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Re:Mullvad Leta (Search Engine) on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:23PM (#35964983)
>Mullvad Leta uses the Google Search API as a proxy search engine. Searches are cached each time, and the cached results are shared by every user of the

I was under the impression that the search API terms didn't allow people to cache the results/data, although I might be thinking of another one of their services.

Re:Minetest: An open source voxel game engine on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:52AM (#35769210)
I could be wrong but IIRC the chat moderation can not be disabled on a per server basis. Microsoft forces it onto every server and if your account is banned because of something you said on one server you won't be able to join other servers, even those you run yourself.
Re:Rust – Are We Game Yet? on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:37PM (#35185306)
I believe this is only true for the "Bedrock" version of the game, the "Java" edition is still written in Java.
Re:Hetzner Launches Three New Dedicated Servers on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:03AM (#35165238)
Would love to see these offerings being available in the Ashburn VA location.
Is there anyway to use Google's Coral TPU PCIe Accelerator[1]'s to increase the inference performance of GPT models like this and Llama?

[1] https://coral.ai/products/pcie-accelerator/

Re:LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:00PM (#35101766)
Absolutely love ggerganov's approach with models like this and Whisper. It's just awesome being able to experiment with (what I consider) complex models without needing a billion python/c/cpp dependencies!
Re:Google Has Developed Its Own Data Center Server Chips on Monday February 20, 2023 @04:15AM (#34866454)
Would you be able to provide a source or examples relating to the "improved security" claim? I'm not doubting you, I'd just love to learn more about whether the improvements are just architectural (x64 -> ARM) or not
Re: on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:22PM (#34034751)
Disclaimer: this is not my website, just a rather useful one I often use when searching for storage devices
I've been seeing a lot of HN submissions and images generated by stable diffusion but I've yet to actually toy around with it due to a lack of time, what fork appears to produce the best results for people that don't have a 3090s worth of VRAM? (Currently only have a 3060 with 12GB which I thought would be enough for almost anything haha)
Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:14PM (#32859691)
Is there an alternative to Stripe/Paypal that don't suck from a customer service support angle?
Re:USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:58PM (#32698554)
Are there any reputables places where I can buy a USB type C cable that supports everything? It probably wouldn't be cheap but I'd love to just stop having to check to see if my cable is the issue.
I've been trying to understand the codebase of Solvespace in order to add a feature (combining both windows into one) but I haven't had much time.
I really do hope this finally pushes the open source community to create a viable and enjoyable to use 3D CAD modelling software. I work with code a lot but I was never really able to get into OpenSCAD, and FreeCAD crashes too often for my liking in addition to having a (in my opinion) unintuitive UI/workflow. I've moved on to Solidworks (student edition as I am a student) for now but am still keeping an eye out for alternatives.
Re:Firefox Loses Users and Websites on Monday August 08, 2022 @02:14PM (#32389002)
I sadly don't think anything will change unless upper management decides to stop trying to kill Firefox.
Tangential, but are there any easy ways to run server applications on bare metal in a way that removes the need for an underlying OS in order to decreases the overall attack surface an attacker can look for exploits in? (Mainly talking about applications written in Go(TinyGo), Rust, and C++ that can be easily compiled to run on bare metal)
I may not be getting the joke, but is that code actually real?
Running into the same thing here in Canada
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @08:01PM (#30939010)
Still have to disable the scripts that Cloudflare injects into my HTML and convert my main image to an svg but I'm pretty satisfied with how it looks.

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I really do hope our politicians in Canada pass something like this
Really hoping for RISC-V to take off and become a viable and mainstream alternative for consumer desktop machines so we can have a modern, fully open, and customizable computer.
Out of curiosity, what backdoors are you referring to?
Re:The IPv4 Cleanup Project on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:55AM (#29274857)
Does IPV6 actually allow any two devices from anywhere in the world to connect directly to one another without requiring port forwarding?
Re:GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town on Sunday November 07, 2021 @07:42PM (#29145078)
It'd be awesome if instead of the proof of work algorithms being based on generating useless hashes, they were instead based on computing protein folding simulations in a way that actually benefits everyone.
Re:Mullvad VPN Introducing WireGuard over TCP and IPv6 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:46PM (#29098014)
That actually makes a lot of sense, thank you!
Re:Mullvad VPN Introducing WireGuard over TCP and IPv6 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:25PM (#29097703)
The article mentions that places such as cafes and trains block UDP. What is the reasoning for this?
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "Discord is sandboxed"? Are you using an app to sandbox it?