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by colinsane 4mo ago
a huge aspect of open source is the user -> contributor -> maintainer pipeline. maybe they mean well, but in fact they're constructing a wall between those last two groups. especially in larger projects where maintainership dutie
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by colinsane 4mo ago
good for bitcoin
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by colinsane 6mo ago
sure. git clone https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL= https://openrouter.ai/api ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=<make_an_account_on_openrouter_and_get_this_from_the_settings_panel> claude --mo
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by colinsane 8mo ago
Windows and other OSes have application launchers that open whatever app you want, and those apps may have issues that cause it to download and run arbitrary code. if that's the logic here, then every application launcher is vulnerable
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by colinsane 10mo ago
for public torrents, skip the trackers and just run a DHT crawler like bitmagnet. it'll take a month to "catch up", but after that you'll have more indexed content than any individual tracker & it'll be way snap
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by colinsane 1y ago
> Why hasn’t there been a fork of nixos? And the folks who want to do things in a certain politically leaning way gravitate towards that and those that don’t stay. v.s. > Why hasn’t there been a fork of nixos? And the folks who want t
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by colinsane 1y ago
> I should be able to get a cheap / run my own 600B param model. if the margins on hosted inference are 80%, then you need > 20% utilization of whatever you build for yourself for this to be less costly to you (on margin). i self
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by colinsane 1y ago
> So, there'll be a one-time, 'Oh man, we spent a lot of money and we didn't get anything for it.'
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by colinsane 1y ago
> [RSS] is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has b
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by colinsane 1y ago
wow there's really _zero_ sense of mutual respect in this industry isn't there. it's all just "let's make a buck by being total assholes to everyone around us".
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by colinsane 1y ago
> Are there cons of being more aggressive with these settings? well, the con is you might unknowingly break some setups. take NetworkManager: after tightening it down, did you check both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity? did you check that bot
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by colinsane 1y ago
on the commerce front, it's really easy to find small-to-medium size vendors who accept Bitcoin for just about any category of goods now. on the legal front, there's been some notable "wins" for cryptocurrency advocates:
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by colinsane 1y ago
so you watch videos, listen to music, read books, and take/share photos on a phone, ipad, or tv. you seek a better experience doing those things, and your solution is to spin up some software _on a totally new device_ (a server). that&
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by colinsane 1y ago
what i hated about AI discourse a year ago was how far removed it was from anything concrete. nobody seemed to have a _purpose_ in building AI; no thing they wanted to use it _for_. it was a silly text or image generator, would someday beco
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by colinsane 1y ago
project website, links to a release video and some writeups on the project: https://byran.ee not sure why it's not linked from the README: found it in the repo at website/astro.config.mjs
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by colinsane 2y ago
it really depends on how much you've embraced the tech. say, my parents own phones but don't do much on them except navigation, photos, messaging, and web browsing. if you're not into Uber, Doordash, mobile banking, and so on
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by colinsane 2y ago
heh, if they went 100% "we're operating our service from international waters and won't be taking any DMCA requests" i would donate $1000 on the spot (anonymously, of course, but entirely serious).
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by colinsane 2y ago
reasonable people disagree on whether some things are positive or negative value. IA is one of the go-to examples for that. is it good to make every book ever written freely downloadable (as they were trying with their library project a whi
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by colinsane 2y ago
and a Finn invented the kernel that powers the servers, a Frenchman invented the compression used in the bitstreams, and a German made the standard library/runtime that everything else stands atop: if we gave loyalty to all the invento
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by colinsane 2y ago
i like to invert the model: 1. host all services on the residential IP. 2. restrict all clients to a VPN. because self-hosting for me is more about the sovereignty/autonomy: privacy concerns can weaken that, but inserting a VPN in betw
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by colinsane 2y ago
> This minimal meta-loader will totally work if you invoke it directly like `$ meta_loader.sh foo`, and it will totally not work if you hardcode its path (or a symlink to it) in the ELF headers of a binary. why not have `foo` be a shell
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by colinsane 2y ago
yes. it's working fine for me on 9 y/o integrated intel graphics. but it's kind of still a weird statement to make. i thought it was generally the OS's job to supply the vulkan layer, and that mesa -- which just about ev
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by colinsane 2y ago
`unshare --user --net zed ~/file-to-edit.txt` seems to work fine. it just shows an "auto update failed" warning in the bottom, but seems otherwise functional. does that work for you?
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by colinsane 2y ago
dead on arrival as far as i'm concerned. i guess the parts of the ecosystem low enough to care about things like POSIX compliance are mostly attached to some foundation or other, so maybe those foundations will purchase copies for thei
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by colinsane 2y ago
here's a terrible script which runs as root on all my boxes (as `redirect-tty /dev/tty1 unl0kr`): https://git.uninsane.org/colin/nix-files/src/commit/9189f18c... none of the Linux greeters
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by colinsane 2y ago
my chief concern with the spec was actually "do FTP clients generally support `:` in a filename?" but then i realized i'm not likely to mount a remote M2dir so i'm far less concerned with the answer.
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by colinsane 2y ago
> If you want something to be open, you have to accept it will also be open to entities and ideas you don't like. If you don't want that, you don't actually want "open". sure, but i worry people see a single labe
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by colinsane 2y ago
i don't disagree with this. it takes care to figure out how to actually share the commons. despite my very obvious (at this point) anti-state motivations for being involved in open source, i've actually kept that discourse away fr
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by colinsane 2y ago
closed source CPUs are also a thing i have invested inconvenient amounts of time in trying to overcome [1]. i expect by the latter decades of my life it will actually be feasible. i'll be honest i don't understand what point you
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by colinsane 2y ago
i've spent two years of my life getting NixOS to work well on my mobile phone because i value things like privacy. i assure you, actually ditching Android/iOS on principle is in fact very much not convenient. i do not see the li

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