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Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @10:39AM (#50131589)
Wow, that is impressive. I've been meaning to do this by hand to fix the issue on my Lenovo IdeaPad for a while but haven't gotten around to it.

I'll try handing it off to one of these new frontier models.

Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:06AM (#50130380)
Very cool!

Is your laptop something like framework which has open source firmware?

I(and many other people) have a similar issue with usb-c charging not working consistently. I've been meaning to try one of these new smart models to help me debug the issue.

Re:Airpass – easily overcome WiFi time limits on Saturday June 21, 2025 @12:05PM (#44338585)
Yep. Android does this by default, but each ssid gets a randomized MAC which persists. It is still straightforward to trigger a MAC change manually tho. It is useful for privacy but imo useless for the public wifi limits use case since they almost always require an OTP via SMS to log in.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:21AM (#42060225)
I think it is naive to attribute this victory to accelerationists. Trump has a very clear mandate and this seems to be what the American people want now.
Re:Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously on Monday July 22, 2024 @11:04AM (#41035292)
Emby was not a fork. Plex server has never been open source.
Re:Show HN: I made a tool to HTTPS your localhost on Sunday July 21, 2024 @04:17PM (#41027776)
I run some software on a raspberry pi at home. This pattern works very well for me:

- services exposed via caddy(configured to use my domain on cloudflare for SSL)

- my lan dns resolver(adgaurd home) is configured to rewrite these domains to local IP. Specifically, the rewrite rule looks like `homeassistant.mydomain.com -> rpi.lan`

- Cloudflare tunnel on the rpi for services I want to access outside. I've it configured to require Google auth via cloudflare zero trust(free)

The neat part of this setup is that when I access a service when I'm at home, it works as expected completely locally including https.

If I try to access the service through the public internet, it will still work on the exact same domain and also have proper auth through cloudflare. This way I can access anything on the internet from my home server without worrying about security.

Cloudflare tunnel also offers some other cool things like ssh on your browser(which again uses the previously mentioned Google auth) if you need it.

I noticed hexyl wasn't on your list: https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl

Your software seems to be in the same vein as hexyl. I can't personally vouch for how well it handles large files cause it's been a while, but I suspect it'll do alright.

Re:Arch Linux RISC-V on Friday May 17, 2024 @12:54AM (#40386513)
I switched to archlinuxarm on my rpi4 cause I got sick of having to jump through hoops to do mundane things like needing a ppa to install ripgrep or downloading debs for less popular packages.

Apart from a little confusion about how to configure the bootloader(since rpi uses uboot as opposed to the usual suspects), my experience has been amazing. In typical arch fashion, I've had zero issues apart from on install day.

Re:Google lays off its Python team on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @08:12PM (#40231244)
Apologies, you are correct. I haven't considered emigrating to the US for years and forgot the specific details. Most of my recent knowledge just comes from my friends who live there.

Iirc you can indefinitely keep getting renewals on your h1b while waiting on the green card queue - and this queue is many decades long for people from certain countries like India and China.

Re:Google lays off its Python team on Sunday April 28, 2024 @05:30PM (#40192178)
I agree that UK isn't as left wing as I'd like, but there is really a huge difference between what's considered right wing between the UK and the US. For instance, the NHS. Poor or unemployed people get the same access to healthcare as I do.

In my personal experience, there is also less stratification and less overt racism or bigotry. However, they're pioneering new and clever bigotry against trans people now and that concerns me.

Re:Google lays off its Python team on Sunday April 28, 2024 @05:12PM (#40191985)
Oh, and also, if I choose to permanently live in the UK, or EU, the path to citizenship is deterministic with a known timeline.

In the US, the time from Green card to citizenship is unbounded. people from India and China are pretty much never going to become citizens till they exploit some loophole like having an American baby.

Re:Google lays off its Python team on Sunday April 28, 2024 @05:00PM (#40191837)
I'm grew up in India and went to grad school in the US and worked there. Eventually, I transferred to the UK cause I didn't get through the US work visa lottery.

I'm much happier here because of the reasons you mentioned. I feel like my friends in America have are basically amassing wealth to insulate their liberal bubble in a conservative land. However, they might not be able to outweath the recent success of right wing policies that the American supreme Court has managed to impose.

For me personally, even the "low" tech salaries in Europe (think something like 150k an year total) is more than enough for the lifestyle I desire. If amassing wealth isn't your primary motivator, it absolutely makes sense to move to a society which better aligns with your values. That would probably be the EU for someone like you and me, but UK is EU lite.

I love that everybody here has the same access to healthcare and the fact that my high taxes help that. I like that the population responds to the actions of the elected officials - like how the current UK govt is doing absolutely terribly in current polls. In the US, it seems like it's always a tight race regardless of what the government does. I love being able to use public Transit to get to most places. I'd rather my potential kids grow up in a kinder society, where their wellbeing wouldn't be at risk if something were to happen to me or my job.

Re:Ask HN: How do I stop political SMS spam? on Thursday April 25, 2024 @12:49PM (#40159873)
I wonder why the organizations doing shady stuff like this respect plus addressing. Seems like they could just strip out the + addressed stuff?
Re:Flipper Zero WiFi attack can unlock and steal Tesla cars on Thursday March 07, 2024 @02:35PM (#39633613)
This is just standard phishing and you could even do it off your phone. I was hoping the hack used one of the other RF protocols which the device supports.
Seems to me that the only difference between what you're proposing and just self regulating your social media intake is FOMO.
Re:ADHD: Breaking the Red-to-Blue Loop on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:38AM (#38683086)
Everyone on Twitter doesn't think they have ADHD. The algorithm probably put you in a bubble since you seem to engage with that kind of content.
Re:OpenSubtitles is not open anymore on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:25AM (#38291542)
My guess is not by much. Text doesn't require a lot of storage. After looking at a few random files my estimate is that the size of the full compressed dump would be about 30x (~10 GB)
Not affiliated with the project, but just took a look at their readme. It literally lists how to install it on every single platform, how to launch it, what features it has, keyboard shotcuts and troubleshooting steps.

I thought it was a great readme. It is weird how you guys dismissed the whole thing just because the readme has emojis.

Re:PhotoPrism: Browse Your Life in Pictures on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:01AM (#36680378)
That marketing is clearly aimed at the self hosting crowd. Lots of self hosted apps don't have prebuilt docker images.
Re:Pocket: It gets worse the more you use it on Saturday July 08, 2023 @11:45PM (#36651320)
I remember that mozilla promised to open source the pocket backend and that went nowhere
How do you propose they do college admissions then?
Re:Getting Podman running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:41AM (#35972342)
You can use the docker compose cli directly since podman exposes the docker api

export "DOCKER_HOST=unix://$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock"

Re:Faster CPython at PyCon, part one on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:00PM (#35918895)
Do they claim that existing python code would get a 10x bump? That sounds too good to be true
Re:The different uses of Python type hints on Sunday April 16, 2023 @12:17AM (#35587236)
Why would you do this instead of just a comment? I feel like type hints only have value if they can be used by the tooling.
Re:Iceland long term visa for remote workers on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:43PM (#35343922)
This is essentially just a way for people from the Americas to legally work from Iceland for a few months.
iirc gitlab's free tier has a storage and bandwidth limit which applies to the container registry too. That makes gitlab a no go if you want to share containers widely.
Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:34PM (#35160072)
Reddit used to be open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Re:MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:56PM (#35159491)
Redis 7 supports sharded pubsub.

Also, redis streams are excellent and perform really well for Kafka lite type use cases.

Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @02:19AM (#34800981)
What you're describing is arithmetic. I think most mathematicians will easily be beaten by a calculator - and they don't care. Mathematics isn't just mental arithmetic.

Can your TI-83 do any proofs?

Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers on Sunday February 12, 2023 @10:13PM (#34769741)
I am not sure what you mean by non addon store addon. Containerise is on amo and supports glob and regex patterns.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/containerise/

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