TropicalDingdong

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago

Instructions unclear. Bank account emptied by looking at link.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

2020 was a glorious year for punching fascists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

Yeah some of my team members use hf and it really does represent a convenience (basically a GitHub for models), but I'm sure to be clear we can't rely on them alone. I don't trust any company to exist or not be bought out and enshittified in 3 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

You missed the part where they prevented debates internal to the party, there by setting up the third parties in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Ikr? It really seems like the dismissiveness is coming from people either not experienced with it, or just politically angry at its existence.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean I've been doing this for 20 years and have led teams from 2-3 in size to 40. I've been the lead on systems that have had to undergo legal review at a state level, where the output literally determines policy for almost every home in a state. So you can be as dismissive or enthusiastic as you like. I could truly actually give a shit about ley opinion cus I'm out here doing this, building it, and I see it every day.

For any one with ears to listen, dismiss this current round at your at your own peril.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Dismiss at your own peril is my mantra on this. I work primarily in machine vision and the things that people were writing on as impossible or "unique to humans" in the 90s and 2000s ended up falling rapidly, and that generation of opinion pieces are now safely stored in the round bin.

The same was true of agents for games like go and chess and dota. And now the same has been demonstrated to be coming true for languages.

And maybe that paper built in the right caveats about "human intelligence". But that isn't to say human intelligence can't be surpassed by something distinctly inhuman.

The real issue is that previously there wasn't a use case with enough viability to warrant the explosion of interest we've seen like with transformers.

But transformers are like, legit wild. It's bigger than UNETs. It's way bigger than ltsm.

So dismiss at your own peril.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (18 children)

I think you live in a nonsense world. I literally use it everyday and yes, sometimes it's shit and it's bad at anything that even requires a modicum of creativity. But 90% of shit doesn't require a modicum of creativity. And my point isn't about where we're at, it's about how far the same tech progressed on another domain adjacent task in three years.

Lemmy has a "dismiss AI" fetish and does so at its own peril.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (26 children)

It's like the least popular opinion I have here on Lemmy, but I assure you, this is the begining.

Yes, we'll see a dotcom style bust. But it's not like the world today wasn't literally invented in that time. Do you remember where image generation was 3 years ago? It was a complete joke compared to a year ago, and today, fuck no one here would know.

When code generation goes through that same cycle, you can put out an idea in plain language, and get back code that just "does" it.

I have no idea what that means for the future of my humanity.

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Sundays (lemmy.world)
 

Hi Self hosting,

Its my day off and I'm going to be putting some work into my self hosted world today. I don't expect to get it all done in one go, but I've been piecing the parts together for a few months and I think I've got what I need. However, what I lack is any kind of overall mental model for how to think about or engineer this kind of system. I also don't know a ton about internet security or best practices, so I've been cautious about going too far too fast. I'm going to outline the parts and their intended uses here, and then if people could weigh in on parts or offer resources in the form of blog-posts or youtube videos to help me frame in my thinking, I would really appreciate it. My goal is to eventually fully de-google/ self host my world, and its going to take me a while but I think I can get there. If you only have an opinion about one piece of equipment, please consider sharing your experience there.

Equipment:

1: NAS/ Server

QNAP TS-464-8G-US 4 Bay High-Performance Desktop NAS with Intel Celeron Quad-core Processor, M.2 PCIe Slots and Dual 2.5GbE (2.5G/1G/100M) Network Connectivity (Diskless).

Currently, I'm thinking of the NAS as being the heart/ brains of the operation. Eventually I want to get a heavy duty machine with at least 128+GB ram and several video cards (for work/ self hosting), but right now, my plan is to just use the NAS for home automation purposes (any services I need to run). I want to put my 🏴‍☠️ 🎩 back on eventually, and also use this for hosting a Jellyfin or plex server (the more self hosted/ FOSS the better). Currently, I'm I've set up and configured the storage pools as one large pool, but that's it. I was also planning on storing any thing that should be kept from my security cameras here. It will also be housing the weather data I'm collecting. I also plan on using it to host my audio/ media server. We also want to be able to run something akin to a self hosted google drive so that these data are available to us away from our home.

2: Routers and switches

RT-AX86U

This is my main router for the house. It was a pretty high end router a couple years ago and has good coverage.

TP-Link TL-SG1005P 5 Port Gigabit PoE Switch 4 PoE+ Ports @65W Desktop Plug & Play Sturdy Metal w/ Shielded Ports Fanless Limited Lifetime Protection QoS & IGMP Snooping

I use this for my security cameras so that I only have to run one cable. I also was imagining that I may look into other POE devices and this could service them too.

3: Security Camera

Amcrest 4MP Outdoor PTZ POE AI IP Camera Pan Tilt Zoom Security Speed Dome, 5X Motorized Optical Zoom, Human Detection, 98ft Night Vision, Tripwire & Intrusion, POE (802.3at) IP4M-S2112EW-AI

I live in an area with a pretty extreme reputation. From our doorstep we've witnessed robberies, assaults, and b&e's.

4: Weather Station

RainmanWeather IoT Professional LoRa Weather Station WiFi Wireless

I have extensive gardens I've planted and have been a hobbiest in the personal weather station world for a few years. Eventually I want to tie this into my currently not smart irrigation system to automate irrigation.

5: Speakers

Audioengine A1-MR 60W Multiroom Home Speakers - WiFi Speaker System - Works with Online Music Streaming Services or Personal Libraries (Pair, Grey)

I bought these because for a period we had a sonos system, and although I liked it, I hated the walled garden. Its not entirely clear to me I'll be able to use these in the same manor, but I've been able to hack on them a bit and am continuing to explore what I can do with them. If I can figure out how to self host an audio stream (liken to an internet radio server, I think they'll work).

6: Smart switches

I have some smart switches for some outdoor light strings.

The vision I have is that one would have a web page or web portal that when you are on my home wifi, its available. It would show you the current weather, the view from the security camera, and give you access to the audio server if you want to put music on.

I'm not a network engineer, and although I do know how to write and understand, with enough effort, most common programming languages, I'm also not really a software engineer. I think I've got 'enough' skills and chops to create the glue where I need to, but just barely. So if there are canned solutions to some of these things, that is what I'm going to be trying to use. Where I can't (for example, the weather station), I'm pretty good at hacking in and around and getting out what I need.

I would really appreciate any thoughts, or ideas. Like I said, although I've hacked on some of this stuff before, this is my first attempt at a unified framework. I really don't like the direction the world and internet are going and this is my attempt to push back and assert some independence. Any advice and recommendations are thoroughly appreciated.

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