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Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, the disrespect Apple/Google/MS has for their users (on equipment they have purchased!) is palpable. They seem to have a real sense of entitlement these days. It used to be universally accepted that losing or corrupting user data was a (if not THE) cardinal sin in development. In many ways we get what we tolerate, but the lack of viable alternatives in some spaces (esp cellphones and TVs) makes it very hard to hold the big players to any kind of account economically. At least no one is holding a gun to our heads to use MacOS or other proprietary systems on our desktops/laptops/servers for the most part.
Comment · 1 month ago
Every speaker is also a microphone
Comment · 2 months ago
>Computer building on those days was much more unfriendly Anyone who heard “black-to-black, back-to-back” just a little too late would agree with you (and probably has mild PTSD) PC building has become MUCH safer over the decades
Comment · 4 months ago
When you watch on vhs or laserdisc the loss of resolution only bothers you til the movie sucks you in.

At that point it’s irreverent because your eyeballs are not watching a long sequence of pretty still pictures, but rather your brain is watching a story in a way similar to reading a good book.

Comment · 4 months ago
I redid everything that matters in my house/homelab with DAC cables for exactly that reason. Order of magnitude difference in watts and heat
Comment · 9 months ago
Wouldn’t you also need to include the Ancient Greek phryctoriae military fire signalling system by that logic? It probably wasn’t the first, at that.
Comment · 9 months ago
Very “futurological congress” thought
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Just use a commercial signage display
Comment · 11 months ago
It’s not a process monitor, really, but to me the AWS Lightsail monitor tab feels like this. The “sustainable” line hits me right in the OCD to keep me grinding on cpu usage of the workload to keep extra spend at zero.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I have this as well, but run a heavily locked down and isolated BIND server with NSD and Unbound for external authoritative and internal caching DNS respectively.

Its easy to feed an RBL to unbound to do pi-hole type work, I use pf to transparently redirect all external DNS requests to my local unbound server but I get the bind automation around things like DNSSEC, DHCP ddns and ACME cert renewals.

I'm surprised this isn't a more common stack.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks, it was a bit of a gamble at the time (lots of dodgy ebay parts), but it paid off.

R1 starts at about 10t/s on an empty context but quickly falls off. I'd say the majority of my tokens are generating around 6t/s.

Some of the other big MoE models can be quite a bit faster.

I'm mostly using QwenCoder 480b at Q8 these days for 9t/s average. I've found I get better real-world results out of it than K2, R1 or GLM4.5.

Comment · 1 year ago
No, I’m running the unquantized 120b

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