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manbart··on Tiny Brutalism
I wonder kind of GPU is needed to play this reasonably
manbart··on Tcl/Tk 9.1
Yes the legacy Cisco IOS had a Tcl interpreter built in, you can drop in to the repl with the tclsh command. The command is still there on newer Linux based IOS versions
manbart··on Xapien raises $56M Series B for AI background checks and due diligence
Unfortunate name choice, it's the name of an established open source project

https://xapian.org/

manbart··on Flock threatens to sue private group in California that discusses diplomacy, law
Attempting to bully into silence first amendment protected speech with the threat of a SLAPP lawsuit? There should be penalties for this
manbart··on The economy's K-shaped dynamic could be changing
Could inflation be a driver of these numbers (wage and spending growth for lower and middle households vs high) growing in tandem? Didn't see that mentioned in the article
manbart··on Policy Statement Concerning the Suppression of Accuracy in AI Systems
So, the Ministry of Truth is going to declare any outputs that Dear Leader doesn't like are illegal deceptive advertising?
manbart··on More Workers Take Mental Health Leave, and Bosses Aren't Happy
Corporate profits have grown (inflation adjusted) from $2.45 trillion to $3.62 trillion over the past 10 years. I think they'll be fine with letting their workers take leave

https://www.macrotrends.net/3607/corporate-profits-after-tax...

manbart··on Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again
What do Xinuos even stand to gain at this point even if they win?
manbart··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
What switches are you running it on?
manbart··on The Doomers Are All Right
I dont get it, how would AI cause humans to go extinct?
manbart··on Murmur: A Speaker with a World Inside
This actually seems pretty cool. I hope they can make it to production. However I wonder how much it would cost. Will it actually sell for a price people would be willing to pay for a device of such limited utility?
manbart··on Dystopian Californian community offers $500 cash reward for Americans to snitch
I think risk of fire is the big reason that they are trying to stamp out fireworks. Wild fires have devestated California in recent years, and they start easily with the dry conditions
manbart··on Smartphone could become obsolete within a decade, tech leaders say
I assume they mean these products will be voice driven? Maybe I'm an outlier here, but I would not like that, it would make use in public spaces awkward for me. Silence is golden
manbart··on Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
Ankther example of why "Smart TVs" are peak enshittification
manbart··on RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
How is the software compatibilty with the Tenstorrent cards? Are you stuck using vendor supplied runtimes/models?

It's surprising how little these things come up given the price they go for

manbart··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
For a laugh, search for "p(doom)" (remember that?) and read some articles from 2023
manbart··on Yserver: Modern X11 Server Written in Rust with the Help of Claude Code
Glad to see this and other efforts to keep X server going. I don't have strong feelings on the Wayland vs X debate, but the window managers I use don't support Wayland, so I'd like to be able to keep using them
manbart··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
One reason is population growth. Our current system is based on the assumption of an ever growing labor force to fund things like social security, medicare, fund our massive debt, and evrything else we want the government to spend on. In their current form, these systems will break down in the face of population decline. Since existing Americans are having fewer kids and trending downward, immigration is the only way to sustain the model.

This doesn't neccisarily.mean the is the best, or even desireable, way to structure society, but I also think the political system is dysfunctional to the point major change is currently impossible

I didnt down vote you by the way. Just throwing out a counter point to consider

manbart··on Antigravity 2.0
Wow, the new interface is horrible.... They removed the ability to actually edit code in it? Not sure I will continue to use it
manbart··on Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Because Wheels May Fall Off
How the heck do they have over 173 models of cybertruck?
manbart··on Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port
Wish there was a Linux port too
manbart··on Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo
callous indifference
manbart··on Rise of the AI Soldiers
The future looks bleaker by the day
manbart··on Mirfield man's tears of joy after lost voicemail of wife retrieved (2015)
I’m so glad the company actually took him seriously and dedicated resources to recovering the message. Even in corporate hell, humanity still exists
manbart··on An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review
>I'm not a hardware engineer, I've failed miserably in software engineering and now run a VPS host.

I’m curious how hard hosting VPS as a business was to get off the ground? I’ve worked 5 years previously as a Linux sysadmin, but am getting pretty bored at my current job (administering Cisco VOIP systems). Think I’d rather go back to that

manbart··on Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires
Gigabit Ethernet require 4 twisted pairs i.e. 8 individual cables. 100Mb Ethernet requires 2 pairs i.e. 4 individual cables. At least in standard configuration
manbart··on Tux Paint
Not sure if it’s relevant to anyone else, but my kids love this software and have been using it for years
manbart··on The First 'Apple Silicon': The Aquarius Processor Project
An interesting case of “what could have been.” Imagine if they pulled it off and mainstreamed quad core processors in the late 80s!
manbart··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says robots could be 'AI immigrants'
Under this vision, eventually we are all replaceable
manbart··on Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency
I really enjoyed "Take Out," I can't believe people booed it! I especially liked the fortune cookie scene
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