In the early 2ks, computer were ugly grey box with noisy fan and a hard drive that gave the impression a cockroach colony were trying to escape your case. I wanted to build a silent computer to watch Divx movies from my bed, but as a broke teen, I just had access to disposed hardwares I could find there and there.

I dismantled a power supply, stuck mosfets to big mother fucking dissipator, and I had a silent power supply. I put another huge industrial dissipator on CPU (think it was an AMD k6 500Mhz) and had fanless cooling. Remained the hard drive.

Live CD/USB weren’t common at that time. I’ve discovered a live CD distrib (I think it was Knoppix) that could run entirely from RAM.

I removed hard drive, boot on live distrib, then replace CD by my Divx and voila.

Having a fanless-harddriveless computer was pure science fiction for me and my friends at that time.

Meshroom is FOSS, relatively easy to use and works out of the box. It is industrial quality and is widely used in cinema and untertainment industry. So, I think it’s the go to if you want something robust and usable.

NVidia provide several reasearch software to do Radiance Field stuff on their github: https://github.com/NVlabs. They gives impressive results, but none of them is user friendly. It’s reasearch stuff.

I gave a try to ollama.nvim, but I’m not conviced (not by the plugin, but by using LLM directly in IDE). Because of security reasons, I cannot send code to public LLMs, so I have to either use my company’s internal LLM (GPT4o), but which just have a front end, no API. Either I have to use local LLM through ollama for ex.

I tried several models, but they are to slow or too dumb. In the end, when I need help, I copy/past code into LLM portal front end.

<disclamer>I don’t want to troll, this is a serious comment and I just want to highlight different perspective to improve mutual understanding.</disclamer>

Definition of words depend on the context. They are model to express ideas and have a common understanding of things. A bit like Newtonian model explain why planete orbit around the sun (Until mercury drift comes into play).

If we were on the context of neurological conference or medical comitte, I would completly agree with you. But we are on Internet, on Lemmy, and on a post that don’t even aimed to talk about mental disorder. Stating this, when talking about illness in this context, one refer to high level definition of illness that you’ll first find in the dictionary. According to Oxford dictionary: “a condition in which the body or mind is harmed because an organ or part is unable to work as it usually does; a disease or sickness”

I hope you would agree that, taking only this definition, Autism, at least more extrem cases, respect this definiton.

Adding precision can be usefull, but you’re then changing context. Let’s take an analogy.

My daugther asked me yesterday why the sun rise on a side and fall on the other side of the horizon. I told here it’s because sun rotate around the earth. This explanation is enough to answer the question, and is in the context of talking to a 5 year old girl. There is no need to explain that earth actually rotate on itself and around the sun, and that rotate around galaxy. There is no need to detail about Newtonian mecanic, nor general relativity in this context. This would just add noise to the discussion. The geocentric model is true in this context.

Another analogy. I’m talking about multiplication, and affirm that ab = ba. In this context, without precision, everyone agree with this. But, strickly speaking, multiplication being a binary operation acting inside a group, it’s not always commutative. Typically, matrix multiplication is not commutative. So, ab = ba in the context of algebric structure is false.

As a matematician, there would be no reasons to feel ofended or to claim that ab=ba is false when commenting post talking about, let say, carpentry. You can precise that, when digging into the details, there are cases when ab != ba, to open another discussion, but claiming that ab != ba, in the context of carpentry, is just… wrong.

Worst than that, it generate conflicts. You claim that someone is wrong without arguing, or explaining your own context. Going to the extreme, I’m quite conviced this kind of behavior fuel intolerance, up to the point of having a a retarded redhead elected (I think this will become the new godwin point). Most of people have nothing against Autism, LGBTQRST+, or whatever minorities. But being constantly corrected that “there is no 2 gender”, “autism is not a decease”, “the terms master or blacklist are ofending because it refer to slavery”, etc… just becomes unbearable and makes people fall into intolerance. Not because they have something against the minory itself, but because they feel attacked.

My 2 cents.

I think I’ve spot the autistic guy.

Depend on the level. It’s a spectrum, but at some point it do become a illness.

That at the begining, I thought the principle was to make computer smarter and smarter so that they can reach the level of human brain. But it’s seems they just try to make people dumber and dumber to reach level of current AI.

How about no ?

That’s just stupid declaration to please far right electorate. As a government, you cannot just do nothing when this happen. But, honestly, what can you really do in this specific case ? So you do some stupid declaration to please old and grumpy people, and in a few weeks, nobody will think about it.

Dunning-Kruger effect.

Lots of people now think they can be developpers because they did a shitty half working game using vibe coding.

Would you trust a surgeon that rely on ChatGPT ? So why sould you trust LLM to develop programs ? You know that airplane, nuclear power plants, and a LOT of critical infrastructure rely on programs, right ?

neovim, because it’s much nicer and user friendly than vim.

Prompting.

Remember the day where you have to type commands on a terminal to do anything and some guy came up with “button” and “windows” and suddenly you could print yo document with a single click ?

Oh, cool, let’s bring back the trend of speaking to your computer through a text area !

Fuck LLM.

The point of self hosting is not to engage people going in your server. The point of self hosting is to have control over your infrastructure. It’s like renting or buying a home.

When you buy a home, you don’t complain that no one wants to sleep in your home 😆

It’s a bit strange. On one side you talk about a project you work on, so I expect a repo on github or something, on the other side the link you post redirect to a product or a service you seems to sell.

It’s cool if you can make money with it, but to be more effective you might have to clarify your point.

I don’t even understand what that guy is trying to sell. Is it some kind of picture of a monkey ?

I’m happy to pays tax cause it means I have enough money to pay tax.

Well, freedom of speach is not freedom of being heard.

a raging, yelling psychopath, looking for excuses to be passive aggressive

My wife once became psycho and start yelling at me because I yawned while reading a story to our baby. At 3am.

All parents are differents, and all babies are different. On my side, 3 first months were pure nightmare and it took until 3 or 4th year before things going back to “normal”.

I won’t lie. Becomming parent is not the “wonderfull experience” depicted by society. There is no magic hormone that makes you happy of wiping shit at 4am, or hearing scream during hours because that little potatos decided to screw your day. But, there are hormons that will makes that little shit the most important things in the world.

You won’t be a couple anymore, you will be parents. You’ll find a new balance, hopefully with your partner, but things will nerver be the same. it’s scary, but it’s also the most natural thing in the world.

Is there any way to know if you and your partner are going to make it and remain a couple after having a child?

I think if you already went through hard times with success, like loss of work, serious illness or injury, depression, harassment, trauma, whatever, you are well prepared for parenting and should be able to go through without damage. If you have lived your life peacefully without any waves until now, parenting might be challenging for your relationship.

I can related.

I also have a blond girlfriend and going outside, speaking to people, ordering icecream, stuff like that, makes her so happy that I can just support her in its lifestyle.

Agree. Some people are just too dumb to own a computer. Giving them access to internet is like giving a Kalashnikov to a monkey.