Lucia (Confused Engineer)

Lucia (Confused Engineer)

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Lover of music, art, and technology. Software engineer by trade, sometimes I post fun things on here. Might be a tad unhinged. πŸ˜… Comments are my own, not any organization or company I may be a part of.

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Lucia (Confused Engineer) reposted

this, yeah idk, being trans/adhd/<nationality>/<age>/etc should never be the main thing about you imo show that you can actually build yourself beyond the cards you got dealt at the start, that you can actually do things beyond your base stats that's how you become yourself, really

Some trans people don't like hearing this, but your goal should honestly be to ensure that being trans is at highest like the 4th or 5th most interesting thing about you There are a lot of cis people who will be more accepting if this is the case

Fitting... I see the value and use it because of that. Not going to weigh in on the ethics of it. And I have deep concerns about the application and usage as well as the impact on society especially alongside surveillance capabilities. As well as who controls it.

Vee (PurposeUnknown)@purposeunknown.xyz

I agree: neat! (but god please, can that /not/ be my patron saint)

Prior to AI you needed a certain degree of understanding to get things working. And it was very obvious if you were clueless. Today...I have actually had people tell me they know more on topics I have patents and research papers in than me and tell me they got it from an AI. That's not ok.

To be clear. I don't hate AI. But I do think it's important to acknowledge the limitations of what we have and be respectful to the expertise people have spent years acquiring. My complaint isn't the tech, it's the couple bad apples treating it like WebMD with their doctor.

The realization that when you build a home lab and then keep building it over 6-7 years. Maybe just maybe you should update the documentation. πŸ˜‚ Because sure I can mentally keep track of 6 nodes of VMs, a 4 node k8s cluster, and 5 routers. No...cue spending an entire day documenting things. πŸ˜‚

Here's the rest of the infrastructure. Top shelf firewall and routing for a server in the den. Server 2nd to last photo. Bottom shelf AI compute shelf for running the agent harness and AI project experiments isolated from the network. 2.5gbs card is passed through to a VM on the k8s net.

Vee (PurposeUnknown)@purposeunknown.xyz

the compute powering our agent:

Thinking of completely normal solutions to problems. Like resetting the CMOs on a motherboard by programmatically jumping pins with an esp8266 over wifi. For context: This server box has sodimm to desktop ddr adapters which always cause issues on the first boot. Resetting the CMOs fixes the issue.

I did not exactly consider when I was doing my undergrad thesis and launching pentests that I would be applying cybersecurity principles for ai actions...add one onto your home network with shell access and... ...let's just say it's been very interesting in terms of threat modeling πŸ˜…

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