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Love linux, self-hosting and privacy. Self-knowledge addict and occasional psychonaut. Lurking in farming and BTC discussions.
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nix 2 months ago
The UK/EU have been foaming at the mouth when talking about Russia for a decade. Now they are clearly arming and preparing for war and Russia has markedly sharpened the rhetoric in response... Things are not looking good. I know the majority of UK population is brainwashed and hates Russia enough to go to war. I hope that's not the case across the rest of Europe. How can people still believe main stream media and corrupt politicians enough to think of war is beyond me. Fuck wars, I refuse to participate. The tiny silver lining around that dark cloud is that in the below article, they keep talking about Western Europe, not the EU (in spite of the title). Hopefully when push comes to shove Bulgaria and Eastern Europe in general stays out of it. Bulgaria is where I'm building my tiny but hopefully self-sustainable homestead. I don't want to move to South America and am tired of living as an immigrant.
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nix 3 months ago
AI may one day be used to target you. You are currently training that AI with all the data you share with Apple through your iPhone, with Microsoft through your PC, and with the likes of Amazon through their Ring, Alexa etc. Ah and the smart TV that listens to everything you say in your living room. "Palantir – named after all-seeing magic stones used by the villains of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (again: don’t say you weren’t warned) has already produced so much evil that a short worst-of-the-worst sample must do: The company has officially denied being involved in genocidal Israel’s use of AI to mass-murder Palestinians faster. Curiously enough, Alex Karp has, however, smirkingly admitted the fact in public. Regarding the deployment of Palantir’s targeting software in the American-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, the company is not even denying it."
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nix 3 months ago
The scale of investment into data centers is off the charts. That's what consumes the data generated from you iPhone, normie android, Windows or Mac PC and all the surveillance tech ppl install for some immediate convenience. Tomorrow, it will be used to control us all. View quoted note →
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nix 3 months ago
It stunned me to hear a Jewish person I highly respect otherwise talk about 'liberation' of Israel (from Palestine). The idea of god given rights to the land clearly runs very deep. They are probably indoctrinated very early, like the English with love for the monarchy. View quoted note →
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nix 3 months ago
If your neighbour was like that - cursing, insulting, threatening to kill you and claiming your land was given to him by god, how well would you get on? View quoted note →
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nix 3 months ago
I looked into using ollama to translate from English into another language... Tried mistral 8b and llama3.1, the results were stunningly bad. Correcting it all manually would require similar effort to translating. Anyone got experience with this? Do I just need more vram and larger models or is there no way to do it privately, without paying to an LLM provider.
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nix 3 months ago
Circumventing the EU censorship against rt.com on Windows or Linux is as easy as editing a text file (the hosts file). This is in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. Just add this line: 91.215.41.4 www.rt.com You can get the IP from any DNS propagation checker tool online.
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nix 3 months ago
I am enjoying wisp after the latest update. Just need to make sure I don't get too hooked lol. There is an upside to not seeing replies.