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Local AI friends: I want to get a good GPU for running local AI models. This custom-built tower currently has an NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti with 4 gigs of RAM, which is hardly enough to do anything. I'd like 12-16 GB of VRAM, whatever would be better for running things like Whisper and coding models locally. My price range is about $350-$450, but I'm willing to push it up to about $500 for a good GPU that'll last me a while. Suggestions appreciated!

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Overall, the snow probably made me more depressed than happy though. Goalball tournament got canceled, youth group which would've been the alternative, canceled. Just sitting here and at this point... I would have projects to work on, but at this point I feel, misplaced? I'm not yet really at the point that I could express or understand my current emotions, but I feel like I have to move on somehow, I'm still thinking about stuff that's just, in the past or no longer meant to be while I have not the slightest idea about my future. All I know is that I'm not satisfied with it.
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Jonathan

@Aryan The main concept is that you have Brawlers, basically characters with different abilities, attacks, health etc. These Brawlers do also have gadgets, super powers, super attacks, ranks etc. You collect trophies by fighting with these brawlers, in various modes, either showdown (solo or duos) but also 3vs3 in modes like brawlball (football) or basketbrawl (basketball), gem grab, where the teams have to collect more gems than the other team while fighting each other of course, and when a player dies, they drop all the collected gems, hot zone, and a bunch more. Of course you have all the shit you'd expect around it: friends you can invite to play and form teams, clubs with rewards, quests which give you coins which unlock rewards on a reward track, brawler upgrades, brawler skins etc.
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Jonathan

@Aryan To name a few abilities, you either have generic brawlers which just shoot bullets, but there are quite exotic ones as well like the projectile jumping from brawler to brawler, poisoning enemies while healing allies with the projectile, some that fly/jump, stun you etc etc. Of course some are slower, faster, so it's also a part to be strategic, for example a brawler with a wide range won't make a lot of sense when you play on a map with a bunch of walls since it makes more damage the farer it's away.
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Went to fill out a W-9 this morning and realized Firefox's PDF form filling was...somewhat less than accessible. An hour or so later and I now have a Claude skill to do this for me. It finds and downloads forms, fills out details from natural language plus clarifying questions, applies image signatures using handwriting fonts, and does a visual verification pass on each page to make sure everything looks OK. I'm of course not confident enough yet to let this fill forms without human verification, and it doesn't yet handle non-fillable forms, but just being able to say "Help me fill out this form and sign/date it for me, then give me a basic sanity check" is a gamechanger even if I still have a sighted human in the loop. Reduces the process from lots of hand-holding and inaccessible editing, to a final and much quicker visual pass.

I've wanted an app to do this for over a decade, but wasn't super thrilled about writing something whose only value add was that it was the accessible version of something sighted folks take for granted. Now I have it, and it's less than 200 lines of markdown.

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Mal etwas zu #Inclusion: Ich werde belehrend kritisiert, weil ich - wie 70 % aller im Fediverse - #AltTexte nicht oder verkürzt schreibe. Ich teile ausdrücklich die Position, dass wir inclusiv agieren sollten. Aber manche Bilder dienen nur als Blickfang für Sehende, um Aufmerksamkeit für den Text zu generieren. Für eine Bildbeschreibung wie früher in der Schule fehlt mir meist die Zeit. Und vor allem: Es wäre möglich, dass Mastodon diese Bildbeschreibungen per Klick und KI generiert.
#inclusion #alttexte
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Hab gestern hier irgendwo gelesen, dass die Rate an Alttext im Fediverse auf 28% (oder so ungefähr?) gesunken ist, weiß aber die Quelle nicht mehr und ob das eine gute Quelle war.

Außerdem ist das eine schlechte Nachricht!!
Die Heuchelei von wegen "Ich bin für inklusiveres Agieren, aber ich mach's selber nicht" find ich echt nicht ok.

Und wer selber sieht und ein gutes Internet hat, kann beurteilen, ob ein Bild "nur ein Blickfang" ist oder nicht. Wer blind/sehbehindert ist, kann aber nicht wissen, welche wichtigen oder unwichtigen Infos das Bild enthält und welche Infos damit diesen Personen vorenthalten werden!! Darauf wurde Herr Polenz auch schon hingewiesen, aber das Argument ignoriert er natürlich.

Die Betroffenen dermaßen auszuschließen und Bildbeschreibungen mit "wie früher in der Schule" zu verunglimpfen, ist echt niveaulos. Aber dann immer schön "Ich bin für Inklusion" behaupten...

#Barrierefreiheit

#barrierefreiheit

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NORAD pact would change if Canada pulls back from F-35 order, warns U.S. ambassador

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Remember all this shit american software that nag you with question and never have a "No" answer? It seems that Americans can't take no for an answer, and like a bully threaten when shown resistance.

And I expect David "Chamberlain" Carney to bend backwards to spend more of this austerity budget to buy these flying bricks.

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The US is threatening #Canada (again) if we don't but their F-35s. Here's what Denmark said about the ones they bought, and regret buying:

"They're in for repairs about half the time or even more," he said, "so the Americans have all the power of actually destroying our air force just by shutting down [parts] supplies."

#F35 #cdnpoli

cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-can…

#canada #f35 #cdnpoli
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