Passwords were a mistake.

That’s quite interesting, thank you! So for an instance to manipulate votes, they’d have to stream a bunch of fake events.

I know nothing about Lemmy’s architecture, but how does my instance tally votes on a post from another instance?

Does it trust that instance? Does it only take into account votes cast on itself? Does it ask every federated instance for their vote totals?

You can get pretty far with a stack of 5090s and llama.cpp with split mode graph (or so I’ve heard, I’ve never tried), or AMD’s unified memory CPU thing.

It’s not as good as data centre grade stuff, but it’s not nothing either.

Same, pretty much. It is possible though, which makes LLMs a more democratic technology than, say, nuclear reactors.

That’s kinda my point. Roads are a useful technology, but they can be used by fascists.

I’m not here to argue for or against LLMs in general, but self-hostable AI is a thing. Actually open AI is a thing.

A blanket statement saying about AI as a whole technology being good for fascism is about as useful as saying “roads are good for fascism” (they’re great for troop movement after all).

Huh, I hadn’t heard about that! Honestly seems useful, and if it’s only the engine, I don’t see how crypto bros are relevant.

If there’s some “pay to unblock” scheme, that’s a different story.

What are they doing with cryptocurrency now?

The article seems to imply the compost was added to both the plants with/without the fungi?

Definitely cheating in the “can we grow plants?” department, but still useful information.

Proposing a fix is better than no fix? I didn’t know it was possible, and now I’m looking into it.

Changing the default is a social issue, so of course it’s more difficult than changing one’s current setting.

They aren’t using git as a database, they’re using it as revision history. The database is whatever they decide to store in git. For crates.io, for example, they use JSON files in directories.

If you put an sqlite database in git, you are wouldn’t say “git is the database”, and that’s true here too.

That said, yeah, you shouldn’t roll your own database. Take your source code (JSON from crates.io) from git, and compile it into an sqlite file (for example) for download.

Is Netflix evil these days?

I think a heat gun would probably work, as suggested elsewhere. A hot surface might transfer its texture to the print?

Oh! I wonder if your printbed could get hot enough to do it?

Otherwise, yeah, 220 -> 400 -> 600 -> 1000 -> 2000 -> 4000 -> 8000 -> 10000 grit might do it.

I’ve polished to a practically mirror shine with progressively finer and finer grit sandpaper. Took an eternity. Worked for the purple I was using, but it might not work for all colours.

I’ve also tried heating PETG with a butane lighter out of pure frustration. It does work, but the line between restoring the surface finish and deforming the print is very thin.

Ew, gross.

Isn’t mattermost GPL’d?

I don’t know creality, but have you checked your first layer calibration and bed levelling?

The fact that scams persist on blockchain is an unfortunate side effect of the whole uncensorable thing…

I see you have never driven behind a pickup truck on a gravel road.