hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de

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

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Oh no. But at least you made an effort so save someone's life. That's better than the other way round, seeing someone die literally in front of you and living with the guilt for the rest of your life, questioning if you should have done something...

Plus that's really walking around like a zombie. I mean if you don't take your headphones off at all. No matter you were just nearly missed by a car, then sexual assault, and you just keep going... I mean she can't know. Or has balls of steel and just doesn't give a f...

Nice. Though that's something I don't see any good use for. I'd rather stick with my memorable $4 a year .de domain 😅

Only makes sense if you plan on using it. For private use for example for email, or a small website, blog, portfolio, linktree, whatever. It's not expensive, though. Less than $10 a year depending on top-level domain and provider.

Use the contact form. That one is designed to make them the least amount of effort. (Probably itself sending a mail, at least that's what the default config does.)

Use the contact form, though. That should send a mail to the admins and they likely prefer dealing with it manually rather than investing lots of hours of effort into a proper antispam solution. Or they don't like to leak user info to Recaptcha or something.

Maybe you can use letsencrypt's DNS-01 challenge. That works without an HTTP connection. But ultimately, I don't think you need a certificate on the server, doesn't Cloudflare tunnel the traffic (unencrypted) and terminate the HTTPS on their side?

yunohost has a dedicated page in the admin ui for you to configure your domains and certificates. default is a self-signed one unless you generate a proper one

I've never seen one. But I guess it's the same thing. Just depends on the dose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation

As far as I remember, these experiments have been done. Like letting people float in luke warm water in complete darkness and depriving them of any sensory input. And that seems to lead to hallucinations, anxiety... And is more a turture method than anything else. I'm not sure if the brain takes permanent damage from that. But I'm pretty sure it doesn't like it.

Sure, the brain is more tightly interconnected within itself, than it is coupled to the outside world. But I think that holds true for lots of complex systems other than the brain. Their thing is to be tightly coupled on the inside and more loosely to the outside. But the whole point of the brain is to be a computer which forms models about the world. That's why evolution gave us a (more advanced) brain. It's kind of pointless without an interactive connection to the world. And not designed for that.

Last time I checked, all the regular harddisk manufacturers were kind of similar in reliability. You can get lucky or unlucky with a specific model series or specific drive... But it's not like there was a manufacturer to recommend which outperforms the other ones.

(Though the hdds aren't all the same. There are definitely smaller and bigger ones, fast and very slow ones, some meant for 24/7 operation and consumer drives.)

Requires external stimuli. The human brain is kind of designed to take in lots of information and process it. Interact with things etc.

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish. If you ask me and it's the task from your post... Just write the 5 lines of Python or Bash script yourself, to scrape the URL from the website (or better, find some API endpoint, insert the current year into the correct format, or find the URL that always returns the current file), download it into the directory your torrent client watches for incoming files an be done with it... Or find out how the mirror pages do it automatically.

Otherwise I'd recommend some AI framework like Langchain. You can create an agent to help with terminal commands, attach a shell, give it a Google search tool, a webscraping tool, come up with the few hundred lines of necessary Python code plus the prompts... And then you can attach that to one of the inference endpoints. Pretty much anything will do with these frameworks, I believe they support WebUI, ollama, anything that is compatible with the OpenAI API...

Fair enough. Just without internet access, the entire task becomes impossible. It then has to make up some URL which will likely turn out to be not correct. Plus it doesn't really know what year or month it is...

So, with my prompt and ChatGPT, it returns the correct command.

You are a powerful terminal assistant. You will answer in the most helpful possible way and provide the user with Linux bash commands to accomplish their tasks. Use Google and internet search to fetch all necessary information. Always format your answer in markdown format.

User question: How do I download the latest Ubuntu ISO torrent? Make sure it's the latest version from ubuntu.com Make sure to also include the curl or wget command to download the torrent file itself.

I'm against forcing 18 year olds to use guns. Give them some alternative like civil/public service and do something good for society.

Yeah, information wants to be free. I'd say we just do away with copyright /s

Or I could try training AI as well once this is settled. Of course I'd need to get a few big harddrives to store a few books, audiobooks, music, Netflix series... Or is this just a perk for big and greedy companies?

Insomniac? Parent of a toddler? But you do you. If that's the amount of sleep your body needs, consider yourself fortunate and enjoy your additional time. Just don't overdo it and then burn out or something...

Uh I forgot Llama3 has 8B parameters. What about something like L3-8B-Lunaris? Though, that's not the latest and greatest anymore and it's tuned for roleplay. Maybe it's worth a try, but there are probably better ones out there. I use Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 for pretty much everything. I think it's a great allrounder and can do anything from answering questions about facts to dialogue to storywriting, and it's not censored at all. But it has 14B parameters unless I'm mistaken... Does your worldbuilding have to be fast? Because if you're fine with it being very slow, you can just run it on the CPU, without any graphics card. I usually do that. It'll take a few minutes to ingest the prompt and come up with an output. But I don't really care for use cases like storywriting or creative worldbuilding. (Software would be something like llama.cpp, ollama, LocalAI, koboldcpp, ...)

Otherwise I think you'd need to find a fine-tune of a <=8B parameter model that fits. There are enough of them out there. But I found writing prose, or story arcs is a bit more challenging than other tasks, and I believe worldbuilding might be, too. So I guess it's not as easy as finding a random roleplay or chatbot model.

Uh, that's not much VRAM. What kind of model sizes fit into a GPU like that? Does a 7B parameter model fit, quantized to 4bit? With whatever context length you need?

I think it's not really rooted in facts. AI is an unsubstantiated hype and the stock market is a bubble. People seemed to have been under the impression, that OpenAI was going to invest several trillions(!) of dollars into Nvidia chips. To me, that always seemed a bit unrealistic. But that's what inflated the Nvidia stock. And now it turns out, to everyones' surprise, that OpenAI isn't the only company who can do AI. And that AI is making advancements and is getting better and more efficient all the time... So that trillion dollar bubble collapses.

To me, that's just silly. AI making progress was the very reason for those people to invest in it. Plus it's not like there is another company manufacturing the chips... Deepseek used Nvidia chips. So IMO they proved they're even better than people previously thought and there is room for improvement... But seems to me the stock market is set on doing it one specific and ineffective way, so it theoretically would need more hardware to do AI.

I think it'll turn out the opposite. The better AI gets, the more it'll get adopted. And that'll lead to more sales, not less. And if Nvidia hardware turned out to be better than we thought, it just proves they're ahead of their competition. So even more reason to invest in them. But the stock market sometimes just does silly things and isn't focused on long term goals.