djfergus

Anna’s Archive has largely flown under the radar by focusing on books.

Even perceived involvement in music piracy puts a much bigger target on their back from far more aggressive actors (RIAA, major labels)

I'm curious what percentage of claude/codex users this is true for - I assumed their business models rely on this not being true for the majority.

It's a 1.7 trillion token free model. Why wouldn't you try it?

I've been testing free models for coding hobby projects after I burnt through way too many expensive tokens on Replit and Claude. Grok wasn't great, kept getting into loops for me. I had better results using KAT coder on opencode (also free).

Openrouter has an apps tab. If you look at the free, non-coding models, some apps that feature are: janitor.ai, sillytavern, chub.ai. I'd never heard of them but people seem to be burning millions of tokens enjoying them.

I’d love to see something like this optimized for low end Android - old tablets are almost free and otherwise useless even for web browsing.

Also, what is your recommendation for finding a cheap usable microscope? My brief forays to aliexpress have just resulted in frauds and trash.

Check out chessiverse (I’m not affiliated just found from YouTubers). They purport to be a collection of bots that play like humans with human-like mistakes matched to ELO levels. I like it so far - the main value for me (vs lichess/chess.com) is knowing that who’s on the other end isn’t constantly cheating.

“ It is also worth noting that I contacted Procolored support four times over the course of my testing, for help with figuring out the software and settings. Every single time, the agent requested multiple times that I allow them to connect remotely to my computer”

I’m confused, is bangle js manufacturing new hardware (and is that open with schematics, bom, gerbers) or just shucking an existing cheap Chinese smart watch (SMA Q3)?

This.

My guess/conspiracy theory is that Spotify has cut deals with record companies that pay less on subsequent listens to a track so the repetitive radio algorithms are more profitable.

Shoutout to streamyfin, a jellyfin iOS/Android client which adds a key missing feature (vs plex): the ability to download transcoded media.

FWIW I use qutebrowser on macOS (homebrew), alpine(postmarketos), Arch and Ubuntu and have never had an issue - installs cleanly via os package manager and just works (including wayland and x11). It’s under active development and the main devs seem pretty responsive to issues. It uses qtwebengine(chromium) - so none of the browser heavy lifting is in python. Don’t write it off due to the language used.

Qutebrowser is not perfect but the concept and keyboard control is spot on.

Specifically ad blocking is not as comprehensive as eg brave or ublock since they don’t have element hiding - just domain blocking. There was some discussion on GitHub to add it but I’m not sure of current status. This means that you’ll see Reddit and YouTube ads unfortunately (without some scripting effort;)

So many good options here.

Vimium is the gateway drug to the fantastic qutebrowser (more integration and customisation, scripting, based on qtwebkit/engine).

“ I decided to port the project to Rust to learn more about the language and push the algorithm's performance further. We were nearing the limits of optimization in Python, and Rust's capabilities allow for even better performance and efficiency”

So there is an existing solution in Python, seems reasonable to flag why this is different up front.

Great to see the Sipeed Tang Nano modules being used - they are based on a Gowin FPGA chip and the dev modules (with HDMI and a stack of GPIO pins broken out) cost peanuts on aliexpress compared to equivalent FPGAs from more popular vendors. The vendor IDE is usable and open source tools are improving. Exciting times for embedded hobbyists.

How does one reconcile the statement below with DEFCON’s claim that they were 60% over budget?

> Once a month, we billed for our work and submitted an updated estimated per badge final cost - committing as costs built to discount our work as necessary in order to hit DEFCON’s per unit cost targets.

Dmitry’s tweet here

https://x.com/dmitrygr/status/1822104752253288786

Today I joined a very exclusive club. The club of people who have been dragged off stage at @defcon from the talk there were meant to participate in. Thanks to all who then came out to my outside talk. Glad I was able to answer all question. It was fun.

Amazed at the engineering commitment to Shogi (Japanese chess) games. Can anyone comment on the cultural impact of playing shogi on your tv, with a plastic corded controller?

The ability to plug in a coprocessor many times faster than the main CPU is such a fascinating option (used all through the 80’s too, eg the Z80 boards for Apple ][) only to be limited to a niche genre…

Would love to hear more details and see the code.

I’ve found NICE DCV to be more performant on low end clients (eg chromebooks) maintaining good responsiveness vs RDP.

This looks really nice, I like the design, congrats.

I’ve been getting into Arch (with Sway) recently and resisted installing something like this initially since as they say, the manual install process is the tutorial.

Getting basic WiFi connected with DHCP on vanilla Arch requires enabling multiple services and conf file edits - you rage against the machine thinking why is it so hard but then realise you just learnt how to swap out any part of your network stack (or the other fun footgun of installing multiple conflicting network managers to intermittently and silently break your connection). Anyway, rant over, not going back to Ubuntu anytime soon.

And yet my conveyancer (WA) last year still tried to hock me some expensive additional title insurance. My line to her was “this sounds like it’s protecting me from you not doing your job”. I don’t recall the response but it was unconvincing.

I have one too, great device for the price, the review is spot on.

Thanks for your repo, good info, starred. The link [1] to rooting is fascinating and frustrating: a reminder that most Android is still far from open. A smart Chinese manufacturer should make one of these with completely open bootloader and full source: Watch what the enthusiasts do with it then steal those ideas for v2.

[1] https://github.com/qwerty12/inkPalm-5-EPD105-root

I bought the 5.8” inkpalm recently in the regular aliexpress sale, was just over $100. Ask me anything. Which Anki apk do you like? I’ll see if it can be coaxed to install it.

It’s fine for what it is, screen is a little reflective and the system is very sluggish. But it runs KOReader just fine for me, even large epubs and pdfs render ok (eventually).

It’s incredibly light and pocketable but I worry about scratching the screen - it is not iPhone level gorilla glass.

Also the narrow screen takes some getting used to, need to play with then font size to get a decent amount of words on a line without getting tiny.

Eink hasn’t taken off because it’s too expensive. A device like this should be a $20-30 impulse purchase not new-mid-range/used-flagship smartphone price.

Curious, what was the failure mode on the broken kindles?

I have a Kindle Keyboard (k3w) and k4 both going strong (including decent battery life) after a decade of use and abuse by my kids and I.

The jailbreak on kindles that support it (don’t connect your new device to the internet until you have checked) is simple and painless - I prefer koreader to plato but they are both great and an embarrassment to the locked down systems these devices ship with.

Kobo is great but Amazon has better bang for buck (due to subsidy and access to the best eink screens first).

Its a fascinating story, Shkreli is a character to say the least.

There is a very poor quality recording of Shkreli playing it on stream available on a shady file sharing site near you. Sounds interesting but probably not worth the flight to Tasmania (as per article, there are listening sessions available at MONA) or waiting 79 years for the crypto crew to cash in.

Is this Google acknowledging the same thing that Apple has: that x86 is a dead end and ARM is required for high-quality, portable device experiences? Hence optimising for an Android tech stack vs going further down the ChromeOS/Linux path.

For hobbists buying dev boards note that an ESP32 comes with WiFi and maybe Bluetooth depending on the model, whereas a vanilla Pi Pico has no radio - you need a Pi Pico W for that, which in my experience is double the cost of an esp32 board.

I agree with the authors points that the RP2040 is a great chip would love to see the Pico W pricing come down as popularity grows.

Great project. Spun the docker version up on an Oracle always free VPS instance (server class: potato) in a few seconds and it runs great with my imported OPML with a few hundred feeds. As the enshittification of feedly continues I'm keen to find a replacement.

Am I missing the "mark all as read" button? That would be helpful vs going through 13 years of old posts and marking read page by page (albeit quickly at 500 at a time).

The crowdfunded trust bought the building - wonder if it was sold at a premium (to reflect the value of the art) or a discount (to reflect the Grade II listing limitations).