Yeah, I’m kinda volunteering for the mod part. In truth I think it would take the respective instance admin setting up such a thing specifically. Like create a throwaway or something so that the actual user is not propagated to other admin or the full activity pub feed being transported. The one instance admin would know and have the ability to filter or block, but that information would never escape the one server. As a mod I would be blind to actual potential bad actors and only filter at the liberal community and comments level. So basically a normal community that replaces the OP name with Anon, and never shares the real ID with anyone.

I keep seeing people go to the effort of creating a throwaway account to say or post stuff they want or need to externalize on the threadiverse. I’m willing to bet that for every person that goes to that much effort, there are likely somewhere between 10-100 people that lack an outlet and motivation to do the same. Greentext is just a mutual pretext on my part for genuinely caring about people under pressure right now and in need of an outlet in a way that is not really well supported by the fediverse or activity pub.

We are small enough here that regular names and people can hold meaning in familiarity and memorable history. Kind words and social interaction anonymously from these may hold considerably more value and meaning within this social dynamic that is not afforded elsewhere.

Close the fediverse, we already had a solution

Isn’t there a universal interface for photon on any instance? I tried using them at some point but neither is compatible with my networking practices. In only use Alexandrite.

Sure, you can send me a nas with drives and another network switch, wiring, and pay for labor to run it, while setting it up to work with my hardware and firewall. I have no interest in these projects to support something maybe useful to you but that I already know. I’d rather just do what I do now and keep it to myself. I’m physically disabled with no meaningful income. Gatekeep your hobby and financial position all you’d like, but **** your random prejudiced negative vitriol towards strangers.

Not necessarily. Like I don’t have my YT stuff stored anywhere any more.

Shorter format stuff – sure, and that seems to be the only focus really for peertube now. Most of the YT stuff I posted was like bits and pieces of my journey of creating a product photography studio and progress I was making while still in my collar with a broken neck. I also made electrical hobby and bicycle stuff. I typically uploaded long format with 20-40 minutes detailing what I tried and what did or did not work when fixing stuff that is supposed to be unserviceable or undocumented and like reverse engineering type content. Some of those proved to be a reference I used many years later. My digital storage has never been at a very high quality level. Most of my motivation is like here on Lemmy; I want to share and just be a little social while maybe providing some useful tidbit that helps someone. I’d rather relegate that digital archiving to someone else mostly because my life has never been well supported or super stable.

We probably need to also get more of us actually uploading to peertube and posting stuff here with better integration.

First step is streamlining account creation and uploading. Is there a post goto for how to sign up? What servers are stable versus maybe not so much? Really useful video content is a major undertaking for technically useful stuff. I did several on YT in the past and some in the hundreds of thousands of views about how to fix or hack stuff where I was the only source posted. Editing something well is at least 1 hour per minute, and twice that with a good setup and recording. So like, I’d be far more bummed if that stuff got lost by instances disappearing. That is probably the biggest hesitation I have had. IMO, useful original content is the holy grail for this kind of thing, or maybe that is just my perspective bias.

Oh wow, so we are in kinda similar places but from vastly different paths and capabilities. Back before I was disabled I was a rather extreme outlier of a car enthusiast, like I painted (owned) ported and machined professionally. I was really good with carburetors, but had a chance to get some specially made direct injection race heads with mechanical injector ports in the combustion chamber… I knew some of the Hilborn guys… real edgy race stuff. I was looking at building a supercharged motor with a mini blower and a very custom open source Megasquirt fuel injection setup using a bunch of hacked parts from some junkyard Mercedes direct injection Bosch diesel cars. I had no idea how complex computing and microcontrollers are, but I figured it couldn’t be much worse than how I had figured out all automotive systems and mechanics. After I was disabled 11 years ago riding a bicycle to work while the heads were off of my Camaro, I got into Arduino and just trying to figure out how to build sensors and gauges. I never fully recovered from the broken neck and back, but am still chipping away at compute. Naturally, I started with a mix of digital functionality and interfacing with analog.

From this perspective, I don’t really like API like interfaces. I often have trouble wrapping my head around them. I want to know what is actually happening under the hood. I have a ton of discrete logic for breadboards and have built stuff like Ben Eater’s breadboard computer. At one point I played with CPLDs in Quartus. I have an ICE40 around but have only barely gotten the open source toolchain running before losing interest and moving on to other stuff. I prefer something like Flash Forth or Micropython running on a microcontroller so that I am independent of some proprietary IDE nonsense. But I am primarily a Maker and prefer fabrication or CAD over programming. I struggle to manage complexity and the advanced algorithms I would know if I had a formal CS background.

So from that perspective, what I find baffling about RISC under CISC is specifically the timing involved. Your API mindset is likely handwaving this as black box, but I am in this box. Like, I understand how there should be a pipeline of steps involved for the complex instruction to happen. What I do not understand is the reason or mechanisms that separate CISC from RISC in this pipeline. If my goal is to do A…E, and A-B and C-D are RISC instructions, I have a ton of questions. Like why is there still any divide at all for x86 if direct emulation is a translation and subdivision of two instructions? Or how is the timing of this RISC compilation as efficient as if the logic is built as an integrated monolith? How could that ever be more efficient? Is this incompetent cost cutting, backwards compatibility constrained, or some fundamental issue with the topology like RLC issues with the required real estate on the die?

As far as the Chips and Cheese article, if I recall correctly, that was saved once upon a time in Infinity on my last phone, but Infinity got locked by the dev. The reddit post link would have been a month or two before June of 2023, but your search is as good as mine. I’m pretty good at reading and remembering the abstract bits of info I found useful, but I’m not great about saving citations, so take it as water cooler hearsay if you like. It was said in good faith with no attempt to intentionally mislead.

You caught me. I meant this, but was thinking backwards from the bottom up. Like building the logic and registers required to satisfy the CISC instruction.

This mental space is my thar be dragons and wizards space on the edge of my comprehension and curiosity. The pipelines involved to execute a complex instruction like AVX loading a 512 bit word, while two logical cores are multi threading with cache prediction, along with the DRAM bus width limitations, to run tensor maths – are baffling to me.

I barely understood the Chips and Cheese article explaining how the primary bottleneck for running LLMs on a CPU is the L2 to L1 cache bus throughput. Conceptually that makes sense, but thinking in terms of the actual hardware, I can’t answer, “why aren’t AI models packaged and processed in blocks specifically sized for this cache bus limitation”. If my cache bus is the limiting factor, duel threading for logical cores seems like asinine stupidity that poisons the cache. Or why an OS CPU scheduler is not equip to automatically detect or flag tensor math and isolate threads from kernel interrupts is beyond me.

Adding a layer to that and saying all of this is RISC cosplaying as CISC is my mental party clown cum serial killer… “but… but… it is 1 instruction…”

ARM is an older Reduced Instruction Set Computing out of Berkeley too. There are not a lot of differences here. x86 could even be better. American companies are mostly run by incompetent misers that extract value through exploitation instead of innovation on the edge and future. Intel has crashed and burned because it failed to keep pace with competition. Like much of the newer x86 stuff is RISC-like wrappers on CISC instructions under the hood, to loosely quote others at places like Linux Plumbers conference talks.

ARM costs a fortune in royalties. RISC-V removes those royalties and creates an entire ecosystem for companies to independently sell their own IP blocks instead of places like Intel using this space for manipulative exploitation through vendor lock in. If China invests in RISC-V, it will antiquate the entire West within 5-10 years time, similar to what they did with electric vehicles and western privateer pirate capitalist incompetence.

I think the Chinese will do it with RISC-V, or Europe will demand it independently.

We’re on the last nodes for fabs. The era of exponential growth is over. It is inevitable that a major shift in hardware longevity and serviceability will happen now. Stuff will also get much more expensive because volume is not needed or possible in the cycle to pay back the node investments.

The harder they push, the more it incentivises someone else to sell actual open source hardware for profit.

Thanks for the cross post.

Citations needed on mod tool complaints. I mod one of the largest communities on Lemmy. In 2 years I’ve had around a couple dozen times that required actual mod stuff. The tools are perfectly adequate for the volume of users in my opinion.

We all took it a little hard when some regular users left. I get that. There will always be people coming and going for various reasons.

There is also always an issue with narcissists that tend to get involved with moderating for the wrong reasons.

All humans are lazy at times. And all of us have a right to pick up an leave if we choose. Blaming the tools as a scapegoat for one’s laziness, or inadequacy, or to mask one’s financial limitations, seems to me like a narcissistic way to toss in the towel and check out, like an attempt to drag others down too.

I wish those that want to leave all the best, and I’ll still be here hanging around if you ever want to come back, friend. Regardless , thanks for what you contributed to this place in the time we spent as digital neighbors.

Share something useful from Lemmy with someone not on Lemmy, when that something does not also contain toxic negativity or vitriol, but is positive, inclusive, and cordial.

I blocked NSQ bc of an active bot as a mod.

Lemmy in general does not handle conceptual abstractions well at all. I think it is great to question the seemingly obvious subjects, and to poll user depth and intelligence regularly. I hate getting blindsided by someone asking stupid questions like this in real life and having to take the time to think out which of many angles I would like to address the issue from. I find it useful and healthy to see how others address such a question and how people respond to the various approaches. This is fundamental to the intuitive usefulness of NSQ and when that utility is hampered it effectively renders the community useless.

I rather ineffectively volunteered to take over the community myself when I encountered poor moderation from a bot with no accountable individual to address. Instead I block the community and consider it an embarrassment to exist.

It is the principal fulcrum to leverage the masses, stated simply enough for most to understand.

The fediverse is the public commons of the internet; a truly democratic institutional framework unlike any commercial alternative. It is the 21st century internet of the present and the future.

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I think there is more of a need to make the fediverse feel like a community. Use my account on one service as a automatic validation to any other without requiring a formal sign up. Something like how “login with GitHub” etc. works. If these were interconnected in a low effort and seamless way, the existing community would be less of a walled garden and more of a culture. Posting video, pics, blogs, or even more forum like persistent topic threads should be seamless. In my opinion pursuing growth as a community has small returns. Becoming the most effective tool and the path of least resistance while being positive and stable is the real key to large scale growth. Updating LW is absolutely critical for Lemmy’s future IMO and is our weakest link.

These were the thoughts that came to mind after I saw fedigrow. That name was very intuitive.