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Someone please make a backup

This, but I used a CD-RW as my scratch disk. Was it good? No. Did it matter with dialup? Not really.

Having professionally terminated fiber, that shit is nasty and hazardous in a way copper will never be.

The little fiber bits can be razor sharp, you have to be careful of the naked fiber end, because it can get into your skin like a splinter, only it is clear, nearly invisible, can shatter if grabbed too hard, and is invisible to MRI and X-RAY scans...

There's a great talk called "Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun." From saintcon that's really good.

Any relatively new gaming PC from the last, what, 4? Years has enough power to run local LLMs. Maybe not the ginormous 70GB behemoth models, but the toned down ones are pretty damn good and if you don't mind waiting a few seconds while it thinks, you can run it completely locally as much as you want, and whenever you want.

Thanks for the heads up.

Time for a new CEO. Would be great is they went with a nonprofit board with explicit privacy/public good bylaws and at least 1 member elected from the user base... But that's pretty wishful thinking, huh...

Hell yeah

it's very early days for loops and as far as i've seen there's no option to host your own instance (though they say it will be open source, it is not right now). https://loops.video/help-center/frequently-asked-questions

I think this describes all garages

I... Thought it did....

Yee