This guy politics

Not through a Wireguard tunnel

If you want a nice way to elevate the usability of your setup use Tailscale (or self-host Headscale) and run your devices on a VPN.

My devices are never not on my “LAN”, they maintain a VPN connection and access my local services as if they’re wired in. Remote pihole, multimedia streaming, password management etc are all covered by this one solution without needing to deal with reverse proxies and certificates.

“Welcome to Walmart. I love you”.

It does feel a lot like that 'round here

AI Horde has a OpenAI compatible REST API (https://oai.aihorde.net/). They say that it doesn’t support the full feature set of their native API, but will almost assuredly work with this.

OP manually builds the oapi JSON payload and then uses the python requests library to handle the request.

The fields they’re using match the documentation on https://oai.aihorde.net/docs

You would need to add a header with your AI Horde API key. Looks like that would only need to be done in router_fastapi.py - call_model_prompt() (line 269) and call_model_messages() (line 303) and then everything else is setup according to documentation

I do hate that if you speak at a language above ‘Reddit Common’ people assume that you’re a neural network instead of just someone who exercises theirs.

Run Boo, RUN!

Another good MVNO, for privacy, is Phreeli. Louis Rossmann (on YT) created a MVNO which collects no data from you, you can even pay cash-by-mail anonymously and with crypto.

Pretty straight forward value proposition: You pay and they provide phone services, don’t sell your data and design their systems around not collecting your data in the first place or, if collected (like payment information) is used for the transactions and deleted.

The only information you provide is a zip code (optional, but ties the phone into your area’s 911 system if you’re into that kind of thing)

I am not an ad bot(OR AM I?)

Anything can be an issue if work hard enough.

This is, conveniently, a decision that discourages their customers from buying hardware from anywhere but themselves an anti-competitive practice which carries little risk of lawsuit, or fine.

It’s certainly not a technical problem. We all, mostly, use the same cellular network and other carriers have no trouble supporting devices purchased directly from the vendor.

There’s a VERY important distinction here.

The ‘unlock’ that they are talking about here is to unlock your phone’s SIM to be able to be used with another carrier’s service.

This does not mean that the bootloader is unlocked and you will not be able to replace the OS. You will still be stuck with Verizon’s spyware-laden release of Android even when you move to a new carrier.

So, buy your devices directly from the manufacturer and make sure that the phone supports the ability to unlock (and re-lock!) the bootloader. If you need a recommendation, get a current generation Pixel and install GrapheneOS or if you won’t give up Google Play and dependent apps, LineageOS.

I deleted it when I was installing Steam games and ran out of space. A few commands later and I have another 2TB of SSD storage.

I hadn’t booted into Windows for nearly a year by that time and, in the months since, I haven’t once regretted it or wished I still had it installed.

They’re not killing sideloading, they’re just building the gallows and sharpening the axe.

The outrage doesn’t stop anything, it just makes them slow their plans and wait out the public outrage.

(the 3rd one is out soon-ish? if not now?)

End of Feb (the 26th?), these sales seem to be to promote the launch of Part 3.

I played the 2nd one with a friend for a few hours last night. I appreciate the humor, the music selection is above average, the movement feels good and every time we died it was due to us being dumb. No bugs (playing on Linux, with GE-Proton10-27), runs great on maximum settings.

We were having an easy time by going on a murder spree, then we noticed that the game gives you rank medals for speed, avoiding kills and avoiding detection so we started playing to maximize the end-score. Those constraints make the puzzles a bit harder and I can see wanting to run a level multiple times in order to get it right.

Overall, it’s a fun experience, does the stealth thing competently and the graphics/music/animations/dialog is good.

I had no idea this existed(I never even look at EGS), thanks. Now I can live out my WoW Goblin Rogue fantasies.

He means the LLM boom. Their conflating LLMs with all of AI is nonsense.

There are plenty of other machine learning projects, even ones using Transformer-based neural networks), that are doing just fine because they are not built on top of ridiculous business models like ‘buy every bit of computer hardware and hope someone makes something to run on it’.

The faster this thing crashes, the faster all consumer electronics becomes cheaper.

Version 2.0 uses memes

Social Democracy is a method of operating the government.

Capitalism is a way of operating the economy.

Much of Europe’s governments are classified as a Social Democracy and they also use the capitalist economic system.

As someone with experience with people who are in the MAGA reality bubble, this is because there is no in-canon explanation of Trump’s actions (yet, the story writers patch these up pretty quick). There was no setup for this, no laying the misinformation groundwork and no existing goal that this advances.

Since Greenland wasn’t part of the story, it just came out of nowhere. Lacking any in-MAGA explaination, they are examining this situation as a normal person who knows normal facts and this is completely an unforced error by any measure as anyone can see.

If this was something that was serious and planned then we would have started hearing about this months ago as they started preparing the lies and the misinformation seeding into social media via paid/artificial content creators or otherwise useful idiots. This is probably the strongest indication that Greenland is a distraction and not a real move. This is probably the case with Canada too, in my opinion.

They would rather people talk about anything but the Epstein files and how they are very clearly covering them up and not complying with the law. They don’t want reporters to have time to report on all of the people that he has pardoned who also have made $2-5 million dollar donations to various MAGA PACs, some of them committing even more crimes and getting another pardon…

They need to throw things into the air to distract people. Some of their planned events are polling negative (the Minnesota Invasion, Healthcare Subsidies) and they don’t have anything else so instead we get more random tariffs and more random military threats because they are something that the Executive Branch can do unilaterally and suddenly to ensure that they grab the next news cycle.

This is the “Flood the Zone” tactic that Steve Bannon said that they were using during the first admin.

I’m cynical to think that proper legislation won’t happen even after the crash. There’s simply too much money available to buy bribes/motorcoaches for Supreme Court Justices (Clarence Thomas) and other cheaper politicians.

May you live in interesting times, indeed.

I invite you to shelter against the storm: https://lemmy.world/c/dull_mens_club

That seems like a pretty biased article full of opinion, rhetorical framing and axe grinding.

What is your point? Not the point of the author, they clearly have a viewpoint. I mean why did you think it was relevant that we read what is essentially an opinion piece written like a tabloid article you’d see in a grocery store checkout line?

Ok, to save the rest of you the headache:

The author disliked how they were using ‘open source’ in the past. The author notes in the next paragraph that FUTO have addressed this complaint by linking their, multiple, responses and clarifying their position. The author does not mention or even address their current position, outside of name-calling and rhetorical framing in the link text.

Immediately after, we’re hit with the tl;dr summarizing everything afterward (thank god, because I was already tired of reading by this point). Unfortunately, there is more text.

The author then takes offense that FUTO claimed to give money to several organization. The scare quotes around “grant” are intended to sow doubt in your mind that the author couldn’t otherwise do with facts, words and explanations. Sarcasm and implied eye rolling are doing a lot of heavy lifting in this next section.

The first ““grant”” covered, is musl libc and, after after some research it was determined that FUTO, in fact, gave money to musl libc.

Devastating argument so far, let’s keep going.

Not deterred, the author quotes some text for people who want musl libc to list them as sponsors. This has nothing to do with FUTO claiming (correctly) that they they gave money to musl libc.

An example of the difference, in case it isn’t obvious to you, is that I can say I gave money to Doctors without Borders. If I actually gave money to Doctors Without borders then I’m telling the truth. If I want Doctors without Borders to list me as a sponsor on their site and advertising materials then I have to go through a different process. If I don’t go through this process, it doesn’t invalidate my donation.

In this case FUTO claimed that they gave money to an organization, and the records show that they did in fact give money to the organization. They did not go through the process of asking the organization to officially list FUTO as a sponsor. This is written as if it were an important distinction, but explaining why it is important is beyond the scope of this article, I guess. (I can use sarcasm too!)

Then the author lists a bunch of other projects many of which FUTO claims to have donated. I have also donated to many of these projects and, much like FUTO, they also don’t list me as a sponsor, hmm curious.

Undeterred by reality, the author moves on to character assassination.

Step 1 is to find a bad person, Curtis Yarvin will be the authors choice here. A few quotes to establish their fascist credentials and we’re on to the next step. Step 2 is to find a person from FUTO who has interacted with the bad person. Louis Rossmann once appeared on a show in 2022 and Yarvin was also on that show.

Through the logical power of guilt by association the author has now demonstrated why Rossmann is also bad. The next bit is to criticize Rossmann’s response. Sure, he may have disagreed with Yarvin during the debate and also afterwards wrote a comment further disagreeing with Yarvin but by simply yeeting the goalposts into the past, the author can attack Rossmann for not doing it sooner.

The last few paragraphs are trying to make a huge amount of hay out of this appearance. The author bravely takes a stand against fascism and implies that FUTO should reflect on the author’s opinions of fascism (the implication being that they are not and are therefore, possibly who would say?, fascists themselves).

So, my TL;DR from this article is:

FUTO is bad because they don’t claim to be open source despite not being open source. They also claimed to give money to organizations that they gave money to.

To make matters worse, one person who is neither a developer for FUTO or Immich, once went on a YouTube show 4 years ago with a fascist and didn’t disagree with them strongly enough for the authors taste. If FUTO didn’t want to be fascists, which the author never says only strongly implies, then maybe they should have sent Louis Rossmann back in time so that he could have denounced it more eloquently instead of in a follow-up comment.

As we all know, people who post follow-ups are insincere and should never be trusted.

In his follow-up, the author notes that FUTO has addressed most of the issues that he complained about. However since FUTO still has not explained why Curtis Yarvin still exists and what they are doing about it, combined with the fact that fascism is bad (Source), implies that they should reflect on the fact that fascism is bad.

Since this is not happening and FUTO has done nothing about Yarvin still existing I’ll leave the hanging implication that FUTO, fascism and Yarvin are related in some way.

Fascism.

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