hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de

A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I'm usually a chill

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Uh, I didn't know we could do strange things like that. 🙃 Here's a link to the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM

Oh wow, pretty extensive take on it. Thanks! Yes, the postmodern take on it is a bit weird. Especially the tech-bro part. I have no clue why dressing badly is a thing to do. The original nazis had fashionable uniforms designed by Hugo Boss. Seems the approach towards asthetics doesn't entirely translate to postmodern fascism fanboys.

And all the fake stuff... yeah pretty unfortunate how this is exactly what the malicious people need and it'll empower them. Some people have proposed to use AI for education and progress, but the unfortunate reality is, as is, it's just a 1000 times better at doing the opposite.

I think that GPU should be supported by CUDA 9.0 and it has some Vulkan 1.2? You'd need to install an old version (<=9.0) of the CUDA framework and find some software which is fine with that. But I had the same GPU in my old Thinkpad and it's just not very fast. I sometimes used it for some Portal2 or a few extra FPS on SuperTuxKart. But other than that it wasn't a gamechanger even compared to the iGPU. If it's too complicated, just do the calculations on the CPU, I don't think there will be a big difference. You could do video encoding on it (for old codecs), but the iGPU can do that as well...

Tja... Ja ich erinnere mich an die Artikel, dass sie einmal 99 Kinder mit dem Hubschrauber aus dem Kleinwalsertal gerettet haben. Und die ganzen Leute die mit Turnschuhen in alpinen Gebieten angetroffen werden und dann in Bergnot geraten, teils nach ausdrücklicher Warnung... Hatte da auch nichts mit OSM (oder KI) zu tun, teils aber mit Touren die andere Nutzer irgendwo beschrieben haben.

Die Leute mit seltsamen Schuhwerk hab ich auch schon gesehen. Und hier bei mir im Ruhrgebiet ist es natürlich schwieriger in Bergnot zu geraten. Dafür kann man den Typ dummer Mensch dabei beobachten wie sie über das Geländer vom Hochofen klettern um ein nettes Instagram-Foto direkt am Abgrund zu machen. Stört die auch nicht, dass das Metall jenseits der Geländer nicht gewartet wird und seit 40 Jahren fröhlich vor sich hin-rostet und schon komplett verwittert ist... Aber hey.

Wie wäre es mit KI-Geoguesser und einfach bequem Zuhause bleiben?

Gab's nicht inzwischen auch 2 heftige Bergrettungen weil Leute irgendeinen Quatsch aus dem Internet bekommen und das dann machen? Und Vorsicht auch mit KI Kinderbüchern, die gibt's auch als Schwemme auf Amazon. Und KI Kochrezepte im Internet...

I don't think the anti-science is about religion... That's from the fascist playbook. I mean for once fascists are opposed to modernity and everything that came with, and after, the Age of Enlightenment. Secondly they want the masses to be stupid and uneducated followers. So science is amongst the first things that have to go. Religion is a minor factor here. They're somewhat similar, but not the same. Trump likely doesn't believe in their old book. And he does this very thing because it's necessary to establish fascism. He'd need to do it even if it somehow made him lose support by religious people. I think that's more reflected in other Project 2025 stuff, like banning pornography...

Happy Holidays! Sinterklaas doesn't leave presents here in Germany, just treats, so... I got some chocolate.

• https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging
• https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/packaging-system.html

Yeah, the American political landscape is utterly unfit to deal with AI. There's two parties but both of them are big time into neoliberalism over regulation. And then the Republicans have the added difficulty of AI being a modern thing, but since they're made up of conservatives plus fascists, they're against modernism. They should be against it on ideological grounds. Yet AI is pushed by their rich peer group and those do big money with it. And it's a great tool for repression, works top-down and can be tuned to do a lot of nefarious stuff so they're also for AI.

Which base model does it use?

Vor allem war er seiner Zeit echt voraus. In dem Jahr (in dem das Buch veröffentlicht wurde,) wurde das wissenschaftliche Paper "Attention is all you need" geschrieben. Und es waren noch 5 Jahre bis ChatGPT...

If you just want something simple that does the job, you can try a turnkey solution like YunoHost. There's several other ones out there. Some with containers, some with more or less pre-packaged software... If you want to learn more during the process, maybe don't and do it yourself because these things don't teach you a lot. There's some resources like the awesome-selfhosted list in the sidebar of this community. But I think for installing services you'd mainly look at the specific documentation of the specific service you're just about to tackle. And maybe read up on Docker containers etc to judge whether you want to do it that way.

Ha, stimmt. Ja manchmal wenn ich KI irgendetwas machen lasse komme ich mir auch so vor als hätte ich einer 6-Jährigen den Auftrag gegeben den Zeitungsartikel für mich zusammenzufassen und dann kommt eine ziemlich abenteuerliche Interpretation heraus. Mit dem Unterschied, dass bei KI alles sprachlich perfekt und hochgestochen klingt und mit Inbrunst vorgetragen wird.

Good questions. I'm afraid I don't have good answers to them... I didn't experience a peak either, but that might have happened on Mastodon and I don't really follow that. Or it's some fluke in the data like the lemm.ee thing, I really don't know. Seems a bit early for the lemm.ee diaspora, as far as I remember most people migrated 2-3 months later. But with that said, my own experience doesn't include any major uptake either. It's roughly stayed the same for me. There is some variation with different communities, though. And there might be some overall more engagement with the comments. And there definitely are those quieter phases during summer. (And PieFed has been growing a lot. Which might skew my perspective, because I try to be more active in that part of the Threadiverse.)

The "developer of Mastodon leaving the sinking ship" thing isn't because of translation. That reads the same way in German. I think it's supposed to be a dramatic, sensationalized opener for the article. Certainly a tad much but that seems to be their writing style. They're raising a lot of questions or take a potshot at somebody or something and then move on. I let that slide because the entire article is obviously an opinion piece. And it's supported by anecdotal evidence plus mostly by this one statistic... (And the numbers aren't clear to me either, but that was the reason why I posted this here and wanted to discuss it...)

Very good point. I mean they're also not against the Second Amendment. Just every other one. They'll come up with some "logic" though. It's probably someone's LGBTQ+ neighbour's dog at fault or the immigrants. War crimes are fine if committed by someone with a MAGA hat and they'll demand death penalty if it's a democrat. And before we get to discuss the logic behind this, there will be the next fresh fuss whipped up and burying this. Like this one is probably again some bullshit to cover the Epstein files or whatever.

Well, that's the thing with these people. They're against the constitution in any and all regards. That's why they want to abolish free speech, due process, the congress... And it's more than that. They want violence and expedite the apocalypse. That's why they escalate violence, send masked men to spread terror on the streets. Do more illegal stuff every day than any legal system can cope with. The goal is doomsday and to make the system collapse. Motivation for that is different between the current politicians, billionaires, people full of hate and plain evil people... But the constitution is the first and obvious thing which has to go - for all of them. And currently there's a broad coalition of powerful and rich people manifesting it for the USA.

Be careful in case you're planning to do a RAID 0 on the two 6GB drives in the MyCloud. If either of the two drives fail, you'll lose your multimedia files on the still intact drive as well. I'd use them individually (JBOD?). Or just buy one 12TB drive, that's about the same cost and you'll get a spare disk slot for later upgrades. If you were to do RAID1, nevermind what I just said. That's fine.

Not sure which harddisks to recommend, though. I mostly buy what seems to be the best cost/performance ratio, or whatever is on sale at that time no matter if it's Samsung, Toshiba or WD... And be wary when comparing prices. There's a lot of refurbished, used hdds on the market... Don't get tricked into buying a re-certified hdd for the price of a new one.

I rule Clueless Mod as well. To be fair, they're usually doing a very good job in that community.

I've used a Dropbear SSH server in the initramfs for a while to unlock my server:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Remote_unlocking_of_root_(or_other)_partition
• https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Verschl%C3%BCsseltes_System_via_SSH_freischalten/ (German)

Other possibilities include using the TPM module, a USB flash drive with a keyfile on it... A KVM / remote management module which is part of server and enterprise hardware anyway...

The latter is probably the easiest and most reliable solution.

There's good use-cases for encryption on servers. Especially if other people have physical access to the location. Or it's at home and a robber could steal it. Or you'd need a kill-switch to just turn it off and the encryption at rest kicks in... You don't need to overwrite harddisk several times on replacement, or whip out the power tools to drill holes in it once it's e-waste. And I have a lot of personal data on my server. Emails, my phone and laptop sync to it so there's all my private photos, scans of paperwork and half of my life stored on the NAS. So of course I'm going to protect that. And of course it's related to selfhosting because we have all kinds of sensitive information stored on selfhosted servers.

I think the article does a good job in explaining what correlation is (later on). Somehow these two things are linked. It'd be intriguing to hypothesize this is why it's like that. And I think it would make a lot of sense. It's just that there is no solid evidence (yet) to draw a conclusion. Could be like that. Could also be an example where something seems obvious, but it's not. So... I think this is a very good point. And likely a good working hypothesis (Edit: or null hypothesis) for future research.