What happens when you combine an NVIDIA RTX 3060, an open-weight 14-billion parameter LLM, and a global network of amateur radio operators? You get a surprisingly perfect example of edge computing.
Continue reading From the Ham Shack to the Edge: Delivering Real Value with Local LLMsCategory Archives: hamradio
What I Learnt Giving an LLM Agent Control of My Crypto Wallet
In my role as a Senior OpenShift Technical Account Manager at Red Hat, I focus on mission-critical stability; helping organisations navigate the shift from cloud-native architectures to AI-ready operations. But there is a distinct difference between advising on a scalable MLOps workflow and trusting a local LLM to trade your own capital in a volatile market.
Would you trust an AI agent with your bank account? I did; and it was a masterclass in ‘Boom or Bust’ logic.
Continue reading What I Learnt Giving an LLM Agent Control of My Crypto WalletBuilding qtel (Echolink client) under Fedora Linux
With both my previous bad experience building qtel (the Linux EchoLink client) and recent discussions on a forum around similar difficulties – I thought I’d identify, resolve and document the issues.
I’m not sure what’s changed but the process is now very simple (Fedora 28):-
git clone https://github.com/sm0svx/svxlink.git
cd svxlink/
cd src
sudo dnf install cmake libsigc++20-devel qt-devel popt-devel libgcrypt-devel gsm-devel tcl-devel
cmake .
make
cp bin/qtel DESTINATION_PATH_OF_CHOICE
Depending on libs already installed, additional packages may be required – as indicated by failures during the ‘cmake’ stage.
