I think theres two aspects to it

• social licensing - e.g. Google tries and gets away with X, so the others now perceive they’re less likely to receive excessive pushback and are emboldened to go for it. This is why I feel there needs to be a pervasive and continuous push towards consumer rights - smaller cases can snowball quickly in the wrong direction, never so in the reverse.
• share price driven margin pressure, a figurative ideal business that balanced perfectly its price/margins/costs against consumer demands/buying power would still be pushed to make graph go up and right - the usual enshittification argument.

The first feeds into the second, once your competitor moves against consumer interests, C suites are/perceive they are then under pressure to match peers, else fall behind.

Screwing over customers is baked into Capitalism, even more so with the current scale and concentration of a handful of business operating in a weak regulatory environment.

Anything that reduces the footprint of LLM’s is welcome, however…

• making LLM compute cheaper in datacentres won’t mean lower total power/cooling/space/water consumption, like adding lanes and traffic, it will just mean more usage as it gets cheaper (and a short-term bump in margins for the LLM owners)
• these are still highly dedicated chips that are always going to be bound up in the mega-scale datacentre deployments
  • what happens if there is a paradigm shift in the exact compute architecture? Loads of junk servers and no applications able to make use of such a glut
  • these do nothing to push LLMs out of the datacenter and into non-corporate hands, which is the only spot where we might see fewer privacy concerns, less corporate control etc

If we’re stuck with the current compute/corporate paradigms, at least alternatives nibling at the unhealthy dominance of nVidia and the cloud giants is some small benefit.

I’ve not really got much experience myself with either docker/podman, but I think you’re looking for podman’s [quadlets]?(https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/quadlet-podman)

Hey, hey you - you don’t owe an email anything. Just leave it unread.

Feeling inspired to go unsubscribe from a bunch of junk mail and clean up old mail? Go for it.

But you shouldn’t waste a second of your time feeling obligated to deal with emails sent largely by automated marketing campaigns.

At work I spend time to organize my inbox, its a necessity, on my personal email, I get security alerts & banking into separate folders, that’s about it, I don’t waste a moments thought on the unread count.

You can store an ssh key in Bitwarden or Keepass(XC) easily enough - Bitearden can certainly be configured as the actual source of your ssh keys with only a tiny bit of config effort

I have lots (100s?) of pdfs for ttrpg rules collected over years - storing in folders is enough to separate by game, but fails when a single book is a mix of content - does it go in the adventure, character options or DM folder?

Having a nice UI with tags and searching would help to organise the collection a lot better.

Accessing all of that across any of my devices while the files actually live on my NAS would a be a big improvement - its easy for my laptop & tablet to get out of sync etc

This looks great - thanks for all your efforts! :)

I plan to setup a service to better wrangle all of my many ttrpg PDFs soon and this will definitely be in the mix.

I’d much rather keep my rc organised, so I just have a pair of aliases to quickly open it in an editor and another to reload.

alias cfge="$EDITOR ~/.bashrc"
alias cfgs="source ~/.bashrc"

Signal is my only instant messenger and I can happily report no issues these days with notifications, that said, I never really noticed them previously and have been using for >3 years.

Occasionally we’ll use Signal whilst on a live call, someone will tell us they messaged on Signal and I’ll get the notification immediately - i.e. I knew when it was sent and received.

This is working smoothly on my grapheneos phone and the desktop client across Linux and Windows.