CJ Trowbridge

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Analysis Lab — Hardware & Software Stack, Methodology

Last updated: May 26 2025


1  Servers

Hostname Model CPUs (total cores) Memory GPUs PSUs
edge-router Dell PowerEdge R410 2 × Xeon L5520 @ 2.26 GHz (8 cores total) 16 GB DDR3 ECC 2 × 500 W
docker-ai Dell PowerEdge R720 2 × Xeon E5‑2670 v2 @ 2.5 GHz (40 cores total) 256 GB DDR3 ECC 2 × NVIDIA Tesla P40 24 GB 2 × 750 W
docker-logic Dell PowerEdge R630 (8 SFF) 2 × Xeon E5‑2680 v3 @ 2.4 GHz (48 cores total) 128 GB DDR4 ECC 2 × 750 W

Both servers run Ubuntu 24 LTS with a single, root‑based Docker daemon. The edge router runs pfSense and also hosts a WireGuard tunnel for remote/public access to the internal network.


2  AI Server (docker-ai) Containers

Container Image GPU Host Ports Notes
Portainer portainer/portainer-ce:lts 9443 (HTTPS) Runs as root (-u 0:0) to avoid cert‑dir permissions
Ollama ollama/ollama:latest 11434 Models stored in /var/containers/ollama (bind‑mount)
Stable‑Diffusion WebUI zefie/stable-diffusion-automatic1111:latest 7860 Model assets bind‑mounted from /var/containers/sd

3  Logic Server (docker-logic) Containers

Container Image Host Ports Notes
Portainer portainer/portainer-ce:lts 9443 / 8000 Runs as root inside
OpenWebUI ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:latest 3000 OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://docker-ai:11434
Dashy lissy93/dashy:latest 8088 Config & icons bind‑mounted from /home/cj/docker/dashy
Jellyfin jellyfin/jellyfin:latest 8096 Config & cache in /srv/jellyfin; media on local disks
GitLab gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest 8929 / 2222 Persistent volumes gitlab_config, gitlab_data; self‑hosted code repo

4 Setup Scripts

Backup your favorite TikTok accounts.

Backs up tiktok accounts in case of disasters.

Ethical Artificial Intelligence

A recorded livestream discussion on ethical issues in generative artificial intelligence featuring CJ Trowbridge, Future Inifinitive, and The Real Cornpop.

My main takeaways of the topics discussed:

  • The practical impossibility of any real ban or limits in a post-international-law world
  • Lack of explicit consent vs fair use rights
  • Derivative work vs stolen work
  • Alignment
    • Elon assumes he can force AI to act like Stephen Miller; it’s more likely to act like the hundreds of thousands of administrative beurocrats who refused to go along with him.
  • Consolidation of power/ wealth
    • Epistemic Power
      • Centralized corporate/oligarch control over the social construction of truth and knowledge
      • The only truth is whatever serves capital
      • Bias and representation
        • What perspectives does a model built by {Sama, Elon, Zucc} ignore, exclude, or erase
    • Cloud Capital
      • Very large models are almost exclusively built/run by rent-seeking coprorations/oligarchs

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