Its really about priorities. Public surveillance is something that is distracting from the real problem: Government/Corporate corruption. That needs to be handled before anything else. The fact that we are focusing on them putting in surveillance cameras instead of us working together to bring these criminal to justice proves that the distraction its working.
This isn't a vigilante movement. These cameras are being installed without any constitutional basis. And people don't need legal authority to correct an unlawful camera installation problem that cities are not handling.
Anyone got a starters guide for setting up an open source LLM? I'm pretty new to AI, but technical. Im looking to setup my own open source LLM on my workstation to help me code if its possible. Been using Claude and I tried opencode recently.
Unless you have a LOT of VRAM (>16gb), you’ll want to use a 2, 3, or 4 bit quantization of qwen3.6-35b-a3b. Ollama is a quick way to try this out and see what perf you can get, tho you’ll want to move to a better tool (vLLM, llama.cpp, etc) if you end up using it seriously.
Use pi.dev as your agent harness, and point it at ollama or whatever you’re running your model in.
Since qwen3.6-35b-a3b is a “MoE” model (indicated by the a3b part), you can get away with a lot less VRAM and a slower GPU. For me, 35b-a3b performs about as well as a 12b “dense” model. You’ll still need enough RAM+VRAM to hold the entire model - otherwise it’ll be super slow as it loads pieces of the model off disk for every token. Loading from RAM to VRAM is slower than having the whole thing in VRAM but better than involving your ssd.
I'm the author of the presentation. When I was designing this talk, the end game I had in mind is to have a starting point. I think bringing more awareness to the depth of the problem and some behaviors we can change can start us down the road is good enough to get the ball rolling. I don't think this is going to be solved in one generation.
We get what we invest in. My feeling is there are other services to invest in like Bandcamp where at least you get an option to download a copy of the music. If people invest in Spotify with out thinking about the consequences then the the world we live in is exactly what we deserve. This same thing is happening with other form of art. Until people start making conscious decisions for world they want to create, the dark times will prevail.
The cloud gaming echo chamber has conveniently arrived to save the day by mimicking the solution to fix the problem the same industry created. Problem, Reaction, Solution.
I feel like Apple makes MacOS really difficult to use with all the unessessary security components. Plus they treat there users like idiots, they hide advanced operations behind keyboard shortcuts. Then there's the need to control the ecosystem.
I don't find the keyboard shortcuts to be inconvenient, or maliciously "hidden". I just recognize that most of the stuff I do on a daily basis is above how most users work with their computers. Besides, it's faster for me to use a keyboard than mouse anyway
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