Posts by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
(DIR) Post #B1viIJ1RziCJxfI4hc by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-02T13:55:07Z
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"okay but what about my xyz"Please ask! Don't be shy, I won't bite, I will help figure it out with you; I want to make it better for everyone.Examples:- Old Nvidia GPUs? You can run older drivers, or things like Nouveau.- Old AMD GPUs? Good chance they're supported natively because AMD's FOSS support is stellar.- Some old or specific game? If they are not purposely refusing to run on Linux (rare but some DRM/Anticheat have this), it should be entirely possible, we can open bugs if needed!
(DIR) Post #B1xORzdrIPKjyyW8gq by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-04T23:40:29Z
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@dillo the irony of this post requiring Javascript to view because Mastodon is just Like That ðŸ˜ðŸ‘Œ (that's not to say you don't have a point, it's a terrible perfect example if anything)
(DIR) Post #B21OowYgNjb2lUCBg8 by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-06T20:56:28Z
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@vitalis when you go fursuiting but more metallic
(DIR) Post #B21Oy4WS8o7W4TVOme by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-06T21:41:23Z
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I don't think I've ever posted this here, but I got a cameo in the Part Time Dragons comic a while ago, including an animated and professionally voiced version!You can read the original comic here: https://parttimedragons.com/comics/comics/are-you-a-morning-person/You can find the short on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O3EIi7RZGi4#PartTimeDragons #Dragons #animation #comic #funny #morning
(DIR) Post #B22cVf92Ugt9lurT3Q by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-07T11:23:27Z
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the windturbine is still generating significant power (bursts of 1kw+) despite the weather, nice to still have some off grid power despite the solar panels being blocked by the snow#HomeOffgrid #offgrid #windpower
(DIR) Post #B2CtdLf8SDImSziwwS by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-12T09:35:29Z
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I wish we included people's cloud usage in their home power usage.it's easy to pretend e.g Netflix or Spotify uses less power than having a local NAS with movies/music/etc, when on the bigger picture I'm not sure if that's true.
(DIR) Post #B2CtdTVrGadOoXReam by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-12T09:40:51Z
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it's a complex interplay of things though.datacenters and centralisation are technically more efficient than running a million NASs.. ..if they're both running off the same coal energy...but if you consider having a few solar panels at home or live in a neighbourhood with a lot of solar/wind overproduction, it actually pays to offload/decentralise the datacenter power usage to individual homes.kind of tempted to make a little website to visualize and calculate this all with checkboxes etc
(DIR) Post #B2JfnVeg7N2F6PBGhU by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-15T16:37:40Z
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@jannuary I think ARM kinda makes sense when you compare it to old BIOS boot with the magic boot record location etcbut ARM is weird in the sense that it requires also the firmware and definitions (DTB) to be present to boot properly, in that sense your bootloader is kind of the BIOS/UEFI itself, and while ARM's CPU init is much simpler than a x86 CPU, it also means that if you want hardware to even show up you'll have to define it in your software ..eh firmware .. eh something between these 🥴
(DIR) Post #B2KhqFnhulfdrknfxQ by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-15T21:47:31Z
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your daily reminder that there are too many good, and too many bad things, for a single person to keep track ofif you focus on the good, and pick ONE battle, you'll do way more good, both for yourself and your cause, than when you're depressed about "the state of the world" (which you objectively cannot fathom as a whole)
(DIR) Post #B2LFKfJ8wR5a9Kc4dE by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-16T11:41:28Z
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I'm going to scrape the fediversewith my eyes and thumb*scroll scroll scroll scroll*damb that's a lot of shitposts my shallow-learning vulgar language model cannot keep up :drgn_sip_woozy: #shitpost
(DIR) Post #B2LKpA9VKIAKGpSy36 by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-16T12:18:43Z
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I sometimes see people saying "you can't train LLMs on the output of LLMs"There's a lot to be said here. But I do want to say that it's actually fine, and done quite a lot, but with some extra contextual bits (like labels), going from larger to smaller models. We call this process "distillation".It does have to be done carefully, because without proper labeling it can derail a model, but a lot of things can derail a model tbh 😅
(DIR) Post #B2LKpCAdp2GOWw0u6C by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-16T12:24:22Z
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training an LLM properly is really hard, but not for the reasons you might expect.You want these models to 'generalize', that is, you do NOT want them to just regurgitate the text they're given, you want them to create parameters that build an internal model of the world, giving them a functional understanding of concepts beyond just the words.This allows them to predict the logical consequences of a sentence, rather than just the next likely word.
(DIR) Post #B2TBv6qst4Q5BYkP4K by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-20T07:56:18Z
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computer PSUs kinda need a new higher voltage rail to deal with e.g GPUs and other high power devices.It may sound weird but a 50v rail would make things more efficient AND safer, AND would allow for further expansion more easily.Because the thing that melts those 12v HPWR connectors isn't voltage. It's amps.if we'd increase the voltage by 4x we also decrease the current by 4x. Cable and connectors would get much less warm.And it'd get easier to design efficient GaN power conversion.
(DIR) Post #B2UrN5eFFO58q4Fwsy by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-20T18:08:34Z
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with Meta backing out of VR and 'the metaverse' and all that, I hope people realize this is far from the end for VR-which should be obvious to many perhaps, but what may be less obvious is that the same applies to AI/ML.Just because some big corporations are doing AI doesn't mean that's all there's to it.and having followed AI since 2010 ish, it's somewhere between heartbreaking and frustrating most people only know the 'metaverse version' and hope for its demise
(DIR) Post #B2UrNDqwk2zmHmGCnI by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-20T18:12:20Z
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that said, if the big corp AI stuff falls over that might just be a good thing for sustainable development, and I'm not saying you should go get chatGPT or whatever,but I am somewhat disheartened to see how many people are, without nuance, without understanding, against 'all of AI' and impliedly also against 'all of ML' when objectively there have been many improvements everyone is already using that come from these sectors.Don't forget ML engineers are people too.
(DIR) Post #B2VEU9IiMXyV8lWKnY by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-21T06:56:43Z
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@nicholas I mean there's a few things to be said here:- Google Glass is alive actually, just look at IO 2025- the amount of space it requires depends on your games- but even if you do want space, modern headsets are independent and use inside-out tracking, so you can use them e.g outdoors if you'd want, or in any arbitrary room.- while I also hate the housing market in many places, it's not like houses stopped existing altogether, it's just a constrained market, but many people do have one.
(DIR) Post #B2XYGQsCcR7Kz9mCWW by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-22T10:25:00Z
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it's legit amazing how long the Fairphone 6 (or any phone) lasts on a battery if you strip out google support entirely. It happily lasts almost a week. Note that I'm still using this phone for Matrix, Mastodon, my (nextcloud-synced) calendar, Telegram, KDE Connect, Signal, Nextcloud (+ Deck), taking all my photos, interacting with my Flipper Zero, etc etc. It's definitely not just idling. It just doesn't constantly keep GPS up to date and upload my location etc :)#fairphone #fairphone6
(DIR) Post #B2g09RbRZmEQWHcRTk by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-26T11:35:04Z
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@N33Rthen waht is it called??- Sent from my mAstodon
(DIR) Post #B2h8i4A7iHiOkLou8m by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-27T00:14:56Z
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governments: omg theyr cyberattaking us how did they breach our impenetrable defenses???"hacker": I connected to your public vnc accessible systems with password "111111" and pressed "disconnect" on the 20kv power thingyhttps://fedi.computernewb.com/@vncresolver/115964117165458375
(DIR) Post #B2jCLaRWJi92KrPhsu by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
2026-01-27T22:26:37Z
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@vitalis all the time when working in the datacenter.google makes their own servers and they're not as nicely rounded or closed as your average dell server, it's more like a rack full of pre-opened tin cans.we have these stickers they hand out once in a while that reads "my other computer is made out of razor blades and hate" (example pic below I found online, not my machine)