Dr. Dabbles

Jo’s needs to sit down. FIA is nuts, but Jos is a clown.

Liberty arguably turned the commercial aspect of formula 1 around, and FIA is ruining it with morality police bullshit. Nobody’s interested in stopping body piercings or clutching pearls over swearing besides Ben.

In the dark ages, Mosaic downloaded Firefox and IE. Time truly is a wheel.

Best use of chrome is downloading another browser.

Only now? It’s been two years of this and now they’ve had too much? No partial credit should be given for people that continued to participate when it was clear what was happening.

LLM are parlour tricks that impress the gullible and easily confused. LLM aren’t building blocks for anything but energy consumption and greed. “The singularity” isn’t coming, true intelligence isn’t coming. You’ve been lied to, and this is the fourth time in my career alone that this has had to be said.

Quali is a joke on this track, and it’s going to be worse with more teams coming in the future. The race has been pointless for decades. No attempt at format change is going to improve the Monaco race, so it should really just be cancelled and officially turned into a media and fans weekend instead.

When the most exciting thing to happen all day is whether or not Carlos would be allowed back in, that’s a pathetic result for the event.

Park the cars on a display and leave them there for three days so the spectators can walk around and be seen. Pretty much the only think that 81 of these events has been useful for, it seems. At least in the past breakdowns might change the order, but at this point there’s no reason to keep going back there. The event gets worse every damn year, and this year was such a pathetic display of who can drive the slowest that I basically fast forwarded through most of the event.

Flat out, I will never buy another item from QNAP. Ever. Their “support” is a joke, and their only fix for hardware that doesn’t work on “supported” OS due to old firmware is to return it and hope to get a new one with a new firmware that actually works. Like, WTF? And “supported” here means they have some old, janky, partially functional Linux app that ran on an Ubuntu desktop once upon a time. No headless system support for a server attached product. And really, they want you running it on a Windows desktop.

Beyond that, the physical hardware itself was super generic gear. I was unimpressed with paying a premium after friends all recommended QNAP, and I got what was basically a child’s toy that they didn’t expect a professional to be using.

As for multi-gig router, if you’re doing dynamic, addressing and masquerading then I can recommend the unified dream machine pro. The second edition is more capable, and has a faster backplane between the 10 gig land and land ports and the one gig ports. The original dream machine pro that I have does not have that feature, and it’s sorely missed.

If you need to do any complex routing, or static addressing then things get a little more wonky. Wonky. Very obviously does not expect this device to be a real router, but rather than that and masquerade gateway for a small business office. It totally works, and I’ve had mine for a few years now, but it’s just something to be aware of.

Mikrotik also makes a 10g router device, as do a couple other companies. They’ll expect you to be a bit more experienced, though. I’m not sure what your skill level is, but they are options at least.

Edit: you want an sfp+, btw. An sfp only does 1gbit, an sfp+ does 10gbit, and qsfp does 25+ gbit. https://www.black-box.eu/en-int/page/45646/Resources/technical/Black-Box-Explains/lan/SFP-vs-QSFP-What-s-the-difference

The alexandrite interface has infinite scrolling. Default lemmy-ui doesn’t.

Last year, the corporate-dominated web came alive, much thanks to the help of corporate-owned social media platforms - how long will it take until the open sections of the web do so?

Honestly, I’m not sure how someone could come to this conclusion. The “corporate-dominated web” has been around a real long time. Remember Digg? Facebook? Myspace? We also already see several corporations using ActivityPub protocols for federation for a few years. Companies are real good at adopting technologies that work. For better or worse.

with stuff happening in the digital world that doesn’t in the real world

What? This is the real world.

it could actually be worthwile for people to immerse further into the digital world

That seems unlikely. But it’s a good set of tools to use.

Could that be the actual next iteration of the web and realize what was in the past considered the “smart” web or would it be a dystopia?

I think what you’re asking here is whether the “next iteration” will be users using more services? “Metaverse” is simply Facebook adding a bunch of new services beyond just facebook. Like Google does, really. Get your email, chat, social media (once upon a time), video service, books, etc. all from one place. Baidu does this too.

would it be possible to make the LLMs somehow run independently

This question doesn’t make sense, TBH. Independently of what? They already run independently. You can turn off websites arbitrarily and an LLM will keep predicting the next word for you.

and how would all of that be experienced like from the user perspective

You already experience this. Whenever you use the translation app on your phone, or your phone offers the next word you might want to type? That’s you experiencing this.

could the blockchain maybe be finally put to some use here?

Block chains have nothing at all to do with LLMs, or neural networks generally really. So I’m not sure if this post was produced by a prompt given to an LLM at this point.

I’m not here to defend racism, phobias, or any other kind of discriminatory behavior. But if you look deep enough into anybody, you’re going to find something you or someone you know doesn’t like. I can guarantee it. Are some of the original developers of a specific set of software “problematic”? Yup. Have more contributors come forward and added to the software in meaningful ways since then? Yup.

Do you use Linux? Windows? Mac OS? Do you use Ethernet? Wifi? What about IP, or TCP, or even application protocols like HTTP? Do you enjoy TLS and AES encryption? What about the Internet as a concept? Every single one of these was developed by fallible people, funded by organizations I bet you’d have problems with. The military industrial complex has contributed heavily to every single one of the above technologies.

And just for the record, a lot of the people that originally designed the ActivityStream and ActivityPub standards were people concerned about marginalized Internet users. Use the software, choose an instance that’s like-minded, contribute improvements where you have expertise, and move on. The original developers of the Lemmy software don’t matter, nor do their politics or their biases. They simply wrote some Rust and Javascript to run a webserver and interface that saves data to a database. What you do with that tool is what really matters.