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scrubbles OP , 2 months ago

I am on Linux. I just posted about what Windows users are saying.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Text-generation-webui my friend

https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Oh yes, maybe I misunderstood what you were asking. This is the server that will host the models and the API, it also has a nice interface.

So by local I mean local to the server, you can run it somewhere else and not put the models on your local computer, but yes the server will need them.

You can then use other apps to connect with it. That's what I consider self hosting, hosting the whole thing soup to nuts

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Comes with a very narrow way of thinking, when you literally can't understand why someone disagrees with you, and have no ability to empathize with their points.

I understand conservative viewpoints, and I empathize why they feel the way they do. (Usually fear of the unknown and change). That doesn't mean I agree with them at all, but I understand why they think that way. A lot of people cannot do that, and refuse to learn why the other side thinks that way.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

I don't know, you tell me. Empathize with their side and tell me what do you think they think. Not propaganda, not talking points, what do you think the other side thinks. Honestly. They obviously have a reason they think that way, what do you think their reasons are?

scrubbles , 2 months ago

God, remember when links to pictures of monkeys were selling for millions and rubes ate it up?

scrubbles , 2 months ago

No man, it's still worth that much! As long as I don't sell and realize the losses I'm in the green!

scrubbles , 2 months ago

THANK YOU.
As a dev (non video games but dev in general), I get to make like, 2% of business decisions. The days of devs being in charge of that stuff ended decades ago.

Suits come in, tell devs what to make. Devs say "That's going to be shit" or "That's impossible on modern hardware". Suits say "Just do it!", go to a steak dinner with the marketing team, and devs are left to actually do the goddamn work.

I 100% Guaran-fuckin-tee that always online singleplayer was a business decision forced on the devs. As for updates and optimization, I'm guessing every dev knows it runs like shit but has been denied delaying it by suits telling them to quit slacking, or something equally stupid like them contracting out 50% of the work to a team who has no idea what they're doing.

They want us using "Game Dev" because it keeps the heat on the programmers. Make this about "Game Companies" or "Game publishers" and it fits perfectly.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Conservatives are now learning that global trade involves the rest of the globe

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Hover Mice!

scrubbles , 2 months ago

There are a handful of use cases I've seen generative AI be useful

• Searching
• Partner programming (how do I...)
• Chatbot (as a novelty thought, gets boring quick, and the only great ways of controlling it in a way that would be safe for business is by adding more ai)

And a few more probably.

I spent about 6 months deep diving into how it all worked. I was having dread that it would take my job and was determined to learn about it. What I learned is that there are many many serious pitfalls that seem to be more or less ignored or unknown by businesses and people covering it.

I won't say it's as bad as blockchain, there are usages for it, but the hype is pretty damn close. Business thinking it will save them billions and they can start getting rid of developers. Tech bros lining up to say it's going to bring on the singularity.

Eh. It's cool. I wouldn't say it's going to bring the second coming of Jesus.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

That's what I mean though. It helps give you different ideas, maybe looking at the problem a different way, but I don't trust the garbage it spits out. At least half the time it makes something up, or it gives a solution that just won't work, and even then it will double or even triple down on it.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Look at The Witcher, or stranger things. If you're really good they'll sign you for 3 seasons. Just know that at season 3 they'll immediately retool it and destroy it.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

What would be so bad about this?

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Conservatives want live babies to grow up to be dead soldiers. George Carlin

scrubbles , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

There was a good paper that came out recently saying that training on ml data will result in a collapse of cohesion. It's going to be real interesting, I don't know if they'll be able to train as easily ever again

scrubbles , 2 months ago

When the only people I saw there were the leftest lefties I ever saw... then he just alienated all of them

scrubbles , 2 months ago

So pissed at my democrats, and I've emailed and called them all. This is a stupid bill as written that will harm free speech and minorities. I've said it before, there are ways to verify that someone is over 18 without them needing to fully identify themselves on the internet. I always get downvoted to hell, but here it is folks. No one implemented any good way of age verifying someone so instead they're ramming through a bill to get us to all upload our IDs to verify how old we are for the sake of the children.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Personally I've really enjoyed text-generation-webui. It made it really easy to ramp up and learn. Very cool stuff you got though, I'll probably be looking at a comparison between them!

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Men are in a constant competition to seem manlier than the person next to them.

Of course it's not until later that it becomes obvious that it's all just self esteem problems and not being comfortable with ourselves.

The ultimate manliness is realizing you don't care if other people think you're manly.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Who knows at this point! One of my make mentors said it to me years ago. I said something stupid like "isn't that kind of girly?" About something and he replied "real men don't care". Shattered my toxic masculinity.

I'm waaay happier now, and realized I can be whoever I want. I can be an and still be a massive swiftie, enjoy hard rock while enjoying a rom com that same day, it's just easier

scrubbles OP , 2 months ago

oh my god this is so accurate. I have parents here who pick their kid up from the school bus stop that's one block away.

One. Block. In the suburbs.

It's so freaking insane to me. The worst part? He's 14! A 14 year old can walk a single freaking block home folks. I was 10 and I was riding my bike home. But parents are so terrified of everything and everyone that that's the "only solution" they can think of.

And note I said pick up, they get in their freaking car and drive to go pick him up one block away.

Americans are so. fucking. stupid.

scrubbles OP , 2 months ago

I watched, it's freaking stupid, and that's exactly what I'd expect from terrified boomer/gen-x suburban parents. Anything, anything slightly different from what they do is considered terrifying and worth complaining to the manager police/government about.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

I really, really don't understand what their business plan was. At it's core it used an exploit to trick Apple into thinking the messages were legit, did they not think Apple was going to close the loophole?

If Apple wanted iMessage on android it would be on Android. The only people bringing iMessage to Android is Apple, and anyone who figures a way around that is going to get ban-hammered by Apple.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

I would agree, but Glassdoor didn't always used to be like this. When they started it was an extremely great premise, and people flocked to it. Glassdoor was to exiting a company as LinkedIn was to entering a company. But they got greedy, they dropped their (very high honestly) morals to try to cast a wider net. They started catering to businesses rather than the people providing the information.

I remember when they started enforcing accounts just to see salaries and companies and knew it was well over then. It used to be free information for anyone to check on a company, now it's just garbage. I don't trust the reviews, companies push employees to make fake reviews, and it's all trash.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

They hit the nail on the head with comments. I see so many people just squatting on city pages ready to jump down anyone's throats who even begin to say that cars might be a problem.

Pedestrians? Fuck you you're in my way.

Trains? Fuck you libbrals

Busses? What to bring more undesirables in?

Not in my back yard! And hey not in yours either! (Seriously a good chunk of them don't even live in the city)

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Seriously, transit helps even car drivers but they don't see it at all. More trains and busses mean less cars. Less traffic, less demand for parking. It's a win win for everyone.

My city has extra taxes because we're investing in rail and infrastructure and people are just so freaking bitchy about it. "I'm not even going to use it!!!". Right, but other people will, and that will make the city easier to use for everyone.

Cue them bitching on other posts about "I never go into the city there's no parking!!" or "I can't go to concerts it takes too long to get in and out". Have you thought about parking and riding into the city?!

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Hated this the first time, hate it this time. If everyone shut the hell up people wouldn't have paid him much attention.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

I keep saying that it's not mutually exclusive. We can (and should) be doing both. We should hold their feet to the fire while also changing ourselves.

We do not get a free pass just because they are worse. They cannot distract us so we ignore them.

EVERYONE should make changes. They will require more changes then us. That does not mean we're off the hook either.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

A very good point. The more we hold ourselves to a higher standard the more obvious it is that others are not. A big one for me is that I started reducing and recycling plastic film. By me being more aware I've noticed companies who just waste a shitload of it, shipping especially, and I try not to buy them anymore. Those who use compostable products usually get my money now.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

With capitalism too, those sort of things like shorter hopper flights will just stop if people stop taking them, even just 40% of people taking them now would make them probably stop servicing them because of how narrow their margins are. Like it or not the economy starts with us. We talk about big oil but if we stop taking planes for everything and driving everywhere then the demand goes down. (Sure there is military stuff too but if we made a dent on domestic use I'm pretty happy)

scrubbles , 2 months ago

I feel bad for users over there, at least the long time users who know what it was. I'll admit, when I moved over here I felt genuine remorse, guilt, and anger. I realized I was literally going through mourning, which sounds silly for a website, but those were communities I joined over a decade ago that I was walking away from.

People have asked me why I started a Taylor Swift community over here, and it's really because of those nice, friendly communities over on Reddit that I had to walk away from. I know how hard it was to leave those ones, so maybe I can run a couple of the ones that I enjoyed there to help the next wave of folks so they know there are some of us here already who have gone through it.

Emotional, probably, but honestly just felt betrayed and angry with how they treated us long time users, the ones who were there at the very beginning. They chose some hussy ill dressed homewrecker IPO over us long term stable and loving users.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Yeah, sometimes it feels like yelling into an empty chamber, but I see the votes coming in, I know people are there. Trying to drive engagement without seeming like some marketing asshole at the same time.

The grief still hits me every once in a while, but the realization came that Reddit isn't who they were 10 years ago. I'm not sad because I left Reddit, I'm sad because Reddit betrayed who they were when I signed up, and they killed a good thing themselves.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

A proxy is the easy way in my opinion. You can also do straight up DNS, point your dns server to each of your IP addresses, which is by far simpler, but I prefer the nginx/caddy route.

NGinx will also handle things like SSL for you, which you can terminate at the proxy and make life a lot easier for you. So you can do things like register a domain, set up nginx to handle the certs for you, and then no more errors on "insecure connection", even if each underlying service is only using http. Plex was specifically nice getting that up, so I could finally do plex.my.domain.whatever and have it be nice and https. Inside the house it's nice, outside the house it's even greater, especially because a proxy can route those ports for you. So plex.my.domain.whatever goes to Plex, and tautulli goes to tautulli, etc..

scrubbles , 2 months ago

nginx is a beast, I haven't used Caddy. What I'd say to a newcomer is stick to the plan, just do it step by step. Don't go looking to build a 30-service massive 1000 line nginx file immediately. Start small.

• Get the proxy running. Celebrate, have a beer.
• Proxy a single service through your new proxy. Celebrate, take a break.
• Proxy a second service through the proxy,.
• Set up SSL for those services.
• Set up each service individually.

Trying to do it all at once will make you go crazy, I made that mistake. Focus on one small thing at a time, slowly adding to your config, that'll make it easier. Also make backups, or better yet store the conf in a git directory or something so you can easily rollback. If you have one service running but adding a second breaks it and you want to take a break, it's a lot better rolling it back to a known good state rather than leaving it in a broken state.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Was referring to using DNS to each individual service rather than one single DNS point for your entire proxy. I have *.my.domain pointed to my proxy which directs everything underneath it.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Not *.crypt. say you buy mycooldomain.crypt. you then point the domain service that domain and *.mycooldomain.crypt to your public Ip.

You would then forward the ports on your router (like 80 and 443) to your proxy. This will get your external users working.

Internally you'll need to set up your local DNS so that it knows you are the mycooldomain.crypt. there are multiple ways based on what hardware and software You're running, do some googling. For me in my local DNS then I say *.mycooldomain.crypt points to my local proxy DNS, so that it resolves inside the network.

So, external DNS points to public Ip, router/firewall forwards those ports to proxy. Internally your DNS will reach out to your router/DNS/whatever you use to ask what that domain is and it will respond with the local IP of the proxy.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Trust me, getting an external domain makes it easier. You can get one for like $5. I tried to do the internal thing too, but ssl just gets so complicated because you have to trust any internal certs. With a proxy you can have one cert source that your computers already trust because it's be let's encrypt. Just buy a cheap domain and you'll thank yourself later.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Yeah! Personal rights! Personal choice! We shouldn't have government telling us what to do.

Conservatives crack down on policies involving porn

Okay I guess they know what's best for me yes papa gubberment

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Important to always remember America started because a bunch of hyper religious folks thought the Church of England was too permissive, named themselves "Puritans", and sailed off to a new land. And many still hold to those warped values today

scrubbles , 2 months ago

They were riding it on a sidewalk, through a crosswalk and someone turned into them. Of course.

One caveat I'll say is that depending on how fast they were going the laws should be that they should be with traffic, because if I'm driving and I look right I may not notice someone going 40+ mph on a sidewalk. But even then the law should be "Where do ebikes belong" officially

scrubbles , 2 months ago

I won't comment on legality of anything, but if you encrypt your data it'll be impossible for anyone to tell what it is. Rclone has an option to do this.

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Yes, that's how I do backups

scrubbles , 2 months ago

separately, that's how I can maintain partial backups. The rclone crypt stuff is good at keeping track on huge amounts of files quickly

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Yup we have the fun loopholes of adding something like "blend" means it can be 1% honey and it's legal. Same things with why things at our stores say "cheesy" or "chocolatey". Neither one of those need to have cheese or chocolate. It's a marketing game for them. Come up with a name that sounds like it's fun for the consumer but really is a massive loophole they can jump through.