Some more: Getting shot at after committing crime or other online activities. Or a sepsis from cutting yourself with the old, dusty, yet sharp metal parts.
I'm fine with RAID5. Though I've seen the case where one drive failed and another one had several bad sectors and maybe was at the brink of failure, too. We were able to rebuild the RAID and replace both drives succesively but lost a few files. I think chances are slim, though. And even with RAID6, chances are your house burns down or lightning hits the neighborhood or a thief breaks in and takes the entire server. Or you or someone deletes stuff. So it doesn't really replace a backup in any case. I'd say RAID5 is fine for home use. Take backups of your most important files.
I'm also aware of LocalAI with automatic model swapping and OpenAI compatible API.
But unless I'm mistaken, they all use ggml behind the scenes? So you might want to look for something that uses vllm or exllama or something if you want a completely different backend.
Btw, Ollama is a software to run AI models. Deepseek is just a company. Or a model file or a service. But that's not what OP is looking for. They want to run a model. And that needs software like Ollama.
Okay, maybe I've changed my mind after reading this: https://ponder.cat/post/1533712
It's probably worse than I thought if some random new programmers are poking at that infrastructure as well and pushing arbitrary changes. I don't want to be in the position to clean up the mess after it fell apart. Or audit the system and rebuild it, now that it's practically compromised. Let's just hope they shoot themselves in the foot, first.
I think it's unlikely that they mess with people's DNS settings. That would just break lots of stuff and internet would stop working for a small amount of people. But there are things like certificate pinning and probably similar things for DNS. We nowadays often circumvent DNS servers and use DOH on an application level. Plus there are things like connectivity checks (made for public wifi portals etc), AGPS... that all connect to Google servers... Well, unless you have that changed, as I said. But that's not something the user can change. You need the whole operating system re-built with different servers in place.
Just comes with the downside that I can't take part in every day life, talk to my friends, stay connected with old friends, borrow an electric bicycle, transfer money easily... I have to drive to a shop only to see it's closed and they posted that on Instagram... I mean there's a whole world out there which I don't just want to disconnect from and become some sort of hermit...
Agreed. And I'd argue all of this needs to be addressed in the short term. I live in Germany and we massively rely on other countries. Not only because our economy exports a lot of goods and we want other people to buy them... But also because we used to rely on cheap Russian natural gas. We've moved manufacturing and production into countries like China where labor is cheap. We get our big-tech, every day social media platforms and a lot of culture from the USA...
All of that was a good choice to get nice, cheap things. But it's not sustainable any more. I think we have to ramp up research, manufacturing and a few other things fast. It hurts me, because I think humanity should all pull in the same direction. But I think it's time to face reality, grow up and become able to sustain ourselves. If things escalate, our economy needs to be able to handle that. And Europe also needs to closely work together politically, so it's 750 million people standing united and strong. I don't see any other entity advocating for sharing and working together... Either we start to be responsible for our ideals and technology, or we'd need to do away with them.
I just hope we'll do that. And find a sane approach. We can't also become imperialists ourselves. I think we need to be better than that.
A lock or panick button that immediately wipes everything and makes the logs unusable
Easy support for canaries and transparency from the admins, like on Peertube where you're incentivised to write something about your newly installed instance, where it's located etc
Maybe take inspiration from European GDPR, assess which information can be used for what, make it transparent to the user what gets stored where and why... Somewhat assisted by the software ao not every admin has to figure that out on their own.
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Btw, nice atmosphere here /s I don't think the general Lemmy audience is very receptive to change. I mean sure, this contradicts with a few fundamentals within how this place is designed. But I think we should make an effort. If I remember correctly, social media played an important role in recent (peaceful) protests and opposition. Like the Arab Spring. And nowadays the big social media platforms are bootlickers and likely to cooperate with the problematic administration. So it's down to the Fediverse if we want to address a general audience. I don't think a complex peer-to-peer solution, maybe backed by onion routing and elaborate encrytion is going to be appealing to the masses. It'd be the correct tool for proper confident conversation. But likely not the tool that connects the millions of regular people.
And I'd aegue "defederate from instances in unsafe countries" doesn't work. We have to treat every one as unsafe and not federate private information in the first place. All other optiins are just error-prone and likely easy to circumvent.
Maybe you want to think for a moment before clicking. I think it's relatively harmless information. But visiting the CIA's website will get your IP address into their server logs.
I don't really know what to say. Try not to allow them to get to you. Because that's part of the game. To spread fear, uncertainty and doubt. Maybe break people's spirit and make them panick. And it's also harmful if people feel overwhelmed and that there's nothing they can do. Because that's an instant win for the dark side once they have manipulated the regular people enough so everyone thinks it's futile and won't even try to fight back. In theory, the citizens/people have power. But yeah, I have no clue, so don't take advice from me. And I think an overreaction is warranted.
Honestly, I don't think this is common practice in non-oppressive countries. I mean sure, this happens in North Korea, Iran, China... But I'm relatively free to consume what I want with a few minor exceptions. For example we don't import food that isn't food-safe by our standards. Regardless if it's common practice to eat it in other places. Also food may not be able to enter the country due to laws on animal cruelty. Similar things apply to electronic devices that aren't up to code. And some select few things are banned altogether and you can't have them and neither can someone import them. Other than that, regulations aren't super strict. I can use all American social media platforms despite them stealing my personal data and violating European privacy laws regularly, can use Russian or Chinese websites... I think I live in a free country.
Helping domestic economy is done with tariffs / import tax. And not by banning things and putting people in jail.
And mind that this isn't about the service that collects your data and gives it to the Chinese government. This is about downloading the model file and using it all by yourself. So no data gets transferred to a foreign country. And it's not because people could get harmed or anything. This is just because the vice president doesn't want it personally. Like in some dictatorship. Otherwise they would have banned transferring data into foreign countries, if that's what it's about. But they didn't do that, because it's not about protecting the people.
Or did I miss something and there are other examples for limitations on import?
Well, I certainly hope they do double-entry bookkeeping, off-site backups, versioning and keep old records... Plus any sane agency and companies have procedures in place so not even the boss can't mess up everything permanently with one mouse click. It'll pop up somewhere as part of the procedure. And there will be ways to reverse things. Yes, it's massively concerning that he wields that amount of power from within the government. But I think this is an extremely unlikely scenario. And Musk isn't even the type to do it this way. Plus even if... The treasury is the entity who invents the money. If Musk takes their money hostage, it'd mess up things for a while. But ultimately they could just lock him away and print new money.
I don't want to play it down. I think there will be some very bad consequences because of this. But I really don't think Musk is the main concern. He's not malicious in the same way as other politicians. He's also a memelord, likes attention, he likes to be popular and be liked by the people. I think that's amongst his motivations. And the latter makes it a bit unlikely to attack the whole population so bluntly.
And I don't think the same thing applies to other people in power. Some of them are plain evil and don't give a f... about being liked. That makes them free to commit any malicious act. And for example the president can write executive orders and mess up anything he likes. Immediately. He can bring nuclear doom upon us with a push of a button. The vice president also has quite some power. And while he seems like a complete toolbag to me, he's a very dangerous mixture of stupid?/determined? and evil. And we have some more unfortunate people in high positions.
I think I'm far more concerned with that, than with specifically Musk. But yeah, all of this is super dangerous and we can just hope for the best. Up until now a few uncomfortable things have happened. But some fears didn't manifest. I don't think it's doomsday yet.
Agreed. And he's willing. And useful and has a ludicrous pile of money available. I still wonder if Musk is pissed that his special government position turned out to be glorified computer administrator. But there's likely more going on behind the scenes.
Yes. But not Elon Musk. He can't follow a coordinated plan. In fact not really any plan like he's proven over and over. And he won't listen to other people. Maybe he's doing it in the short term and on accident. But I don't think he's a very reliable puppet. Neither is he the puppet master. He seems to have a good financial advisor though. And lots of money.
Well, technically, it shares the basis of the kernel. But I like my desktop environment, package manager, programming environment, the desktop version of Firefox and LibreOffice, having a distribution that is not aligned with Google's corporate interests...
(Edit: And with Android I have to jump through a lot of hoops to maybe achieve a few things from my list. Plus you tend to get locked in to whatever crapware a manufacturer installs and their update poilcy, unless it's supported by other projects as well. And Linux software generally doesn't refuse to start after 5 years or so.)
Hmmh, I've never had issues with the reminders. They just worked out of the box and on 3 different phones now. But thanks for the Fossify recommendation. I think that's exactly what I'm looking for.
Some more: Getting shot at after committing crime or other online activities. Or a sepsis from cutting yourself with the old, dusty, yet sharp metal parts.