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[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 1 points 13 hours ago

Coarse Salt. Add just enough water to move it around + a little dish soap and shake. Works like a charm.

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 9 points 6 days ago

Even faster -- tailscale. For a cheeky way to play with your friends make a burner account with a shared login to get on the same tailnet for free. On the endpoints, turn off tailscale-ssh and any of their other "features" you don't need.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by sunstoned@lemmus.org to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

AlternativeTo is a site I use quite a bit. Personally I use it when I get fed up with an Android app having too many ads / creepy network behavior or want to find a self-hostable version of a freemium service.

It has filters for free, open source, platform type, etc. From my understanding it's all crowd sourced, so if you disagree with a rating put in a vote! Sharing this in hopes that others find it as useful as I do.

If you know of similar or better resources I would love to hear about them.

Edit: many people are noting that the comments and reviews are out of date. I agree! Despite that I still find it to he useful. It would be great if this little bit of visibility gets more folks engaged over there to improve it.

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm a big fan of buying power tools twice. I happen to go Ryobi for the first round but Harbor Freight / Northern Tool are probably similar.

If you can stand the fuss, buy corded tools and skip the brand loyalty that comes with batteries.

The biggest killer of cheaper power tools is generally heat. There are plastic components in the drive train. They hold up great to short jobs, but heat is their kryptonite. If you let a Ryobi tool cool down whenever you notice it getting warm to the touch it'll last a long time. If you need to run a tool for hours at a time then skip the fuss and go straight to a more brand with a good reputation like DeWalt, Makita, Bosch, or Milwaukee.

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Red boxes fit all brands my friend :)

Green tools the first time (I can bike to home depot) Yellow tools the second time

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

assuming you mean *can't

if cordless: batteries

else: brand cuckery

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Second this ^

I have one and it's fine, but not directly supported by OpenWRT. Looks like Beryl and Slate are though

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well that's odd!

Here you go:

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sunstoned@lemmus.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I've been playing around with my home office setup. I have multiple laptops to manage (thanks work) and a handful of personal devices. I would love to stop playing the "does this charging brick put out enough juice for this device" game.

I have:

  • 1x 100W Laptop
  • 1x 60W Laptop
  • 1x 30W Router
  • 1x 30W Phone
  • 2x raspberry pis

I've been looking at multi-device bricks like this UGREEN Nexode 300W but hoped someone might know of a similar product for less than $170.

Saving a list of products that are in the ballpark below, in case they help others. Unfortunately they just miss the mark for my use case.

  • Shargeek S140: $80, >100W peak delivery for one device, but drops below that as soon as a second device is plugged in.
  • 200W Omega: at $140 it's a little steep. Plus it doesn't have enough ports for me. For these reasons, I'm out.
  • Anker Prime 200W: at $80 this seems like a winner, but ~~they don't show what happens to the 100W outputs when you plug in a third (or sixth) device. Question pending with their support dept.~~ it can't hit 100W on any port with 6 devices plugged in.
  • Anker Prime 250W: thanks FutileRecipe for the recommendation! This hits all of the marks and comes in around $140 after a discount. Might be worth the coin.

If you've read this far, thanks for caring! You're why this corner of the internet is so fun. I hope you have a wonderful day.

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 2 points 1 month ago

Please don't assume anything, it's not healthy.

Explicitly stating assumptions is necessary for good communication. That's why we do it in research. :)

it depends on the license of that binary

It doesn't, actually. A binary alone, by definition, is not open source as the binary is the product of the source, much like a model is the product of training and refinement processes.

You can't just automatically consider something open source

On this we agree :) which is why saying a model is open source or slapping a license on it doesn't make it open source.

the main point is that you can put closed source license on a model trained from open source data

  1. Actually the ability to legally produce closed source material depends heavily on how the data is licensed in that case
  2. This is not the main point, at all. This discussion is regarding models that are released under an open source license. My argument is that they cannot be truly open source on their own.
[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 5 points 1 month ago

Quite aggressive there friend. No need for that.

You have a point that intensive and costly training process plays a factor in the usefulness of a truly open source gigantic model. I'll assume here that you're referring to the likes of Llama3.1's heavy variant or a similarly large LLM. Note that I wasn't referring to gigantic LLMs specifically when referring to "models". It is a very broad category.

However, that doesn't change the definition of open source.

If I have an SDK to interact with a binary and "use it as [I] please" does that mean the binary is then open source because I can interact with it and integrate it into other systems and publish those if I wish? :)

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 0 points 1 month ago

Do you plan to sue the provider of your "open source" model? If so, would the goal be to force the provider to be in full compliance with the license (access to their source code and training set)? Would the goal be to force them to change the license to something they comply with?

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 2 points 1 month ago

You would be obligated, if your goal were to be complying with the spirit and description of open source (and sleeping well at night, in my opinion).

Do you have the source code and full data set used to train the "open source" model you're referring to?

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 7 points 1 month ago

My point precisely :)

A pre-trained model alone can't really be open source. Without the source code and full data set used to generate it, a model alone is analogous to a binary.

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Is anybody self hosting Beeper bridges?

I'm still wary of privacy concerns, as they basically just have you log into every other service through their app (which as I understand is always going on in the closed source part of Beeper's product).

The linked GitHub README also states that the benefit of hosting their bridge setup is basically "hosting Matrix hard" which I don't necessarily believe.

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