In europe we use traffic cameras for this. Going through red light? A bill is in your mailbox automatically. No need for a whole police station.
NYC is ramping up on this as well.
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prettyblocks commented on When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army jackpoulson.substack.com/... · Posted by u/OgsyedIE
I was at Defcon in the 1990s and it was never a counterculture conference. It has always been Nerd Spring Break Daytona Beach.
Felt like counter culture to me when I went to my first one (DC11). I remember punk kids selling manuals and lineman sets they stole out of the back of telco trucks outside the entrance of Alexis Park.
Called it.
It's very unfortunate that the local inference community has aggregated around Ollama when it's clear that's not their long term priority or strategy.
Its imperative we move away ASAP
Local inference is becoming completely commoditized imo. These days even docker has a local models you can launch with a single click (or command).
Thankyou for the reminder, long term Node-RED user here, I recently looked again at n8n and wondered why I never took it to far, this is the reason. When you see a git icon and repo it's easy missed.
The license looks quite permissive though as long as you're not using n8n as the platform for your business. According to the license, if you just wrap/productize the flows you create and users don't bring their own n8n credentials or API keys, then you're good. It seems like there's a ton you can build off of it and still stay within the parameters of the license.
prettyblocks commented on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/Topfi
It's "here" if you live in a handful of cities around the world, and travel within specific areas in those cities.
Getting this tech deployed globally will take another decade or two, optimistically speaking.
Given how well it seems to be going in those specific areas, it seems like it's more of a regulatory issue than a technological one.
In a related subject, what’s the best hardware to run local LLM’s for this use case? Assuming a budget of no more of $2.5K.
And, is there an open source implementation of an agentic workflow (search tools and others) to use it with local LLM’s?
You can build a pretty good PC with a used 3090 for that budget. It will outperform anything else in terms of speed. Otherwise, you can get something like an m4 pro mac with 48gb ram.
prettyblocks commented on Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 mbh4h.substack.com/p/neur... · Posted by u/keiferski
I'm not seeing anyone mention of Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, released a decade after Neuromancer and Akira. It's a significant contribution to the cyberpunk canon told from the perspective of an investigative gonzo journalist exploring all the oddities of his world. Goodreads lists it as the 2nd best cyberpunk manga after Akira.
It's a masterpiece. Surprised it hasn't been adapted as a film or series.
i recently tried openwebui but it was so painful to get it to run with local model.
that "first run experience" of lm studio is pretty fire in comparison. can't really talk about actually working with it though, still waiting for the 8GB download
Interesting. I run my local llms through ollama and it's zero trouble to get that working in openwebui as long as the ollama server is running.
Just ordered a $12k mac studio w/ 512GB of integrated RAM.
Can't wait for it to arrive and crank up LM Studio. It's literally the first install. I'm going to download it with safari.
LM Studio is newish, and it's not a perfect interface yet, but it's fantastic at what it does which is bring local LLMs to the masses w/o them having to know much.
There is another project that people should be aware of: https://github.com/exo-explore/exo
Exo is this radically cool tool that automatically clusters all hosts on your network running Exo and uses their combined GPUs for increased throughput.
Like HPC environments, you are going to need ultra fast interconnects, but it's just IP based.
I've been using openwebui and am pretty happy with it. Why do you like lm studio more?
prettyblocks commented on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers kianbradley.com/2025/06/1... · Posted by u/k-ian
Not a lawyer, but I think intent is a big part of legality and I hope that doing something like this for research purposes should be relatively safe.