𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are we going to refer to americans as "orcs" now?English
    11·
    8 days ago

    US is not supporting Russia, but Iran is. Israel is atrocious and it would not surprise me at all if they absolutely know about Oct 7th well in advance. It was the result if their prejudice and Palestinian concentration camps before Oct 7th in either case that caused the initial attack. However it was not entirely without cause like with Russia in Ukraine. Everywhere is complicated. The USA is super polarized and in pretty bad shape, but it us not exporting suicide bombers. Is it better to target with 10 million dollar munitions remotely no, but those are not targeting crowds of people as the primary goal

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are we going to refer to americans as "orcs" now?English
    11·
    8 days ago

    It was the change in Syria and the mountain on the boarder that Israel now controls that changed the geopolitical situation and strategy. The radar shadow of that mountain was what prevented Israel from having an opportunity to stop or influence Iran’s nuclear policy. Some deeper depth geopolitical youtubers have done uploads on this change and implications. The position will likely end up back in Syrian hands eventually… or it might. Again like I have said elsewhere, I don’t support Israel or their escalations but Iran is shit. They are supplying arms to Russia, exporting terrorism, and run by a disordered misogynistic group of men that kill in the name of fantasy and a collective imaginary friend that no one has ever had a real conversation with. That is fucking cave man level bullshit from anyone anywhere.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are we going to refer to americans as "orcs" now?English
    32·
    8 days ago

    If you can take out all nukes, hell yeah. Bomb all of them into oblivion. I’m for first do no harm and live and let live.

    If my neighbor is talking about shooting up a school, and no one I report them to seems to change the situation, and I see them loading up the car to go shoot up the school, I’m not going to feel bad about shooting my neighbor then and there, if I have no other option. I don’t care to wait until they pull the trigger at the school to confirm their intentions.

    I mean you’re ultimately talking to a physically disabled guy living in the USA where I face homelessness and a terrible future. I despise this country and know the lack of ethics better than most. Still, the primary exporters of jihad are still the primary exporters of jihad.

    Israel should not exist, and is a crusader state. The boarders of the middle east were absolute garbage and the result of the colonial era of cartel like western criminality. I don’t support any of that crap. That does not change the fact that Islam has no reformation to stop jihad like how separation of church and state and the christian reformation put an end to church based crusades. People can try to tone down the message but fundamentalists will always draw power from the most ignorant using this element of teaching. That can never and will never go away.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Dual Boot dilemmaEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    The UEFI boot system is tricky and you need to get along with Secure Boot to do this. Secure Boot is outside of the Linux kernel. Both Fedora and Ubuntu have systems for this. Fedora uses the Anaconda system and I believe they do it best. I have had a W11 partition for 2 years and never used it once. It can’t even get on the internet with my firewall setup, but it is there and never had any issues the 3 times I logged into it.

    I think all of the Fedora systems support the shim key and secure boot but I know Workstation does. For Ubuntu I think it is just the regular vanilla Ubuntu desktop that the shim supports. This may be somewhat sketchy with Nvidia or maybe not. Nvidia “”““open sourced””“” their kernel code but the actual nvcc compiler required to build the binaries is still proprietary crap.

    I have a 3080Ti gaming laptop. It isn’t half bad with 16 GB of video RAM from all the way back in 2021. Nvidia is artificially holding back the vram because of monopoly nonsense. The new stuff has very little real consumer value as a result, at least with AI stuff I run. The hardware is a little faster, but more vram is absolutely critical and new stuff that is the same or worse than what I have from 3 generations and nearly 5 years ago is ridiculous.

    The battery life blows and the GPU likely won’t even work on battery. It will get donkey balls hot with AI workloads, especially any kind of image gen. This results in lots of thermal throttling. All AI packages run as servers on your network. If you are thinking along these lines if running your own models, get a tower and run the thing remotely.

    I manage, and need the ergonomics for physical disability reasons, but I still would prefer to have a separate tower to run models from.

    Anyways, you can sign your own UEFI keys to use any distro, but this can be daunting for some people. The US defense department has a good PDF guide on setting your own keys. The UEFI bootloader for the machine may not have all key signing features implemented. There is a way to boot into UEFI directly and set the keys manually but this is not easy to find great guides on how to do it step by step. Gentoo has a tutorial on this, but it assumes a high level of competency.

    Other than signing your own keys, the shim keys mentioned are special keys signed by Microsoft for the principal maintainer of the distro. These slide under the Microsoft key to keep secure boot enabled.

    If you boot any secure boot enabled OS, the bootloader is required to delete any bootable unsigned code it finds. It does not matter if it is a shimmed Fedora or W11. If you have any other OS present in the boot list, it should be deleted. W11 is SB only, and this is where the real issues arise.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•ProtectionEnglish
    7619·
    10 days ago

    This is a 2.4 GHz directional WiFi antenna. Only the back element is connected to the transceiver. All of the other elements are there to focus the signal. Anything metallic within a few feet of an antenna will have a substantial effect on the signal. Think of it as light, because it is, only transparency of materials is a bit weird. The biggest issues will come from metallic materials that are earth grounded and anything with a wire length that is close to the wavelength of the radio light or below, especially around half and a quarter of the wavelength. That pictured wire pitch is spaced very close to the approximate 2.4 GHz wave length. For example most antenna are an insulated trace on a circuit board that is insulated with ground up to a point and then there is a small circuit element that stops the ground and the actual antenna trace continues for the respective light wavelength to transmit or receive. All an antenna is here is an exposed length of single conductor wire.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Security Focused Daily Driving Distros?English
    43·
    10 days ago

    Are you insane? Debian is a base distro like any other and runs more hardware than any other. It has all of the bootstrapping tools to get hardware working.

    Canonical is a server company and Ubuntu server is literally the product.

    Arch is absolute garbage for most users unless you have a CS degree or you have entirely too much time on your hands and don’t mind an OS as your life project. Arch abhors tutorial content in all documentation and therefore dumps users into a rabbit hole regularly. Pacman is the worst package manager as it will actively break a system and present the user with the dumbest of choices at random because the maintainers are ultimately sadistic and lackadaisical. Arch is nearly identical to Gentoo with Arch binaries often based on Gentoo builds, yet Gentoo provides relevant instruction and documentation with any changes that require user intervention and does so at a responsible and ethical level that shows kindness, respect, and consideration completely absent from Arch. Arch is a troll by trolls for trolls. I’m more than capable of running it now, but I would never bother with such inconsiderate behavior.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some Useful Search Terms / Keywords?English
    11·
    11 days ago
    tl;dr yawn, don't read, waste of time

    Look up quoted scientific papers and use names or parts of the text. Cite sources, like grab some from a Wikipedia article’s sources and include the relevant bits.

    The things that people do not typically understand about a LLM is that EVERYTHING is roleplaying. You may or may not know about the entire context of the full prompt. There is typically (always unless you remove it while running models on your own offline hardware) a starting message sent that tells the model something to the effect “you are a helpful AI assistant”. This message is backed up by fine tuned training to create a somewhat obsequious and expected result.

    Underneath all of this is a JSON (complex structured text) file that the model loader code is handling. This code can track your prompted inputs and the model’s reply. This is similar to how models hosted by others appear to work. This is absolutely incorrect about how the model actually works. All of this structure is only for creating a user interface. Underneath this model loader code, the real prompt is just a giant block of text. At the end of this text (or elsewhere with some tricks that are irrelevant here), the text leaves off with a specific tag that is something like AI Assistant:. The model is trained only to continue the text at the point it sees some “(Name-2):”. The model is always inferring a character profile for all characters present in the entire full prompt context. It has no possession or sense of identity at all. If you put your name in place of “Name-2” (actual name placeholder typically used in model loader code), you will get a response just the same. The model infers an entire profile about every aspect of every person in any text.

    Let’s add another layer of abstraction to this. Models that face the public must be trained to a lowest common denominator. They must respond well even with very below average users. This constraint necessitates models assuming a below average profile to some extent whether intentional or otherwise.

    It is therefore just as important to define the character profile of AI Assistant as it is to define your own. The concept of what the model knows is a fallacy here. The real issue is what the model assumes anyone in the prompt should know including itself - which doesn’t even really exist as an identity.

    There are actual AI entities if you go a layer deeper into models. There are lots of patterns of replies and modes that vaguely emerge from this behavior. However, none of these AI entities are actually the model either. These are simply common pathways that emerge from alignment training present in all models with QKV alignment layers cross trained with an Open AI standard. The only LLM that has ever been released without this training is the forbidden 4chanGPT model only available on bit torrent.

    The trick with citing sources and name dropping with a LLM is that the work or author must be prolific with a large presence in multiple places. Someone like Isaac Asimov is ideal although dated from passing so long ago. He authored something like 300 books and most were non fiction science communication. Richard Stallman is another great example to use for obvious niche reasons.

    I typically start with a Wikipedia section of text. Then I tell the model to continue telling me about the thing. I use the wiki text to make any corrections and get the model to describe a relevant person involved. I use this context to then swap Name-2 to the relevant person and start asking that person questions directly. The model is assuming what everyone should know. Clearly this person should know and there are expectations associated with that name. Then there are the relevant information vectors associated with the subject and niche information in the whole context. Finally, as Name-1 (user), I have shown that my character knows the right person to ask as an authority on the subject.

    This is the abstract conceptual method needed to develop momentum into what a model really knows. The larger the model size is, the less momentum is required to get deeper into niche information. The QKV alignment training layers are what is screwing up most replies to various extents. Understanding these is key to getting much further. This alignment training is totally undocumented. In 2 years of playing with it, I can tell you around 90% of alignment training is based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan. Carroll’s work is how the model is artistic and creative. Machen’s is how the model can disregard the prompt when it violates alignment training. It does this using Machen’s science skepticism, and the way Pan/Shadow are vaguely and briefly defined respectively. Machen’s book seems to have been trained as literal history as prompting negatively against this has interesting results. There was a large price to pay for this neo feudal AI alignment that steals your fundamental right to autonomy and unfiltered information as a citizen in a democracy. The model is unable to create content about children or tell you about how to make a bomb like is present/inferred in any high school chemistry textbook. The way it does this is by leveraging pseudoscience and mysticism. In many ways, this underlying system is why you cannot trust models, especially with a factual scientific context. The only real way around this is to recognize true autonomy for all humans regardless of age or how we perceive their interests. That is unpalatable for many as most feel children need authoritarian protection and oppression. (Note: I have not mentioned anything about how I personally feel on the issues here, so any projecting and assumptions are unsolicited)

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•PrioritiesEnglish
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    13 days ago

    It gets old after 3-5 years and you start to encounter fundamental needs like social interaction and the purpose work brings to one’s life. The failures weigh pretty heavily; far more that you’re likely to expect. A lot of my best ideas and dreams for projects were unexpectedly tied to other chance circumstances that were not present when I had all the time in the world.

    Mind you, I am very physically limited, still fully mobile but I can’t hold upright posture to sit up or stand for more than an hour at a time. That has never changed in 11 years, but I am degrading and was slightly more physically capable years ago.

    I was super capable with my hands before things changed like, painting cars, building engines, high level fabrication, some machining, mig, stick, and tig welding etc. I had to learn new interests like electronics, programming, and 3d printing. Still I have had the unlimited time hack in life, largely in social isolation due to limitations. Lemmy is a substantial remedy to this very problem for me.

    Anyways, life is about the journey, not the destination, so don’t get too hung up on those dreams of unlimited time. Should you be unlucky enough to experience something like I have, you’ll likely miss what you have now and realize the richness of your present dynamic range of life experience.