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Paragone ,

Is his personal-information on the dark-web?

Is he saying that if his personal-information is on the dark-web, then it's perfectly-OK for everybody & their robot to be using it??

XOR is he saying that there are 2 kinds of law:

1 for protecting his entitlement,

the other for disallowing rights from the lives he consumes, through his beloved herd/corporation/pseudo-person?

( obviously, he's already answered the latter )

Paragone ,

Computational-Fluid-Dynamics simulations are RAM-limited, iirc.

I'm presuming many AI models are, too, since some of them require stupendous amounts of RAM, which no non-server machine would have.

"diminishing returns" is what Intel's "beloved" Celeron garbage was pushing.

When I ran Memtest86+ ( or the other version, don't remember ), & saw how insanely slow RAM was, compared with L2 or L3 cache, & then discovered how incredible the machine-upgrade going from SATA to NVMe was..

Get the fastest NVMe & RAM you can: it puts your CPU where it should have been, all along, and that difference between a "normal" build vs an effective build is the misframing the whole industry has been establishing, for decades.

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Paragone ,

umm, Hoomin, that was in the 1900's!

: P

Adobe to update vague AI terms after users threaten to cancel subscriptions (arstechnica.com)

Adobe has promised to update its terms of service to make it "abundantly clear" that the company will "never" train generative AI on creators' content after days of customer backlash, with some saying they would cancel Adobe subscriptions over its vague terms....

Paragone ,

Merely threaten .. ball-less cowards.

They will remain owned, then, possessed-carrion, instead of owning their own autonomy..

The frog in the slowly-heating-pot is us.

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AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chips (www.tomshardware.com)

In another attempt to convince us that "AI PCs" are somehow fundamentally different from the PCs we're already using, AMD has officially dropped support for Windows 10 from its new AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series platform. This can be observed by glancing at the official AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 specs page, which now only lists 64-bit...

Paragone ,

Put Puppy Linux https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/ on your older machines,

& Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Lubuntu/Xubuntu on your newer ones.

https://ubuntu.com/desktop

https://kubuntu.org/

https://lubuntu.me/

https://xubuntu.org/

or use UbuntuStudio, for a full audio-visual workstation..

https://ubuntustudio.org/

Problem Solved(tm)

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Paragone ,

& Microsoft is sooo soft-in-the-head as to believe that we ought trust them, after this,

& the previous fiasco,

& the one before that,

& https://search.theregister.com/?q=microsoft+security+privacy&site=

( you may need to go through a few hundred pages there, to see it all )

This is their DNA: it isn't going to change, now.

Paragone ,

My experience is that USB storage sometimes breaks-connection for no discernable reason.

That if one REALLY wants to do USB storage, then put it inside the housing, and don't use one of the external-connectors, use something you can permanently-fix, so nothing can even sneeze in its direction.

This mayn't help you with your puzzle, but it's bedrock and unchangeable, in my experience.

USB-storage is an unreliable joke.

ANY revision of it, that I've tried.

hth..

Paragone ,

No: once a corporate-culture gets sufficiently divorced-from-reality, then they "have their heads up their asses" sooo far, that they commit blunders unless they "get a reality-check".

Committee-culture's fungus-minded.

The problem is that the frame-of-reference is relative, so a corporate-culture which is still immersed in outer-customers' reality is only one "degree" divorced-from-reality.

However, if the "frame-of-reference" of a culture is other sociopathic cultures, .. then .. then outright psychopathy becomes recommended/pushed/evolved, in order to compete among the misperceived-context ( which is only other-sociopathies ).

So, it's an escalating positive-feedback-loop.

Sociopathy breeds sociopathy, & when enough of the corporate-frame-of-reference is sociopathy, then psychopathy becomes primary, & eventually it is normal & ruling.

The increasing polarization in political-sphere, in religion/fundamentalism-sphere, in moneyarchy-sphere, in legalism's increasingly shameless contempt-for & eradication-of moral/natural law, the increasing polarization of class-system/monarchy among those in-love with that, the bolder & bolder violent authoritarianism..

it's all part of the SAME gorgon/hydra, just that each "serpent" is going in its own direction, but the fundamental change in human-unconscious is one of "fuck considered-reasoning: I'm going with ideology-enforcing!!"..

it's less intellectually-taxing to be ideological/prejudiced "believer" than it is to remain loyal to considered-reasoning..

there's less moral-anxiety within ideology/prejudice/belief than there is in considered-reasoning..

Overwork unplugs one from the push/pull cycle, the work-hard/rest-deeply cycle, which considered-reasoning requires..

& Microsoft is only 1 single example of progressing-through-sociopathy-into-psychopathy among our countless corporate world-possessors.

DarkHexad dimensions of human-evil:

Narcissism / Machiavellianism / Sociopathy-Psychopathy / Nihilism / Sadism / Systemic-Dishonesty.

Can you see how the more one immerses oneself in DarkHexad as a means of "winning", the more one's frame-of-reference normalizes that all?

It's just "drift", but in frame-of-reference, is all..

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Does the form factor between 3.5" and 2.5" matter in a NAS server? (slrpnk.net)

Been finding some good deals on 2.5 disks lately, but have never bought one before. Have a couple of 3.5 disks on the other hand in my Unraid server. Wondering how much it matters wether I get a 2.5 or not? What form factor do you prefer/usually go for?

Paragone ,

Power-consumption.

Also, the vibration produced by the 2.5" drives is less, but they're more-sensitive to it, to begin with.

I'd not even consider spinning-platter drives, nowadays, though:

SATA SSD's for a NAS strike me as being the sanest choice.

Samsung what are those called, Evo drives?

excellently-high MTBF, ultra-short ( compared with rotating-platters ) seek-time ( literally orders-of-magnitude quicker ), etc.

I don't know of ANY reason to go with spinning-platters, nowadays.

( & I'm saying that as a guy stupid-enough to have not realized this in time, & who spent money on such a thing, when SSD's really were the answer )

Paragone ,

Realistically, it'll take 2 decades to hammer-out AI to the level that it's truly-mission-trustworthy.

Right now, everybody's "high".

It's the same with all technologies..

Remember a few years ago, when somegody discovered you could power things with steam?

Remember the hype?

The whole coal industry, remember that?

The business with the invention of the horseless carriages?

The invention of the wheel was before my time, but I'm sure it was hyped on Myspace or something, back in the day..

Paragone ,

The problem isn't "making the majority of it noise",

the problem is tossing-out the actual-noise, & compressing only the signal.

Without knowing what the actual-signal is, & just trying to send all-the-noise-and-signal, they're creating their problem, requiring 200x compression, through wrongly-framing the question.

What they need to actually do, is to get a chip in before transmitting, which does the simplification/filtering.

That is the right problem.

That requires some immense understanding of the signal+noise that they're trying to work on, though, and it may require much more processing-power than they're committed to permitting on that side of the link.

shrug

Universe can't care about one's feelings: making-believing that reality is other than it actually-is may, with politial-stampeding, dent reality some, temporarily, but correction is implacable.

In this case, there's nothing they can do to escape the facts.

EITHER they eradicate enough of the noise before transmission,

XOR they transmit the noise, & hit an impossible compression problem.

Tough cookies.

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Paragone ,

IF you want to create accountability among such arrogent tech executives,

THEN you need to enforce accountability, and 1 excellent way of doing it, would be to immediately, & permanently, ban the CEO of that company from having any right to any in-country right to purchase anything.

Force THEM to be subject to the abuse they enforce on "their inferiors", and .. oh, suddenly their motivations appear from "nowhere"??

Enforced-accountability against executives & oligarchs needs to be automatic, not "politically impossible, because they're the privileged ones, with real rights", the way our current dogshit for-profit manufactured "culture" insists.

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Paragone ,

USB-storage isn't reliable.

Period.

ANY fscking thing that bumps any connection, can break the dam link.

Then your kernel can re-label the device when it re-connects,

and you've got to reassemble your RAID.

just my experience.

use ANY other method you can, other than USB.

stick a SATA adaptor on there somewhere, if you can.

Get a different motherboard.

ANYthing, but not USB.

Paragone ,

I read that Scarlett's family & friends couldn't tell it apart from her actual voice.

I'd say that "Open AI" or whatever they're called, trained it specifically on only her voice.

The seems-narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopath-CEO whats-his-face tried to get her to agree to this,

she wouldn't agree,

he tweeted "her" when releasing the update ( after Scarlett's movie )

she lawyered up,

he backed down..

I'd say it's a clear case of identity-theft-for-profit of a celebrity, by a consistently narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopath who's kinda leaving lots of corpses of "integrity" all over the place.

There's some law which protects celebrities from use of their likeness, and rightly:

it's their "coin" that their career is made-of, right?

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Paragone ,

When a handful of monopolies decide that no factchecking will be seen by anybody, anymore,

and only profitable-to-their-dictatorship disinformation will be seen,

then humanity will not have any means of countering that:

it will be too late.

We are "the frog dropped into the slowly-heating pot of water".

People pretend that monopoly is "maybe" harmful, economically, but it is an existential-threat to countries, and with globalization, now to civil-rights as a valid-category.

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Paragone ,

Whether it's source is open or not,

has nothing to do with its licensing.

It's on a github repo: it's open-source.

Having an ideological-problem with people making a living off their code is independent of whether their code was honestly, actually, published, & therefore is actual open-source.

Paragone ,

iirc, Microsoft had some significant investment in Intel.

this is perfectly rational monopolist-cartel-protecting-monopolist-cartel behavior.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=microsoft%27s+investment+in+intel&t=fpas&ia=web

Paragone ,

Reliability's kinda high on my priority-list.

Try Samsung.

Nowadays I can't imagine using SATA for anything but archival storage ( get the fastest NVMe you can for your operating-system, and be stunned by how much quicker your machine is ).

Last time I was digging into stats, the reliability-rate for Samsung devices was much higher than that of Western Digital,

and the off-brands .. often are a bit of a bad-joke, for reliability ( Adata & Kingston, I'm looking at you, and will never trust such scum again ).

just my experience/opinion, is all.

Paragone ,

I remember somebody was doing 3D-woven composites, possibly for spacecraft, some years ago..

This is essentially the same idea, but with nanotubes.

This suggests that weaving reinforcement tow through the layers of the layup would be structurally-significant, if it were done densely-in-pattern, enough..

In aerospace, maybe it'd be structurally significant ( aircraft have, iirc, only a 10% margin in structural-strength, though that may be just the aluminum semi-monocoque builds )

Looking for the Perfect USB Flash Drive

I've been using some cheap flash drives for things like installing OSs and the like, but now I've picked up a Dell Wyse 3040 system to play with which only has 8gb of storage. So I'm installing the OS onto a flash drive permanently (don't worry, just for messing with, nothing of value will be lost if/when the drive craps out)....

Paragone ,

SanDisk usb-keys work.

You really want to use the thing for read-only, though, if you can:

the writes it takes to kill some portion of a filesystem, vs the writes you get before corrupting things, on a USB driver, don't line-up.

Use NVMe as your 1st-choice for storage ( future purchases, obviously ), the fastest you can get, and be stunned by how much faster the same motherboard is, with superfast OS storage..

I'd stick /home, not /usr, on the USB.

Paragone ,

IF JBOD, && Linux, THEN yes you can know, through SMARTTOOLS, or something like that..

However, I can't imagine how you'd get 2 separate PCIe

( presuming NVMe devices ..

.. no, this thing must be presuming SATA, NOT NVMe ..

even in SATA, there's no bifurcator for SATA, I don't think:

SAS has expanders, which can take a single SAS channel & attach something like 128 SAS devices onto it,

PCIe has some kind of equivalent, and there is a PCIe card which crams loads of NVMe's into it, out in the last year, but SATA??

Hmm... )

shrug

Paragone ,

I tried opening this post in a web browser,
& it tried downloading a binary onto my system??

When I tried reloading the page, instead of blank-page with some kind of underhanded downloading, it showed the post..

Not cool, but I've no idea who, or what, caused whatever it is that hit my browser, when I tried getting it to open this post.

Ingenious ways to measure power draw

So I wanted to get myself a Kill-a-watt. Being who I am, I wanted information regarding its accuracy, especially at low power draws. I found a comparison with a industry grade equipment (Fluke is about the best out there in handheld electrical meters). It’s not encouraging, so I thought about a more proper meter, but it’s...

Paragone ,

There was a youtube vid, testing multimeters, & there was a specific condition that produced wrong results in all the meters except Fluke, who had engineered to prevent that wrongness.

That was what decided me on trusting Fluke, in the future.

been years, no idea what channel it was on, sorry, but it should be findable for someone with patience, knowing that only the Fluke got it right, of the ones tested.

Do pay attention to the calibration-certificates, though:

Anybody paying for Fluke who ignores that their handhelds have no more than 2.5-digits of actual-accuracy, is foolish/incompetent.

( the cheap ones are sooo much worse.. )

Paragone ,

I am trying to lear basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript ( again, last learned HTML back in the 1990's, am using "JavaScript: The Good Parts" & other books ),

& have discovered that you can have, on the same phone/tablet, Termux/Nginx running,

you have to feed /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/nginx/nginx.conf the root-dir you want it to use

( which is actually in a proot-distro install, down below

/data/data/llcom.termux/files/usr/var/lib/proot-distro/installed-rootfs/ ... )

.. and then you can have your browser hit

http://localhost:8080/

and it'll grab index.html.

Notice that that is http, NOT httpS.

None of the browsers I've tried can get the default connection to localhost, because they all default to https, & nginx isn't serving https.

That wasted an entire fscking day, to discover.

Now learning can begin!

Paragone ,

I find it peculiar that everybody in this discussion is ignoring Hashicorp's stuff??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HashiCorp

I glanced at Proxmox vs Hashicorp's stuff, after seeing some discussions on here about 'em, & Hashicorp's stuff is oriented to clarity & simplicity.

Sorta Japanese take on it.

To me clarity is worth a significant amount of value.

Anyways, I'm just noting this, for anyone who's actually considering such things: I'm only a nobody who has avoided geeking for some years.

( :

Paragone ,

I have read that the actuality includes a loophole you didn't speak of:

Once someoen owns shares, they can privately-sell them, or give them away, or will them to someone..

Once enough people have done this, the "private" company becomes actually publically-traded, though not on any exchange..

..creating some legal difficulties, re regulations.

From that bit, which I never would have known to even consider ( some article I read, some years ago ), then it looks like people can sell their shares to another private-individual.

Maybe some jurisdictions prohibit that.

I don't know, I'm just identifying an angle people apparently haven't commonly considered.

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Paragone ,

hell.

Nikon's a boutique brand.

There goes RED.

Paragone ,

Thanks to this post, and the other comments in here, I've discovered that the ultimate ui for ai-models may well be

https://github.com/ParisNeo/lollms-webui

and on HuggingFace ( that name is aweful: to me it is the creepy-horrible FaceHugger, from the movie Alien, that I saw so many decades ago ) TheBloke has some models which are smaller

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/

so you can choose a model that will actually-work on your hardware.

I think Llama-2 for brainstorming & CodeLlama-instruct for learning programming examples seems to be the cleanest pair, from what I've read, and he's got GGUF versions with different quantizations, so you can choose what will actually-fit on your hardware.

There are other models on huggingface which seem very useful, like

  • whisper-large-v3 for speech-to-text,
  • whisperspeech for text-to-speech,
  • sdxl-turbo for image-making ( for some copyright-free subjects to practice drawing with ), and so-on..

Some models require GPU, not all.

Damn things moved fast!

Paragone ,

This should be under BOFH, for Bastard Operator From Hell, the Register concept..

yEEEks, people..

Paragone ,

This highlights an interesting point:

IF a platform hosts terrorism { white-supremacism, islamist supremacism, male-supremacism with its beloved domestic-violence "enforcement", communist-party machiavellianism, fascist machiavellianism, moneyarchist machiavellianism, etc. }...

and is able to hide that from the "majority"..

THEN they're doing good for the world, aren't they?

Hiding one's evils isn't what "doing good" means.

Not enforcing evil, is what doing good means.

Humankind'll walk, willingly, into its own slaughterhouse, for sake of the lollipops humankind's fed by the manipulators of the world.

That has been going-on for centuries.

Nothing's magically changing, surprise, surprise.

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Paragone ,

Yes you need to include ideology/prejudice ( 2 sides of same coin ) in training a new mind, BUT

  • you must segregate the thinking this way is good training-data from the thinking this way is wrong training-data, AND

  • doing that takes work, which is why I doubt it's being done as actually required, by any AI company, anywhere.

As Musk said about the training-stuff for their mythological self-driving neural-net, classification was too costly, so they created an AI to do it for them..

"I wonder" why it is that their full-self-driving never got reliable enough for release..

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Paragone ,

Damn.

Thank you VERY much for that insight: AI's version of Kessler-syndrome.

EXACTLY.

Damn, damn, damn, that gets the truth right in its marrow.

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Paragone ,

LLM's are not "machine learning", they are neural-networks.

Different category.

ML is small potatoes, ttbomk.

Decision-tree stuff.

Neural-nets are black-boxes, with back-propagation training of the neural-net to get closer to ( layer by layer, training-instance by training-instance ) the intended result.

ML is what one does on one's own machine with some python libraries,

ChatGPT ( 3, 3.5, or 4, don't know which ) cost something like $100,000,000 to rent the machines required for mixing the training-data & the model ( I'm assuming about $20/hr per machine, so an OCEAN of machines, to do it )

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Paragone ,

Sorry, not good advice:

plastics and paints are usually incompatible-chemistries.

ABS can be painted, but you MUST be careful about which solvents are in the paint, e.g.

There is no point in trying to paint polypropylene, e.g.

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Paragone ,

Have you see the permissions-rape of the Anker Soundcore app??

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Are there any genuine benefits to AI?

I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something...

Paragone ,

They are the greatest gift to solo-brainstorming that I've ever encountered.

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A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning (edition.cnn.com)

A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning::Days before a pivotal election in Slovakia to determine who would lead the country, a damning audio recording spread online in which one of the top candidates seemingly boasted about how he’d rigged the...

Paragone ,

We're going to have to put "circuit-breakers" on elections, if well-timed enemy-product like that can be significant.

Same as like we have 'em on the stock-market.

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Paragone ,

I read somewhere, years ago, that RAID6 takes about 2 cores, on a working server.

That may have been a decade ago, and hardware's improved significantly since then.

Bet on 1 core being saturated, min, with heavy use of a RAID6 or Z2 array, I suspect..

I'd go with software raid, not hardware: with hardware RAID, a dead array, due to a dead controller-card, means you need EXACTLY the same card, possibly the same firmware-revision, to be able to recover the RAID.

With mdadm, that simply isn't a problem: mdadm can always understand mdadm RAID's.

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Paragone ,

those who are lobbied will buy whatever argument they are paid to buy.

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Sphere in Las Vegas made $167.8M in revenue for first three full months | KSNV (news3lv.com)

Sphere in Las Vegas made $167.8M in revenue for first three full months | KSNV::KSNV NBC Las Vegas covers news, sports, weather and traffic for the Las Vegas, Nevada area including Paradise, Spring Valley, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Indian Springs, Sloan, Searchlight, Laughlin and Nellis AFB.

Paragone ,

and how many extra fatalities in traffic-collisions were there, around it, and were they worth the money?

Paragone ,

I'm in BTRFS, and wish I wasn't.

Booting into a failed mdadm RAID1 is normal,

whereas booting into a failed BTRFS RAID1 requires competent manual intervention, and special parameters given to the boot-kernel.

mdadm & lvm, with a fixed version of ZFS would be my preference.

ZFS recently had a bug discovered that was silently corrupting data, and I HOPE a fix has been got in.

Lemme see if I can find something on both of these points..

https://linuxnatives.net/2015/using-raid-btrfs-recovering-broken-disks

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/openzfs_2_2_0_data_corruption/

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Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study (www.livescience.com)

Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study::AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better...

Paragone ,

I hold that this is true of all neural-nets, organic as well as silicon:

Once a person has sided with treachery, rooting it out from one's unconscious-mind is .. enduringly difficult, if not intractable.

I don't know how many decades it takes to eradicate the roots of it, if it can be done, at all:

the unconscious-mind mechanism, that-is the Kahneman System-1 ( from "Thinking Fast & Slow" ) imprint is going to still be there, even if overlaid with another imprint ( since mind is holographic/pattern-imprints in function ).

Worse, it is the motivation that need change, and motivation is of ego, which is of identity, so many who "reform" only do-so superficially.

I'm not saying this as some goody-2-shoes, I'm saying this as a person who was raised by narcissists, and therefore embodied much narcissism, and class-prejudice ( dad was a doctor: you can't get more upper-middle-class status-prejudiced than doctor-culture )...

...who finally cracked the root kernel of the class-prejudice in my unconscious-mind's identity-crystal at the end of a 25d hard-line fast, out in the bush.

It took that to fracture the identity-crystal's prejudice.

It's been a decade since then, & I'm still fighting to eradicate its treachery from my nature.

Neural-nets are tough to purge, or clean-up & make upright.

MUCH easier to keep a neural-net pristine through all of its formation, than to try ( endlessly failing ) to clean it up, after it's become enemy-intent in "family" clothing.

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Paragone ,

Do you own a Yubikey?

Have you ever succeeded in getting it to work with anything??

It didn't work with gmail, or any other online account I had.

An absolute waste of $$.

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