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genpfault··on Measuring Acceleration Structures

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548212

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543933

genpfault··on Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

"...a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, ..."[1]

[1]: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/security/2001-12-02-treginaldgibbon...

genpfault··on Debian bookworm live images now reproducible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About

genpfault··on Supply constraints do not explain house price, quantity growth across US cities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

genpfault··on Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

--funsafe-math-optimizations

Enables fun & safe math optimizations!

genpfault··on Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging

> Reticulum network

https://reticulum.network/index.html

https://github.com/markqvist/reticulum

genpfault··on Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging

"Can I use the same account with several devices?"[1]

[1]: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/FAQ#can-i-...

genpfault··on Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser

Jami[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_(software)

genpfault··on Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]

> ollama: https://ollama.com/library/gemma3

Needs an ollama newer than 0.5.11. Probably the very-recently-released v0.6.0[1]:

> New Model:

> * Gemma 3: Google Gemma 3 model is now available in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes.

[1]: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.6.0

genpfault··on Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment

http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

genpfault··on Tailscale is pretty useful

Tinc[1]

[1]: https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc

genpfault··on Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

> Matrix experimented with the concept of running a server on-device

https://arewep2pyet.com/

genpfault··on Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450

> The model training finishes in 19 hours on 8 H100 with DeepSpeed Zero-3 offload (~ $450 according to Lambda Cloud pricing).

genpfault··on Zusie – My Relay Computer

(2011)?

genpfault··on LineageOS 22

> SeedVault[1] and Etar have both been updated to their newest respective upstream version.

What do folks use for backups that's actually useful (full app data + secondary stuff like KeyStore entries) nowadays?

[1]: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/wiki/FAQ#why-do-s...

genpfault··on MiB working set on a 64 GiB machine (2023)

(2023)

genpfault··on OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs

> It's so clearly trained on my own replies that it parrots stuff I've said, but it tends to get the sense of the words literally backwards and wrong.

"Yeah back then I was weirded out by their now standard response prediction thing, it was always just one or two words off exactly what I wanted to reply (usually missing/adding a negation, or substituting a word with an antonym)"[1]

[1]: https://qntm.org/perso

genpfault··on Approximating mathematical constants using Minecraft

Hah! There's a whole Wiki page[1] about pi approximations!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80

genpfault··on Approximating mathematical constants using Minecraft

> moving diagonally (e.g. by pressing Left and Forward at the same time) gives the player a higher speed than moving orthogonally.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011) shipped that way; it was eventually patched[1].

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/6146

genpfault··on Forced to upgrade

Subject to device maintainer interest.

genpfault··on Forced to upgrade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#GNOME_3

genpfault··on Forced to upgrade

Recently upgraded to a Pixel 8 from a different aarch64 phone (OnePlus Nord N100) and discovered that I can't run 32-bit apps anymore :(

genpfault··on Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

Only works if GDB has been built with TUI support, sadly :(

genpfault··on Using BenQ's latest 32" 4k monitor (RD320U) which is aimed at programming

> 16:9

But why[1]?

[1]: https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html

genpfault··on Pkdns: DNS server resolving via mainline DHT

https://github.com/mwarning/KadNode ?

genpfault··on Benchmarks of Google's Axion Arm-Based CPU

As always, Newegg link or it doesn't exist :)

genpfault··on DeepSeek v2.5 – open-source LLM comparable to GPT-4, but 95% less expensive

> To utilize DeepSeek-V2.5 in BF16 format for inference, 80GB*8 GPUs are required.

genpfault··on Official Raspberry Pi NVMe SSD Review

Did you mean this[1]?

[1]: https://thepihut.com/products/hatdrive-nano-for-raspberry-pi...

genpfault··on We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Look_Once

genpfault··on The Byte Order Fallacy

(2012)

Original thread w/104 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3796378

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