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vgb2k18··on Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
If local isn't configured then fallback to online providers:

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt/blob/main/src%2Fage...

vgb2k18··on Binary fuse filters: Fast and smaller than xor filters (2022)
Fast, but not faster than XOR filters. I was wondering if the title was a typo, but the article clarifies they sacrificed some speed for the smaller size.
vgb2k18··on Download responsibly
Seems a perfect justification for using api keys. Unless I'm missing the nuance of this software model.
vgb2k18··on Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
Agreed on the madness of wide open OS defaults, I share your vision for isolation as a first-class citizen. In the mean-time (for Windows 11 users) theres Sandboxie+ fighting the good fight. I know most here will be aware of its strengths and limitations, but for any who dont (or who forgot about it), I can say its still working just as great on Windows 11 like it did on Windows 7. While its not great isolating heavy-weight dev environments (Visual Studio, Unreal Engine, etc), its almost perfect for managing isolation of all the small suff (Steam games, game emulators, YouTube downloaders , basic apps of all kinds).
vgb2k18··on The Block Stacking Problem
Related: "The Best Way to Stack Blocks" Dr. Trefor Bazett (published 1 day ago)

https://youtu.be/eA0qGJMZ7vA?si=jkEmafRhisV5LWnx

vgb2k18··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
Fair point about it being less invasive than adtech sites, but my comment was just addressing the claim that piracy doesn't “track users and send a bunch of telemetry”. Torrent-trackers broadcast ip-addresses, timestamps, and torrent metadata; even if you consider it minor or mitigated by VPNs/seedboxes.
vgb2k18··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
Except for our ip address, timestamp and torrent metadata

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com

vgb2k18··on Search all text in New York City
SEO, or family friendly values (maybe both!). Related: no swearing in the first minute of YouTube videos.
vgb2k18··on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
> Cerebras does say that they don't log your data or anything in general

Unil a judge says they must log everything, indefinitely

vgb2k18··on The Promised LAN
Mate, my pentium 100mhz laptop played quake, carmageddon and nfs with at least 15fps in the 90's~
vgb2k18··on Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023)
It's clear in the thread that a forum user worked for BT. What was unclear was whether the site still belonged to BT and whether the employee was given official or any clearance to retrieve the parts. There was no 'we' language, all 'I', which is unusual at best. For a company of BT's scale one would expect a small team for such a recovery.

I'm curious, where is it clear in the thread that he got permission?

vgb2k18··on Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023)
> I'd point out of course that it appears that those folks are trespassing on private property - possibly in an environment that is quite unsafe. I hope nobody on here is daft enough to follow their lead.

Said the guy who proceeded to follow their lead. I get it he was a BT employee so may have not been trespassing, but he appeared to have a change of mind about the possibly quite unsafe environment.

vgb2k18··on Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation
"Identify and publicly anounce" vs "assign blame", what's the difference?
vgb2k18··on Simplest C++ Callback, from SumatraPDF
If you hate it when pdfs won't print because of restrictive permissions... Sumatra.
vgb2k18··on WebGL Water (2010)
What does Kiwi do different? The water appears to work well on Brave.
vgb2k18··on Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history search
IndexedDB file
vgb2k18··on Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu
For me it was their begging for money on install.
vgb2k18··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
> I’d also argue that whether there is a ceiling matters less than how high it is.

How steeply the diminishing returns curve off at.

vgb2k18··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
Edge has been doing this for a very long time, since well-before Windows 11 existed.
vgb2k18··on In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)
SNRI's (Cymbalta etc) induce brainzaps even worse than SSRI's. Counting out individual beads from inside the capsule is actually a thing people do to wean off gradually (and the zaps are strong even then).
vgb2k18··on Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights
"Why doesn't Snowden speak about...", this would be because he likes breathing.
vgb2k18··on Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights
If you personally could lead by example, and flee the US, seek asylum in Russia only to be not "silent regarding Ukraine", your name could be deleted from my moronic shitlist too.
vgb2k18··on Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime
I bought into Caddy last year for its simplicity. Loved it, from the moment I saw the off-horizontal default page. I switched back to nginx last month because, like you said, I stepped outside of the expected box. Skill issue? Maybe... I transferred my gunvicorn webapp from WAN to LAN. No more dotcom, just 10.x.x.x ip. To say Caddy didn't like it: error messages were non-specific. Community knowledge (ie, stack overflow etc) was lacking. Then nginx.. It worked perfect with almost default config. Skill-issue or Caddy issue, the point is: Caddy is simpler sometimes.
vgb2k18··on Detecting SSH Tunnels (2017)
Forgive me, my grok ability is low right now. I read the section about detecting TTY traffic, and in my mind, TTY traffic would be an example of a legit normal connection. Engineer accessing the system, etc.
vgb2k18··on Detecting SSH Tunnels (2017)
If you capture beginning to end, look inside packet #1 :)
vgb2k18··on Detecting SSH Tunnels (2017)
SSH protocol version exchange is before key exchange. Is this not easily identified in both Clint and server side packet analysis?

I appreciate that SSH can be obsfucated via an SSL tunnel but the article didn't come at that angle.

The article itself even states: >with SSH everything goes dark right after the initial capabilities exchange.

So... What say about before the exchange?

vgb2k18··on GGML – AI at the Edge
> while the bot handles my coworkers

Or it handles their bots ;)

vgb2k18··on Gamedev from Scratch 1: Scaffolding
> Are there specific aspects of development that people want to read more about than others?

The pros and cons of the tools you mentioned. As a hobby Unity dev I appreciate reading about the ups and downs of tool chains excluding the big-3 (Unreal, Unity, Godot).

vgb2k18··on New Yorkers want to stop landlords from using facial recognition
I'm with you all the way on your points so far. I think at this point it will be important to refer to a specific product, one that's available to landlords.

I think in the minds of commenters there is an idealised version of "face recognition", so in a way, everyone is arguing past each other.

vgb2k18··on EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest heist in game history
My reading was they anticipated better Sandbox MMOs for the near future, but none eventually were better...
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