A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I'm usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn't always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.
I'm into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.
Guess it's just impossible to disentangle a tool's existence in itself, with how it gets used. Police can use guns to address crime, so we don't have to get robbed. But while at it, they can shoot way too many black people, as it seems to be the case in the US. Or they can do a better job. The tool doesn't care. But those people will still be dead and that's a shame. And with Putin, I'd argue we better find a way to tackle him other than send me over there with a gun in my hand. I'd really want to avoid that. And I didn't ask for it, either.
So... I guess I have to disagree on the disagreement as well. There has to be a better way.
Though, that's most certainly a lie, isn't it? Who told you the world isn't ready for socialism? The enemies of socialism?? Don't you think they have a vested interest in spreading that narrative???
All I can say Linux works perfectly well on my computer, wifi router... I've been using Free Software for most of my adult life. I've literally witnessed the internet work quite differently from what it's become in the last 15 years... And we still have Free and independent services as of today. Independent forums, social media, video platforms, chat, mail... It's a thing. It's just up to the people to pick one of the matrix pills and either see what's out there, or take the other one and believe in the non-socialist story.
I'd suggest stop feeling bad. People put Free Software out there for other humans to make use of. You can take it and use it as you like.
Contributions are welcome. But it's not some kind of tit-for-tat situation. Maybe you can contribute other things to society. Doesn't have to be money or computer code...
Lol. Just do ads on your website? What's the issue? The way the Fediverse works is: You federate out the content and I read it from my instance. From my perspective, I don't even get to see you're doing ads for your users?!
Thx! That's the video decoding page, though. The thing that decodes the video stream and makes individual images from the stream, for the actual processing. Seems the thing that does inference / object detection is called OpenVINO.
Aren't diffusion models and LLMs (ollama) too big for an external NPU? As far as I know something like a Coral runs specific models only. And it's limited to the 1 or maybe 2GB of memory on it. It'd do tasks like voice recognition, or image classification. But not generate images or text.
If you want to run arbitrary AI models and generative AI, I think you should be looking for a graphics card?!
You should probably have a look at the software you intend to run and see what kind of external NPU they support. I'm aware of Frigate for example which leverages hardware acceleration to classify camera surveillance footage. Guess their community knows which stick to get. Or you'd have a look at the frameworks which package machine learning models for inference on some NPU and have a look at their table of supported hardware.
Hmmh. Sure, cross-licensing is an entirely different topic. That's not really what we're afraid of when for example Amazon takes some Free Software and provides it as a service. It's just that the EUPL comes with an automatic cross-licensing option regarding the distribution of combined works.
But I must say, I'm still confused. What's an "essential functionality" now? Is that supposed to be a legal term? And where are the blurry lines with that? What if I offer a hosting service that heavily relies on database operations, but doesn't expose the database itself... it's slightly abstracted away from the customer? It's internally 85% made up of some other person's work, but it builds upon that Free Software and doesn't straight provide access to it's functionalities... Is that alright? And why (not)? And why restrict it to essential functionality? Why allow non-essential functionality? And what even is that? If someone spends half a year optimizing a database, is that deemed essential? Or can a court rule the essential thing about a database project is it fetches data, and how exactly it does it, isn't essential to a database?
And I still don't see the "stronger terms prevail". That's not how that sentence goes. It's very specific in: if it's an obligation (to the licensee, btw), then the other license prevails. Not the stronger one, the other one wins any conflict. It's just concerned with the distribution of combined works, though.
The license (EUPL-1.2) specifically talks about redistributing either the source, or executable files. (see definition of original work, also distribution.) Nowhere do they mention a service running the work comes with any kinds of obligations? I just can't find any single sentence in the license text covering SaaS...
Both "Copyleft clause" and "Provision of source code" are pretty clear as well. It's only about distributing copies of the work. Not running it and providing it as a service.
And regarding the compatible licenses, they say the other one wins. At least regarding the "obligations". However that's defined and whether it's the licensor's or licensee's obligations:
Should the Licensee's obligations under the Compatible Licence conflict withhis/her obligations under this Licence, the obligations of the CompatibleLicence shall prevail.
Thanks! You're right. Seems it's distributed switch architecture on my wifi router. I used Luci to configure it. Didn't even know this was more than a UI change...
I don't really know, either. "driver-level VLAN" is the terminology the OpenWRT wiki (linked) uses. Seems OP went for the strategy at the bottom, with going to the bridge settings and make it add a new interface. What I've done before, and what that article talks about at the top is, go to the Switch settings instead, and set the port to the corresponding VLAN, or to keep the tags... But maybe I misremember what I did and which settings I touched... Yet it seems to me those are two distinct ways of doing it. Either on the switch hardware inside of the OpenWRT device, or inside of the software bridge in OpenWRT.
Interesting. Any reason to prefer the driver-level VLANs over the hardware switch? That's how I've done it in the past, and also how the linked wiki article starts.
Guess depending on the type of talk or course OP does, choosing the instance could be a nice part of the lesson! Demonstrates nicely what the Fediverse is and how it operates. Also teaches them to get on board the next Fedi platform all by themselves, once they choose to.
You'd obviously still need to prepare that lesson, though and have some kind of knowledge about the instances.
Yeah, I'll go with that 100%. It's modern day identity politics. They want you to subscribe to some stupid identity politics or they're mad at you. I'm at the receiving end of it as well. I think everyone with a bit of a nuanced opinion is...
Idk, I didn't really downvote here. Seems I upvoted your initial comment, even if I decided to reply and disagree on one important statement. I think that's way better than sending downvotes to comments because of politics and opinion. And I'd invite other people to do the same. It's probably a lost cause, though.
You laid down a hypothetical situation. It was kinda your idea to talk about an alternate reality where humanity thinks nuclear is fascist... You said lets assume everyone thinks it is, what would be the consequences? And I said, yeah, let's assume that for the sake of argument. And I went with it. That doesn't make it my opinion.
I guess what I mainly wanted to say is: We're writing science fiction stories here. Nobody knows what would have happened if history had been very different. You're simply asserting it would have turned out bad. But it could also have turned out great. All we know is this timeline. So we're bound to think every change from the status quo must be worse. But we don't necessarily live in the best of possible worlds. Maybe the absence of nuclear power would be bad. Maybe it'd be great, as I laid down. Why shouldn't it?
Please let's stop with the escalation here. Nobody talked about IBM or space travel. And we're definitely on the same page with refusing to make everything some radical extreme.
I've had 2 SSDs fail. But in a different way. They just died randomly and never read any data after that. I just kept the computers, bought a new SSD and reinstalled everything.
By the way if you have a really tight budget... There's refurbished laptops as well. I got a nice Dell 7390 for a fraction of the cost of a new laptop. Find a shop you trust, though. And it won't be the newest model, and the battery might not be in best condition with used laptops. That's the downsides.
I don't think this is a valid way to argue. Let's assume what you say is true, and think again:
Humanity declares all nuclear fission to be fascist tech and never develops mutual destruction, nor nuclear power plants. Now they have some oil crisis in the 70s and they're forced to invest massively in renewables. Develop high yield solar cells earlier than we did. Now it's 2000. The whole planet runs on clean energy, in fact there's cheap energy in abundance. Economy is booming and by 2020 everyone has a flying car. Also the cold war never happened and everyone in the middle east has been living in peace for 50 years because there wasn't many proxy wars between the US and USSR... Awesome! It was exactly the right move to immediately declare it evil and throw it out.
(Subsequently they have to deal with the massive energy surplus during daytime. That's bled off in large datacenters and used to calculate the cure to cancer, the flu etc, which is done by 2030. Now they're calculating the holy grail.)
Guess it's just impossible to disentangle a tool's existence in itself, with how it gets used. Police can use guns to address crime, so we don't have to get robbed. But while at it, they can shoot way too many black people, as it seems to be the case in the US. Or they can do a better job. The tool doesn't care. But those people will still be dead and that's a shame. And with Putin, I'd argue we better find a way to tackle him other than send me over there with a gun in my hand. I'd really want to avoid that. And I didn't ask for it, either.
So... I guess I have to disagree on the disagreement as well. There has to be a better way.