brucethemoose

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

Because gun violence is more of a risk than ever.

Honestly I would feel better with the sniper there, so they could stop random nut who shows up with an assault rifle. Which is really sad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It says center and center-right outlets have a left bias

Which outlets, specifically?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Still an understatement, it deserves it and more.

I don't even like turned based games. I don't like most high fantasy. But holy moly, what a ride BG3 is.

I'm just gonna be pissed of their mixed support of modding (due to wotc) kills the modding community. If Skyrim and Rimworld can have a whole universe of fan content, BG3 should too.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

She endorsed Biden before. It wasn't really a surprise.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's still everywhere in my news/internet diet.

It's bleeding, for sure, but it's big. Its gone bad. But I think its premature to say its collapse is a good thing, because it just won't go away.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (7 children)

It's not dead though, it's still linked to everywhere, from big news to niche communities because it still has that critical mass and inertia.

And I have to be cynical of the Fediverse, but realistically, what replaces it, at least here in the US? Discord? No, thanks, I'd at least rather have information be public.

I'm speaking as someone who has never used Twitter, but I can't ignore it, as much as I'd like to.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The behavior is configurable just like it is on linux, UAC can be set to require a password every time.

But I think its not set this way by default because many users don't remember their passwords, lol. You think I'm kidding, you should meet my family...

Also, scripts can do plenty without elevation, on linux or Windows.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

That actually is weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The problem is that splitting models up over a network, even over LAN, is not super efficient. The entire weights need to be run through for every half word.

And the other problem is that petals just can't keep up with the crazy dev pace of the LLM community. Honestly they should dump it and fork or contribute to llama.cpp or exllama, as TBH no one wants to split up LLAMA 2 (or even llama 3) 70B, and be a generation or two behind for a base instruct model instead of a finetune.

Even the horde has very few hosts relative to users, even though hosting a small model on a 6GB GPU would get you lots of karma.

The diffusion community is very different, as the output is one image and even the largest open models are much smaller. Lora usage is also standardized there, while it is not on LLM land.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

TBH this is a great space for modding and local LLM/LLM "hordes"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

^

Futurama had it right, spammers are the ultimate destroyers.

 

Obviously there's not a lot of love for OpenAI and other corporate API generative AI here, but how does the community feel about self hosted models? Especially stuff like the Linux Foundation's Open Model Initiative?

I feel like a lot of people just don't know there are Apache/CC-BY-NC licensed "AI" they can run on sane desktops, right now, that are incredible. I'm thinking of the most recent Command-R, specifically. I can run it on one GPU, and it blows expensive API models away, and it's mine to use.

And there are efforts to kill the power cost of inference and training with stuff like matrix-multiplication free models, open source and legally licensed datasets, cheap training... and OpenAI and such want to shut down all of this because it breaks their monopoly, where they can just outspend everyone scaling , stealiing data and destroying the planet. And it's actually a threat to them.

Again, I feel like corporate social media vs fediverse is a good anology, where one is kinda destroying the planet and the other, while still niche, problematic and a WIP, kills a lot of the downsides.

 

Senior U.S., Qatari, Egyptian and Israeli officials will meet on Thursday under intense pressure to reach a breakthrough on the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal.

he heads of the Israeli security and intelligence services told Netanyahu at the meeting on Wednesday that time is running out to reach a deal and emphasized that delay and insistence on certain positions in the negotiations could cost the lives of hostages, a senior Israeli official said.

 

HP is apparently testing these upcoming APUs in a single, 8-core configuration.

The Geekbench 5 ST score is around 2100, which is crazy... but not what I really care about. Strix Halo will have a 256 -bit memory bus and 40 CUs, which will make it a monster for local LLM inference.

I am praying AMD sells these things in embedded motherboards with a 128GB+ memory config. Especially in an 8-core config, as I'd rather not burn money and TDP on a 16 core version.

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