hendrik

I think the way lots of projects handle something like that is to add a plugin system to the main project, and then offer it as a plugin in a different repo.

No specifications of the chips?

Just make it a good amount of buttons. Not 500 that all look and feel the same. And it’ll be alright. My car is old and has very few buttons. Plus a radio and 3 large knobs to control the AC. I think that’s the best concept. I don’t even have to look at them most of the times, because it’s not that many similar ones.

Barf. “I’m a mawg! Half man, half dog. I’m my own best friend.”

Well, there are a few communities automatically listing new communities and growing communities. Some people have an eye on them, or scroll through the All feed. They might notice on their own. Example: !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

But you need some good content in your community for people to want to subscribe to you. If it looks empty or has maybe one post… It won’t attract people.

So foster your community and add some content. Do that regularly for some time.

What also helps is crossposting.

And you might want to engage in communities like !fedigrow@lemm.ee

I like to learn by reading regular old books. There should be plenty availible. Some textbooks, beginners books for hobbyists, some that go along with some experiment box… Starting with what is Ohm’s law to how does an amplifier work, flip-flops / whatever. I borrowed and/or bought some books about Arduino, because that’s something I like more than analog circuits. I have one that is focused more on the programming part, but there are books with like 80 Arduino projects. You could try Fritzing or the official website for material and project ideas. But my current life-hack is visiting the library or buying a book that teaches things in a structured way. Unfortunately I can’t give specific recommendations. My books are old and not in English.

And another bit of advice, don’t do it like me and start like 40 complicated projects and have them all unfinished in some drawer. There aren’t really bad consequences with that approach, but I suppose it’s more healthy to at least stay a bit focused. And don’t get disappointed by starting some projects that are way above your head. You’ll get there but it takes some time and effort.

Sounds like you’re blocking the servers which are supposed to push the notifications to you?! I think that’s called Google Cloud Messaging.

You’d need to figure out which blocklist you enabled that does this. And either disable it, or add an entry to your allowlist.

Or do away with GCM and set up your own push provider like ntfy and additionally use apps from F-Droid that support this different push provider.

Edit: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForAndroid/issues/3486 and there are several other bugreports. Also make sure you’ve disabled battery optimization for the Unbound(?) app.

I really don’t know what to recommend to other people. I use opennic.org for DNS. And I don’t use any tunnels, I just do port forwarding on my router. I have an internet connection that allows that.

Well, not using Cloudflare would make us all rely a bit less on a single company that already dominates the internet. And it’d make them unable to theoretically mess with your traffic and snoop on your data. Other than that… I don’t think you’re missing out on features.

Practically none of the open source AI models are open source. At least not in the sense that term is used for software. Some people try to apply the word to AI models or just use it as a buzzword. It doesn’t mean you get the source to recreate it (the dataset in this case). And they also restrict use in different ways. Open Source in the AI world just means you’re able to download the weights and do inference on your own hardware. And you can do it with this model. Yet the license contains quite some limitations. I think we should stop using the term open source for AI before it loses all it’s meaning.

That doesn’t mean they’re all licensed the same. Some are licensed under a proper free software license and while you usually still don’t get the dataset, you get all the freedoms to use/run, share and modify the models to your liking.

Silly license. Can be used worldwide, just not within the European Union where I live… (But it’s the same with Meta’s most recent models. The Llama 3.2 usage policy also contains a clause like that.)

We should really get some proper AI policy out.

Yeah, we’ll have to see about that. In reality even paying with regular money is to cumbersome for people. They rather watch ads.
Let alone starting with crypto, installing software, getting a wallet, money exchanged, … The majority of people isn’t going to do that just to watch porn.

So in theory this might be an idea to circumvent that. In practice, it’s never going to happen. At least as I see it. Or are there any successful companies who rely on Monero to have their goods payed? And I don’t mean like 0.5% of their turnover, but a substancial amount.

Yes, as the other people pointed out, that’s what I mean. The standard Linux software RAID (also called MD RAID)

• https://wiki.debian.org/SoftwareRAID
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/RAID

It’s proven, battle-tested, pretty robust and you don’t rely on any specific vendor formats or any hardware for that matter. The main point would be to keep it simple. You could use BTRFS or ZFS or all kinds of things. But it only introduces additional complexity and points of failure. And has no benefits over a plain mirror (what the RAID1 does) if we’re talking about just 2 devices. At least it served me well in the past. Contrary to cheap hardware RAID controllers and also BTRFS which also let me down once. But a lot of development went in to that since then and the situation might have changed. But mdraid is reliable anyways.

Debian and the standard linux mdraid?

This is a lot more about posting the news than engaging in discussions with substance. I miss personal stories and lots of crazy hobby projects.

It’s pretty tame here, though. I’m used to forums with lots of Linux nerds and software developers. Loving to discuss technology and questioning the status quo. On Lemmy that’s pretty toned down. I think it leans more to the average in society. Which surprises me, considering this is a niche place on the internet.

Does anyone know how the base (/foundation) model works? Up until now they always released one instruction tuned variant and one base model. Is it the same for the 405B model? And if yes, does that base model refuse to do things? Because I read some people claiming the new Llama 3.1 is more restricted than the versions before. But this shouldn’t apply to a base model. It’s just the instruct-tuned variants that are aligned to some “guardrails”. I’m confused. Do people use the wrong model? Or has something changed?

For sure. That’s going to be interesting. I mean at first the internet was for academics, students and smart people. Then it was the wild west. Now it’s long become integral part of society and everybody is on the internet. I think as of now it’s mainly big companies who “own” the place. My issue with that is mainly that they do with our personal info as they please. And their business tactics. Like Spotify ripping off artists, YouTube not really caring about the creators and their well-being. Everything is about ads and commercialized to the extreme. And the internet wasn’t always like this. But all of that is a slightly different story.

In the end, we have to apply our laws also to the online world. We can’t have that be a separate space. But laws are for single countries and have borders. The internet doesn’t. I sometimes see people wanting to introduce borders into the internet and make it more national. I think that’d break everything. The internet is supposed to connect us. And our world is globalized.

But we’re also not making an effort in the first place. Gambling, porn and all that unwelcome stuff is just hosted abroad. Doesn’t matter if 100% of the customers are somewhere, the company is just allowed to be ran from some small island and then it’s fine. We could just ban that in my opinion. I’m not a big fan of DNS blocking or messing with internet traffic, so we’d have to come up with a good technical solution. And I think the USA, the EU and Canada would be able to agree on some consensus regarding the protection of minors and that’d spread and affect most of the world.

Or we just go for their money. You can’t circumvent and run one of the largest online platforms without money. If all American and European comanies wouldn’t be allowed to advertise there, that’d solve the issue pretty quick. And we already had that. I think Visa or some other payment provider said they’d have to cease service if they continue not doing anything against revenge porn and exploitation and copyright infringement. That lead to all major porn platforms making account verification for the actresses mandatory and removing lots of amateur stuff and pirated videos. So that definitely works.

And I always hate if people let LLMs just spread loads of misinformation. In this log they’re talking mainly about facts. And Llama as an LLM just makes up a lot of things that are just wrong. The first few paragraphs are on point. But they’re followed by several pages of misinformation. If you just put that out there without commenting that it’s mainly false, that’s not acceptable. At least that’s why I downvoted it.

Roleplay (text adventures), a (stupid but occasionally funny) dungeon master, translation and help with creativity. These are the use cases I found. If you don’t need that, you might get rid of it.