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Epicurean Revolutionary Libertarian Socialist

I make FOSS things:

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I was poor. Pirates selling copied disks on the street was all I could afford

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I'm never joining another vc-backed social network whatever they promise.

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Because that's the link I got

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Very nice app and the kind of thing the ai horde was always meant to support. In this case it's also the kind of integration where you can happily use it as anonymous

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The model is just hallucinating in this case.

Possible to make career in free software?

I'm a computer engineering undergrad in my finals and I really don't care about applying for jobs, there's so much competition and I hate just about every one of my classmates. I don't want to spend hours making shitty bloated proprietary software but 99% of jobs seem to be like that. Is it possible to actually make a career in...

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It's extraordinarily difficult to make a living in it unless you luck out and start a project that is extraordinary popular from the get go and even then you have to be more skilled than all the copycats. I'm running the only Foss ai api and I'm barely covering costs even though we have thousands of users 🤷

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Yes, just grab any recent LLM like Mistral-7B and ask it to translate for you. A local client is here https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp but you might need a good GPU to get quick answers.

Alternatively use https://lite.koboldai.net to use someone else's computer.

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All translations are LLM translations by this point I believe.

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Yes you can use the API of lemmy. There's also SDKs for python and javascript

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We already have a summirizer bot around. Why you trying to put it out of business like that?

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Goddamn, lazier than an ai bot?

Redlib: Open-source, privacy-focused frontend for Reddit without Reddit's ads, trackers, and bloat. A fork of Libreddit. ( safereddit.com )

The purpose of this post is not to endorse the use of Reddit ( https://shields.tosdr.org/en_194.svg), but rather to inform users of a privacy-friendly approach in case they need to utilize the platform....

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If only all that effort was spent improving lemmy instead...

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Looks like there's plenty of ground and from what I read about vaxry, they seem to be a bigot at best and a cryptofash at worst.

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Better integration within the larger fediverse, mastodon, friendica, pixelfed, etc. This is a killer feature that none of the big walled gardens can have and will improve the amount of interactions we have (which is a big thing people keep comparing about) a lot.

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AI Horde provides LLMs for free. They're not GPT4, but they're uncensored and crowdsourced by the community. There's also not tracking or ads. Here's a frontend for LLMs. No need to install anything either. If you have a decent GPU, you can also assist others with generations

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Goddamn, fullspeed disintegration! Not what we all wanted to hear >_<

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Very nice. Once they add comfyUI nodes, we will onboard this to the AI horde

Rotating banners on /r/piracy ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )

Hey mates, recently I've developed a tool to use the GenerativeAI on the AI Horde to created random avatars and banners on lemmy. To keep things spicy, I wanted to deploy to rotate the /c/piracy banner daily, as I've done in a bunch of other communities like !stable_diffusion_art and the lemmy.dbzer0.com....

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No, you told a computer to do it for you.

And the process of setting that up is creative?

If you want to create art, then create art. Don’t pretend that automating a script is an artistic process when it’s barely even engineering.

Hate to break it to you, but programming is creative plus I don't like making visual art manually.

To use your numbers, 2-3 seconds at a conservative estimate of 800 watts is about half a watt-hour, roughly $0.08 on the average American electricity bill, and about 200,000 times more than the 0.0000026Wh energy cost of a 4mb download.

"A conservative estmate of 800 watts"? Where the fuck are you getting these number mate? My GPU at full power is not even half that.

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I do automation for a living, I’m well aware that computer engineering can be a creative process, but it is not an artistic one.

Great? I find the automation creative.

I don’t like seeing visual art automated.

I don't care?

I don’t know what’s in your computer, but some high-end graphics cards can pull more than 300W at full load all on their own. 400W total power output seems a pretty conservative estimate to me.

Most high-end graphic cards actually use close to 100W when not in demanding workloads. Mine certainly does.

400W total power output seems a pretty conservative estimate to me.

You said double that. Most people's PCs idle at 200-W300W as a total. And even if 400W was the total PC usage, as I said, my PC is already on.

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Yes and yes. This is using the AI Horde already.

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If you didn’t, then you wouldn’t be in this thread defending your creative choices. You could have ignored me like a person who doesn’t care would do.

I am autistic. I actually hate that my brain is forcing me to reply to this drivel.

My PC idles at about 75W, and tops out just shy of 600W with all cores, cards, and drives running.

Great, so a generated image would be done at 2-10 seconds at like 200W usage. Anyway, this is a stupid argument. Even if it's not as an mp3, it's like a movie, what-the-fuck-ever.

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And generated content can be randomized and automated, which you can't do with existing content, which is what I wanted to do

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That's orders of magnitude harder in a bad non automated than what I'm going now for worse results and more risk. It's a frankly terrible idea

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The ai horde already takes care of any problematic stuff. This is all solved

db0 OP Mod ,
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My gimp skills are almost non existent. But I can sent you the files and see of you can improve them

db0 OP Mod , (edited )
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Lol we're not getting enough donations to even pay the server costs

db0 OP Mod ,
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I always orient my services towards the people who have the least disposable income. It's not surprising that I don't get a ton of donations :-/ Servers oriented towards techbros make thousands a month with less users >_<

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It's on pictrs with automated deletion of the old one every time

db0 OP Mod ,
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correct. I'm trying the wide resolution makes SDXL try to add more people, so I'm attempting to lead it away from it

db0 OP Mod ,
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It's just not a perfect solution.

Appreciation post for db0 admins in light of .world blocking /c/ piracy and similar /c/'s .

I understand why they did what they did and it makes me think of how db0 and other admins are saying fuck all and taking a very big liability for making and supporting a free internet and i want to say all the work you do is very much appreciated. Also shoutout to lemmy.ml admins for running a similar community on their own ....

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check the ko-fi. It shows how much progress we have to cover the costs until June

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daym, you take me back. Pre or post A:NR? :D

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lol, never heard ML being "lemon" and trot being a "tatertrot". Cute!

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They did assist in immersion didn't they? 😁

Has anyone managed to use 80_PA on Linux?

I wanted to play Test Drive Unlimited 2 multiplayer with the TDU World mod, but since I’m not one of the lucky few who owned the game back in the day (I was still a teenager when they shut down the game) I have to pirate it. Unfortunately, the tool required to do it while working with TDUWorld, 80_PA...

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