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install synaptic and your basically there man

What’s my basically there man? (Or should I say who is my basically there man?) I don’t think I’ve installed this. Is it like the Linux version of Bonzi Buddy?

</ smart arse little shit >

I don’t think you can have spreadsheets with multiple “sub sheets” (can’t think of an unambiguous name for them - basically the equivalent of browser tabs)

Pretty sure there’s no way to have graphical charts either.

It basically means dodging legal restrictions on investigation by using illegal (or at least inadmissible) means to obtain evidence, and once the police have it, they look for legal ways to get that same information.

So everywhere “has it”, the question is whether they use it. I don’t know if there’s reason to believe that EU police forces use such methods more or less than their US counterparts.

well yes exactly … in that realm of the unknown, our imaginations can run riot

it wasn’t that long ago that there were still dark corners of the earth - well, more like vast tracts of unexplored terrain - in the Amazon, deep in mountain ranges, or in icy tundra.

There dragons did roam, whilst flying demons did dart overhead, their ungodly shrieks turning the hearts of the bravest men to jello.

There are no secrets on the earth any more, so we have to look elsewhere to satisfy our lust for meaning and importance.

anything we don’t understand yet, that can be god… it used to be thunder, earthquakes, now it’s vast sheets of lifeless matter flooping around our intergalactic neighbourhood - progress I guess? 😁

if the number you registered with eventually gets recycled to someone who then uses it for Signal, will that affect your account?

I saw a really good rundown of this the other day on YouTube: “Presented by Joe Botting, independent palaeontologist and Honorary Research Fellow at the National Museum Wales”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8Q8plKJ8

a machine capable of running Wasteland 2

Is there even such a machine on God’s good earth? It’s definitely a good game, but absolutely blighted by instability & CTDs last time I tried it a few years ago.

I remember reading about the world’s oldest person at the time some years ago - French woman of 120 - she said her secret was eating 200 grams of chocolate a day. She also said she smoked for 30 years, starting when she was in her 60s and quitting when she hit 100.

I wonder what difference it makes when the user isn’t using English. They don’t mention that they aren’t considering this and don’t mention it on their How it Works page, but they do in the paper’s abstract: “Finally, our focus on English-language prompts overlooks the additional biases that may emerge in other languages.”

They do also reference a study by another team that does show differences in bias based on input language which concludes, “Our experiments on several LLMs show that incorporating perspectives from diverse languages can in fact improve robustness; retrieving multilingual documents best improves response consistency and decreases geopolitical bias”

The subject of how and what type of bias is captured by LLMs is a pretty interesting subject that’s definitely worthy of analysis. Personally I do feel they should more prominently highlight that they’re just looking at English language interactions; it feels a bit sensationalist/click-baity at the moment and I don’t think they can reasonably imply that LLMs are inherently biased towards “male, white, and Western” values just yet.

I never knew LLMs can run on such low-spec machines now! That’s amazing. You said elsewhere you’re using Qwen3-4B (abliterated), and I found a page saying that there are Qwen3 models that will run on “Virtually any modern PC or Mac; integrated graphics are sufficient. Mobile phones”

Is there still a big advantage to using Nvidia GPUs? Is your card Nvidia?

My home machine that I’ve installed ollama on (and which I can’t access in the immediate future) has an AMD card, but I’m now toying with putting it on my laptop, which is very midrange and has Intel Arc graphics (which performs a whole lot better than I was expecting in games)

At first blush, this looks great to me. Are there limitations with what models it will work with? In particular, can you use this on a lightweight model that will run in 16 Gb RAM to prevent it hallucinating? I’ve experimented a little with running ollama as an NPC AI for Skyrim - I’d love to be able to ask random passers-by if they know where the nearest blacksmith is for instance. It was just far too unreliable, and worse it was always confidently unreliable.

This sounds like it could really help these kinds of uses. Sadly I’m away from home for a while so I don’t know when I’ll get a chance to get back on my home rig.

my information might be out of date yeah! I’ve just skimmed their wikipedia which hasn’t helped clear things up! Seems they did have difficulties around 2011 - “After two decades in decline, Philips went through a major restructuring, shifting its focus from electronics to healthcare.”

Then, “On 29 January 2013, it was announced that Philips had agreed to sell its audio and video operations to the Japan-based Funai Electric for €150 million […] Funai was to pay a regular licensing fee to Philips for the use of the Philips brand.[59] The purchase agreement was terminated by Philips in October because of breach of contract[61] and the consumer electronics operations remained under Philips”

It’s a long wiki article with a hell of a lot of transfers and acquisitions, and it’s not clear how up to date some sections are. So I’m not sure what the current situation is.

Phillips is another one not on that list. European company that AFAIK have mostly resisted the enshittification urge.

mm yeah that happens… either that or you just get very good at standing about leaning on exercise equipment while staring vacantly into space

Same. This hardware keyboard is taking up potential screen real-estate.

If you want a hardware keyboard, just use a bluetooth one, you can get folding ones which fold up pretty small.

If you’re a firefox person, there’s an add-on called Peertube Companion which will convert peertube links to use your instance. So for me, that link takes me to peertube.wtf rather than peertube.gravitywell.xyz

Apparently it will also redirect you to your peertube instance when you watch a video on YouTube that also exists on peertube (I’ve never had this happen though! Not sure how it does the comparision - hashes I suppose?)

Ah ok that’s one I’d heard (the other being Day-see-ah like the other guy said). Glad to have it cleared up, thanks!

I didn’t even know Dacia was its own brand before Renault got it!

I’d love to know how you pronounce it though - specifically the ‘C’. Do you (i.e. Romanians) pronounce it like an S or a K or something else??

Yep. The rest of us switched to metric a long time ago.