You can buy cheap Chinese walkie-talkies that can transmit on ham bands. Yagi antennas are directional antennas that can be used for triangulation.

The fantasy tech didn’t really bother me, but the pacing of the show was too slow for me.

Not enough room in the GPU machine for all the HDDs I needed.

Also who got millions of photos at home?

People working on biological datasets.

If the corporate VPNs keep logs and allow government access, they will be allowed. That’s how it works in some (authoritarian) countries.

I believe China does statistical analysis to do stuff like detecting and blocking VPNs, suspicious looking ssh traffic, etc from home Internet connections not going to an approved business. It’s my understanding it’s very hard to get around the GFW at the moment, and pretty complex stuff is needed to mask VPN traffic to make it look normal (Project X, Xray, Reality, etc).

Rsync, syncthing, backups, mp3s, photos, json files; idk, a lot of tasks involve large amounts of small files. I personally ran into this problem training models on millions of photos. My GPUs would only get up to 25% utilization with mirrored HDDs, so I had to switch to SSDs.

Edit: the difference is also significant when compiling large projects or just using git. I imagine some game servers need a lot of random accesses too.

HDDs have horrible random access times, so if you need to process or just copy a lot of small files, say photos, there’s a significant penalty.

IDK, it seems almost transparent to me those in control of the US are doing a racketeering-like thing to solicit bribes, and doing whatever whoever bribes them the most wants. They aren’t thinking on a national level, just personal; and would burn the US or any other country to the ground to gain more power and wealth.

All the open hardware and software and ecosystem was pretty cool. It was cool you could just buy hats, or whatever they’re called, to add functionality, rather than designing a custom PCB and spending hundreds of dollars to get a few boards made and populated. I’m not a fan of their software stack or their choice of uC’s, but they did make it easy to just kind of plug stuff together in hardware and software.

Alibaba has released Qwen models under Apache licenses (and they are some of the best models that can reasonably be ran locally). Some argue that models aren’t really open source unless the training code and datasets are made available though.

I tend to prefer creators who do the donation model (e.g. Patreon). The advertisement and sponsorship models create bad incentives. The donation model can too, but it’s preferable, IMO.

Yeah, I have a node that’s just a RAK Wisblock kit just hooked up to a USB power adapter and taped together. Works great. Looks like the ESP based boards are a bit cheaper, and should be fine if you don’t need to run off battery (they use considerably more current).

I think ublock origin hides that for me (might need to enable cookie notices lists if it doesn’t).

I like superdeterminism. Or Three Body Problem’s sophons :)

It pretty much is the same thing. In theory, shorting the ETF will drive the price of gold down (until the short needs to be covered; like all shorts), because all accounts must eventually be settled. The price of gold is literally set by the futures market, which people with the appropriate approval can also short. Gold dealers literally look up the price on the futures market and add/subtract a few percentage points to determine how much to buy/sell physical gold for.

I don’t think it’s been proven that the nitrogen the beans/bacteria fix is available to the corn (before the bean plants die and decompose). Though, I have done this (along with squash), and it does seem to work pretty well. I think it gives you more vegetables per sq ft, than if you were to grow them all separately.

I’m not involved in the “scene,” so don’t know the accuracy of the content, but I’ve heard they do it something like this before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene

Kagi is great, probably the best I’ve tried, but expensive. I just use DDG for now, until my financial situation improves.

Librewolf disables some canvas features because they’re a good way to fingerprint your browser. A lot of map and image manipulation stuff won’t work correctly on LibreWolf. I usually just open a Chromium private window when that happens. There’s probably a better solution, but I also have to use some sites for work that only work on chromium-based browsers as well.

Humans lived in what could be described as a sort of primitive communism for most of the species history.

Basically, the society needs to be decentralized. If you can keep it sufficiently non hierarchal, there isn’t a lot of power people can get over many others. A problem I see with this is defending against large, centralized, outside organizations. So, I guess you’d need some federation-like structures. Some communes are pretty democratic and decentralized. The Zapitista territories are the best example I know of, of a large non-hierarchal federation of communities.