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jfreax··on Open models by OpenAI
Nice test. I tested it with llama.cpp and the 20b model. He got the answer correct at first try on my side. The internal/thinking dialogue is fun to read - it could be my own inner dialogue ;)

``` > "Bobs dad has five daughters, Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo and ??? <|channel|>analysis<|message|>The question: "Bobs dad has five daughters, Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo and ???". It's a common riddle. The answer is Bob? Actually "Bob's dad has five daughters: Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo and..." The riddle is to trick: it's "Bob" himself is a daughter? Wait Bob's dad has five daughters: Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo, and Bob? But Bob is a name often male. But the riddle says Bob's dad. So Bob is a person who has a dad, and that dad has five daughters. But Bob could be the fifth daughter? That would be weird: Bob is likely the name of the fifth daughter. So answer: Bob. But sometimes the answer is "Lulu" or "Bob's sister"? Let's think. The riddle is a trick: It's "Bobs dad has five d aughters: Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo, and ... Bob." Because the riddle begins with "Bobs dad has five daughters" implying Bob is one of the daughters. So the missing daughter is Bob. So answer: "Bob".

Thus answer: Bob. But sometimes the riddle goes "Bob's dad has five daughters, Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo, and ... Who is the fifth?" The answer: Bob (the name of the person speaking, "Bobs"). But in riddle it's "Bobs dad has five daughters , Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo and ???". The missing name is "Bob." So answer: Bob.

Thus the answer: Bob. Or maybe it's "Boba"? But no.

Hence answer: Bob.

We'll answer accordingly.<|start|>assistant<|channel|>final<|message|>The missing daughter is *Bob*. The riddle starts with “Bob’s dad …” so Bob himself is the fifth daughter. ```

jfreax··on ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion
I'm not yet familiar with zfs and couldn't find it in the release note: Does expansion only works with disk of the same size? Or is adding are bigger/smaller disks possible or do all disk need to have the same size?
jfreax··on Trainwreck Design
Very cool. Thanks for sharing! I added `-x overlay` too, to get rid of all the docker overlay mounts.
jfreax··on DNS Toys (2022)
> How does this actually work? Finding it hard to believe someone bought domains for all combinations of those unit conversions

dns.toys runs a (custom) DNS resolver. The example dig commands are asking this resolver. They are not using your configured (public) resolver. The custom resolver can return whatever it wants depending on the request. You could also ask the resolver what the IP (A-record) of e.g. "google.com" is and it could answer with whatever it wants.

Therefore, they actually just use one domain: dns.toys.

jfreax··on Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
Looks nice. Good to see that there are still native apps in development! Looks a lot like Joplin - which I like.

But: I couldn't find anything about syncing my notes or mobile clients / other ways to access my notes. Even in the "vision" document. That's a must have functionality _for me_. Probably not important for everyone... therefore, good luck with your project :)

jfreax··on Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option
But what software are large corps use then? I work at a fairly large coorp (>650000 employees) and they are indeed using Github Enterprise (and some other solutions like Bitbucket data center). I'm would be quite surprised if they really only use software like Github for public things.
jfreax··on Tell HN: Gitlab Premium pricing increases incoming $19 to $29
No Datacenter edition (aka on-premise) disqualifies bb pipelines for a lot of premium/enterprise use-cases.
jfreax··on Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)
What the difference in just deleting the whole directory and recreating it with `mkdir`. Or just do an `rm -rf dir/*`?
jfreax··on Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)
Nice collection of quite useful tools. Some of these can be easily replicated by using a more modern shell (bash, zsh) like mispipe, others are just shortcuts (e.g. ifne, chronic).

But what immediately stood out to me is `vidir`. I really like the idea of editing file names with an editor. Using loops and regex in a shell for mass renaming can be a mess. It should be way easier with `vim`. This tool made me install moreutils.

jfreax··on Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)
It probably honers your $EDITOR env variable which often defaults to `nano`. You can change it to anything you want including `vi[m]` :)
jfreax··on TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban
> Let's just hope he does press the big red button because of it...

I hope you forgot a "not" somewhere in this sentence...?

jfreax··on Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
I currently also began blogging at https://blog.jdsoft.de

It's a static site generated with Zola and some custom glue code to use Joplin as an editor for my blog. It works great and I'm satisfied with the performance and overall look.

Content is rare. So there is actually no reason to read the blog. But it is fun to tinker with it.

jfreax··on Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
Awesome! Thanks for the tip. I didn't knew that Joplin has an API. Currently I am parsing the yaml files directly. Using the API could be an alternative, especially when I want to re-enable the encryption.
jfreax··on Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
I recently started with a personal website [1]. I wanted to dive into static site generators and used Zola[2] in the end. At this time I only published a few blog articles, but at least I started somewhere.

As my personal knowledge base I love to use Joplin[3]. I wanted to write my blog post with Joplin, too! I wrote a small script to generate the blog articles from Joplin notes and wrote about this in my first blog post [4].

I also plan to have some kind of linkage site. The biggest problem is to revised my large bookmark collection and pick out the best ones. I probably should just begin with new cool stuff I stumble upon. Secondly, I would like to have some kind of feedback system (comments, activitypub, ...) but without any (or at least too much) server side code and without using some external provider.

Btw, the site is also available fully decentralized via dat. Yeahh.

[1] https://blog.jdsoft.de

[2] https://www.getzola.org

[3] https://joplinapp.org

[4] https://blog.jdsoft.de/a-blog-a-blog/

jfreax··on I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
Joplin is really great. I use it since a few month. Unfortunately, I have some problems with the Windows version that I have to use at work: After a few days it eats my memory (2GiB+) or hangs completely (I have to kill it with the task manager).

Otherwise it's great. The UI could use a little polishing, especially regarding the tagging system.

jfreax··on I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
You can already self host it by using a CouchDB compatible server. See: https://docs.inkdrop.app/manual/synchronizing-in-the-cloud

I didn't not try it myself, but it looks quite easy to setup.

jfreax··on ActivityPub could be the future
I also couldn't find a good tutorial, but another commenter here pointed to this blog post: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-bas...

Maybe it's a good starting point?

jfreax··on Friendly web development tutorials for complete beginners
There is at least a chapter about flexbox -> https://internetingishard.com/html-and-css/flexbox/
jfreax··on Show HN: Momentum – create lists to structure your thoughts and projects
This seems like an interesting approach to organize data. Are there any open source implementation that I can customize myself and host on my own personal server?
jfreax··on Microsoft’s default font is at the center of a government corruption case
They even tried to change the Wikipedia article of Calibri: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/panamagate...
jfreax··on C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers
You could install it manually or even use the provided image - it's really just a few clicks.

I run Gitlab on a C1 in a docker container since around half a year. Just a few dozens repos and a few users. Works flawless :)

jfreax··on Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base
I think a web site is totally okay for this kind of application. Nowadays, I have always a browser open.

But a self-hosted version, for people whom privacy is important, would be great. Are there any self-hosted alternatives? Especially with a nice markdown editor...

jfreax··on Shashlik – Android Applications on Real Linux
The source code can be found on github [1].

[1] https://github.com/shashlik/shashlik

jfreax··on Potato paradox
I think it's called a paradox (rightly), because it's not immediately intuitive for most people.
jfreax··on Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2
eu-central-1a: $0.0938

eu-central-1b: $0.1053

jfreax··on KeePass – questionable security
Just a general info: KeePassX can read and write the KeePass2 file format, but you have to checkout the git repo manually. It works for me since at least one year.

The problem is the current maintainer, it seems that he has no interest in releasing a new version :(

jfreax··on Advantages of Monolithic Version Control
Just as an update for you: You can do "shallow" clones in git (clone up to a maximum given depth of history).

Since Version 1.9 (released early 2014), you can use such a repo like a normal one (push, clone from it, ...)

jfreax··on XFS: There and back and there again?
Yes, it is [1]. It works even for /boot. It is also the default filesystem for /home in SLES12 [2]

[1] http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-unveil... [2] https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/xfs-the-file-...

jfreax··on Show HN: Kaiwa, a Modern Open-Source XMPP Web Client
Yes it does. See install guide: https://github.com/digicoop/kaiwa-server
jfreax··on Firefox 37 Release Notes
I read this everywhere, but I am able to watch 1080p Youtube videos with html5 just fine since, yeahh... always, at least it feels like that. I tried it just a second ago. So it works definitively with Firefox 36 on Gentoo Linux.

What am I doing "wrong"? What am I missing here?

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