Maybe, maybe I'm just being optimistic and this is totally anecdotal, but I'm still plugged into MSSM and....people noticed. And I'm not talking just the politically versed people, but the "normies", the kinda people that take things in passively.

Will that translate into real world impacts? Who knows, could be a nothing burger could be the catalyst that gets written into the history books

Ukraine gave you a decent gift though by taking out those Russian bot datacenters just before the election there and here in the states

Release? Probably not

But the LLM tech is cool to experiment with, and there are useful use cases, but trying to run frontier class open source LLMs takes a boat load of VRAM lolol

Who said anything about wanting gaming GPUs?

I'm sure with all these AI startups there's plenty that used consumer grade stuff because that's what they could get

Either way though, I run enterprise servers in my homelab so I stand to benefit even if mostly enterprise server RAM and data center class GPUs hit the market

Hmm iirc the physical setup (tape drive, auto loader, HBA card for my server) set me back ~2.5k (with the bulk of that being the drive itself) and then the actual tapes was prob another ~1k for 200TBs raw, but more like 100TB actual usable since I use another tape for a backup off-site copy

I finally bit the bullet months ago and invested into LTO8 for my cold storage, I still need to buy drives at some point, but at least I've got a decent path to put shit in the mean time so I don't gotta delete anything lolol

Actually, according to lemmyverse.net (great place for comm discovery btw!) and my own experience cross posting .ml content, .ml is almost entirely held up by a core set of the most diehard tankie users. Most .ml comms are overshadowed by comms on other instances with much higher Monthly Active Users numbers.

The comm search field goes by pure subscriber count which doesn't really decrease for any reason other than a user actually unsubscribing from a comm so all of those insane numbers on some .ml comms are just overinflated and don't reflect actual traffic. It's full of dead and/or banned accounts, alts and some still active users

Oh wow, that's a lot of charts without a single source on them lolol

You should also add hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, if you think .ml is bad those 2 are widely considered to be far worse. Together they comprise the Tankie Triad of the lemmyverse

Be aware though that while blocking the triad makes your feed much better, the blocking system of lemmy is horribly implemented (Many of us consider it done on purpose (the lemmy devs are hardcore Tankies)) so even though you block instances, those instance users can still be bothersome on posts outside those instance (e.g. you'll still see them on a post on a comm on lemmy.dbzer0.com for instance). They are also known to create Alts on other instances to stir up trouble and brigade posts.

Here's a list of well known Tankies if you'd like to individually block, most of em will have alts on hex and grad (I made it from memory so I might miss some others) Alternatively, depending on your client, you can also just tag their usernames and then if you see them in the wild you'll know right away (Which is what I prefer, I prefer to tag users rather than outright block so I can counter their crap if I so choose)

@yogthos@lemmy.ml

@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml

@Cowbee@lemmy.ml

@davel@lemmy.ml

@dessalines@lemmy.ml

@cypherpunks@lemmy.ml

@nutomic@lemmy.ml

@trainsrkool@lemmy.ml

@jankforlife@lemmy.ml

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