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Interests: Hacking, Hardware, AI/ML, Biotech, Cycling, Cybersecurity, DevOps, Hiking, IoT, Legal Tech, Mentorship, Open Source, Programming, Robotics, Technology, rust, python, automotive

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tardyp··on Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
LLM Model versioning really makes me perplex those days...
tardyp··on Num2words PyPI Package Compromised
New maintainers never bothered to change the range.. History num2words is based on an old library, pynum2word, created by Taro Ogawa in 2003. Unfortunately, the library stopped being maintained and the author can't be reached. There was another developer, Marius Grigaitis, who in 2011 added Lithuanian support, but didn't take over maintenance of the project.

I am thus basing myself on Marius Grigaitis' improvements and re-publishing pynum2word as num2words.

Virgil Dupras, Savoir-faire Linux

tardyp··on Show HN: MCP Server SDK in Bash
Interesting to see ppl caring about marshalling overhead when working with LLMs
tardyp··on Pyobd - a free and open source program for car diagnostics
A shame it doesn't use udsoncan as a backend. Udsoncan is pretty well done and indirectly support doip which is going to be ubiquitous in those new software defined vehicles..
tardyp··on Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot
MIT is not a gift. It still requires attribution, notice and license term.

This lawsuit is even not about copy left.

tardyp··on The open source paradox (2020)
Another key reason to me that open source can be very good quality is when the developer is the key user.

If the developer has strong knowledge of the business while designing a product, it always ends up with better qa as they are writing the right product on first draft.

You hardly get that when you hire someone to do something for you. That is valid in other domain than programming.

tardyp··on Show HN: Google Cloud Compute Engine Comparison
cool. It was hard to find. :)

looks like only a100 accelerator is documented.

cannot find any info about P4, T4 or P100

tardyp··on Show HN: Google Cloud Compute Engine Comparison
Very helpful! Thanks!

What could be missing is the GPU aspect. Not sure if the data is available, but it is very unclear to me which GPU is available on which machine type. and also how many, so that I have some chance to get one.

tardyp··on Show HN: A simple Wordle clone in 60 lines, using Hyperscript
Wordle will become the new todolist
tardyp··on MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon
Looks like QuickTransit was a jit engine which was the base of Rosetta 1. Rosetta 2 is AOT translation.
tardyp··on Build an Elixir Redis Server that’s faster than HTTP
It looks like websocket+msgpack would have similar overhead once the initial initial overheard is passed.

But you won't miss all the http reverse proxy ecosystem.

tardyp··on A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)
Good ol times when front page videos were 40k views max...
tardyp··on Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
Can you elaborate? This does not make sense to me
tardyp··on “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”
Python ambee is a simple client library for a proprietary sass iot service. I guess they want to control exactly how their users are using their service.
tardyp··on Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)
I wonder why they didn't just make two separate routines without any branch except for loop. Then you would just make another safety offset to assume for the last loop iteration prediction.
tardyp··on M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
Ah! I'm not sure he would really like the comparison with geohot.
tardyp··on Avoid Git LFS if possible
You can easily mirror LFS objects by just using

git lfs fetch --all

every modern git hosting servers now have support for LFS directly inside the git server (gitlab, github, gerrit to my knowledge)

This solve the authentication issue nicely so make it easy for developers.

git lfs starts to be adopted by vendors and becomes usable. It solves real problem when you are tired of having to double your git server CPUs every 6 months as your git upload packs are taking huge time trying to recompress those big files over and over.

tardyp··on Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython
In my experience npm just works promise brakes as soon as the repo is 1 2 years old.
tardyp··on OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
There is also https://www.opensearchserver.com/ which is the first result when your search "opensearch docker".
tardyp··on “username or password incorrect” is bullshit
Well.. Could be there right password but the account is misspelled...
tardyp··on Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
So what happens with https://sematext.com/ ? Outside of AWS, they use open-distro and do compete with elastic.co. Will they just go out of business by not being able to upgrade elastic?
tardyp··on Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms
Closing duplicated issues looks okay to me. The author not interested in fixing this issue himself looks okay to me. Is he refusing fix proposals about it?
tardyp··on Why is America stuck with bad headlights?
For non mid west born ppl,

A dragstrip is a facility for conducting automobile and motorcycle acceleration events such as drag racing.

Although a quarter mile (1320 feet, 402 m) is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile (201 m) tracks, and the premiere classes will run 1,000 foot (304.8m) races

tardyp··on Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage
What I didn't get in the article is how this produce constant negative voltage. From what I understand with my low amateur electronic skills, this would produce a scare signal with -5V/0V, at whatever quick pace.

That would average at -2.5V if we put a low pass filter.

This would work for me with 2 charge pumps, but I only see one large capacitor

tardyp··on Xfce switches to GitLab
That is not the same feature. It requires you to always add your fix in a new commit add opposed to amending the commits and maintain a clear purposed commit list.
tardyp··on Xfce switches to GitLab
Couldn't find the feature today when doing a large review. Do you have to enable it somewhere?
tardyp··on Xfce switches to GitLab
Ability to review diff between two versions of PR is a great missing feature in GitHub. When dealing with large changes, GitLab review flow is IMHO easier for reviewer. Gitlab store each push of a MR branch as different version (as hidden refs), which make the feature possible. In GH, you force push a branch, you loose the old code for good, so reviewer has to remember why he did that comment before to see if it is still relevant.
tardyp··on Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
Calling it a disaster.. I find the security community a bit tough against Zoom.

They traded a bit of security in favor of useability? Fair enough. They failed to recognise AES-EDC can be attacked by very motivated cryptanalysts? Alright.

They gathered a little bit more data than they claim they did? Well, who is not doing that?

I think they proved they can be agile. They fixed a bunch of sec issues in few days, while growing their user base like 30x, in a shutdown period! How many companies would be able to do that?

I am sure they will work in fixing all of those quickly. E2EE will take a bit of time. Right. In the meantime, Zoom is working pretty darn well for talking with 10+ family and friends while everybody is contained. Do we need E2EE for that? probably not, but that is my choice.

tardyp··on Mastering Motion: The Journey to Emulate MotionPlus
The fr mirror worked for me as the original server is overloaded... https://fr.dolphin-emu.org/blog/2019/04/26/mastering-motion/
tardyp··on RawGit is now in a sunset phase and will soon shut down
Maxcdn must be very happy with all the data they gather with your project... I stopped using all those cdn based js deliver service when I saw all the cookies they were adding to my user's browsers.