Really happy with Cloudron as well. Have been using it since 2022 for a small business and personally. They recently added community apps so now there is an official way for the community to add apps that are not yet officially supported. Really amazing product and pretty rock solid have migrated a complete Cloudron installation from one server to another a couple of times without issues.
cloudron has that elbow grease that only comes from years of running a project with an actual community of real users: a solid platform featureset like backups, DB management or mail sending, but also addressing niche apps' needs like .well-known or custom ports, UDP, server certificates available to the app and not just on platform frontend proxy layer
Of course it's tempting to reply "don't install random extensions". But a bigger point here is that browsers have grown so massively complex that it's almost impossible to build one, so we don't have an ecosystem where you can choose your browser for safety and I can choose mine for freedom. Of course, Google has had a big incentive and hand in making it this way.
For example, with the simplex method for linear programming, we don't do anything about disallowing the hard instances. We just solve the problems as they come in and none of the ones we get asked to solve ever turn out to be hard. (Generalizing, of course.)
The pacers have to obey the same rules as every other runner. They start at the starting line, they can't run inside the lines, etc.
One of the reasons that Eliud Kipchoge's "Breaking 2" marathon wasn't a legal world record was that teams of pacers would rotate in, take a break, then rotate in again. This way he could have pacers with him almost the entire way. But in a real world record attempt, the winner is always running by themselves in the last part of the race because all of the pacers have been left behind or dropped out -- by definition of a world record, they can't keep up to the end.
The people currently in power want every single byte of data they can get on people who reside in this country so they can divide them up by arbitrary criteria and do with those groups as they please. Depending on the person, that might mean imprisonment, it might mean deportation, it might mean something worse.
Imprisonment? deportation? these are petty things.
The serious danger is polarization and radicalization, turning people against each other, suppressing voices of reason. The ensuing chaos could help pull off another January 6th, only successful. Gerrymandering is one approach, but with more detailed data more interesting things may become possible.
Alternative take that was expressed in the other post on this: census data users found DP extremely hard to work with, and viewed it as an imposed solution from the ivory tower. I wonder if any user could chime in on this.
Doesn't this mean such data analysis can be used by anyone against anyone else? This does not just mean one political group can do this analysis, any political group or foreign power can make use of the data if it is not protected using differential privacy. Has the military weighed in on this? Seems like the data could be used to attack police forces, cities, states, demographic groups, groups of almost any kind. It could be used to identify military forces, say those at secret bases. Turning off the privacy protections seems like tearing down a fence; makes it easier to take your horse out for a ride, but also makes it easier for the wolves to get in.
> so they can divide them up by arbitrary criteria and do with those groups as they please
You mean like by race, gender, and sexual orientation, and using statistical analysis to portray a group of oppressors vs. oppressed, perpetrators and victims? Exactly what was happening via official public policy for the last 4 years while the progressives cheered it on?
All I'm asking is that we be consistent in our outrage.
If you don't like what's happening now, I understand that point of view. But to pretend it didn't happen already is mind boggling.
If for some reason you don't think 2020-2024 were a social morass of slicing up people by their "identity", and in many cases were in fact made official public policy by way of signed executive orders (you can google them, I'm not your personal researcher), then I don't know what planet you were living on during that time.
Qwen3.5-122B is actually Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. The A10B means that this is a "mixture of experts" model where only 10B parameters are activated at a given time. Whereas Qwen3.6-27B is a "dense" model where all 27B parameters are activated all the time. So for many tasks, you'd expect the 27B dense model to be better than the 122B-A10B model.
This is all so new, and caught us completely unprepared that there's no official university-level policies. Most of us are still navigating the waters and seeing what works and what doesn't work anymore.
I have colleagues that are teaching for more than 30 years, few years away from retirement, who suddenly have been confronted with a new way of doing things. Those are the ones that are still insisting on doing practical projects, etc. I've only been doing this for 20 years, and I'm quite lazy (worked previously as software engineer), so I've moved to those practical tests. I guess that there should probably exist a class or workshop to teach these students how to use LLMs effectively, but as I said, this technology and its implications is quite new.
Personally, what I did was to give them the "lecture" in the line of that they do not understand what the machine has generated, that is not the way a true engineer does, try to do some parallel with things like an LLM designing a bridge and civil engineers building that bridge, and a fatal flaw collapsing the all thing, etc.
In other words, we do not have a formal system in place, it's all talking and convincing them. Obviously it's a big enough problem that should deserve more investment in solutions, but we are all overwhelmed by other tasks. Maybe LLM studios should be held responsible for all these "disruptions" and provide solutions to problems they created! :)
