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panki27on Polishing Cloth Updated

So using a wrong polishing cloth will damage that special surface, but not the inside of my pocket?

panki27on Creepy Crawlies

I don't even have anything worthwile on my gitea instance, and the same thing happened to me.

The only thing that ended up helping was disabling access for anonymous users.

panki27on Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL

Oh wow. I ran FreeCAD today to design a little block with 2 holes to 3D print - just a little spacer.

This did in in 2 messages, I'm impressed.

panki27on DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world

It's called DNSGlobe but it does not feature a globe, only a map :(

panki27on Flipper One Tech Specs

Not too far from the truth. The Flipper is good as a toy, but for serious RFID things you want a proxmark 3 clone with Iceman firmware ;)

panki27on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

I managed to get `pyvista` to render arbitrary 3D shapes directly to the terminal using kitty graphics. It's a giant hack, only way to make it performant is using shm.

https://git.theresno.cloud/panki/kglobe

panki27on Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

Had a similar setup based on an Arduino, 3 hardware filters (highs/mids/lows) for audio and a serial connection. Serial was used to read the MIDI clock from a DJ software.

This allowed the device to count the beats, and since most modern EDM music is 4/4 that means you can trigger effects every time something "changes" in the music after synching once.

panki27on Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries

Ourobouros - The mythical snake that eats its own tail (and ingests its own excrement)

panki27on ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

I wondered the same thing, but characters usually don't reach the edges, so I guess circles fit the average character better?

panki27on GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene

I have exactly the same Sony Vegas keygen experience as the parent poster, but with the song from your fifth link!

panki27on Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)

Nothing stops you from creating a PR :-)))

panki27on Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI

What does this do that OpenWebUI (or one of the many of other solutions) does not?

panki27on The seven second kernel compile

What are compile times like right now, with modern hardware?

panki27on Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997

I believe you are referring to GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

panki27on A Closer Look at Piezoelectric Crystal

The link appears to be broken, it redirects me to the main page.

panki27on Show HN: Bash Screensavers

For tmux users: you can use the lock-command option with something like cmatrix for a quick and dirty screensaver.

panki27on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

My most used function is probably the one I use to find the most recent files:

    lt () { ls --color=always -lt ${1} | head }

panki27on HTTP3 Explained

It's hidden in the "Copy" drop down at the top right.

https://http3-explained.haxx.se/~gitbook/pdf?limit=100

panki27on Telegram's founder Pavel Durov sends alarmist message to all Telegram users

What are the chances that Telegram is an op by the FSB?

panki27on Show the Physics

This must be the dream resource of every physics teacher.

panki27on Show HN: Downloading a folder from a repo using rust

   $ git clone --no-checkout $URL/repo.git
   $ cd repo/
   $ git sparse-checkout init
   $ git sparse-checkout set subdirectory_i_want
   $ git checkout main

panki27on Show HN: Downloading a folder from a repo using rust

All that's missing is `curl ... | sudo bash` as install instruction in the README

panki27on Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023)

This needs an option to use the Kitty Graphics Protocol: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/

No need to render to ASCII/Unicode anymore!

panki27on Rendering a game in real time with AI

I'm pretty sure the generation could easily run locally on a low-to-mid tier graphics card.

While it might take a bit longer to generate, you're still saving network and authentication latency.

panki27on Delphi in the Age of AI

Some things never die. I'm pretty sure the Borland Database Engine that came with Delphi 7 ('97?) still runs on Windows 11.

panki27on Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published

Just needs to prevent the system from booting, like CrowdStrike did

panki27on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

Not your average end user call for support...

panki27on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years

Who is we?

panki27on GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2

What Qwen3-Coder model are you using? Quantized or not?

Asking because I'm looking for a good model that fits in 12GB VRAM.