This exactly. I like the thread style formatting, because then I’m following a topic, and not an individual person, because I really don’t give a shit what you had for breakfast, and don’t need your food pics lol. I’m not into that, but if you post something interesting in a technology forum, then I’m quite interested.
I am waiting for framework laptops to fall in price. They used to cost like 6 Monero and are now down to like 2 or 3.
I use olmo from AI2 which also includes the training data.
Yeah, for me, I am very strict about that. If it is not open source, I will not use it.
I’m aware of the difference between open weight models and open source models, and I will not use open weight models because they are not open source.
Before I learned that I should care, I used closed source software and so now have some closed source software that I still use because of the fact that I got used to it and can’t really easily get rid of it.
AI is the very first technology where I can draw the line immediately and say I will never use a closed source system.
I have switched to open source software and operating systems as much as possible, but because of the fact that I used operating systems and software before I cared about open source, I still have some dead weight to drag around. And with AI, I’m hoping to avoid that issue.
For example, every application on my phone is open source, except for one, and I find that app useful enough that I cannot get rid of it.
I wonder if with the research on CO2 effects, if we will start to get CO2 filters in common appliances such as indoor heating and cooling equipment.
Places like the International Space Station already have to deal with this because they can’t just open a window.
As long as the Chinese are releasing their AI as open source, I really honestly don’t give a shit.
I’m sorry, but while I have no plans to print one, if I ever buy a 3D printer, I will make damn sure that it can print one.
I would not spend my money on a borked machine that would control what I print.
I am almost always on wifi so its not a problem. Up until I switched to them in March, I have never had unlimited cellular data.
256k is surprisingly usable if you’re not on the corporate hellscape internet. On Lemmy, nostr, in privacy respecting websites, since they don’t have all kind of bloat and crap like that, things actually load pretty well.
I am hoping to get the increase to 512 kbps though, because it would be helpful. I am fully aware though, that higher and higher speeds incur diminishing returns, so 256 kbps is much better than 128 kbps would be, and 512 kbps is much better than 256 kbps will be, but once you get up to a certain level, speed increases stop mattering nearly as much. I would peg that level at probably something like 10 Mbps. Once you get over that speed, things just don’t matter quite as much.
I am using Cloaked wireless which allows me to pay my bill in Monero. I get unlimited talk, text, and data, with 500 megabytes of that data being 5G speed, and the rest of it being at 256kbps, with a possible raise to 512kbps coming in the future.
People like you are the reason Monero exists.
You cant steal what you cant see and if you murder the person you still get nothing
Yes, until more supply comes online, and then prices will fall again. Either that or the AI market will crash first, one or the other.
I started with Ubuntu version 10.10 and currently my computer runs Linux Mint Debian 7.
Though I am seriously considering giving NixOS another spin. I gave it a try once, and it didn’t quite work for me, but I think I might try it again. I am getting pretty convinced that immutability is the future because then the operating system developer can work on the operating system and the user space can focus on the user space. And user space applications can’t do things to the operating system that would screw it up and bork it. I’m primarily thinking of when an application gets uninstalled and then uninstalls some shared library that’s needed by another application and fucks it up.
I know immutable systems and self-contained applications require more disk space, but that’s a worthy sacrifice in my opinion. Disk space is pretty damn cheap.
Tor, i2p if you still have access to TCP and reticulum to bypass TCP entirely.
Edit: I should have said bypass TCP/IP because you need centralized infrastructure to use TCP IP because of the border gateway protocol and routing.
With Reticulum, you self-assign a destination hash using your public and private key pair and then announce that destination hash over whatever connection to the Reticulum network you happen to have. Whether it be Bluetooth, LORA, TCP/IP, serial cable, whatever.
I ran it on my 8GB RAM desktop.
Not the big ones, no. But I think almost everybody can run one with seven billion parameters.
Install it and then “ollama run olmo-3:7b” gets you a local AI. If you want to run a smarter AI, then you’re going to need a bigger parameter model, which is going to take more hardware to run.
The photo did not come through for me on my end, but the alt text did. And my question to you is, is this a tiny violin?