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Mike Wooskey

@ mike_wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com

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2 yr. ago

1d ago

Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 1d ago
I'm certainly old, but I've been trying for a year or 2 to stop using giant corporation names as verbs. "Google it" became "look it up" or "research it".

1d ago

If you live in California you can now tell data brokers to delete your personal information. Here’s how to do it

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 1d ago

If you live anywhere, you can tell data brokers to delete your data. Will they, whether they're in California or not?

1d ago

If AI that good, why won't AI companies just replace their CEOs with it?

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 1d ago

OverpAId

3d ago

What is one of those: oh my god, I wish someone had explained THIS system to me when I was younger moments that really sticks out to you from your experience?

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 3d ago

That was really difficult to read/understand. I added punctuation to make it more clear, at least to me.

What is one of those "Oh my god, I wish someone had explained THIS system to me when I was younger" moments, that really sticks out to you from your experience?

7d ago

Ollama vs vLLM vs LightLLM: What Is Technically Different Under the Hood?

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 7d ago

Here the article that spurred my change: Friends don't let friends use Ollama

Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engine.

He shares that the people behind llama.cpp don't act poorly (at least in those regards). My experience confirms llama.cpp can run just about any gguf while ollama can only run those that have been customized for ollama, and llama.cpp seems faster (no evidence, just anecdotal).

1w ago

Ollama vs vLLM vs LightLLM: What Is Technically Different Under the Hood?

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 1w ago

I switched from ollama to llama.cpp and love it. For such an article, it frustrates me that they don't include the common and popular option in the comparison.

1w ago

Daily Invidious Restarts

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 1w ago

I haven't had to adjust or look at my invidious instance configs in a long time, but I do remember that in their docker instructions and I think I configured my container to restart hourly (or maybe I made it every other hour? Daily?). I've had no problems with my invidious instance in a long time, but that may have nothing to do with frequent restarts.

2w ago

Whose freedom is it anyway?

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 2w ago

Well written and very thought provoking. I've thought about positive and negative freedom (and other definitions) a lot, but still this article gave me new perspective.

2w ago

I Regret Migrating to Codeberg

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 2w ago

I think Forgejo is in the process of federating via ActivityPub. Codeberg uses Forgejo, but Forgejo is self hostable. I'm looking forward to see how a federated git forge works!

2w ago

Mullvad on the Donation Controversy

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 2w ago

The Hated One has a video explaining his take on what Mullvad has done, and he gives 2 good alternatives to Mullvad. He also has other videos comparing VPN services in terms of privacy. He's very thorough.

3w ago

Backing up Proxmox Backup Server

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 3w ago

I have aPBS server and my friend in a different geographic region has one. I backup to mine and he backs up to his. Mine syncs my backups to a data so l store in his, and his summer backups to a data store in mine. These are our offsite backups.

To be clear, we're syncing our proxmox VM backups. But Proxmox Backup Server also has a client app, so I also back up my workstation to my PBS and it also syncs to the remote PBS.

4w ago

Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers?

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 4w ago

It's important to me to use devices and services that are local only, but I could only find such robot mowers that are beyond my skillset to build. I have no interest in building and 3d printing and flashing firmware, etc. I just want to buy a device and use it, without my privacy being sold. I'm willing to pay, but I guess there's not enough market for anyone to build/sell that.

Same with vacuums, by the way. I have a dreametech model that's supported by Valetudo, but the instructions to flash it sounded difficult and risky enough that I just use it as is, with my home map (and whatever other data it gleans) going through Dreametech's servers and being sold to whomever.

Sad.

4w ago

PuzzleMoE: Efficient Compression of Large Mixture-of-Experts Models via Sparse Expert Merging and Bit-packed inference

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Mike Wooskey @lemmy.thewooskeys.com 4w ago

Only minor performance degradation with compression, but does the compression also mean the MOE model can run on a GPU with less VRAM? E.g., I don't think I can run GLM 5.2 on my W7900 (48G) even though the experts only take 40G, but would this compression allow it to run?