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😲 DeepSeek-V3-4bit runs at >20 tokens per second and <200W using MLX on an M3 Ultra with 512GB. This might be the best and most user-friendly way to run DeepSeek-V3 on consumer hardware, possibly the most affordable too. You can finally run a GPT-4o level model locally, with possibly even better quality. #LLM #AI #ML #DeepSeek #OpenAI #GPT #OpenWeight #OpenSource venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-v3…

Tuta compie 11 anni e offre uno sconticione per il suo compleanno


Tuta festeggia i suoi primi 11 anni di attività offrendo il suo piano Legend con uno sconto del 62% per il primo anno di utilizzo.

lealternative.net/2025/03/26/t…

“Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot”

futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-…

> Researchers have found that ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

Possibly related: what I wrote a couple of years ago on how LLM chatbots function like a mentalist's con

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llm…

in reply to Baldur Bjarnason

I think I was starting to head that way with Claude before I quit a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully I didn't use it much for actual coding work; I gave it a few one-off tasks, but was mostly unsatisfied with the results. But I did use it for other things, and I admit, even started to talk to it like a friend sometimes. But a few weeks ago, I reevaluated whether I should use LLMs, and decided to discontinue all personal use. No withdrawal symptoms yet, so maybe I didn't go too far.

I have just sent the Social (in)Security Administration back the ~$23K they continued sending me, while I worked, didn't qualify for benefits, and repeatedly and insistently spent hours on hold trying to tell them as much only to have them ignore every single report I made, even via my congress critter, until I finally got someone's attention and they terminated my benefits and processed my overpayment. Thankfully most of it was in savings because this is far from my first rodeo with these fools.

Don't get me wrong, efficiency is great. But if you're looking at this system thinking the inefficiency is that it exists at all, not that it's a pain in the dick to get them to stop sending me money I know damn well I'll have to pay back later, then I have a bull to sell you. Fair warning, he shits a lot.

Meanwhile, soon I'm going to actually need those benefits again. Great timing as always, Universe.

My #FOSSBack talk has been published! Now you can watch me proudly talk about @outreachy and our fantastic work behind the scenes—I’ve shared some insights that will show you why we’re such a special and loved open internship program. 🩵

youtube.com/watch?v=SBFo23FDIX…

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Canada freezes Tesla rebate payments

ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariff…

If it looks like a fraud... it's possibly a fraud. Which is what Tesla is.

🤯 Wow, the former NDP leader says that this election is too important to lose -- so vote for the Liberals. Don't split the vote.

Boy, I wish we had proportional representation in Canada!

nationalpost.com/opinion/forme…

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Registration and the Call for Proposals are now open for DebConf25. This year's event will be held in Brest, back in France its place of origin, and will offer talks, hacking sessions, activities and discussions. We are looking forward to a Cheese & Wine party in the right country this year ;-), and an additional Crêpes and Cider evening, a tribute to Brittany debconf25.debconf.org/news/202… #debian #debconf25 #brest #france

streamed yesterday: one-hour german #chaosradio @cccfr freiburg feature at @RDL with a deep-dive conversation about #deltachat origins, what it has and hasn't to do with e-mail, protection against server compromise, phone based compared to e-mail networking, how to conspire for baking cheese cakes, authoritarianism and sovereignty, protest and organization, how to arrange for shopping and checklists in chats ... and fun music :)

rdl.de/beitrag/chaosradio-frei…

rdl.de/sites/default/files/aud…

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I'm no good at typical prepper activities like constructing a shelter or stockpiling food. But I can at least play at being a digital prepper by, say, setting up a mirror of the Debian archive. These days, that's doable for individuals with a high-speed (e.g. fiber) Internet connection and a few hundred dollars to spend on storage. The trick, of course, is to make sure that the project isn't wasted, since I'm consuming substantial bandwidth from another mirror at least on the initial pull.

Anybody have Wayland-compatibile tiling compositor (WM) recommenddations? I'd been using #xmonad for years, but it doesn't work with Wayland. #KDE #Plasma with #bismuth was good for me, but Bismuth doesn't work with latest Plasma. I've really not found anything good with Gnome, and the options like #sway and #hyprland require a bunch of time to configure and don't do things like remembering what to do when I plug in different external monitors like KDE does. I appreciate KDE's automation.

We are concerned about about the US being able to switch off or spy on our cloud instances.

But what about payment infrastructure? All payment card companies we use are US based (visa, mastercard, amex). In some European countries like Denmark they have their own system alongside (Dankort). The Dutch sold off all their own card issuers providers long time ago.

epicompany.eu/ is supposed to provide an alternative but haven't seen any updates on that in a while.

#europeanalternatives

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„Steuerzahlerbund“ fordert wieder einmal den Verkauf der staatlichen Anteile an Post/DHL und Deutsche Telekom.

Ganz abgesehen von der Frage, ob das bei global agierenden Unternehmen im Bereich kritischer Infrastrukturen politisch sinnvoll wäre, finanziell zumindest wäre es auf jeden Fall unsinnig: Die Dividende aus den Beteiligungen ist jedes Jahr höher als die durch Schuldentilgung eingesparten Zinsen.

Wenn Ideologie wichtiger ist als Mathematik …