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RealStickman_··on Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
This increase only affects the US regions, so it very likely is in preparation for additional tariffs.
RealStickman_··on Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts
That's cool, thanks for sharing. Guess I know what I have to set up next.
RealStickman_··on Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts
How good and complete are any of these providers for Proxmox? If the ratio holds (4/10 I checked), I'd have to look more closely at about a third of the providers, just based on their latest release date.
RealStickman_··on Ring-Based Mid-Air Gesture Typing System Using Deep Learning Word Prediction
^a and ^e don't work on Windows and most general programs for getting to the start or end of a line.
RealStickman_··on A Console-Friendly Pastebin with binary support
My browser (Firefox Mobile) somehow does turn it into scroll bars per paragraph.

https://paste.c-net.org/CartsTroops

(Cool that it works btw)

RealStickman_··on Nonfree software found in GNU Boot releases again, many distros affected
There's no requirement for keeping the code as implemented open source or not using proprietary extensions.
RealStickman_··on Nonfree software found in GNU Boot releases again, many distros affected
Here's a part from the "Respects your Freedom" page. The second paragraph explicitly excludes factory loaded and unupgradeable software from consideration.

>All the product software must be free software. The product software includes all software that the seller includes in the product, provides with the product, recommends for use in conjunction with the product, and steers users towards installation in the product.

>However, there is one exception for secondary embedded processors. The exception applies to software delivered inside auxiliary and low-level processors and FPGAs, within which software installation is not intended after the user obtains the product. This can include, for instance, microcode inside a processor, firmware built into an I/O device, or the gate pattern of an FPGA. The software in such secondary processors does not count as product software.

Source: https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria

RealStickman_··on Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
Using third party repos makes upgrading the OS in general more difficult though and is more dangerous than simply using what your distro provides.
RealStickman_··on Happy Birthday to us KDE is 28 years old today
I found this PR [1] yesterday which should implement a copy function for panels. But it's anyone's guess whether we'll get this functionality in Plasma or a QT6 port of Latte dock [2]

[1] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_reque...

[2] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock/-/tree/work/plasma6...

RealStickman_··on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
The Swiss ride anywhere ticket is 4000 CHF annually [1]. (330 CHF/month -> 350 EUR/month)

That's still less than an average car. A commonly quoted figure is 10'000 CHF per year. [2]

[1] https://www.sbb.ch/de/billette-angebote/abos/ga/ga-preise.ht...

[2] https://www.comparis.ch/carfinder/autofahren/auto-kosten

RealStickman_··on Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone
Maybe this project? https://beacondb.net/
RealStickman_··on Router Security
You won't have a specific plugin, but you can absolutely use any common VPN config and configure that on OPNsense as a client.
RealStickman_··on Router Security
Normal consumers have all outbound traffic open anyways.
RealStickman_··on WordPress.org bans WP Engine
Is that supposed to make this blatantly anti-competitive behaviour okay?
RealStickman_··on No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)
Fontconfig on Linux has an option to set the subpixel layout, though currently only rgb, but, vrgb and vbgr are supported. Maybe this could be extended for OLED monitors
RealStickman_··on Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized"
Free to use with restrictions, so you maybe get 1.5/4 FOSS freedoms.
RealStickman_··on Asking the wrong questions (2017)
Yeah, but then imagine if we took all these separate vehicles and stuck them together to increase efficiency. And now we could regularly send such vehicle groups, making travel predictable for everyone.

Wait...

RealStickman_··on Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux
Could probably get similar improvements by using any distro with less "batteries included" than Debian. Though I'm not aware of any except Alpine which offer stable versions.
RealStickman_··on State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant
You can't hibernate with zram, the kernel has no way of distinguishing zram swap and normal swap space.
RealStickman_··on AnandTech Farewell
I have the next issue of always deleting cookies when the browser closes, meaning I'd get this dialog every time I visited the site. Whitelisting a site in Firefox is relatively annoying and throw in multiple devices, that dialog will always be there.

I don't really have a better idea besides automated micropayments, which nobody has managed yet, crypto doesn't count,, so I guess we'll have to live with the current situation?

RealStickman_··on Linux: We need tiling desktop environments
Yeah, I'm using that fork. I also tried Polonium, but I had regular issues with it not resizing windows when other windows were moved/closed.
RealStickman_··on How de-Googled is Lineage OS?
I'm referring to the location based on wifi and lte information. This location is less accurate than GPS, but also much faster to acquire.

Usually, Google would determine this location based on its database of networks and there's no way to set another location provider without installing microg as a system app or patching Android.

The microg installer I mentioned [1] does this configuration so you can use microg as your network locations provider.

https://github.com/nift4/microg_installer_revived?tab=readme...

RealStickman_··on Linux: We need tiling desktop environments
I just switched from sway to KDE + Kröhnkite. That might be an option.

According to the reddit comments I've seen, there aren't any plans to expand tiling functionality much beyond what it currently is in KDE.

RealStickman_··on Linux: We need tiling desktop environments
I just switched from sway to KDE + Kröhnkite script for the exact same reasons. So far I like it, though it is slightly different.
RealStickman_··on How de-Googled is Lineage OS?
Newer builds of LineageOS support signature spoofing now, so no need for LineageOS4microg anymore. Just download the official microg APK.

You also get the benefit of weekly security updates over the rather irregular ones with LOS4microg.

If you use network locations, unfortunately that still requires LOS4microg or the microg installer for Magisk module.

RealStickman_··on Torchchat: Chat with LLMs Everywhere
Not sure about Ollama, but llama.cpp supports vulkan for GPU computing.
RealStickman_··on How to Run Llama 3 405B on Home Devices? Build AI Cluster
> 250$ is a lot of money to me though. I spent €290 on my 16GB GPU for my AI server but that was once off and I really had to think about it.

Agreed, it's a lot of money and definitely more than I'd be willing to spend. However, compared to running such 400b models on a GPU cluster it's extremely cheap (and much slower)

RealStickman_··on How to Run Llama 3 405B on Home Devices? Build AI Cluster
This project only supports CPU inference at the moment, so no, no GPUs. I just estimated what some 256GB or RAM might cost monthly on the low end.
RealStickman_··on How to Run Llama 3 405B on Home Devices? Build AI Cluster
If you just want to play with this a bit, around 250$/month should give you enough metal when renting from cheap VDS/dedicated server providers.
RealStickman_··on Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously
And if they decided to only support official clients, plenty of other people would complain why their favourite third-party client didn't get anything.
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