[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

I thought it was 13 because it goes eleven, twelve, thirteen

But then different languages are different when it comes to the numbers, in Estonian we have "teismeline" as the word for teenager and you could argue it starts at 11 because the numbers are üksteist, kaksteist and so on (11, 12)

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 22 minutes ago

The Mistral stuff is completely proprietary except for the final weights as far as I can tell

Same as most open weight models. There are very few truly open source models, particularly if your definition requires distributing the whole training dataset.

I’d rather resist that since I want to be able to build and modify it myself.

I hope you've got some damn beefy hardware then. Even small models are a pain to train from scratch. You CAN still fine-tune it or train with LoRA.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 25 minutes ago

GPL doesn't allow for closed source forks. MIT does. You can add extra features without removing compatibility, by adding new flags, etc. Though I do struggle to come up with what premium features cp, mv and rm in particular could be expanded with.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 27 minutes ago

He who? Trump?

Anyway, welcome to the Union, sorta. I hope this means we get better maple syrup availability here now. I... have little idea about what Canada's other unique exports are and I'm sure this agreement is mostly about trade.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

€0.13/watt* here, random store I found online in my country, but it is a legitimate business, I checked that much. Not quite $0.12, but close enough and I didn't spend much time looking for it.

Though I feel like just a few months ago I couldn't find anything this cheap.

Either way, for me personally, my geographical location makes it kinda useless in the winter and for some months I'd have nothing to do with the excess I would produce from just a few panels - in the summer, there's no point selling to the grid during daytime and the nights are too short to make proper use of any stored energy, you'd have fully charged batteries all the time.

Couple of months in spring and fall where things would run into a nice equilibrium though. Unfortunately not enough savings to pay for a battery. Think sodium batteries will change that over the coming years though, so I might go for it eventually.

* just noticed this is excluding VAT, so add 24% on top - but then price comparisons make sense without VAT anyway, since that varies by country. I think most US states have much lower sales tax than our VAT.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 50 minutes ago

I like MIT for libraries, not a huge fan of it for core OS utilities because it just means they'll be free to lock up features behind Ubuntu Pro or whatever it's called. Eugh.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 52 minutes ago

The translation feature has been very useful, though it's not an LLM. Still a neural network though. Saves me from going to google translate when browsing websites in e.g Russian (drive2.ru or whatever turns up in google search every so often when looking up obscure information on some cars and european oils that bitog forums don't see as much).

It entirely depends on what the AI does and if it's opt-in, opt-out, or forced on you. Opt-in local AI with sensible features is actually a good thing IMO.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 55 minutes ago

Okay I'm sorry to be that guy, but wind mills are used to grind stuff, like grains into flour. You mean wind turbines/generators.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 58 minutes ago

Also what the fuck kind of company expense is Robux anyway? I'd get some questions from the tax authority if I did that. If you're going to use a company card for personal expenses, at least do it for expenses that are believable as company expenses.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

Well this is actually Greece rather than Rome, but the point still stands

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 hour ago

It's almost definitely antisemitic, but I suspect rather than being actual hatred, it was probably just an antisemitic joke in poor taste, and more importantly, he apologized for it in... 2014.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

There's the other side too, though.

People who never had the time to maintain the projects they created ages ago, because the projects make little to no money in donations so they have full time jobs. Some of them have resorted to LLMs because nobody else is stepping up (and can you even trust randos to take over stewardship of your project? Remember Jia Tan!) and now catch hate for that, when previously they caught hate for not getting enough done.

I previously never made any of my projects open source because I just wouldn't have time to maintain them anyway. Now I could ease the workload with AI, but I'd rather not deal with either end of the AI issue: I don't want people sending random ass pull requests and bug reports that clearly haven't been reviewed by a human that knows what's up, and I don't want to catch a bunch of hate for using LLMs myself. Not a big loss for the open source community either way, the things I've created are fairly niche tools that you can just pay to get proprietary alternatives that would usually work better, having been in development for longer, by larger teams. Most people won't need them at all though.

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Hi!

So recently I've realized that I might have SAD. Round the winter solstice, there's about 6 hours of sunlight per day in Estonia and for much of December and early to mid January, it was also overcast so even the 6 hours of "sunlight" were kinda dark.

So I went to read Wikipedia and:

Two methods of light therapy, bright light and dawn simulation, have similar success rates in the treatment of SAD

So I'm just wondering if anyone has personal experiences with these, particularly the dawn simulation as I believe that's something I could just set up and forget hopefully (I have ADHD, I do NOT do well with things I have to repeat every day). Does it help? Do you use it outside of wintertime too?

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For some reason or another, a whole third of all mechanical keyboards in the biggest local computer retailer's online store, are Ducky. Probably because they have ISO and ANSI layouts, a lot of colors, different sizes, and different switches. And they're ordered from abroad when bought, not stocked locally. So loads of choice and no cost showing them as available.

So since my only real options here if I want a full keyboard or TKL with blue switches are a couple of different Ducky models (one 3, Shine 7) in various colors, I'm wondering if anyone has personal experience with Ducky? I've read both praise and hate online, so can't really make heads or tails of the quality.

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Long story short, despite living in a detached home with not too much 2.4 GHz noise, my Logitech unifying receiver has trouble with my mouse at 20 centimeters from the receiver. Keyboard at roughly 7-8 centimeters range has less trouble, but not none.

I can't be arsed to get an USB extension cord or anything. This is a stupid-ass problem. I want to replace them with something new. What mouse would you suggest that's ergonomic, but not too expensive? I'd say 150€ is the absolute limit, but would prefer under 100€. Mouse should be wireless as I have a tendency of moving it around. It's just the Unifying Receiver tripping me up - I've not had much trouble with other wireless mice in the past, and the same mouse works completely fine on Bluetooth as far as range is concerned, but it's a pain to reconnect on Linux for some reason or another.

I do a little gaming, but mostly software engineering. Precision isn't as important as comfort. I also don't want to get something uber weird shaped, it should still look and feel like a mouse ideally.

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