bikegremlin
bikegremlin
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- Relja Novović a.k.a. Bike Gremlin - https://www.bikegremlin.com/about/
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For some things I'm 10 years ahead of my time, for others just a month or so LOL :) https://blog.cloudflare.com/from-googlebot-to-gptbot-whos-crawling-your-site-in-2025/
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(Quote) Yup - if you aren't selling anything, people have zero reasons to open any of your pages - Google gives the regurgitated (copy/pasted) text from your site. "The Great Decoupling": (Image) * Top (purple) line is the number of tim…
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(Quote) A rare photo of the headquarters of the company that pays for such traffic (and fails to filter it or punish any such deliberate abuse): (Image) :)
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(Quote) Worst example is a friend's forum (his problem urged me to edit my original article and start this thread). 800 different IP addresses in a 5-minute time frame, bots/crawlers, browsing pages. Putting a huge load on the VPS' CPU - to the poin…
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(Quote) Yup - caching does make a huge difference (sometimes I miss the good old static HTML stuff :) ).
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(Quote) Cloudflare Turnstile works a lot better than captchas for the registration fields and similar (unless you are refering to that when mentioning Cloudflare captchas). Caching pages for non-logged in users can make a huge difference (without t…
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That word: "research" - it used to mean something.
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(Quote) Never - that is the interesting part.
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(Quote) Sigh. We are too poor... or the tech. is too young still - whichever way of putting it makes you feel better. :) On a 4-core VPS, especially the real VPS (not the "semi-dedicated" VPS), you will get crappy performance, even with …
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(Quote) I fear the Emperor forbids such malpractice... beside the fact that Silica Animus itself is an abomination! Jokes aside: LLMs can work on CPU alone, but you should use a "lighter" model - and performance will still be pretty bad. …
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(Quote) Ache Linux. :) Playing it on hard. :)
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(Quote) Not my problem - but anyone trying to find info in the future might get stuck. (Quote) First comes to mind - the tools at hand (when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail LOL): AnythingLLM: Workspace settings -> Agent c…
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(Quote) Hmm. I don't use that a lot, and my PC is quite energy-efficient for its power (that was how I picked components). Will see when the time comes, but I don't expect huge electricity bills (my UPS keeps a track of my PC's power usage).
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I copy them to my hard drive. The ones that are worth saving that is.
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(Quote) You'll probably get that pretty soon - and it won't be voluntary. LOL. :) Jokes aside, this is pretty simple (long text perhaps, but the procedure is step-by-step).
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(Quote) The model - do you think it's a good choice for this use case? Nous Hermes 2 – Mistral 13B model in GGUF format, quantized to Q5_K_M.
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(Quote) Here's my intended use case - looking for recommendations (to save time and effort on trial and error): Needs Copy/paste all my articles, markdown notes (Deathnotes), and some forum posts (mostly text only with a photo here and there). Ge…
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(Quote) AI is the difference between hand-copying a whole book for day - and sharing a digital copy on torrent to millions of folks in one day. Doesn't come close. Likewise, unless they fix the source quotations, it will be fun (AI written informa…
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(Quote) That is a good point that I didn't dive deeper in the article. Briefly: * Using an adblocker is like sneaking into a theatre without paying a ticket: no harm done, but if many people do it, the actors will starve. * Piracy is similar, only …
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What are your thoughts about the ethical (and legal) aspects of AI? I wrote my 2c here: https://io.bikegremlin.com/37797/is-ai-theft/
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(Quote) I am afraid so - don't see a reasonably probable way for it to tone down or revert.
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(Quote) What do you mean - you know I'm all about desks!
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All my life, I've been consoling myself that size doesn't matter...
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(Quote) I don't think it should make me more depressed than rain falling when I wish to ride. It is a problem, a downside, and I will either stop or adjust. At this time, I chose to adjust: Practically stopped writing bilingualy, and reduced the pub…
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I usually see things through, to the end, but in this case I gave up quite early. Still, decided to publish the process (and the very few findings, if any): https://io.bikegremlin.com/32987/my-llm-ai-experiement-and-why-i-shut-it-down/ It felt hol…
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(Quote) I will make more articles and videos on this topic - and why I am convinced it would be a futile endeavour (not 100% sure about that spelling LOL).
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(Quote) Thanks. Note that I still have the platforms: * WordPress websites for articles (bikegremlin.com and subdomains per topic). * YouTube for videos (and Rumble as a backup video storage if YouTube deletes me for whatever reason). * XenForo fo…
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(Quote) Everything has its pros and its cons. It might turn out to be a net zero or even a net positive. Not highly likely, but not impossible. Either way, it should at least leave some room for other fun stuff... :) https://www.youtube.com/watc…
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(Quote) That is a good question. I think that idle time is very important for creativity (and health for that matter - not just for VPSs LOL :) ). So I am not worried about focusing on anything if nothing catches my focus. In fact, I am activelly …
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(Quote) Thinking aloud: In my country they often come up with some very wacky proposal. Then, they make a "reasonable compromise" - and that compromise is what they had intended to do in the first place, but it would have been harder to pu…
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Move to California! :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk
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(Quote) I fear you (and most people in general) are underestimating the impact this will make. And I hope to be very wrong about that. Edit: Of course, it can be used for the good of humanity, to take on the boring menail tasks - as can most machi…