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14 minutes agoAh, thanks for the clarification on Lesta.
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If this is the cave I’m thinking of, it’s huge.
kagis
I don’t know if there is a “Phong Nha cave”, but the one I’m thinking of is in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, so I’m guessing that that’s it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_Sơn_Đoòng
Sơn Đoòng cave (Vietnamese: hang Sơn Đoòng, IPA: [haːŋ1 ʂɤːn1 ɗɔ̤ŋ2]), in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam, is the world’s largest natural cave.[1]
I think that the above image is from a sinkhole where the roof opens up partway through it.
There’s some YouTube video I saw a while back that did flybys of 3D models.
Well, we don’t live in a bubble. Countries are going to influence people.
the national security risks raised by the Saudi government’s access to and unchecked influence over the sensitive personal information collected from EA’s millions of users
If you don’t like that, then maybe tamp down on what game publishers are legally allowed to harvest, and restrict what data can be obtained on various platforms, and what can be accessed. It’s not as if other game publishers isolate that data from foreign countries; they can sell data or be purchased for their data. China’s TenCent bought Oxygen Not Included a while back, and I’d be more-concerned about national security regarding China than Saudi Arabia. 2C is a Russian publisher that publishes some major milsim games. The Russian state seized control of Lesta Group, the World of Tanks publisher, a while back. Steam games don’t normally run in isolation (outside something like flatpak on Linux, which provides a limited amount of isolation). If their software is on your PC, they have read and write access to the data on your PC.
I think that if I were a Chinese multinational company and it becomes a problem, I’d probably just set up an R&D office abroad in a suitable country that doesn’t have the degree of political resistance.
Probably still slightly bad for China, but I don’t think that it necessarily is going to be some insurmountable problem for Chinese firms.
At this scale of immigration, what matters is going to be the individual’s skillset. They aren’t going to measurably bolster the country’s population. Doesn’t really matter that much whether they settle in China and raise kids and such.
My guess is that the administration backs down. Maybe they could lose some of those, but if they can’t even get Fox News and Newsmax onboard, they’re just basically shutting down their media coverage.
EDIT: Also, I’m amazed that the administration managed to dick things up to that degree. I don’t have a very high opinion of Hegseth, but if there’s one thing that you’d think that his experience would be relevant for, you’d think that he’d at least be able to handle media relations with Fox News. The guy spent the last decade there.
The number of kidnappings of South Koreans in Cambodia has soared in recent months, prompting national security adviser Wi Sung-lac to form an emergency task force for the swift repatriation of citizens affected by scams.
Victims of scams are typically lured with promises of high-paying jobs before being confined in compounds and forced to participate in online fraud operations, particularly voice phishing scams, according to multiple sources, including Yonhap News.
Who in South Korea is going to Cambodia with the intent of getting a high-paying job?
goes to dig up per-capita GDP numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea
$34,642
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia
$2,870
South Korea is over 12 times as high.
“Stay tuned! After our commercial break, we’ll be talking to Mike Evans, a Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, to get his take on both the women-excluding Muslim group and the trans-exclusionary radical feminist group.”
Kellie-Jay Keen, founder of feminist group Party Of Women, said: “Banning women and girls over the age of 12 from a public charity event is plainly unlawful… and reinforces regressive sexist attitudes towards women’s place in public life.
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, I kind of wouldn’t be surprised if the Party of Women does things that exclude men.
kagis
Ah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Women
The Party of Women (POW) is a gender-critical[3][4] and anti-transgender[5] single-issue political party in the United Kingdom, which opposes what it refers to as “trans ideology”.[6][7][8] It was founded in 2023 by Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (also known as Posie Parker) and registered in February 2024.[9]
Is it just a Wikipedia editor beating up on them?
checks website
No they appear to be pretty explicitly upset with trans stuff.
https://www.partyofwomen.org/about-us
Kellie-Jay Keen founded Party Of Women to make sure that people can safely say
No woman has a penis
No man has a vagina
There is no such thing as “non-binary”
And “transitioning” children is abuse
reads further
- Repeal the Gender Recognition Act (GRA)
The Gender Recognition Act 2004 enables individuals to legally change the sex marker on their birth certificate.
- Repeal the Equality Act 2010
- Withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
The ECHR has become a tool for imposing ideological interpretations of “rights” that conflict with national sovereignty and women’s protections.
We will:
Withdraw the UK from the ECHR.
End the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights over UK law.
Yeah, I dunno how sympathetic I am to that group either.
13·3 days agoI think that he’s probably right, but there are legless lizards out there.
My understanding is that if it’s an Index, you should be fine.
That being said, I don’t use one.
‘Their resilience is a lesson to us all’: The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
What, a lesson to humans? To be able to go anywhere and eat anything? We’re the global champions at that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
Humans are omnivorous, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material, and have used fire and other forms of heat to prepare and cook food since the time of Homo erectus.
They are apex predators, being rarely preyed upon by other species.
By using advanced tools and clothing, humans have been able to extend their tolerance to a wide variety of temperatures, humidities, and altitudes.[131][138] As a result, humans are a cosmopolitan species found in almost all regions of the world, including tropical rainforest, arid desert, extremely cold arctic regions, and heavily polluted cities; in comparison, most other species are confined to a few geographical areas by their limited adaptability.
The combined biomass of the carbon of all the humans on Earth in 2018 was estimated at 60 million tons, about 10 times larger than that of all non-domesticated mammals.
If you read the first incident above, the Goiânia incident, after the people involved managed to use tools to break open and extract whatever was behind all that protective shielding, they found a glowing blue substance that they thought might be supernatural, so they brought over their friends and family to show them. And the kids played with it…
They began dismantling the equipment. That same evening, they both began to vomit due to radiation sickness.[clarification needed] The following day, Pereira began to experience diarrhea and dizziness, and his left hand began to swell. He later developed a burn on his hand in the same size and shape as the aperture, and he underwent partial amputation of several fingers.[8]
On September 15, Pereira visited a local clinic, where he was diagnosed with a foodborne illness; he was told to return home and rest.[1] Roberto, however, continued with his efforts to dismantle the equipment and eventually freed the caesium capsule from its protective rotating head. His prolonged exposure to the radioactive material led to his right forearm becoming ulcerated, requiring amputation on October 14.[9]
On September 16, Roberto punctured the capsule’s aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created.[1] He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite.
The exact mechanism by which the blue light was generated was not known at the time the IAEA report of the incident was written, though it was thought to be either ionized air glow, fluorescence, or Cherenkov radiation associated with the absorption of moisture by the source; a similar blue light was observed in 1988 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States during the disencapsulation of a caesium-137 source.[1]
On September 18, Roberto sold the items to a nearby scrapyard. That night, Devair Alves Ferreira, the owner of the scrapyard, noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule’s contents were valuable or supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing powder.
On September 21, at the scrapyard, one of Ferreira’s friends (identified as “EF1” in the IAEA report) freed several rice-sized grains of the glowing material from the capsule using a screwdriver. Ferreira began to share some of them with various friends and family members. That same day, his wife, 37-year-old Maria Gabriela Ferreira, began to fall ill. On September 25, 1987, Devair Ferreira sold the scrap metal to a third scrapyard.
The day before the sale to the third scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair’s brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. There he spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg[10] while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother. The egg was also exposed to dust from the powder; Leide absorbed 1.0 GBq and received a total dose of 6.0 Gy, a fatal dose for which medical intervention was ineffective.[11][12][13] Leide’s mother, Lurdes Ferreira, also got sick from the radiation.[14][15]
Maria Gabriela Ferreira had been the first to notice that many people around her had become severely ill at the same time.[16] On September 28, 1987 – fifteen days after the item was found – she reclaimed the materials from the rival scrapyard and transported them to a hospital.
In the morning of September 29, a visiting medical physicist[17] used a scintillation counter to confirm the presence of radioactivity and persuaded the authorities to take immediate action. The city, state, and national governments were all aware of the incident by the end of the day.
There was also a second ex-Soviet de-encapsulated RTG incident, like the one you mention, that I recall, where people came across RTG.
kagis
Okay, apparently more than two incidents. I was thinking of the second Georgia incident, I think.
https://www.jalopnik.com/ussr-sprinkled-more-than-2-500-nuclear-generators-acros-1850501190/
That wasn’t the only incident involving RTGs however. In 2001, scrappers broke into a lighthouse on Kandalashka Bay and stole three radioisotope sources (all three were recovered and sent to Moscow). Three men in the mountains of Georgia were also exposed in 2002 after stumbling upon cores left out in the woods. In 2003, scrappers hurled a core into the Baltic Sea, where a team of experts retrieved it.
16·25 days agoCouldn’t let this post go by without posting the “The Ballad of Serenity”. Looks like it’s possible to upload embedded audio-only stuff in posts on Lemmy instances via using an external host; it’ll accept embedded webm with audio.
$ yt-dlp -x 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZJpewvSZwo' $ ffmpeg -vn -i Firefly\ Main\ Title\ \[EZJpewvSZwo\].opus Firefly\ Main\ Title\ \[EZJpewvSZwo\]-audio.webm<uploads to catbox.moe>
1·30 days agoI found that while the lemmy_server process starts successfully and shows “Starting HTTP server at 0.0.0.0:8536” in logs, nothing is actually listening on port 8536.
Does:
# netstat -ntap|grep 8536…show anything bound to the port?
I’m not sure how you determined that it’s not binding to the port, but that’s how I’d check.
There isn’t much that should stop a process from listening on a port over 1024 unless another process is already listening on it.
I don’t know why you want a BIOS update.
If you’re wanting VT-x support, looks like it’s present.
https://mobilespecs.net/laptop/Toshiba/Toshiba_SATELLITE_M100-221.html
Processor Model: T5600
https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/core-2-duo-t5600.c378
VT-x
https://superuser.com/questions/1584771/what-is-difference-between-vmx-and-vt-x
The CPU flag for VT-x capability is “vmx”; in Linux, this can be checked via /proc/cpuinfo
-the opening the port process makes sense. It seems like if I have a backend on my rig, I’m going to need to open a port to access that backend from a front end of a phone device.
Yes. Or even if you run a Web-accessible front-end on the LLM PC — the Web browser on the phone needs to reach the Web frontend on the PC.
Or possibly even access that same backend on the phone device via a mirror?
Well, the term wouldn’t be a mirror. In your shoes, it’s not what I would do, because introducing some third host not on your network to the equation is another thing to break. But, okay, hypothetically, I guess that doing that would be an option. thinks. There might be some service out there that permits two devices to connect to each other, though I’m not personally aware of one. And, say you got a virtual private server for $10 a month or whatever the going rate is, yeah, that could be set up to do this – you could use it as an intermediate host, do SSH tunneling from both the PC and the phone of the sort that another user in this thread mentioned. I guess that that’d let you reach the PC from other places, if that’s something that you want to do, though it’s not the only way to accomplish that. But…I think that that’s most-likely going to add more complexity. The only scenario where that would truly be necessary is if the wireless access point — which I assume your ISP has provided — absolutely does not permit the LLM PC and the phone to communicate at all on the WiFi network, which I think is very unlikely, and even then, I’d probably just get a second wireless access point in that scenario, put the PC and the phone on it.
In general, I don’t think that trying to connect the two machines on your home network via a machine out on the Internet somewhere is a great idea. More moving parts, more things to break, and if you lose Internet connectivity, you lose the ability to have them talk to each other.
-it seems like it would be easier if I could connect to the rig via an android phone instead of an iPhone. My end goal is to use Linux but I’m not ready for that step. Seems like android would be an adequate stepping stone to move to, especially if we have to go thru all this trouble with iPhone. Shall we try on the android instead? If not I’ll follow the directions you put above and report back on Saturday.
If you have an Android phone available, that would probably be easier from my standpoint, because I can replicate the environment; I have an Android phone available here. But it’s not really the phone where setup is the issue. Like, it’s going to be the LLM PC and potentially wireless access point that require any configuration changes to make ollama reachable from the phone; the phone doesn’t need anything other than Reins installed and having an endpoint set or just using a Web browser and using the correct URL there. I’m just mostly-interested in that the phone has to be able to talk to the PC, has to be able to open a TCP connection to the PC, and so having diagnostic tools on a phone is helpful. I don’t have to guess how the diagnostic tools work in Termux on an Android, because I can use them myself locally.
I wouldn’t suggest going out and buying an Android phone to do just that, though. I mean…this is a one-off diagnostic task, just trying to understand why the phone isn’t able to reach the LLM PC. If you can open a connection from the Android phone to the LLM PC, then you should also be able to open a connection from the iOS phone to the LLM PC. If you do have one already available, though, then yeah, my preference would be if you could install Termux on it for the diagnostic tools rather than install iSH on the iOS device. It should still be possible to get the LLM PC reachable on the iOS device either way.
I don’t mind trying to diagnose connectivity on the iOS device. Just keep in mind that I may have to guess a bit as to what the behavior is, because I can’t actually try the device here, so we may potentially have a few extra rounds of back-and-forth.
If you do want to use an Android phone, then just put the phone on the WiFi network, install Termux, open Termux, run the apk command to install telnet (
apk install telnet) and then try the telnet command I mentioned and just report back what error, if anything, you get when trying to open a connection to the LLM PC — hopefully it’ll be one of the above three outcomes.
When the current leader Kim Jong Un came to power in 2011, the escapees who were interviewed said they had hoped their lives would improve, as Kim had promised they would no longer need to “tighten their belts” – meaning they would have enough to eat.
IIRC from past reading, he did try to increase the amount of meat available, which for North Korea is a big deal.
kagis
While North Korean diets have historically been plant-heavy, there have been efforts to increase the availability of protein sources, especially since 2005. Despite these efforts, structural and practical limitations prevent major protein farming expansion, including the competition for food stocks, resources and land allocations, much less the ability to acquire seed animals and raise them.
Prior to 2000, except for North Korea’s elites, the country subsisted principally on vegetarian diets. To have meat as few as two to three times a year was the apparent norm. Under Kim Jong Il, that began to change as efforts to expand the availability of animal protein to more of the population began around 2005. Under Kim Jong Un, there has been an even greater emphasis on animal husbandry, including poultry, pig, rabbit and larger grazing animals such as sheep, goats and cattle.
I choose Ollama because it was supposed to be one of the easier loca AIs to set up.
Well, the ollama bit is up, which is why you can use it on the PC. The problem is network connectivity between the Windows PC and the phone.
Opening a port between two things on the local network is going to be pretty much the same for anything. Some software packages — I dunno about LLM chat stuff — make use of a third, outside system as a point to coordinate, so that software only has to open outbound TCP connections to the Internet. But for local communication, it’s gonna look pretty similar. If you put koboldcpp or llama.cpp or whatever on your machine, you need the same connectivity, though it might default to using a different port number.
I’m happy to keep banging away if you’re also willing, though. I mean, this does kinda narrow it down. If you don’t want to do so though, remove that firewall rule that we added earlier from the Windows PC. If you do:
considers
The next step is seeing where the break in connectivity is.
I’m not familiar with iOS, but let me see if there’s a software package for it that will let it open a TCP connection and preferably ping (and ideally show the ARP cache to see whether Ethernet packets are getting from the phone to the Windows machine at all, though that may not be viable).
Basically, would be nice to see whether packets can currently get from the phone to the PC and back.
kagis
Looks like Windows Firewall blocks ICMP by default, which is traditionally used by ping, the simple protocol to see if one host can reach another on the network. Mmmmf.
And it sounds like ARP isn’t available on a non-jailbroken iPhone, which would be the simplest way to see whether a packet is making it from the iPhone to the PC. I was worried would be the case.
Hmm. This is a little less convenient in that I don’t have tools that I normally would when trying to troubleshoot network problems on a Linux system.
thinks
I guess the simplest thing available, cuts things down as far as possible in terms of connectivity between the two that should be able to reach from the iPhone to the PC should be a TCP connection.
I don’t know the iOS software library well, but lemme search for a telnet client. I’m sure that it’ll have one; every platform does.
searches
Oh, this is even better. It looks like there’s some iOS app, “iSH”, with a tiny Alpine Linux environment for iOS, kinda like Termux on Android. That’ll have telnet and probably other network diagnostic tools, and those I am familiar with, so I don’t have to guess from screenshots how things work. You should be able to try to open a TCP connection from the phone to the PC with the Linux telnet client in that.
goes looking around
Okay. If you’re willing to give this a shot, it sounds like the way this works is:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ish-shell/id1436902243
Install that from the iOS store.
When opened, it should show a Linux terminal. If it works like Termux, it’ll have basically nothing from Alpine Linux installed, no telnet client, just a few simple commands. You’ll be looking at a prompt that probably looks something like
iPhone:~.Then if you run (don’t type the pound sign — it’s just a convention to include it, to show that it’s something to type at a prompt):
# apk install telnetThat should install the Linux telnet client inside the iSH app using the Alpine Linux package manager.
Then to try to open a TCP connection from the phone to the Windows PC, you want the private IP of the Windows PC, the thing you see in ipconfig (which I’ll type as 10.1.1.2 here, but replace with yours):
# telnet 10.1.1.2 11434That’ll try to open a TCP connection from the phone to port 11434 on the PC.
Now, what would happen if everything were working correctly, is that the phone would send an ARP request saying “what is the MAC address — the Ethernet address — of the machine with IP address 10.1.1.2 on the local network?” The wireless access point would hand this to the PC. The PC would respond. The phone would then send a series of packets to that IP address to open a TCP connection on port 11434.
My guess is that you’ll see one of several things at this point.
First, it might be that the wireless access point is refusing to let packets from the phone reach the PC at all — they only let the phone talk to the Internet, not to the PC. Some wireless access points can be configured to do this or have a “guest” wireless network that impose this constraint. Then the phone won’t get an ARP response, since the PC will never see the ARP query. That’ll look like this (using a network I’m on at the moment to demonstrate):
$ telnet 192.168.1.35 Trying 192.168.1.35... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host $Second, it might fail because I dicked up in some way and Windows Firewall is still blocking the phone from connecting to the PC. The ARP request is going out, the response comes back from the PC, the phone tries to open a TCP connection to the IP address on the host with the specified MAC address, and never gets a response. If that’s the case, it’ll probably look like this:
$ telnet 192.168.1.126 7500 Trying 192.168.1.126... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out $If that’s what you get, the problem is likely the Windows Firewall configuration (well or theoretically the wireless access point could be configured to do that, but I doubt it).
Third, it might succeed. That’ll look like this:
$ telnet 192.168.1.126 6000 Trying 192.168.1.126... Connected to 192.168.1.126. Escape character is '^]'.If you see that, you can open a TCP connection from the phone to the PC, and whatever issue you’re hitting with Reins isn’t a network problem. Maybe I gave the endpoint syntax wrong, for example. But the issue will be at the application level, not the network level.
There are 3 lines with the :11434 in them. No brackets or anything like that. -1 has 0.0.0.0 in front -2 has 10.#.#.# in front and has a foreign address that is something other than 0.0.0 -3 is like the 2nd but a slightly different foreign address
Okay, that…should be okay. As long as all of the addresses that it’s listening on are IPv4 — of the format “x.x.x.x”. No colons in them (other than the colon preceeding “11434”). Not IPv6.
The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
Okay, gotcha. In that case, go ahead with the instructions above, just instead of “/8”, do “/24”. So:
For “local IP addresses”, you want “These IP Addresses”, and enter
10.0.0.0/24. That’ll be every IPv4 address on your Windows LLM that has “10” as its first number and the first following two numbers the same as yours.For “remote IP addresses”, you want “These IP Addresses”, and enter
10.0.0.0/24. Same thing all addresses that start with a “10.” followed by the same following two numbers, which should include your iOS device.
Oh yes. I’m on windows 10 as well.
Okay. I think that the interface to add the firewall rule there looks the same as the one I Iinked to above. I went searching for screenshots of adding a hole for a port on Windows 10, and the control panel looks identical to me.
So, yeah, should be good to go ahead with the above instructions, just using “/24” instead of “/8” in the two places where I mention “/8”. Hopefully after that it’ll be working; if not, then we’ll need to troubleshoot.
They were forced to sell TikTok’s operations in the US.