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qskousen··on CubeCL: GPU Kernels in Rust for CUDA, ROCm, and WGPU
Surprised this doesn't mention candle: https://github.com/huggingface/candle
qskousen··on JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
Community editions don't get the free tier, only paid editions.
qskousen··on JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
From the blog post, it seems to say that the free tier of the AI assistant and Junie both allow using local models. I haven't tried it myself, though.
qskousen··on Self-Hosting like it's 2025
If you need a middle ground between docker and k8s, you might have a look at nomad. Definitely a learning curve, and I find the docs lacking, but easier to set up and maintain than k8s.
qskousen··on Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE
Is there a comparable open source thing "done properly"?
qskousen··on What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox
I would recommend Vivaldi then. I've been using it for half a year and it's pretty good.
qskousen··on Put a data center on the moon?
Geothermal heat transfer is greatly affected by the moisture of the soil, which on the moon would be pretty low as you can imagine.
qskousen··on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
I'm sure you're aware but consider putting another drive in for some flavor of RAID, it's a lot easier to rebuild a RAID than to rebuild data usually!

Edit: By "some flavor" I mean hardware or software.

qskousen··on Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game
This is something they are (probably) working towards with SteamOS, being able to run it on your own hardware with deck-level hardware support. See https://www.pcguide.com/news/valve-could-be-thinking-about-r...
qskousen··on How to Run DeepSeek R1 Distilled Reasoning Models on RyzenAI and Radeon GPUs
I think you do still have to have the ROCm drivers installed, but it's not very hard to do from AMD's website.
qskousen··on In the belly of the MrBeast
I realize I'm probably in the minority for this, but for me when people create a "persona" for their media, it turns me away. I prefer watching people who are more genuine, whose content is less entertainment and more just themselves, even if that isn't what the internet seems to be looking for.
qskousen··on TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? (2023)
Sorry to side track, but question about Telosnex - would you consider a Linux release with something other than Snap? Maybe Flatpak or appimage?
qskousen··on RomCom exploits Firefox and Windows zero days in the wild
Windows ME was the worst Windows though.
qskousen··on Phased Array Microphone (2023)
The one I've heard is "Every machine is a smoke machine, if you operate it wrongly enough."
qskousen··on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now
Two Mozilla employees were involved in starting Let's Encrypt, and the Mozilla foundation is one of the sponsors, but as far as I can tell the foundation was not directly involved in creating it.
qskousen··on Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
The only requirements for reading a physical book is that you know how to read and can turn pages.

If it's digital storage, you have to have electricity, a compatible device, an understanding of the storage, and software that can read it.

qskousen··on Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047
I've found The Tangle (https://www.readtangle.com/ - no affiliation) to be a pretty balanced daily politics newsletter. They mentioned the Newsom veto today, and may address it later this week, though I don't know for sure.
qskousen··on Yaak is now open source
This is the first thing I looked for on the website, FYI - any indication of what the long term plan for Yaak is. It might be worthwhile to put a note of "cloud sync coming soon" or something, or maybe I'm an outlier and it doesn't matter.
qskousen··on Yaak is now open source
I've been using Bruno for a couple weeks on a project, and one thing that I've been enjoying is that I can save all the request configuration in files right next to the source, so they are part of the repository. I tried looking to see if you could do that with Yaak but just looking through the documentation, I didn't see any mention of it.
qskousen··on Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)
Looks great! Makes me nostalgic for when I spent my days as a kid in QEdit.

https://winworldpc.com/product/qedit/30

qskousen··on A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
I just recently (today) started using Bruno, seems pretty good so far. I like that it has a flat file structure that can be included in a git repo.
qskousen··on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
That's a good point. I looked into using Matrix before I switched to Signal, but the user experience just in creating an account was pretty abysmal, at least at the time. As I was recommending it to non-tech people, I ended up going with Signal.
qskousen··on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
Stealing someone's phone number wouldn't give you any Signal data, as all the messages have perfect forward secrecy, though, right? And all contacts would see an alert that your security number had changed. Not completely foolproof, and I would like Signal to use something other than phone numbers for accounts, but it's pretty good.
qskousen··on TextBundle
If you don't mind, I'm curious what your use case is for inserting binary content into a Markdown file?
qskousen··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)
Location: Little Rock, AR

Remote: Preferred

Willing to Relocate: Not preferred

Technologies: 13 years software engineer, mostly PHP, Laravel, Vue, Tailwind but also Typescript and C# / .NET. Plenty of experience with managing Linux servers and working with containers.

Resume: Available on request.

Email: In profile.

Thanks!

qskousen··on Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11
I have been running an AMD system on Linux Mint for several years, and it has been fantastic. The only things that don't work in general are games with invasive anti cheat.
qskousen··on Linux Lite: Easy to Use Free Linux Operating System
https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php they have that covered :)
qskousen··on FaaS in Go with WASM, WASI and Rust
For anyone else like me who doesn't know without looking it up, FaaS is Function as a Service.
qskousen··on SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
Either you meant "per day" or you've got a really well tuned database.
qskousen··on Lemon-derived nanoparticles block the progression of kidney stones
I drink lemonade regularly (I make my own), but to prevent heartburn, as lemon turns into a base in your stomach and is very helpful with heartburn. Now knowing that it is also good for kidney stone prevention just puts the cherry on top!
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