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AI Overlords? Not quite yet…

By me / May 3, 2023 / Comments Off on AI Overlords? Not quite yet…

I was browsing Mastodon today and saw a puzzle. I was able to figure out the code fairly easily in my head, but for some reason, I decided that I wanted to see how ChatGPT handled the puzzle. I used ChatGPT4 and ended up having to give the answer to the LLM before it was…

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Dall-e Generated image of a Cartoon Mastodon with brown fur. Tusks are a bit of a mess with one growing in and the other growing up.

Using Consul and Nomad to run LibreTranslate for a Mastodon Server

By me / March 1, 2023 /

I am an admin for a Mastodon Instance called anti-social.online. When I first started setting up the server Mastodon, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticache, and LibreTranslate all ran on the same VM.  Unfortunately, I found that LibreTranslate timed out pretty often, and I wondered if there was an issue with resources (I had several languages loaded). Doing…

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