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  • tal@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Where to go now since Linux is mainstreamEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Notably, this and dotfiles are popular among devs using Mac, since MacOS has nearly all settings available either via config files or the defaults system from the command line. In comparison, Windows is total ass about configuring via the command line, and even Cinnamon gives me some headache by either not reloading or straight up overwriting my settings.

    The application-level format isn’t really designed for end user consumption, but WINE uses a text representation of the Windows registry. I imagine that one could probably put that in a git registry and that there’s some way to apply that to a Windows registry. Or maybe a collectiom of .reg files, which are also text.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoTechnology@beehaw.org•Too much open-source AI is exposing itself to the webEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Oh, yeah, it’s not that ollama itself is opening holes (other than adding something listening on a local port), or telling people to do that. I’m saying that the ollama team is explicitly promoting bad practices. I’m just saying that I’d guess that there are a number of people who are doing things like fully-exposing or port-forwarding to ollama or whatever because they want to be using the parallel compute hardware on their computer remotely. The easiest way to do that is to just expose ollama without setting up some kind of authentication mechanism, so…it’s gonna happen.

    I remember someone on here who had their phone and desktop set up so that they couldn’t reach each other by default. They were fine with that, but they really wanted their phone to be able to access the LLM on their computer, and I was helping walk them through it. It was hard and confusing for them — they didn’t really have a background in the stuff, but badly wanted the functionality. In their case, they just wanted local access, while the phone was on their home WiFi network. But…I can say pretty confidently that there are people who want access all the time, to access the thing remotely.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoTechnology@beehaw.org•Too much open-source AI is exposing itself to the webEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I mean, the article is talking about providing public inbound access, rather than having the software go outbound.

    I suspect that in some cases, people just aren’t aware that they are providing access to the world, and it’s unintentional. Or maybe they just don’t know how to set up a VPN or SSH tunnel or some kind of authenticated reverse proxy or something like that, and want to provide public access for remote use from, say, a phone or laptop or something, which is a legit use case.

    ollama targets being easy to set up. I do kinda think that there’s an argument that maybe it should try to facilitate configuration for that setup, even though it expands the scope of what they’re doing, since I figure that there are probably a lot of people without a lot of, say, networking familiarity who just want to play with local LLMs setting these up.

    EDIT: I do kind of think that there’s a good argument that the consumer router situation plus personal firewall situation is kind of not good today. Like, “I want to have a computer at my house that I want to access remotely via some secure, authenticated mechanism without dicking it up via misconfiguration” is something that people understandably want to do and should be more straightforward.

    I mean, we did it with Bluetooth, did a consumer-friendly way to establish secure communication over insecure airwaves. We don’t really have that for accessing hardware remotely via the Internet.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Where to go now since Linux is mainstreamEnglish
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    9 days ago

    (10^100) + 1 − (10^100) is 1, not 0.

    A “computer algebra system” would have accomplished a similar goal, but been much slower and much more complicated

    $ maxima -q

(%i1) (10^100)+1-(10^100);

(%o1)                                  1
(%i2)

    There’s no perceptible delay on my laptop here, and I use maxima on my phone and my computers. And a CAS gives you a lot more power to do other things.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Where to go now since Linux is mainstreamEnglish
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    9 days ago

    First, the Linux kernel doesn’t support resource forks at all. They aren’t part of POSIX nor do they really fit the unix file philosophy.

    The resource fork isn’t gonna be really meaningful to essentially all Linux software, but there have been ways to access filesystems that do have resource forks. IIRC, there was some client to mount some Apple file server protocol, exposed the resource forks as a file with a different name and the data fork as just a regular file.

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/hfsplus.html

    Linux does support HFS+, which has resource forks, as the hfsplus driver, so I imagine that it provides access one way or another.

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    https://superuser.com/questions/363602/how-to-access-resource-fork-of-hfs-filesystem-on-linux

    Add /..namedfork/rsrc to the end of the file name to access the resource fork.

    Also, pretty esoteric, but NTFS, the current Windows file system, also has a resource fork, though it’s not typically used.

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    Ah, the WP article that OP, @evol@lemmy.today linked to describes it.

    The Windows NT NTFS can support forks (and so can be a file server for Mac files), the native feature providing that support is called an alternate data stream. Windows operating system features (such as the standard Summary tab in the Properties page for non-Office files) and Windows applications use them and Microsoft was developing a next-generation file system that has this sort of feature as basis.