighbors and how that works technically and socially. If you're interested in connecting – please e
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    You're right! Having a VPS or similar offsite server is also totally self-hosting! Just for the sake of narrative and suburbia analogy, I chose to leave this detail out. Like you mentioned, practically they're mostly the same thin
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    "If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing". Thanks for your comment!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Currently working on jailbreaking my Kindle – thanks for your comment!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Sounds complicated, but cool! Thanks for your comment!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Couldn't agree more! It's been a very fun hobby
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    I think that's a great setup! I actually am still using Google Photos for this reason. I think of it as a kind of "offsite" backup. I take a lot of photos and videos though so I'm probably going to have to move to a mo
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Agree backups are hard and can be expensive! A lot of people recommend Backblaze https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage and it cost ~$6/month per TB
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    You may want to keep reading. Thanks for your comment!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Hell yeah! Thank you for your work!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Couldn't agree more – thank you!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Exactly! Thanks for your comment! I actually propose what you recommend being provided through libraries at the end of the article. Libraries rules!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! I think this is a great path to fight for. I think it's very funny that most people (in the U.S. at least) scoff whenever I talk about a "public, centralized provider for digital iden
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Yeah, I chose to ignore the VPS angle because I feel like it presents essentially the same problems as self-hosting – just on rented hardware. It didn't really serve the story. But I get that omitting this makes it confusing for more t
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Poppin' in just to say thank you for your reading, commenting and inspiring such a thoughtful and interesting discussion!
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    by drew_lytle 1y ago

    Couldn’t have said it better myself! Thanks for reading!