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@lproven @xs4me2 @dynamite_ready @reading_recluse I wasn't replying to you Liam! In fact, I largely agree with the viewpoint youve expressed

@xs4me2 @lproven @dynamite_ready @reading_recluse

What you're essentially suggesting here, is that LLMs are only good for consuming information if the user either already has the knowledge to judge output (in which case, why are they asking?) or spends time to verify the claims that the LLM makes (in which case, why bother asking the LLM?).

I've seen them make some pretty important mistakes, including suggesting that a Director who wasn't on the call being summarised had authorised something

@steve @wishy @bloor @dtl Yeah that's fair

I remember nearly going to war with engineering because they wanted to start shipping software to us (ops) as docker images solely because it made deployment easier for them.

I get on very well with containers nowadays (didnt have much choice when I started owning a SaaS product running on k8s), but (if I was still there) I think I'd still make the same arguments against them driving the CDN

@neil @dtl @bloor @wishy Similar here, it's in its own segment - my firewall has multiple NICs so hangs off one of those.

I gave that segment its own IPv6 subnet, so if there ever was an issue, I'll be able to see at a glance whether it was our LAN or the masto box (less so for ipv4 though because NAT)

@bloor @wishy @dtl The answer to that depends a bit on exact needs, but

Scalability - I can run far more containers than I can VMs because containers don't usually bring userspace and kernel overhead

Ease of deployment: containers ship with all their deps in there, so there's no screwing about with dep hell (or incompatible deps being required by different apps). That also makes support easier if you're shipping

upgrades are also much easier - you just change the tag and pull the new image.

@bloor @wishy @dtl

fair. Easiest way to think of it is a small prebuilt vm image but without a kernel and (usually) designed to run a single app.

Running a docker container is generally easy, but troubleshooting docker issues can be a pain (though rarely needed IME), so I guess a native install might end up being less burden if you're not already doing that anyway

@bloor @wishy @dtl Admittedly I run it in docker so don't have to worry about deps, But I've found it far lower maintenance than I was expecting.

The getting it going bit was a bit more effort though

@MFDOOMALLCAPS The new single sounds good.

It took a few listens to grow on me, but I get that with any kind of change (style, singer etc)

I never lost interest though, they've long been a go-to (but then, I also liked The Agonist when A-WG was there, so maybe that's no big surprise)

@bloor @dtl

FWIW, I quite happily run it at home on a NUC.

Although I've got gigabit internet, it turns out it'd probably have been fine on ADSL too

I have moved media to object storage though, which helps a lot

He turned a fire extinguisher into a flamethrower....

Barnsley man who laid 'Home Alone' style traps at drug den jailed

Ian Claughton, 60, fortified his home with tripwires, home-made pipe bombs and a flamethrower.

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