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One useful way to describe your location is to use the amateur radio QTH grid (also called Maidenhead, which is falling into disuse). It is a shorthand way to give an approximate location that (with elevation) is precise enough to be useful for #weather but doesn’t invade privacy.

f5len.org/tools/locator/

#Vancouver #YVR #BCstorm

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warning regarding uspol and data archiving (2) 

Also, more generally, consider that institutional organizations are *much* more vulnerable to hostile action than chaotic local collectives which do not have clear operators or representatives.

It pays to store a copy in some obscure organization that's difficult to figure out as an outsider, even if they don't have professional infrastructure to support it. Deliberate censorship is the bigger risk right now, not accidental data loss.

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Nuclear war worries 

I wasn't awareof the growing threat of nuclear weapons. 💀 Sucks that I live in one of the few places that are a prime target. At least it'd be instant I guess?

thebulletin.org/2025/01/press-

@brooke Auto playing youtube viseos when I just want a break from scrolling 💀

This is a public service announcement to never ever use Oracle

This deplatforming shit continues. A friend just got her paid flowcode site shutdown because she’s using it to help activists who arrested at black lives matter protests. Flowcode is kind of a linktree plus micro crm. They’re also being refused access to anyone who will process donations because although a legal defense fund for is entirely legal and constitutionally protected.

This is important, the right to speech and money shouldn’t be limited to those whose views are acceptable to the state or a few corporations that control retail fintech.

This is why I work on Nostr.

Global Switch Day. February 1st 2025.

Spread the word.

X to Mastodon, Instagram to Pixelfed, WhatsApp to Signal, Facebook to Friendica, YouTube to PeerTube, TikTok to Loops

#GlobalSwitchDay

@futurebird @krozruch I think it's cause the trolls end up flocking to toxic instances that allow for more harmful behavior / content and get largely fediblocked without others having to see it.

@BestGirlGrace I hope it's cosmetic gene therapy just so things can get really exciting.

@lvk ooooo, that's pretty cool actually. Ty for the link

@nasser I missed a good one just a couple months ago too. Gotta get my own AV setup 🥲

Kinda sad that I have like a dozen or more talks that never got recorded or I have lost the recordings of. 🥲

In this time of search engine decline and AI flooding the net with trash...

...it's time to bring back curated information. Expert reseachers and tomes of information.

This is the age of the librarian.

Good news for anyone that wants to stalk me or make a deepfake of me: I've added all the youtube videos I could find of my various talks to my website. If you know of others send them my way!

ranger.mauve.moe/#videos

@indutny If you have 20 GB of RAM this model might be more representative of the capabilities: unsloth.ai/blog/deepseekr1-dyn

@indutny I'm not sure, I think folks are excited by the prospect of an open source alternative to o1 in which case that'd just be the massive 600b model which IIRC is what powers the deepseek app. I found the distilled models to not be less useful than regular qwen2.5 for my use cases 😅 I think you could get it more useful with the right prompting and multi shot approach. Maybe have it ask for more humab guidance instead of looping.

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