They've all passed through my town. They coordinated it all with our local sheriff's office and sent out notifications well in advance so people would know to take alternate routes.
Would love to read more about your time in NanoGPT. I've been getting familiar with it myself lately and it's still pretty much gibberish in the output with 16M, but the dataset is admittedly trash right now as well.
I recently moved to TubeSync and Jellyfin for YouTube videos. TubeSync will make a copy of the channel locally while applying Sponsorblock filters directly to the video file.
It checks nightly for any new videos on the channel and Jellyfin sends me a notification when a new video is ready to watch.
I just did a fresh Arch install last week. Running 6.4.1 kernel on a ThreadRipper CPU with an RTX 2070 Super and an RTX 3060. Driver version 535.54.03 and CUDA 12.2. Everything "just works". There was no manual configuration, tweaking or hacking around needed. No issues running Wayland, Proton is handling gaming beautifully and not a sign of screen tearing.
The experience is different for everyone it seems.
I'm not sure why it feels so weird either, but it definitely does. I was never a big fan of him personally, but have to agree with a lot of what he says. I think, for me at least, watching him work on a board while saying these things made it more relatable where this feels more like, "Gather round the big comfy chair, children. I cle Louis is going to rant and profanely scream about X, then talk to his cat in a baby voice."
When this started, I jokingly told my friend, "F it. I'll make my own reddit." Over the course of the evening (and just tinkering around some more the next day), I tossed this together: https://github.com/RemmyLee/effit/
Again, it was more of a joke than anything, but it quickly made me realize that the core of reddit is pretty easy to quickly toss together. If anyone wants to take that mess of code and do anything with it, by all means, feel free to.
The subreddit exists because a user created it. I created two subreddits 12 years ago that have a few hundred thousand subscribers today. So do I not have the right to set my subreddit to private? I never told people to join them. I never advertised them. Reddit has given me the built in functions to set it to private and to ban anyone I choose.
As a matter of fact, one of them has been private since this started and the other has remained open. They're both gaming related. I let my moderators decide because ultimately, they're the ones who have put the most work into keeping the curated. One group didn't really feel it was necessary while the other felt like it was a slap in the face from spez to essentially say, "I don't care what you think, 12 years of hard work to grow a community or not, you'll do what I say."
And I agree with them. They didn't moderate it for power. They did it because they love the specific console they were created for and are really proud to see their hard work pay off after years of investing their time into it. I've become jaded by this whole thing. Reddit no longer cares about its voluntary workforce in the slightest and I'll be handing ownership off to them, deleting my account and that will be the end of it.
So yes. In a way, it does belong to the users. But 48 hours of discomfort leading to threats of repossession after 12 years of work? They want it? They can have it.
I've been using llama.cpp with the python wrappers and it's the speed increase has been great, but it seemed to be limited to a max of 40 N_GPU_LAYERS. Going to have to update and see what sort of improvement I see.
That is going to be a factor in getting people to migrate. Convenience matters more than outrage. Lemmy's decentralization makes it a bother for most people. If they can't get instant gratification, they'll just go back to reddit.
I have issues with Ubuntu. When I switched to a Unix based environment 12 years ago, I did what was expected of anyone at that time. I read up and learned about my environment. It seems that users (end users that is) simply do not think that these things should be their concern. That Linux should just do everything out of the box. While I am all for the simplification of Linux for the masses, understanding that software patents, copyrights, and intellectual property (in the US mind you) is being infringed upon by following guides like these is important.
Ubuntu is basically encouraging such acts by offering these "solutions" in their repositories. There are commercial solutions that could be explored which would provide legal solutions. I understand that they are trying to "grow their brand", but it seems a rather unethical way to do it.
I talked about this back in December of last year at a conference. They actually announced this at an EU conference back then. The original plan was for Windows 8 to allow a genuine Unix stack to co-exist along side the Windows kernel.
In a way, this would bring Microsoft full circle. Anyone remember Xenix?