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@ tal @lemmy.today

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Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.

  • Who recognizes who around here?

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  • Fully-qualified usernames:

    There’s the guy who uses thorns (who I have tagged as Nigel þornberry)

    That'd be @Sxan@piefed.zip.

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  • All of you users with no avatar, go get one so I remember you all please! It’s an accessability aid in a way :p

    Frankly, this could be implemented client-side. If there's no avatar set by the remote user, then have the client or Web UI or whatever hash the username/home instance pair and then use the bits of that hash as inputs to procedurally-generate an image. There are a number of forum systems that do this.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon

    An Identicon is a visual representation of a hash value, usually of an IP address, that serves to identify a user of a computer system as an effectively random form of avatar while protecting the user's privacy. The original Identicon was a 9-block graphic, and the representation has been extended to other graphic forms by third parties.

    (Note that using an IP as an input to the hash, as is mentioned here, is not really a good idea, since the IPv4 address space is small enough that one can reverse the hash by brute-forcing it to obtain the user's IP address, and the IPv6 address space is only sparsely-used, so I bet that one could do the same there with a bit more work.)

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  • I guess it's like a pat on the head for being considered notable, so probably as long as there aren't too many, they'll be tolerant. :-) Probably.

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  • @flyingsquid@lemmy.world

    Last I saw, moved to the UK, was looking at getting a job there, and I assume stopped using the Threadiverse to dedicate more time to real life. Doesn't look like he's been commenting in a year:

    https://lemmy.world/post/25764717/15184325

    I told a member of an LGBT organization in York, UK that I would be happy for any help I can get regarding finding me a job above the UK family visa income threshold so my gay daughter can stay here longer than six months after he offered to look over my CV and give me pointers… for the glory of the empire?

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  • Light Bulbs

    I work in retail and I stock these things all of the time. We have light bulbs, that are smart now because why? They’re stuffed with wireless functionality, just so you can simply change a color or maybe dim it through phone. More unnecessary apps, more unnecessary functions just for cheap attraction.

    I don't use them myself, but I think that there's value in having a remote control that can flip the lights on and off in your pocket.

    I don't know if smart bulbs are the most reliable or cost-effective way to do that, but they are less-intrusive than running some lighting control wiring.

  • Totally new to running local LLM. How are you connecting to your model via mobile?

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  • Have you ever set up wake on LAN?

    Nope, sorry. Also, based on the WP article, apparently there's now a wireless variant of Wake-on-LAN that I'd never heard of until now (again, assuming that the wireless chipset and the system supports it).

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  • When your laptop is sleeping, it can't be doing computation. I mean, that's not specific to LLMs. You're going to have to set it in your OS to not sleep if you want to remotely access it, or to sleep under conditions that don't arise for you (e.g. "don't sleep if the lid is closed while the laptop is plugged in" or whatever).

    The only exception I can think of would be if you (a) have it connected to wired Ethernet and (b) the laptop can do Wake-on-LAN; in that scenario, you could rig something up where it wakes up when something tries to contact it. In practice, you probably just don't want to have it sleeping.