The Doctor @ drwho @beehaw.org

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Is it faster than running pacman -Qkk packagename?

Yes, they do. In no particular order:

• Do a View Source on the site's frontpage. You might see some HTML for "application/atom+xml" or "application/rss+xml". The URLs associated with those hrefs will be for the ATOM and RSS feeds.
  • If you search for one of the following in the HTML source you'll probably run into the feeds:
    • rss
    • atom
    • feed
    • json
• Look for a syndication page on the site. It should have links to the feeds.
• You might see the RSS feed icon or the ATOM feed icon on the page.
• Many CMSes (Wordpress in particular) automatically put them at /feed on the site.

Those numbers came from when I moved from Pittsburgh to northern Virginia in 2005. It was around $20kus for the whole thing (and yes, I had a 400 square foot apartment originally).

So much this. Just moving one state in any direction can easily cost $20k, maybe $30k, and that's if you live in a 400 square foot apartment and want to take more than a backpack and a suitcase with you.

"Just move" is often said by people who've never had to actually pay to move (and I don't mean just into a college dorm room).

Pro-lifers always vote.

Pro-choicers might vote.

Really?

Fuckin' really?

I give up.

Maybe somebody should be them in touch with Indymedia.

Killed my brand-new phone's power cell in about six hours. Kind of impressive, really.

Briar is its own thing.

A friend of mine quit his position at a library and moved away from WV last month. Just in time, it seems.

I wonder when she's going to get arrested.

It would have been bizarre if they weren't.

I use Gnome Terminal and Mate Terminal on my laptop. Nothing fancy, they just work. They do what I need (which is run a shell), they support tabs, and transparency is just nice to have. I also run Tilda because once in a while I need to enter a quick command without changing desktops.

Except they don't, because insects and corpses are animals too.

I get the point you're trying to make but it falls flat if you peek in on that part of the world once in a while.

It's the internet.

Probably. Somebody's got to get that promotion by launching something before the next round of layoffs.

I use Syncthing for this. I have a few Linux boxes at home (a pair of servers and a laptop), a Macbook, and two Android devices (phone and tablet) that are all hooked together with a shared directory. Also, even though you don't have to have them, I set up Syncthing Discovery and Relay servers on one of my public boxen to help the community out.

The personalized data model will be trained on your voice. That means that it's going to be trained on a great deal of patient medical history data (including PII). That means it's covered by HIPAA.

I strongly doubt the service in question meets even the most minimal of requirements.

For whatever it's worth, Netcraft's January 2024 survey says Nginx is around 23%, with Apache coming in second at just under 21%.

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/january-2024-web-server-survey/

I think it's interesting that limited AI technology has made it to street level. There was talk of keeping it entirely in-house as a "secret sauce" for competitive advantage (I used to work for one of the companies that was working on large-scale practical LLM), so when OpenAI started gaining notice it raised an eyebrow.

Security-wise it's a pretty big step backward, because the code it hashes together tends to have older vulns in it. It's not like secure software development practices are commonly employed right now anyway. I'm not sure when that's going to become a huge problem, but it's just a matter of time.

One privacy compromising problem has already been stumbled over (ChatGPT could be tricked into dumping its memory buffers containing other conversations into a chat session) and there will undoubtedly be more in the future. This also has implications for business uses (because folks are already putting sensitive client information into chats with LLMs, which means it's going to leak eventually).

I really hope that entirely self-hosted LLMs become common and easy to deploy. If nothing else, they're great for analyzing and finding stuff in your personal data that other forms of search aren't well suited for. Then again, I hoard data so maybe I'm projecting a little here.

As for my job, I'm of two minds about it. LLMs can already be used for generating boilerplate for scripts, Terraform plans, and things like that (but then again, keeping a code repo of your own boilerplate files is a thing, or at least it used to be). It might be useful for rubber ducking problems (see also, privacy compromise).

It wouldn't surprise me if LLMs become a big reason for layoffs, if they're not already. LLMs don't have to be paid, don't have tax overhead, don't get sick, don't go BOFH, and don't unionize. The problem with automating yourself out of a job is that you no longer have a job, after all. So I think it's essential for mighty nerds to invest the time into learning a trade or two just in case (I definitely am - companies might be shooting themselves in the foot by laying off their sysadmins, but if it means bigger profits for shareholders they've demonstrated that they're more than happy to do so).