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Most of big tech doesn't have much of a monopoly on the technology. They have a monopoly on network lock-in. If you split them up, they have no monopoly and competition can resume.

Gemma 27b is pretty censored, I prefer mistral-small 22b. Works fairly well with ollama and gptel but it still doesn't compare to the commercial offerings. llama3.1 70b is quite a bit smarter but doesn't fit into my VRAM. I expect llama3.1 405b would come quite close to commercial offerings.

I'd say the primary benefit of ansible is it makes you document everything. It's easy to simply set and forget with tools like docker compose, but then when you need to change something again, you have to recall what you did originally and fix that.

If you want to host a homeserver but feel overwhelmed about the amount of services you'll have to host (especially if you want to have bridges to other services), check out matrix-docker-ansible-deploy [1]. It's pretty much a set and forget experience with reproducible deployment, and the documentation walks through any decision you need to make.

1. https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

You can disallow users from joining based on their homeserver or only allow local (on your homeserver) users, so the answer is yes.

What benefits does this have? You'll still have to have a server running and you lose control of your account, if I'm understanding what you mean (letting matrix.org handle accounts).

On mine, it shows about 30 MB, which is less than this HN thread. I don't see the right-click hijacking either. Am I missing something?

That's the idea behind patents. You get a period of what is essentially monopoly license in exchange for the idea being made available to the public. The issue with copyright is that it lasts far too long now compared to the original length (14 years in the US), which throws off the balance.

Firefox, ublock origin on desktop and on phone. Also AdAway on phone. They are usually pretty aggressive and can break things, so I don't use any network wide blockers.

Bonus: if you never need to leave home, you don't need ironed shirts, either.

You can also do a filesystem scan pretty easily. Both for useful features, as well as spying.

Different poisons have different accumulation characteristics. The relevant part here is that perfluorocarbons are fairly persistent in your body. Your body needs a few hours or a day to process the vodka, but the PFAS in your blood takes months/years to leave your body.

The result is the same though. The water leaves the container and enters the atmosphere as vapor. You can call the former "decomposition", and the latter "leaching", but you are eating the degradation products either way.

> We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.

- Jean-Claude Juncker, former president of the European Commission

Teflon is not very thermally conductive, so the bottom contacting the metal substrate may be at a significantly higher temperature than the top. Chemistry reactions have activation energies, and you can generally always trade temperature for time. If it happens in a minute at 260 C, it will still happen at 200 C, just slower.

Silicon is rubbery, but unlike rubber it is normally not sticky to either your hand or food.

We need to stop normalizing the idea that businesses can change the offer of a purchased product after the fact.

> These companies are all run by CEOs who got their MBAs at Darth Vader University, where the first lesson is “I have altered the deal, pray I don’t alter it further.”

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed

Yeah. DST really boils down to tricking people to wake up earlier. But you can get all that sunshine by waking up earlier yourself at 5am. No need to force an awkward schedule change on everyone.

> how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need

The Law of Multiplication of Subordinates:

> we must picture a civil servant called A who finds himself overworked. Whether this overwork is real or imaginary is immaterial; but we should observe, in passing, that A’s sensation (or illusion) might easily result from his own decreasing energy—a normal symptom of middle-age. For this real or imagined overwork there are, broadly speaking, three possible remedies

> (1) He may resign.

> (2) He may ask to halve the work with a colleague called B.

> (3) He may demand the assistance of two subordinates, to be called C and D.

> There is probably no instance in civil service history of A choosing any but the third alternative. By resignation he would lose his pension rights. By having B appointed, on his own level in the hierarchy, he would merely bring in a rival for promotion to W’s vacancy when W (at long last) retires. So A would rather have C and D, junior men, below him. They will add to his consequence; and, by dividing the work into two categories, as between C and D, he will have the merit of being the only man who comprehends them both.

source: https://www.economist.com/news/1955/11/19/parkinsons-law

Yeah. If you hate the tor network an easier thing to do is just to overwhelm it with traffic and degrade the service. Running some bittorrent downloads might be enough.

Spoofed MAC addresses is pretty essential for wifi privacy though.

Does it use the GPU? I was under the impression that it uses the CPU. It's only faster because of the massive memory bandwidth compared to DDR4/5

For inference, it often is. Though for most consumer parts the bigger concern is not having enough VRAM rather than the VRAM not being fast enough. Copying from system RAM to VRAM is far slower.

org babel supports way more languages. Elisp (obviously), python, C, C++, Java, you name it

Maybe duty to distribute is too much of a burden. Implied permission to distribute with a reasonable payment seems acceptable for me.

Maintaining copyright should require a duty to distribute. If you do not distribute (at a reasonable price, no tricks allowed) your work, the copyright should just expire because you clearly aren't making any more money.

It's not clear that copyright applies to model weights at all, given they are generated by a computer and isn't really a creative work. It is closer to a quantitative description of the underlying data, like a dictionary or word frequency list.

You don't get to decide the governance, especially in countries you don't live in. The collective action problem is too hard. Technological solutions can be implemented by anyone with sufficient skill and scales easier. Governance always defends the powerful, whereas technology enforces the laws of physics and mathematics and in this case it defends the free flow of information.

The problem for BBC is that it's government-funded. It can't really take a stance without potentially upsetting the next government.

In some sense, they did. The spirit of free software is inherently pro-freedom and against any external actors being able to pressure your entity into submission. This includes any and all legal threats or orders. Look at the history of PGP for an instance of fighting the US government to defend a greater principle.

In practice you can't fight everyone all at once. On the net it may be better to compromise on some to defend others you cherish more.