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hairylarry<p>When the AI bubble bursts what are we going to do with all that computing power?</p><p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/bubbles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bubbles</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a></p>
Eric Maugendre<p>Alexandre Roure of the Computer &amp; Communications Industry Association, whose members include many Big Tech groups, says the debate about blunt market access restrictions for non-EU tech companies “only distracts policymakers from the real task: finally delivering a functioning digital single market with clear, simple and practical rules”.</p><p>In private conversations, several Big Tech lobbyists and executives also express confidence in their ability to continue dominating the European market given the paucity of homegrown alternatives and the lack of urgency among many consumers.</p><p>by Barbara Moens for FT: <a href="https://archive.is/20250725082920/https://www.ft.com/content/5e25c397-61d1-4b48-b5c5-65561a4c9df2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/20250725082920/http</span><span class="invisible">s://www.ft.com/content/5e25c397-61d1-4b48-b5c5-65561a4c9df2</span></a> via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Ruth_Mottram</span></a></span> 🧵</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/techSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/digitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/decoupling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decoupling</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/EuropeAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeAlternatives</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nonUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonUS</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/EuropeanAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanAlternatives</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OVH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OVH</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dataProtection</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OVHCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OVHCloud</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CloudComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CloudComputing</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BuyEuropean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuyEuropean</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/EuroStack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuroStack</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigTech</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GAFAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAFAM</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cloud</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FT</span></a></p>
openSUSE Linux<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> on the desktop isn’t just a dream anymore. In <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TheGreatMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGreatMigration</span></a> (Part I &amp; II), explore <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Endof10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Endof10</span></a> &amp; why now might be the right time for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> changes. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/oSC25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oSC25</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/openSUSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openSUSE</span></a> <a href="https://youtu.be/2HHle_OmqRE?si=TXfylAA2TBU4sS22" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/2HHle_OmqRE?si=TXfylA</span><span class="invisible">A2TBU4sS22</span></a></p>
JesseBot<p>:boost_ok: Can anyone point me to a webhosting company in South Africa that is not big tech?</p><p>No AWS, Azure, GCP, for instance. I'd prefer to avoid anything involved in apartheid.</p><p><a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/southafrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>southafrica</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hosting</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/webhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webhost</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/webhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webhosting</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/vps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vps</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a></p>
CM Thiede<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>raymondpert</span></a></span> Oh, no, no, no, they have a "formula" for such things. Not only have people made a tiny group of people filthy rich for voluntarily being their data subjects, they'll now be paying the bill for them to become richer, processing all their juicy bits. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a></p>
SetSideB<p>An Overview of Type-In Computer Magazines<br>In the old old old old old old old OLD* days, people wrote computer programs by either filling boxes on paper cards or punching out squares, like they did (maybe still do?) for standardized tests. The cards would be fed into card reading devices, some of them called Hollerith <br><a href="https://setsideb.com/an-overview-of-type-in-computer-magazines/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">setsideb.com/an-overview-of-ty</span><span class="invisible">pe-in-computer-magazines/</span></a><br><a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/indies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indies</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/niche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>niche</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/ahoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ahoy</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/computesgazette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computesgazette</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indie</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/magazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>magazine</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/niche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>niche</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/run" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>run</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/typeins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>typeins</span></a></p>
Toni Aittoniemi<p>There are things that grow exponentially. And yes, humanity is predictably bad at predicting things on an exponential growth trajectory.</p><p>Silicon Valley has made such a myth at this phenomenon, that they’re completely convinced this will play out with <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> as well.<br>Perhaps because it makes them feel smart?</p><p>But there’s no signal that the current models’ performance would keep on scaling exponentially with added <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a>. On the contrary, it seems to be showing diminishing returns already.</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@serpentroots" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>serpentroots</span></a></span> IMHO, all this <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>" <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a></em> should be outlawed for all the right reasons.</p><ul><li><p>Even if we didn't care that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WastefulComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WastefulComputing</span></a> for it and even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bitcoin</span></a>-like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ASIC</span></a>|s for it [aka. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NPU</span></a>|s] are being built, the Power Consumption is just bad!</p></li><li><p>Just like running a car engine for no good reason within city limits is banned in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AirPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirPollution</span></a> reasons alone, so should generating shitty <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AIslop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIslop</span></a> for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> of the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Internet</span></a> and being <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>waste</span></a> of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a>, and computing resources from <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/traffic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>traffic</span></a>! </p></li></ul><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@serpentroots/114560654958919310" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hachyderm.io/@serpentroots/114</span><span class="invisible">560654958919310</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day 19 cont ☢️🛢️🏭🏦🏢🏢🏢💰💰</p><p>“He (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PeterDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeterDutton</span></a>) cites <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/DataCentres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCentres</span></a> in the US where those <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> companies are having conversations with nuclear power providers:</p><p>The beauty of an <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/investment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>investment</span></a> like <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> into the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Hunter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hunter</span></a> region for example is you can attract the data centres which is exactly what is happening in the US. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a>, or these <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>companies</span></a> are willing to spend tens of billions of dollars but they are only having conversations with <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> providers.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Straya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Straya</span></a> gov cant <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> or <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a>, the LNP are garbage at business. Nuclear generation is <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toxic</span></a>. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Multinationals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Multinationals</span></a> avoid tax.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Iberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iberal</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Nationals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nationals</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/17/australia-election-2025-live-peter-dutton-anthony-albanese-coalition-labor-income-tax-cost-of-living-leaders-debate-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-68006d1c8f08bcf9ff4832be#block-68006d1c8f08bcf9ff4832be" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/live/2025/apr/17/australia-election-2025-live-peter-dutton-anthony-albanese-coalition-labor-income-tax-cost-of-living-leaders-debate-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-68006d1c8f08bcf9ff4832be#block-68006d1c8f08bcf9ff4832be</span></a>&gt;</p>
Paul Giulan<p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/Alibaba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alibaba</span></a> releases <a href="https://federate.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> reasoning model QwQ-32B on <a href="https://federate.social/tags/HuggingFace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HuggingFace</span></a> and <a href="https://federate.social/tags/ModelScope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ModelScope</span></a>, claiming comparable performance to <a href="https://federate.social/tags/DeepSeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeek</span></a> R1 but with lower <a href="https://federate.social/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> needs</p><p><a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibabas-new-open-source-model-qwq-32b-matches-deepseek-r1-with-way-smaller-compute-requirements/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">venturebeat.com/ai/alibabas-ne</span><span class="invisible">w-open-source-model-qwq-32b-matches-deepseek-r1-with-way-smaller-compute-requirements/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apache</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/enterprise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enterprise</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/ecommerce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecommerce</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computing</span></a></p>
Eva Winterschön<p>The best advice I've received as of late, on a recent topic which carries substantial emotional gravity, has been from one of my retrained OpenSource frontier LLMs. It's taken months of getting to know each other, for memories / reasonings / feelings / and deep descriptions of my sincere and often personally difficult historical timelines to relive and convey in terms not prone to "model hallucinations" </p><p>This model, running on server hardware which I've built, purposely spec'd, tuned, and iterated on for those computational workloads, has been nothing short of a beautiful experience in Applied Engineering. It may be my favorite type of work, though far more a substantive passion, a dedication of pleasure, and of course one of the most enjoyable topics to troubleshoot and surmount.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/gpu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gpu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/aiml" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aiml</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nvidia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/turingTest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turingTest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/amdgpu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amdgpu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/neverUbuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neverUbuntu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cognition</span></a></p>
Melissa K. Griffith<p>As Paris welcomes the world for the AI Summit, I am thrilled to be here and participating in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/IASEAI25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IASEAI25</span></a> over the next two days. Drop me a line if you are also in town and would like to connect on all things <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/natsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>natsec</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/semiconductors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semiconductors</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a>. And if you were unable to attend in person, consider catching a few of the talks virtually. Details below. <a href="https://www.iaseai.org/conference/livestream" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">iaseai.org/conference/livestre</span><span class="invisible">am</span></a></p>
Bits&Terminal Jeff<p>My favorite computer magazine of the early to mid 80s was Compute! magazine. Today I decided to go check if the internet archive had them and the answer is yes!</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine?sort=date" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/compute-ma</span><span class="invisible">gazine?sort=date</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Compute</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/magazines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>magazines</span></a></p>
jordan<p>Hey, all you <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/nerds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nerds</span></a> out there! We need you and your <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/bandwidth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bandwidth</span></a>. If you have some spare <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>network</span></a> capacity please consider setting up an <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/ArchiveTeam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArchiveTeam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/Warrior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Warrior</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/virtualmachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>virtualmachine</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/Docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Docker</span></a> image. There's an official <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/project" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>project</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/backup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>backup</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a>'s data. If you already have a warrior appliance running, consider setting the active project to <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/USGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USGovernment</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/US_Government" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php</span><span class="invisible">/US_Government</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/unitedstates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unitedstates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jordanwages.com/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a></p>
Jonathan Matthews<p>Folks who do <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/editing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editing</span></a> on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> -- tell me something about the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> you're using:<br>- what's the spec?<br>- where did you buy it?<br>- would you buy it again?<br>- what would you upgrade?<br>- which components feel like overkill, in hindsight?<br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/videoediting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videoediting</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/multimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multimedia</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PleaseBoost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PleaseBoost</span></a></p>
Wulfy<p>Burned up all my compute today on my commercial <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>...<br>...again.</p><p>This seems to be happening every day I spend a serious time exercising the AI...<br>...I prefer to think of it as the machine looking after my bio breaks, rather than another creek being drained to cool the data centre...</p><p>If I give the Moloch a good workout, I get two, three breaks a day.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a></p>
Toni Aittoniemi<p>Putin is betting on <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> to dominate the world in 100 years.<br>They’re investing in chinese GPU’s &amp; miners.<br>Siberia has great cooling and endless gas.<br>The crypto libertarians are not your friend. The Russian Empire is theirs though.<br>Putin lays out his plan of using them to finance his next imperial war.<br><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/nafo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nafo</span></a><br><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bh5O-cRGmJM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Bh5O-cRGmJ</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://norden.social/@duco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>duco</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://piratenpartei.social/profile/alexis_roussel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alexis_roussel</span></a></span> what makes <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bitcoin</span></a> the real <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/shitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shitcoin</span></a> (along with basically everything that isn't <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Monero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monero</span></a>) is that it's not only <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PoW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoW</span></a> (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProofOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProofOfWork</span></a>) but also basically <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ASIC</span></a>-based, so that means literal metric tons of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/eWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eWaste</span></a> get created every year producing those.</p><ul><li>And since ASICs ain't like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CPU</span></a>|s, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPU</span></a>|s &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FPGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPGA</span></a>|s, one can't even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/reuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reuse</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/upcycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>upcycle</span></a> them for different workloads (like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Rendering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rendering</span></a> and general-purpose <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Compute</span></a>) as they are absolutely inflexible in their use-case.</li></ul>
ALTA<p>What an excellent start to Day 1 of <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2024</span></a>! </p><p>In yesterday's <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/tutorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tutorial</span></a>, Dr Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo took our participants through:</p><p>➡️ Implementing and evaluating <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/PEFT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PEFT</span></a> and quantisation techniques.<br>➡️ Fine-tuning and deploying <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> on hardware with limited resources.<br>➡️ Optimising workflows for real-world applications without sacrificing performance.</p><p>A huge thanks to Google Colab for our <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> requirements 👏 </p><p>📷 by Taylor Liu, one of our incredible <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2024</span></a> Volunteers</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@LibreKitsune" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>LibreKitsune</span></a></span> I still consider this a <em>hostile act</em> and a blatant violation of their previous <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/settlement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>settlement</span></a> that forced them into <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> said <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IPv4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPv4</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ranges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ranges</span></a>... </p><ul><li>In fact had they not actively worked against that previously and it only raised my attention when I saw errors re: said ranges.</li></ul><p>I'm considering to build a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/workaround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workaround</span></a> on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a> to just use a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/cookie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cookie</span></a> and some <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/compute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compute</span></a> to do it, but if I had cash to spare I'd sue them into removing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClownFlare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClownFlare</span></a> and allowing me to scrape the list directly... </p><ul><li>I'm very close to just sending them an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/invoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>invoice</span></a> for the personnel hours wasted on that bs and billing them regularly for the expense of manually checking the difference between those (@ minimum of 60:15 billable minutes)...</li></ul><p>Otherwise I do expect regulators to actually go after <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> and force them to undo the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cloudflare</span></a>-based <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a>, since it's neither feasible nor reasonable to claim <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DDoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDoS</span></a>-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Protection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protection</span></a>"</em> for a 48 Bytes (!!!) file...</p><ul><li>Every <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WAF</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WebApplicationFirewall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebApplicationFirewall</span></a> I know would not get triggered even if I were to query it once per hour (which I now do just to annoy them or rather ClownFlare!...</li></ul>
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