I have to say, I'm enthralled by your two comments and what you've shared. My favorite director is Richard Linklater, mainly because his storytelling is incredible, but at a close second is the way he has pushed the boundaries of narrative with technology like rotoscoping (and which you referenced). This is a fascinating thread. I'm definitely a fan of your work.

Yikes dude.

This is my question, and why not go a step further and just self host foregjo?

Forgejo is a single go binary and very fast.

You can script it using an API, you have full access to the database which can be sqlite3 or postgres.

Then you get all the benefits of an integrated issue tracker which has a great GUI for humans to review.

I really don't understand the raison-de-etre for beads other than yak shaving, and would really like to.

Why can't you use an issue tracker that is built into the git control, like forgejo? It feels like it would be easy to use this with an API key, out or direct database access (I'm doing both with agents). If you self host, you've got a very standard and reliable issue tracker. Why does beads need to exist? What can't an agent do with that setup I've described above?

I believe the idea is that it's for managing many fine-grained todo's to keep the agents on track. When multiple code agents are working at the same time and when there's a merge conflict, the code agents can do the merges, too.

But yeah, I'm only running one code agent at a time, so that's not a problem I have. I should probably start with just a todo list as plain text.

Anyone know what the story is for running LLMs on apple hardware but using asahi?

AFAIK MPS cannot be used on Asahi, so it has to be done using Vulkan which will definitely be much slower.

The takeaway from these comments are that you can really run local models if you use m-series devices from apple.

But, can you do that if you install Linux on that hardware?

I hate to admit apple hardware is incredible. But, I can't say the same about macos anymore.

Can I run Linux and reap the benefits of m-series chips with local inference?

Or, are there any alternatives where I can use llms on Linux on a laptop?

Well, Candace Owens and Valhalla VFT are talking about exactly those things and the MSM is saying their concerns are baseless. I can't believe I actually watched Candace Owens discuss some of this stuff, I shudder to write that.

Owens is unhinged. She's also claiming the French government are trying to have her killed because she's claiming their first lady is secretly transgender. It's not just the "MSM" who are pointing out she has no credibility, it's also people like Ben Shapiro from her same corner of the media.

Just checking, are you sure this is the story: "hinged on a confession by the killer to his dad." It seems that story is a-changing and that's an important note. My point might be that what is put out as the story often comes with an agenda.

This is a reference I think to the Charlie Kirk murder.

I wish I could do the reverse. Could I and a million other people pay $20 now to a few law firms that could fight this without need for compensation and do everything to expose this to everyone in America?

Isn't that what organizations like the ACLU are for? Except ACLU fights for civil rights whereas your hypothetical organization fights for consumer rights. The reason why it doesn't exist is that it suffers heavily from the free rider problem. Any individual's donation of $20 or whatever is unlikely to get them $20 worth of returns, because the lawsuit is either funded or not. Moreover you'd benefit regardless of whether you donated or not, so there's no incentive to donate.

But isn’t that true of the ACLU as well?

A similar idea that's immediately actionable is subscribing to independent media doing investigative journalism

hmmm that is very interesting wonder if its possible even

When I read the negative take on "it's always somebody else selecting the music for you" I really recoiled. My favorite way to listen to music today is BECAUSE there is someone choosing it for me. I love the human stories behind the music, and it is totally missing with algorithmic stuff. I love Gilles Peterson, and Derek Smith on KMHD, for example, exactly because they are terrific and interesting people and they bring that humanity with their choice of tracks. When they interview people it is so much more interesting as a companion to the music.

My favorite thing about Napster and LimeWire was when you could find a song, and then BROWSE the hard drive of the person hosting that song. It was so interesting to find house music and be digging through the tastes of someone in London. And, then chatting with them, and discovering the live scenes, the people behind the music, etc. I loved that and nothing has ever replaced it.

Having said all this, I am interested in playing with "scrobbling." Anyone have any advice on how to get started? Do you need a music library? Is there a way to import your playlists from YouTube music? I'm not a spotify person.

> My favorite thing about Napster and LimeWire was when you could find a song, and then BROWSE the hard drive of the person hosting that song.

Soulseek lets you do this and is still going

Soulseek is still going?

I discovered so many artists, international variations of albums, live sessions and bootlegs from that app, it changed my relationship with music.

I have to go back and check it out.

There's even a FOSS client now https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus

Nicotine+ has existed for at least 15 years. I'm pretty sure it was open source all this time.

while Soulseek has existed for 24 years, I mention it in case GP's use didn't overlap.

Soulseek is definitely still going, and absolutely still captures that feeling GP is talking about :)

Beyond that, and practically speaking, I find it the easiest way to find large, nicely organized discographies. And some not so nicely organized.

> When I read the negative take on "it's always somebody else selecting the music for you" I really recoiled.

Someone clearly didn't listen to John Peel and Andy Kershaw in their youth.

(also, IN MY DAY, it was generally somebody else selecting the music for you - radio DJs/programmers, TV music shows, availability of things in shops, being able to actually get to the damn shops, etc. None of this choose your own adventure streaming or digital music malarkey.)

If you use streaming you can link it to lastfm or Listenbrainz(open source alternative). It will automagically scrobble your listening over.

Otherwise you need to find a music player that supports it or has a plugin to add the functionality. I use tauron for scrobbling my local listening.

i used to use last.fm with winamp and the like. that needed scrobbling plugins. nowadays, i use it with spotify, and it's pretty simple: (1) make an account on last.fm. (2) go into spotify settings → social → connected apps, and add it in.

I for one am grateful someone is finally standing up to these lunatic radical typographers and their diversity, equity and italics tyranny.