Just a guy shilling for gun ownership, tech privacy, and trans rights.

I’m open for chats on mastodon https://hachyderm.io/

my blog: thinkstoomuch.net

My email: nags@thinkstoomuch.net

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  • I believe this is incorrect. I can’t find the forum post from Cloudflare but you cannot use the CDN to deliver video without paying for it, but you can use CF as a reverse proxy via Cloudflared to deliver video so long as you aren’t on the CDN

    They even have blog posts on using Cloudflared for hobby video streaming projects like a RPi pet cam. Unless it’s assumed I have an enterprise account.

    https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-application-services/#content-delivery-network-terms

    Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN. Cloudflare reserves the right to disable or limit your access to or use of the CDN, or to limit your End Users’ access to certain of your resources through the CDN, if you use or are suspected of using the CDN without such Paid Services to serve video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of such action.







  • Online book clubs are kind of a thing.

    Welcome to Lemmy, just find a community and start chatting. If it’s dead/empty, start filling it.

    I try to open myself up to people as best I can here and on Mastodon just because we’re pretty used to the algorithm TM deciding who we talk to or where we engage for a long time now and I don’t think we are collectively ready to have non-hostile “discussions” in that we just don’t know how to do it.

    What’s been on your mind? If you don’t wanna share here try the casual conversations community. They might be better to receive you.



  • I ultimately agree with a lot of communism and as such I’m probably more likely to agree with the average Tankie than most people.

    And with that disclaimer, yeah kinda it has aided them in doing that.

    They created a reddit alternative that has a “default server” as it were. And they have the ability to admin that source of information to tailor to their specific ideological needs.

    But is it effective in a grander scheme? That’s pretty debatable.


  • I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one.

    Are you using LLMs as search engines?

    Bold.

    I use Gemma, LLama 3.2, and Deepseek to either fix formatting, summarize documentation to give me commands for Linux software, and write simple code structure for me to refine into working code.

    Sure it takes longer to generate than a cloud compute would, but

    1. privacy obviously. I know you dismissed it but that’s really the biggest reason anyone will have.

    2. this feels better environmentally. I actually don’t know if that’s true, but it objectively touches less computers for such simple tasks. It would be wasteful of infrastructure to do it over the web.

    3. it’s just cooler to have a conversation with my computer. I’ve learned a lot about how the whole process works and that’s more valuable to me as a non dev than just getting the end results.



  • Couple things

    1. Start applying for things you’re not sure and you know you aren’t qualified for. Often recruiters or HR people don’t actually know what the fuck the job needs and just sorta copies similar job titles recs. Once you’re able to talk to the actual hiring manager, then you can see if you’re a good culture fit and if they can give you some on the job training.

    2. Get a job at something not really what you wanna do but feels related enough. For me, my big break into my career was working at a call center for a hospital. It was not IT related, but it got me office experience that I spun into IT experience.




  • Its how you can tell PDP fans weren’t paying attention. He promoted it a few times but it didn’t gain any traction and he abandoned it.

    Or maybe it just didn’t help with the fascism allegations from the bridge moment and the Fiverr incidents since those all happened about the same time.

    Hell, he had Ben Shapiro host an episode of LWIAY. Sure it wasn’t peak genocide apologizer we have now Benny Boy, but he was still a verifiable dick head grifter.