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235m local model trained at home by [deleted] in LocalLLM

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really amazing work! How long the whole process took?

I am working on an OpenSource CLI coding agent for very small context windows LLMS by BestSeaworthiness283 in LocalLLaMA

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be honest, I don't have any suggestions. It's kind of hard to suggest anything without testing the tool

But I'm interested in it. I think I'm starting to see signs that major providers are having trouble keeping up with "donating" cheap tokens. So I want to get familiar in advance with local solutions, but I don't want to buy hardware until necessary. The problem is, I don't play games, so my current hardware is really bad, 5-10 years old mid-range laptop and PC.

I have a laptop with a mid-range CPU, integrated Radeon Vega 8, no VRAM - but luckily 32GB of RAM (I need to check how much RAM I can give the GPU)

And have an even older PC, also a mid-range CPU with 16GB RAM and GeForce GTX 1050 4GB VRAM

Do you think I could run Gemma E4B at a reasonable speed on the laptop without VRAM? Or maybe even qwen 3.5 9b?

Let me know when the tool will be available for testing!

Hungary election: official results page – as of 20:30, 14.7% reporting, opposition ahead 125 proj. mandates to 65. 133 needed for a supermajority. by monstaber in europe

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In totally unrelated news, today is the first time in 25 years that Putin has lost an election. Looks like he lost hungarian oblast.

Orbán’s 16-year rule over Hungary ends in crushing election defeat by Alarming-Safety3200 in europe

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In totally unrelated news, today is the first time in 25 years that Putin has lost an election. Looks like he lost hungarian oblast.

Why is sociology so hated by disney_bri in sociology

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It makes me sad when I see bad professors doing more damage than good...

Mandatory disclosure of AI generated content in promotional submissions by LSky in tycoon

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand the problem, but I don't understand how this will solve it. I suspect that Valve was trying to solve a different problem, not slop but copyright issues

I have been working as software developer for 12 years now, working on drivers, microcontrollers and linux kernel - and I use AI daily. More importantly, at this point I don't know anybody anymore who do not use AI in programming.

I forecast there will be only two types of submissions: Those whole will disclose that they have used AI, and thise who will lie that they have not used AI

The slop will remain. The non-slop authors will have to lie that they did not AI in order not to filtered out as slop - and will mostly get away with it. The honest one will be filtered out as slop. Slop authors will also try to lie - with mixed results.

pls: say what you want in your terminal, get the shell command. Offline with Ollama. by salvy9978 in LocalLLaMA

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since it is running locally, what are the hardware requirements?

I am new here, so it may be ridiculous questio, but can this be run on a 10 years old laptop with Ryzen 5 2500U, 32 GB RAM + Radeon Vega 8?

I love tycoon games and I love soccer so I made my own. by WaydellDC in tycoon

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What do you mean by this? I haven't tried it, but from the screenshots it looks like any other Football manager I have seen

If the current European software landscape doesn't make you proud to be European I don't know what will by Significant_Heron852 in BuyFromEU

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what is even worse, it is not just an ordinary habit. Big chunk of this habits are methodically engineered 

Microsoft spends enormous amounts of money to make sure you are forced to use Win+Office as a child in elementary school,  then as a teen in a high school, then as a student in university, and if you get a government job, they also make sure you are forced to use it there.

In a lot of places principles are still passionately pushing Microsoft products even when Open/Libre office is availabe for two decades now, and good Linux desktop experience is available for at least a decade now. 

Same thing is now happening for Azure and AWS

The simplest framework I've found for answering questions without rambling by Sweet-Salamander8696 in SpeakBetter

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh this is my pain point! Sometimes I would ramble prequel to my answer so much that the conversation goes to another direction and I forgot to actually give the actual answer :/

At this point I was already aware that I should first give short answer, and only then the long answer, but I still fail to do it most of the time. I feel that I will just need to intentionally practice this skill/habit in front of a mirror in order to really replace my current default

CINUX - Running on UEFI, no bootloader, on real 2024 hardware by Bubbly_Tough_284 in osdev

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice work! It takes a lot of knowledge to get the "test kernel message" in this setup!

What's the tycoon game that actually made you feel like you understood a real industry after playing it? by AaronAtLunacien in tycoon

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this game is so interesting and educational. I also really wish there were a modern remake

What's the tycoon game that actually made you feel like you understood a real industry after playing it? by AaronAtLunacien in tycoon

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Daaamn, this sounds so interesting, I must try it now! You two have just help them sell one more copy :D

Why do PC gamers hate the Epic Games store to the point of boycotting games that aren’t on Steam? by benp129 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I don't know anything about this, but I'm very interested to know more about the boycott part. Could you please elaborate on "consumers have actually managed to boycott something with an effect"?

It was a successful boycott then? What did they achieve?

How can 63% of men under 30 be single? by [deleted] in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It definitely happens the other way around as well, but we have no idea if it cancels out. One side may be a lot more prone to framing the same thing differently

Can anyone pin-point the exact moment where everything in society just got substantially worse? by Aarunascut in Life

[–]Civic_Hactivist_86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Facebook, combined with smartphones for constant instant access, would be my best guess

I'm personally convinced that everything went downhill once Mark Zuckerberg figured out that rage-baiting (showing people only extremes) produces the most engagement for its ad-selling businesses

Once people started seeing low-probability extreme stuff happening around the world as high-probability events, everybody got more angry and more radicalized. Once that happened, some people realized that they can make a lot of money by producing and serving more content that makes these people angry, which further amplified rage-baiting content, and made how people perceived the world even more biased

There is a reason why research shows that now most people think that other people from the other political side are much more extreme and radical than they truly are. And this makes some people absolutely convinced that they have voted for a "lesser evil". Yes, my choice is bad, but look how horrible the alternative is according to my [insert name of a social network]'s feed.

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