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@mxfraud yeah, i understand and agree, I had to develop a scraper blocker to keep our git server from constantly crashing so I understand the issue here. Used to be if you had a comment section or open registration on anything it would be filled with spam, now its worse where the site will be ddos'd by scrapers coming from "residential proxy" trojan malware installed on everybodies phones.

https://git.cyberia.club/sequentialread/pow-bot-deterrent-rp

But at the same time, whether I use or don't use some LLM on my own GPU, it doesn't change any of this. I see it like dumpster diving. I am not increasing the demand for little caesars pizza by taking the pizza from the dumpster. If anything, I think we should promote eating food waste in this analogy (use open weights model, model is good enough, demand for proprietary one is misguided)

I guess you could argue that by buying the GPU on ebay, I'm increasing the demand for the GPU, but so what? I'd rather have it than not have it and at least im offering to share with anyone who wants.

@mxfraud

I think they were both destructive, I kinda talk about that in the post,

...unspoken rule / expectation that any issue a user might run into should be solved by looking up a workaround posted to a site like StackOverflow, instead of being the software author's responsibility to fix. Unless that software author happens to be a megacorporation w/ a public-facing product in a competitive market.

SO lowering the bar for what it takes to publish software that people can figure out how to use

finally drunk enough to write the

"RTFM --> Stack Overflow --> LLM"

post

https://sequentialread.com/usability-and-llms-ram-bottleneck/

"any coherent pro-social moral stance is instantly compromised upon contact with this society."

This is from an anti-AI post, but I think this was true long before the current hype cycle.

@jbz

dispatching hogs:

@monkeyborg @jhv ughhh I remember this

Sent from my boot loader unlocked Motorola one 5g ace

Half the Work Is Done: The Clear-Cut Case for a Subway in the I-94 Trench: https://streets.mn/2026/04/28/half-the-work-is-done-the-clear-cut-case-for-a-subway-in-the-i-94-trench/

The I-94 trench is an open cut waiting to be covered. Before we fill it, build a subway that merges Minneapolis and St. Paul into one downtown.

the solution to having created a world you think is too toxic for children is not to ban children from the world

https://scholar.social/@researchfairy

@monkeyborg 69k? In this economy? I could do 67k tho

@dumpsterqueer remove something from the cache? No way. Just put more stuff in there.

@packetcat but the good news is, no one has to use Adobe software anymore. almost all the essential functions that used to be exclusive to Photoshop are now available on free beer + freedom applications that have a reasonable user interface, like Krita.

@packetcat they must still be sour about me modifying host file on Photoshop CS5 in order to null route their license validation servers.

Abandoned car

I made this for an .nfo commission as header illustration

#ASCIIart

What ever happened to that star trek red shirt fedi server admin guy. I've been trying to find his profile. I think it was an academia related server

Just deleted 237 Application Load Balancers from AWS, saving my employer ~$7.5k USD per month , wish I got paid that much

am i going to have to hear news casters explain that random access memory is used inside "ai" datacenters the same # of times I have heard them explain that a qubit is just like a digital bit, except it can be in a super position of states both 0 and 1

One by one I am going to replace every corpo app with something that I either run, make or personally know the maker of. I am doing pretty good so far. Socials, feeds, photos, bookmarks, music, notes. I guess I need someone to invent a phone OS.

the discord age verifier thing going round actually works: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/

obviously standard disclaimer applies, don't copy paste shit from this website into the dev console unless you understand it; in this case it does just pass the k-id verification URL from discord to their fancy server (well, after some modifications I made to make safari happy), and that server does whatever to satisfy the check