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perbuon The agents are coming for the web and the web isn't ready

Just so I understand what you are asking about. You have a ESI chunk which is a cache miss and the backend is fetching it, but you want the delivery of this specific chunked to have a streaming delivery?

perbuon Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

Intel has been making pretty good progress on efficiency the last year and efficiency is the name of the game, you basically can't do performance without it.

I think Intel will rise again.

perbuon Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

First and foremost, China isn't energy-limited like the US is. A modern grid, lost of cheap power coming online every day. The worlds most advance ultra-high voltage transport links are tying the deserts in the west to the cities in the south.

It probably sucks for you if the proposed powerline goes through your house, but the need of the many come first.

Having cheap and plentiful power is a huge market advantage. It was one of the factors driving Norway out of poverty 100 years ago.

perbuon Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

> All media other than paper and stone will become extinct

Somewhat tangential...

I once worked for the national archives. Unlike libraries, the archives typically have the only copy of a specific piece of data. So if the lose the data, it is lost forever. My mission was to figure out how to deal with information storage in a millennial perspective.

There are tons of really interesting ways to store data. I think my favorite was printing QR codes on microfilm and then storing the film in an abandoned coal mine on Svalbard. The first frames on each roll with come with source code and instructions on how to decode the data.

FWIW; my recommendation was 3-way replicated object storage, until more stable form of storage presents itself and becomes reasonable.

perbuon Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

We got it.

I can't say it has helped much, though. Fable is still completely useless for securing code. Opus does an OK job, though.

perbuon Flock CEO Apologizes for Calling Activists 'Terrorists'

The Chinese lifted themselves put of poverty. The state just stopped keeping them down.

The people deserve the credit. Not the state.

perbuon Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective

The question wasn't if Zuck has been successful, it was if Meta has succeeded at anything new. When was the last time Meta made something original, brought to market and had success with it?

perbuon Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

They can’t follow instructions at all. They are a year behind Claude.

perbuon 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test

fwiw; I had unexplained anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep and cognitive decline as a post-COVID induced histamine intolerance with a few bonus attributes. High amounts of histamine would accumulate in my mast cells then get released in 3-5am, undermining sleep and also inhibiting serotonin.

It took me about four years to fully understand my condition. Hope you figure out what is bothering you. The body is incredibly complex.

perbuon Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda

I worked on an OSS project and we had a volunteer working from Tobago. His computer wasn't working properly so we sent him a new one.

It got smashed by customs. Literally.

perbuon Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

For me, the appeal of local compute is first and foremost confidentiality and having the possibility to run my 200K documents through an LLM just to see what happen without having to consider the cost.

perbuon Does Postgres Scale?

This post conflates scalability and performance. PostgreSQL is fast on smallish systems, but try adding more CPU cores and you'll see performance gains will not be linear at all. Modern server can ship with 256 or more cores and a single instance of PostgreSQL will struggle to take advantage of these.

4-8 cores is no problem at all, though.

perbuon An Update on GitHub Availability

fwiw, I've had good luck scaling git, specially doing clones, in the HTTP layer, using Varnish. this was CI bringing Github Enterprise to it's knees.

perbuon Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

We had a SCSI zip-drive at our uni and it was a brilliant way to drag megabytes of content home. Even though I had amazing internet (2Mbit shared by 100+ ppl), the zip drive would still be a good way of getting stuff home.

Then I got to experience the click of death and the internet connection was bumped to 100Mbit and I didn't need to replace my zip drive.

perbuon Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

You have to deal with a lot more stuff. You have to order/pay for a server (capex), mount it somewhere, wire up lights-out-mgmt and recovery and do a few more tasks that the provider has already done.

Then, say if the motherboard gives up, you have to do quite a bit of work to get it replaced, you might be down for hours or maybe days.

For a single server I don't think it makes sense. For 8 servers, maybe. Depends on the opportunity cost.

perbuon Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

MoE is excellent for the unified memory inference hardware like DGX Sparc, Apple Studio, etc. Large memory size means you can have quite a few B's and the smaller experts keeps those tokens flowing fast.

perbuon Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

https://github.com/varnish/varnish/issues/33

It should be fixed fairly quick.

perbuon Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

We've been pushing 1.5Tbps with TLS in lab settings. I've yet to see any other HTTP product being able to saturate these kind of networking. There is lots to be said about threading, but it is able to push a lot bandwidth.

And yes, I think the ergonomics are bad. Having varnish lose visibility into the transport means ACLs are gone, JA3 and similar are gone and the opportunity to defend from DoS are much more limited.

Crypto used to be expensive in 2010. It is no longer that expensive. All the serialization, on the other hand, that is expensive and latency is adding up.

Every single HTTP server in use out there has TLS support. The users expectation is that the HTTP server can deal with TLS.

perbuon Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

we're not at all a huge company. we're 80 people with a lot on our plates trying to juggle this on top of everything else.

but I truly appreciate the feedback. I'll reach our to the team working on this and see if I can make this a bit clearer.

perbuon Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

I feel like this is captures the point very well. Google removing this software, means that for 99% of the users on the platform, the choice to play this gets taken away from user.

perbuon Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

Varnish Software released hitch to facilitate TLS for varnish-cache.

Now that Varnish has been renamed, Varnish Software will keep what has been referred to as a downstream version or a fork, which has TLS built in, basically taking the TLS support from Varnish Enterprise.

This makes Hitch a moot point. So, I assume it'll receive security updates, but not much more.

Wrt. separation of concerns. Varnish with in-core TLS can push terabits per second (synthetic load, but still). Sure, for my blog, that isn't gonna matter, but having a single component to run/update is still valuable.

In particular using hitch/haproxy/nginx for backend is cumbersome.

TLS is a primary concern on the internet today.

perbuon Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

fwiw; Varnish Software still maintains and supports hitch, but we can't say we see a bright future for it. Both the ergonomics and the performance of not being integrated into Varnish are pretty bad. It was the crutch we leaned as it was the best thing we could make available.

I would recommend migrating off within a year or two.

perbuon Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

in my experience this has a lot more moving parts than it should.

perbuon Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

wow. there are actually no tests here.

perbuon Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

I think it is interesting that these pieces of software are now being inspired by Midnight Commander and are being built by people who never worked with or experiences the original, Norton Commander.

perbuon Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

the whole point of varnish software keeping a public version of "vinyl cache" as "varnish cache" with TLS is to give people a way to access a FOSS version with native TLS.

I think TLS is table-stakes now, and has been for the last 10 years, at least.

perbuon OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream

The problem is that the the LLM can't distinguish between data and instruction so there is just so much the harness can do.

perbuon Can I run AI locally?

Prompt injection is a problem if your agent has access to anything.

The local models are quite weak here.

perbuon Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning

Yes. This is my experience as well. The software quality is generally horrible. It surely has improved a lot over the last couple of months, but it is still pretty horrible.

It is quite normal for me to have to force-close Claude Desktop.