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I've started using atproto as comments on my static blog:

https://sequoia.pub/comments

Re:Neural Networks Are Already Clean on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:50AM (#50118386)
Oh man, I wish everyone just moved somewhere else, specially if they are aiming to make something public. You can choose any server on bluesky nowadays. Scientists in Europe, please check out https://mu.social which is hosted by an european open foundation
Re:Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:11AM (#50103959)
for every use case, you can use NixOS haha

- in the server

- desktop ui

- NAS

- ci

- dotfiles

- ultra compact docker image

- microvms

- development environments

- SmartTV? NixOS

- build your docs? NixOS

- wanna control a fleet? NixOS

- build ISOs?

- wanna control brew declaratively? NixOS

- secure environment? NixOS

Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:26AM (#49374303)
I've been using https://www.eurouter.ai/ and it works quite well
I have been using a "withings" smartwatch for the last 8 years. The battery now last 3 weeks instead of a month. It has all the features I need spite of being an oldy: heartbeat, steps, calories, countdown, sport mode, etc. The newer ones even have gps and more.

But the thing is: it looks analog, the smart is almost hidden away, that's how I like the tech, because the watch looks really cool. It can receive messages, but I never enabled that feature.

I've taken it deep under water, clashed against climbing walls, kettle-bells and it has a few scratches on it. I'm not a pro at anything so I don't need the garmin precision. I only had to change the wrist thingy once. I don't want another screen in my life. I recommend it as an alternative to all these "wrist-phones"

Re:All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @06:01PM (#48301360)
I maintain a small website to share recipes: https://reciperium.com

I wonder how could I apply this? I don't fully grasp what it is. Like what is the next best ingredient? Like, what could you add to it?

Re:Why I love NixOS on Monday March 23, 2026 @04:55AM (#47486879)
Same, I've been playing with kernel settings for AMD, and it's really easy to revert in case things blow up
Just a single m1 ultra?
Re:Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking on Monday February 02, 2026 @02:45AM (#46853485)
Because I don't feel confident. I'm super green at VPN's and this kind of networks. I don't want to give the wrong advice.

I'm editing what I can, but you don't want to take my advice, it would be better if someone who knows does it.

The fact that I'm into home lab, doesn't mean I know specifically how to do this. And I'm just saying, when I go to the wiki, to pick up on one of the options, they are missing.

I don't know why the hostility for asking to add some docs

Re:Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:55PM (#46847928)
For the guys at Netbird, please create an entry in the https://wiki.nixos.org explaining how to use it with nixos.

- Tailscale has one entry - Pangolin is getting one

I would like to see, even if brief:

1. Getting started

2. Hardware requirements

3. Security considerations

4. Recommended architecture, like running in a VPS if it makes sense

5. Configuring a server

6. Configuring devices

7. Resources (links to read more on netbird)

Thank you from the home lab community

Re:Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @09:48AM (#46780687)
Very nice tool!

The UI has a few errors on desktop, I cannot see all the issues. The leaderboard... doesn't work ? and the topbar hides some elements

browser: firefox

This is it:

{

    "agent": {

        "inline_assistant_model": {

            "model": "hf.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B:latest",

            "provider": "ollama",

        },

    }

}
I've been using it with the Zed editor and it works quite well! Congrats.

This kind of AI are the ones I like and I'm looking to run in my workstation.

Hey, ollama run as suggested in hf doesn't seem to work with this model. This worked instead:

ollama pull hf.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B

Re:2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:30PM (#46479906)
Last year I got a laptop with Linux, after a Mac gap of 6 years (work) and it's been super smooth with NixOS and KDE.

My main issue now was the 16GB of RAM using a VM and working on rust, which would kill the system, but now I have more, so all the issues are gone.

One of the machines has become a media-center, with a remote keyboard, anyone at home can operate now.

Multiple screens, bluetooth, drag and drop, night/light all seems to be working

Re:How uv got so fast on Saturday December 27, 2025 @04:50AM (#46400555)
nah, a lot of people working on `uv` have a massive amount of experience working on the rust ecosystem, including `cargo` the rust package manager. `uv` is even advertised as `cargo` for python. And what is `cargo`? a FLOSS project.

Lots of lessons from other FLOSS package managers helped `cargo` become great, and then this knowledge helped shape `uv`.

Re:Backing Up Spotify on Sunday December 21, 2025 @04:55AM (#46343633)
I'm paying for youtube music, but on the side I started buying records in bandcamp directly from artists and putting them in my jellyfin library. I do use lidarr for some older tracks. I think the ecosystem is starting to look good enough, where you can have your own personal spotify.
Re:Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @02:25PM (#46293138)
codeberg.org for open source, because it's a non-profit, with what it seems, very well intentioned people, with a good governance structure, and it's starting to support federation.

For a company, I'd recommend self-hosting forgejo (which also has actions), which powers codeberg.

(forgejo started as a fork of gitea)

I bought a roomba because I associated it with quality. It's crap! I bought a nice mopping model. The cheap one I had before was even better with a simple only-turn-left algorithm. I'm not surprised by this.

Reading the comments, I'm glad the industry is way ahead, and I was just confused. I think I'm gonna sell and get a better one.

Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:01AM (#46271986)
We actually have "juridical person" in most countries. I think AI would be ideal for that
I'm no expert, so I'm not sure if I'll explain it correctly. But I've been using docker swarm in a server, I use traefik as reverse proxy, and it just doesn't seem to work (I've tried a lot) with ipv6 (issue that might be related https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/24379)
does it support ipv6?
Re:AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @09:49AM (#46135126)
You reminded me that in the culture series a mind can teleport people through "Displacement". It's a very fast, but at the same time I don't think it serves for what OP wants, as it's very risky. It's like planes, we don't hand them spite of being very fast haha
Re:Accepting US car standards would risk European lives on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @05:44AM (#46132932)
NotJustBikes cover's this in the latest video, starting here:

https://youtu.be/--832LV9a3I?si=HpfmA8mFIsJJ_Uhp&t=333

Of course, I think if a company is targeting both markets, you may benefit from some features.

And it's not just about you, but the other people driving around you who pose a danger to you.

I think once Codeberg becomes federated, it will likely attract a lot of people.

Right now github is great for discovering and tracking projects, reflecting growth via the star and fork system (although a bit broken in the last few years).

If a federated layer is applied to these github alternatives, you could have an account in Codeberg, and be able to track lots of projects wherever people want to host them. Right now, I see a lot of forgejo servers, but I don't want to register in all of them.

Re:AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:29AM (#46131252)
In Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota, part of what transforms society into an utopia is the development of some kind of flying car that can take you anywhere in the world in under 2hrs, making borders irrelevant. This transit system is coordinated by a special group.

I would suspect The Culture would have some means to travel very fast. But you are right that it's never explained. In "The player of games" I think the main character lives in a beautiful house with an incredible view, and I always wondered, how did he get that house?

If you think about, the problem could be solved even now, you could use fast trains to connect small cities, and replace cars completely.

Re:Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:06AM (#46118458)
I did Beej's Guide to Network Programming and it was fantastic, I learnt a lot, and it was easy enough that I was able to do it in Rust. I'm sure this one is as good as all the others.

Point 7.5 of this guide reminds me of the Einstellung effect, I built my own "pomodoro" timer with notifications saying "go stretch" or "go drink water" (https://github.com/reciperium/temporis in case someone is interested)

Re:I built an faster Notion in Rust on Monday November 24, 2025 @08:54AM (#46034107)
prosemirror in rust? I'd like to see something like that!
Re:Building a High Performance Home on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:11PM (#45996416)
This is very nice! I love passive houses, although much of the advice is for the US, not for Europe.

Something really nice I saw recently at a friend's house in Amsterdam, it's a Qettle, a faucet which is able to dispense boiling water instantly! Fully electric, using induction. And I was thinking about this recently, because where I live in Portugal, for the shower and the kitchen's faucet, share a boiler, which it's in the kitchen. If the faucet didn't need it, the heating could be way closer to the shower, making my shower hotter!

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