Okay, i am yet again going to try #i2p. This time I have configured it as a system service on my local server that also runs my #Monero daemon and p2pool. This machine runs 24/7. I got the router console to be available over LAN and gave it a username and password. And now I'm going to forward the HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy ports through UFW so that I can use it on other LAN devices. I also have the bandwidth numbers set to ~32 mbps in and 8mbps out. This is by far the best chance I possibly have to get it to function properly, because every time I have tried I2P in the past, I have been incredibly disappointed with its speed. If this doesn't make it work decently, then I do not know what the hell will.

Damn, #Monero is right near its 1.5 year SMA. Talk about a good time to pick up more picos.

Hell yeah. Have a listen from 1:41:17 to 1:42:13 The Jack Mallers Show: 15 Questions: The Strait, Strategy, mNAV, Dilution, & My Boots Starting from: 01:41:17 Episode webpage:

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15 Questions: The Strait, Strategy, mNAV, Dilution, & My Boots by The Jack Mallers Show

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#MeshCore

If you are a #P2pool user and have not yet updated to version 4.16 released on the 13th. You absolutely must update now because there is an actively exploited vulnerability that will allow the attacker to take your payouts. I just found out about this myself, and something like 2-5 days worth of my mining rewards might have went to them, although my hashrate is low, so they wouldn't have gotten much from me. #Monero

I just had to buy a new bedspread for 81 mXMR. My old one has had pretty bad rips in it for a long time, and I just never bothered to replace it. But it keeps on getting worse, so I knew I had to at some point. #Monero

WARNING: vent When talking about #degoogle i always hear something to the effect of "but, my bank app bruh" FUCK YO MUTHA FUCKIN BANK APP!!! Like seriously, you lazy fuck head. You can use your fucking bank from this thing called a web browser. Some good examples are Firefox or Chromium. If your bank does not allow you to use a website to manage your account, then SWITCH FUCKING BANKS! I've heard that some people live in the European hellhole where you can't do banking from a website because of needing a phone to authenticate. In which case, buy yourself a cheap little ass Android phone that sits in a drawer powered off at all times unless you fucking need it. You sorry excuse for a human being have no integrity because you talk like you want to maintain your sovereignty and then you're like, "oh, but it's too hard", so you do nothing. -- vent over

This is actually turning out to be a good test of #AI. I am trying different model types, like instruct versus think, and different model sizes, like 3 billion versus 7 billion parameters. If there are two transceivers at 30,000 feet with a power output of 22 dBm, an antenna gain of 0 dBi on 910.525 MHz, with a receiver sensitivity of -120 dBm, how far can those nodes communicate with each other? #MeshCore

Damn, IBM Granite #AI is released under MIT license, and the stuff is all open source, except apparently for the dataset, which is apparently publicly viewable, but you have to ask permission to change it. So that makes it not okay. As far as I can tell, OLMO-3 7 billion is the smallest truly open AI model I can find. I was hoping to find a smaller one, so that it would run on my computer a little bit better. And the IBM Granite 3 billion model did run better. But, since it's not fully open source, I will not continue using it.

Rofl, a friend asked me what book reader I used to read EPUBs and stuff and my answer was Booky McBookface from #Fdroid. That app had not been updated since like 2019 and appears to have now been archived because when I did a search for it I could no longer find it so I had to go find a new book reader that was similar to replace it with. I settled on areada:

Areada | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A lightweight offline reader for EPUB, PDF, TXT, and FB2.

#MeshCore-open got a new app update and its lookin really nice

There is a new #MeshCore repeater closer to me. However, closer does not mean close. The thing is still ~40 miles away, but considering the closest one used to be ~70 miles away, that's an improvement.

Hmmm, so today was "let's run #AI on my local machine" day. I installed #Ollama and then found out I had to be careful because "open weight" and "open source" are different but are both considered as "open". The only truely #FOSS model I am aware of is olmo from #AI2. "ollama run olmo-3:7b" worked and gave me a local AI to play with. However, the thing is very verbose and takes a lot of tokens to answer questions and so is slow on my machines. It definitely works. It just takes a long time. I guess I got used to the speed of nano-gpt and had my expectations set WAY to high.

Livin that 256kbps life. Our fiber went down several hours ago and they've found the damage but said it's pretty extensive and will take a couple hours to repair. My guess is somebody hit it with a backhoe or something while doing some digging.

Well, I didn't notice this at the time, but apparently like nine days ago, a #MeshCore node wandered close enough to be picked up by my node. I would not have expected that since currently at least. The node density is like 1 for every 172,000 people. And I only live in a city of like, say, 50 to 60,000. As the number of nodes increases and that number decreases farther and farther, I assume I will start to pick up nodes wandering into my range more often. This time was just happenstance, but it will begin to occur more often.