The Hobbyist

It seems Signal has already pushed out a fix for this, which was abusing the QR codes to actually link a device when it was presenting itself as a way to join a group.

Paywalled: https://www.wired.com/story/russia-signal-qr-code-phishing-attack/

In this case, without clicking any links in the email, why don’t you just simply go to the proton website manually and log in for good measure?

I hear you, I always see this problem being solved by the link being in the description and the host saying “link in the description”. I hadn’t come across a situation where an audio only format was accessible and there was no way to interact with the content but in some corner cases it does make sense.

I don’t understand in what circumstances anyone would like to use link shorteners? I can only find reasons why not to use them:

• subject visitors to surveillance
• destination under the control of a third party (potential for ransom for the author, like we see here, and potential of ads for visitors like we see here)
• obfuscation of the actual destination
• how long will the redirect be valid for? It could be deemed unviable for the company to continue support of the redirect, thus rendering the destination inaccessible from all places where the shortened link is used.
• more…?

Not impossible that it is a coincidence but the probability that it is just fell way lower.

If the probability that it a 5090 experiences this issue is 1%, then the probaility that both devices fail is 0.01%. Not impossible, but very unlikely.

One thing which I find useful is to be able to turn installation/setup instructions into ansible roles and tasks. If you’re unfamiliar, ansible is a tool for automated configuration for large scale server infrastructures. In my case I only manage two servers but it is useful to parse instructions and convert them to ansible, helping me learn and understand ansible at the same time.

Here is an example of instructions which I find interesting: how to setup docker for alpine Linux: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Docker

Results are actually quite good even for smaller 14B self-hosted models like the distilled versions of DeepSeek, though I’m sure there are other usable models too.

To assist you in programming (both to execute and learn) I find it helpful too.

I would not rely on it for factual information, but usually it does a decent job at pointing in the right direction. Another use i have is helpint with spell-checking in a foreign language.

Ollama, latest version. I have it setup with Open-WebUI (though that shouldn’t matter). The 14B is around 9GB, which easily fits in the 12GB.

I’m repeating the 28 t/s from memory, but even if I’m wrong it’s easily above 20.

Specifically, I’m running this model: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q4_K_M

Edit: I confirmed I do get 27.9 t/s, using default ollama settings.

You can. I’m running a 14B deepseek model on mine. It achieves 28 t/s.

Oh yes I’ve trained it extensively on that website when it first launched! But thanks for the reminder!

Dude, I had been using the default keyboard from GrapheneOS since I couldn’t find a decent keyboard and gave up on swiping all together. I had heard about the futo keyboard but was unaware how mature it is. I installed it and set it up. I am very pleased! It has a lot of settings, and while the swiping isn’t perfect yet, I can actually feel like it’s learning from my usage. Very encouraging and it really brings me joy.

The Google keyboard was the best for me, but this is really not far behind. Thank you FUTO! Will be donating <3

To run the full 671B sized model (404GB in size), you would need more than 404GB of combined GPU memory and standard memory (and that’s only to run it, you would most probably want it all to be GPU memory to make it run fast).

With 24GB of GPU memory, the largest model which would fit from the R1 series would be the 32b-qwen-distill-q4_K_M (20GB in size) available at ollama (and possibly elsewhere).

What brand is currently recommended? WD is taking the enshittification highway…

Latest story I know of: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/clearly-predatory-western-digital-sparks-panic-anger-for-age-shaming-hdds/

Geez, during the pandemic Sony released its functionaltiy for free! It was really nice.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00247038

I’m not convinced having a specific ruling targeting just tiktok would be a good move. I think I understand and side with all the reasons they are doing it: be it privacy, security and more. But they should not uniquely apply to tiktok, but to all apps. If suddenly there’s a Russian app, or a Nigerian app or a swiss app, any which for whatever reasons has security and privacy concerns, they should all be held to the same standards. Me no like double standards.

I’m not convinced having a specific ruling targeting just tiktok would be a good move. I think I understand and side with all the reasons they are doing it: be it privacy, security and more. But they should not uniquely apply to tiktok, but to all apps. If suddenly there’s a Russian app, or a Nigerian app or a swiss app, any which for whatever reasons has security and privacy concerns, they should all be held to the same standards. Me no like double standards.

I have numerous files which I am intentionally maintaining to improve seeding availability but I’ve always been bothered by how little they seed. Yet somehow while those same files are downloaded, seeding is great. Is this also a case of port forwarding being to blame? I do not have it enabled.

They may inadvertently focus on people who spoke against the new “pro free speech” of Facebook…

So cloudflare admits they are bulk processing the reports and the article just goes saying yeah too bad, it happens. But this is just for me a solid argument that scaling companies to that level is not beneficial, neither for themselves (as they get this kind of coverage about not doing the job properly), then for the websites being unjustly blocked and for visitors being misguided. I wish we could have a more competitive market instead of cloudflare, google and possibly some few others…

People could be using WhatsApp if they cared about it, but they chose signal for a reason. And making signal weaken its privacy for the purpose of reaching more people is against everything they stand for.