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  • LedgeDrop@lemm.eetoLocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Noob experience using local LLM as a D&D style DM.English
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    2 months ago

    Thank you for posting your experience.

    I’ve always thought LLMs would be perfect for being a DM or even a self-hosted “Choose your own adventure” story.

    The prospect of having an “unlimited” adventure sounded awesome. In practice, and in my experience - it wasn’t that fun.

    I throughly enjoy stretching my creativity and “thinking outside the box”, but it’s no fun when the LLM simply says “yeah, sure whatever.” I guess the “stretching my creativity” is more “pushing my creativity against the boundaries of what is allowed/makes sense”… but without any sort of resistance… I got bored.

  • LedgeDrop@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•How I Got Hacked: A Warning about Malicious PoCs
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    4 months ago

    I’m sorry this happened, but it seems rather reckless of the author to be running “Malicious PoCs” on their “daily driver” (re: the PC they use for everything).

    If I was in the habit of running “Malicious PoCs”, you can be certain it would be isolated from the rest of my system. This could be in a sandbox or a vm. Heck, just created a dedicated (one time use) “new user” would have been better than "Hey, let me just download and run some random shell script. Oh, it needs root? No problem!

  • LedgeDrop@lemm.eetoNews@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 months ago

    Of course it won’t. Bring manufacturing is not the goal. The goal of the tarrifs is for the American People to pay the government more (which I’m sure the current administration will spend responsibly /s).

    I’d spent some time in Central America and I’m getting flashbacks, when I hear Trump talking about these tarrifs. I don’t want to insult other countries by what I observed, but one place in particular had a weak infrastructure. Roads, especially, were poorly maintained. Potholes (sometimes the size of the hood of a car) were everywhere - even on the (few) highways. The resulting traffic and congestion were the norm (even outside the big cities in the rural areas).

    The strange thing was, everything cost as-much or more than North American prices. Especially for things like food/groceries. I was told that the locals often ate beans and rice, as it was affordable.

    I was surprised to see, that even with the high prices for groceries _the locals were still shopping there. _ So, this wasn’t a “front” for the tourists. I found this odd as I was thinking “with the prices of everything here, someone is making bank! Where is that money going?”

    Then, I’d drive past the frequent police check point along the roads and highways. The police had many nice Hummers and SUVs, I saw female officers brandishing assault rifles, everyone dressed very well.

    I heard that the country charges a high tax on imported goods, but nothing on domestic goods. This, in theory, is to promote “local manufacturing”, but the country doesn’t have the infrastructure to support it. And (I’m guessing) the government isn’t interested in creating the necessary infrastructure, because it would mean giving up their cash cow. So, the government gets rich, while the people suffer.

    This is the dystopian future of the U.S. Pay attention to see how much importance the current administration puts into maintaining and improving the existing infrastructure. How’s that rural high speed internet coming along? /s :(

    edit: typos2

  • LedgeDrop@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Outlook servers down, reports sayEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I just laughed and said oh well that’s what you get when you moved from on prem to cloud.

    Our Techs said that you couldn’t buy on-perm exchange anymore. You needed to go with the cloud subscription, which “includes” all the crap you don’t want: like Teams.

    Atleast, they said didn’t make financial sense to pay for Google Workspace + Slack + Cloud Exchange, when MS offered their (lesser) services as a bundle (but the human suffering is real) :(

  • LedgeDrop@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel codeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    In my mind, introducing Rust would only make sense if:

    1. There was a serious lack of current kernel developers (which I don’t think there is)
    2. New hardware and tech was evolving at a rate that the Linux Kernel could not keep up (again, I don’t think this is am issue)
    3. The end goal is to migrate the entire Kernel to Rust.

    Regarding point 3, having both C and Rust really only makes sense as a transition phase (measured in years) - as it would require kernel developers to be savvy in both C and Rust, or would force developers to stay within whatever domains were implemented in C or Rust.