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mkesper··on Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Ursula von der Leyen (president of european commission) propsed an "associated membership" with EU. Such an association is not defined anywhere in EU contracts yet. https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/commentary/eus-first-...
mkesper··on Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
Frog and Toad are not like OpenAI in that OpenAI made the little machines themselves and knew they were not made harmless. This seems much too excusing.
mkesper··on How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
In JS and Python it's really easy to produce runtime errors. So no SIGSEGV without C modules but you're not sure it works either.
mkesper··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
It's long known that drinking alcohol disturbs your sleep. You're getting slumbery and probably will fall asleep easily but the sleep will not be as wholesome.
mkesper··on Tokens too cheap to meter
It was a companion of punchcards, the tabulating machine. Programming by wires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine#Selected_mo...
mkesper··on Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet
For x86 based ChromeOS devices check https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html It allows installing a standard UEFI environment if supported.
mkesper··on JetKVM Mini
Yes, this is for those machines without: raspi, desktops (e.g. DGX Spark) etc.
mkesper··on JetKVM Mini
A console would be enough for a simple reboot / power switch.
mkesper··on JetKVM Mini
Only sure way is to check availability of fully open drivers for all operations before buying.
mkesper··on Microsoft/TracerAI withdraws copyright takedown against Luanti
They should really finance some of the Luanti team's expenses.
mkesper··on Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex
At least in Germany, it's pronounced co-op, though. The stores got rebranded meanwhile. https://www.coop.de/coop/historie/
mkesper··on Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex
Docker sandbox is proprietary. https://github.com/docker/sbx-releases?tab=License-1-ov-file...
mkesper··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Can it be reassigned under Settings / Keyboard shortcuts?
mkesper··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
Let the minions create scripts for you.
mkesper··on CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem
There are converters between different OSM formats and other formats (Garmin comes to mind). It depends on the target. E.g. here: https://www.mapfileconverter.com/free-gis-conversion-tools
mkesper··on The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
It's a pre-IPO PR stunt. Everyone is talking about it. Goals achieved.
mkesper··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
It's actually quite fast, more bandwidth than NVIDIA RTX 4090 at 1.0 TB/s according to https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/gpu-memory-... Compute power will still be different, though.
mkesper··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
For max memory bandwidth you need to buy the Ultra versions (M5 Ultra: 1,2TB/s, this gets comparable to real GPUs regarding the memory bandwidth).
mkesper··on Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
Better use zswap, as zram and swap together can lead to priority inversion. https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-... (found via lwn.net)
mkesper··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Come on, there were people using Gerrit instances (which had better PR UI than GH implementation) for good reasons even before GitHub became popular.
mkesper··on ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days
Article: In October, Parias was leaving his home and driving down the street when federal agents — including from ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service — used their vehicles to box him in, according to the criminal complaint.

Body-worn camera footage captures the ICE officer approaching Parias’ passenger side door and almost immediately stating that he’s going to “break the window.” As the officer smashes the window, the car begins to rev, later sending smoke billowing into the air. The officer pulls out his gun soon afterward, holding it in one hand as he smashes the window at the same time with the other.

The complaint alleged that when the rear of the car began to “fishtail,” it “caused the agents to fear that PARIAS may lose control of the Camry and hit them.” A Homeland Security Investigations agent wrote that Parias’ acceleration of the Camry “caused debris (likely rubber being shed from the tires themselves) to fly into the air, which struck some of the agents.”

mkesper··on Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
Related, pencils for more accurately drawing skin tones: https://hautfarben.org/en/products/skin-tones-pencils
mkesper··on If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken
Disk failures don't neatly wait for idle times so investing in a special vdev (which can be added to an existing pool as the article points out) should be well worth it.
mkesper··on Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history
How do these compare to the fish builtin history search with dir awareness and completion menu? I found it quite an improvement to bash history handling but fish isn't POSIX compatible so sometimes you need to switch back and forth.
mkesper··on IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
These feel quite different. IRGC attacked Amazon compute. Ukraine attacked several warehouses. Comparing Wildberries to Amazon is also only half the truth. Wildberries is directly part of russian war machine as soldiers need to buy essential dual-use equipment there and they even sell weapons.
mkesper··on Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux
Do not run Ubuntu on these old machines, use plain Debian instead (no fat desktop needed, no overhead due to braindead snap packaging etc.). Xfce4 should be fine. SSDs help and also using zswap to counter the low RAM. The last official install media for 32bit (first Intel Atoms) is bookworm but updating is no problem.
mkesper··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
Be sure not to buy any 'branded' variant, though (e.g. from Verizon etc.)!
mkesper··on Show HN: Aict – Unix coreutils that output XML/JSON, built for AI agents
Something like that would also be great for scripting, not only agents.
mkesper··on Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads
Have a look at Donato Capitella's video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zp8j4vO-wz0 He provides also toolboxes and benchmark tables as text (in the video description)
mkesper··on Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks
Regarding M5, this has similar size but runs Linux and is cheaper: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/m5stack/cardputerzero
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