The cascadia #Meshcore is looking awesome.

Local #meshcore folk: check this out (and enable the Audio checkbox 🙂):

https://cascadiamesh.org/map/

my favourite part about open source is where you can’t contribute unless you subject yourself to using github and other corporate services.

I think about 90% of peoples problems with AI would go away if it wasnt being controlled by the absolute worst people for the absolute worst reasons, at the expense of everyone, while stealing everything….

LLMs are good tools, but anything these corporations do with it is the product of massive theft and exploitation and thats why so many people have such an averse reaction to it.

Take away the capitalism-demands-infinite-growth motive to LLMs and instead of data centers being build off a massive pyramid scheme of IOUs you’d have open community projects refining LLMs to make them more efficient and less demanding, but that’s not what drives hardware sales for Nvidia, so its not what the market wants.

Do you think Microsoft understands consent?

I’ve added Gitea and a handful of Nostr related services to GravityWell.xYz

fuck off.

imagine if windows required you to wait 24hrs before you could install programs outside of the MS store.

your phone is a computer, and this is an anti-competitive move that has the intentional side effect of incentivizing consumers to install apps from google instead of other markets.

“you can’t do this!”

“but i’ve always been able to do this!”

waits a year

“fine, but now you have to wait 24 hours because because because i said so!”

“oh! well in that case, i guess it’s not so bad!”

everyone that is happy about this is an easily manipulated buttbrain

after about 25 years of Midnight Commander I think I might finally be ready to make the switch to something new. Superfile is enough of an improvement that i’m willing to learn new hotkeys to use it.

I do think whenever this whole AI Bubble does pop we will end up with some very legit and useful applications for LLMs. They just wont be the sort of uses you’d be able to put directly into production without an amount of human oversight equal or greater to the amount of money you’d save by “eliminating” lower skilled workers. Like maybe you can hire less people maybe, but the people you do need will be much more expensive.

Putting this up front, I am NOT pro-AI… I’m just lazy and LLMs are very useful if you are lazy.

This is so far one of the best uses for #LLMs i’ve found, having it figure out the mess of issues that come up when attempting to compile random shit I don’t have the time nor desire to troubleshoot myself.

Here is an example, I am checking out Nostr clients and this one called gossip has an AUR package, but it failed in building for some reason and ran into multiple issues some of which i could probably have figured out myself but others I’d have just given up on and probably written off even trying the software. I told GeminiCLI

do the needful to complete the compilation and creating of package for gossip nostr client archlinux package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gossip

So it does what’s needed and solves each issue as it comes up. So far I’m 2 for 2 with fixing AUR packages this way.

I am really digging #Nostr but man, if you though having to pick a host instance on Fedi was complicated, its nothing compared to the clusterfuck of apps and services that you’ll find on Nostr.

If any other users have suggestions on clients to check out, or users to follow I’m all ears. So far I’ve deployed my own relay, setup my own instance of Primal, Nostrudle and Floatilla. I’m using Amethyst on mobile which is my favorite so far.

Today I learned how to backup my entire VPS disk image with dd over ssh. The plan is to then boot it in qemu for testing and breaking things.

sudo dd if=/dev/vda bs=4M conv=noerror,sync | pv | zstd -T0 | ssh gravitas@10.8.0.2 "zstd -d | dd of=/storage/zion_vda.img bs=4M"

Free Speech wins!

https://www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-trial-verdict-rapper-wins-lawsuit-cops-music-videos/

Afroman won a jury verdict Wednesday (March 18) clearing him of wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed by seven Ohio police officers, who claimed the rapper defamed them by releasing music videos that mocked them after a failed raid on his home.

The verdict came in an unusual lawsuit filed by members of an Ohio county sheriff’s department over songs and social media posts by Afroman (Joseph Foreman) that harshly criticized the guns-drawn 2022 raid on his property, which yielded no charges.

successfully migrated from Nginx Proxy Manager to Traefik tonight.

Wish i had done it before i had 50+ services and 30+ subdomains, but better late then never. The main advantage to this over NPM is traefik has better integration with docker and can use labels to setup the subdomains automatically instead of having to manually setup each subdomain in nginx.

The Afroman Trial is going great, his lawyer is making these cops look like complete fools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwNFjm3mWk

Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.

My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead.

A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.

This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification of everything, the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.

May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.

LATER EDIT: I’ve been thinking, and I do realise this good experience isn’t necessarily what happens for everyone. It’s still the case that too many good people don’t find a welcoming place here, especially if they are queer or of color. If this is you, know that I see you, and that I will always try to be welcoming and listening, even if you have things to say that bring me discomfort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37H88vcOSfo

Oh man this Afroman Trial is lit, almost feel bad for the one lady cop, but not really.

dude cmon, take a picture of your ID. it's not a big deal just upload your ID to the computer. bro don't be weird, just take your social security card and tape it to your forehead. what are you, a pedophile? mail a notarized copy of your birth certificate to chipotle headquarters

don't you get it? the only way to make sure children are safe is for you to put your genome sequence in your ad reads on youtube. bro cmon. look. i've mailed you a usb-c blood test. upload the results to www. hitler .com or i'm IP banning you from spotify

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I setup a web page with a photo timeline of my former cat Mew. I really miss him, its been 12 days since he’s gone.

https://mewbuttpie.neocities.org