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Friendship between western people and other people around the world is important to stop political warmongering, so its pretty cool with all the new Westerners getting the “China not bad” experience, and also that we all see how far and advanced China has become on so many fronts (Still having work to do, oc). Let’s hope the two information spheres and people can mix a little now, and some of the deliberate and honestly hateful misinformation can be dispelled.

I think I saw a few Sci-fi movies with this theme. Can’t be long before we see arenas, Robot ‘cock-fights’, Championships, betting and all that…

Absolutely. I’m not as AI-phobic, and I absolutely need both an information gathering agent that searches, follows rss/channels, explores/researches topics, summarizes swats of daily events, and I need a filter between me and corporate internet. Let the AI discard obvious slop, Ads/other propaganda and general informational noise.

However, you should think about how to share search-results so all our agents don’t floor small services/commoners. We really need to get more information out of corporate silo’s, and into public search/knowledge systems. Perhaps you can integrate some distributed search/knowledge properties ? (now that you have AI to help build it)

There are several solutions:

https://github.com/b4rtaz/distributed-llama

https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

https://github.com/kalavai-net/kalavai-client

https://petals.dev/

Didn’t try any of them and haven’t looked for 6 months, so maybe something better have arrived…

Rarely anything. There can be some newer Bios/chip features that are not supported in the kernel yet, and a few older/quirky machines requires setting correct kernel parameters in the boot phase. But overall, you wouldn’t normally do it any different from win, and a laptop from 23 should be supported with all newer kernels.

I’m sure there are Bios settings that could be changed dependent on operating system. Perhaps some internal timing works best with this and that ram clock, or whatever, but it would be a hazzle to figure out, and there may not be any gain - other than the fun of exploring oc…

Nothing wrong with that. Putin is a sharp guy, and only those falling for the ‘Dictator’ propaganda nonsense can be against this. However, it hardly have anything to do with Musk (which is why we are here).

For those still believing in the whole “Russia/Putin Baaad” nonsensical propaganda campaign, watch The Duran, Brian Berletic, Awakening Richard, or any of the hundreds of good sources for a non-propagandized world-view. Tl:dr, US (over many presidents) used Ukraine to start a proxy war against Russia/Putin - and were beaten to a pulp trying… Now, direct conflict with China is of the table, so US will try ‘little Iran’ next, in the ignorant belief they can win and harm China in some way while doing it. Other proxies and vassals of US are jumping Empirical ship and allies them selves with China and BRICKS (including Russia). Not only that, US’ grip and censorship over Western media is lessening, US are still losing/Putin winning, so more and more people will stop believing in the ‘Empire of Lies’ war mongering schemes.

Now let’s get back to flaming the little **ycho and his garbage corporations/fans…

This is brilliant. A few things works best with mouse and a few with keyboard, but this isn’t about keyboard vs mouse use. This is a redesign of the human-terminal interfacing, and is similar to Bret Victors thinking out of the box, re-design of different tools. It is rare to see attempts at redesigning the interfacing with old/well-known systems like the terminal or the global short-cut system (what a mess), etc. A normal terminal is completely archaic as a modern interactive command interface.

Only thing that sucks: More and more of my terminal tasks will from now on be handled by AI, so I might not have any use for it anymore.

Not until it explains this: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HHFuTpVvRCI

Thunderf00t have predicted that for a few years. Still on track I think…

Not sure…

1. An AI therapist can already easily handle general good mental advice, such as reducing cognitive load, perspective shifts, alternative methodologies, education of standard mental needs, processes and whatever low-level stuff we can benefit from. 2. hooman therapists are a coin-toss. Most are completely crap and build their business from archaic and/or wrong theories and personal ideology/feelings. 3. whatever flaws AI have now, is going away really really fast.

Hooman therapists cost a lot of money, and a shitload of people won’t get any help at all without AI.

So, I think it is fine. The potential damage is far less than no help at all. Just use a little common sense and don’t take anything as a Gospel - just as when we see hooman therapists.

Damn you :-)

“Among those announced was Hind Kabawat, a Christian woman and activist who opposed Assad since the conflict began in March 2011, and who will serve as minister for social affairs and labour.”

Without knowing; She’s put there by 'Al Sharaa’s western backers. This is how we can see who’s in charge, and this guy and his US trained female minister, are both Western stooges.

(searching)

Oh my, who would’ve thought: “Hind Aboud Kabawat is a Syrian-Canadian politician, researcher, international counsel and activist who is currently serving as Minister of Social and Labour Affairs since 2025.” - So the usual US globalist stooge that are there to keep an eye on the new US puppet regime. This is one of the ways US regime-changes nations. They train a local puppet in US ways and ideology (lots of manipulation/money/status), they then re-introduce the stooge into their old country (that they now have nothing in common with) and puff them up via the Capitalist ‘free press’. That is how they place foreign US-propagandized politicians into foreign nations political apparatus and ideologically colonize them. See Georgia for an example of a similar female stooge of the US - now ousted. Usually they get a high international post somewhere in the ‘Empire of Lies’, as thanks for selling out their own nation to US Oligarchs.

If that’s not enough of an example, then check out the political history of any EU leader. It’s not by chance they agree with US wars around the world, they are all put there by US. Academics, news, politics, and all areas of a nations opinion/decision infrastructure is compromised.

Here they are just controlling events in the direction they have already decided for Syria and its people.

Perhaps one more thing. Life evolved around converting low Entropy energy (chemistry/narrow sun-rays), into high Entropy energy (black body heat), and in the mean time prosper for a while. So if we want to reverse time, we would both need to apply high Entropy energy to each ‘broken’ component of the early system, so the system can transitions back to a low Entropy state, and incredible luck (to exactly reverse the directional momentum necessary to transition back).

We can’t control/convert/utilize high Entropy energy, and even if we learned far out in the future, it would take even longer to be precise enough to even ‘flip’ an Atom.

Oh, btw. The universe goes from low entropy (‘Big Bang’) towards high entropy, but complexity - where Life can exist - can only happen in the middle, after the prior complexity evolved and before all low entropy energy is dispersed though-out the universe leaving Life with no energy to convert.

Well, I / We may still be wrong, but use of current AI for Philosophical/Scientific questions, propels our knowledge/intelligence to new heights. I think this will continue for a while. There must be millions of people that already feel they have become much smarter by chatting with an AI.

I wonder what effect it will have on a global scale civilization when large parts of the lower ranking population suddenly jumps 20-40+ points up the IQ scale ? Screw rich c*nts and old oppressive societal structures…

‘Competition’ is perpetual economic war. People and environment dies/suffers and value are stolen by corps/oligarchs… You have been propagandized…

Yes, you are leaking data, but don’t panik. First of all, your mental health here and now is important - without it you won’t have energy for other things. Next, It takes a lot of energy to de-google or de-corp and you don’t wan’t to ‘leak’ now, but in 6 months, you’ll have your own private/foss talking AI assistant, and it will help you cut the ties to the last corporation then.

So, soon you’ll be more ‘invisible’ for the corps, and maybe you can live with the spying/manipulation for a moment longer ? Not sure how long it takes for their AI to find you anyway, but at least the removed have to work for it…

Alternatively, get a free account at Groq (also have ‘whisper’ stt), or sambanova and install/use open-webui for talking. These new hardware corps don’t train AI on free user interactions, and they probably don’t sell your information - yet. There are other methods for p2p sharing of AI resources, but they may not provide quality high enough or with all modalities.

Same here without vpn. Getting by using embedded yt player, but not optimal. Seems that freetube users could win if we had a common cache like ipfs where watched videos are stored. If one user gets the whole video, everyone have access to it via ipfs. There would still be trouble with rare videos/first view, but YT would probably not block an ip if most of the yt videos where loaded from ipfs instead ?

Just a quick thought.

Didn’t know what uBlue was, so here: https://universal-blue.org/

"The Universal Blue project builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using bootc. That’s nerdspeak for the ultimate Linux client: the reliability of a Chromebook, but with the flexibility and power of a traditional Linux desktop.

These images represent what’s possible when a community focuses on sharing best practices via automation and collaboration. One common language between dev and ops, and it’s finally come to the desktop.

We also provide tools for users to build their own image using our templates and processes, which can be used to ship custom configurations to all of your machines, or finally make the Linux distribution you’ve long wished for, but never had the tools to create.

At long last, we’ve ascended."

You can argue that a 4090 is more of a ‘flagship’ model on the consumer market, but it could be just a typing error, and then you miss the point and the knowledge you could have learned:

“Their system, FlightVGM, recorded a 30 per cent performance boost and had an energy efficiency that was 4½ times greater than Nvidia’s flagship RTX 3090 GPU – all while running on the widely available V80 FPGA chip from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), another leading US semiconductor firm.”

So they have found a way to use a ‘off-the-shelf’ FPGA and are using it for video inference, and to me it looks like it could match a 4090(?), but who cares. With this upgrade, these standard Fpga’s are cheaper(running 24/7)/better than any consumer Nvidia GPU up to at least 3090/4090.

And here from the paper:

"[problem] …sparse VGMs [video generating models] cannot fully exploit the effective throughput (i.e., TOPS) of GPUs. FPGAs are good candidates for accelerating sparse deep learning models. However, existing FPGA accelerators still face low throughput ( < 2TOPS) on VGMs due to the significant gap in peak computing performance (PCP) with GPUs ( > 21× ).

[solution] …we propose FlightVGM, the first FPGA accelerator for efficient VGM inference with activation sparsification and hybrid precision. […] Implemented on the AMD V80 FPGA, FlightVGM surpasses NVIDIA 3090 GPU by 1.30× in performance and 4.49× in energy efficiency on various sparse VGM workloads."

You’ll have to look up what that means yourself, but expect a throng of bitcrap miner cards to be converted to VLM accelerators, and maybe give new life for older/smaller/cheaper fpga’s ?

Pretty cool with China’s focus on efficiency in the AI stack. DeepSeek was the first eye-opener for how to re-think efficiency, but it appears to happen on all levels of the stack.

Fyi: article is paywalled, so block javascript on page with ublock…