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newman314

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newman314··on DeskHog, an open-source developer toy
While cool, instead of buying this, I wonder if anyone has tried to used their Flipper for this use case.
newman314··on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
I wonder how this will affect apps like Orbstack
newman314··on Precision Clock Mk IV
Super random but I seem to remember that you were working on/testing a different time device/prototype recently in a GitHub comment.

Can you perhaps refresh my memory? Been trying to find the reference and it's driving me nuts this am. Thanks.

newman314··on How to harden GitHub Actions
Step Security has a useful tool that aids in securing GitHub Actions here: https://app.stepsecurity.io/securerepo

Disclaimer: No conflict of interest just a happy user.

newman314··on How to harden GitHub Actions
I don't know if your tool already does this but it would be helpful if there is an option to output the version as a comment of the form

action@commit # semantic version

Makes it easy to quickly determine what version the hash corresponds to. Thanks.

newman314··on Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet
On a related note, I remember reading about Dandelion Energy a while but have not heard much since.

I'm interested in knowing if anyone here has gotten it installed and their experience with it.

newman314··on Pi-hole v6
You can insert dnscrypt-proxy inline between PiHole and an upstream server. So it'll work something like the following:

Client --DNS--> pinhole --DNS--> dnscrypt-proxy (localhost) --DoH--> upstream

Not the prettiest but it works.

newman314··on Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array
I wonder if this can be used to aid in per room presence detection.
newman314··on DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL
Is there a MLX version that can be added to the fullmoon iOS app?
newman314··on Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs
I wonder if this can be abstracted to accept interaction from a Daylight too.
newman314··on OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release
The next time I build a main router, I'm planning on using a Banana Pi R4. It is supposed to be able to run OpenWRT with no issues.

Upside is the ability to have 10G

newman314··on Fault Tolerance in Tandem Computer Systems (1986)[pdf]
I don't disagree at all. But I guess they really wanted their CDRs.

Another unusual piece of tech was the use of SLR tape drives. That's really the only time I have encountered those in the wild.

newman314··on Fault Tolerance in Tandem Computer Systems (1986) [pdf]
So it probably sufficiently far removed now that I can talk about it but I was involved in taking a look behind the scenes at a telco over a decade ago while doing due diligence.

The telco had a pair of Tandem systems acting as the FTP server for all the telco switches. Pretty wild if you think about it.

newman314··on Wild – A fast linker for Linux
Can you confirm that's still the right location for Sequioa?

I have the command line tools installed and I only have /usr/bin/ld and /usr/bin/ld-classic

newman314··on DeepSeek-R1
Have you had a chance to compare performance and results between the Qwen-7B and Llama-8B versions?
newman314··on Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
For reference, Valtteri Bottas supposedly recorded a 40ms!!! reaction time at the 2019 Japanese Grand Prix.

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/valtteri-bottas-flying-fin...

newman314··on Home Loss File System
This is nice!

One thing I was reading about was some folks cautioning about the scams and underhanded behavior that spring up around unfortunate events.

A tab/page dedicated documenting things to watch out for would be helpful.

Some items like what is described here: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/how-do-i-avoid-scam...

newman314··on A Knife Forged in Fire
I want a nakiri too and have been eyeing this one. No Damascus but the Spanish point is interesting.

https://www.messermeister.com/products/oliva-elite-6-5-inch-...

newman314··on OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt
I've been eyeing the BPI-R4 as an eventual replacement for my aging ER4.
newman314··on Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
For us that are parents, an option to load in spring break, summer break, etc. would be helpful.
newman314··on New Mac Mini with M4
Looks like it is not a big price differential to get 4x the cheapest Mac mini vs. a fully loaded 64GB mem version with the Mac mini Pro. That and we would end up getting more GPU cores (4x10 vs. 20).

And if this is cross connected with TB4 networking and using exolab, might be good for a nice local setup.

Anyone up to try this out?

newman314··on Booting Sun Sparc Servers
LOL. E3500 was small. Now the E10ks aka Starfire were sizable.

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

I feel old.

newman314··on ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
@nikisweeting Is abx-dl already available or is it coming? I took a quick dive and didn't see a repo under the org.

I'm happy to help package this up once it is available.

newman314··on Show HN: MacProxy Plus – Surf the Modern Web on Vintage Computers
I wonder if this will work with a Newton?
newman314··on Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence
How about for cavities? I remember reading an article recently about major increases in the number of cavity related treatments because $$$. My kid has had multiple recommendations for cavities and I've got some suspicions about the absolute necessity of all of it.
newman314··on Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo
https://github.com/getzola/zola
newman314··on Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo
If anyone has used both Hugo and Zola, I’m curious to know if you think Zola works better. I’m trying to decide which one to utilize.
newman314··on Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI
I looked on his GH profile page. How was he able to amass over 16k GitHub stars?
newman314··on Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes
So I took a quick look at the codebase.

Here are the commits from the founders:

* https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commits?author=n... (71 commits)

* https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commits?author=F... (21 commits)

This is what got funded... I leave it to folks to decide if the changes to date are meaningful.

newman314··on Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project
I am planning to move from Pipfiles to pyproject.toml in preparation to use uv and recently found this https://github.com/yhino/pipenv-poetry-migrate

I have no idea how well it works.

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