And Apple, Amazon, Google all paid money to Trump's inauguration fund. Boycotting is tiring, but I still try.

I'm always impressed with the quality and speed of complex features that Blender brings. Now if only I had the skills to use them.

Lemmy.world does. I get it anytime I'm on my mobile web browser. It's not set to a high level so the apps are able to bypass the checks.

If I had to guess, teleco buildings already have strong internet connectivity and backup power or secondary power utilities which malls don't have because they don't have the same needs.

Ignoring the other comments around complexity. If anybody is considering running LiteLLM in their lab. I strongly recommend looking at GOModel instead. LiteLLM was nothing but bugs, slow page loads, and security issues for me. GOModel just worked and was simple.

https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence

Your root directory is mounted as a tmpfs which means it gets cleared every startup. The only way to persist config or data is to have it in your Nix config or use impermanence to bind mount a folder to a persisted directly.

I use it on my servers. I have Impermanence + LUKS with remote unlocking on my servers

Sounds like the US

Spammers and other nefarious actors.

There's a lot of trust built into federation.

WebPKI (the term for certificates used for web browser as opposed to the general usage of certificates outside of the web) requires that all certificates now be included in a public, widely used certificate transparency log. That fact gets included in the certificate delivered to your browser. Your browser will reject any certificate* that was not included in a certificate transparency log.

Take your instance discuss.tchncs.de for example, we can see all the certificates here. If you looked at that list, do you see anything wrong? Probably not.

But you're on to something. A malicious certificate is minted and it's in the CT log, so what? I don't check the CT log every time I go to a new webpage. Instead, CT logs are more able giving information to security organizations and companies to detect violations under their own properties. A company like amazon or google would setup CT log monitors to continually monitor for certificates issued for their domains. If they detect one, and they didn't request it, they can flag it to the cert authority board and it can get CAs pulled from the root trust stores. I can (and probably should find time to) setup certspotter on my own domains.

Certificate transparency means that all certificates have to be publically logged.

It means they release the model so you can run it yourself with enough hardware. Kind of like open source. Governments and large companies should be self-hosting this kind of stuff because of security, availability, and IP-leak risks anyway.

With LLMs, there is some risk of hidden malicious actions embedded in the weights that you can see until you ask it a magic question and it says "activate skynet."

Whether or not the government is doing this because of fears of hidden actions in the weights or just because OpenAI/Anthropic CEOs told the government to give them more money is unclear.

Yes, I run Ollama on a NVIDIA 1080 Ti at home. I run granite4:3b for my Home Assistant assistant for my voice assistant, paperless-ngx, OpenWebUI for chat, and a few other things. For speech to text, I run a custom-built hybrid speech-to-phrase + parakeetTTS (requests that match speech-to-phrase take priority over parakeet.) I run GOModel to route requests to my local Ollama instance, or DeepInfra (cloud-based for larger models), or Tinfoil (cloud-based for encrypted LLM chats.)

As much as I love to use local-everything, only my smarthome+basic chats go local. Trying to fit both the STT and LLM models on the same GPU at the same time while also using this computer as a media console is challenging. I've recently started looking at the Hailo m.2 accelerator board to see if I can shift the STT to it.