As a heuristic, I look at the commit dates to see if it’s still being maintained. And lately I look at the commits themselves for evidence of AI use. Then I’ll maybe do a web search for discussions to see what other people/the community has to say about it.

Gnuhealth looks like it may be dead (or at least the repo I found hasn’t had a commit in many years). (Nvm, they moved to codeberg which is a positive signal, IMO).

I think it’s illegal to use Reticulum over amatuer radio because it’s encrypted?

LoRa is very low bandwidth, only suitable for short text messages. Radio frequencies are heavily regulated, easy to triangulate, and can be shutdown. People could build a higher speed, planned WiFi mesh; hops just have to be closer. Neighborhoods could build cat6 and fiber into meshes if they wanted to as well.

I’ve done this (asked a frontier model red team my server), and it just gave me false alarms that I went investigating and weren’t really issues (would’ve been an issue if I had a very specific configuration, but not generally). They produce a lot of noise, so you still have to somewhat understand what you’re looking at/for. It didn’t find any legitimate issues, which is good I guess.

Governments are captured by these companies. Any regulation would undoubtedly benefit these companies at the peoples expense. Right now, the best solution is probably open research and open weight models to keep the field level.

My favorite way is Borscht. They’re pretty good grilled, then cut up, and put in salad too.

I don’t really store stuff like this (well, I do use immich). If I really cared about this kind of stuff, I’d probably self-host, but encrypt archives and backup to cloud storage. For small files (e.g. documents/text), I used to use Syncthing, since it was unlikely that all my devices would get destroyed at the same time, but now I just use Proton Drive since I’m already paying for email and VPN.

A project like this would need to be open source, and encryption needs to happen client-side for trust.

Docker (and in my case, TrueNAS apps), with a single data volume to backup makes things a lot easier.

“Small,” non-generative, BERT-like models, would probably be more appropriate.

Anthropic does sentiment analysis with regex in Claude Code though ¯\(ツ)/¯

Is it people deleting specific posts, or people deleting their accounts? I do find it kind of weird that when you delete your account, it deletes all the data you contributed. Maybe it’s the right choice though, IDK.

The trend I see are the Mac Minis with a lot of unified memory. These are typically very well off people though. Prices for even old GPUs like 3090s are ridiculous now. I don’t think connecting 2 machines over Ethernet would work well, but putting 2 GPUs in a single machine does.

I think they know it’s a somewhat viable option and is part of the reason they’re doing the hardware cartel/circlejerk thing.

I recently noticed that Postgres has “sounds-like” functions too, which I thought was neat: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/fuzzystrmatch.html.

I’ve heard ghidraMCP works pretty well.

You really only need a little more RAM than your GPU’s VRAM (unless you’re doing CPU offloading, which is extremely slow). Otherwise, I did the same thing recently too, and was surprised I was able to get it a Qwen 9B to fix a bug in a script I had. I think Sonnet would’ve fixed in a lot fewer tries, but the 9B model was eventually able to fix it. I could’ve fixed it myself quicker and cleaner than both, but it was an interesting test.

I see an em-dash on a comment in MainActivity.kt on line 278, so I’m guessing it was used extensively. Also, a “→” character on 291.

Impossible. Signal said they have no choice but to use AWS for this kind of thing.

I think I’d install proxmox on all machines because there is a proxmox provider for Terraform. Then, manually create the VMs, and to learn the barebones, use kubeadm to set everything up, and kubectl to manage it. Once comfortable and knowledgeable with that, start messing around with Terraform and Ansible.

It’s been a while since I messed with home automation, but ESPHome was amazing to program ESP microcontrollers (i.e. you most likely wouldn’t have to write any code). You can use ESPHome devices with both Home Assistant and Openhab (using MQTT, IIRC). The last I checked, it was easier to program your own functionality in OpenHAB than Home Assistant.

It creates a problems for copy-left licensed projects. Someone may be unintentionally breaking the license by using LLM bots, or even LLM autocomplete.

For servers, I usually choose the distro with a version with the EOL scheduled furthest into the future. Usually that means Ubuntu (Server) LTS.