Give me like $7,500 and I provide enough harddisks for 183,200 episodes. I’m not sure what to calculate for traffic, though.
And I mean it’s a bit unfortunate that you have to commit money laundering and/or tax fraud alongside this “business model”. It’s just not that easy to say: Hey, I would like to pay taxes on this pile of money and I don’t want to say where I got it from, it’s definitely mine, though.
What does it do with threads, just display the messages sequentially? Or not at all?
Correct answer. And this is going to help way more than adding a few trackers. Also consider doing the port-forward in your router, if you’re behind a NAT and it doesn’t do it automatically. That makes even more peers available.
Sure. I buy tickets to their concerts, have bought CDs, movies, buy their game in the next Steam sale or on Humblebundle, rarely Patreon or support indie things on Ko-fi or whatever. I buy a novel if I enjoyed the first chapter(s) and want it on paper. Or go to the library. I just can’t afford all the music and Spotify isn’t paying the artists properly either. And I don’t want a DVD collection, so for TV series they don’t get money from me. Except for what the one streaming service I pay for forwards to them.
But reading that text like they tell you to do, is kind of an exercise in futility if you choose topic two. (the benefits of artificial satellites in telecommunications) I’d be angry at that point.
Yeah, I agree. And I appreciate your perspective.
I don’t think growing Lemmy and funnelling in users works out. We don’t grow. We’re somewhere between 40k and 50k active users and there is no trend in either direction.
Last year, I despised beehaw for doing their own thing and not respecting how federation is supposed to work. That is connecting people and not being a patchwork of small spaces that don’t talk to each other because of small minds/perspectives… I think I changed my mind a bit. Their way of doing things turned out to foster better behaviour than on other instances. It’s still detrimental to the idea of a federated platform, but still… The effects aren’t just negative.
I think we have lots of issues here. The culture is a bit different from what I’d like it to be. It’s a tiny bit above Reddit in atmosphere, but on the downside it lacks the (niche) experts. It’s more average people here and just the most predominant opinions. Furthermore, it’s too much discussing the news and not much else that’d be meaningful for my life. It’s too small for lots of things that this place could excel in and that you won’t find anywhere else.
And the technology really isn’t that good. Progress is super slow, they don’t implement the things the users need and wish for. And it doesn’t foster growth or nice behaviour.
And I think that’s the main issue. We’d need a solid basis to build something upon. It needs to be shiny, have excellent moderation tools and user-facing features. All of this has been requested but except for things like instance blocking by the user, that doesn’t even block their users, we didn’t get much.
My personal wish is that new approaches like PieFed will go ahead and provide that to us. I think I’d like to host an instance with that and then invite some people. As of now I didn’t advertise for Lemmy because I think neither the software, nor the atmosphere/community, nor the content here is worth convincing anyone to join. At this point I’m just waiting for one of the three to get anywhere. But I think I’d also like to defederate from a few people. And force them to be nice, upvote replies, not just dump any random links but provide some text in a post, and have some niche interest communities, because just dumping links to news and posting memes isn’t cutting it. We already have X and Mastodon for that…
And a little disclaimer: I’m being negative in this comment. But that’s not all there is to it. There is a reason why I’m here. I regularly have nice interactions, learn new things and have good conversations. It’s just that it’s far between and I see lots of potential for more. And I’d really like that to become reality.
Interestingly enough, that doesn’t happen in some communities like !Technology@beehaw.org and I thought that wouldn’t happen in communities that are dedicated to AI. Well, maybe I’m wrong and lots of people don’t understand the concept of communities. Yeah, but I nowadays also see lots of AI stuff in the general communities like Ask Lemmy.
Btw: Might be that you’re behind a NAT (router) and that’s why bittorrent doesn’t connect. You’d need to figure out which port your torrent client is configured to listen on and then do “port forwarding” of that port to your machine in the router you got from your ISP. Or use something like UPnP that does this automatically.
Not sure if that applies in your case and it’s unsolicited advice… But a fairly common issue with bittorrent.
Look at the USA, UK or countries like China. I think they’re all ahead if us. Leading in different fields. A skewed balance between capitalism and citizens rights, surveillance in general, and a dystopian surveillance state.
Are you referring to me or BigFig? I’m neither a mile (I’m European, so we use the metric system), nor a mole. If you make me choose an animal, I’d like to be an alpaca. And I’d be willing to do a captcha to prove to you that I’m not a bot.
Thanks for spreading the word. We get these complaints every few weeks. More people need to be educated and move away from these instances to make the Threadiverse a better place.
https://github.com/YellowRoseCx/koboldcpp-rocm
That will be optimized for AMD and as far as I know has the same / a very similar user interface.
(The 8GB of VRAM on your graphics card will be some limitation. So maybe stick with smaller and quantized models.)
And share your success stories on !ChatbotsNSFW@lemmynsfw.com
I’m pretty sure he did this out of this own motivation because he thinks/thought it’s a fascinating topic. So, sure this doesn’t align with popularity. But it’s remarkable anyways, you’re right. And I always like to watch the progression. As far as I remember the early videos lacked professional audio and video standards that are nowadays the norm on Youtube. At some point he must have bought better equipment, but his content has been compelling since the start of his Youtube ‘career’. 😊
And I quite like the science content on Youtube. There are lots of people making really good videos, both from professional video producers and also from scientists (or hobbyists) who just share their insight and interesting perspective.
And maybe have a look at his Youtube channel and the older videos, too. Lots of them are a bit more philosophical and not too technical for the average person. I think he’s quite inspiring and conveys very well what AI safety is about, and what kinds of problems that field of science is concerned with.
I’d agree with the recommendation of Lutris and Bottles. Just install the two and see what you like and which works best. I’ve heard Lutris is pretty good. And both tools handle most of the underlying stuff for you, like managing Wine and Proton.
There are quite some guides/tutorials/youtube videos on how to use them.
Thanks. Yeah I know most of the story/history of Matrix. I’m just now making the decisions for the years to come. And Dendrite has been the announced successor to Synapse for quite some time now… I’m not sure what to make of this. If it’s going to happen soon, I’d like to switch now. And not move again and relocate my friends more times than necessary.
Judging by the graphs on my Netdata, Synapse plus the database are currently eating more resources than I’d like for just chat. Afaik the other projects were meant to address that. But I’ve never used anything else. And I’ve always refrained from joining large rooms because people told me that’d put considerable load on the server. If there’s a better solution I’m open to try even if it’s not the default choice… It just needs to work for my use-case. I don’t necessarily need feature-completeness.
Yeah, with the multiple domains: I meant I have 1 VPS and like 3 domain names for different projects. I have a single email-server, one webserver and they just handle all three domains. Even Prosody (XMPP) has “VirtualHost” directives and I only need to run it once to provide service on all the different domains. With Matrix this doesn’t seem to be the case… I’d need to launch 3 different instances of Synapse simultaneously on that one server and do some trickery with the reverse http proxy. That’d be more expensive and take more time and effort. I don’t really care about how the identities are handled internally, I can provide them in a format that is supported. And the users are seperate anyways. It’s just: I’d like to avoid running the same software three times in parallel.
Out of curiosity: Do you have to deal with that much spam? If so: Is there a specific reason?
Because I only get some bot join one of the public rooms and start spamming every few months or so. And we deal with that pretty quickly. My own account has been perfectly safe for years… So my experience is different. Might be my usage-pattern vs yours?!
I think they’re using Widevine DRM. And with DRM they can enforce whatever arbitrary policies they like. They set special restrictions for Linux. I think Amazon set 480p as max, Netflix 720p and YouTube 4k or sth like that. AFAIK it has little to do with technology. It’s just a number that the specific company sets in their configuration.
Quite some AI questions coming up in selfhosted in the last few days…
Here’s some more communities I’m subscribed to:
And a few inactive ones on lemmy.intai.tech
I’m using koboldcpp and ollama. KoboldCpp is really awesome. In terms of hardware it’s an old PC with lots of RAM but no graphics card, so it’s quite slow for me. I occasionally rent a cloud GPU instance on runpod.io Not doing anything fancy, mainly role play, recreational stuff and I occasionally ask it to give me creative ideas for something, translate something or re-word or draft an unimportant text / email.
Have tried coding, summarizing and other stuff, but the performance of current AI isn’t enough for my everyday tasks.
There are some blog posts on annas-blog.org from 2022, talking about IPFS.