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Yeah, It’s a weak point anyway. While the graphs aren’t detailed research, there’s also no reason to believe dbzer0’s perspective on the same network includes 8 times as many new users as LW for some reason. Or all the users in their communities have 8x worse karma for some external reasons. So we probably need further research.

It’s the “anarchist” mindset 🫣

Yes. As far as I know, any gguf file should be completely safe. There had been some bugs/security vulnerabilities early on in llama.cpp, but they fixed that and I think overall, they have a good track record.

Issues might come after that, if you run some Agents on top of it, and give them access to your computer. But you don’t have to do that. If you just talk to it, I don’t see any reason to be alarmed. Other than the usual stuff. Keep using your own brain once in a while, and don’t blindly trust what AI Chatbots tell you, they give inaccurate information all the time 😅

I’ve never heard that story. I think they might be hallucinating or trolling. Of course if you pull random Docker containers or execute some Github project to try new AI, you’re running other people’s code, and that could do arbitrary things…

But that’s not what we do. Usually, we download models in safetensors format, or gguf. And those are specifically designed to prevent this very thing, and not contain executable code.

Tools and MCP servers are a different story. Once you give your LLM access to the internet, it …well… has access to the internet. It mostly does what it’s supposed to do. But there’s occasional stories how someone’s AI Agent deleted all their email. Or reproduced some scifi story tropes and tried to use the internet to blackmail their user. AI can also make mistakes. Like you tell it to write a software project and it accidentally includes your password and API key. Or tell private information about you to other people if you grant it generous access to everything. The news about OpenClaw is full of hilarous anecdotes about things going wrong.

I didn’t have any luck with some uncensored Qwen 3.5 either. It always reasons about the guardrails. And it leans towards weaseling itself out of the situation. And the 3.5 version goes on for 1500 tokens anyway, just to think about how to respond to “Hello”.

I didn’t do a lot of LLM stuff lately. I’m also looking for a new local model which isn’t censored nor a sycophant, nor overly verbose and repetetive. But I guess I see that with a lot of models. And lots of the supposedly uncensored ones will give you the kids version of a murder mystery story, because they’re still averse to violence, conflict, taboo and all kinds of things.

And a lot of internet recommendations are older models from at least a year ago?! At least I didn’t find any perfect fit (yet).

I think there’s two concurrent, but different definitions of the word Fediverse. One means, software that can speak the ActivityPub protocol. And the other one means, social media service which is able to interconnect between different websites.

The first one is more useful if you want to use it and know whether it connects you to your friends on Mastodon and the other big ones. The latter is the more technical definition and includes older protocols as well, as well as newer ones and alternative approaches to form a network in a certain way. I guess it’s the more correct one. But it doesn’t tell you a lot as a user. Maybe technically it can exchange your user statuses but nobody uses it so you can’t really do anything with it in reality. Or there’s two approaches and you were talking about a different manifestation than somebody else, and you’re both federated but not part of any compatible ecosystem.

Laptops are designed to be fairly power-efficient. I don’t know what yours does. But mine goes down to only a very few watts if idle and the display is switched off. There’s the Linux tool “powertop” which shows power consumption and it can also tune most components to go to low power. Sometimes there’s also a power profile setting. That shouldn’t be on “performance” or anything like that. I don’t think Linux has more to offer, except sleep with wake-on-lan.

Uh, it is a bit more involved. The Arch Wiki has a lengthy article on it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wake-on-LAN

Basically, you’d enable it in your BIOS/firmware. Make sure it’s enabled in the network driver. And then you need to figure out a way to send such a magic packet. You can make your router or another device in the network send it. Or do a port-forward or send it through a VPN.

Sure, I’m not debating that. And there’s other ways to destroy or impede (with) something to generate attention towards it. Sorry for getting political here, but other example that comes to my mind is how people supposedly cut cable ties of the German train system to draw attention to the cause of climate politics. It is massively annoying for all commuters, and people who are already on board for a more enviromentally friendly way to get to work. Because now everyone is 2h late, except people with a car. And I always question the validity of it.
But ultimately it’s completely unclear who does it. Could very well be people trying to make climate activists look bad in some false-flag-operation. And in this instance (post deletion) I’m willing to believe it’s genuine.
But the gist of it is the same… Is it going to archieve the long-term goal? Because the short- and mid-term way of working is, you’re being destructive to tear down the remaining good things about something faster, so it eventually is going to have to get replaced… And I’m more on board with, focus on direct constructivism. For example I just left Reddit and went here. And I’m somewhat happy the crowd working towards something is more pronounced than the people immediately trying to destroy it as well. I mean theoretically we probably should - by that reasoning. I’ve seen the AI scrapers hammer my Fediverse instance, too.

I use my homeserver for it. It’s located in the broom closet and on 24/7. But there’s ways to do it with a laptop. You can inhibit standby and let it run contunuously. Or configure Wake on Lan and wake it up before you use it… I mean a switched-off computer obviously can’t do any computation.

Uh. I hate the power deleters. It mainly makes conversation worse for the remaining humans on Reddit.

And the office files, PDFs, html pages etc should be fairly easy to implement. There’s a plethora of tools like markitdown or docling, designed mostly for AI to read files by a one-liner like markitdown file.pdf.

Maybe have a look at Forgejo’s issue tracker as well: “Forgejo for enterprise #308”
I believe that’s pretty much your question. (And for example the linked managed option is from Switzerland.)

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/308

My bad. Sorry. You’re right of course. I think next to Forgejo, there’s Sourcehut as well. AFAIK they’re based in the Netherlands. I occasionally see some projects there. They have a paid service, aimed at “hackers” which wouldn’t exclude commercial use as per my understanding… But I’m not sure. And the software is fairly minimal compared to Forgejo, so I’m not sure if that fits your bill either.

There’s GitLab.com who advertise to commercial organizations. And I guess if you like Forgejo, you might want to have a look at other public instances here: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/delightful-forgejo#user-content-public-instances

I found some info here: https://ageverification.dev/

But that’s difficult to read, very technical. And mostly written from the user perspective. It looks to me like they’re (for once) trying to come up with a proper solution. Everyone can be an Attestation Provider, Relying Party or repurpose the white-label App. At least in theory. It’s all specified and in the open. And then the European Union contributes some list of trustworthy Attestation Providers (governments, banks, mobile network providers…)

I think due to the project structure, it’ll be more like the Covid-Certificate App, which could be customized by every member state and it’s theoretically possible to use it as one uniform solution.

So unless there’s some certification for “Relying Parties” which I missed while skimming the documentation, I’d say in theory it’d be possible to use it on a technical level. Of course it’s still a preview so the EU has lots of opportunity left to mess it up.

Does the App allow random platforms to do verification? Or do we need to be some registered business, do contracts, likely pay for the service…? For the App to speak to our instances?

To be fair, you accumulated most of the downvotes (I see) in a single post and the attached comments. You got two things at the same time: the unpopularopinions community tends to be harsh. From my experience I’d say you get way more downvotes there, than in other communities. And secondly, you picked one of the two super controversial topics. Brace for downvotes if you post about AI. Or Israel. Dunno if the latter toned down a bit, or if I’ve unsubscribed from enough communities since.

It’ll be better with almost all other topics.

Not sure if I’d go straight for “silencing”. I mean the post and most comments are still there. So it’s just that you got a lot of backlash. But I can still read what you wrote. And you got quite some engagement. But I get what you mean.

And down-votes are a bit weird. We never agree if they mean bury the content somewhere at the bottom. Or if it means " I disagree with what you wrote". That just gets lumped together. And some people use them sparingly, some hand out a lot of downvotes. Which I guess could be fine if they’re used to for the frontpage ranking to sort the posts. But the way we use them doesn’t really give them the right weight.

And by the way, I’m not sure if I like up-votes either. You’ll get 300 of them for re-posting a meme. And 3 upvotes for coming up with really good advice to someone’s question.

Yeah, me too. For some hobbies there just isn’t a lot of activity.

We have some regular pc gaming communities:

• !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
• !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
• !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
• !factorio@lemmy.world
• !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
• !zocken@feddit.org

And some about tabletop games:

• !tabletop@beehaw.org
• !dnd@lemmy.world
• !scifi@ttrpg.network

Not sure if there’s more, that’s about the ones I’m aware of. Lemmyverse.net has a few more: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=gam

Well, previously we had LemmyNSFW. That one died, pretty much out of the blue. Now the second admin(?) of it launched FediNSFW as a successor. We have that - for now - I guess? They said they’re gonna try to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen again.

But I guess it’s still a single point of failure. If they don’t properly ensure there’s several people who own the domain and hosting infrastructure, can administer the contracts, server etc, it might still be down to one person and their ability to keep it up. And if there’s legal troubles, uncertainty, not enough donations, law changes or the hoster or Cloudflare pulls the trigger, that might be the end of all of it as well. A severe technical issue/mistake could also take down a singular instance. And due to the delicate nature of NSFW content, they probably can’t afford to be 100% transparent with us, so I wouldn’t know whether they’re in a healthy place or not.

I mean there’s nothing wrong with FediNSFW’s existence. I just think it’s massively questionable to all bet on the same horse, and then call us the “Fediverse”, a decentral platform…