Cethin

I don’t know why people use these services that charge you. Just use Keepass. It’s free and open source. The only disadvantage is syncthing across devices, but syncthing makes that trivial.

Yeah, there’s no way to do that. You can use doubles yourself to track things, but the engine is always going to use floats. When you send data to the engine, it has to be in float form.

IIRC, UE5 actually switched to using doubles for everything. Standard size float makes floating point math faster to perform, but computers are fast enough now they decided it was worth it. It can now accurately store positions much further away without losing as much precision.

KSA is also using doubles I think, on their custom engine. They can do a cool thing where they can render multiple vehicle views at once, in totally different locations. KSP couldn’t do this because of floating point error.

I haven’t tried it, but yeah, at small scales KSP (which is just using floating point numbers) is pretty accurate. It’s at large scales where it fucks up, which it does have to deal with too, being a game about traveling between planets.

I assume it probably would work though. The Apollo computers, as I’m sure you know, weren’t super complex. They basically just assisted the pilot. I’m not exactly sure what math they did, but it probably just had to do with descent rate/time to impact and stuff like that. Again, this is all just guessing. I don’t remember it.

You can automate control of your craft in KSP with a mod. All you need is to have it send the data to the Apollo computer and then send the output to the craft. It should probably work with the real solar system mod.

Now that I saw this though, I swear I saw this exact video already. Scott Manley or someone may have already done this.

Meanwhile we have many capitalist groups stifling innovation in the name of profit. It’s more profitable for them to prevent competition than to compete for the best product.

It’s Firefox, so yes. All Firefox extensions works. It also has its own extension format for UI stuff too.

I’ve been using Zen lately. It’s good, but it’s also pretty different. It takes some getting used to. I like it because the interface is minimal and out of the way. It keeps your browser mostly just showing the content on the web page, instead of wasting space with the taskbar that’s only needed occasionally. It’s still all available, just hidden away until needed.

No offense, but I feel like you did that in the wrong order. Lol.

It won’t sadly. I can run many on my computer. They’ll still be available, even if every server-based one goes down.

It’s funny you mention the VC funding. As far as I can tell, it’s only made it worse. Discord would have done great if they just kept expectations low. Instead, they’re now expected to create massive returns. That must come at the cost of consumers. I hope consumers get tired of it and leave, or someone else comes offering the simple service Discord used to provide.

The way that could be done would be significantly worse than 15 slower. That’s the issue. Even with the fastest storage, moving things between RAM and storage creates massive bottlenecks.

There are ways to reduce this overhead by intelligently timing moving pieces between storage and RAM, but storage is slow. I don’t know how the models work, if it is possible to know what will be needed soon, so you can start moving it into RAM before it’s needed. If that can be done then it wouldn’t be impossibly bad, but if it can’t then we’re talking something like 100x slower maybe. Most of these are already pretty slow on consumer hardware, so that’d be effectively unusable. You’d be waiting hours for responses.

This is probably the easiest tool I’ve used to run them: https://lmstudio.ai/

There’s tons of models available here, some of them fairly large: https://huggingface.co/

No, I’m pretty sure there’s no way to run any larger than your RAM/VRAM, at least not automatically. You can use storage as RAM, but that’s probably not a good idea. It’s orders of magnitude slower. You’re better off running a smaller model.

Yeah, most likely, and it’ll only bind users and protect the businesses, as always.

It already is broadly accessible to the general public. They just don’t know about it or just accept using one of the cloud versions. It’s trivial to get up and running at this point.

The model should take into account income. For an open-source model it should be free. It’s using public data to produce a public product. For a for-profit model it should be paid. If they’re profiting off of public data then they should have to pay for the right to use it.

We can’t afford to make any of this. We don’t have the money for the compute required or to pay for the lawyers to make the law work for us. It should benefit the people, so it needs to change. It needs to be “expanded” (I wouldn’t call it that, rather “modified” but I’ll use your word) in that it currently only protects the wealthy and binds the poor. It should be the opposite.

As with all things, nuance and context is required. I don’t think we should be taxing poor people that heavily (if at all), but does that mean I should be against taxing the ultra-wealthy more? Obviously not.

I support copyright to protect developers and not hinder users, hobbyists, or the average person. I don’t support it to only help massive companies who can manipulate the law to protect them from competition, but also not hinder them from stealing from the masses. They can afford to pay. If AI is actually as valuable as they say, the price of paying for the training data is trivial.

Copyright shouldn’t only be helpful to big businesses. It should be most helpful to the average person. We have the opposite here. I support modifying copyright law to bind big businesses and liberate individuals. I don’t need to be totally against it like you imply.

I had the idea to use an old phone as a server recently. Phones are pretty energy efficient, so it seems like it’d be a smart way to recycle one. Does anyone know if this is actually a good practical idea for a lightweight personal server, rather than just a novelty? I haven’t heard of anyone doing it before so I’m assuming there’s a reason it isn’t a good idea, but I don’t know what that’d be.

No browser with third party investors can be really independent, they always will obey more the interests of the investors as on those from the users.

That’s why they limited donations to $100k per organization. No one is allowed to make themselves indispensable to the project.

LLMs don’t have no utility. They just aren’t good for everything. This is a reasonable use for them. Actually giving accurate information, not so much. Definitely not doing that require intelligence or creativity either. They’re text prediction algorithms. Using it to find the right text is what it should be good at.

Discord has quite a few good features that IRC doesn’t. I will agree that it being used as a replacement for a forum, while also being unsearchable, is amazingly stupid. However, it’s used by almost everyone for a reason, and to ignore that (if you were to develop and alternative) ensures you won’t succeed. Yeah, we don’t need every feature from Discord, but easy voice/text/video chats, image/file sharing, and all the other useful things are required. Yeah, we can probably lose the emotes and crap and be fine.

The extensions should work still. It even still integrates with the same extention marketplace. It’s the same software, just the open source part without the MS stuff —which honestly, I have and do use both and I don’t know what the difference is.

It’s definitely worth checking out. If it doesn’t work for you then still nothing is lost except a small amount of time, but I’m willing to bet it does.