@eapl.me@eapl.me Hmm interesting 🤔
codellama or codellama (See Models), or whether I'm expecting far too much out of these "glorified" token prediction machines, but all this seems to be good for is banging out repetitive keystrokes.
Was sort of hoping for a more objective response and experiences with using any LLM local or Oyherwise as a “coding assistant” 😁
“People get tired of hosting stuff for $8/month plus whatever the domain registration takes per year. Or they reinstall the OS on their Raspberry Pi machines, and forget that they were running Jetforce or something like that.”
gemini://rawtext.club/~winter/gemlog/2023/10-02.gmi
Well, yes… self-hosting is nice until you face problems or unexpected costs for something not appealing anymore.
There are many technical alternatives, although I think the main problem is human. Our fears, expectations, desires and such.
codellama or codellama (See Models), or whether I'm expecting far too much out of these "glorified" token prediction machines, but all this seems to be good for is banging out repetitive keystrokes.
Is it actually any better using the much more (supposedly) powerful ChatGPT from OpenAI and wll that jazz that runs some crazy $250k/day to run?! 🤔 Anyone?
Been playing around a bit with Continue.dev and Ollama.ai in VSCode (which all runs locally). I have to say, Continue.dev is not a bad tool in terms of “utility” and the overall UX is kind of nice. However; I dunno whether I’m just using inferior models like codellama or codellama (See Models), or whether I’m expecting far too much out of these “glorified” token prediction machines, but all this seems to be good for is banging out repetitive keystrokes.
The darn thing is just so well umm, fucking stupid and just umm clueless?! 🤦♂️ I’m not really sure what to think of any of this anymore… It’s been so heavily hyped up over the past couple of years, but why? LIke you can’t really get these models to do much for you, even its “summarize this …” is kind of garbage really 😅
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Gonna miss your lovely ocean scenery, but we’ll do something about that soon™ 😅 I believe I do still intend to build an external fully supported Twtxt<->ActivityPub bridge, so ya never know, you might just be back and ya’d never know 😅
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Just saw this 😱 Sad to see you go mate 😢
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think I misunderstood some aspects of Wireguard as mentioned here, not 100% sure, but so far things are much happier now with assigning /32(s) as Tunnel IP(s) for Peers and being a bit more thoughtful about the AllowedIPs 🤞 I’m only playing around with 3 devices right now, my core router (RouterOS), an Ubuntu 22.04 VM over at Vultr and my iPhone.
I think this is what I was missing in my understanding:
In other words, when sending packets, the list of allowed IPs behaves as a sort of routing table, and when > receiving packets, the list of allowed IPs behaves as a sort of access control list.
This is what we call a Cryptokey Routing Table: the simple association of public keys and allowed IPs.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de What’s your setup like? How many peers? How are they configured? (if you can share)
Hmmm really not getting this at al 🤦♂️ So far things appear to be a bit more stable, but the only changes I made was to assign addresses to peers of the form 172.30.0.X/32 instead of 172.30.0.X/24 and setting AllowedIPs to 0.0.0.0/0 for mobile peers (phones, etc) and X.X.X.X/24, Y.Y.Y.Y/24 for more static peers (remote VMs) where X and Y are the LAN and Wireguard subnets.
Hmm when I said “Wireguard is kind of cool” in this twt now I’m not so sure 😢 I can’t get “stable tunnels” to freak’n stay up, survive reboots, survive random disconnections, etc. This is nuts 🤦♂️
Huh hmm Boring Proxy actually uses SSH under the hood (written in Go) for the tunnelling 🤔 Clever, I would have done the same if I hadn’t learned about Wireguard 😅
@mckinley@twtxt.net Now that I have real experience with Wireguard, I’m seriously thinking about building my own “Cloudflare” replacement infra 😅 – And commodifying that somehow. Boring Proxy kind of does this too, but I may have a slightly different takes on things 🤔
@movq@www.uninformativ.de what’s your Fedi handle?
I’ve set PersistentKeepAlive = 25 on both side. Let’s see if that improves things a bit…
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wow that is wicked cool! 😅
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Only problem I seem to have is the connection keeps dropping out and never re-connecting until I forcefully disconnect/reconnect one side. Hmm 🤔
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no All good things come to an end. 👋 I followed you over there.
I’ll shut down this instance soon, I want to say thanks to all of you, especially @prologic@twtxt.net . It’s been fun here, but I do not spend much time here anymore - cutting down on the things I host and use \ spend time on etc.
I’ve been using activitypub more - since it’s more or less replaced ‘x’ for me, and can be reached at:
@stigatle@activitypub.stigatle.no
Wireguard is kind of cool 👌
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh wow nice autumn shot. I expected to see then silhouette of a witch flying on a broomstick
We didn’t let our hair down today! https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2023-09-30/
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh nothing has changed for me 🤣 I stay away from humans as much as possible, never shake hands, refuse to use public transport, etc, etc
Finally, in this day and age I do enjoy that I’m not reachable everywhere
This is the primary reason why I NEVER install “Work” apps on my iPhone. I’ve gotten into the habit for many years now, never to mix work and personal stuff. If I’m not on my Work Macbook, I’m not available – end of story.
tt is incorrectly counting unread messages. There's currently one unread one, but it says 0. When I mark it read, the counter goes to -1. It certainly worked a few weeks back. I probably should work on version 2.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Off-by-one eh? 😅
Hmmm, I noticed that tt is incorrectly counting unread messages. There’s currently one unread one, but it says 0. When I mark it read, the counter goes to -1. It certainly worked a few weeks back. I probably should work on version 2.
@bender@twtxt.net Hahaha! :-D To make it clear, I’m not one of those esoteric radiation jerks. I simply don’t have enough use cases to justify one. And then comes the absolutely horrific UX I’m not willing to deal with. Lots of people love it, I just don’t. Finally, in this day and age I do enjoy that I’m not reachable everywhere. There’s not even a chance of getting distracted. All my good mates don’t have an issue with that, at least they do not admit it. ;-) Of course there are people that think I’m silly, but I don’t care about them.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org a risk taker! Next you are telling us you often do bungee jumping! :-D Kidding, kidding. I know someone around here that does similarly; no mobile phones. He sure stands out like a sore thumb!
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org what happens if you get stranded with a broken car in the middle of no where? Or if an emergency comes up where there is no landline? In the US landlines are disappearing, mobile phones have taken their place.
I have had good experiences with Nokias both smartphones and features phones
@movq@www.uninformativ.de No private mobile phone at all, just landline telephone. I have a company smart phone but it sucks balls and I don’t want to even use it for anything unless I really have to. It covers two use cases, 2FA and accepting/rejecting meeting invites (somehow my desktop mail client can’t send meeting replies reliably). 99% of the time the phone sits either on the desk (during work hours) or lays in the drawer (after quitting time). So it moves less than a meter each workday. And for obvious reasons I have to take it to the office with me, too.
Had to go to the office today. Leaving the house, some nice reddish spots appeared in the sky, probably saw a hedgehog and by the time I reached the train station, the sunrise had fully emerged. Unfortuntely, I did not have a camera with me, so I had to enjoy this super crazy, ultra red sky on the platform and can’t show you anything. It was easily one of the most beautiful sunrises of this year. A very large section of the sky was very, very red.
This evening I had to go for a quick stoll after suffering from terrible seating conditions in this meeting room. I met a few friends on the way and shook their hands. Then it occurred to one of them that this was a bad move, he’s home sick with a sore throat and a positive corona test. I watched like a hawk to not touch myself with that hand and sanitized the crap out of me when I got home. Let this cup pass from me. On the truly positive side, however, I saw a squirrel, the rest of the sunset (I missed the best part in the forest), six deer on a paddock and a bat flying over me couple of times. Good yield.
@rrraksamam@twtxt.net there are plenty of under $400 laptops to chose from. Check Amazon, and filter “under $500”. Same applies to smartphones. Sadly, I don’t have a specific one to recommend because—and not trying to come across as a snob—I don’t “usually” buy cheap things. 😅
@movq@www.uninformativ.de yes, she spends 2.5/hours a day commuting, and her old (2010) SUV now runs at 21mpg (around 34km per 3.8litres). In the US everything is quite far apart. 😩
@@texto-plano.xyz milk, Pepsi, or whiskey? They will all quench my thirst.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de get a Nokia 6300 (https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_us/nokia-6300-4g?sku=16LIOW11A01). For $70 it is easy to buy one every 6 months, if it were to be really bad. :-) Heck, my wife’s SUV eats $70/week of petrol, so… one phone per month is just fine. LOL.
Arch, alpine or FreeBSD??
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Easier said than done. I really do want to have a phone for emergencies (and some people are only reachable via SMS, oddly enough). Maybe I can get away with buying a super cheap and super simple one.
More data contradicting the existence of “echo chambers”. As I’ve argued many times before, the concept of an echo chamber or information bubble is not real. The podcast below is an interview of an author of a study where they actually intervened and changed the information diet of 20,000 people (with consent!), then surveyed them after three months. They observed essentially no changes to the study subjects’ beliefs and attitudes. They also observed that the typical person, while they tend to gravitate towards people with similar political leanings, only get about 50% of their content from such like-minded people. They get the rest from neutral sources and maybe 20% from non-like-minded people.
Varied information diet + No change in attitudes when information diet is forced to be different = no echo chamber.
Battery in my smartphone died. Can’t be replaced. It’s roughly 3 years old.
Now I have to find a replacement, which annoys the hell out of me. 😒 (I checked the prices of Fairphone, PinePhone, Librem, but sorry, all way too expensive.)
@rrraksamam@twtxt.net for a good recommendation we are going to need more information. For the laptop, what would its intended use be? Do you need to run Microsoft Windows? Does it needs WiFi? Destination (for power outlets)? For the phone, do you need it to be “smart”? Physical, or software SIM? Do you want it to work where you are going (destination is needed)?
Details are in the pudding.
@shreyan@twtxt.net you know I’ve already done this right? 😁
@shreyan@twtxt.net Nice 👌
@rrraksamam@twtxt.net Raspberry Pi Laptop and dumb phone?