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I’ve never really followed X (nor Twitter), Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, etc. so I basically live under a rock. Sometimes I ask dumb questions to try to understand people a little better. Apologies if my questions inadvertently offend anyone. I mean no harm.

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Lol yep.

Though lately I just give the URL to an AI to read and call out red flags. Sometimes there’s an email address buried in the legalese to opt out of data sharing (and the LLM can draft an email to copy-paste). Though, at that point, I’ve usually lost too much trust in the service and find alternatives.

on Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18h ago
All while selling your personal data because you agreed to that when it was buried in that giant EULA/Privacy policy/etc. that you didn’t read

on Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21h ago
Because I could do that with the Anarchist Cookbook over 2 decades ago as well.

It has been a very long time since I read that book, but I don’t remember it covering electronic missile guidance

on Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Shutting it down would be a LOT harder than steering it

on Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
Man, every reply seems to be answering a question that was not asked (not intentionally, anyway).

Understanding that I’m blursed with a neurodivergence that comes with communication challenges, I can usually narrow down the source of confusion in situations like this. However, I can’t seem to figure this one out.

At my age, I have enough wisdom to know that I should just give up by now… Yet still enough foolishness to keep going anyway. So here I go :/…

eminent domain is just something the government can do in the USA.

So, going back up to the top-level comment where this all started, they said “We should use Eminent Domain to take majority control in stock in every publicly traded company.” Also, you said “you take the land and all the equipment and/or resources on it.”

If it’s just something the government can do, how do “we”/“you” use eminent domain to do these things? Like, I don’t even know what the first few steps would be, so I’m literally asking how to do this.

You might not have that in your country and I totally understand you not getting how it works.

I’m in the USA :/. Do most people know how to do this?

it is a tool that has overwhelmingly been used to fuck over minorities and the poor. With your questioning, you sound like you are supporting it only being used that way.

I feel like it’s extremely foolish to ask this again, but…

How???

I reviewed all of my previous replies, and can’t find a single thing that sounds like I support literally anything at all.

If anything… If my replies were written by someone else, and I tried to reach really far as a reader… I suppose asking how to take action could maybe imply support for – not against – “[using] Eminent Domain to take majority control in stock in every publicly traded company.” How did I manage to convey the opposite tone (or any tone at all) while not even understanding how to do the thing?

Multiple people have replied to me in this thread, so I’m clearly the common denominator. It would be valuable for me to understand how we got here. Can someone please help me untangle this? TBH, I’m interested in understanding these interactions more than eminent domain.

on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
So, you take the land and all the equipment and/or resources on it.

Great! Sooo… How?

Maybe my question of “How?” is not specific specific enough?

For example, if you just walk into the building and tell everyone to leave because you want to take it, that approach would not work. They would call the police, who would then force you to leave.

Does this clarify my question?

on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
Yeahhh… That’s just kinda how it is for a lot of people, unfortunately. In survival mode, you don’t really have the luxury of quitting a job just because you hate it. I mean, maybe if you’re just a single guy with a car or tent to sleep in, just in case… But if you have a family to support (or will soon), you just have to tough it out until you can secure another job (or until you get fired in a way that qualifies for unemployment benefits while searching for a new job).

Having been raised in poverty, I can’t remember a single time my parents liked their jobs.

on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
…I wonder if I may have become stupid, or if I just missed some context somewhere :/

They literally just said so:

Who? I thought I was replying to a top-level comment, and I don’t see anything that says how we’d use eminent domain in that comment, in the OP, or in the article linked in the OP. Is it somewhere else?

Eminent domain,[a] also known as land acquisition,[b] compulsory purchase,[c] resumption,[d] compulsory acquisition,[e] or expropriation,[f] is the compulsory acquisition of private property for public use. Wikipedia - Eminent domain

I don’t see the answer in this excerpt either, or in the Wikipedia page.

Given the tone of your response, I must have overlooked something glaringly obvious, but I’m just not seeing it 🤦🏻‍♂️

on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
There’s some public assistance available, but for some things (like housing, sadly), they’re not always immediately available, and there can be long waiting lists.

“Average person” might depend on age group. You’re probably right about the average 20-something, but as we age, family members die and friends move away or start families of their own. (Though, in this context, you’re probably right because it’s about people who are pregnant. The average pregnant person probably has at least one person they could ask for help.)

on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
How?

Edit: Wow. I should not have assumed that my single-word reply was specific enough. I’ll expand the question:

How do we “use Eminent Domain to take majority control in stock in every publicly traded company”?

🤔 though, it might be better to narrow the scope of the question a bit: How do we even do it for one publicly traded company? Probably better to start with one first. Baby steps while learning.

on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
Yeah I used to use dev containers. Containers aren’t generally a secure sandbox. They’re a great guardrail for preventing accidents, but not so much with a malicious prompt injection. (I might be overly paranoid about these things.)

For tool version management, I usually set up a Nix Flake for each project (which also works inside dev containers).

on Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Tool use with Gemma has been hit or miss. I wouldn’t rely on it for anything unsupervised.

Tool use for Qwen3.6 has been great lately, but I do remember seeing some issues with it too, a while back. I don’t remember when/why the issues cleared up (I have tweaked configs a bit over time), but switching to Pi definitely helped.

I do remember having a lot more problems in OpenCode and it was practically unusable (which is why my recent experience with VS Code was surprising). I’d definitely recommend trying Pi.

A fresh Pi install is very minimal by design. The system prompt is tiny, so it’s a pretty good fit for small LLMs like these. It’s sort of like Neovim: Nothing fancy out of the box, but you can add lots of fancy things to it. I containerize it because I don’t like giving LLMs (especially these small ones) unrestricted access to my host computer – though, I have not seen any signs of it accidentally doing something destructive, which is surprising.

There are similar alternatives to Apple Container for Linux (e.g. Docker Sandboxes, muvm, Firecracker). There’s also this thing made specifically for Pi called Gondolin. I haven’t tried it yet, but I may end up switching to that if it could simplify my stack.

Here’s my current llama-swap/llama.cpp config for Qwen3.6 35B-A3B:
```
qwen3.6-35b-a3b:
    name: "Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (Coding)"
    proxy: "http://127.0.0.1/:${PORT}" # If you're seeing a `/` after `127.0.0.1` here, don't include it. I think something in Lemmy is trying to "sanitize" this input by adding the `/`.
    cmd: |
      llama-server
      --port ${PORT}
      --no-webui
      -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL
      --jinja
      --parallel 1
      --flash-attn on
      --no-mmproj
      --load-mode none
      --reasoning-preserve
      --ctx-size 190000
      --temp 0.6
      --top-p 0.95
      --top-k 20
      --min-p 0.0
      --presence-penalty 0.0
      --repeat-penalty 1.01
```
A few notes about this config:
- Now that I think of it, –reasoning-preserve might be another thing that helped with tool calls.
- Note the -MTP part of the -hf param. MTP helps speed things up. Here’s the Huggingface page for this model
- You can also omit –no-mmproj if you need vision, but it might mean sacrificing speed or context size, so I usually just enable vision in a separate llama-swap model entry to use as needed.
- Unsloth recommends –repeat-penalty 1.0, but I saw the LLM enter a thinking loop in VS Code, so I bumped it up just a tiny bit to 1.01. I have since seen it do something that resembled the same thought loop, but it was able to recover on its own. Not sure if it’s a coincidence or if 1.01 was actually the solution, so worth some experimentation.
on Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Heh, I remember another distro called Floppix — small enough to fix on two floppy disks

on Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Clearly, the focus is on local AI development — a timely move as cloud AI token costs start to rise.

AI token costs are only rising for people with low AI proficiency who compensate for that by just using expensive models for everything. For others, the costs are dropping quite a lot, largely thanks to Chinese models (GLM, Kimi, Qwen, etc.)

on Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Ohhh lol. Yeah it’s Llama-swap, running llama.cpp for now, but might add vLLM to the llama-swap config to experiment with NVFP4.

I mainly use MoE models so I can get decent speed while using a 150-200k context window. My go-to model has been Qwen3.6 35B-A3B for a while. I tried Qwen3.8 27B, but it was too slow.

Gemma4 26B-A4B also runs nice and fast, but I generally get better results from Qwen3.6. I don’t remember exactly how much CPU offloading is happening, but it’s not much. As long as I can get like 40-50 tokens/sec, I’m usually satisfied enough.

For the coding harness, I’ve been running Pi in an Apple Container (sort of like Podman, but better isolation in a microvm). Though, I recently configured VS Code to use LLMs on my server, and it was actually pretty decent. Still need to explore a bit more, but so far VS Code’s AI capabilities seem much better than they were a year ago (they seemed way behind, back then).

Also, I don’t connect any harness directly to llama-swap. I have another container running Caddy, which acts as a gateway to AI providers. For other services (e.g. OpenRouter), the API key is injected in the Caddy container. I don’t like having API keys or secrets anywhere where LLMs can read them. It’s not so bad for my own self-hosted LLMs, but not cool to send secrets to a server owned by someone else.

on Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
There’s not really anything interesting to show. It’s just a home server in a 13 year old desktop ATX case.

There’s no desk, monitor, keyboard, or mouse… But also no cool server rack.

Function over form, and it sits in a spare bedroom out of sight.

EDIT: I found the receipt for the case. It’s a Cougar Volant Black Steel mid tower, purchased in 2013. So my server just looks like this:

on Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
The efficiency of Chinese models really is impressive. I generated sooo much code yesterday with Qwen3.6 35B-A3B running on an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (+ a little CPU offloading). It got the jobs done at ~50 tokens/sec.

(It’s not super complex code, just some scripts that I would not have taken to time to write manually.)

I’d love to upgrade to something with more VRAM, but even my current card has doubled in price since I bought it last year 😬

on Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
If they had put even some minor checks on the reasoning traces

I heard that’s not really possible (or maybe just less so) with their new gen Astra model as it doesn’t use human-readable text for reasoning. I haven’t looked into it yet, but I remember the word “neuralese” mentioned.

on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Better than google is not an acceptable measure

I remember when that would be a pretty high bar. It’s a bit of a distant memory at this point though. It’s crazy how bad tech has become.

on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
They should ask for a refund

on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
That’s no surprise. The US government is really slow at getting things done

on Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Ah yes, just what the world needs: another Twitter.

on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
There was a surprising number of repos there when I last looked, and their blog seems to show signs of life, so I don’t think it’s vaporware (at least not yet). But yeah, not easily being able to browse repos from the home page definitely sucks.

FWIW, you can see some recent activity scroll by from right to left on the front page, near the top, right below the hero section. You can click them to view some users and repos (example: tangled.org/mitchellh.com).

That’s the only way I see from the front page though, which is not great :/

on GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
FreeBSD, actually

on Microsoft totally breaks Windows Defender virus scans in trying to fix a 0-day flaw in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Huh… I’m not really sure. I know I was able to a while back, but now I don’t see how.

Maybe it requires login now. I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a way to reduce AI traffic or something.

on GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
YouTube’s censorship has become worse than cable TV’s (in the US). I have a feeling that BiliBili will only further normalize the aggressive censorship, like TikTok did.

on Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
You might be interested in Tangled. Not sure if they’re stable yet though

on GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
The real headline:

Over 170,000 Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

Not sure if Slate is A/B testing or if OP clickbait-ified the post title

on The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
🤔 this actually seems like a good point. Like, I’ve seen videos of spines getting sliced off of old-looking books, and presented in the context of them being rare, but never actually fact-checked it myself. Now I’m wondering if I’ve been fooled. (I really hope so, in this case.)

on Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
That sounds like a lot. Is it more than a bajillion, or less?

on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
I didn’t have a rich family. My parents were poor for my entire childhood, and remained poor until their deaths. All other relatives are poor too (very small family). I’m not rich by any means; just financially comfortable.

Most success stories I’ve heard from people who brought themselves out of poverty, had no political “odor” to them at all. Having enough spare time to think about politics seems like a bit of a luxury when you’re too busy trying to survive while also working towards carefully planned goals. In fact, if such a success story smells political even a little bit, and it’s on the Internet, then yeah, it’s probably not to be trusted.

on Could AI create a ‘permanent underclass’? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
As a guy who clawed my way out of poverty, I can warn you: People who state those opinions on the Internet almost never want to hear about a success story — even if it could help others. (Not that downvotes even matter though)

on Could AI create a ‘permanent underclass’? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
For some reason, I find this satisfying and funny. The landscape has been changing. The open-weight models from Chinese labs are getting really good and becoming a serious threat to the closed models from American AI companies.

Interestingly, Google, Meta, and Microsoft — who all have revenue streams outside of AI — recognize the threat are getting more supportive about open-weight models. Anthropic and OpenAI support keeping models closed for “safety” reasons.

on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
It’s also sensationalized. I guess the article’s actual headline just isn’t spicy enough:

New Orleans hoping limited AI use could speed response for emergencies

on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Ban all human drivers?

No.

What about pedestrians and bikes?

Continue avoiding them – that should never change.

You still need crossings and traffic lights for an area to be livable by humans. You still need to drive slowly next to a pavement where someone could eg trip and fall onto the road.

Agreed.

All those examples seem like they’re in response to a goal of eliminating 100% of all congestion. I actually edited my comment to clarify that that’s not what I’m talking about, but that edit was many hours before your response. Is it still unclear?

Since we’re talking examples, maybe I can offer one to clarify:

Ever been in a traffic jam after someone ran a red light or stop sign and caused a wreck? If fewer (because zero is unrealistic) of those incidents happen, then there are fewer traffic jams caused by them, right? And when they do happen, it would be easier to reroute traffic early on – which might also make it easier/faster for emergency vehicles to get to the scene.

Or for an example that is completely unrelated to traffic: Condoms and vaccines are pretty effective. Maybe not 100%, but still enough to be useful. There are some areas in real life where absolutism is just unproductive.

on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
This should be used in some sort of dystopia-themed movie or Black Mirror episode or something, if it hasn’t been done yet

on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
and you are what you eat

on Getting inspiration for a fourth MFA method in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 10 Aug 2026
If most cars are autonomous, and capable of coordinating with each other (via mesh network, for example), then traffic congestion might become much easier to prevent reduce and solve mitigate. (Edit: Based on responses, I may have chosen my words poorly)

You’re probably not wrong though. I imagine it’ll get worse before it gets better.

on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
So if somebody calls and is completely out of his mind, what will AI do?

Is this a rhetorical question?

Just in case you wanted a real answer: The caller is obviously not saying “yes,” so transfer to human.

To be clear: I don’t know anyone at Carbyne or OPCD. I can only offer speculation. But I’m curious: What would you have guessed?

on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
I wish this were pinned at the top. It seems like almost nobody reads beyond the headline.

on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
I ask this out of genuine, burning curiosity, and mean no rudeness by this…

Did you read the article that the OP linked to?

I don’t mean to single you out with this question, I’m just confused after scrolling this far through sooo many similar comments. It almost feels as if I somehow ended up reading a different article from everyone else.

on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
It sounds like that’s a better alternative than what they had before though, no?

Side note: either I’m wildly misunderstanding something in the article, or a BIG majority of commenters here didn’t actually read it. I’d expect some amount of the latter, but it really seems disproportionate here.

on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
How many? And how does that number compare to how many people died due to call volume surges before implementing this triage tech?

on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
So, Lemmy really seems to love these two things:
- Getting angry at things
- Having their biases confirmed
If a headline feeds the hunger, why risk ruining that validation by reading the article?
on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
It seems like they’re doing this because they are prioritizating the public safety aspect of the job, no?

on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
Advertisers might find a way to sneak ads into prompt injections or something

on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
They definitely can be useful as a part of a “productivity machine,” for some people. But yeah, they’re not the whole solution. An LLM alone is much less useful without harnesses and tools.

I suppose one of the difficulties in trying to build a one-size-fits-all thing is that everyone has a different set of use cases and workflows needed for productivity. Each person’s own “productivity machine” might be useless for other people.

Most people (maybe even most tech-oriented people) just aren’t AI-fluent enough to be able to build their own agentic workflows with enough fidelity to actually yield a net-positive effect in productivity. It’s not a user-friendly process for the masses (yet).

on Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026