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ekianjo

36,501 karma · joined February 9, 2011

Interests: Everything GNU/Linux related, Video Games, R, Python, Open Pandora & DragonBox Pyra, Raspberry Pi. Data analysis with R is for professional purposes while I also enjoy casual Python programming.

I started my computing life on the ORIC-1, followed by the C64 and of course, the beast that was the Amiga (best memories ever).

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ekianjo··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
EP class are the lawmakers so good luck with that...
ekianjo··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
where?
ekianjo··on 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
which brand is non harmful?
ekianjo··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
if you sell them ASML equipment your market gets destroyed tomorrow instead of 10 years later so what options do they have?
ekianjo··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
people have been claiming Nvidia will get competition too for years but you guys seem to be forgetting that the current leaders are not asleep at the wheel in the meantime.
ekianjo··on The scourge of x86 emulation
an traditional emulator emulates all the hardware of the target machine. WINE does nothing of that.
ekianjo··on The scourge of x86 emulation
a dominant position is not a monopoly
ekianjo··on The scourge of x86 emulation
its closer to a translator than an emulator
ekianjo··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
wow why is prompt processing so slow?
ekianjo··on More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older
investing in senior people is not good ROI but at the same time they are the ones who vote the most...
ekianjo··on More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older
> few F35s and bomber squads could reliably deplete and destroy the entire Iranian drone stock and manufacturing capacity if there was the desire and higher tolerance for civilian casualties

the current admin does not care about civilians casualties. remember the tomahawk on school girls? so what are they waiting for if it was that easy?

ekianjo··on Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
it's not a binary thing. At some point Apple becomes too slow with very large models. If you can just run a model at 1 token per second and it takes 30 mins to process a long context, it's useless
ekianjo··on Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
none of them are Nvidia GPU FAST
ekianjo··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
a beefy pc with at least 20 GPUs
ekianjo··on Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier
> the will of the people.

there is so such thing.

if there is it sure is very flexible and forgetful

ekianjo··on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
> t was designed to maximize creativity and inventiveness

If you look at outcomes it has completely failed while making big corps very rich in the process

ekianjo··on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
People made a living juste fine before copyright stop spreading myths
ekianjo··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
> European countries and in none would you be charged with murder in that situation.

Local news say otherwise

ekianjo··on Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview
Saving tokens
ekianjo··on Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
at the same time google is moving to forbid other app stores so...
ekianjo··on Tim Curry has died
its a simple story but the directing is exceptional. Ridley Scott at his best
ekianjo··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
> what are some alternatives

good old torrents

ekianjo··on Tim Curry has died
One of his best roles was Darkness in Legend, but seems like everyone has Alzheimer and forgot this great movie from Ridley Scott.
ekianjo··on My Friend Aaron
thats already on a table when you place a prediction that is related to an Individual doing something. you dont even need to spell it out. not sure how we are going to regulate those
ekianjo··on My Friend Aaron
yeah go buy lottery tickets kids instead of investing your time and money into something predictable
ekianjo··on Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
xhigh gives better results
ekianjo··on Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext
on Linux use systemd-credentials. It already does that
ekianjo··on Major oil slick washes up on Iran coast after Hormuz ship strike
good luck building solar without having any petrol or plastics derived from petrol in the supply chain
ekianjo··on Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us
sunk cost fallacy. You understand your past mistakes, call it a day, and move on to something that is more reliable for you in the long run. You don't tell the heroin addict "oh but you invested so much in heroin, it would be a shame to quit now!".
ekianjo··on Mojo 1.0
then let humans do linting the way they like. there is not one kind of human out there.
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