Yes and no. Its the same aggregated content but the underlying software running piefed instances is different than lemmy. The websites internals are made by different people with different programming language. On a surface user interaction level a piefed instance is the same functional thing as a lemmy instance and can be treated as such. They all use activitypub protocol to federate between instances whether its piefed or lemmy.

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

The main difference IMO is the personal politics of the people who make the software and run the instances. Lemmys main developers are controversial in regards to politics and administration practices on the main .ml instance. I don’t want to be associated with that anymore. Also piefed is in very active development already has cool features that lemmy doesn’t with a sleek default layout.

The PugJesus History Explanations™ are a highlight of lemmy (I guess piefed now) for me. One of my all time favorite interactions on here was roleplaying as senator Armstrong debating with PJ while referencing the history explanation thing. Divinity bless the glorious bastard and their historical hobby hyperfixations.

Use a local model, learn some toolcalling and have it retrieve factual answers from a database like wolfram alpha if needed. . We have a community over at c/[email protected] all about local models. if your not very techy I recommend starting with a simple llamafile which is a one click executable EXE that packages engine and model together in a single file.

Then move on to a real local model engine like kobold.cpp running a quantized model that fits in your computer especially if you have a graphics card and want to offload via CUDA or Vulcan. Feel free to reply/message me if you need further clarification/guidance

https://github.com/mozilla-ai/llamafile

https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

I would start with a 7b q4km quant see if your system can run that.

You know something cm0002 just wanted to let you know I appreciate the dichotomy formed between posting these shitpost memes making fun of corporate AI trash one second while simultaneously posting genuinely informative news keeping the localllama community updated the next. It helps keep it real.

I havent used twitter in many years. Do they really let their llms have a twitter account and be taggable like this? I though they would have learned it doesnt worked out so great when microsoft tried it with TayAI years ago.

As a bonus their mom briefly became socialist when she freely shared some crabs and HIV with you :)

Hi, hope you don’t mind me giving my two cents.

Local models are at their m9st useful in daily life when they scrape data from a reliable factual database or from the internet and then present/discuss that data to you through natural language conversation.

Think about searching for things on the internet now a days. Every search provider stuffs ads in top results and intentionally ofsucates the links your looking for especially if its a no-no term like pirating torrent sites.

Local llms can act as an advanced generalized RSS reader that automatically fetches articles and sources, send STEM based queries to wolfram alpha llm api and retrieve answers, fetch the weather directly from openweatherAPI, retrieve definitions and meanings from local dictionary, retrieve Wikipedia article pages from a local kiwix server, search ArXiv directly for prior searching. One of Claude’s big selling points is the research mode toolcall that scrapes hundreds of sites to collect up to date data on the thing your researching and presenting its finins in a neat structured way with cited sources. It does in minutes what would traditionally take a human hours or days of manual googling.

There are genuine uses for llms if your a nerdy computer homelab type of person familiar databases, data handling and can code up/integrate some basic api pipelines. The main challenge is selling these kinds of functions in an easy to understand and use way for the tech illiterate who already think bad of llms and similar due to generative slop. A positive future for llms integrated into Firefox would be something trained to fetch from your favorite sources and sift out the crap based on your preferences/keywords. More sites would have APIs for direct scraping and the key adding process would be one click button

Either my reference wasn’t clear enough or the trailer park boys has seriously faded in cultural relevance.

I’m interested in how many of those dog bites are contributed by pitbulls and rotweilers. I don’t like to perpetuate stereotypes but every physically intimidating hyperaggressive dog ive met has been a one of those. People want the safety that comes with those killing machines but they refuse to properly train them and cook up some serious cope when their precious furry son breaks their electric fence and bites the face off a child walking by.

Inferior rehash version of the OG

Thats the judaochristian concept of God with all the “all knowing all controlling Lord Father King that will punish you forever if you infringe their arbitrary rules”

Its a shame that western teenagers and disillusioned adults tend to rather reach for satanism as an edgey reactionary “dont actually believe it but want to visibly show I’m against the church” instead of breaking open eastern philosophy books and learning about concepts from things like Daoism or bhuddism. Not all concepts of the Divine are so super controlling arbiters of morality like what our popular religions over here try to sell us on.

There are dozens of public access Unix servers that offer free email to their users. I can personally attest to using tilde.team for a few years.

https://tildeverse.org/

I hate that the basic polygons and their 3d counterparts are all people think of theyre so boring. Fuck Circles/spheres, Fuck squares/cubes, and no, hexagons are not the bestagons. You want to know what natures perfect shape is? Its a tie between the Mandelbrot Set and maybe Pascals Triangle if you consider that a kind of data structure shape. Your shape efficently packs interior space in a minimum surface area? Thats cool, mine encodes the entirety of combinatorics with fractal geometry and acts as an actual map showing the boundaries between order and chaos. Your shape aperiodically tiles the plane? Thats neat, mine geometrically encodes the logistic map which governs things like animal population changes over time.

Imagine a race of star treck aliens flying around in one of these things and tell me it wouldn’t be more visually interesting than a big technophile bondage cube.

This is from the scene where Ricky graditated from the eighth grade right?