hendrik

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe this goes both ways. At the same time, don't just resign, but tell your fellow citizens how European people have the option to mobilize large amounts of people for protests. How they sometimes collectively refuse to work for a day (or more) if it's really bad. And I'm not sure if I'd like to advertise for outright war, but there have been cases where people barricade the streets, vandalize public property and burn arbitrary stuff to make a point... (It just can't be a single person or terrorism... It needs to be like 200,000 people, determined to show how pissed they are about the situation.)

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Whatever you do, it's not working properly. You seem to be mentioning me? All I get is a notification bell and your eyes emoji here. But I'm lacking context. So... You need to repeat your question or info, if this isn't just a technical/federation error.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm fairly sure batteries can't be directly connected to AC or they wouldn't charge in the first place. It'd just heat them up. So if they charged at some point, there has to be something else going on.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I think that's true. I'd somehow like to have different words available. Because I think it's a big difference whether it's Minecraft Hitler. Or the actual Nazis we have on the rise as of today. For example the richest man on earth "accidentally" doing the Nazi salute in front of a right-wing audience. And we know he also likes to share nazi propaganda on social media and supports authoritarianism. If we call all of them the same, we also normalize stuff... So yeah.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I roughly followed that back in the day and I think there isn't much to these claims. He seems to sometimes have a bad taste and is a bit naive in some regards. But that's not being a Nazi. And it's been 7 or 8 years and he seems to have learned from that, or was there any more controversy? I don't follow him, nor have I watched any videos for some time. And this video also doesn't convince me to watch his content...

Edit: And I don't want to apologize that behaviour. He definitely did these bad "jokes", I just think he genuinely thought it was funny and he was some sort of clown. But that makes him an idiot, and not a nazi.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'd like to interject for a moment. What you're doing is downvoting a comment, in which someone seems to do the right thing for once. I'd say upvotes are in order. Disregarding any previous history.

Plus, can we please have some different drama tomorrow? I think it's a bit boring to always talk about the same person over and over again as if there wasn't any other lore or drama to be had on the Fediverse.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nice article. And nice pep talk from Greg KH, I think he nailed it. I mean some team spirit is required if Linux wants progress.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

From what I know, I assume yes, the relation between model size and speed/performance should be linear. Maybe there is some additional small overhead making it a bit faster or slower than expected. But I'm really not an expert on the maths, so don't trust me.

And maybe have a look at this bugreport: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/11332
I think it matches your situation. They resolve this by messing with the batch size and someone recommends not to use Vulkan on an iGPU.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Small update: I didn't get any reaction (so far). The post in their about community has zero votes or interactions. I've then escalated things and filed a bug report on the bot's project page. Also with no reply in the last 3 days. So I guess either they're busy with other stuff and their "bridge" bot is practically unsupervised... Or they don't care... So I'd say your gut feeling was correct. I'll give them some more time, 9 or 3 days isn't a lot for a hobby side-project... But I think at some point, Fediverse admins might want to think about de-federating and effectively shunning them, if it turns out that instance is effectively unmoderated and pulls in problematic content, and isn't even liked by a good part of the user base here.

Kind of a bummer to be honest. But the whole place looks abandoned. The instance hasn't seen updates in more than a year. There aren't any posts by a human for a year. Their posts don't really get interacted with... And there are deletions in their modlog, but always with quite some time in between.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm just unsure why this is surfacing now. I had that feature available in LineageOS for the better part of a decade. And similarly, it's also been part of other manufacturer's customizations for quite some time now (like Samsung).

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Why is Google suddenly messing with charging on a regular basis? First the strange situation with the 4a, then whatever preceeded this, and now this...?

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Two things to consider:

  • It's likely illegal to take other people's content and re-publish it on your own terms
  • Peertube admins have to pay for storage. So don't dump random noise there. It has to be useful / worth it. Especially if you make someone else pay for the server space.
 

I've been using Etar for years now. But the Samsung calendar app on my wife's phone looks way better, while I'm missing things like the titles in the appointments once it gets crowded. And the all day events and birthdays aren't that prominent either. Plus I don't have some features on Etar like adding notes/emojis to days.

Is there a better calendar app out there? It has to be open source and somehow connect to my Nextcloud. That'd be my requirements. But I believe all calendar apps can connect to webdav.

 

Seems Meta have been doing some research lately, to replace the current tokenizers with new/different representations:

 

I got a new phone. Skipped a few generations and now I'm running the current GrapheneOS, based on Android 15. I've moved most of the apps, but now I'd like to install my 3 banking apps and 5 discount program spyware apps. I guess I best separate them from the rest of the arbitrary stuff. Banking apps so they can't be messed with, and shady discount programs so those apps can't mess with me and my data...

The internet has a lot of information about Shelter, work profiles, the new(?) private spaces... But I don't know what is current advice and what's outdated advice... What's the current best practice?

 

During the summer the European Commission made the decision to stop funding Free Software projects within the Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI). This decision results in a loss of €27 million for software freedom. Since 2018, the European Commission has supported the Free Software ecosystem through NGI, that provided funding and technical assistance to Free Software projects. This decision unfortunately exposes a larger issue: that software freedom in the EU needs more stable, long-term financial support. The ease with which this funding was excluded underlines this need.

CC BY-SA 4.0 - SFSCON 2024

Cross-posted from the FSFE Peertube Channel

 

Seems they recently changed something on Spotify and all the tools I've tried fail now. And DownOnSpot which seems promising has received a cease and desist letter and got taken down. What do you people use? I want something that actually fetches the audio from Spotify, not just rip it from YouTube. And it has to work as of now. Does the latest commit from DownOnSpot work? Back when I tested it a few weeks ago it failed due to some API changes. Are there other tools floating around?

 

I just found https://www.arliai.com/ who offer LLM inference for quite cheap. Without rate-limits and unlimited token generation. No-logging policy and they have an OpenAI compatible API.

I've been using runpod.io previously but that's a whole different service as they sell compute and the customers have to build their own Docker images and run them in their cloud, by the hour/second.

Should I switch to ArliAI? Does anyone have some experience with them? Or can recommend another nice inference service? I still refuse to pay $1.000 for a GPU and then also pay for electricity when I can use some $5/month cloud service and it'd last me 16 years before I reach the price of buying a decent GPU...

Edit: Saw their $5 tier only includes models up to 12B parameters, so I'm not sure anymore. For larger models I'd need to pay close to what other inference services cost.

Edit2: I discarded the idea. 7B parameter models and one 12B one is a bit small to pay for. I can do that at home thanks to llama.cpp

 

tl;dr: Be excellent to each other, do something constructive here?

I'm not sure anymore where the Threadiverse is headed. (The Threadiverse being this threaded part of the Fediverse, i.e. Lemmy, MBin, PieFed, ...)
In my time here, I've met a lot of nice people and had meaningful conversations and learned lots of things. At the same time, it's always been a mixed bag. We've always had quite some argumentative people here, trolls, ... I've seen people hate on and yell at each other, and do all kinds of destructive things. My issue with that is: Negative behavior is disproportionately affecting the atmosphere. And I'd argue we have nowhere enough nice behavior to even that out.

I don't see Lemmy grow for quite some time now. Seems it's now leveling off at a bit less that 50k monthly active users. And I don't see how that'd change. I'm missing some clear vision/idea of where we want to be headed. And I miss an atmosphere that makes people want to join or stay here, of all of the places on the internet. The saying is: "If you don't go forwards you go backwards". I'm not sure if this applies... At least we're not shrinking anymore.

And I'm always unsure if the tone and atmosphere here changes subtly and gradually. I've always disagreed with a few dynamics here. But lately it feels like we're on the decline, at least to me. I occasionally keep an eye on the votes on my comments. And seems I'm getting fewer of them. Sometimes I reply to a post and not a single person interacts. Even OP seems to have abandoned their post moments after writing it. And also for nuanced and longer replies, I regularly don't get more than one or two upvotes. I think that used to be a bit better at some point. And I see the same thing happening with other peoples' comments. So it's not just me writing low-quality comments. What does work is stating simple truths. I regularly get some incoming votes with those. But my vision of this place isn't spreading simple truths, but have proper and meaningful discussions, learn things and new perspectives or just mingle with people or talk. But judging by the votes I observe, that isn't appreciated by the community here.

Another pet peeve of mine is the link aggregator aspect of Lemmy. I'd say at least 80% of Lemmy is about dumping some political (or tech) news articles. Lots of them don't generate any engagement. Lots of them are really low-effort. OP just dumps something somewhere, no body text added, no info about what's interesting about it. And people don't even read those articles. They just read the title and react (emotionally) to that. In the end probably neither OP nor the audience read the article and it's just littering the place. Burying and diminishing other, meaningful content. (With that said: There are also nice (news) discussions going on at the same time. And Lemmy is meant to be a link aggregator. It's just that my perception is: it's skewed towards low quality, low engagement and random noise.)

A few people here also don't really like political debate. And there's no escape from it here on Lemmy since so much revolves around that. And nowadays politics is about strong opinions, emotions and emotional reactions. And often limited to that. The dynamics of Lemmy reinforce the negative aspect of that, because the time when you're most incentivized to reply or react is, when it triggers some strong emotion in you, for example you strongly disagree with a comment and that makes you want to counter it and write your own opinion underneath. If you agree, you don't feel a strong emotion and you don't reply. And the majority of users seems to also forget to upvote in that case, as I lined out earlier. And we also don't write nuanced answers, dissect complex things and examine it from all angles. That's just effort and it's not as rewarding for the brain to do that as it is pointing out that someone is wrong. So it just fosters an atmosphere of being argumentative.

Prospect

I think we have several ways of steering the community:

  1. Technology: Features in the software, design choices that foster good behavior.
  2. Moderation: Give toxic people the boot, or delete content that drags down the place. Following: What remains is nice people and not adverse content.
  3. The community

I'd say 1 and 2 go without saying. (Not that everything is perfect with those...) But it really boils down to 3: The community. This is a fairly participatory place. We are the ones shaping the tone and atmosphere. And it's our place. It's kind of our obligation to care for it if we want to see it go somewhere. Isn't it?

So what's your vision of this place? Do you have some idea on where you'd like it to go? Practical ideas on how to achieve it?
Do you even agree with my perception of the dynamics here, and the implications and conclusions I came up with?

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