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traverseda··on What is a Lithium-ion capacitor?
Regen braking,
traverseda··on I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?
If memory serves the cachyos-nix flakes sets a cache for pre-built kernels, but that cache isn't available until you rebuild. So if you want to use the cache you need to do two steps, add cachyos to your inputs, rebuild, switch the kernel, rebuild.

Then reboot to use the new kernel.

traverseda··on Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way
Yes, it requires a daemon running inside the VM and can be finicky though.
traverseda··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
Last I checked it was about $3000 per life saved by the most efficient methods. Looking at effective altruism communities. Mostly malaria nets.
traverseda··on What the fuck happened to nerds
If you are using a real computer or can sideload apps.
traverseda··on Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here
It's a WOPI app. Designed for embedding microsoft 365 office app in other web apps, but other people implement it. There's callabria, and this.

You'd use it to connect nextcloud to one of these providers. Probably some other enterprise apps I don't know about can use it to edit documents.

traverseda··on Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
Also problems Ukrainian defense needs to solve, and that the Canadian military is trying to solve. This is everyone's problem. It's also biased towards defense use.
traverseda··on Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
>that has to deal with the other constraints of the web platform.

Well there's your problem right there

traverseda··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
>You can be protected by safe harbour provisions, or you can editorialise your content. *I don't think* you should have both.

Personal opinion, not legal opinion.

traverseda··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
I'm also not a lawyer, I was making that as a more vague moral distinction on the topic of free speech and accountability.

For practical reasons I think those algorithms are absolutely necessary. We need spam filters. A good line to draw would be "bring your own algorithm". A technical challenge to be sure, bit breaking up social media backend providers and content filtering seems like one of the only safe ways to allow these massive platforms to exist.

The algorithm can be just "Dan filters out spam".

traverseda··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
You can be protected by safe harbour provisions, or you can editorialise your content. I don't think you should have both.

Free speech does not cover scams and fraud, something that happens on their platform. Society doesn't take any action against them for publishing illegal content, scams, libel, fraud, because they aren't a newspaper. They're more like a newspaper printing house.

In my opinion they should probably be losing those protections and should suffer legal consequences for the content their users post. The moderation has reached a point where they ate defacto editorialising content.

An alternative to that could be opting in to some kind of third party moderation arbitration process.

traverseda··on Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
You can run your own github actions compatible-ish server. https://github.com/nektos/act

Personally my favorite is probably drone-ci.

I'd suggest not buying in too hard on any one of these CI systems and just writing shell scripts. Shell scripts are portable, and you can use whatever to trigger them.

traverseda··on 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
There are plenty of nonviolent extralegal options. Ranging fron sit-ins and protests, to destruction of property, to many examples in the CIA's subtle sabotage field guide like running meetings poorly.
traverseda··on After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
About 30% from what I could find.
traverseda··on Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps
Same way the US enforces any internet foreign policy. Make the credit card companies cut them off,make advertisers cut them off. US controls most of the ways they could make money.
traverseda··on Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices
If you're thinking about actually using it, please not it only supports redhat distros.

https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865

traverseda··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://traverseda.github.io/
traverseda··on Show HN: I created a tool to design and create foamcore inserts for boardgames
Lots of suggestions already, my only suggestion is that it would be nice if this could generate tabs and slots. I'm more likely to laser cut or 3D print inserts, so a tab and slot would make assembly easier.

Well that and to generate STL files for 3D printing.

traverseda··on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
No, the subreddit has applied custom css to do that. It's the mildly infuriating subreddit. There's also an image of a hair visible on widescreen monitors, to make you think there's a hair on your display.
traverseda··on Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries
Wait, does urlib not use semvar? Don't remove APIs on minor releases people. A major release doesn't have to be a problem or a major redesign, you can do major release 400 for all I care, just don't break things on minor releases.

Lots of things not using semvar that I always just assumed did.

traverseda··on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
I'd be more worried about the implicit power imbalance. It's not what can humans provide for each-other, it's what can humans provide for a handful of ultra-wealthy oligarchs.
traverseda··on Bag of words, have mercy on us
No answer I give will be satisfying to you until I could come up with a rigorous mathematical definition of understanding, which is de-facto solving the hard AI problem. So there's not really point in talking about it is there?

If you're interested in why compression is like understanding in many ways, I'd suggest reading through the wikipedia article on Kolmogorov complexity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

traverseda··on Bag of words, have mercy on us
LLMs are compression and prediction. The most efficient way to (lossfully) compress most things is by actually understanding them. Not saying LLMs are doing a good job of that, but that is the fundamental mechanism here.
traverseda··on Pebble Watch software is now open source
Yeah, but it's running on a device that has closed source blobs in it. Hell, even the linux kernel often has firmware blobs for wifi devices.
traverseda··on Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand
But they're creating the demand themselves by putting AI features that may not be creating actual value for users.
traverseda··on A file format uncracked for 20 years
ImHex will tell you if it's compressed. Do you understand data structures? Floats, all those data types?

I'd suggest looking at a format like msgpack to see what a binary data format could look like: https://msgpack.org/

Then be aware that proprietary formats are going to be a lot more complicated. Or maybe it's just zipped up json data, only way to tell is to start poking around at it.

traverseda··on Why we migrated from Python to Node.js
>We did this so we can scale.

>Python async sucks

Python async may make certain types of IO-blocked tasks simpler, but it is not going to scale a web app. Now maybe this isn't a web app, I can't really tell. But this is not going to scale to a cluster of machines.

You need to use a distributed task queue like celery.

traverseda··on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
How do you justify specializing in mobile development when it's very clear that you're just sharecroppers on someone else's land?
traverseda··on Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
No one is going to walk away from that kind of alliance tomorrow, sure. Stuff like "we're going to remotely disable military equipment we've sold you" is going to have consequences though. It's not walking away from alliances, it's just focusing on more stable countries.
traverseda··on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
A specific women? Women in general? Is vague-posting back in vogue?
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