A_norny_mousse

Me too. I do not work in IT, I do not even work at a computer.

Started installing first ripped Windows, later Linux on handmedown laptops starting around 2010.

And tweaking the shit out of it, later also to escape the Googleverse.

Selfhosting since 2014.

I can’t do everything either but I’m confident enough to let my server face the world. It doesn’t take all that much knowledge, mostly common sense.

I guess there’s some secondary knowledge, like knowing where to find useful instructions (archwiki) or knowing that Linux software often (but not always) doesn’t bother with sane defaults.

If this narrative seems to be coming from the prehistoric past then there’s your answer: give it more time. Do what you can do now, and surely your knowledge/capability will grow. Esp. tweaking Linux!

It says it’s opensource. Where’s the source code?

https://github.com/circlus-org

Nothing there.

I had my local AI do some research and it spat out the above.

Ah, there’s your problem.

the above did catch my attention as fairly normie friendly.

Appearing to be normie friendly. Probably on purpose. Please don’t be dissuaded by real OSS projects that try to give you real information and detailed instructions. It’s not all that complicated and usually much safer.

If all you want is “message daddy” why bother with any of this at all? Just set it up so your kid can only SMS one number.

Or use Signal.

Or maybe you don’t even want to put a SIM card into the phone?

Not sure I’d recommend that; they should be able to call 112 or whatever your country’s equivalent is. (edit: ok most phones allow that even without a sim i think)

Or is this supposed to be some sort of toy with the extra benefit of messaging daddy?

The more I think about it the less I see the point.

Let this post be the one to ask a question that’s been bothering me (not a coder):

Multi-model local AI inference, runs 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi.

This and similar claims in other software suggest - to me - that the AI is running locally on the raspi, no need to exchange data with sites providing AI APIs or whatever.

I struggle to believe that this is possible, let alone on a raspi.

So, how “local” ar the AIs that help more and more software with various tasks?

Is “local AI” some sort of selling point that is often false or deliberately misleading? “Localwashing”?

edit: thanks for all the answers, this has been enlightening.

Seeing him re-elected was so much worse than seeing him elected for the first time. My stomach actually lurched, and I’m on the other side of the ocean. Un-fucking-believable that a significant part of voting age adults can be so … boneheadedly dumb? Deliberately ignorant? Willingly hateful to the point of violence against fellow Americans? I struggle for words.

edit: also the whole stop the steal bs culminating in Jan 6 '21

Why are we posting this random tech bloggers whiny complaint again?

I said it before: Codeberg uses Forgejo which is FOSS. If you don’t like Codeberg’s decision: stop complaining, self-host Forgejo and lose nothing.

But fwiw, Fuck AI coding, not only for its unmaintainability but also for stealing of intellectual property.