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circularfoyers··on Pirating the Pirates
I don't read it that way. If you start using words like container and encoding, I feel you have to describe what those words mean and I suspect the writer probably felt that level of detail might have caused the article to drift away from the point. I have personal experience of accidentally going into too much detail when describing remuxes to non technical friends, and had later opted to describing almost exactly as the author did, because that description I think conveys the purpose pretty well.
circularfoyers··on Pirating the Pirates
I highly suspect someone has already made a fan edit of Oppenheimer like you've described. I searched for a few moments and found 3 already and one already describes re-cutting it in chronological order, among many other changes. Always surprises me how much effort and passion people put into fan edits. It's a facinating scene in itself with how many edits exist out there.
circularfoyers··on Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI
The first thing I always want to know is, what does OP's project offer over pre-existing mature ones? Especially important when I'm seeing an increasing amount of projects that don't seem to even bother considering pre-existing projects.
circularfoyers··on More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older
Surely the exercise that comes with using public transport outweighs that. I feel like being able to zone out and not having to focus on driving, is more relaxing to me.
circularfoyers··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
I wonder how their talks with Apple went. Having this run on the TPU opposed to just the GPU, which drains a significant amount of battery life by comparison, is what I'm really interested in.
circularfoyers··on Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama
The fact that those issues existed for so long while the entire time where not issues with other inference runtimes is more the point. And I think are indicative of future incompetence.
circularfoyers··on .gitignore Everything by Default
I wish there was a culture in the team I'm in now to share each others dotfiles (which I feel would lead into sharing so much more including tools, processors, etc), especially since I fall into that group of the new, younger rookie. I appear to work with people who have a lot of experience and knowledge and the atmosphere is seemingly otherwise not competitive (non profit organisation). Is this common? Is it going to be hard to find a team like that?
circularfoyers··on Don't be a meat proxy
Why ELI8 and not the ubiquitous ELI5?
circularfoyers··on IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats
I've been to IMAX a lot of times and not a single time had a bad audience member. Whereas I've had at least one at each of the independent and arthouse ones I've been to sadly. I suspect in my case the tickets being significantly more expensive at IMAX keeps any disruptive people away.
circularfoyers··on Back to Kagi
Kagi do have an LLM offering if that's what you still want. While still benefiting for your own search results curation and being more privacy orientated. I'm very happy that I can basically have the best of both worlds from them.
circularfoyers··on GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
I know there's a lot you can do in k8s to mitigate it, but I didn't think that prevented it outright.
circularfoyers··on GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
Since this enables container escape, sounds like this might still impact quite a lot of us?
circularfoyers··on Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
Which sadly appears to not even be holding for them now that they decided to start displaying ads on their App Store.
circularfoyers··on Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads
I feel like the suggestion to just delete your Meta account is unhelpful and even harmful in some situations. I know a lot of us in this field don't mind having a small social circle, but for us that struggle to even have that, or that the process of doing that, requires you to be as open and reachable as possible to make it easier to create or maintain friendships, this often requires having an account to use Messenger (I know regionally this may differ).

Being difficult in this way, when most other people, particularly non technical people, don't have a problem with this, in my experience significantly hurts your opportunities and limits the types of people you socialize with in real life, which I think can eventually be harmful.

circularfoyers··on Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
If this is still the same install that you've been using since 38, you might find a clean install resolves some issues (whether or not your upgrade got botched). Also helps me get rid of software I installed that I don't use anymore, which I feel is relevant to this article. But part of why I love Silverblue so much is I don't have to worry about upgrades getting botched and fwiw as well, I haven't noticed any of those bugs on 44 across several very different machines.
circularfoyers··on WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
The database changes late last year is laying the grounds for other database engines[1].

[1] https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/#the-lib...

circularfoyers··on Claude Managed Agents Overview
Not sure popularity necessarily suggests it's good, but possibly just what people have most heard of or is easiest to setup with. This is going to be even more true now that Claude subscriptions are going to be essentially vendor locked.
circularfoyers··on Hypura – A storage-tier-aware LLM inference scheduler for Apple Silicon
Don't even need to use llama-swap anymore now that llama-server supports the same functionality.
circularfoyers··on Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
Comparing this project to is-odd seems very disingenuous to me. My understanding is this was the only way you could use llama.cpp with Claude Code for example, since llama.cpp doesn't support the Anthropic compatible endpoint and doing so yourself isn't anywhere near as trivial as your comparison. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
circularfoyers··on FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
I would hazard a guess that it's because there's been many debates about contributing PRs that might be perceived as AI slop. Not saying that's the case here, but it's possible the fix might be a poor one, not follow the project's guidelines, or one which the contributor doesn't fully understand, but doesn't care because it fixed the issue. I would guess the better approach would be to submit a bug report with the same information the LLM used, and maybe suggest there the fix the LLM provided. Unless this really was a tiny patch and none of the above concerns applied.
circularfoyers··on Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet
Whose "they"? Private sites do a phenomenal job at preserving a large amount of rare content.
circularfoyers··on Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
The prompt processing times I've heard about have put me off wanting to go that high with memory on the M series (hoping that changes for the M5 series though). What's the average and longest times you've had to wait when using opencode? Has any improvements to mlx helped in that regard?
circularfoyers··on Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
Now with even more significance that Amanda Askell has confirmed it is based on a document they trained Claude on (https://x.com/AmandaAskell/status/1995610567923695633).
circularfoyers··on Light exposure at night predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases
> These relationships were robust after adjusting for established risk factors for cardiovascular health, including physical activity, smoking, alcohol, diet, sleep duration, socioeconomic status, and polygenic risk.

There's more details further in the article[1].

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.25329961v...

circularfoyers··on I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it
It's so subtle I've for a long time wondered if it's something most people experience and don't notice, or they assume is normal, just because unless I think about it I don't really notice it either. I have been known to focus on details more than others do. Not sure if this contributes to my seemingly heightened sense of smell as well. But not being able to experience what others experience, makes me wonder if I'll ever know.
circularfoyers··on Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history search
Seeing the GitHub link made me assume for a second this was open source, which it's disappointingly not. The LLM search is interesting, but it's not interesting enough for me when there's already an open source full text history extension that I've been using https://github.com/iansinnott/full-text-tabs-forever
circularfoyers··on Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux
> On one hand, understandable; on the other, again, the software is effectively useless because of this.

Just in case you didn't already know, you can use Flatseal[1] to add the symlinked paths outside of those in the default whitelisted paths.

I think it's a good thing Flatpak have followed a security permissions system similar to Android, as I think it's great for security, but I definitely think they need to make this process more integrated and user friendly.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

circularfoyers··on Creating a Proxmox or QEMU ChromeOS Flex VM
It's a shame then that Google are moving away from ChromeOS in favor of Android. This also explains the improvements to desktop mode in the latest Android betas.
circularfoyers··on OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt
I think it's unfortunate given the audience I imagine will make up most of its purchases. For example, the NBN in Australia just announced earlier this year it's first 2 Gbps residential plans (previously 1 Gbps being the maximum) planned for availability some time next year[1].

[1] https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/media-centre/...

circularfoyers··on Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone
I believe the point isn't to let you rollback at will, but it'll automatically rollback if it fails a boot check, so before anything is written to the filesystem. However, it's worth noting that Fedora Silverblue/IoT let's you rollback at will without problem.
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