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I would purchase [2] used 3090's as close to $600 as you can. The 3090 still remains the price-performance king.


Give this project a try. I've been using it with promising results.

https://github.com/matthsena/AlcheMark


I tried with one PDF and was surprised to see it connect to some cloud service:

  2025-05-14 07:58:49,373 - urllib3.connectionpool - DEBUG - Starting new HTTPS connection (1): openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net:443
  2025-05-14 07:58:50,446 - urllib3.connectionpool - DEBUG - https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net:443 "GET /encodings/o200k_base.tiktoken HTTP/1.1" 200 361 3922
The project's README doesn't mention that anywhere...


The project's README mentions that it uses tiktoken[0], which is a separate project created by OpenAI.

tiktoken downloads token models the first time you use them, but it does not mention that. It does cache the models, so you shouldn't see more of those connections, if I'm understanding the code correctly.

[0] <https://github.com/openai/tiktoken>


I'll check it out!


Not that unusual in the context of trying to outshine anything that could be released tomorrow at llamacon.


If you want a dick move like this it's better to do so after. OpenAI consistently pull this trick on Google.


I built a site that saves time by summarizing YouTube videos or news articles by simply inputting the URL. The tool preserves the original context, allowing users to ask follow-up questions.

I'd like to continue building fun projects like this until I find a market. I work in Phase 1 clinical trials and the end goal would be to implement some of these efficiencies into health technologies.

https://tldw.pw/


- Install Shelter from F-Droid

- Install the Aurora store apk inside of Shelter

- Open Aurora store in Shelter's work profile and use like a normal play store and all apps installed within Aurora remain sandboxed


There is also a built-in Work Profile feature now, under Settings -> System -> Multiple Users.

It basically does the same thing under the hood.


Not mentioned here, and more importantly in my opinion, are Burry's bets on US Treasury bonds crashing.


While inside China, it is virtually impossible to work in any capacity, in any field, without using WeChat.

Outside China, it is the most reliable means of communication to people without access to unrestricted internet. This has become even more difficult within the past year with the blocking of Shadowsocks proxies. You are unlikely to have friends with the ability or knowledge to install v2ray+vmess+websocket+tls for a reliable, unrestricted connection.

Your next best option is Facetime/iMessage, in my experience.


Does vmess still work? I haven’t been to China for 2 years but that’s what I relied on then to binge watch youtube


I can confirm that this method worked at least until early March of this year.


I am so happy Jitsi exists. My friends and I have a room that we regularly pop into to say hi or play games together.

The mobile app I downloaded through F-Droid works incredibly well, and for those of you Firefox users who aren't having the best experience, I recommend using the Electron desktop app [https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases].

I've been using the Jitsi Electron app in conjunction with OBS + the VirtualCam plugin to share games, videos and my desktop. Hopefully I can convert more Zoom users.


Small routers exist. Take for example this battery powered GL-MiFi [1] LTE router. Comes embededded with OpenWRT so your LTE connection can utilize Wireguard, Shadowsocks, OpenVPN, etc. Would pair well with something like the PinePhone.

[1] https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mifi/


Hm. That looks cool as fuck. Do you happen to know if it needs to be specially provisioned with e.g. AT&T, or can one simply take the LTE sim card out of their phone and stick it into one of these?


I've had the same issues and a similar experience after using Signal the past few years. It took so much effort to convince my closest friends to install Signal and the single most frustrating thing it would do is force us back to SMS because sending of encrypted messages would continuously fail.

What really sucks is that there's no hope of me convincing them to switch again if a better messenger were to come along.


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