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Re:A proposal for clean cloud-free AI inference network on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:50AM (#45073852)
A globally distributed, peer-to-peer (P2P) network for large language models (LLMs) that ensures:

* Privacy: All queries remain on local nodes unless federated updates are performed. * Censorship resistance: No central authority controls outputs. * Renewable energy utilization: Inferers only operate when powered by solar, wind, or other green energy sources. * Continuous operation: Geographic distribution ensures night/day operation. * Community-driven model selection: Nodes vote on the model to use, ensuring it fits inferer constraints.

Re:GitHub is (again) having issues on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @11:09AM (#44877247)
well I wish nothing but the best for the great people at Microsoft, this small family business.
Re:What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode? on Saturday July 26, 2025 @11:46AM (#44694948)
> What do these people think—that 99% of the population will just become beggars?

they will just become dead.

payment processors shouldn't even be a thing; it should between the store and the customer. period.
Re:What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode? on Saturday July 26, 2025 @11:42AM (#44694916)
I don't see UBI happening any time soon, although increasingly obvious it would be a good thing overall. because the oligarchs are on a powertrip and prefer to shed the workforce, have "unusuable" people fall by the wayside (through poor health, poor social status, economy); the oligarchs will be the consumers; they are sort of moving towards a world of them + robots only. you could say "then if robots do everything we all can live the same way" in theory yes, in practice, it is tricky because of the way the system is built.
well well well

there are 2 solutions to this: 1. steam accepts eth and other cryptos; most people associate btc with crypto because it is the original but it is now technically vastly inferior. 2. the seven seas (nobody ever turns your free transaction down and you get to keep whatever it is forever with no fancy license/tos/eulas attached)

AHA AHAHAAH AAHAHAAHA nice one
Re:Heart rate tracker using an IMU on Saturday June 21, 2025 @10:22AM (#44337826)
A naive and barebones Python implementation of https://github.com/eth-siplab/Nightbeat
Re:A Naive Implementation of "Nightbeat" on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:51AM (#44297004)
This is a naive and very basic implementation of the paper https://github.com/eth-siplab/Nightbeat since the authors haven't published their version.

There is no guarantee this works IRL, I tested on myself at rest but there is body movement rejection to be implemented and fine tuning to be done. I lack data from more IRL users and have merely experimented on myself and synthetic data.

there is no long term herd immunity with coronaviruses; which is why they are often use in disaster prevention scenarios...

what you call "herd immunity" is merely letting people die and then go "we have herd immunity" as part of your survivor bias

only solution that works most of the time, regardless of pathogen (including covid): air filtration (respirators and/or whole room)

there is no long term herd immunity with coronaviruses; which is why they are often use in disaster prevention scenarios...

what you call "herd immunity" is merely letting people die...

sadly getting infected just means the virus will nuke your immune system (not to mention your endothelium)
Sweden is widely recognized as the example to absolutely not follow in handling pandemics.

N95s (and above) definitely work, so does filtered air. But sweden has a long standing history of eugenics

Re:EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @11:39AM (#44171223)
can't quite figure out exactly the ins and outs but it seems to masquerade as wireguard. which would make VPNs redundant as it would itself be a VPN.

this would mean, for instance, torrents that are wireguarded between peers by default. sure you will see tons of IPs connected via wireguard but who is going to bother intercepting them?

by that token; you can argue HIV is endemic and nothing should be done about it... people will understand wearing condoms but apparently can't understand masking... hmm... neither are very difficult to do, I'd argue that wearing a condom is more tricky in some aspects.

the reason is simple: wearing a mask reminds people there is a risk and it doesn't "look good", despite its many advantages for many pathogens and pollutants; also acknowledging indoor air quality is crap is hard for businesses (and governments) to do since they would need to invest into better ventilation and filtration systems.

you are accounting for immediate deaths; you have to keep in mind that covid causes immune dysfunction, heart disease etc; 10% of people are still not recovered after 4 years...

long term effects are rare in the (proper, confirmed flu, not your cold you think is the flu) flu

Except one doesn't get the flu every 6 months like most people seem to get covid ; at most one gets the REAL flu every 10 years.

SOURCE: several studies and my own conclusion observing friends...

As a European who used to go "fuck yeah Intel!" "fuck yeah Boeing!" "fuck yeah IBM!" etc... it seems like US companies are going down the drain real fast. I blame bad management, lack of innovation, poor quality control and of course, general greed...

In this case it is bad management hiding behind RTO/DEI excuses. WFH works for many and especially on "cloud" stuff I do not see the point of having people systematically RTO to... tweak a few config files (most of the time) or change some hardware (some of the time)

I have the example of a friend in IT who was made to drive 4 hours to change.... the default DNS on a Windows machine at a client's.... a phone call would have done it...

after covid is an illusion, there is no such thing as "after" for an ongoing pandemic....

and the company you work for seems rather incompetent

Re:A bear case: My predictions regarding AI progress on Monday March 10, 2025 @11:53AM (#43321893)
seems like OP ran out of tokens
It's cute but on my AOC (at 120hz) the discoloration is substantial. Also any inconsistency in frame time will break the illusion
if they could get the current one under control first that would be greeeat. it's been 5 years now...
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:12PM (#42065497)
I think its time for the EU to distance itself from the US trainwreck
MILD fever may be beneficial yep; but it is puts extra metabolic stress on the body, not so great, worth considering antipyretics
I experience great amusement watching uBlock work its way around youtube ads. it does cause buffering issues but it works and its better than watching ads for junk I don't care about. Although since yesterday there seems to have been an escalation in anti ad blocker weaponry, not a big deal just reload the video.
I am baffled by the success of Chrome vs others.

It is a proprietary (absolute red flag) web browser with fairly poor support for extensions (mild red flag), on Windows it insists on storing cached data where I don't want it to go (relative red flag)

I'll give them it is fast vs say firefox... but it is really what I would call a "normie's web browser"

I really hope Firefox survives, well actually it will because it is not a black box.

I doubt it is about gravity; it is also about the horrifying air quality on the ISS

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