Ah, good to know.

I did know there were two sides of it (we explored MariaDB Enterprise at work, but unfortunately it didn’t pan out).

Any more, I just assume one company buying any other always results in a worse experience post-sale.

I’ve never heard of K1.

Should we expect MariaDB enshittification to ensure?

Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB’s mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth

I’m not reading that as a “no” :(

Yeah, same. It’s not like there were windows they could point it out of, so it would have to be exposed and somehow disguised.

Lol, in college, some guy on my floor wasn’t happy with the dorm’s cable TV because it didn’t have NFL Sunday Ticket and brought his DirecTV dish/receiver from home. His room was facing the right way, so he was able to set the dish up in the room next to the window. This sortof reminds me of that but without the national security implications.

(Sets bottle of alcohol on counter)

Cashier: Can I see some ID, please?

Me: I know what this is.

Beep boop: 15 seconds per pound. Trust me, bro, I’m a bot.

“I’m a bot. Trust me, bro!”

No thanks. I’d rather scour 50+ articles to find what I need than have to trust some chatbot that doesn’t cite its work. Beyond that, it’s “stealing” content from the sites it crawls to build that knowledge while depriving those sites of traffic.

Everyone praising these is so focused on getting an immediate answer they completely neglect anything they may learn during the search. Hell, I’ve researched things before and, prior to finding what I was looking for, found enough material to realize my approach was flawed. When I started over, the information I got from the “non answer” results were crucial to fixing the flaws in my original approach.

That’s what I was thinking, but wasn’t sure enough to say beyond “give it a shot and see”.

There might be some savings to be had by enabling compression, though it would depend on what format the images are in to start with. If they’re already in a compressed format, it would probably just be a waste of CPU to try compressing them further at the filesystem level.

Not sure if a de-duplicating filesystem would help with that or not. Depends, I guess, on if there are similarities between the similar images at the block level.

Maybe try setting up a small, test ZFS pool, enabling de-dup, adding some similar images, and then checking the de-dupe rate? If that works, then you can plan a more permanent ZFS (or other filesystem that supports de-duplication) setup to hold your images.

The whitespace and the popovers. I get really annoyed reading a page and accidentally bump the cursor over something and a popup preview covers up what I’m reading. Or I’ll be scrolling with the keyboard and a linked word scrolls under the cursor and the popover appears. Then it triggers popovers on every word as I move the mouse out of the way.

Feels like navigating a mine field. That’s the part I’m most split on: sometimes I find that useful, most times it’s a nuisance.

They did recently, or at least within the last year or so. Naturally, I hate it. lol

We’re fucked.

Thanks! Wish I had more time to work on it lately, but life has been getting in the way.

Tesseract was originally kind-of a cross between Photon and Alexandrite, though it’s evolved separately from both since then. May still be close enough for your taste?

Github

Then they can either pay for the copyrighted data they want to train on or lobby for copyright to be reigned in for everyone. Right now, they’re acting like entitled twats with a shit business model demanding they get a free pass while the rest of us would be bankrupted for downloading a Metallica MP3.

Google (and search engines in general) is at least providing a service by indexing and making discoverable the websites they crawl. OpenAI is is just hoovering up the data and providing nothing in return. Socializing the cost, privatizing the profits.

Yeah! I can’t make money running my restaurant if I have to pay for the ingredients, so I should be allowed to steal them. How else can I make money??

Alternatively:

OpenAI is no different from pirate streaming sites in this regard (loosely: streaming sites are way more useful to humanity). If OpenAI gets a pass, so should every site that’s been shut down for piracy.

My takeaway from this is:

1. Get a bunch of AI-generated slop and put it in a bunch of individual .htm files on my webserver.
2. When my bot user agent filter is invoked in Nginx, instead of returning 444 and closing the connection, return a random .htm of AI-generated slop (instead of serving the real content)
3. Laugh as the LLMs eat their own shit
4. ???
5. Profit

Yay. Just what the Fediverse needs: more bot spam.

I almost went with OPNsense (having previously used pfSense), but everything else was already on OpenWRT so I decided to keep things consistent. OPNsense is a solid choice, too.

The barracuda I have is basically an x64 board in a 1U half-depth case with two extra network adapters (3 total including the onboard one). I have two of them: one’s running OpenWRT (my router) and the other vanilla Debian.

So if my router one dies, I can just either pull the drive from it or restore a config backup to another suitable PC that has two NICs (or promote the second unit I have).

The config in openwrt is abstracted. So if the hardware and NICs are totally different, you might need to reconfigure the device names in the config so they’re referencing the right NICs, but everything else should “just work” (e.g. WAN and LAN are just arbitrary labels).