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I use keepassxc and syncthing and have never had this problem.

I think there’s something in the settings to save after each change and reparse if there’s a remote change.

Usually I find these lists a bit “meh”, but there’s actually a bunch of stuff here I want to try.

• Upvote RSS
• Sync-In
• Poznote
• Postgresus
• Loggifly
• OpenArchiver
• BentoPDF

Yeah I use StirlingPDF extensively.

I might give Bento a try but ultimately not much incentive to change.

My “company” is tiny, and only employs myself 1 colleague, and an assistant. We’re accountants.

We self host some models from huggingface.

We don’t really use these as part of any established workflow. Thinking of some examples …

This week my colleague used a model to prep a simple contract between herself and her daughter where by her daughter would perform whatever chores and she would pay for cello lessons.

My assistant used an AI thing to parse some scanned bank statements, so this one is work related. The alternative is bashing out the dates, descriptions, and amounts manually. Using traditional OCR for this purpose doesn’t really save any time because hunting down all the mistakes and missed decimal places takes a lot of effort. Parsing this way takes about a third of the time, and it’s less mentally taxing. However, this isn’t a task we regularly perform because obviously in the vast majority of cases we can get the data instead of printed statements.

I was trying to think the proper term for an english word which has evolved from some phrase or whatever, like “stearing board” became “starboard”. The Gen AI suggested portmanteau, but I actually think there’s a better word I just haven’t remembered yet.

I had it create a bash one liner to extract a specific section from a README.md.

I asked it to explain the method of action of diazepam.

My feelings about AI are that it’s pretty great for specific niche tasks like this. Like the bash one liner. It took 30 seconds to ask and I got an immediate, working solution. Without Gen AI I just wouldn’t be able to grep whatever section from a README - not exactly a life changing super power, but a small improvement to whatever project I was working on.

In terms of our ability to do our work and deliver results for clients, it’s a 10% bump to efficiency and productivity when used correctly. Gen AI is not going to put us out of a job.

My point is, bots on reddit are farming karma. They’re not doing that here.

Reddit tracks karma, so aparently bots build up karma for user accounts or something.

Lemmy doesn’t do that.

I would add to this that there is significant controversy around the ideological alignment of the lemmy developers, and most people would find the political leanings of the instances they’re associated with to be… unpalatable.

I’ll leave you to undertake that journey of discovery for yourself, suffice to say that freedom of speech is particularly limited on those instances.

Other software operates in the fediverse and is interoperable with lemmy. For example, myself and the commenter you replied to are registered with piefed servers, while this post is on a lemmy server.

This is the US import origins, according to OEC World, the source of the data in your map.

China may not be the US biggest trading partner, but it’s not far off.

I’ve had a Synology NAS for 15 years or so, and I think it’s ideal for this kind of use-case.

It has a point and click configuration UI that you access from a web browser.

There’s a reasonably large ecosystem of packages you can install.

I’d have a super-serious talk with them about backing up their stuff.

For profit companies already run reactors on dry land, which don’t move, and are heavily regulated and constantly observed.

Obviously, the risk profile is vastly different when you put the reactor on a boat.

Putting them on a boat is not well understood. Australia just doesn’t have personnel experienced with any kind of reactor. We don’t have a nuclear industry. It’s not as simple as plonking a box named “reactor” on the boat and calling it a day.

China is everyone’s biggest trading partner.

Call us a “puppet state” if you will, but we’re not as far up Trump’s ass as a lot of other allies.

blatant bots posting really crappy AI images

I don’t think I’ve noticed this ?

What would be the motive of someone creating a bot to post bad AI images?

Exactly. So many users are obsessed with how to get more users or whatever, but these are the best days of the fediverse.

If only where was a way users could alert mods and admins about suspicious accounts.

I don’t think that’s feasible. Imagine for-profit corporations being responsible for nuclear reactors floating around in international waters. I don’t trust them with diesel certainly not nuclear.

It’s easy to underestimate the maintenance requirements. Australia, UK, and US just signed a treaty to develop and produce nuclear subs. It’s a big deal. It’s going to take many decades and 100s of billions of dollars before UK and Aus have the capability to build and maintain nuclear subs.

Because money obviously, but not the way you seem to think.

For the last 150 years, there’s been loads of the stuff more or less lying around. It doesn’t require much effort to bring to a usable state, and a cup full can move you, your wife and kids, your dog, and your car to the top of that hill in the distance.

Until very, very recently that’s been a pretty unbeatable deal.

Now we’re just building out the infrastructure and developing the maintenance skills. We’re in the midst of a transition.

Sorry bro. Not gonna happen.

Australia and NZ really have to stand together just because of the geography. Australia is critical to NZ’s security. If a superior force conquers Australia, then NZ wouldn’t be able to resist in isolation. Logically then it will always be in NZ’s interest to stand along side Australia.

Similarly, Australia needs a bigger more powerful friend to stare down our neighbors like Indonesia and bullies like China. That friend has been the US for the last 70 odd years, and with AUKUS that alliance will be greatly strengthened.

In any conflict since the dawn of time people have wistfully hoped that their own clan or tribe or city or country could stay neutral, but the reality is that to maintain your neutrality you need to be strong enough to defend yourself without assistance.

You’ve missed a few critical elements.

Firstly, pets can’t reason, don’t understand what’s happening to them, and the worst part - aren’t able to minimise their own suffering. For example, I lived with a dog that had quite advanced cancer in one leg. Every time he got up he would hurt himself. The leg just couldn’t support his weight but he couldn’t not put it down. He had cancer in other parts of his body as well.

Secondly, lots of people are just unable to provide the high level of end of life care that an animal like that needs. Like, if you need to go to work every day, you just can’t be there to carry your dog every where they need to go, and make sure they don’t hurt themselves. There’s no social security for pets, they haven’t worked hard and saved up for their end of life care. The vast majority of pet-owners can’t afford indefinite high level care.

Every day you own a pet, you are making decisions on their behalf. Yes they can’t choose euthanasia themselves, and you have to make that decision as their guardian. Ask yourself, what would this creature choose to do if they could reason and if they were aware of the relevant considerations.

Obviously that’s not an easy decision. I haven’t had a pet for the last 15 years because I don’t want to have to make this kind of decision.

IDK, I think there’s a niche here.

I have a home server and rent a larger bare metal server in a data centre. Each has many docker containers. I haven’t had to deploy ssh keys in years.

There’s another school that seems to prefer to spin up a digital ocean vps for every new thing. That’s fine too, and I can see how this project would make that kind of workflow more manageable.