Similar story here! A couple years ago learning about Gemini/gopher/smallnet from mentaloutlaw videos. So I joined a public access Unix server (first SDF later tilde.team) and learned how to write my own capsule site for a few years. Learned some basic .CGI bin and awk processing to create a gemtext to epub converter that made small ebooks of daily post in atom feed. It was like training wheels really helped prepare me for the transition to full self hosting capsule and website

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Im a hobbiest who just learned how to self host my own static website on a spare laptop over the summer. I went with what I knew and was comfortable with which is a fresh install of linux and installing from the apt package manager.

As im getting more serious im starting to take another look at docker. Unforunately my OS package manager only has old outdated versions of docker I may need to reinstall with like ubuntu/debian LTS server something with more cutting edge software in repo. I don’t care much for building from scratch and navigating dependency roulette.

Pangolin.

Thanks for the input! I do eventually plan on making some scripts and a custom web interface to interact with/expose some local services on my network once I have the basics of HTML covered as part of a portfolio thing so would like to cover my ass early and not have problems later

Would something like this interest you? Gemtext formatted to html is about as light weight as it gets. lots of automatic gemtext blog software on github that also formats and mirrors an html copy. Whenever a news page article gets rendered to gemtext through newswaffle it shrinks about 95-99% of the page size while keeping text intact. Let me know if you want some more information on gemini stuff.

I run kobold.cpp which is a cutting edge local model engine, on my local gaming rig turned server. I like to play around with the latest models to see how they improve/change over time. The current chain of thought thinking models like deepseek r1 distills and qwen qwq are fun to poke at with advanced open ended STEM questions.

STEM questions like “What does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem imply about scientific theories of everything?” Or “Could the speed of light be more accurately refered to as ‘the speed of causality’?”

As for actual daily use, I prefer using mistral small 24b and treating it like a local search engine with the legitimacy of wikipedia. Its a starting point to ask questions about general things I don’t know about or want advice on, then do further research through more legitimate sources.

Its important to not take the LLM too seriously as theres always a small statistical chance it hallucinates some bullshit but most of the time its fairly accurate and is a pretty good jumping off point for further research.

Lets say I want an overview of how can I repair small holes forming in concrete, or general ideas on how to invest financially, how to change fluids in a car, how much fat and protein is in an egg, ect.

If the LLM says a word or related concept I don’t recognize I grill it for clarifying info and follow it through the infinite branching garden of related information.

I’ve used an LLM to help me go through old declassified documents and speculate on internal gov terminalogy I was unfamiliar with.

I’ve used a speech to text model and get it to speek just for fun. Ive used multimodal model and get it to see/scan documents for info.

Ive used websearch to get the model to retrieve information it didn’t know off a ddg search, again mostly for fun.

Feel free to ask me anything, I’m glad to help get newbies started.

Look Into specs for helium miners for hardware and you’ll have a rough idea. The real question is software stack. How such a device would be interacted with from a user interface level, how would its version of webpages would work? I imagine its webpages would have to be text based with the option to download images or audio files as seperate files like the gemini protocol displayed as gemtext. Would consumers be willing to go back to early days web 1.0 style content like blogs and internet journals? You couldn’t use such a network connection for work or banking so thats another limitation.

Look into ham radio internet and mesh networks in general its not fiction its just never seen enough mass adoption in a easy to set up onsumer bought package thats successfully advertised and well distributed.

Basically the problem is that you want to connect to the world-wide-internet, but you to so you need an ISP or satellite data provider to act as a middle man so they have all the control over who gets to access the internet (by paying them a service fee). What it sounds like you want is a mesh network where each user communicates with other users directly. Instead of your computer connecting to an ISP through your router, you connect to other computers in a local area network typically through wifi or radio signals. Its a decentralized network that everyone owns a small piece of which they send and recieve data from eachother.

This technology has been around a very long time. Would you like to guess why its not popular or well known? Well, its slow and only useful in rural areas where you aren’t getting ISP service anyway. An intranet composed of 20 people connected in a few mile radius sharing usenet level information at download/upload speeds in the low kilobytes per second isn’t exactly what people think about or want when they think of the ‘internet’.

Perhaps a time will come where a consumer bought mesh based network router comes onto the market with enough advertising and appeal to be bought into by the masses with state/nation wide coverage built around a smallnet protocol like Gemini. Something like this almost happened with the Helium Network unfortunately it was designed to send smart IOT information in small packets and was only mass adopted because it was tied to mining crypto shitcoin through proof-of-connectivity. If someone can create something similar but without the shitcoin, with a mesh router box that host your website and is sold on the idea of a decentralized internet with a one-time purchase to cut out ISP it might just work.

I am a developer for a free open source game inspired by Minecraft called VoxeLibre, I have also made one of the more popular mods for it.

Development is a collaborative effort between many people so I cant call the game mine. I didn’t create it. But ive been contributing on and off for a few years trying to do what I can to improve the project. So in a way it feels like I’m at least part of the legacy at this point. I am proud of how far the project as a whole have come and proud of the talented people I have the pleasure to collaborate with.

It started almost three years ago with simple typo bugfixes. I did not know anything about coding or pixel art making or git commits but liked it enough to learn through hard work and effort. Its been quite the ride ever since!

thanks for sharing it was a great watch! Here’s one of my favorite gen alpha branrot speech parody videos

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-n5qVwn-Xc&pp=ygUOY29sdW1ibyBnaWFubmk%3D

Thank you plum after watching this I read up on the wikipedia article on the album and sure enough:

The album’s cover includes the supposed-Latin motto, “Illegitimis non carborundum”, which is supposed to mean “one must not be ground down by the bastards”

I can sleep easier tonight knowing this all simmers down to a boomer ass reference. I can’t sleep yet though my hourly cravings are acting up again and I need to grind down some more ‘beef’. I’ll grind them down. I’ll grind ALL OF THEM DOWN simmer them with taco seasoning.

Even after reading the wiki article I’m not sure what this really means or the context of why you would want this on your tombstone. Like I get that it translates to “don’t let them grind you down” but who is them and what are you being ground into. Is them an allusion to capitalism, the military industrial complex, or cannibals? Are you being ground down metaphorically in spirit, or physically in body, or both?

Is this message supposed to stop me from partaking in the forbidden ground beef? Because it ain’t gonna happen the prions taste too good and makes my brain feel funny.

I see your five paragraph long greentext post about forming pacts with deities from pagan occultism to charge your J.O crystals with long forgotten rituals requiring blessed lube on /x/, and raise the ante by sharing six paragraphs of my personal tales using heroic doses of magic mushrooms to experience ego death, astral project, and telepathically communicate with divine cosmic consciousness using trees as a medium!

Youtube automatically encodes its audio down to at most 128k in m4a format. Im not sure about bandcamp but its extracting the songs that play through the web browser so they probably also use lossy mp3 for web streaming the songs not higher bitrate FLAC but can’t say for certain. In general the audio stays the same downloaded as you hear it streamed through video. If you’re a big music nerd that absolutely needs highest quality bitrate in FLAC you’re better off sailing the high seas, but a casual music enjoyer won’t notice or care unless the source itself is bad quality like a bootleg live recording.

yep. this particular format of the command perserves playlist order so you don’t have to manually enter track numbers to organize the album. I recommend yt-dlp installed with python3’s pip3 manager

youtube-dl/yt-dlp, I punch in a command into my computer with url to the playlist, it downloads the video and rips the audio into mp3 format. It works with youtube and bandcamp. With bandcamp it just straight downloads the music files no extraction needed.

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" <url to playlist>

F in chat for the invidious/newpipe bot that spammed every comment that dared to link a YouTube video directly. Still think of you sometimes, you were a real artificial one.

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I run a local LLM on my gaming computer thats like a decade old now with an old 1070ti 8GB VRAM card. It does a good job running mistral small 22B at 3t/s which I think is pretty good. But any tech enthusiast into LLMs look at those numbers and probably wonder how I can stand such a slow token speed. I look at their multi card data center racks with 5x 4090s and wonder how the hell they can afford it.

They don’t want to admit that its because legal recreational pot usage is on the rise as a safer alternative to nicotine and alcohol