I’m working on self-hosting my own LLMs.

I realized there are things I wanna talk about and research but I don’t want to send it to open AI. Frankly I feel gross about how much I’ve sent to open AI. My desktop is a beefy gaming rig that I don’t use for gaming much. I have a 20thread core, 64gb ram, an Nvidia gtx 3060 and 5 spare TB so why not.

• I keep a few ollama models downloaded and I’m slowly getting to know them and what they can do. Gemma seems to answer the fastest so I’ve been using that. Deepseek is like the reasoning button on chatgpt.
• I use openai-whisper to transcribe meetings I record using OBS. It’s really slow so I have a cronjob transcribe all my meetings for that day overnight.
• Open Web UI is a fantastic LLM frontend. It provides tools, rags, web searching, and model ranking all as a simple to use UI.
• My desktop has a Wireguard server which makes it easy to use my OpenWebUI on my phone.

Now I want to work on giving the LLM access to my Google calendar so it can create reminders for me. I’m sick of forgetting to think about remembering to do things so I hope if I can just ramble at the LLM about what I’m doing or what’s on my mind it can organize my thoughts. What else are these LLM actually for?

Can I ask who even clicks on these Google ads? Who is making Google ads valuable by interacting with them?

Saving PDFs and copying from one file to another

yt-dlp is still alive, well and actively developed. It can now target abunch of different platforms.

I’m not permanently banned, I was temporarily banned for a bullshit reason and when I got my account back I went scorched earth then closed my account. Fuck reddit

The egg… laid by a bird that wasn’t a chicken

Neil D Tyson

The explanation goes as follows:

Since any offspring is never going to be 100% genetically similar to its parent, eventually an offsprings genome will mutate into what we humans would classify as a chicken within our “scientific” definitions.

Imo the concept of a chicken is an illusion. It’s a bird thing that I can eat, and sometimes they’re really nice and lay eggs, that’s what a chicken is.

This is why we Jews know not to manufacture life

What do they mean “help”? Does this mean that they’re going to have to suffer with the consequences of paying devs?

Makes it easier to distribute and set up

Maybe a bit of an edge case but I use a wallet case and I still carry a credit card. Wireless chargers have cooked my credit card a few times… and nfc Google pay doesn’t always work.

Then I’d delete my old phone number account and start fresh… not exactly the best option but all things considered you might have too

Signal recently implemented “usernames” instead of phone numbers

Undeniably fair

Ok peace love and fuck google but serious replies only

Why do we devs need Android?

Most apps I build just display shit. They show prompts to the user to guide them through what I want them too.

I can’t remember ever needing to implement some high frequency data processing onboard and even so. Webassembly and PWAs are getting better pretty dang fast (isn’t figma a 100% wasm-pwa?) so if I actually needed those I could have those.

The last remnants of what a program could do on bare metal is like LLMs and visual processing. I’d also rather have those in a standalone app but soon we’re gonna get some sort of WebNPU standard and (well) I might as well process images in webassembly (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

Like imo browsers are becoming virtual machines with (what amounts to) an undefinably infinite app store.

When I freelance as an app developer I always encourage my clients to go the PWA route and then I wrap a PWA runner for the app stores because they only want to be on the app stores for marketing purposes and bc users are used to it.

Because that’s all that these OSs are, just UI’s wrapping a browser (in my humble opinion).

I’ve been experiencing something like this too…

I’m really insomniac due to mental health stressors and chemical imbalances. I honestly might die if I don’t use meds to put myself to sleep for 2 weeks straight.

That being said my meds are correcting the chemical imbalances. And I get to notice as I try to fall asleep after a high stress day I’ll ruminate too hard and I’ll stay awake after the “put-down” pill wears off, (then I gotta decide to give up on sleep all together or damage myself more with another pill).

I’m not a doctor (just traumatized). Ruminations come from anxiety sometimes, try to recognize what you’re actually actually doing to prevent yourself from sleeping.

I was lazy… Here’s it on YouTube https://youtube.com/shorts/VD4lZvYCfZc

Break up the union and pick the name of the most powerful government that existed within the bounds of every state before the land was occupied by any old-world government.

IMO if Lemmy had all the features that old.reddt had it would still be an objectivly worse UX experience. Federating reduces UX, that’s just a rule.

We should focus on making the onboarding process as simple as possible like enabling social login (inb4 insecure and not private: let people make their choices), and making it easier to move between instances and understand what instance you’re looking at.

Jupiter’s Ascending… it was nice 👍

If I could have something magical: I’d like to be able to accelerate my thinking so I can have as long as I want to think things through

If it’s gotta be real: easier to use memory, I feel like I have no idea what’s going on bc I forget shit, but it’s not forgotten I just didn’t remember that memory at the right time even though I had it…

Talking to people hasn’t been going well lately