FuckBigTech347 @ FuckBigTech347 @lemmygrad.ml

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I don't use Gentoo but I still frequent the Gentoo Wiki and pick apart packages because it's such a great resource for OpenRC.

There is a project I've discovered recently which is similar to GPT4All, except you can throw multiple GPUs at the workloads (and yes it can use Vulkan): https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

I haven't messed much with it but it builds and works fine on Linux. The only thing I don't like is that the source tree has a bunch of Windows binaries in it.

But most importantly, it won’t work in the end. These scraping tech companies have much deeper pockets and can use specialized hardware that is much more efficient at solving these challenges than a normal web browser.

A lot of people don't seem to be able to comprehend this. Even the most basic Server Hardware that these companies have access to is many times more powerful than the best Gaming PC you can get right now. And if things get too slow they can always just spin up more nodes, which is trivial to them. If anything, they could use this as an excuse to justify higher production costs, which would make resulting datasets and models more valuable.

If this PoW crap becomes widespread it will only make the Internet more shitty and less usable for the average person in the long term. I despise the idea of running completely arbitrary computations just so some Web Admin somewhere can be relieved to know that the CPU spikes they see coming from their shitty NodeJS/Python Framework that generates all the HTML+CSS on-the-fly, does a couple of roundtrips and adds tens of lines of log on every single request, are maybe, hopefully caused by a real human and not a sophisticated web crawler.

My theory is people like to glaze Anubis because it's linked to the general "Anti-AI" sentiment now (thanks to tech journalism), and also probably because its mascot character is an anime girl and the Developer/CEO of Techaro is a streamer/vtuber.

I have all my browsers configured where JS is disabled by default, no local data gets stored (cookies, cache, etc. gets deleted on exit) and I use containerized tabs, so I always get cucked by Anubis. There are several Websites I stopped visiting because of Anubis and I'm not just going to change my setup that I've been using for years across several PCs just to get to a piece of text. I really don't like this proof of work shit, especially not when it's done via bleeding edge JabbaScript.

I doubt this will affect scrapers as much as people like to think. Their crawlers likely run on enterprise grade Server Hardware on a massive uplink.

Exactly. All modern CPUs are so standardized that there is little reason to store all the data in ASCII text. It's so much faster and less complicated to just keep the raw binary on disk.

The newest PC I own is from 2014. The latest CPU µArch I know is Haswell. Zen Four? Sapphire Rapids? Funny fantasy names.

It annoys me though how newer video cards only come with DP and HDMI ports anymore. I'm still one of those people who actively use DVI and see no reason to get rid of my VGA/DVI Monitors, so I'm forced to deal with adapters. Fucking Capitalists.

NVK doesn't support older cards though last time I checked. Pretty funny how I ended up with a stack of paperweights because NVidia dropped support and Nouveau/NVK can't get their shit together and instead of focusing on existing hardware they rather keep chasing the "latest and greatest".

AI? Look, I helped a friend fix a new install. It wasn’t Linux fault, it was a setting in the bios that needed to be changed. But the AI had them trying all sorts of things that were unrelated, and was never going to help. Use with a grain of salt.

I have the same experience but sometimes it was even worse; Sometimes the AI would confidently recommend doing things that might lead to breakage. Personally I recommend against using AI to learn Linux. It's just not worth it and will only give new users a false impression of how things work on Linux. People are much better off reading documentation (actual documentation, not SEO slop on random websites) or asking for help in forums.

It has a green lock icon with the word "Private" next to it so it's fine bro.

You don't necessarily need a specific distro. What I always do is just use the distro I'm most comfortable with and do a minimal install that just boots to a TTY. From there I just try stuff out and see what works and what doesn't. The HP 2133 will require a dedicated distro though since it's a 32-Bit Machine. Consider something like https://archlinux32.org/

Right now I have a Toshiba Satellite C850D and an HP 635 and both are running relatively up-to-date Artix. I made sure both of them have an Atheros Wireless Card since those are well supported by Linux. I use them mostly to watch videos (720p works just fine especially with VAAPI) and Firefox works fine (although it's kind of slow, but modern browsers are massively bloated tbf.). If you can you probably want to swap out all the spinning rust with SSDs.

Besides the obvious casual use, you can always turn them into file servers or maybe even a Wireless to Ethernet Network bridge.

I feel you on that last paragraph. Some time ago I came across this project which seems to be worth following. I've been running a hacked together Sway+Swaysome+Swaylock+Waybar combo for the past few years that is efficient for my workflow but it looks incredibly bland and can be a PITA to maintain. I really want a self-contained wl compositor that is customizable, has style to it and maybe even comes with some cool screensavers.

I can recommend WindowMaker. It's a simple Window Manager that can just be started via .xinitrc.

arch-meson is a small wrapper script for meson:

    
$ cat /usr/bin/arch-meson
#!/bin/bash -ex
# Highly opinionated wrapper for Arch Linux packaging

exec meson setup \
  --prefix        /usr \
  --libexecdir    lib \
  --sbindir       bin \
  --buildtype     plain \
  --auto-features enabled \
  --wrap-mode     nodownload \
  -D              b_pie=true \
  -D              python.bytecompile=1 \
  "$@"

  

You'll have to upload the image for that to work.

Support for Loongson's Chips was mainlined a little while ago in both GCC and the Linux Kernel so I'm hopeful. If the Kernel devs suddenly start refusing to merge stuff from Chinese Hardware makers that will only create a soft-fork of the Kernel and they'd just tell everybody to use their fork. In fact, Loongson did fork both the Linux Kernel and GCC to modify them in the first place until eventually their modifications got accepted. Even I myself am actually running a Kernel that I modified because there are certain things I disagree with. Also let's not forget that Linux isn't the only FOSS UNIX-like out there.

Viewing an image? Ask copilot to generate what it thinks the image looks like.

And then you try to open the image file on a non-Windows system and discover that it's actually just a text file with a prompt. Your actual Image is now part of copilot's training data and you've agreed to this by accepting the Windows EULA.

"Save storage space with copilot!"

I haven't touched Windows in years and every time I take a peek at the current state of Windows I'm horrified and ask myself "How do people put up with this?".

I'm starting to think that feds are spamming the "TAX" idea as a distraction. If you genuinely believe that "taxing the rich" will get us Communism then you need to read more. "The Principles of Communism", "Wage Labour and Capital" and "The Communist Manifesto" are good starting points.

It's his Pixelfed Account on the pixelfed.social Instance: https://pixelfed.social/Yogthos

I stand by what I said in that other thread the other day: I have yet to find LLMs be a useful tool. This whole thing is hilarious but at the same time I feel bad for the devs who have to deal with this crap.

LLMs are hot garbage and my opinion will only change once I can describe a problem to it and it actually understands and provides in-depth guidance related to my problem without any bullshit or false/outdated information. I want an LLM that might ask me for more information on something if it thinks it needs it.