TheHobbyist
joined 2 years ago
Yes I find it very confusing that signal contacts aren't the same as regular contacts...
One thing which I find useful is to be able to turn installation/setup instructions into ansible roles and tasks. If you're unfamiliar, ansible is a tool for automated configuration for large scale server infrastructures. In my case I only manage two servers but it is useful to parse instructions and convert them to ansible, helping me learn and understand ansible at the same time.
Here is an example of instructions which I find interesting: how to setup docker for alpine Linux: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Docker
Results are actually quite good even for smaller 14B self-hosted models like the distilled versions of DeepSeek, though I'm sure there are other usable models too.
To assist you in programming (both to execute and learn) I find it helpful too.
I would not rely on it for factual information, but usually it does a decent job at pointing in the right direction. Another use i have is helpint with spell-checking in a foreign language.
I think this is the case if you add them to your contacts from within signal, compared to doing it yourself in your contacts app.
Regarding photos, and videos specifically:
I know you said you are starting with selfhosting so your question was focusing on that, but I would like to also share my experience with ente which has been working beautifully for my family, partner and myself. They are truly end to end encrypted, with the source code available on github.
They have reasonable prices. If you feel adventurous you can actually also host it yourself. They have advanced search features and face recognition which all run on device (since they can't access your data) and it works very well. They have great sharing and collaborating features and don't lock features behind accounts so you can actually gather memories from people on your quota by just sharing a link. You can also have a shared family plan.
Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity
Ollama, latest version. I have it setup with Open-WebUI (though that shouldn't matter). The 14B is around 9GB, which easily fits in the 12GB.
I'm repeating the 28 t/s from memory, but even if I'm wrong it's easily above 20.
Specifically, I'm running this model: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q4_K_M
Edit: I confirmed I do get 27.9 t/s, using default ollama settings.
Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity
You can. I'm running a 14B deepseek model on mine. It achieves 28 t/s.
and requires phone numbers (meaning your real identity in the US).
This gets shared a lot as a major concern for all services requiring a phone number. It is definitely true that by definition, a phone number is linked to a person's identity, but in the case of signal, no other information can be derived from it. When the US government requests data for that phone number from Signal, like they occasionally do, the only information Signal provides them with is whether they do have a signal account and when they registered it last and when they last signed in. How is that truly problematic? For all other services which require a phone number, you would have much more information which is where it is truly problematic, say social graph, text messages, media, locations, devices etc. But none of that is accessible by Signal. So literally the only thing signal can say is whether the person has an account, that's about it. What's the big deal about it? Clearly the US government already has your phone number because they need it to make the request for Signal, but they gain absolutely no other information.
Get what you are trying to say but both are still encrypted. They simply aren't end to end encrypted. So the messages are private.
You explain exactly why messages are not private: if they are not end-to-end encrypted, by definition Telegram can read all the messages. That's exactly what end-to-end is meant to protect against. So in that aspect, Signal truly is private and Telegram maybe, if you activate their private chats but I've not seen security experts praise their algorithm, compared to their regular endorsement for Signal.
DeepComputing is preparing a RISC-V based motherboard to be used in existing Framework Laptop 13s!
Some snippets from the Framework blog post (the link to which is provided below):
The DeepComputing RISC-V Mainboard uses a JH7110 processor from StarFive which has four U74 RISC-V cores from SiFive.
This Mainboard is extremely compelling, but we want to be clear that in this generation, it is focused primarily on enabling developers, tinkerers, and hobbyists to start testing and creating on RISC-V.
DeepComputing is also working closely with the teams at Canonical and Red Hat to ensure Linux support is solid through Ubuntu and Fedora.
DeepComputing is demoing an early prototype of this Mainboard in a Framework Laptop 13 at the RISC-V Summit Europe next week.
Announcement: https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing
The upcoming product page (no price/availability yet): https://frame.work/products/deep-computing-risc-v-mainboard
Edit: Adding link the the announcement by DeepComputing: https://deepcomputing.io/a-risc-v-world-first-independently-developed-risc-v-mainboard-for-a-framework-laptop-from-deepcomputing/
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