I don’t mean to be rude though, PM me about stuff if you want! But I make no promises about a timely response lol.

Not particularly, just frequent posters I’m familiar with.

I plan to get more involved once I get some personal stuff straight.

Heh, I’m an EE dropout kinda in machine learning stuff now. Good luck, chemical engineering seems tough (but cool).

But yeah, on Lemmy the idea is to post in communities that fit your niches, rather than trying to follow people directly like Mastadon, Twitter or whatever. Those are a bit slim but growing (for instance, there are some active science-focused communities/servers).

“SONOS" is exactly the same if you rotate it 180 degrees.

Don’t even joke about this. FOSS development is fundamentally pretty “woke,” see: https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/governance/governance.html#consensus-based-decision-making-by-the-community

And they linked: https://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#social-infrastructure

A problem is volunteers and critical mass.

Open source “hacks” need a big pool of people who want something to seed a few brilliant souls to develop it in their free time. It has to be at least proportional to the problem.

This kinda makes sense for robot vacuums: a lot of people have them, and the cloud service is annoying, simpler, and not life critical.

Teslas are a whole different deal. They are very expensive, and fewer people own them. Replicating even part of the cloud API calls is a completely different scope. The pool of Tesla owners willing to dedicate their time to that is just… smaller.

Also, I think buying a Tesla, for many, was a vote of implicit trust in the company and its software. It’s harder for someone cynical of its cloud dependence to end up with an entire luxury automobile.

Not necessarily all of it.

Even anti fingerprinting browser forks aren’t perfect.

Meanwhile, Rust punches you in the face for the mere suggestion. Again. And again.

Python happily nods, runs it one page at a time, very slowly, randomly handing things off to a C person standing to the side, then returns a long poem. You wanted a number.

Assembly does no checking, and reality around you tears from an access violation.

EDIT: Oh, and the CUDA/PyTorch person is holding a vacuum sucking money from your wallet, with a long hose running to Jensen Huang’s kitchen.

Oh I forgot Malcom in the Middle. +1 to that.

I love LoK, honestly more than ATLA, for many reasons. Along those lines, I was more into ATLA for Zuko than the Gaang.

This is hard.

• Avatar: The Last Airbender + The Legend of Korra together. Don’t even get me started (actually please do).

• Pantheon. Dense, proper sci fi, criminally and tragically suppressed IRL. Watch it, right now.

• I am really loving Severance so far.

• Arcane is up there, maybe as most artistic.

• Star Wars: Andor. Not a huge Star Wars fan, but it’s so good, and grounded. It has everything.

I have a lot of “secondary” favorites I am excluding here, like The Expanse, Person of Interest, Fringe, The Americans, Narcos, Mythbusters, and such for various reasons, but are still amazing.

Fringe is so underrated.

…Have you seen Severance? It feels more condensed, and I am loving it so far.

It’s social media. It’s TV.

So I bounce between 3 Trump states, and much of my family is glued to Facebook. Many don’t even know how to use a browser, just apps that serve them. Others religiously watch fox, a lot of cable opinion segments, things like that. I know a kid lost in Discord and YouTube.

Also, you should see the things pastors are saying in one of their churches, in spite of what the clergy have done…

I don’t know what it’s like overseas, but again, Americans seem totally consumed by social media, which is all just algorithmic propaganda that warps their world. And Trump/Musk are literally the top of that world.

It’s only getting worse.

That really is the root issue. No amount of protest, policy, empathy, anything is going to get through as long as people are immersed in these warped views of the world, and any political opposition is completely incapable of realizing that.

Yeah, but Facebook and Twitter still have the critical mass.

Most of my family’s Trumpism is grassroots, either from their church or other real-world connections.

TBH I don’t know a single person that’s ever used Truth Social, or many that even know what it is. I think it’s more of a niche, not something affecting the masses.

I have very religious family that repeatedly told my 90 year old grandma not to get vaccinated in the depths of COVID-19. I have other, not-at-all religious family that works as a nurse… And is anti vaccine.

It’s like a parody.

…But it is no joke. I can answer questions about them if you want.

If you’re wondering why, it’s because many Americans are inundated in really scary social media and TV. That part of my family is constantly on Facebook, watching Fox, doomscrolling whatever. Even their church preaches some really, uh, interesting things now.

It’s this way because there’s a lot of profiteering. For example, the current head of the FBI is apparently selling and promoting some kind of “brave anti vaccine” health merchandise. The current head of the US health department made a lot of money and fame off vaccine skepticism. And their church clergy is crooked in ways I can’t even publicly discuss.

And Facebook still funds lots of its development afaik

React and PyTorch are pretty neat. Llama is too. So are some smaller software efforts.

Not that I disagree with the meme at all, but there is a tiny branch at Facebook that is symbiotic.

Honestly this is an age old tradition. Elite, from the founder’s associates to the Clintons, Bushes, Obamas and such probably profited off some insider information, to some extent. But I dunno. SEC regulation for political billionaires is not my area of expertise, though it seems like his family is carrying on a lot of business.

Trump’s memecoin is already a ridiculously flagrant manipulation though: https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/trumps-meme-coin-made-nearly-100-million-trading-fees-small-traders-lost-money-2025-02-03/

Small insider trades or charity shenanigans pale in comparison.

If I were him… Well, why mess with insider trading when he can just blatantly profit in the open?

Yes! Try this model: https://huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Virtuoso-Small-v2

Or the 14B thinking model: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

But for speed and coherence, instead of ollama, I’d recommend running it through Aphrodite or TabbyAPI as a backend, depending if you prioritize speed or long inputs. They both act as generic OpenAI endpoints.

I’ll even step you through it and upload a quantization for your card, if you want, as it looks like there’s not a good-sized exl2 on huggingface.