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1unaon Immich 3.0

Note that Cloudflare Tunnel blocks requests above 100MiB, which makes it impossible to upload long videos. This is being addressed in https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/22385

1unaon China Preps $295B Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout

non-paywalled: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/china-...

1unaon A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype?

In the same article you linked:

> Due to concerns about large language models being used to generate deceptive, biased, or abusive language at scale, we are only releasing a much smaller version of GPT‑2 along with sampling code .

7 years later, these concerns seem pretty legit.

1unaon Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again

Looks like this was restored 2 weeks ago[0], 3 days after Anthropic said OpenClaw requires extra usage[1]. At this point, it's hard to take this seriously. No official statement and not even a tweet?

[0]: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/d378a504ac17eab2...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396

1unaon Analyzing Geekbench 6 under Intel's BOT

The thing is BOT only applies to a handful of applications. So Geekbench scores with BOT applied aren't as representative.

1unaon Copilot edited an ad into my PR

Seems like it: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agent...

1unaon Why I love NixOS

Try https://github.com/utensils/mcp-nixos

1unaon Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords

It's possible to auth with your fingerprint (or even a YubiKey) in sudo. It's a functionality provided by PAM, after all.

1unaon Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62694325/ford-ceo-jim-far...

1unaon Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

$0 at SignPath. Quite a few OSS projects use it.

1unaon A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project

> What packages are you talking about?

Maybe Python: https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1azkxnn/whats_ho...

1unaon GitHub will prioritize migrating to Azure over feature development

Does this mean GitHub will finally support IPv6?

1unaon I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone

The iPhone vibrates when you swipe up just enough to reach the app switching screen.

1unaon KDE launches its own distribution

They admit

> Flatpak is currently a pretty poor technology for system-level apps that want deep integration with the base system.

Therefore they ship those apps on the base image, rather than as Flatpaks. I don’t see what’s wrong with this approach.

1unaon RSS is awesome

There are projects which generate web feeds for websites that don't have one.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub

1unaon OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification

Well, LLMs do pass the Turing Test, sort of.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674

1unaon Deepseek R1-0528

I won't call it "binary blob". Safetensors is just a simple format for storing tensors safely: https://huggingface.co/docs/safetensors/index

1unaon Google shared my phone number

There is one in your CV: https://danq.me/cv

1unaon AMD's Strix Halo under the hood

AMD makes exclusive deals with ASUS regularly. I guess they're just good friends.

1unaon Working with Systemd Timers

IMO Systemd Timers provide much better control over how the cron job is run.

Need to distribute lots of cron jobs evenly to avoid overloading the system? Use RandomizedDelaySec.

Some cron jobs are flaky and you want to re-run if it fails? Add Restart=on-failure to corresponding service.

Some cron jobs conflict with each other? Set Conflicts=foo.service or maybe Before & After.

Sure, all above are possible with shell scripts. But systemd provides a standard, reliable way to define these properties.

1unaon VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

It's possible to detect "curl | bash" server side. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34145799

1unaon About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States

https://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/06/apples-ability-to-deact...

1unaon IMG_0416

> Very hard to maintain due to use of YouTube-dl, plus legacy search API

With yt-dlp you can do this:

  yt-dlp ytsearch5:IMG_0416

which searches for IMG_0416 and downloads the first 5 of them. There is no need to use YouTube API.

1unaon From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs

In this specific case, nix uses fetchFromGitHub to download the source archive, which are generated by GitHub for the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2].

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e...

[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...

1unaon Write Guix package definitions in a breeze: Introducing Guix Packager

https://github.com/nix-community/nix-init

1unaon Steam Deck OLED

Using custom skins on official servers by modifying game files has always been forbidden since CS:GO. CS2 doesn't make it worse. Join a community server if you want to use your own skin you made up.

At one time[1] Valve even tried to ban community servers that offer custom models/skins. Though they doesn't seem to enforce it anymore.

[1]: https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/server_guidelines/

1unaon NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

v0.26.0 (the next release) should support viewing livestreams. See https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/10471

1unaon Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore

> Are there plugins available that enable this?

Try https://github.com/direnv/direnv-vscode or https://github.com/fehnomenal/intellij-direnv

1unaon Curl/libcurl HIGH CVE-2023-38545 leaked early?

The patch was supposed to be published around 06:00 UTC on October 11. The commit is 13 hours early.

1unaon Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

Maybe. Vaultwarden is just a compatible server. All the clients (web, browser extension, desktop, cli and mobile apps) are still maintained by Bitwarden.