But selling the crown would drive the price of crowns down so low (supply and demand, you know) and you’d never actually get 8 billion. Best you’d get is… maybe one roundabout and a nice tree.

That’s quite interesting, thank you! So for an instance to manipulate votes, they’d have to stream a bunch of fake events.

I know nothing about Lemmy’s architecture, but how does my instance tally votes on a post from another instance?

Does it trust that instance? Does it only take into account votes cast on itself? Does it ask every federated instance for their vote totals?

You can get pretty far with a stack of 5090s and llama.cpp with split mode graph (or so I’ve heard, I’ve never tried), or AMD’s unified memory CPU thing.

It’s not as good as data centre grade stuff, but it’s not nothing either.

Same, pretty much. It is possible though, which makes LLMs a more democratic technology than, say, nuclear reactors.

That’s kinda my point. Roads are a useful technology, but they can be used by fascists.

I’m not here to argue for or against LLMs in general, but self-hostable AI is a thing. Actually open AI is a thing.

A blanket statement saying about AI as a whole technology being good for fascism is about as useful as saying “roads are good for fascism” (they’re great for troop movement after all).

Huh, I hadn’t heard about that! Honestly seems useful, and if it’s only the engine, I don’t see how crypto bros are relevant.

If there’s some “pay to unblock” scheme, that’s a different story.

What are they doing with cryptocurrency now?

It depends in what context.

On the day to day, is someone making $200k struggling? No.

Is someone making $200k in the bottom 99% of Americans? Yes.

There’s a proper photo of the tortilla in the article. That grey thing is “unidentified” meat.

Am I misunderstanding, or is this not open source? Looks like you have to pay on ko-fi.

I second the green recommendation. Works great out of the box.

Proposing a fix is better than no fix? I didn’t know it was possible, and now I’m looking into it.

Changing the default is a social issue, so of course it’s more difficult than changing one’s current setting.

Even for guys the measurements don’t always line up. I’ve found that some brands are significantly bigger than the number would suggest.

They aren’t using git as a database, they’re using it as revision history. The database is whatever they decide to store in git. For crates.io, for example, they use JSON files in directories.

If you put an sqlite database in git, you are wouldn’t say “git is the database”, and that’s true here too.

That said, yeah, you shouldn’t roll your own database. Take your source code (JSON from crates.io) from git, and compile it into an sqlite file (for example) for download.

Is Netflix evil these days?

Ugh, reminds me of project babble and eyetrackvr. Went from open source to source available non-commercial.

Give me a keyboard that shocks me if I use the wrong finger to type a letter.

I think a heat gun would probably work, as suggested elsewhere. A hot surface might transfer its texture to the print?

Oh! I wonder if your printbed could get hot enough to do it?

Otherwise, yeah, 220 -> 400 -> 600 -> 1000 -> 2000 -> 4000 -> 8000 -> 10000 grit might do it.