Thanks for your reply. The point here is not about the merits of distrobox for security. This is a constraint that is not easily changed. It is only an element present, not an implementation of sandboxing.

I am looking for the best method that is hopefully less complicated than a systemwide SELinux policy plus Pam and Groups.

If anything, the distrobox is an added issue due to the nobody user.

Complex social hierarchy is a super important aspect to account for too. In the proprietary software realm, you infer confidence in the accumulated wealth hierarchy. In FOSS the hierarchy is not wealth, but reputation like in academia or the film industry. If some company in Oman makes some really great proprietary app, are you going to build your European startup over top of it? Likewise, if in FOSS someone with no reputation makes some killer app, the first question to ask is whether this is going to anchor or support a stellar reputation. Maybe they are just showing off skills to land a job. If that is the case, they are just like startups that are only looking to get bought up quickly by some bigger fish. We are all conditioned to think in terms of horded wealth as the only form of hierarchy, but that is primitive. If all the wealth was gone, humans are still fundamentally complex social animals, and will always establish a complex hierarchy. This is one of the spaces where it is different.

Thanks. This was helpful.

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Yeah, I probably should use Python, it just takes me longer and I am much less likely to keep hacking around with it later. It feels like a foreign language relative to bash. The problem came from greping using for loops, so I’m in that mindset. Point taken though.

llama.cpp is at the core of almost all offline, open weights models. The server it creates is Open AI API compatible. Oobabooga Textgen WebUI is more user GUI oriented but based on llama.cpp. Oobabooga has the setup for loading models with a split workload between the CPU and GPU which makes larger gguf quantized models possible to run. Llama.cpp, has this feature, Oobabooga implements it. The model loading settings and softmax sampling settings take some trial and error to dial in well. It helps if you have a way of monitoring GPU memory usage in real time. Like I use a script that appends my terminal window title bar with GPU memory usage until inference time.

Ollama is another common project people use for offline open weights models, and it also runs on top of llama.cpp. It is a lot easier to get started in some instances and several projects use Ollama as a baseline for “Hello World!” type stuff. It has pretty good model loading and softmax settings without any fuss, but it does this at the expense of only running on GPU or CPU but never both in a split workload. This may seem great at first, but if you never experience running much larger quantized models in the 30B-140B range, you are unlikely to have success or a positive experience overall. The much smaller models in the 4B-14B range are all that are likely to run fast enough on your hardware AND completely load in your GPU memory if you only have 8GB-24GB. Most of the newer models are actually Mixture of Experts architectures. This means it is like loading ~7 models initially, but then only inferencing two of them at any one time. All you need is the system memory or the Deepspeed package (uses disk drive for excess space required) to load these larger models. Larger quantized models are much much smarter and more capable. You also need llama.cpp if you want to use function calling for agentic behaviors. Look into the agentic API and pull history in this area of llama.cpp before selecting what models to test in depth.

Huggingface is the goto website for sharing and sourcing models. That is heavily integrated with GitHub, so it is probably as toxic long term, but I do not know of a real FOSS alternative for that one. Hosting models is massive I/O for a server.

Pipe Pipe is better than Newpipe. I use F-droid’s VLC front end for local music because the built in android back end is VLC. For everything else, in browser

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Havana might be nice

I was thinking more about the overall bubble bursting.

The importance is on exponential growth beyond that of military spending. The leader of the global economy has massive overall implications on geopolitics.

The military analysts point to the age bubble in China as the tell for Taiwan. They really can’t play the long game because of the population bubble. Most project that peak invasion opportunity is around 2027 and the risk goes down substantially after 2030 and then 2035.

We are less than 10 years away from the final fab node. The exponential growth is over. It actually already is over as the people on the bleeding edge are already at the end.

Most people are ignorant of the implications here. Silicon chips are the only time in human history when a civilian industry grew faster than the largest military could finance. There is no replacement. We will return to the ways of 80+ years ago. The next major age of technology is biological, but we are still centuries away from that future.

TSMC is all that stops the invasion of Taiwan. If TSMC is not relevant even for a moment, China will invade to end their civil war. You can count on NK invading SK at the same time and taking Samsung.

China already has domestic incentives in place for home grown GPUs. They will likely displace Nvidia entirely within 5-8 years.

Ultimately, a unified architecture will win. The reason CPUs cannot handle the load of AI is due to the L2 to L1 cache bus throughput. It requires a major redesign, but it is a solvable problem. The real problem is that that kind of redesign takes the full 10 year hardware design cycle time to create from scratch.

AI is still not going away in the long term. The present world is just like the early days of the microprocessor. The 6502 was little more than a toy. It is still in all western digital hard drives. The fundamental architecture is still the same in all CPUs. It was the systems we built around them that made them useful. A base inference model is primitive. The AI that owns the future is agentic systems.

That will burst it. This is why the billion dollar put. He had this info in advance.

Probably staged this to try and backpedal open weights models, but that ship has sailed.

Looks like there are no problems with kernels scanned from around 2021.

https://linux-hardware.org/?view=computers&vendor=Alienware&model=X51+R2

Not allowed until after you write the bootloader Hercules. Tell the gods of Olympus hello. Perhaps I will visit them one day. Gentoo with Sakaki was enough to sate my thirst.

How well they pay IT? I think we just found a new anon the school shooter.

Last I checked schools are so fucked up they use proprietary exploitive data slaver garbage for everything digital, like digital rape slavery of all kids with no alternative. If they cannot get the IT fundamentals correct, this is just target practice.

Do any of these types of units manage to play something like Super Metroid with perfect controls to the point of original ROM glitch key combos? Even the switch native emulation failed at that one when I tried before I quit anything Nintendo related for their lack of ethics, theft, and extortion business practices. I got irritated when playing emulation if I could not play according to the old archived guides for the game. The emulated controls couldn’t do the same original key combos even when doing so programmatically with a microcontroller.

That is the kind of example that should be in the manpage. Thanks

US is not supporting Russia, but Iran is. Israel is atrocious and it would not surprise me at all if they absolutely know about Oct 7th well in advance. It was the result if their prejudice and Palestinian concentration camps before Oct 7th in either case that caused the initial attack. However it was not entirely without cause like with Russia in Ukraine. Everywhere is complicated. The USA is super polarized and in pretty bad shape, but it us not exporting suicide bombers. Is it better to target with 10 million dollar munitions remotely no, but those are not targeting crowds of people as the primary goal