@kiki Last one I looked closer at was the source for moosefs since I was setting up my own distributed file server and it had some issues so I took part of it apart to check how it looks, fixed and reported a bug I found and am still kinda looking at optimizing it for my setup specifically. That was 4-5 Weeks ago? Still on/off looking at it

Also looking at the Catima app for card storage, that Im just starting

I also took apart and recompiled ollama a couple months ago since I had some optimization concerns and disliked they left debug logs on then. Took that opportunity to also check it doesn't connnect to anything weird then.

Those are the most recent and biggest ones. I don't remember many of the small projects and libs that I just skim to see of they are what Im looking for :D

I think this is also on topic: I don't do it all the time, but I also sometimes just pull the projects and search for some basic stuff like "http", or language dependant classes loke URL or Requests when I know the project is supposed to be offline... Stuff like that. You don't need to read everything all the time, because usually the Numbers of releases, the active issues and the history of the project can tell you enough about safety. And then if It's a smaller starting project then a rudimentary keyword check can tell you all the important stuff.

It's not 100% safe, but it's easy to do if in doubt.

I host FOSS stuff on my own server at my own home, and in some cases I modify it to do some extra stuff I need from it.

I can't do that with software hosted by companies, and I do end up reading the code when I modify it.

So I suppose this sort of software is a really good fit for me, my skillset and my time allocation. It's obviously not for everyone, but It's good It's an option, I personally appreciate it a ton.

I usually just wonder how many people already figured it out, but never put it anywhere, so the solution sits in someones abandoned projects folder already. Just like it will now sit in mine!

Why are we using an autocomplete to interview for positions? Are they all insane? Using a language model to select people is like using a facial recognition model to select people. Sure, the fact the object in the picture has a face is a good indicator they are a smart human and not an apple, but you can't be sure of false positives nor false negatives with any degree of certainty. Similarly, just because someone can type doesn't mean they are smart.

We're loosing touch with reality -_-

What, you're not supposed to use AI to generate logos or text. Just generate the Pics/Backgrounds and do the rest in photoshop... Take Screens of the App and all that...

It's like a 5 minute job at this point, what is this person even paid for?!

What do you mean? MKL is being used for AI, just not by default because CUDA is king still and MKL barely makes a difference on most consumer chips

Whats wrong with soap? It's a bit dated and verbose but it works fine. I mean all of xml is pretty verbose anyway

My only positive support story was when I bought new Jabra wireless headphones and they were broken. Wrote to support, they asked a few questions and then told me they will send me new ones and I can keep the old ones.

Really easy, well communicated, no obstruction support...

I even mamaged to fix the first ones myself (it had a damaged PCB, fixed via a jumper wire, worked ever since) so I essentially got one free pair. But this service alone means I will consider buying again from them once mine break

I use the most powerful computer known to man, the human mind ._.

Stuff like this is why the tech and package managers for frontend are all memes. The node folder, the randomly broken deps, the new version every week, the new tech-stack every month...

Id argue parenting is not a job though, so it doesn't belong on the list. It's not a paid nor assigned position. I mean baby-sitting is a job, but parenting? It's very 21st century to think of it as a job or a chore to do...

I'm pretty sure the idea behind "readable code" is

a) adhering to common language patterns and naming schemes

b) Proper variable and function naming

c) Avoiding god functions that do everything all the time

d) comment whatever cannot be easily understood otherwise, mostly useful for optimization magic and parallelism patterns where the flow is no longer easily understandable

I don't think these are "subjective"... Clearly you can name a function something else than I would, but as long as you name it correctly, and it's short enough so that it's easy to understand, it's going to be readable by me even if your choice of words is difference.

ditto with language patterns. If everyone is using camelCase, don't randomly write with snake case. My eyes will be searching for specific patterns that are common for the language world wide, don't be *that one person* who likes his way better because that's how he does it in TyPEsCrIPt or something.

and so on

Yep, these days SW RAID is deffinitely Worth it.

Are babies good or bad?

how would a person by "inherently" good or bad? At what age does one become a "person" so you can judge them by this criteria?

Due to this, my answer has to be no. I think nature may play a part, there are plenty of personality disorders to choose from that can compel someone to do something "bad". But then can you really blame them if it's caused by a disorder?

But I more incline that people are skewed by nurture. Bad childhood, Bad friends, Bad colleagues or just Bad experiences with other people may make a villain. There's a notion of the "cycle of abuse" for example. So was such a person "inherently bad" when it was done to them? I don't think so. You are obviously responsible for your action, and how you deal with events that happen to you, as such someone that turns a villain my be blamed for weak psyche, but I don't think I can call them inherently bad, more like "bad right now, in this moment"

And then there's subjectivity like Lens mentioned

@jestdotty You're saying what we're all thinking!

Being a garbage man is an important job. Also teachers and medical staff.

Your job is easier than the job or a nurse, yet they are not paid nowhere near as much as software engineer or a game developer on average.

So I don't care about how easy the job is, It's not a relevant metric, the real metric is how much value you bring in. And now we can start talking about how not all CEOs actually bring better value and definitely not better than your overworked medical staff.

Please, pay the people that matter, not the people that we assume must matter

@cuddlyogre for Local LLMs I do recommend DeepSeek R1, at low sizes like 7B it can get good enough speed and quality in my experience. And it has a good selection of sizes that you can experiment with. I used it to help me write a couple of game design docs. It's never perfect, but you can get close by refining your initial prompt instead of chatting, that just polutes the context imo, I prefer editing and re-generating the initial prompt until I get roughly what I want and then touch it up manualy.

Still, Something like Obsidian is gonna give you the most control and you likely want to use it even if you also use an llm

Regarding speeds, if you're in normal consumer HW and need to squeeze a bit more, you can try looking at Llamafile. It's an optimized way to run a single llm from a single executable and it can give you some extra tokens/s.

That's just my 2 cents :D

I actually set up my own mail just last month. It's awesome cause I can get as many throw away emails as I want and no website has my domain blacklisted so they can't fight back... Good for those pesky Times when Websites block or don't allow +suffixes on standard gmail

That is actually really cool. I like resource pooling. I may donate some at some point.

The model list is currently empty though, broken or just offline?

The only issue security wise is that the host can read the conpletion Traffic. Especially since ollama is open source you can hack your own client to even log all the messages to disk if you want. I built my own ollama client before, It's a well put together project so anyone can do it. :D but for things you don't care about It's always a good idea

@jestdotty Europe is bigger then the US though. Not by much, but it is ._.

@Demolishun they can, but as with all things AI, It's not perfect and It's an endless game of cat and Mouse.

My hope is people will value human art more than before, we just need to give it time. All the AI slop looks the same after a while, AI can't make new things, it can only mash old ones. So truly unique pieces will be valuable.

Where AI will dominate imo is Marketing. Worst art job anyway

You may not think there is such a thing as intellectual property... but since most of the world operates as if there was, then there is...

I'd also like to see that shit go or get changed in a major way, but alas, if IP exists to a lawyer and a judge, you can sue for it and you will be in the right

@Demolishun I'd even say that saying "certified human artist" is redundant. It should just be "certified artist"

... though who's the certification authority?... I'd hate to see an authority on who is an "artist" and who is not tbh...

in fact maybe just PGP keys and signed artwork might be enough... you can establish yourself as an artist yourself via speedpaints and being a generally good person to work with and art signed by your key would have higher value than unsigned one, not to mention it would be trace-able so if someone lied and made signed art using NNs a company could sue for exactly each piece of art that they delivered :P

@Lensflare When did logic ever work with people like this?

@CaptainRant Im just trying to explain my thought process on this. Corrct me if I misubderstood but the way I read your message is that you yourself lack logical thinking, even after all the years of experience. Or are you talking about other students?

@CaptainRant Im with CoreFusion on this. I've seen people struggle in uni with this, and I've spent time with them for 6 years and I don't think they ever improved. So Im really unsure that you can learn it. If yes then it probably takes a lot of effort and time. You can likely build some intuition with enough exposure, but the question then becomes how to get that exposure in such quality and quantity, because It's clearly not enough to just read books or listen to lectures. This imo requires active learning more than other subjects because It's impossible to describe something so abstract by a teacher but you can learn frameworks to use when you solve problems yourself. Learning the framework however is not the goal, the goal is to use it often with many problems and successfully solve them to build experience and Intuition

What they really want: vibe coder

Yeah, It's almost as if *transformers* were made to transform input and not to generate creative ideas, new code based on generic prompts or to sext with people.

I don't hate AI, I hate that It's being abused. Square peg forced into the round holes of all the users...

But use it correctly and you get reliable outputs. Even 1b models can do perfect mappings, formatting and info destilation most of the time, and you can run it on a cpu with great speed or on a consumer gpu instantly.

The only bugless code is an empty file