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by fsiefken 8mo ago
The rise of Islam in light of the christological debates and power struggles is a fascinating topic to me, and I am glad the discovery of this Maronite document sheds more light on this. It records the death of the last Sasanian king, Yazde
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by fsiefken 8mo ago
I helped my mother out with a computer, gave her a mac after she called twic a wee about a windows popup. Eventually she became a grandmother, and later in old age, with dementia she stlll using the mac more or less successfully to google a
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by fsiefken 9mo ago
I can confirm, running glm-4.7-flash-7e-qx54g-hi-mlx here, a 22gb model @q5 on m4 max pro and 59 tokens/s.
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by fsiefken 9mo ago
I am curious how these models would perform and how much energy they'd take to semi-realtime detect objects: SmolVLM2-500M - Moondream 0.5B/2B/2.5B - Qwen3-VL (3B) https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen&
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by fsiefken 9mo ago
I was a fan of TiddlyWiki for a while, a cross-platform way to maintain your wiki in 1 portable html file powered by javascript. It's very speedy in the browser. Now I'm using Logseq, Obsidian as I like the markdown/org forma
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by fsiefken 9mo ago
xous is under active development: https://github.com/betrusted-io recent talk by bunnie, sean "xobs" cross https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/xous
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by fsiefken 9mo ago
hi loloquwowndueo, i was thinking the same thing, but then I thought why you would prefer reading a book while sitting instead of listening - is it about efficiency and that if you CAN read one should (you use the imperative) read? I also h
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by fsiefken 9mo ago
Alternatively the RP2350 can also run Fuzix
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by fsiefken 9mo ago
Arguably Crystal, Odin, Nim, Zig, V, Vale or Factor are even better!
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by fsiefken 9mo ago
I use yt-dlp to download the transcript, and if it's not available i can get the audio file and run it through parakeet locally. Then I have the plain text, which could be read out loud (kind of defeating the purpose), but perhaps at t
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by fsiefken 9mo ago
yes, yt-dlp can download the transcript, and if it's not available i can get the audio file and run it through parakeet locally.
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by fsiefken 9mo ago
Alternatively one could also use OneCore patched XP with MSYS2/MinGW/Cygwin with Bash, gnu tooling and the pacman package manager. One could compile most necessary software by hand. It runs a modern firefox, libreoffice and Window
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by fsiefken 10mo ago
one could use a video llm to generate the video, diagrams or the stills automatically based on the text. except when it's boardgames playthroughs or programming i just transcribe to text, summarise and read youtube video's.
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by fsiefken 10mo ago
DuckDB is an open-source column-oriented Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). It's designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases in embedded configuration. It has transparent compression buil
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by fsiefken 10mo ago
I agree, and Calmira LFN 3.3 and Microsoft Office 4.3 Would Notepad++ work? What would you use as a graphical www browser? I mean even with win32s and modern ssl support somehow built-in it'd be challenge.
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by fsiefken 11mo ago
The README.md is 9k of dense text, but does explain it: faster, more efficient, more accurate & more sensible. Rust port feature: The implementation "passes 93.8% of Mozilla's test suite (122/130 tests)" with full do
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by fsiefken 11mo ago
I was responsible for third party e-mail clients able to connect to Exchange, it was decided Thunderbird was allowed and support was implemented. It can be done if people are aware of the needs, can implement it securely and can evaluate ri
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by fsiefken 11mo ago
For me it's like the pebble in smart glasses land, simple and elegant. Less is more, just calendar, tasks, notes and AI. The rest I can do on my laptop or phone (with or without other display glasses). I do wish there's a way to
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by fsiefken 11mo ago
that was the point of the blog post by djnnvx, what is meant or added with the comment?
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by fsiefken 11mo ago
Strictly speaking the mobile Oculus/Meta Go/Quest headsets were linux/android based, you can run Termux terminal with Fedora/Ubuntu on them and use an Android VNC/X app to run the 2D graphical part. But I share your
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by fsiefken 1y ago
I'm curious how much faster this is compared to the rust uutils coreutils ports of sort and uniq
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by fsiefken 1y ago
That's great and that's what I aspire, but as it's so easy and quick typing and sending a mail I just send it like that. I remember the days before when I hand wrote the occasional letter and delivered it myself or sent it by
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by fsiefken 1y ago
If you don't use e-mail, what do you use for electronic one to one communication or do you write letters and sent them by post?
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by fsiefken 1y ago
what if they open source the 3d->vr tech, or inspire people to create open source alternatives? it's a net win
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by fsiefken 1y ago
The book can be bought here: https://www.minotavrosbooks.com/pages/books/011217/tony-solo... Other's also voiced their concerns at the time: Sherry Turkle https://monoskop.org/images&#x2F
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by fsiefken 1y ago
RSA may well be be deprecated long before quantum computing can break it. Post-quantum cryptography standards are already being deployed: GnuPG 2.5 has introduced support for Kyber (ML-KEM, FIPS-203). Kyber is added in in OpenSSH 9.9 (Septe
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by fsiefken 1y ago
yes, but in NL sometimes I am just on the edge of a wifi network coverage and then mosh can be handy. it's an edge case though!
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by fsiefken 1y ago
still works great though, there's a lot great software I use that hasn't had an update in years or even decades
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by fsiefken 1y ago
I feel the Dvorak layout has a bug. In both English and my native language, the letter 'I' occurs much more frequently than 'U', so I've switched the 'U' and 'I' keys. Does anyone know why this i
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by fsiefken 1y ago
> Experiencing first-hand just how unreproducible most research in our faculty was (SPSS was the norm, R was the exception, Python was unused). How did you experience this? Did you fail to reproduce the same results when doing the resear

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