Notices by Radek Pietruszewski (radex@social.hackerspace.pl)

@thomasfuchs Why Walkman?

@mjg59 This doesn't feel right to me. IMO few people actually object to use of LLMs by individuals for tinkering on personal stuff.

The criticism as I see it is primarily that:
1) there are huge societal/political impacts - uncompensated use of copyrighted material; benefits of it accruing primarily to a few big players; energy use; layoffs; perceived misallocation of massive amounts of capital
2) the output quality of LLMs is t r a s h, unsuitable for professional use

@thomasfuchs I think you're reiterating your point that coding is kinda easy, but I think it's mostly to do with it being text-based and there being a *vast* trove of training data. They're just as "good" (i.e. not very) at writing normal prose, which has similar characteristics.

How it feels like to have found 256GB of forgotten-about DDR4 RAM in this economy (at @hswaw / @bgpwtf )

@lanodan @domi @hswaw also, fun fact - we did, briefly, have an experimental Starlink backup uplink

@domi @lanodan @hswaw I think this is just for out-of-band management (i.e. fixing the network if we accidentally cut off the branch we're sitting on), at least as is configured now - it's not connected to the edge router, just the mgmt switch.