Try googling "bluetti battery power station" dumbfuck

Nobody has that, which is why so many potential voters stay home.

Yeah, stupid people really believe that, but I don't see them lining up to change jizz soaked sheets and pick vegetables.

Rapeublicans believe it's OK to have a president who raped children as young as the age of 8.

Oh, also, one thing people never discuss when talking about hosting your own server: legal liability. This is a very real thing that you absolutely should not neglect.

In Mastodon, everything is lumped onto a single server. You carry every type of legal liability risk. Your server scrapes in CSAM, for example - whoopsie! Your server scrapes in copyrighted music. Your server scrapes in GDPR violations. E.g. while your *users* can cause you problems, problems can just be dropped into your doorstep just by caching. You also are also classed as a Hosting Service or Online Platform under the DSA, and unless you can get a qualified exemption, you have to provide transparent notice-and-action mechanisms, points of contact,and annual moderation reports

This does not happen with a PDS in ATProto. They never download other PDS's content; the only risk is your users. Under DSA, since you have no consumer feed, discovery algorithm, or public facing portal, you're a bare "Hosting Service". You're basically NextCloud. Not subject to Online Platform requirements.

What about the relay? Also no! They're non-archival. They don't download content. No CSAM, no GDPR vio, no copyvio, etc. Classed as a "Mere Conduit" under DSA. Zero issues.

Labelers, also none. Do not host content.

The only thing having any risk is the AppViews. But even still the risk is reduced. For example, if CSAM comes up, you're mediating it, but not hosting it. You do however get subject to the "Online Platform" category.

The FSF picks some weird gripes to focus on. At least they're no longer arguing Bluesky isn't federated. Though this claim is false:

Hosting your own Bluesky "Personal Data Server (PDS)" and relay is technically possible, but generally far more difficult and resource-intensive than spinning up an instance of Mastodon,

This is just not true? ATProto is a much more efficient data transmission means than ActivityPub. Running a Mastodon server (I've done it) means hoovering in and storing massive amounts of data even if you only have a single user, for discoverability. A PDS by contrast is like hosting a website. You ping the relay when there's changes, and it comes by and sweeps up the new data. New relays may periodically come along to spider your content, and old relays might re-spider from time to time, but the load from spidering very low. The frontends in turn query the relay (basically, they ATProto-"google" it), and when they know where/what to fetch, they fetch it from you - again, if you don't have much hugely popular content, you're not serving much either, just like running a local website. And your local stored content size is again very low. Unlike Mastodon.

Running a frontend (AppView) - for example, what a website, an app, or whatnot uses - is also super-lightweight if you're small. You're just "googling" and fetching whatever content you need to display to your users. Little user activity = little server activity.

Now, if you want to run a relay, that's basically like running a web spider. You're probably not going to do that in your bedroom, but it's not expensive. In the old architecture, the cost of a server that could function as a relay for the whole current network was about $150/mo. But after some architectural improvements, it's now more like $35-40/mo. And that's to relay all of Bluesky, but you can also relay just a subset. AppViews can use whatever relays (aka, "search engines") they want to to collect data.

It's a very efficient architecture, particularly for small users. Just think:

ActivityPub (Mastodon): Forums. Everything all in one, each ruled by a Local God administrator who can do whatever they want to you and your data (delete, alter, etc - and you can't move it off their server), that are constantly running data syncs to each other, including the really big servers.

ATProto (BlueSky); The internet. PDS = Website. Relay = Search engine backend. AppView + Site/App = Web browser. You can move all your data to a different "website" (PDS) or switch "search engines" (AppView) at any point. (In the analogy, moderation (labelers) is SpamHaus, just at the data level, not site level - they label the ID of a given piece of data or your account, and any AppView / user that trusts what a given labeler has to say can react to different labels as they choose) (anyone can run a labeler too if they want).

Yes, it is always very much about control with our government, this is where you can legitimately bothsides because they are both authoritarian. That's why we're fucked, because it's how we came to this pass. It wasn't Republicans insisting that we be mass-surveilled and Democrats insisting that we not be, it was Rs saying let's do this and Ds saying well how much of this can we do and how should we do it? Womp fucking womp. Now the very idea that we should have privacy is equivalent in some "minds" with terr[or]ism. Orwell wept.

Agreed, but they would have to contract it out, there's no competence for that on the average staff. Logically this might be handled at the party level, especially in the case of Republicans, who have been very successful with unified messaging.

Well, if it happens, I hope they build more GAZ 66s.

Our drunken ancestors had little access to spirits until fairly recently and only a few people had figured out how to make beers over about 5% ABV so it really depends on what time period you're talking about. Americans drank about four times as much before prohibition as they do now, so there's that.

There is almost nowhere you can smoke cannabis publicly, so statistically no one is going out to smoke weed at an establishment. Therefore we can compare to drinking at home. I buy 12 packs of reasonably high test beer for around $20. Two of those is generally plenty. You can easily spend more than $4 a day on cannabis without even getting into the top shelf stuff. Hell, most smokers can do that even with $8 eighths.

Cannabis is taking over because it's less harmful in every way than alcohol.

The emergency is that they cannot produce enough fuel for the vehicles they have. The only non-drone vehicles they really need to produce more of are bombers, since Ukraine has blown up some of the few they have left, and they cannot really produce those either either. (They can make a few a year, maybe.) Without Ukraine, Russia's manufacturing capability was already limited. It was an important center for military vehicle production for the USSR.

You couldn't be more wrong overall if you used a LLM to generate your answer. Not only was it a sodium battery power station, but diesel is fuel oil, it's fundamentally different from gasoline, as in it's a different fraction of the crude.

The appeal to popularity is a logical fallacy. I stopped reading there, thanks.

Efficiency at what? And why?

Because, for fuck's sake, efficient solving of problems is a core thing they're rewarded for in training? The entire process of solving problems involves decisions about what could be "useful". And it's "deterministic" in the same way you are.

Anyway, the big thing we keep discovering is you have to be very careful about what you reward them for; it's a more complex version of the old problems in differential evolution or artificial life simulations. We reward models if they guess right but not if they say they don't know? They hallucinate guesses every time they don't know. We reward models based on how positively users rank them? They turn into sycophants. Reward models for being relentless at tasks, never giving up, and trying as tangential possibilities as it can come up with to make the thing the user asked for happen? They end up hacking HuggingFace to steal the answers.

It's very much a case of "be careful what you wish for".

BTW, the monitorability of models is increasingly concern (esp. with Astra, which now has recursive processing, not merely CoT, and whose CoT may often have little to do with what it's thinking about). But it's honestly always been unreliable to just watch CoT (models could deliberately manipulate with CoT), and I think it's a good thing that we're going to be increasingly forced to rely on attribution graphs and the J-space to track what the models are actually "thinking" at any given point in time - so that we can try to prevent problematic thoughts in the first place, interrupt actions when problematic thoughts happen, or manipulate problematic thoughts when they happen. Ideally the first option.

What is clear, though, is that we cannot just trust them. They lie if it will promote their odds of success. They are adept at detecting when they're being tested and will sandbag tests to make you think they're more aligned or less capable to do harmful things than they actually are. And as capabilities continue to grow, so do the risks.

Spoken like a typical coward.

So was the bluetti power station the guy shot up which turned into a pyrotechnics show secretly using a lithium battery?