If your application or development tooling defaults to requiring a directory directly under /home (especially unhidden (looking at you Go)) and makes it a hassle or even impossible to change, it is broken and is not a good citizen to the ecosystem.

@relasolmi There are some tagged as supporting Esperanto in their search, but their descriptions don't provide much detail. I'm pretty new to LLM, especially outside of just calling APIs, so I'm also don't have a great sense yet for what can run without a GPU. I'll give some of those a shot though and see what happens.

Does anyone know of any pre-trained LLM/AI models that can read and write Esperanto locally on CPU? The super large proprietary cloud ones can, but everything I've run locally generates generic indo-european looking words instead of actual esperanto. I'm guessing the constraints of running on CPU would mean that its training would have to be focused on this specifically? I don't need agentic flows or to pass a Turing test or anything, just plausible Esperanto text.

#esperanto #ai #llm

I whistled into the void and the void blinked back. (said hi to my black cat hiding in a box and he kindly acknowledged my existence)

It's always wild to me that established companies that should have *some* form of security training for their employees, still insist as part of official processes that sensitive things like images of IDs or social security numbers be sent through email. Yeah, it'd be more convenient if email could be used for that, but it's 2025; accept that it can't (without additional tooling they're not going to setup).

"Whatever I am, would it harm you to give response?" - Surak

If your job application platform requires making an account, you don't get to call it "easy apply".

So, I need to vent about these “resistance” orgs…

We’re fighting fascists supported by other fascists who own social networks that fund them, broadcast their propaganda, further their agenda, and curb actual resistance efforts.

Nearly every one of them ONLY uses those very social networks we’re battling. And they ask us to join in.

It’s fucking absurd. The epitome of irony. “Fuck the nazi bar. Oh, BTW, we’ll be hanging out there. Join us.”

Just stop.

#Resist #Resistance #SocialMedia

Anyone have any apartment or fun-things-to-check-out recommendations in the Manassas, Virginia area? My wife and I will be moving there in a month or so for her job. We're in Reston now and only been in the DMV area for a little under two years. For apartments (or townhomes even better), we're looking to be walking distance to downtown or one of the other clusters of shops/restaurants (especially groceries and/or coffee shops).

#dmv #nova #northernvirginia #manassas #manassasva

Estas mallonga vorto, kiu signifas "poŝtelefono"? Eble per unu aŭ du silaboj?

#esperanto

@jayemar Yeah it's an acceptable solution and one that I do sometimes use but there's a couple minor annoyances with it. One is that any device that has previously connected will auto connect, but I only want the device I'm actively using to connect. I can get around this by changing the password, but that's inconvenient. The other main one is that then power consumption on my phone does become a mild problem. Wifi hotspotting seems to burn through the battery and I often forget to disable after

@txtechnician Thanks. I have the toggle option for "Charge connected device" but apparently that would toggle whether to charge the device the phone is connected to from the phone's batter, not whether to charge the phone. (I've used this previously to charge another phone from mine). I don't see one for disabling charging entirely. Maybe I could at least use adaptive charging to have it pull less power.

As a heavy handed solution, would using a usb cable that has the power lines cut work or would that cause problems?

It's kind of frustrating that there doesn't seem to be any way to tether my phone to my laptop over usb without having my laptop also charge the phone. My phone's battery holds up better than my laptop, and I prefer not to tether over wifi.
Anyone have any solutions to this I may have missed? Phone is a stock Pixel 8a if that matters.

#askfedi

golfers decimating 200 acres of land just to play the most boring game where the objective is to play less of it

@chrisod But if you have any specific questions in the meantime, let me know!

@chrisod Unfortunately I don't have a writeup. For the first one we spent five days basically between Reykjavik and Vik including the golden circle. I'd definitely recommend that area for a limited duration. For the second we did the full ring road over about two weeks. You can easily make it shorter or longer than that depending on what ratio of driving vs activities you're interested in. My wife did most of the planning. I'll check if she's willing to redact a public version of our itinerary.

The two previous trips were camping road trips along the ring road, but for this one we're just staying in Reykjavik for a couple of days as an extended layover, then heading to Amsterdam for a few days. Our plans for both cities are mostly museums and food. (open to any recommendations for both in either location)

I'm visiting Iceland for my third time, and my first time during winter. I had prepared for single digits Fahrenheit but now it's actually warmer than where I live in Virginia and looks like it will be for the whole stay. I might be a little over packed.