I tried self-hosted AI agents so you don't have to!I wanted to see what options were available and took n8n and ollama for a spin to see what was possible.
There are some pointed criticisms about the entire concept, but I can definitely appreciate why people find the idea attractive.
My professional contacts are acting strange. The ones who know that I'm a weak fit for government research are shutting me out. The ones who *don't* know that are desperately reaching out.
There's a stupidly huge number of job postings for DoD contractors. They actually pay industry standard - they usually pay garbage.
Something's happening, I don't know what it is.
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I personally suspect that our government is trying to develop some previously inconceivable military technology. I'll call such a secret project "Z," out of ignorance of what it actually is. My discipline is highly specialized, but it's also so broadly applicable that "our government wants CMD to be useful" gives zero fucking information other than "there's a camera of some kind somewhere" which could easily just mean 'we want new face detection tech to keep Z out of our enemy's hands."
The US has been atrocious at keeping secrets for decades. DOGE was obviously a government purge - I suspect that this was actually done to throw out people who our government suspects would leak information about Z. That is, this was a transition from a pseudo-peacetime civil service to a wartime civil service.
Our government is trying to scrape up scientists from the streets right now - if it wasn't, I wouldn't know shit. It cannot find enough suitable scientists to develop Z. That must mean Z is either big enough that it requires a stupidly huge number of scientists, or the US scientific community is full of people unfit to work on Z. I'd suspect it's the latter - American scientists are mostly driven by one of two desires: the desire to publish public research or money.
Patriotism in the scientific community is very low. Unfortunately, the scientists that *do* fill our National Labs are...not the best, nor the brightest. They're usually driven by the desire for a stable job where they don't have to compete...a desire held by incompetent people. They are not *idiots*, but they are undeniably outclassed by the typical university professor, and they are comically outclassed by people selling you ads.
I think we're looking at a second nuke race. I don't know what the next "nuke" is, but whatever it is the US government is trying to make it right now.
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OpenAI will fight order to keep all ChatGPT logs after users fail to sway court.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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The beauty is the next time the kid "looks it up" ChatGPT is more likely to give them a completely different set of false facts for the same query.
Now, if they used Perplexity, for example, at least Perplexity provides citations at least. I trust Perplexity a hell of a lot more than anything ChatGPT could ever tell me.
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The office job I had before Covid had machines with Windows XP stickers on the front running Windows 10.
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The House is concerned about the lack of transparency in how WhatsApp handles user data. Meta claps back, saying it’s safer than the alternatives recommended by the House.Jibin Joseph (PCMag)
The vast majority of the Republican party and a number of hawkish Democrats are rallying around Trump’s war on Iran.
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The "official" Linux kernel, straight from Linus Torvalds and all the kernel developers, you generally see a new version every 2 to 2 and a half months.
All stable versions of the Linux kernel are numbered in the usual scheme, so major number DOT minor number, but they also have really strange codenames. Some distros tend to modify these kernels with additional patches, or features that haven't been added yet, which is why you can see some kernel versions with a "-ubuntu" at the end for example.
Certain kernel versions are also marked as LTS, meaning Long Term support. These are versions that will be supported for much longer, up to 6 years. The Linux kernel project recently reduced that support window to 2 years.
Since both the stable and LTS kernels ship with some non free firmware, there's the Kernel Libre project, which removes all of that, to only ship software and code that is completely free, as in freedom..
Next, we have the hardened kernel. It's not an "official" project per se, it's a kernel version that certain distros ship in their repos, like Arch Linux for example. It's the stable kernel, with an additional patch set applied to it to make it more resilient security-wise.
Next, we have the realtime kernel. The goal is to reduce the latency between a task being assigned to the CPU, and its execution, and it's mainly meant for industrial applications, or for audio production.
This, in turn, makes it less efficient for multi tasking, and it requires a lot more manual config to be efficient, and applications need to be specifically tailored to take advantage of this lower latency.
The low latency kernel variants do the same thing, but at a lesser degree: it still lets you pre-empt CPU threads like the real time kernel, but it isn't as regular as the realtime kernel.
The Android kernel is focused on supporting a specific category of devices, meaning that it has optimizations for these exact things.
The Zen kernel applies a few fixes and improvements meant to have the best performance and experience for linux desktop users. It's also packaged as the Liquorix kernel for Ubuntu or Debian, and other distros, although Liquorix isn't exactly like the Zen kernel.
Another version is the XanMod kernel, with sort of the same optimization as the Zen kernel, and a few more on top of that, with the same goal: improving the performance of Linux systems.
Finally, we have the TKG kernels, and I'm saying kernels, because TKG isn't a specific Linux kernel you can download and use, it's more like a build system that lets you choose a few specific patches and compile your own kernel with that.
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The West cares as much about the oppression of Iranian women as it did for the oppression of Afghani women: it's great for war propaganda.
#Iran #AttackOnIran #WarOnIran
I'm drinking this Tim Hortons Maple coffee.
IDC what flavor is used,-- Irish Cream, French Vanilla, etc-- they all taste exactly the same.
Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices
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And New York City is poised to elect a Muslim as mayor.
Those who would say that not all Muslims are alike? Spare me. While that might be true, it's also true that the Islam has not called out its zealots.
Netanyahu is basically an American. Let's not kid ourselves. He lived in America for a bit, he went to college here, he knows what makes Americans click. That's why his diplomacy with Congress is so effective.
He knows our politics just as good as our representatives do.
The reason our army of Holden Bloodfeasts clapped for Bibi the way they did is because he is one of them. The United States and Israel act as one geopolitical unit, and they act in lockstep.
While their domestic affairs are completely segregated, Israel is an extension of the United States for all practical military and diplomatic purposes.
We are not the United States of Israel.
Israel is the new Philippines.
Israel is to America what Vichy France was to the Third Reich.
This is the motivation behind my use of the term "US-Israel", and this is one of the reasons I dislike people who imply that the United States is a slave to Israel or whatever.
People who talk about how Israel controls America are bad for 3 reasons:
A) it's not true
B) it has at least a passing resemblance to neo-Nazi David Duke's "ZOG" conspiracy theory that makes me uncomfortable
C) it's a way of laundering the reputation of the United States by portraying the colonialist policies of the state of Israel as an aberration that the "real America" wouldn't support, when this contradicts everything in US history ever.
Israel is a semi-autonomous suzerainty of the United States in practice. Without imperialism, Israel would not exist.
Jabotinsky and other founding Zionists have deliberately worked to maintain this strategy for more than a century. First it was Britain, but Britain's imperial power collapsed. Then, Israel moved to change its alignment towards the United States.
The strategy detailed in the Iron Wall has succeeded beyond Ze'ev's wildest dreams.
Additionally, America needs its suzerainty in the Levant.
In Biden's own infamous words: "if there were not an Israel, we would have to create one".
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Russian Armed Forces Expand the Flanks of the Previously Driven Wedge. Report by Marat Khairullin with illustrations by Mikhail Popov.Zinderneuf (Marat Khairullin Substack)
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The NASA Science Activation program's Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded the 2024–2025 Artemis ROADS IIINASA Science Editorial Team (NASA Science)
Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
He has used clear messaging to redirect anger from the disenfranchised to the economic elites. That the wealthy are worried shows it’s working, says Guardian columnist Owen JonesOwen Jones (The Guardian)
Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces have at least 43 more Palestinians in Gaza on Monday as the daily massacres continue, while much of the world's attention is on the Israeli-US war against Iran.News From Antiwar.com
The 12th edition of the Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia will be held in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod on 26-27 June.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
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🚢 Eilat went bankrupt because Ansarallah
🚢 Haifa is closed, because Iran messed it up real good
🚢 Ashdod is under attack
Ashkelon, Tel Aviv and Hadera? Not sure where they stand if they stand.
This video is from Al Jazeera:
"Israeli media: A rocket fell in the Ashdod area"
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Belle goes over the numbers of what’s happening to rural healthcare and the rural healthcare support system and what the Medicaid cuts mean to it.
The loss of medical access in rural America is intimately tied to the degradation of federal support.
Healthcare is not a profitable business in low density areas. There’s no way the private market of course even if it wasn’t face seating leopard system whatever provide healthcare.
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They use that net worth to take out commercial debt (that is debt from the banks) to finance their war on us.
Private equity is the best example of this cannibalistic process. Because what happens is they buy up a functioning business whether it’s healthcare or houses in a region or companies like Toys “R” Us ..
When they take over a company, they split the property assets into a distinct division from the operation of the business, then they forced the operation part of the business and now pay rent to the asset side of the business and they pocket that money. The operation side of the business is then stripped of its income. They pay it as tribute to these assholes and that causes: a loss of service, inflation, and job cuts.
We have words for that: sacking and pillaging.
This must be illegal
The Puppet Idiot has spoken.
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"❗️Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, condemned Iran's retaliatory attack on the US Al-Udeid military base in Qatar."
It's like we never saw
1984
Akira
Brazil
Children of Men
District 9
Escape From New York
Fahrenheit 451
Gattaca
Hunger Games
In Time
Judge Dredd
Kingdom of Planet of The Apes
Logan's Run
Metropolis
Night of The Comet
Omega Man
Purge
Quiet Earth
Robocop
Soylent Green
They Live
Ultraviolet
Videodrome
Waterworld
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Young Ones
Zardoz
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"αν δεν έχεις φάει πίτσα κατευθείαν απο το ψυγείο δεν έχεις κάνει εργένης"
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End of 10
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So does #Qubes. So does #Whonix. This article fails to explain how and why this is "better".
I could easily see myself defaulting to Securonis when I need serious security.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
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Trump’s bombing of nuclear sites reveals that he and the Israelis were never serious about a deal. And yet, there is much more to this…Strategic Culture Foundation
Trump needs to be in jail alongside these so-called cops for a long time. Trump & these thugs are just as bad & dangerous as the mafia. How long are you, American people, going to put up with these assholes?? You're no better than Russia or North Korea if you allow this to continue!
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NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System
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Temperatures there reach an astonishing 30,000-50,000 kelvin.James Felton (IFLScience)
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says Saturday's eighteenth phase of Operation True Promise III was one of the most successful of the past week.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
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