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by gigel82 1y ago
That "pseudo-human laughter" gave me some real chills; didn't realize uncanny valley for audio is a real thing but damn...
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by gigel82 1y ago
Nostalgically, yes, Windows 2000 was amazing. At the time of launch, on period hardware, it was the fastest and most lightweight OS released by Microsoft. And looking back, I always appreciate that I can look in Task Manager and immediately
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by gigel82 1y ago
I was hoping they're launching a Coral kind of device that can run locally and cheaply, with updated specs. It would be awesome for things like homelabs (to run Frigate NVR, Immich ML tasks or the Home Assistant LLM).
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by gigel82 2y ago
It's probably safe to assume that they'll remove the BypassNRO functionality altogether from Setup, not just the script that enables it.
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by gigel82 2y ago
Oh, that's pretty short. I was expecting to see some benchmarks on the gains from switching over from MSVC to Clang.
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by gigel82 2y ago
I get everybody wants to lock you in, but how do we incentivize manufacturers to add local support? Bosch is already high-end so it's not price.
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by gigel82 2y ago
Microsoft's "quantum computer" just like any other "quantum computer" currently in existence (at least publicly known) can accomplish exactly one and only one task: generate random numbers. Any other claim "lac
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by gigel82 2y ago
Both Pi-Hole and AdGuardHome are good; I've used both and settled on AdGuardHome as I've found it to be slightly faster to resolve (with the same Quad9 upstream for both).
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by gigel82 2y ago
The models thing doesn't make any sense. I can see blocking the app or website since the data is actually flowing into Chinese controlled servers, but models / weights is just data. If they do that it would be only as a gift to &q
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by gigel82 2y ago
It was offline scanning and sending uploaded matches to law enforcement, this was very clearly laid out in their plans (that they eventually rolled back after massive uproar). Of course, you could argue some people that choose to not use iC
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by gigel82 2y ago
But how do you get a "clean IP" to actually run it on? My ISP's IP changes every so often (whenever there's a power outage for example). Last I checked, you can't run mail servers on typical cloud providers (like Az
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by gigel82 2y ago
DNS ad blockers like Pi Hole and AdGuardHome have been around forever. However, in non-free browsers like Edge and Chrome, they can (and do) play all kinds of tricks such as hardcoding DNS servers, cert pinning, fixed DOH routes, etc. which
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by gigel82 2y ago
Teams for consumers / home / whatever they're calling it doesn't even support audio calls or video calls (not even 1:1). It can literally only do text chats. I'm not sure what Microsoft is doing here, except admitti
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by gigel82 2y ago
There is no way to verify that. It's just something they "pinky swear they won't do". The stringent hardware integrity is to protect against supply chain attacks (Apple making sure they fully control the stack down to th
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by gigel82 2y ago
That is a lot of mumbo-jumbo but what it boils down to is that you cannot run the PCC on your own hardware; you can download some "components" whose hash matches the supposed "transparency log" they publish (and some dem
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by gigel82 2y ago
No, that is not the PCC, just some research artifacts.
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by gigel82 2y ago
PCC is an awesome solution for Apple to ensure that no one other than Apple can execute code in that environment. That is however not most users' concern (in fact, I'd guess less than 0.001% of Apple users are concerned with suppl
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by gigel82 2y ago
The title is "bombastic"; yes, a slight edit, but one that changes the meaning, especially taken out of context. What he said was that if a maintainer doesn't want to deal with Rust they don't have to deal with Rust but
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by gigel82 2y ago
Why not? If it's done with all the chores, I can have it make some silly woodworking / art project for Etsy to earn its keep, or just loan it out to neighbors.
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by gigel82 2y ago
Useful exclusively for generating random numbers, just like every other "quantum computer" (at least the ones publicly announced). Each "quantum" announcement will make it sound like they have accomplished massive scient
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by gigel82 2y ago
If they have this kind of cash why not just fix the system they already have and improve IRS Free File and make it available to everyone?
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by gigel82 2y ago
Pivot! Pivot! PIVOT!
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by gigel82 2y ago
Oh wow, both users must be ecstatic./s
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by gigel82 2y ago
No it won't. People primarily deploy containers for full fat native server applications containing tons of proprietary code and libraries and sometimes specialized hardware access (GPU, etc.). It would be immensely silly to run full x8
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by gigel82 2y ago
Just beautiful. 64Mb of RAM and snappy due to native UI framework use. Compare it to the sluggish 1.2Gb of RAM that Teams uses (when not in a video call).
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by gigel82 2y ago
There goes AliExpress...
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by gigel82 2y ago
I don't repro that. Running the 7B Distill model locally for the exact query "What happened in 1989" I get this result: In 1989, significant events occurred globally, including: - *China:* The Tiananmen Square protests took p
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by gigel82 2y ago
It was not running locally, the local models are not censored. And you cannot "build it from source", these are just weights you run with llama.cpp or some frontend for it (like ollama).
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by gigel82 2y ago
This is a fun use of the technology :). Though it got the Rust thing wrong; I actually hate it and often comment about C++ superiority. It's likely the model doesn't quite get sarcasm or is weighing heavily on the title of the pos
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by gigel82 2y ago
Fun, creative use of the model :) "Ah, a Hacker News refugee with the screen resolution of a discount monitor fished out of a Kirkland Costco dumpster—16 cores to crunch those "Who's hiring?" threads, but still rocking a

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