lol that was the first server i ever bought
#Brogramming Megathread
wicked shell
it was like $120 on ebay, fully loaded (minus drives)
i loved it when it was in the other room
got rid of it fast when i had to keep it in my office
lean vault
heh, most of my servers are sub $500 servers from ebay. Three of them I bought new though in 2017-2018.
I don't have anything in the rack older than Broadwell now though.
newest is Cascade Lake
the $60 Xeon Gold 6248s that power my most powerful server 😛
wicked shell
at one point i was all about having beefy equipment and way more resources than i would ever need, but i eventually got tired of it all and downsized everything into a standard ATX case with an AM4 build lol
luckily i built it when DDR4 was still cheap, so i got 128GB
still a lot more RAM than i need right now, but at least the form factor is much more convenient
and the Ryzen 5700G ain't no slouch either
lean vault
oh, my desktop is a 5900X
iron mulch
rocking a Xeon E5-2470 v2 in my server with 32G of ECC
lean vault
DDR3 even
iron mulch
I'm only using 1/3 of the ram, I was assuming my docker container habit would need way more
not too bad for nextcloud, unifi network, mariadb, pi-hole, a discord bot, and a bunch of random toy webapps I put up
wicked shell
my xeon build that i'm going to try and get up and running this weekend is running two E5-2695 V2
and 256GB of ECC DDR3
a remnant of my "way more power than i'll ever need" era lmao
this wasn't a bad price in 2022
iron mulch
I paid $200 for my entire server. friend price, but still
iron mulch
I'm hoping there will eventually be some smaller arm servers available. simply can't beat RISC for performance per watt
but the only ARM servers I've seen are way too big for what I need
wicked shell
oh shoot, i totally forgot I had a pi4 cluster at one point, lmao
had it in this cool rackmount thing with PoE
literally no use for it but the lights were pretty
white sparrow
ornate ferry
Not entirely new, Corsair was already selling "light enhancement kits" which were the same thing
this is just a crappy attempt to scam people
wicked shell
downloaded ram
iron mulch
wicked shell
private equity, my two favorite words 
rain matrix
Separately maybe.
chrome ledge
I love it when I unlock my iphone and I can’t touch anything on the home screen 
rain matrix
MC Hammer ass home sceen
sour hull
i love when i get accused of fraud because they "traced charges to my computer's ip address" (idk if it was a scam call or someone making up stuff, its 3rd hand info atp)
rain matrix
Almost assuredly a scam. "If you pay this fee now we'll close the case" type thing.
sour hull
i think its my grandpa's son in law trying to create resentment, actually.
because a scam call to someone else im not connected with in any way wouldn't have a way to tie into me regardless
sour hull
i would love to, but my grandpa is a senile old man that told me this. he doesnt know or understand shit
rain matrix
Better yet, phrase it as "my IP address is 192.168.0.1; is that the IP that's connected to the fraud?"
sour hull
well the best part is my computer's ip is technically my phones since i tether through it afaik, so why wouldnt they say that
wicked shell
yep, scam lol
how did your grandpa even get this idea, cold call? pop-up that said "your account has been compromised"?
sour hull
no from what i can discern, it was a call to his son in law, who then told him this info, because of the bank in question. im not able to get more info on it really, he said something about "well you cant access that google account anymore" and video rental charges. it was incoherent
wicked shell
also the public IP of your phone refreshes every 24-48 hours (depending on your carrier), so they would have to get the records from you phone carrier, which requires a police report/warrant
sour hull
oh theres so many issues with it, even i know that, but if i tried to explain he wouldnt listen
sorry it gets kinda off topic but, its a complicated situation i cant get out of fast enough. like the part about me specifically is almost definitely fabricated just to stir up stuff. same guy that accused me of drinking a whole gallon of orange juice and moving out over it
empty owl
more layoffs weeeeeeeee
normal tartan
sorry it gets kinda off topic but, its a complicated situation i cant get out of...
what
They
- Accused you of... drinking a drink?
- MOVED OUT because of it??
ornate ferry
pseudo plinth
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Good the judge did something. I was pissed when I heard about this, cause I love subnautica, but couldn't in good conscience buy the second if the money was all going to the CEO, and not the development team.
marble sparrow
V3 of my browser game "scuffed terraria" is live, now with zenith weapons, grenades, proper lighting, and a NUKE!!!!
https://buga.lol/misc/freakyterraria.html
If you make or do anything neat, take a screenshot and ping me! I want people to enjoy my scuffed creation xD
limber tiger
The scuff is beautiful
rain matrix
I cheated 😊
marble sparrow
I cheated 😊
Looked at the source code to figure out debug cheat? x3
or just edited starting loadout
if you press "evil" keyboard keys all at the same time, all crafting is free. it's "evil" because you're not playing normally as I intended xD
sour hull
not that its similar, but your game reminded me of the existence of this https://youtu.be/gCIYqAFwr38
marble sparrow
not that its similar, but your game reminded me of the existence of this https:/...
thank you for sharing, this is absolute ART
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marble sparrow
SO TRUE
marble sparrow
I cheated 😊
You're the only one who's checked it out I think, thanks!! Gave me the motivation to finish balance adjustments and make update 4! Still some placeholder effects on some items like the spears but it's kinda feature completeish
sour hull
i played it a little! i didnt accomplish much but it was cool! not a fan of the enemies dropping on my head though lmao
marble sparrow
i played it a little! i didnt accomplish much but it was cool! not a fan of the ...
it's a feature™
wicked shell
T-Mobile installed a 5G UC tower on the opposite side of town, lol
Not even full signal
lean vault
opposite side of town could be a mile, or it could be 20 😛
I don't know the capabilities of the tech and the range, I figured it would be highly distance sensitive, but looks pretty darn good to me
wicked shell
somewhere between 5 and 10 miles
actually let me measure it on google maps lol
5.4
unless the tower isn't where i think it is
lean vault
wicked shell
the other tower location is about 1.5 miles away
lean vault
holy heck I haven't tried to use mobile data from home in a long time
wicked shell
wow, that's wild lol
lean vault
my wifi can't go that fast 😛 I have old APs 😛
I have 1 Gb/110 Mb service at home though. At least I can achieve that on my desktop
wicked shell
i upgraded from wifi 6 to wifi 6E about two years ago, the difference was MASSIVE
wicked shell
i can get 2Gb/2Gb at my house, but my equipment is all 1Gb max, so why bother lol
my desktop is over wifi, kindof
it's connected over ethernet to the mesh satellite
which communicates to the main one plugged into the router lol
numbers go brrr and i didn't have to run ethernet across the house, so it's a big win for me lol
lean vault
I'll probably get 3/3 because why not, other than the machines I'll be using as a router only have 2.5 Gb ports.
The fiber facilities were installed back in December, but they're still not lit up in this neighborhood I guess
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it's connected over ethernet to the mesh satellite
I used to do this, but found my wifi card had better speeds than the satellites one lol
wicked shell
yeah mine probably would too, but i only pay for gigabit, and that's close enough for me lol
chrome ledge
The wifi in my desktop sucks actual ass so I have to use my old z fold 3 for usb wifi tethering
fleet python
Wi-Fi is the one thing I have going for me. I redid my network last year (four access points, all hardwired back to the router. I know that sounds excessive, but not in this house), and it's been so nice. Now, if only I could get a decent Internet connection. Every city around mine offers fiber. Surely any day now.
wicked shell
Wi-Fi is the one thing I have going for me. I redid my network last year (four a...
if my house had 4 access points
marble sparrow
if my house had 4 access points
I have a furry version of this lmao
wicked shell
lmao awesome
limber tiger
I love this
ornate ferry
Happening status: It's
pseudo plinth
slow solstice
Seems like a good time to aggressively job hunt
empty owl
yeah I'm supposed to go to a bachelor party in may but I think i'm gonna cancel and start job hunting
also I've been looking for an excuse to not go so ironically this helps
and saves money
pseudo plinth
the free market demands blood
i think if you ran on providing americans with the same sort of labor protections the french have you would win in a landslide but also i think you would realistically get domed before taking the oath
slow solstice
also I've been looking for an excuse to not go so ironically this helps
So relatable lol
wicked shell
just had a very awkward meeting, speaking of layoffs....
we recently bought another company and are working on merging our infrastructure
we were previously told their solarwinds admin was joining our team and we're going to migrate all their monitoring into our tool
we had a meeting scheduled for this morning for the solarwinds admin to show us their solarwinds environment
he was told 5 minutes before our meeting that he's being laid off by the end of April
understandably showed up to the demo meeting like "why would i put any effort into this"
slow solstice
Wow, that's some shitty timing
wicked shell
100%
they increased our workload but didn't increase our headcount
so now we have to manage solarwinds in addition to our existing shit
but i mostly feel bad for the guy that got laid off
this is a relatively niche job and a really bad market
i've been trying to transition my role into a more SRE direction, since that seems to be where the industry is moving
for that exact reason
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My workplace is making some decisions regarding what information AI has access to, and how we're going to use agentic AI in the workplace, and I feel they're just asking for a privacy incident. I'm actually amazed their proposals keep getting approved by our data privacy group
I hate the whole "we need to implement AI now or we'll fall behind everyone else". I'm fine with using AI in instances where it improves worker productivity without replacing jobs. But that doesn't extend to prematurely implementing new technologies when there's a data risk just to not "get left behind"
empty owl
Copilot, what products does COMPETITOR currently have in development?
guaranteed something like that will happen in the very near future
if it hasn't already happened
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Yeah - they're trying to automate a lot of our processes (I'm a triage analyst), which conceptually seems good. But you've got to realize, automated processes results in lazy people (even if you're told to double check), so I can totally see it coming back to bite them when an intern misses an incident cause the AI said it wasn't there
empty owl
i'm currently dealing with a project where the team sent me the automated scan results but didn't realize that there was no SCA scanning done
and if they did SCA, then there is no chance I would give the thumbs up for release
we're using libraries deprecated 7 years ago!
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I truly believe the problem with genAI in the workplace has little to do with the AI, and everything to do with human psychology
empty owl
oh definitely
also we're going to de-skill ourselves
if genAI could truly eliminate most human work, I'm all for it in theory
but there's no political will to restructure society and economies around 80% unemployment lol
somber oak
TLDR: We're all screwed.
blazing swan
chrome ledge
I got a springboard crash on my iPad, I don’t think I’ve ever got one before
Or it’s been a long ass time, but still 
pseudo plinth
it's a testament to their software engineering that it doesn't happen very regularly at all
i genuinely can't recall the last time it happened to me
people who have never used an apple device have a lot to say about them but the beautiful thing is that they really do just work
blazing swan
I've had two Settings icons on my iPad for a few years now 
lean vault
pseudo plinth
the science backs it up! https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
ornate ferry
normal tartan
I got 0.04 the first time because in the very first test I didn't understand what I had to do and clicked way off lmao https://i.imgur.com/cIxV0Px.png
ornate ferry
.0032 here
normal tartan
https://i.imgur.com/TG35OLQ.png Hard mode is not that much different tbh I'm surprised they say most people do a fair bit worse
sour hull
I got 0.0039 but, it got way easier after I turned up my brightness at the very end
supple creek
this showed how bad i am at blue/green colors lol
normal tartan
Apparently if you do well enough it says this: https://i.imgur.com/T0bsS4c.png
thorn aurora
my cursor disappeared on one of them and missed a couple
vale isle
I was watching YouTube videos on my Framework 13 with the speakers for the first time (I almost always use earbuds) and they did not sound great, so I downloaded an Easy Effects preset from Framework's GitHub for the FW13 on Fedora and holy hecc they sound so much better now
still not the best, but so much better than they did before
pseudo plinth
oh boy, new security agent on my workstation started flagging python scripts i write
that's not going to be insanely annoying at all
empty owl
Teams randomly unfocuses the message box and then creates a meeting at the next 15 min interval with whatever I was typing
so annoying
every day like 10 of these
ornate ferry
Reminder that you can schedule your own daily recurring all-day meeting titled "Work"
empty owl
I just make a meeting titled "Busy" when I want to go out for a walk or something lol
somber oak
rain matrix
One of my monitors apparently has a harder time with reds and the other has a harder time with blues, but funnily enough on both monitors I get 0.0040
slow solstice
Gave the Copilot "summarize email" functionality a try for the first time on a lengthy email thread, it misstated something really important
Last time I used it was to group some messy notes in a logical way and it was not great at that either
chrome ledge
Copilot fucking something up? Color me shocked
slow solstice
Yeah, and yet we're being encouraged to use it as much as possible. I seem to be the only AI skeptic on my team, but maybe everyone else is just keeping their mouths shut too lol
arctic jasper
I need to check with my PM again cause what it looks like I'm having to do for work is wild. I've been enrolled into 6 udacity courses all about AI, and each course from what I can see has me doing 2 actual full on projects using torch and whatnot. This would actually take a month of my time to do thoroughly
pseudo plinth
pseudo plinth
was doing my usual gear research and was reading about these new "1-bit dacs" that everyone is so excited about. since i've been fully indoctrinated by amir and the rest of the audio science review folks my bullshit detector went off instantly, so i decided to do some digging... turns out they're a cost-saving design from decades ago that's impossible to optimize, but that bad-faith companies pitch to unsuspecting buyers because of course they are
really funny to find a paper from 2001 dispelling the claims of a dac i was eyeing that was just announced last year
everything old is new again i suppose
i do love the idea of a perfectly neutral bit-perfect dac but we're in the era of 24-bit and higher, i don't know that it's possible to actually process that bit-by-bit without the modern multi-stage r2r/delta-sigma designs we have now
ornate ferry
rain matrix
Someone used a SwiCC to automate shiny hunting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZ13pX05xs
limber tiger
This is what no shining power does to people
pseudo plinth
well this was an informative read https://archimago.blogspot.com/2024/05/high-end-dac-blind-listening-results.html
tl;dr: in a blind test audiophiles can perceive differences in dacs and tend to prefer higher-end ones
the main takeaway i think is that the differences that are detected are generally not significant and most respondents don't think they justify an upgrade
so basically: buy a nice dac and it'll sound as good as it can
pseudo plinth
on this topic: was asked to post a request in a teams channel today. so i go looking for it in the teams menu, it's nowhere to be found in my available teams. i know what it's called so i search for it, but it doesn't bring anything up except for some messages that link to a thread in that team. so i click the link and i have to join the team from there because guess what? the "join team" dialogue is only accessible from the teams menu if you click the arrow next to "create team"
genuinely believe that whoever is responsible for teams ux narrowly survived being kicked in the head by a horse at some point
blazing swan
same could be said for a lot of Microsoft UX IMO
pseudo plinth
yeah outlook is psychotic
when i create a new message all of the useful things like, you know, ATTACHING A FILE are hidden out of view from me for reasons i cannot even begin to understand
because who ever attaches a file to emails these days. just use onedrive moron
blazing swan
yeah, at least it saves if you customize that toolbar
Outlook "we're gonna save all your settings in the cloud except your signature because we'd rather put an ad for Outlook there by default instead"
pseudo plinth
yeah, at least it saves if you customize that toolbar
see i didn't even know that you could
ornate ferry
genuinely believe that whoever is responsible for teams ux narrowly survived bei...
Are you sure they survived? Maybe the rest of the team asks an ouija board for ux guidance
white sparrow
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and so did the source code for F35s????
Like the Lockheed Martin fighter jet F35?
I knew about Claude
empty owl
Like the Lockheed Martin fighter jet F35?
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That's kinda shameful. A company with that much restricted information and that much money should have the best defensive security in the world.
empty owl
from what I've read it's apparently an Iran-linked hacker group
but also who really knows. they like to attribute data breaches to adversarial countries all the time
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Yeah its probably kinda hard to attribute to someone if they know what they're doing, unless they claim credit. Easier to just blame DPRK or China
pseudo plinth
i'm not seeing anything about lockheed?
rain matrix
"Don't make mistakes."
empty owl
engineer probably makes $250k to do this
ornate ferry
250? buddy it's much much more than that
arctic jasper
this vulnerability is #11? we keep those
pseudo plinth
always love when a server takes significantly longer than it should to reboot, then the second i log into the bmc it stops pinging
ornate ferry
pseudo plinth
this is the sort of tech grumpiness i aspire to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7mc-D5V4L8
i actually have written a decent amount of code in interlisp but i brush up against cltl1 syntax/limitations too often to be truly productive :x guess i'm a poser
empty owl
another customer freaking out that images aren't loading
and what do you know, it's their network scanning being overprotective once again!
if you want images to load quickly, then you can't scan every single one coming through
so stupid
pseudo plinth
oh hey that thing that everyone said would happen happened https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
arctic jasper
ornate ferry
classic
ornate ferry
can't spell "fart" without "art"
ornate ferry
lean vault
Semi-spontaneous purchase, and a reason to visit my local Micro Center for the first time. Had to take it out of the box for it to fit in my car 😛
(that Micro Center opened last year I think)
lean vault
My Prusa i3 mk3s has been broken for over a year and I haven't had the motivation to fix it.
so maybe I'll part it out and sell the pieces
rain matrix
Very fun. Maybe we'll see you in #1377455585276067920
blazing swan
lean vault
<:raysLook:1476132756839862302>
:3
hehe
strange that they have like two or three 3D printers right next to the entrance and then the whole big section for them in the back
at this point I'm assuming these are at the actual same store, since the layout looks identical :3
pseudo plinth
oh hey look the Chatbot That Makes You Suffer Psychosis is still making people suffer psychosis https://bsky.app/profile/mharrisondupre.bsky.social/post/3mjfs7xr5ek2e
really awful stuff and if i said what i think should happen to the people with the ability to stop this who continually ignore it i would get banned from discord!
pseudo plinth
as someone who's been in similar situations i feel deeply for both of these women
there's nothing worse than trying desperately to convince someone you're sincerely trying to help that you're not a threat to them and now they can just pull out their phone and ask the magical internet box if i'm gaslighting them and it'll say yep! he sure is
i still think about those people sometimes
nothing terrifies me more than losing my grip on reality because you do not know it is happening
lean vault
It's amazing how much of human psychology we haven't been able to predict and figure out. I don't think anyone would have predicted widespread psychosis from people talking to chatbots 5 years ago.
pseudo plinth
my genuine concern is that this is affecting and will continue to affect a lot of vulnerable people if we don't put the brakes on it now, but worse than that we're only seeing the people who are getting caught by the filter of concerned friends/family. gotta imagine there are just as many people who don't have that support system and are just disappearing into their delusions
it turns out that humans are very easily impressionable creatures and if you spend billions of dollars telling them that they can download an app on their phone that's smarter than them and knows everything because it's been trained on everything you can bet your ass it's going to break some of their brains
slow solstice
Yeah I don't know that I would have predicted this kind of thing, but if you'd told me it was going to happen, I'd be like "yeah that sounds right" because of how algorithms and shit were already influencing people
lean vault
if we don't put the brakes on it now
unstoppable force vs immobile object thing, those with the most influence will likely not be in favor of any brakes, so I feel like the only alternative is to work on the support systems for people who are vulnerable.
rain matrix
It's amazing how much of human psychology we haven't been able to predict and fi...
Possibly might have if connections were made to "enabling," which is a big part of why it causes problems.
lean vault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Bough_Breaks_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation) somehow reminded of this episode more and more
pseudo plinth
lol
when i worked in webhosting probably 70% of the tickets i worked on were "compromised wordpress site"
ornate ferry
I mean their plugin security model is "please don't be bad :)"
pseudo plinth
"Allbirds announced Wednesday that it is pivoting from sustainable shoes to artificial intelligence compute." https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html
Scam World baby
slow solstice
Stock is up by 700%? Jesus Christ why are people so stupid, I literally expected that to be an Onion article
"You put AI in your name? Take all my money!!!"
lean vault
probably investor FOMO more than anything
pseudo plinth
beelining past the 30 seconds of research it would take to figure out this is a scam on my way to accept my trophy for Da World's Dumbest Bag Holder
i mean yeah $3 to $13 it's a cheap stock but at least we get to make fun of all of them for it
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It is so easy to not lose money in the stock market if you just don't invest in anything you hear people telling you to invest in
iron mulch
this is one of the best videos I have ever watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1si1y5lvkk
arctic jasper
tom7 back with another banger
slow solstice
Coworker says they will handle very overdue task in the morning
I log in today and check their calendar, PTO through next Monday
blazing swan
sounds like coworker might be taking their last PTO then
ornate ferry
Surprise, their 2 week notice ends tomorrow
slow solstice
If this was a one-time thing I wouldn't be so annoyed but I'm sure you can guess this is a pattern lol
pseudo plinth
blazing swan
I eagerly await LPL's teardown.
pseudo plinth
i'm obviously not on that level of lockpicker but frankly i don't see a way to attack it
he does have a professional locksmith go at it but you literally cannot access the keyway, once you start tensioning it it's gone
pseudo plinth
gee with backend engineers this smart it's no wonder bsky spent the last 14 hours flopping around like a beached carp https://bsky.app/profile/anndra.bsky.social/post/3mjmcrmhnt22y
i can't wait for them to well ackshually everyone about how it wasn't the vibe-coding they have openly admitted to doing but some cool and interesting second thing that we are not allowed to see
again
arctic jasper
This was hilarious to see earlier today lmao https://bsky.app/profile/tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com/post/3mjnidouw7s2p
ornate ferry
pseudo plinth
blazing swan
trans ISO 
rich gyro
the year month day thing is the same in Japan
pseudo plinth
hm, well this is something i haven't had to deal with before. i have an api endpoint that returns the following information about some public keys: kty (type), alg (algorithm+keysize), kid, use (usage flag), e (4 bits), and n. given what info i have, can i derive a PEM-format certificate?
for whatever reason the team i'm working with is not receptive to just opening a ticket with the vendor so i'd like to be able to say "yeah i can't use that" or just get the thing i need
iron mulch
that sounds like JSON web key which is a fairly well specified format
there are libraries for most modern programming languages that let you transpose between them. node has it built-in
if you just want a binary to do it for you this looks promising and it's in (at least) debian package archives as "jwt-tools" https://github.com/benmcollins/libjwt
oops, forgot to reply so you would see this. @pseudo plinth see above
pseudo plinth
:)
rugged ivy
ornate ferry
Possibly dumb question, but does anyone know of any services that will download some large amount of data on your behalf and then ship a drive to you with said data?
There's an LLM I'd like to try locally, but it's roughly 750 gig in size and on my connection that will take like 2 weeks assuming no interruptions
white sparrow
that's the kind of thing where you get your laptop and a portable hdd and ask a friend with a gbit line to let you use his net for a while, and in the meantime go out for dinner or something, your treat
vague peak
How much vram does a local model that large take?
marble sparrow
The cloud models can use up to like 5TB of combined vram
So I'd say probably a lot? idk, it's more of a fun fact than anything
lean vault
https://bsky.app/profile/superfromnd.bsky.social/post/3mk7unbzr5s2w
There doesn't seem to be consensus on whether this is legit or actual phishing. My bet's on the OP being paranoid and super cautious (not a bad thing) and that it's actually an official Google email. I got it to two of my main Google accounts, even though the secondary account is only for one purpose and no one other than Google should have it.
vague peak
There doesn't seem to be consensus on whether this is legit or actual phishing. ...
I also got this email and looked at the headers and all the links. They are all to the c.gle domain which google controls the whole TLD of. Also I found someone being paranoid about this last year about the same time lol
lean vault
c.gle makes me think it's just a click-tracking thing
vague peak
it is strange that there is no BIMI stuff on the email though
I bet the ublock origin popup is what scared them since it is a redirect to https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/ads/preferences which is on the blocked domains list for ad reasons
ornate ferry
How much vram does a local model that large take?
Roughly same amount as the model + another 4 gigs or so for context. I'd be getting a 4-bit quantization (so really more like 375gb) and offloading the vast majority to RAM, only have 60gb vram on that system
ornate ferry
slow solstice
Update on coworker who left on vacation after telling me they'd do something: the thing still is not done I could have done it 10x by now but I'm being told to delegate so 
ornate ferry
you could always delegate it to AI
it would probably be done more competently too than by that coworker from the sound of things
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If it can save a PNG, it can probably run DOOM
fiery ridge
any of yall know what my problem is? i tried googling and the extent of my understanding of the results were to restart my router and restart my computer and ive done both several times and my computer just simply doesnt except my wifi network and its driving me insane
vague peak
Have you tried forgetting the network and reauthenticating?
fiery ridge
yeah that too
vague peak
If other devices are working I'd assume it's something on this computer
fiery ridge
okay i just did some bullshit and it seemed to work out
my "configure ipv4" was at "using dhcp with manual address" and i just changed it to "using dhcp" and now it works so i guess i should apply for a job at IT
vague peak
IDK why that setting wouldn't have been reset by forgetting the network but glad it works now
wicked shell
waiter: "what would you like to order?"
dhcp: "surprise me"
dhcp with manual address: "surprise me, but with the salmon"
pseudo plinth
ornate ferry
maybe it takes the phrase "goblin mode" and runs with that in a more literal sense?
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maybe it just really likes The Hobbit
arctic jasper
Sounds like goblins are part of its personality 
marble sparrow
https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3mkjwmbebr22p
"chatGPT would you like to have a discussion on goblins?"
ChatGPT: NO
rain matrix
Someone used a SwiCC to draw comments in Tomodachi Life.
https://github.com/Godson777/PaintMii
What's funny is that the initial reason I made SwiCC was to draw comments in Mario Maker 😂
marble sparrow
Someone used a SwiCC to draw comments in Tomodachi Life.
https://github.com/Gods...
I was literally programming something like that right now
I wanted a way to import images into the game
rain matrix
Well, their code might give you a head start!
marble sparrow
I will check it out!
limber tiger
https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3mkjwmbebr22p
Dammit how do I make goblin jokes now?
marble sparrow
I've never looked at the 2wicc or swicc repo before this makes everything SO easy- I was just like "yep the easiest way is to make this from scratch"
pseudo plinth
rain matrix
It was too powerful; they need to save some capability for version 6 to keep the investors coming.
marble sparrow
Gotta keep the #PigeonPower under wraps
marble sparrow
So I'm looking at the tomodatchi life living the dream swicc script right now and I've found a TON of room for improvement. Specifically, I think I might be able to use the paint bucket tool to optimize large areas of one color, which would be an insane speed increase for toony images
As well as batching similarly colored spots into color groups to reduce the amount of time spent choosing colors in the toolbar
rain matrix
Oh for sure, optimizing that is a very fun but very difficult problem.
rain matrix
Very cool.
marble sparrow
marble sparrow
fixed issues with the script not using multiple colors each pass
rugged ivy
Chat, its time to make people feel old
ornate ferry
IRC? still used quite a bit
rugged ivy
They had much older tech running like typewriter fax machines and working mechanical rotary phone switch board.
marble sparrow
Chat, its time to make people feel old
can I join the furry irc
empty owl
25 years late for that
marble sparrow
25 years late for that
nuh uh they talking about protos in the pic
ornate ferry
If the server's still up you should be able to just point an IRC client to irc.furrytel.net and join #furrytel
pseudo plinth
rain matrix
I wouldn't be surprised if including "you are a world class expert in all domains" actually increases hallucinations.
pseudo plinth
this is functionally equivalent to telling your dog he's a classically trained musician and therefore would never shit on the rug and getting mad when he does
fundamentally unserious people
rain matrix
My hypothesis would be that it makes it more likely to produce answer-like text even in situations where it might otherwise not.
slow solstice
Sounds like I'm going to start being measured on my use of AI at work every time I've used the work-approved AI tools they have been completely unhelpful. It feels inescapable though, like what tech job could I possibly find that wouldn't end up doing this eventually?
empty owl
whenever my company starts requiring AI usage I'm gonna look for a new career path
tech is done as long as we let salesmen with drug-induced psychosis run the industry
slow solstice
It really crossed my mind. But I don't really have any other skills lol
lean vault
downdetector certainly points to a hosting provider monoculture, and I feel like it's not gonna get any better any time soon
arctic jasper
whenever my company starts requiring AI usage I'm gonna look for a new career pa...
I'm at that point myself, I don't think I wanna go back into this industry. At least not for any major company or one that's vc backed
ornate ferry
Sounds like I'm going to start being measured on my use of AI at work <:YEP:8461...
Place your AI into plan mode, ask it to generate plans for you
you will burn tokens and it won't touch your actual code
this is what a friend at microsoft did in response to being told to use more AI
alternatively, it's very useful for generating test cases and unit tests
lean vault
it's useful for generating tools to help with automation but seems like a bad idea to ask it to do the automation itself. As in, don't ask AI to convert data from one format into another since you can't trust it not to make mistakes along the way, but you can ask it to write code to do it.
That's what we're mainly using it for at work, automation pain points. We're not a large company, we have small teams and people that wear many hats.
pseudo plinth
regularly amazes me that my 2021 m1 air can tank multiple days of being untethered but not even 8 hours into the day my dell work laptop from last year is already begging to be charged
lean vault
Linux user here, anything over 3 hours is beyond my expectations 😛
pseudo plinth
it really is kind of incredible, i haven't used asahi/openbsd for long enough to test it there but under macos i can get like a week of regular on-off usage out of this machine before i have to plug it in
obviously that's without doing any seriously resource-intensive tasks, but using it for web browsing, chat, admin of other machines, writing interpreted code, etc it's incredible
exact same workflow with the dell and... 🙃
white sparrow
iron mulch
arm is the way of the future. the software is 90% there but of course the last 10% of the work takes 50% of the time
lean vault
I'd be happy to get my hands on a proper Linux ARM laptop one of these years
rain matrix
No love for RISC-V?
rain matrix
I think less than 10 years, especially if China keeps running with it.
blazing swan
inner flicker
Localhost 
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Bruh, they're gonna to build a 40k acre (62 sq miles, 162 sq kilometers, or roughly 2.5x the size of Manhattan) data center in my state. It's gonna use 9GW of energy (more than twice as much as the entire state currently uses). Everyone's freaking out about water usage, but it's going to use less water than the agricultural land that's currently there. However, I cannot comprehend what our politicians are being told to convince them it's necessary. They're saying it's "national security", and the military is letting them build portions of it on their land, but I don't buy it. I'm all for letting people use their land for whatever they want to use it for, so long as that use does not infringe upon others rights or property. But the amount of carbon the generator will produce, the heat island effect from 16GW of heat release a day, and the increase of natural gas prices (and thus energy prices) the whole state is gonna see cannot possibly be worth it.
Also, I don't imagine it's going to be profitable for the investors. It'll take decades to complete, and by that time I suspect the data center demand will have gone down after the AI bubble has popped.
empty owl
I think a lot of the data center stuff is just a land grab by billionaires
they'll use data centers as justification to hold even more private property
just like Amazon does all over the country. They promise storefront and buy up properties then end up building nothing and just sitting on land
I'm glad that public opinion seems to be strongly against data center construction
pseudo plinth
woah
seller mislabeled, that’s one of a few surviving straight 8s
is that serial #16????
it looks like it, jesus
confirmed with other examples, that's pdp-8 #16
rain matrix
Make a best offer of $500
vale isle
this is one of the worst videos I have seen https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FmPfsq2xXbU
empty owl
Lmao why is it from signalrgb
twilit crest
pseudo plinth
Bluesky
chrome ledge
It happened again
What made it even fucking better is that it didn’t even boot to windows, so I had to force shut it off and then it did its update bullshit
And this isn’t a windows issue, but for whatever reason the RGB lights on my G-skill ram sticks don’t turn off after a cold reboot, so I had to click on the G-skill app and then it remembers “oh yeah, I’m supposed to be off”
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I've disabled automatic updates lol
slow solstice
I love when someone isn't paying attention to a meeting and they stay in it way after everyone else and make the recording twice as long 
empty owl
I love when someone isn't paying attention to a meeting and they stay in it way ...
every company wide meeting there are like 80+ stragglers lol
slow solstice
Oh that's probably why my company does zoom webinars for company wide stuff, I never thought about it lol
pseudo plinth
it's ok to put smiley faces in production code, anyone telling you otherwise is a filthy liar
empty owl
i can't wait to go back to writing code
friday should be the end of this shit
i'll finally go back to being a developer rather than a product security "expert"
pseudo plinth
i'm still an ops guy but i write a lot of code
tooling, integrations, and automations mostly
empty owl
what my actual role is supposed to be is like a customer facing engineer
but on the sustaining side
so I get in calls with customers and hear out their issues and investigate whether it is a bug or not, and if it is a bug I write the code to fix it
I find the investigative process super fun
but i have been a 'product security engineer' for like 7 months now. and it is mostly documentation work
pseudo plinth
my official title is "linux systems engineer" and i guess i'm mostly happy
i'm happiest when i'm building things from scratch though and lately it's just been tending the herd
slow solstice
Actually lol'd because Teams summarized a joke someone made during a meeting that mentioned me, but not the other parts where people actually said relevant stuff to me
lean vault
rain matrix
This is why they stopped using PS/2
languid burrow
Just a normal pr
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412
rugged ivy
I just came in here to say that I hateis the first thing Android 16 does when you update to it is show you all the gen ai stuff it added.
-# Also they are doing the same thing as iOS with transparent everything and I do not like how various UIs have been simplified to a bar that looks like I can move it around but cant
chrome ledge
Random question:
For any of you that have a Mac and and iPhone, do you use iPhone mirroring? I used it for the first time after forgetting it existed and it’s kinda neat I guess
It's neat that you can copy & paste text from one to another
rich gyro
I mean Windows link is kinda similar in a way from what I can see
I have attempted to plat Colorful Stage on my pc with Windows link and I was cry laughing cause the game was so fucking laggy
pseudo plinth
Random question:
For any of you that have a Mac and and iPhone, do you use iPh...
only when i need something off my phone that isn't on my laptop like 2fa codes
thorn aurora
And this isn’t a windows issue, but for whatever reason the RGB lights on my G-s...
I have the same issue with icue. Sucks but no other way other than dedicated backdoors
thorn aurora
I find the investigative process super fun
What’s the worst case you’ve had? Seems like it could be extreme
empty owl
What’s the worst case you’ve had? Seems like it could be extreme
there was one that took like 8 months for me to figure out. one of our products is basically a network attached endoscope imaging/recording system.
this customer had a specific setting enabled and a strange workflow. They would start a procedure in one room while hardwired in to the hospital network by taking an image of the patient wristband with all of their info on it. Then then would unplug the scope and wheel the system into the exam room, put the wristband on the patient, and do the exam.
because it is not on the network during the exam, all of the images and videos are stored locally on the scope until it is on the network again. when reconnected, all of the images come over at once. but if there were 16+ images taken during the exam, not all of them would appear in the web portal to view exam images.
all of the images were being sent to the server upon reconnect, but they weren't all written to the big xml file that basically stores all the metadata for displaying the thumbnails and all that on the website
so there was an actual bug, but it took forever to even learn about this weird workflow and then even longer to learn about the setting they had enabled which affected it
thorn aurora
Very interesting thx for sharing
empty owl
they aren't usually that convoluted\
there was one where our interface to a 3rd party application was blocking calls because someone made every API call log all of the file info for every binary file in the directory lol
blazing swan
Random question:
For any of you that have a Mac and and iPhone, do you use iPh...
yah I use it a lot for Signal, etc
rain matrix
Friend of mine just sent me "amazing course materials" from a graduate controls course he's taking. It's all AI-generated vibe-coded garbage 🤦♂️
Bugs and UI issues in every simulation.
slow solstice
Yikes, I hope he's not paying out of pocket for it
rain matrix
The best part: the bottom of each webpage says "Prohibited without prior written permission: [...] - Distributing to [...] AI training datasets."
lean vault
is it just me or does the word iterable look enough like irritable that you want to say it that way?
rain matrix
I'm considering reverse engineering a program from 1968 (originally written in FORTRAN). The user's manual is a hoot.
"Core Storage requirements are approximately 58,000 positions (bytes)."
empty owl
pseudo plinth
no customer impact, not my problem
pseudo plinth
Bluesky
slow solstice
tbf the golden age of Google Search has been over for years, this is just spitting on its grave
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I really don't care when companies add or integrate AI into their products. But I do care when they don't give me the option to not use these "features" if I don't want to.
blazing swan
vale isle
I just so happened to download the appimage in the time it was compromised
ornate ferry
rip
vale isle
I'm really annoyed too because prefer flatpaks and I didn't see a flatpak on the github and didn't check flathub for some reason
even though that's where I usually check for something first
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Well, I gotta give Anthropic props here. My views have never been pro-AI, and I never expected these startups to actually turn a profit. I guess I was wrong. Still not a fan of LLMs though.
I hope Anthropic maintains their lead in the industry, because I trust them a whole lot more than any of these other companies. I feel like they are the only ones to take AI safety seriously.
ornate ferry
the way to do it IMO is run local models, and use your own frontend (or something open source)
you get the benefits of it in speeding up development, and you don't hand your code over to these companies for training data
the electrical costs for inference are negligible, I have a power sucking workstation and my bill averages roughly $10 more per month
rugged ivy
https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DYlUIeztP5g/?igsh=cGpqOW04NG9yOXc= new file transfer system dropped
rain matrix
My first question was also what the effective bitrate was.
Max size QR at 30Hz would be well under 1 Mbps. Could maybe have four QR codes in a grid since they're only 177 pixels wide.
rugged ivy
It also looks like the sender is having to read a qr code so there maybe delay in it having to read and interpret information it receives (mostly a received signal, basic id of what it received, and ready to receive signal). You also have to factor in qr code generation and if it can send compressed data.
blazing swan
fleet python
After years of annoyance that every city around mine had fiber internet offerings, it's finally here 
Now I can be annoyed that current extent of the build out ends directly across the street from me 
(But you know what? It's progress. I'll take that)
ornate ferry
https://localsend.org/
python -m http.server 8000; browse on target device and download
lean vault
After years of annoyance that every city *around* mine had fiber internet offeri...
Buildout happened on my street in December, but the service still isn't available. The utilities in the area have been marked multiple times since then, including about 2 weeks ago.
About a year and a half ago, the local cable company must have found out that my address would be getting fiber, and offered a promo which both removes the data cap and also cuts the bill in half. Funny what happens when competition at least theoretically exists.
fleet python
I'm on AT&T copper, which is set to be retired by 2029. Theoretically, they could stall just across the road for the next three years, but I'm choosing to believe 
lean vault
I also have CenturyLink / Lumen copper as a backup, but it is starting to become flaky. When I get fiber, that will probably be the one I drop
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Man I forget how lucky I am to have gotten fiber years ago
I guess that's the advantage of living within 20 minutes of two large universities
ornate ferry
pseudo plinth
:>>>
chrome ledge
I have an old hard drive in my cuurent desktop that was the original bootdrive from my old hand me down computer, I think the drive was manufactured in 2011
It's not like I use it for anything useful, but how tf is it still working lmao
rain matrix
This doesn't seem right.
blazing swan
adam, is that you
ornate ferry
keyboard cat?
rain matrix
Console just decided to print it as the error message.
lean vault
right after exiting a command.. some escape sequence that tried to get the terminal to say something back I ugess
f16 ~ # 11;rgb:0000/0000/0000;1R11;rgb:0000/0000/0000;1R
looks similar to the above from KNfLrPn
lean vault
saw this linked in another discord... while I've been involved in revoking access to a series of accounts this morning :/
empty owl
yeah i've noticed many of my coworkers actively becoming dumber
ornate ferry
it's really powerful and useful, but you gotta take a "trust but verify" approach with it
the biggest thing I've found, at least so far for my workflows, has been to put some validation steps in my CLAUDE.md for a project
basically "you can't claim you're done unless you run these commands to build, verify the build succeeds, then run these tests and verify they all pass"
also every few days dedicate a run to code review/quality assessment since it can definitely explode your codebase if left unchecked
pseudo plinth
the only thing i use ai for is post-hoc typing of python projects because it seems to be halfway decent at that
i try and avoid using it wherever possible otherwise for various reasons i won't get into
white sparrow
if I've got any choice in the matter, I'll avoid LLMs like the plague
(I won't call it AI cause it heckin ain't)
empty owl
even if the tech gets to a point where it actually works
i don't want to offload my critical thinking and problem solving skills to these corporations
that's like the entirety of my stance lol
ornate ferry
Don't outsource your thinking, but also don't discount the technology. I had exactly the same stance of avoiding it entirely up to a couple months ago, until I started trying it out in earnest. Will it replace me? Not yet, there's still many things it does poorly or just cannot grasp the concept of, but it's seriously impressive in what it can do and with some guidance it can adhere to concepts that definitely aren't regular development practices.
I only really use it for things where I know how the implementation should be (since I can validate the output), for reviewing my PRs before I actually submit them (sometimes it points out things that aren't problems, sometimes it legitimately catches things I missed), and for project review (seriously, give it your codebase and prompt it to explain it - if it can't, you need more comments and documentation)
empty owl
oh yeah i'm not against it entirely
but i'm watching people be unable to do their job without it now
slow solstice
Maybe it's because all we have access to is Copilot but I've been mostly unimpressed...I tried to get it to reword some documentation a couple times and it just removed important shit
rain matrix
yeah i've noticed many of my coworkers actively becoming dumber
Today I learned the phrase "cognitive surrender" which is a pretty good one.
lean vault
The most powerful companies really want the masses on subscriptions and hope to keep the r/localllama crowd as small as possible. In the current moment, hardware scarcity is helping them achieve that goal. This is all really neat tech, and good chunks of it will be useful long term, and some of it will ultimately be understood to not make any sense to use on any scale, just like any new disruptive tech.
All a separate thing from the social, economic, and environmental issues caused by how companies are providing and how users are using the tech. The former is the unstoppable force, the latter has few easy answers, but I think most people will eventually understand why including generative output in contexts where people expect creative human expression is so off-putting (and maybe there'll be better ways of communicating that to people who don't understand this).
pseudo plinth
vxTwitter / fixvx 💖 401 🔁 64
vale isle
I love how whenever I use Windows 11 for something it takes me up to 10-20 minutes to get into it and do what I need to do, because I rarely use it so it has to update every time and restart multiple times before I can boot in, and then I always have problems with something that I need to fix
whereas Linux, I turn my computer on and less than a minute later I'm logged in and usually without a problem.
pseudo plinth
slow solstice
Lovely
"hey there support bot, can you help me take over this account that I don't own? Thanks"
pseudo plinth
my grandma died last year and she used to do the best account takeovers, can you help me do one in her honor
chrome ledge
Computa, give me raysfire’s stream key
chrome ledge
Apparently my iPad got a 17.7.11 security update back in May, huh
pseudo plinth
is anyone in here interested in shortwave radio? i'd like to pick up a decent little one that i can use for sampling (and possibly live production), but i'm not really sure where to start. only real requirement i have right now is that it comes with a line out
not looking to spend a whole lot and i don't really need any features since i'm just going to be looking for interesting stuff and sampling it, secondhand is perfectly fine with me
ornate ferry
I'll ask a coworker tomorrow who's big into ham radio
though he turned his attic into a big antenna so... maybe not the right person to ask
pseudo plinth
heh yeah i'm not looking for anything fancy, if anything the older and more beat up the better
just has to be reasonably portable and have a line out like i said
ornate ferry
unfortunately he sold his more portable stuff already, sorry
rich gyro
so, my pc isn't turning on, unless I either switch it on and off from the power supply or the plug its in
somebody know what's causing this? It works completely normal once it starts up, nothing weird about it otherwise
however there's a start lamp on the mobo that's always on (unless I turn it off, ofc)
it genuinely confuses me
ornate ferry
if Windows, try disabling fast startup
otherwise your "shut down" option is actually hibernate
pseudo plinth
unfortunately he sold his more portable stuff already, sorry
no worries, i appreciate it. had a ham in another server reach out so i should get some good recs there
rich gyro
if Windows, try disabling fast startup
wheres that?
I mean, it's just weird because it worked just fine before
wait
I found it and it seems to be working
why 
I mean moreso why is it suddenly an issue
rich gyro
talked to a friend, he's suspecting the cmos battery is dying
ornate ferry
check your drive health actually
wherever your page file is located (usually your boot drive)
slow solstice
I pride myself on being able to write clear instructions that anyone can understand, but we have someone who is new to testing our stuff, and for the life of me I can't figure out how to get the instructions through their head
Someone gave them incorrect instructions the first time and they can't seem to let go of that despite me saying "follow my instructions, not those"
Makes me thankful for our testers who have been around for way longer lol
pseudo plinth
sometimes i worry that i'm overcommenting or documenting too much of the obvious but then i remember people like that exist
empty owl
My testers ignore all my instructions
rain matrix
Well how're they going to test it if they only do what you tell them to do
pseudo plinth
i have some very strong words for whoever is responsible for why redfish on supermicro hardware is the way that it is
it seems like the majority of our supermicro hardware is covered by one of two specific endpoints for syslog configuration, except for the stuff that isn't
slow solstice
I grudgingly spent a good chunk of my day researching AI use cases relevant to my job... I hate that this is where everything is going. When I graduated I never expected to have a moral objection to what is about to become a large part of my job
ornate ferry
pseudo plinth
maybe useful for someone, 16gb optane nvme for $8 a pop https://www.ebay.com/itm/335707659464
i've used these for mirrored boot disks on storage hosts and as arc/log devices under zfs, pretty useful