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dindrestoon The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

The amount of monthly contributions has doubled in the last four years alone, from ~7k to ~14k commits per month. Why did I take six years as a reference? Because 2020 is the year nixpkgs really started to pick up traction, and the growth has been almost linear ever since.

Your argument only holds if I were to say "it grew to its current amount of monthly contributions in 2020 and then stayed constant, without growing any further."

dindrestoon The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

"we've also functioned without one for ~20 years"

I'm sorry to say that this is a highly ignorant reaction to the situation. Nixpkgs was nowhere the size it is now in terms of contributors and packages, the growth in the past six years was enormous.

dindrestoon 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

38°C in Mannheim today. Might go above 40°C on Saturday, which never happened here before.

dindrestoon First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

The macOS kernel (XNU) as well as the basic system underneath macOS (darwin) is open source.

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu

dindrestoon The State of Immutable Linux

FYI that is the old unofficial wiki, the official NixOS wiki is at https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Impermanence (although this particular article is also outdated there)

dindrestoon PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor

iOS Safari

dindrestoon Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% locally in the browser

Same on macOS Safari (Sequoia, Safari 18.3, M3 Pro, 18gb RAM)

dindrestoon Qwen2.5-Max: The Next Leap in AI Innovation

Maybe link to the original announcement instead of an Apidog advertisement: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-max/

dindrestoon Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license

You may also want to consider the EUPL, which is OSI approved and despite the name not limited to the EU.

https://eupl.eu/

https://discourse.writefreesoftware.org/t/eupl-a-better-choi...

dindrestoon Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)

They still exist, called ionos now: https://www.ionos.com/

dindrestoon Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model

First time I read this interpreation regarding CC-BY-NC model weights, are there any sources to back it?

dindrestoon Hetzner introduces GPU server for AI training

Actually rechecking the terms of the GPU server, it states:

> Cancellation period: 30 days to the end of the month

To me that indicates it's not possible to order the server for only a few hours.

dindrestoon Hetzner introduces GPU server for AI training

Thanks for the link, seems like a major flaw to combine hourly pricing with a setup fee. :')

dindrestoon Hetzner introduces GPU server for AI training

That's incorrect, dedicated Hetzner servers do not have hourly pricing. That only applies to Hetzner Cloud.

dindrestoon Ask HN: Is Nextcloud a Great Alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive for Startups?

Hetzner has an affordable hosted offering of Nextcloud which we use at our company: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

dindrestoon Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

My (German) grandfather was born in Stettin :)

dindrestoon Building a WoW (World of Warcraft) Server in Elixir

I was active in the WoW server emulation scene somewhere around 2008 to 2012 and fondly look back on that time. Especially the German forum darkwow.de (and later mmonerds.de) is one of the reasons I got into computer science and I'm still in touch with some of the former members. Ten years later I got an MSc degree in computer science and programming is one of my most profound hobbies.

dindrestoon Open Source Twitch for Developers

In the fediverse, owncast is an established selfhosted solution for livestreams with chat: https://owncast.online/

dindrestoon Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU

Does your browser support WebGPU? https://webgpu.github.io/webgpu-samples/

dindrestoon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

Any plans to support ActivityPub?

dindrestoon EPUBCheck – The official conformance checker for ePub publications

Or `nix run nixpkgs#epubcheck`

dindrestoon Zed on Linux Is Here

NixOS 24.05 contains an older version of zed, as feature updates are generally not backported to stable NixOS releases. Try running the package from nixos-unstable instead.

dindrestoon Nvidia Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Soon Be the Default for Turing, Newer GPUs

Isn't CUDA still incompatible with the open kernel driver?

dindrestoon ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves

> The EU governments want to adopt the chat control bill by the beginning of June.

Just in time for elections...

dindrestoon Redis is forked

As far as I know, Garnet is not a Redis fork, but a new software that happens to implement the Redis protocol to be compatible with its clients.

dindrestoon Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions

+1 to this, migrating our build setup to Nix + nix2container decreased our pipeline duration for incremental changes by a lot, thanks to Nix's granular caching abilities.

dindrestoon The race to replace Redis

I think the point BartjeD wants to make is that due to the nature of MIT licensing, they could run away with your contributions anyway, even without a CLA. Furthermore, Redis didn't have a CLA if I remember correctly and the relicensing is solely based on the what the previously used BSD license allows.

dindrestoon Mercury – Compiler optimized, private Firefox fork

Phoronix benchmarked it in August 2023: https://www.phoronix.com/review/mercury-firefox-perf

The results were underwhelming.

dindrestoon Long context prompting for Claude 2.1

And in this case it's even enforced through country-specific phone number verification... They _really_ don't want us to use it.