On the AI for fixing up non-native text, I would 100% prefer that people write in their native language or broken English and leave the translation to me. Even the slightest wiff of LLMisms are enough to completely turn me off. Just dont do it.
Even if it isn't written by AI, it's certainly written by someone with very little experience on the subject.
Which is worse, because its polluting up the search results. Infuriating.
Unreadable AI slop.
Did the author actually test 5v into the microcontroller? The signal values might be intended to be 3.3v, but I have a bunch of esp32 boards reading 5v signals on their pins, and they have been doing that for years now. At the time I did some research and found posts from the espressif designer that claimed that the pins were okay with 5v.
The tech won't go away though, the models will just be hosted on local GPUs. The audio and video generation might get more expensive or out of reach for most of us, but the image and text generation will be available to anyone with a basic GPU.
And sadly, cybercrime, propaganda etc are all backed by very deep pockets, so they may be able to afford to pay the real prices.
I dont think the genie is going back in the bottle sadly.
Well, they are kinda already there. I saw b300 priced at $35k (?), and the a100 was 200k at launch from memory.
The LLM providers are making losses, but that doesnt mean no one is profiting. Cyber crime, social media revenue, propaganda networks. Lots of downstream users of LLMs are making money.
S2Idle is slightly different to suspend to ram, as it keeps peripherals and other hardware awake, but even so, I have seen reports of 1% battery drain per hour, which is pretty good imo. What hardware do you have and what is your battery drain?
Fair, seems the advice has changed. I still prefer to not sell disks, especially with all the firmware trickery that disks do. Like are bad sectors zerod? Or does the firmware skip them, potentially leaving data on the disk?
I don't have to worry if I just keep the disk or destroy it, so its peace of mind.
Hiberation just isnt that valuable when modern sleep sips power.
If you need to have zero power usage, save files, shutdown and reboot later, it'll be faster. If you need a quick off and on, with state, just sleep, it'll last all week comfortably.
Take the disk out and junk it. Smash the platters with a hammer.
If you really want to save the disk and pass it on, you can buy IDE to USB adapters. Take the disk out, use the adapter and plug it in to a Linux PC, format to your hearts content.
Bear in mind that formatting, zeroing or randomising the disk dara may not completely wipe the data, and forensic tools may be able to recover it. So if its sensitive, go with the hammer option (and consider further destruction if very sensitive).
4 Raspberry Pi's
Get a load of this cat flexing their wealth :D
The isolation of services makes some sense, but I found that there was plenty of single points of failure anyway (power, internet, router, pihole), so not worth worrying about a few more. And the reliability of the nuc has mostly given me peace of mind. I do have a separate nuc for a NAS, though.
Top comes out on the roof:
Not sure what happens below. Haven't gone under the house to inspect. Seems like a vent that travels through the wall space, but unclear why it would do that.
Any ideas what its purpose is?
How could Dan do this to us?
This user account has a RTL username, and the timestamp is getting placed inside the name.
Congrats to everyone who took part, and thank you to everyone who contributed here, in the solutions and visualization threads.
If anyone knows of a similar event that runs during the year, please do reach out, I would be happy to run more events like this.
Happy new year!
Every year, I grab my camera and head out to try take a photo of a firework. Every year I get a blurry mess of poorly exposed photos. This is the best one I got this year.
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