I’ll take the blame, I shortened the statements maybe a bit too much, assuming the references would work. But they were explained well by the other replies.

I was learning in the 90s from lessons on AOL how to sanitize inputs and salt passwords along with HTML 1.0. It baffles me how corporations let stupid things happen now.

Lemmy and related places are still small enough where a regular name posting can become better known faster than large platforms. My only advice is to just review your posts before first submitting to make sure its message is clear, and if people ask questions about it, then clarify. If you want to engage and discuss things, this is part of it. You’re getting discussion. :)

Sanitizing user input for the Moon landings.

Meanwhile in 2026, ask AI to change an authentication phone number and it says, “Sure thing!” And is ABLE to do it.

Most models are going to require CUDA. There are some AMD ones out there, but it’s a totally different math and setup. As for the one I mentioned, it’s a pretty new idea so there are only a few out there, maybe just one (Qwen based). But I did get a 31B model to work on my 12GB, I just had to move from Ollama to llama.cpp to gain the control needed to set the parameters, and fine tune what it put on the CUDA to the max it would take. I had Claude help me along the way.

It’s new enough that there aren’t any good abliterated/uncensored models yet.

Maybe. Thank you. Nightmares now unlocked again.

16GB is plenty for even older model setups. Now they’ve got a few models designed so you load just parts of the model onto the GPU (Mixture of Experts) and use the CPU for less referenced sections, so you get both reasonable speed and a much more complex model.

I watched a video yesterday of someone climbing down a high rise on a tether to work on an A/C unit. Even seeing all the steps in protection and redundant safety measures. Nope. Not me.

Then there was one long ago I saw of a guy doing maintenance on a radio tower. Climbed up the interior ladder most of the way, then got on the outside to get to the part he was checking. At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way. NOPE.

You’re just one of the ones who understands things more, and is confused that other people don’t. It’s okay though, as we can always invoke another well known XKCD and treat someone who doesn’t get it as one of the ten thousand. Don’t make fun of them, educate them.

The average person probably can’t tell you which way is west without looking at their phone, or point to where the Sun probably is during the day if it’s cloudy.

I get the point, reduce the suffering when you’re at the moment. This is what I don’t look forward to as well, not death itself, but dying in whatever form it takes. But know that any suffering is also finite, even the long ones, and hopefully you can avoid the few longer versions.

But for now, live for the moment. You get one shot at this, so don’t spend it worrying about something that hasn’t happened yet. Enjoy life, observe the details around you that we tend to block out as noise. Find ways to record and pass them on to others.

The two sources of energy don’t have to be competition. Those on either side trying to make that happen are just defeating the fight against fossil fuels. They want the squabbling to distract from their dominance.

Dug your hole and threw out both the ladder and the shovel.

That’s the rub. Local models have some positives, but overall the source for them is a negative. And the worst thing is, we can’t fix that now. We can’t undo what’s been done, we can’t start over with new data that is fair, and we can’t seem to get AI out of where it’s been jammed in.

Agreed. The short is that AI was done wrong in so many ways, for the wrong reasons, and was the wrong direction for the goal they continue to insist they are trying to reach. The science and technology and what it can do, even the worst of it, is fascinating, but this is not what it should have been. Money corrupted yet another thing.

Animals aren’t stupid, they just don’t have everything humans do. They can understand intent sometimes. The real unusual thing is how the cat cared. Most would probably understand the assignment, but choose to see how far things would go.

That has the same energy as James Burke’s episode about the single power relay that brought down the East Coast. People aren’t aware of how many potential cascade effects we have around us just waiting for the right moment.

If you have a few things that work better without or don’t need the VPN, like some games, a good VPN will have a tunneling feature to let that one thing through while staying on for everything else.

It can mean that If it’s used singularly.

Damn right. I want something solid, not juice.

I’m betting meat means protein carrier in this case.