sj_zero @ sj_zero @lotide.fbxl.net

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I'd say you have a pretty inaccurate view of left wing politics.

Which is understandable. There's been a major shift in the past 15 years that really fundamentally changed the mainstream left.

You and I probably have similar political views in many ways, but when you stand in a stream, you don't have to move for the water to pass you by.

Better open your eyes before it's too late -- you'll get your bank account shut down for wrongthink.

I don't know, it's really tough to say -- If you're reading old texts hoping to glean some wisdom, depending on the context that would definitely be conservative, but depending on the context it might not be. I was just talking about Wang Mang around 30AD, and he spent a lot of time digging up evidence of how imperial china was run 1000 years before he was born based on confuscian teachings from 500 years before he was born. On the other hand, at this point after 200 years of Marx you could claim marxism is conservative (and in fact Xi is really making a conservative maoist argument in his government right now hoping to return to the stricter times of his childhood)

Here's an interesting video on the idea of the left hating self-improvement. I won't claim it's universal, but the argument is somewhat convincing in light of many things I've seen far removed from this particular video including stuff like opposing technologies like cochlear implants that would make a deaf person non-deaf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Vf-ry-3rg

It depends which worldview you take on, but things like hard work and staying in shape have been called "fascist" by a left wing that sees any form of self-improvement as counter-revolutionary.

It seems to me that I was reading The Republic a couple weeks ago and Plato 2500 years ago was talking about the need for people to stay in shape in the gymnasium (not the same thing as today, but still a place to hone your body) so there's definitely precedent to call it conservative since it's a value held since antiquity.

Let me throw a counterpoint at you:

Taylor Swift is a lady who has had to work really hard and became the top of her field, who works hard to stay in shape, whose entire love life has been filled with unmanly men leaving her unfulfilled until she started dating the ultimate alpha chad where they have a relatively standard supportive relationship, whose career has been about producing competently produced uncontroversial works of status quo work, and not to mention her extremely conventional hairstyles, clothing, and make-up.

I mean, all those things lean conservative and not solely due to identity per se.

That's hilarious, same hamper and the same broken handle!

https://social.fbxl.net/media/2c5e2e1c1784048054b50a05bba93cd3d7a5d7f3d98f22a13624b6ed57702d76.stl

There, I just have the one handle since most people probably won't need multiple.

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Here you go.

I'll throw the stl up for you in a few hours.

I don't own Facebook, so I doubt that.

I think the power was just out when you tried them.

The most important thing for everyone to remember is that if you don't fully own the thing such that you can install and run it without asking permission, or if it isn't simply free and open source, then it can go away at any time.

I think the fact that it doesn't have the same gravitas GTA has is part of the reason why it's so good.

Gaming journalism has been dead for so long the body's nothing but bones.

The key to "AI" is having a human there to take algorithms and apply them to the right problems.

This is what most people don't understand because many of the demos are quite impressive and narrowly tailored to prevent the fact from being obvious unless you know what you're looking for.

COMPILE ERROR - LIBRARY CALCAREA.H DOES NOT EXIST

goddamnit you acid tripping LLM...

About 200 pounds.

Honestly, if you're running public facing services, you should run the latest everything you can. There's a risk that stuff breaks, but at least you're not having to worry about patched exploits.

1 million will be required so they can be paid minimum wage with 30 years experience and a phd.

I've been using a number of different tools which I interface to my nextcloud.

My main nextcloud has a llm plugin which was really easy to install, you just install the plug-in, make sure that you are configured properly with python in your path, and then run an OCC command to download one of a few models.

https://localai.io/

I also hosted localAI, which was a little bit more involved, but the website did a decent enough job of explaining exactly all the things that you needed to do in order to get all the different types of AI model working. Besides LLMs, it also supports text to speech, speech to text, and image generation.

Two things that are important: first, if you are server doesn't have a pretty advanced video card then you're going to be using the CPU exclusively for AI, and that'll be pretty slow. Second, I found it very quickly that the amount of RAM you have is critical. My main server is a core i5 4th gen, and so I put AI software on another one of my servers which is a core i5 7th gen. You would think that the latter would work a lot better, but it had half the ram, and it basically wasn't even able to get started.

Besides hosting ai, if you have a desktop computer or gaming laptop you can run local AI models. There's a fantastic piece of software called Faraday that works pretty well on my laptop. You can get more and more sophisticated models depending on how much memory you have.

https://youtu.be/aLy_vVLUHZk

Krita has AI dal-e support for image generation available as a plug-in. I haven't used it yet because I just got it started downloading last night before I went to bed, but the installation process has defined in the video seems accurate and was extremely easy and mostly automated.

https://youtu.be/AU8NDSBIS1U

Glad I could help! I know it's really frustrating when you're right at the 99% mark and it's like "why isn't this working?!"

The interoperability of different software really is amazing. One of the best parts of the fediverse imo.