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Dran

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  • ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it

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  • Anecdotally, I use it a lot and I feel like my responses are better when I'm polite. I have a couple of theories as to why.

    1. More tokens in the context window of your question, and a clear separator between ideas in a conversation make it easier for the inference tokenizer to recognize disparate ideas.
    2. Higher quality datasets contain american boomer/millennial notions of "politeness" and when responses are structured in kind, they're more likely to contain tokens from those higher quality datasets.

    I haven't mathematically proven any of this within the llama.cpp tokenizer, but I strongly suspect that I could at least prove a correlation between polite token input and dataset representation output tokens

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • There are a lot of moderates that are hesitant about AOC. She's expressed ideas like getting rid of the filibuster, which would be great while "your" party is in charge, but is one of the very few checks available for a minority party to halt truly controversial legislation. The extra steps are kind of dumb, but the foundational idea that legislation should at least require a 60/40 majority most of the time enforces an idea of compromise and representation in almost every bill.

    I would shudder to think what a bad president could put through if unchecked by the opposition party in an essentially 50/50 politically divided populace.

  • What motherboard should I use for a DIY NAS?

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  • I run clusters of both LSI-based hwraid and zfs at work. I strongly recommend zfs over hwraid. The long and short of it is hwraid hasn't kept up with software solutions, and software solutions are often both more performant and more resilient (at the cost of CPU/memory).

    For homelab scale, zfs is definitely the way to go, especially for archive data.

    Wendel wrote up a pretty good guide for those looking to understand what makes zfs so good if you want to dive deeper. https://forum.level1techs.com/t/zfs-guide-for-starters-and-advanced-users-concepts-pool-config-tuning-troubleshooting/196035

  • Is the BraX3 from braxtech.net a trustworthy investment?

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  • I think that holds true in this case... but I'll be damned if the ltt screwdriver isn't the best hand tool I've ever owned.

  • 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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  • When ML training farms run out of new text to train on, "they" may very well want your original writing too...

  • 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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  • Me too brother, but I disagree with your assessment on value

    An non-blacklisted residential IP address with reasonable throughput is valuable in and of itself. DDOS botnets, proxies to bypass geo blocks or to obfuscate illicit traffic, etc. Also your gaming PC could be used for distributed compute workloads of compromised, usually crypto mining.

    Any hardware/connection has value if it's "free". It's just a numbers game beyond that.

  • 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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  • For now, ctt winutil does a pretty good job at removing the cruft. I've long since switched to debian for my daily driver, but as a remote-access sunshine host for games that require kernel level anticheat, it's surprisingly usable.

    For anyone looking to keep windows around in some capacity, I strongly recommend it. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

  • 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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  • Every packet you send/receive relies on passive security. Your nic drivers, the driver kernel model, all of the userland applications that sit on top of it. I get that in practical terms, your firewall will do a lot of the heavy lifting but there are passive rce vulnerabilities in previous unsupported versions of Windows that are trivially exploitable today.

  • 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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  • Even if you trust their intent to not misuse your data, there are now a lot of live rpc hooks into your operating system, controllable by anyone who can compromise their azure implementation, which has happened at least twice in recent memory. If the data never leaves your device, and they didn't have a way in, they wouldn't have those things to lose in the first place.

    The interdependency itself, regardless of intent, is inherently more dangerous than the previous separate paradigm that used to exist.

  • 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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  • Your dad probably got lucky, and your router's firewall probably did a lot of the heavy lifting. If you were to connect a win 2000/XP computer to the internet today without a firewall between, it would be compromised in minutes (there are loads of videos of people demoing this).

    While I don't have proof that 7 would be the same, I strongly suspect it would be the same. 10 will get there soon too. Firewalls will stop most of the low hanging fruit, but an application that bridges connections through the firewall are that much more vulnerable to exploitations that won't be integrated by your running kernel.

  • 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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  • They won't brick it, but you can bet that a lot of people are sitting on unreleased 0-days for win10. It will likely be dangerous to connect to the internet on day 1.

  • Sophos XG Firewall Home Use

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  • Thank you for letting me know what software not to use; good bot

  • Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users

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  • Crossfading and normalization would both independently be dealbreakers for me. I can't go back

  • Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users

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  • I would be genuinely surprised if fair use draws the line on format-shifted, legally purchased media, at "remote watch-together", leaving format-shifting and local watch-together in-tact.

    If it were up to the studio's interpretation of the law, you'd need to purchase a license for each person during local watch-together.

  • New refugee from Windows / Need advices about image system backup, excel, vscode

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  • RE: backups, I'd recommend altering your workflow. Instead of taking an image of a box, automate the creation of that box. Create a bash script that takes a base OS, and installs everything you use fresh. Then have it apply configuration files where appropriate, and lastly figure out which applications really need backup blobs to work properly (thunderbird, for example). Once you have that, your backups become just the data itself. Photos, documents, etc. Everything else is effectively ephemeral because it can be reproduced through automation.

    Takes a lot less space, is a lot more portable. And much better in scenarios where something in your OS is broken or you get a new computer and want to replicate your setup.

  • Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users

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  • agree in principal, but in practice:

    1. parents who live across the state
    2. plexamp for music
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  • They are indeed just that keen on our data.

    They know they can't get rid of it for all of their customers, but they do want to make it as hard as possible for random users to do so.

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  • The problem with this is it doesn't work for home users that want to pay for their software. Crazy... I know... but those people do exist.

  • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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  • For people with "that one game" there is a middle ground. Mine is Destiny 2 and they use a version of easy anticheat that refuses to run on Linux. My solution was to buy a $150 used Dell on eBay, a $180 GPU to be able to output to my 4 high-res displays, and install Debian + moonlight on it. I moved my gaming PC downstairs and a combination of wake-on-lan + sunshine means that I can game at functionally native performance, streaming from the basement. In my setup, windows only exists to play games on.

    The added bonus here is now I can also stream games to my phone, or other thin clients in the house, saving me upgrade costs if I want to play something in the living room or upstairs. All you need is the bare minimum for native-framerate, native-res decoding, which you can find in just about anything made in the last 5-10 years.