In other news, the National Weather Service has been reporting unseasonable temperatures in Hell.

I found that while the lemmy_server process starts successfully and shows “Starting HTTP server at 0.0.0.0:8536” in logs, nothing is actually listening on port 8536.

Does:

# netstat -ntap|grep 8536

…show anything bound to the port?

I’m not sure how you determined that it’s not binding to the port, but that’s how I’d check.

There isn’t much that should stop a process from listening on a port over 1024 unless another process is already listening on it.

Trump actually isn’t very popular in the South today.

His strongest remaining support is in the two top coal-mining states — Wyoming and West Virginia — and Idaho. None of those are in the South.

The Economist’s net approval map is interactive — you can click on it to get numbers — and I can’t put that in this post, but here’s a screenshot showing the colors:

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

I don’t know why you want a BIOS update.

If you’re wanting VT-x support, looks like it’s present.

https://mobilespecs.net/laptop/Toshiba/Toshiba_SATELLITE_M100-221.html

Processor Model: T5600

https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/core-2-duo-t5600.c378

VT-x

https://superuser.com/questions/1584771/what-is-difference-between-vmx-and-vt-x

The CPU flag for VT-x capability is “vmx”; in Linux, this can be checked via /proc/cpuinfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szU0DbdAMEA

“Windows”, Chick Corea

The only way is it be absolutely private by not interacting…

I don’t know if this is news to you but this is not a lemmy specific problem and basically applies to the entire internet…

Hyphanet’s Frost can provide pretty solid forum pseudonymity.

But that comes with its own performance, usability, and functionality tradeoffs.

What could be done to limit the amount of information associated with a username is to switch to a new account periodically.

That’s somewhat unfortunate in that it clashes with reputation, which is also important for making the Threadiverse work.

identity is reviled [I assume revealed]

The fact that most instances permit external image hosting permits obtaining user IP addresses by posting inline images hosted on a server created by an attacker, then harvesting IPs there. I noticed when going through the code that Lemmy, as of 0.19.4, has an option to protect users of a home instance by proxying images viewed there. However, it requires bandwidth and disk space, and I don’t think that many home instances have it on. It is definitely not on on my own home instance, lemmy.today.

0.19.4 release announcement:

Image Proxying

There is a new config option called image_mode which provides a way to proxy external image links through the local instance. This prevents deanonymization attacks where an attacker uploads an image to his own server, embeds it in a Lemmy post and watches the IPs which load the image.

Instead if image_mode is set to ProxyAllImages, image urls are rewritten to be proxied through /api/v3/image_proxy. This can also improve performance and avoid overloading other websites. The setting works by rewriting links in new posts, comments and other places when they are inserted in the database. This means the setting has no effect on posts created before the setting was activated. And after disabling the setting, existing images will continue to be proxied. It should also be considered experimental.

Many thanks to @asonix for adding this functionality to pict-rs v0.5.

I don’t know whether PieFed and Mbin presently have comparable functionality.

One major issue is that proxying the images will create more bandwidth usage on a home node, since they’re serving up all the images viewed by users of that home node, as well as disk space to store the proxied images — it’s more-expensive to run a node in that mode.

Unless your home instance has this option enabled, you should probably consider your IP address to be globally-visible. Note that using a VPN will mean that only the VPN’s exit node IP will be visible.

Their main community

It looks like this is !main@sh.itjust.works

Most major Threadiverse instances have some sort of “instance” community to deal with issues related to that instance — personally, I think that it should be be a default on instances, so that we have a single standardized name and it’s easy to find for users.

On lemmy.today, there’s !lemmytoday@lemmy.today to act as an “unregulated” instance community and !announcements@lemmy.today, where posting is restricted to the admins, so that official announcements don’t get drowned out. I think that that “two community” approach isn’t a bad idea.

It does sort of suggest that from a UI standpoint, a chunk of users doesn’t really deal well with the traditional paradigm of “opening a document in an application consumes resources, and part of the job of the user is to manage those resources”. Like, maybe Chrome should just do the equivalent of, at least by default, converting a tab that hasn’t been viewed for some time into something akin to a bookmark, just reload it when it’s viewed. Or at least push the data into on-disk storage.

I don’t use Chrome, but Firefox does something vaguely-analogous to that for session storage — like, if Firefox dies unexpectedly, restored tabs won’t reload content until actually viewed, I assume to avoid the thundering herd problem.

I remember when I first encountered mobile OSes auto-killing programs and stuff to try to manage memory for users. I thought that it was pretty insane. But…clearly some users have trouble with it, and maybe it’s a reasonable UI change for them. I know people who had difficulty, on various desktop OSes, understanding the significance of starting a program and the idea that a running program would consume memory and perhaps CPU time.

I’d assume so, but more importantly, for both, there’s a cryptographic signature being performed by the card. The credentials never leave the card — there’s a private key on the card, and what goes out is a signature on the transaction, which is useless for doing other transactions.

In most respects, CRTs were technically worse, but a lot of video game art was designed around their characteristics, optimized for them, and thus can appear better on a CRT. We can — and do — try to emulate CRT quirks on LCDs/LEDs to varying degrees, but we’re always going to be just approaching what a CRT looked like.

https://wackoid.com/game/10-pictures-that-show-why-crt-tvs-are-better-for-gaming/

Final Fantasy 6:

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night:

Final Fantasy 7:

Things like blurriness are a limitation in the fidelity of the display, true enough, but in the context of material optimized for that display, it can be a positive rather than a negative.

• Lawrence of Arabia.

Well, there’s certainly that. But even then, I’d think that a lot of videos could be made to be more concise. I was actually wondering whether YouTube creators get paid based on the amount of time they have people watch, since that’d explain drawing things out. My impression, from what I could dig up in a brief skim, is that they’re indirectly linked — apparently, YouTube shows ads periodically, and the more ads shown, the more revenue the creator gets. So there would be some level of incentive to stretch videos out.

-the opening the port process makes sense. It seems like if I have a backend on my rig, I’m going to need to open a port to access that backend from a front end of a phone device.

Yes. Or even if you run a Web-accessible front-end on the LLM PC — the Web browser on the phone needs to reach the Web frontend on the PC.

Or possibly even access that same backend on the phone device via a mirror?

Well, the term wouldn’t be a mirror. In your shoes, it’s not what I would do, because introducing some third host not on your network to the equation is another thing to break. But, okay, hypothetically, I guess that doing that would be an option. thinks. There might be some service out there that permits two devices to connect to each other, though I’m not personally aware of one. And, say you got a virtual private server for $10 a month or whatever the going rate is, yeah, that could be set up to do this – you could use it as an intermediate host, do SSH tunneling from both the PC and the phone of the sort that another user in this thread mentioned. I guess that that’d let you reach the PC from other places, if that’s something that you want to do, though it’s not the only way to accomplish that. But…I think that that’s most-likely going to add more complexity. The only scenario where that would truly be necessary is if the wireless access point — which I assume your ISP has provided — absolutely does not permit the LLM PC and the phone to communicate at all on the WiFi network, which I think is very unlikely, and even then, I’d probably just get a second wireless access point in that scenario, put the PC and the phone on it.

In general, I don’t think that trying to connect the two machines on your home network via a machine out on the Internet somewhere is a great idea. More moving parts, more things to break, and if you lose Internet connectivity, you lose the ability to have them talk to each other.

-it seems like it would be easier if I could connect to the rig via an android phone instead of an iPhone. My end goal is to use Linux but I’m not ready for that step. Seems like android would be an adequate stepping stone to move to, especially if we have to go thru all this trouble with iPhone. Shall we try on the android instead? If not I’ll follow the directions you put above and report back on Saturday.

If you have an Android phone available, that would probably be easier from my standpoint, because I can replicate the environment; I have an Android phone available here. But it’s not really the phone where setup is the issue. Like, it’s going to be the LLM PC and potentially wireless access point that require any configuration changes to make ollama reachable from the phone; the phone doesn’t need anything other than Reins installed and having an endpoint set or just using a Web browser and using the correct URL there. I’m just mostly-interested in that the phone has to be able to talk to the PC, has to be able to open a TCP connection to the PC, and so having diagnostic tools on a phone is helpful. I don’t have to guess how the diagnostic tools work in Termux on an Android, because I can use them myself locally.

I wouldn’t suggest going out and buying an Android phone to do just that, though. I mean…this is a one-off diagnostic task, just trying to understand why the phone isn’t able to reach the LLM PC. If you can open a connection from the Android phone to the LLM PC, then you should also be able to open a connection from the iOS phone to the LLM PC. If you do have one already available, though, then yeah, my preference would be if you could install Termux on it for the diagnostic tools rather than install iSH on the iOS device. It should still be possible to get the LLM PC reachable on the iOS device either way.

I don’t mind trying to diagnose connectivity on the iOS device. Just keep in mind that I may have to guess a bit as to what the behavior is, because I can’t actually try the device here, so we may potentially have a few extra rounds of back-and-forth.

If you do want to use an Android phone, then just put the phone on the WiFi network, install Termux, open Termux, run the apk command to install telnet (apk install telnet) and then try the telnet command I mentioned and just report back what error, if anything, you get when trying to open a connection to the LLM PC — hopefully it’ll be one of the above three outcomes.

Deregulation might give some amount of an edge, but I really don’t think that in 2025, the major limitation on deployment of AI systems is overbearing regulation. Rather, it’s lack of sufficient R&D work on the systems, and them needing further technical development.

I doubt that the government can do a whole lot to try to improve the rate of R&D. Maybe research grants, but I think that industry already has plenty of capital available in the US. Maybe work visas for people doing R&D work on AI.

The oldest two mechanisms of authenticating on credit cards.

From oldest to newest, they are:

1. Printed data on card.

2. Magstrip (which basically has the same data in machine-readable form).

3. Smartcard chip with contacts.

4. Wireless.

The first two mechanisms hand over all the data required to impersonate the cardholder whenever used, which isn’t very secure. Yes, there’s value to keeping a mechanism around for a while to permit transition time, but we should have had tap-to-pay hardware on PCs and phones and the like a long time ago.

When the current leader Kim Jong Un came to power in 2011, the escapees who were interviewed said they had hoped their lives would improve, as Kim had promised they would no longer need to “tighten their belts” – meaning they would have enough to eat.

IIRC from past reading, he did try to increase the amount of meat available, which for North Korea is a big deal.

kagis

https://www.38north.org/2023/09/north-koreas-animal-protein-farming-expansion-status-and-challenges-2/

While North Korean diets have historically been plant-heavy, there have been efforts to increase the availability of protein sources, especially since 2005. Despite these efforts, structural and practical limitations prevent major protein farming expansion, including the competition for food stocks, resources and land allocations, much less the ability to acquire seed animals and raise them.

Prior to 2000, except for North Korea’s elites, the country subsisted principally on vegetarian diets. To have meat as few as two to three times a year was the apparent norm. Under Kim Jong Il, that began to change as efforts to expand the availability of animal protein to more of the population began around 2005. Under Kim Jong Un, there has been an even greater emphasis on animal husbandry, including poultry, pig, rabbit and larger grazing animals such as sheep, goats and cattle.

Honestly, he wasn’t even BSing. He just wasn’t bothering to validate information to the degree he should before issuing statements.

That’s not great by normal standards, but by Trump administration messaging standards, I’d say that this is probably above average.

Compare this to the stuff that Trump puts out on either social media or on the White House website.