Fuck!

Turns out my “quantum superposition rifts” where certain spaces (biomes) exist in multiple locations at once allowing seemless passing between worlds, are not as original as i thought.

Well i don’t know how Dan Simmons Explained the science behind it but in effect it would end up very similar.

Virtual private network,i know, i know, but i just wrote the wrong thing on accident.

Since its been up for so long feels dishonest to change it. I am owning up to my mistakes and my sentiment that the post is about providers only still stands.

Honestly i wish these kind of vpns had a different name.

Wireguard isnt even on the list and its entirely free, but also it doesn’t serve this same purpose.

Vpn stands for private personal network, selfhosted vpns do exactly that, i can use my Phone to connect to all my home services which replace expensive subscriptions without actually exposing those services to the net or requiring a domain for them.

Vpns are amazing, but most people i know irl that use them barely understand what they are or what they can be used for.

I am not saying i understand it at all. My comment is genuine, not rhetorical.

On the contrary i express that i do not understand this to the point of deeming it strange or weird, triggering my curiosity.

I was hoping someone would chime in an explain how text generator techniques (which i do know alot about) known to have no capacity to use real world reason or logic can be used to help solve dna puzzles unless as a sub module of general machine learning. In which that later case would be within my understanding

Machine learning sure, but an llm? For anything other then as a module to translate abstract data into words that just seem weird

I regret not including this as an option now but I contemplated adding this part:

The majority of our (subjective-my) internet nowadays follows patterns of the same places, new places are often found on the old places.

Most of my sites are bookmarked trusted websites. (Increasingly more self hosted also) wikipedia for facts, wolfram alpha for math, sites i have an account on.

Part of the crux is when is the last time you googled in the hope to find a new website you don’t already know yet? Even ads direct you using QR.

I find i rarely need a search engine anymore and when often when i do i can’t find anything anyway. Stuff has gotten so buried under search engine optimisation you are better of using ai for a first responds to obtain the terminology to search for how wrong ai got it then by searching for a question directly.

I am hoping to try this thing soon and if its good it might replace 90% of my browser activity. -> https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

This used to be not the case.

Duckduck is just a wrapper for bing (and gives microsoft trackers a free pass)

Startpage is a similar thing that uses google. Considering how hated bing is believe Duck only got more popular because of privacy marketing.

The safest alternative is running your own searxng client, it still relies on bing and google but at least you can verify that its actually stopping all trackers.

We are on the same base,

I actually had a friend who jokingly mocked me for liking ai because i was initially very exited ablut Dall-E and ChatGPT 3.5

Back then i could only see the potential that it continues to have. OpenAI appeared to have altruistic goals and was a non profit. Trojan horse it turned out to be.

Had to make pretty clear to my friend that “ yes, but not like this, everything but this” about the current slop situation.

I should nuance,

For a person who already actively uses comfyui, knows how the different nodes work,

Makes complex flows with them,

Making their own checkpoints is not a big step up.

I have not gotten to this level myself yet, i am still learning how to properly using different and custom nodes, and yes

In the mean time yes, i experiment with public models that use stolen artwork. But i am not posting any of the results, its pure personal use practice.

I have already seen some stuff about making your own models/checkpoints, if i ever get happy enough with my skills to post it as art then having my own feels like a must. The main reason i haven’t is cause it does take a lot of time to prepare the training data.

People that don’t use their models while calling themselves artist are cheating themselves most of all.

If you can boot an os from usb (basically the same for all distros) you can try proxmox.

There are these incredibly useful helper scripts that setup entire services in 1-2 copy pasted commands.

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

To explain what proxmox is its basicly virtualisation software, it can run vms but also lxc (light linux containers) and share resources very efficiently between all of them

Jellyfin, radarr, sonar. They are all included in the helper scripts, each will be a dedicated lxc.

Its also very easy to setup raid and there own storage format is very efficient.

Its well documented to the point that any decent llm can help you learn whatever you need. In fact its claude that helped me setup my own proper raid on proxmox, also tought me about datasets and how i can make those available to different lxc

Personally i am very hands off with my server, the hardest part is often choosing what ip i want to give a service, i rarely update or mess with it if not strictly necessary.

For hardware i recommend plenty of ram (can Be bought and installed seperatly), more cores is usually better and internal graphics can save you some hassle depending on what you are doing (also allows you to dedicate a Big gpu to some services).

A warning on second hand corporate machines, the performance is often good But quite fans are often an afterthought. I onxe got a beast of machine for free but you could hear it spin from anywhere in my house.

A good practical case is always a blessing when you need to check the insides.

If you download a checkpoint from non trustworthy sources definitely and that is the majority of people, but also the majority that does not use the technical tools that deep nor cares about actual art (mostly porn if the largest distributor of models civitai is a reference).

The technical tool that allow actual creativity is called comfyui, and this is open source. I have yet to see anything that is even comparable. Other creative tools (like the krita plugin) use it as a backend.

I am willing to believe that someone with a soul for art and complex flows would also make their own models, which naturally allows much more creativity and is not that hard to do.

Look you seem sincere but lost, the vast majority of people here are atheists and will not take kindly to advise to study some religious book they never heard of.

Maybe put the religion this is from in the title and try here https://beehaw.org/c/spirituality

There is no point in asking people why they choose to go to hell because they don’t believe in it (or any afterlife). And this does not stop them from trying to live good ethical lives either.

Never heard of this one but i might try it. Looks very clean and practical.

https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

That was a beautiful read.

But do i find myself conflicted about dismissing it as a potential technical skill all together.

I have seen comfy-ui workflows that are build in a very complex way, some have the canvas devided in different zones, each having its own prompts. Some have no prompts and extract concepts like composition or color values from other files.

I compare these with collage-art which also exists from pre existing material to create something new.

Such tools take practice, there are choices to be made, there is a creative process but its mostly technological knowledge so if its about such it would be right to call it a technical skill.

The sad reality however, is how easy it is to remove parts of that complexity “because its to hard” and barebones it to simple prompt to output. At which point all technical skill fades and it becomes no different from the online generators you find.

The irony is that self hosting in many ways has become way easier, faster and cheaper then using proprietary alternatives.

The catch is what you are already used to do.

A good example to illustrate this is is how easy it is to install software tools on linux using a package manager.

You get used to this so quickly that when i had to install something on windows i really struggled:

i have to find the right site to download from, run that installer, navigate menus, make sure it doesn’t come with bonus malware. And then when i finally run it turns out its a free demo and half the features are locked.

Comparing different plans for o365 and setting up a family with different accounts, again its a pain.

Spinning up a one click install nextcloud instance and getting that configured was peanuts in comparison.

The technical term seems to be a JBOD bay. (Just a Bunch Of Disks)

Basic ones are probably usb, ideally you have something that has a SFF port. Modern ones might also have thunderbolt.

Finding a micropc that supports SFF out of the box might be a challenge but some do support pci express cards.

Apparently there also exists something like Oculink which is pci over cable but i know even less about that one.

EDIT: if you look for “Nas enclosure 4bay” you actually do find plenty of options (Jonsbro N3 per example) that allow you to build it all in one unit with a mini-itx board. A nas pretty much just is a pc with special software so this would be what i recommend.

Maybe i miss some perspective here because i never had the spare money to consider a storebought nass. The convenience never sounded like it was worth being locked down to its software.

My server is “just a pc”

I got a case with external drive slots (it also needed to fit a gpu), but i suppose external drive cases also exist that can connect to a micro computer build.

The software is proxmox, which imo is amazing. Its virtualisation and backup software and performs really well and has a proper gui.

I have numerous lxc (linux container that is not a full vm) that each run their own docker with a single service. I can ssh into those from my main system or visit the terminal and other panels in the proxmox gui. Many services host a gui to my network and i could probably make it so cli is minimal but i personally am comfortable with that so…

I also run a few full vms on it, including some windows desktops.

You could probably also host actual Nass software this way.

All of these work well next to eachother and share resources. Snapshots and backups of individual systems or data can be made with ease.

If it doesn’t fit your usecases you can get the off the shelf ones i guess but for others interested here, maybe this helps.

We should make webapps for everything. When done properly they are as fast as native apps, can work on any device and do not require a dev license or account.

Uplifting in the most dystopian ways.

Can someone remind me, what is the bullshit reason they ban the Palestinian people from fishing in their own waters again?