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tomasffon How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

> So now I have a large script which debootstraps a Debian based NAS into being.

Is part of this publicly available? After seeing, - https://words.filippo.io/frood/ - https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html

I've been looking at setting something up with mkosi/systemd for my home server/NAS - it's interesting seeing how different setups are solving the problem for inspiration.

tomasffon The Modern App

I wish this had some remote collaboration/shared notepad. I got tricked by all the cursors

tomasffon Show HN: Don't click this button – testing the internet's patience

This is really cool, now I'm tempted to add some kind of interactive element like this to my website. reminds me of the 2000s internet online user/views counters

tomasffon Show HN: Don't click this button – testing the internet's patience

Thank you for clicking!

tomasffon Show HN: Don't click this button – testing the internet's patience

Haha nice point of reference (LotR) - I ended up not storing user-agent/ip etc, only 8 bytes for the timestamp. I was initially going to dump the clicks on sqlite but it felt a bit OTT, so I just keep appending the 8 bytes to the end of a file.

I regret not keeping more details, would make for an interesting an analysis and as you said unlikely to hurt storage unless more people were clicking.

tomasffon Show HN: Don't click this button – testing the internet's patience

Thanks! Thank you for sharing this, TIL about The Button - looks much cooler and interactive, wish I'd thought of this haha.

After making this I also learned about the Global Caps lock: https://eieio.games/blog/the-global-capslock-key/

tomasffon Show HN: Don't click this button – testing the internet's patience

Yeah hahah, I suspect a lot of the clicks have already been automated, when I went to sleep it was at around ~4k clicks and in the morning it had gone up to 140k clicks

Curious to see how much load/clicks the hacky Go code will handle

tomasffon Show HN: Don't click this button – testing the internet's patience

Yeah, I did not expect it to be that short . Not shared with many people apart from some friends and here in HN, so I was expecting a few hours more.

Haven't looked much at the traffic/clicks history yet but curious to see activity over time since this started

tomasffon Bitwarden Authenticator

Bitwarden Authenticator is a separate service. Even if you don't use bitwarden you can use this apparently

tomasffon Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust

That's why I said "clean room implementation". Any reason why Pumpkin does not build on top of Valence? Would be great to see a more cohesive ecosystem for Minecraft servers in the rust community rather than reinventing the wheel

tomasffon Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust

See also https://github.com/valence-rs/valence A "clean room" implementation of the Minecraft server written in Rust

tomasffon Google Pixel 9 Pro

There's Gemini Nano which runs on-device

tomasffon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

~~Well, worth nothing that the original prompt you provided didn't include the suggested strategy~~

Edit: My bad didn't read the parent comment properly

tomasffon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

Gemini Ultra answered this correctly for me: " It's impossible to say for sure if Jake will like salmon or cheese based on the information given."

tomasffon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

Mhm could be a region thing maybe? Not working for me on Gemini Advanced in the UK

tomasffon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

Is image generation working for you?

tomasffon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

It doesn't seem like it's using Gemini Ultra yet. For me it seems like only the interface has been updated since the image generation capabilities are not working.

tomasffon Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop

Good point, it doesn't quite fit the same purpose as AirDrop & other alternatives. Useful if you want to share files between your devices though!

tomasffon Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop

I think the modern alternative is Nearby Share which works via BLE or WiFi with Android / Windows / ChromeOS

tomasffon Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop

If you already use Tailscale, Taildrop [1] works great.

[1] https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop

tomasffon Attention is Turing complete (2021) [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09238

This is a great transparent and clear description of what is actually going on in attention layers.

Alternatively, this article by Jay Alammar is also very popular http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/