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Also you should advertise that this is an open-source project on the landing page, as that may cause more people to be interested in trying it out.
Something like Facebook obviously costs a lot more to run, as it stores photos and video and also provides each user with an individually generated feed. In contrast HN is rather lightweight and basically serves mostly static cachable content to all users. I believe it was stated somewhere that the entire HN comfortably runs on a 64GB 4/8 bare metal server. On the extreme side I host my personal static web site on my home DSL connection fronted by Cloudflare, as the CDN does all the work and the bandwidth used is minimal.
To the people running these new communities the software cost is low as they're based off an open-source service of choice (Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.), and as we saw on Reddit moderation can be done by volunteers. Are the remaining costs for admins, hosting, etc. feasible for a non-profit with some user donations? And can we create more efficient platforms with a plainer style that will minimize the server and electricity costs?
Today with the new k-quants users are reporting that 30B models are working with 2-bit quantization on 16GB CPUs and GPUs [2]. That's enabling access to millions of consumers and the optimizations will only improve from there.
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13q6hu8/7b_perf...
[2] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1684, https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/141bdll/moneros...
From my experience UDP 53 like another commenter suggested does not always work as some firewalls forcibly route all UDP 53 packets to their own local DNS server in order to prevent people from using their own.
As a bonus OpenVPN has the "port-share" option which allows you to share the port with other services like an SSL web server. SSLH is also an option if you want to host both your VPN and a HTTPS site on TCP 443.
It strikes me as strange that the schools are playing a cat-and-mouse game rather than simply disciplining the students caught playing games or accessing these sites. Loss of privileges or so forth for violators would serve as an actual deterrent rather than encouraging students to simply find new ways to get around the block.
I'm talking about individual people here as the fact that this is a leak means that corps probably won't take the legal risk of trying this out (maybe some are doing so in secret). In the business world there definitely is a want for locally hosted models for employees that can safely handle confidential inputs and outputs.
The Llama models are not as good as ChatGPT but there are new variants like Alpaca and Vicuna with improved quality. People are actively using them already to help with writing and as chatbots.
In contrast the phone produces a specific artistic decision influence by the software. For instance in the backlit scenario the phone purposely boosts the highlights and cuts the shadows to create what it perceives as a more balanced image.