bityard

5 ms·

31.
by bityard 18d ago
ChapGPT (and all other hosted L To me) still use a search engine behind the scenes whenever you ask a question. Often, it uses those seo slop sites as primary sources when formulating an answer. Which is why, even though hallucinations are
32.
by bityard 19d ago
Literally none of what you said is true. Go read the GPLv3 license and/or ask yourself how Linux distributions are able to ship a mix of GPLv3, v2, MIT, BSD, etc licensed software all in the same image. GrapheneOS may or may not have a
33.
by bityard 21d ago
Most devices should be using temporary dynamic IPv6 addresses, for this exact reason. I believe this is the default on most Linux distributions, not sure about others.
34.
by bityard 23d ago
I stay out of the way of fast-moving buses! But more seriously, my domain and VPS is on auto-pay, so it doesn't just shut off the day I die. My survivors will have plenty of time to back up their emails and do whatever they want with t
35.
by bityard 23d ago
They caught them and preserved them to keep them from spoiling, to eat them later.
36.
by bityard 23d ago
Wow. I ran into a subset of a few weeks back when all I was trying to do was record from a specific microphone connected to my laptop. I thought I just didn't know what I was doing! I gave up after 20 minutes of fiddling and used somet
37.
by bityard 23d ago
I manage the email accounts for the others in my household because it's free for them and I'm happy to do it. Plus, they trust me more than they trust a random tech company. Maybe that is not a universal thing among all families o
38.
by bityard 23d ago
Well, nothing, but it does assume that Verisign doesn't have an unstated plan to do something else with .name. Domain registration is the real estate of the Internet and very little has happened in the last 30 years of domain name poli
39.
by bityard 24d ago
I skimmed the docs for this but couldn't find an answer: Is there something that says what each of those services is actually for and what the trade-offs are for disabling them? Clearly not all of them are strictly bloatware. (Some peo
40.
by bityard 24d ago
"Xodus"!
41.
by bityard 25d ago
On the other hand, doing the same work (let alone the same job) for all of my adult life would be actual spirit-breaking torture for me. I respect people who can do it, who can live a simple life doing the same thing every single day and be
42.
by bityard 25d ago
I stopped listening to Pandora well over a decade ago because its algorithm eventually decided that I only liked 12 songs in the whole world.
43.
by bityard 25d ago
I never thought ubiquitous human-written marketing wank was any better.
44.
by bityard 26d ago
If we are picking nits, almost every panel in the US and Canada is _both_ 120v and 240v. But even electricians here commonly say "two-twenty" instead of "two-forty."
45.
by bityard 27d ago
I'm sorry if this is a naive question, but why can't you just edit the commit message however you like? Or, for preference, write the whole commit message yourself? It confuses me a great deal to see projects where someone put in
46.
by bityard 27d ago
This links to some ad-filled AI generated slop. Kima looks interesting, here's the actual link to it: https://github.com/Chevron7Locked/kima-hub
47.
by bityard 28d ago
I wasn't arguing for or against anything, just trying to help answer the person's question.
48.
by bityard 1mo ago
A small model, yes! But not necessarily a good model. With the additional caveat that I don't know whether that specific card is supported by modern drivers. You'd be looking at one in the 6B or 7B parameters range at FP8. Or smal
49.
by bityard 1mo ago
Thanks for the nice article. If you're looking for feedback, I'd suggest adding a short demo at the end. It would be nice to see you send it a prompt that says, "hey, remember this" and then tell it to recall that memory
50.
by bityard 1mo ago
I don't have any pie charts in front of me, but yes, I would estimate it's a decently big slice of the world market.
51.
by bityard 1mo ago
Most US companies that have anything to do with government, finance, medical, etc. already have contractual or regulatory obligations which prevent them from using Chinese hardware or services, even before the AI boom. That's a huge ma
52.
by bityard 1mo ago
> A GPU in your basement is a depreciating asset All decades prior and up to about a year ago, I would have agreed with you. My Framework Desktop, however has appreciated in value by 75% since I bought it. Will it stay there for a long t
53.
by bityard 1mo ago
JPEG has had progressive loading on browsers since the almost the very beginning. But everybody stopped using it because it added slightly to the file size and "looked ugly." According to most web designers, anyway, who would actu
54.
by bityard 1mo ago
I remember when Vultr was new and had a single rack with a handful of boxes. Their site has no graphics apart from an ASCII logo. They had low prices but you often had to wait for them to build a new box before you could sign up. Their whol
55.
by bityard 1mo ago
These cheap resellers are also magnets for spammers, scammers, and hax0rs, so good luck running anything you don't want caught up in a subnet ban.
56.
by bityard 1mo ago
Do you give the model access to the ASD-STE100 spec for reference/review or are you just assuming that enough of it is baked into the model for it to mostly adhere to it?
57.
by bityard 1mo ago
An earlier version of Gemini used to do this a lot to me back when I used it for some light tinkering around on my projects. "Oh by the way, I fixed a misspelling in a comment file completely unrelated to the feature you asked for, so
58.
by bityard 1mo ago
How fast is it on consumer-level hardware?
59.
by bityard 1mo ago
I saw the My Little Pony shell prompt and knew immediately that this was to be taken very seriously.
60.
by bityard 1mo ago
If anyone has an old Silhouette vinyl cutter sitting around gathering dust, there's an actively maintained open source Inkscape plugin that lets you "print" your design straight to the cutter: https://github.com&#x

More ›