hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de

A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I'm usually a chill

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I'm not sure if the title is clickbait... Because that's not in the following text. The article says they want to ban Nvidia from selling more hardware to them. It doesn't say anything about limiting availability of the service or anything.

If they do, my best guess is they do it like with TikTok. Change their stance on everything several times and then they don't really enforce anything.

I've always backed up my SMS to my E-Mail inbox. With something like SMS Gate or SMS Backup+. I think it's nice to have all messages in my mail program. Of course that only does one way. To reply and get immediate notifications, I use KDEConnect (or GSConnect which is the same thing for GNOME.)

Wasn't "error-free" one of the undecidable problems in maths / computer science? But I like how they also pay attention to semantics and didn't choose a clickbaity title. Maybe I should read the paper, see how they did it and whether it's more than an AI agent at the same intelligence level guessing whether it's correct. I mean surprisingly enough, the current AI models usually do a good job generating syntactically correct code one-shot. My issues with AI coding usually start to arise once it gets a bit more complex. Then it often feels like poking at things and copy-pasting various stuff from StackOverflow without really knowing why it doesn't deal with the real-world data or fails entirely.

https://lemm.ee/post/61408911

It's not "common" as in a huge percentage of content gets removed... Most of it is fine. But we do moderate here on Lemmy and Beehaw. The perspective might be a bit skewed because some people are very vocal and complain a lot about stuff getting deleted. Some of the time unwarranted... Most communities don't tolerate derailing arguments or spreading misinformation... Some of the time the mods also make mistakes or they're overly strict in their communities, happens a lot in drama things and to some extent in the news and political communities. Other than that, I wouldn't say it's a very common thing. But yeah, comments get deleted. It depends a lot on what you engage with, and in which corner of the Fediverse. And some people like to stir up drama, usually less so on Beehaw.

I've also had that. And I'm not even sure whether I want to hold it against them. For some reason it's an industry-wide effort to muddy the waters and slap open source on their products. From the largest company who chose to have "Open" in their name but oppose transparency with every fibre of their body, to Meta, the curren pioneer(?) of "open sourcing" LLMs, to the smaller underdogs who pride themselves with publishing their models that way... They've all homed in on the term.

And lots of the journalists and bloggers also pick up on it. I personally think, terms should be well-defined. And open-source had a well-defined meaning. I get that it's complicated with the transformative nature of AI, copyright... But I don't think reproducibility is a question here at all. Of course we need that, that's core to something being open. And I don't even understand why the OSI claims it doesn't exist... Didn't we have datasets available until LLaMA1 along with an extensive scientific paper that made people able to reproduce the model? And LLMs aside, we sometimes have that with other kinds of machine learning...

(And by the way, this is an old article, from end of october last year.)

Reportedly, they've built a ton of extra AI datacenters they don't even use. I thought they were just misappropriating government funds, but maybe that was an intelligent strategy. I wonder if that's enough to bridge the gap until they have their own silicon in mass production.

Wow. Doing some spring-cleaning? I might have one of those on my own small pile of e-waste. Can't even remember what kind of bandwith the PCI bus had... probably enough to fill 128MB.

Oh, wow. Should be pretty obvious that something isn't open source, ...well... unless the source is open...

Maybe something like Joplin, Org Mode for Emacs, Zettelkasten, Getting Things Done? Maybe a boring Nextcloud, that one has lots of individual apps and they're supposed to interconnect.

I'm not really sure what to recommend here, a personal knowledge management platform, a calendar software... I can see how it's a lot of different things you need to juggle. And I don't have a good solution myself. I always wanted to some good system, and we really have a lot of software available which connect tasks, notes, appointments, knowledge. But I think it's a lot about the mindset. You mainly need some dedication and it needs to be executed properly, or it won't work well. The tool/software comes on top and just makes it easier. At the same time it's really nice to have things digital and not just in a paper journal. And sometimes it's the small things like reminders about appointments on the phone... And that might be difficult with some tools if they're made more for knowledge than for calendar stuff.

I'm currently making ends meet with the several Nextcloud apps. But I don't have as much to coordinate. I've always wanted to use one of the Wiki-like personal knowledge management systems (Silverbullet), but I'm a bit too chaotic for that.

See to what IP your domain points, and if that's really the external IP of your router. Might also help to put in your IP address into the webbrowser instead of the domain, to see if port 80 / 443 really go somewhere. Another possibility, do a portscan from the internet.

Btw, how do you access Wireguard? I mean that's also somehow able to access your network from outside...

And if we're really talking about "open-source" and not just "open-weight", the additional scientific papers, datasets and tooling are going to help democratize the technology and even out the playing field to a degree.

Thanks for looking into it. Most posts here are cross-posted to !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com so unless someone wants to continue this specific community, I'm going to leave in a few days and just go there instead. Wish you all the best. I really don't think things like this align well with the broader spirit of a privacy / digital ethics community.

So, where do we go? If the allegations are true (and I have no reason to doubt that), I'd like to defederate as well.

beehaw.org aspire to be nice, friendly diverse and safe. But they're more towards nice, not women. And we have lemmy.blahaj.zone for queer folks. To my knowledge, there isn't a place aimed towards women. Maybe heehaw is the closest... Still not really a fit.

You could go ahead and also ask in some of the women communities, see how they get along here on the Fediverse.

EDIT: See edit in my previous comment on how Bluetooth can do it. I believe that'd work with any device that can do bluetooth, including iPhones.

I suppose along an iPhone? I mean Apple does the whole ecosystem. And this isn't really a technical limitation. Most phones have the audio stream connected to the processor. Theoretically they could forward it, or record it. But on Android, the often don't seem to allow any of that, and Apple doesn't allow third parties (like a Linux computer) to access "their" interfaces, so I don't know if you can forward it to arbitrary computers either.

I mean there are solutions. Other people here outlined that. For example mimicking a bluetooth handset. You could solder a cable to attach to a computer's AUX input. Or use a landline or different service to manage the calls whithin a PBX. But none of that is very easy to set up or proper forwarding. Maybe the best bet would be bluetooth.

I haven't checked, but ffmpeg is super versatile. It does a lot of stuff, even esoteric and niche things... Sometimes depends on what flags are set when compiling it, so the Linux distros don't always include everything ffmpeg is capable of.

I don't think there is a way to forward cellular phone calls. You'd need a phone provider which provides that feature, like a Voice-over-IP provider. Or a SIM card in your computer. Plus the right phone contract.

Kdeconnect can forward a lot of other things though, like SMS, files...

I wish there was a way to hook into calls. But as far as I know they're deliberately keeping that closed.

EDIT: Actually, I've just tried Bluetooth (since someone suggested that) and that does just about that. I've used the standard Bluetooth pairing within the GNOME desktop, and now my Android phone lists the computer in the audio options of a call (where you can choose if it's phone, handsfree or via a bluetooth device... And I can click on my computer name there, and it'll then use the computer's mic and speakers.

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Some people do it. For example we have this solar-powered website: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

You'd need an energy source like a solar panel, a battery and some computing device. Like a single board computer (Raspberry Pi) you can also run webservers on smartphones, or even a microcontroller. The server part works without an internet connection. But you obviously need some way to connect to it. A wifi (router) or a computer connected via an ethernet cable.

The tech isn't too complicated. Just install nginx if you have a raspberry pi, open a wifi and put your website on it. If you choose a phone, try Termux and a supported webserver. Both Linux and smartphones are designed to even work without an internet connection ;-)