Yes, you're right, matrix too. However, I've tried ruining servers for both, synapse for matrix and prosody for xmpp and I should say matrix felt very sluggish and limited, while prosody is fast and insanely flexible. In addition, client software for XMPP is more diverse and feature-rich, I'm particularly impressed by movim (web) and conversations (android).
Also, there are variety of bridges for everything, e.g. matrix <-> whatsapp or xmpp <-> telegram, so one is not limited too much while committing to a certain messaging tech.
Hmm, I am Indian and I'd love to experiment with the setup, I have a 40 mbps fibre and I think my upload speed is very limited and I'd love if there are ways to replicate your setup? (maybe any websites which can do what you basically did and give me some stats which I can later share here?)
The situation between download and upload speeds isn’t likely to be much different, these days.
Speed tests (e.g. https://www.speedtest.net/) may let you choose a location to measure to. If I measure with https://www.speedtest.net/ to Planet Networks, Inc. in Newark, NJ, USA, it slowly climbs to 87Mbps/56Mbps. Trouble is, at greater distances these numbers are basically always unrealistic—you can’t actually reach them in normal usage.
Various hosts give you big files you can download to test them, which is often a more realistic measurement of what you’ll experience on the web at large. https://nj-us-ping.vultr.com/vultr.com.100MB.bin, for example, is from roughly the same geographical place, and downloading it in Firefox or curl only really reaches 1–1.3Mbps and would take 11–12 minutes. Whereas https://bom-in-ping.vultr.com/vultr.com.100MB.bin (Mumbai; I’m in Hyderabad) happily saturates my 100Mbps link and completes in nine seconds.
Stremio + torrentio for me is a very good setup personally. It just works but I know of other mechanisms too.
One of these was to actually download a torrent and use torrentfs or something similar and you can stream a video directly from the mirror without downloading it fully and on linux, I really appreciate its simplicity and I love it ngl
Giving credit where its due, I think the private cloud compute stuff of Apple is really interesting architecure wise. I think it included using ARM Cpu's with a special realm ability to prevent certain types of attacks to minimize the amount of trust if I remember correctly.
As someone actually living in the third world country, I agree to this message so much.
Yes I advertise the games and actually want to buy the games once I feel like the money would start mattering less than it does right now to me.
Its also about sending a message though.
As an example, I have never bought any online subscription or any online game and yet I wanted to buy silksong purely because of the sheer dedication and respect for him
The only reason I didn't were that partially it may be that silksong isn't my usual gaming although I rarely do that nowadays and secondly, that, I wanted to buy but my brother said that he would have to buy it seperately on his PS5 and I wanted to split the money for the first time
You might call me a hypocrite for having a brother with PS5 and not buying games but its his money and he has given me enough and I am not taking any money from him out of pure respect. He earned it. I have also earned some money online from coding related stuff and I was actually going to buy it from my own money but I didn't feel like it after he stopped me.
I really recommended hollow knight to everybody I could for days lol.
Also, there are some other pressing concerns as well.
So recently, I was backing up my linux whole night and literally the next day I borked it via gnome-disk accidentally format partition, I don't drink coffee so that might explain it after an all nighter-ish saving linux
Then, everybody on discord etc. said its over. I then tried testdisk utility for so goddamn long trying out literally everything in it untill it finally worked (I may have had some skill issues in the process but I learned a lot)
In that moment, I felt like I can do anything thanks to linux/open source. I immediately opened up my mail to thank the creator of the tool and making it actually free instead of people on discord saying me to pay either 15-20$ or pay thousands of $ for recovery.
I asked grenier@cgsecurity.org regarding the whole situation expressing gratitude and I wanted to donate to him but I felt like what if he had some donation site he wanted to give to like red cross or something. I wanted to donate 10$ of my own savings lol to him or any donation list he recommended or wanted to send money to.
Mainly, it was a way to say thanks though but I will honor his wishes if he ever does read the mail and I wouldn't touch that money or I would donate that money later if he doesn't respond to something like food security either way (I personally feel like although open source is really great, I just can't live if someone is sleeping hungry, that shouldn't be there in this world)
And now you or these companies expect me to pay 70$ to play either retro games or to play unoptimized games etc.
hell no.
I will tell you the games I really love as a means to promote them, if someone's interested in hearing out my suggestions on games.
I really loved baba is you, inscryption a lot. They are both indie games which I really liked
The portal series was also a really nice game that I enjoyed a lot as well.
I have played a lot of binding of isaac even though I feel like I am a noob but I can secondly recommend that as well
I also played some other games but that company is notorious for lawsuits and I am even scared that they might sue me for just mentioning the game's name lol
I even once made a friend after first being an enemy (he said he knew karate so he did it on me and I just hold his leg mid air and he was barely balancing and I think my cousin sister had to stop me) of some person and then helping them pirate a game and walking them through it and talking about it lol.
Good times.
What isn't good is when people try to mention how its extremely unethical and how I am the bad guy and I try to explain it and they think its extremely black and white.
I feel like I would give money to companies if I feel like they deserve it and I can earn it. I will genuinely buy every single one of these games that I had mentioned just to support the devs. I wish there was a better way to support them even more directly since steam takes a 30% cut when I don't want it to.
Should any corporation be able to gate-keep me out of the ability to make me enjoy my time of what I have during my childhood simply because we can't afford it and then when I actually get the money, I would be losing out on time (which is what is happening to my brother as I had mentioned, he said that he barely uses ps5 because of his work)
Everything is connected and I think a big issue people do is try to approach things in isolated manner and to form black or white opinions but I don't really blame it either.
On a serious note, I am more worried about people who have their retirement funds in these, I genuinely think that its going to impact the whole world and not only just America.
History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes.
I don't know but why do people not listen to the tune then? I was saying similar stuff like this simply because I read one thing in my life about investing which sorta changed my life, investing grows not because free money but because market is efficient and you get part of that efficiency. Deep down, a company has to get efficient or more profitable in long term to make their valuation make sense yet AI had none of these things and in my opinion, it never would.
I use AI, to test out new ideas I don't know about, to try to solve something I am interested about, but I still wouldn't bet on it simply because its business model for profit is broken.
“ simply because its business model for profit is broken.”
Remember the days when Google was looking for a business model? I do. It’s probably going to be ads. But you’ll still gets ads for toilet seats after you searched for a place to buy that once in a decade toilet seat. They’ll hit the bottom of the barrel and maybe dethrone google. I don’t know.
I use llms pretty much as a search engine and refreshing some programming tips. It’s over-confident for code review, doesn’t really handle arithmetic and sometimes fun as a co-writer for embedded stuff.
If I found em-dashes and other patterns like its just not X but Y and all the other things we correlate with AI, I might call a person using it.
I don't understand the purpose of using LLM's to write articles unless someone wants to be the middleman of slop and if that's the case, I'd rather cut middlemans and get slop directly from the AI models, instead of pasting the output of what chatgpt generated, give me the prompt and maybe temperature/other settings if need be to make it more reproducible but the prompt itself could be enough smh
I am not saying you should change your writing style, but at the same time, you have to understand, if someone writes like AI, Chances are that we are too tired of looking too deep into it to find if its written by AI or not, we are tired of it & so you must understand our or anybody's frustration if they call out someone's writing as AI.
For those using AI to write articles/etc. : If you are passionate about something, write about it, write what you want, how you want and you will be proud. But if you use LLM, you will constantly be called upon and frankly, it reduces the purpose of writing.
For code, there is a debate that code is just an means to an end (which is to do stuff like scripts etc.) but there is no end to writing, for what? for more views/etc., there is no point in getting such attention or anything considering it would just be negative attention if I or anyone found AI writing.
Not sure why people use AI text generation for articles etc. Idk.
This is my alt but when I had first started out on HN, I thought my english was fine but then somebody pointed it out and I try to fix my grammar and now its second nature to me writing.
I would be curious to know the reasons as to why people write text stuff with AI in the first place. It doesn't make sense to me since the other side would use their slop to counter your slop, at that point just create a tldr post, why strech an article in more words than unnecessary (I feel like I also write a lot of filler words / yap personally but alright, atleast you know a human is writing this), I don't get the point of writing longer if you aren't even writing it, is it to get SEO or, is the end goal money like all things?
Well if you write paragraphs of redundant repetitive parenthetical text yourself (like I tend to do), that meanders around and repeats the point again and again (oh there I go again), like both you and I obviously do (and I'm doing now), then LLMs can be useful for condensing and sharpening it.
For example, your post could have been just one paragraph and said the same thing. Do you purposefully write so verbosely as a virtue signal of authenticity?
And no, readers can't just ask the LLM to reproduce the same slop, because they don't have the verbose, redundant (there I go again) original source text that it's condensing. And even if they did, they would not bother reading it, because it's tl;dr and full of typos.
Nobody wants to read pages of repetitive human generated slop, either.
PS:
>I thought my english was fine but then somebody pointed it out and I try to fix my grammar and now its second nature to me writing.
Since you asked for somebody to point it out:
Use it's when it's a contraction for "it is" or "it has," and use its when it's a possessive pronoun showing ownership. A helpful trick is to try replacing the word with "it is" or "it has" in the sentence; if it still makes sense, use "it's".
Full disclosure, in case you can't tell: the paragraph above was LLM generated. Did you find it helpful, was it tl;dr, or did you dislike "its" style?
Yes, I can agree that the words I use can be redundant sometimes, I am a human and I have its flaws, I really like to type long essays, Yeah.
To be really honest, I can understand your view-point even if it conflicts with mine if you aren't being offensive, since personally, I think that there is no point of this offense-defense thing.
Off topic but How's your day going man?
Listen, I will tell you why I write in the way I write, You might say this authenticity but I believe it being honest, I want to give someone access to the thoughts I am thinking the way they come, so I would consider it raw.
Usually its not for them but for me, for knowing how far or backwards I would go in life. I write this because I anticipate reading it in the future but I sure haven't read as much in other places.
HN does feel like a place where someone could write 3 paragraphs to some basic question and still feel accepted or read , to be really honest.
> Nobody wants to read pages of repetitive human generated slop, either.
You raise a good point, I have been a bit selfish in writing these posts, I write it for myself and not for the other person, I thought the other person would appreciate my honesty of typing what I write but the point of it being human slop might make sense too lol
> And no, readers can't just ask the LLM to reproduce the same slop, because they don't have the verbose, redundant (there I go again) original source text that it's condensing. And even if they did, they would not bother reading it, because it's tl;dr and full of typos.
Sorry but either its me but I can't seem to understand what you mean by this? Like, do you mean nobody would bother pasting human slop to get tldr's ?
I don't know what to say since I am not getting what you are trying to tell me here but I am curious for sure.
> Since you asked for somebody to point it out:
I didn't really ask but sure, I will take it. I guess I make less mistakes overall though so that's nice. I am not perfect and I am comfortable knowing that yet I think that my writing could be sharpened, yes. There is no denying in that.
> Full disclosure, in case you can't tell: the paragraph above was LLM generated. Did you find it helpful, was it tl;dr, or did you dislike "its" style?
I would still would've preferred your real message even if it could've been choppy to be really honest.
I feel like If I might not leave an imprint on the world, might as well leave the fingerprint saying I was there and this is a way which helps me feel that way. It is (theraptic?) even to write long sentences, they sooth me. I do it for myself. I wasn't trying to virtue signal though, personally its more that even after anything, I still feel like using LLM's in article formations etc. is just a cheap shortcut to what?? , to me its the fact that I can point to this article and be decently comfortable knowing that I wrote it and not an LLM.
I just can't trust LLM texts that much and the only reason I am giving yours so much is because I would appreciate the opportunity to grow and I am willing to read any criticism you provide me if I can meaningfully work on.
My personal philosphy is that dating is extremely hard in dating apps to the point that its not worth it
I personally just try to talk to people (girls) my age who have similar interests and maybe express if I feel any emotions to them and accept or embrace both rejections/acceptations.
That being said, there is this idea of desperation of constantly needing someone to love you or is it too much to ask for being loved etc. I had created a place even whose intentions was to help people struggling in finding relationships but that made me realize that people just used it to ship each other or have controversies or use it as a way to meet/date and I was none the wiser/ didn't think much of it as I was decently happy thinking that some people connected because of my efforts yet i personally felt really weird with my niche hobbies and my place felt so mainstream that I couldn't be myself in my own place or didn't feel like it so I quickly abandoned it and now its just abandonware really
I personally feel like dating irl is the best thing after all my experiences or talking to people in general online, Even in dating irl, I would consider for many reasons that dating apps are still net negative. As I said, personally the best thing I feel like doing right now is maybe working on myself to be more confident and if i find a girl attractive and want to know more, then to directly approach her. Atleast, that's my goal in dating to be confident enough and to work on. myself on being a better partner.
They are really cheap and some like kaechoda and other brands are really slim as well so I can recommend it genuinely.
Its worth looking more into but yes I am having an android now partially because of whatsapp and the fact that my old dumb phone had died
Rest in peace, it was really cool.