Confiks

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by Confiks 8d ago
It even goes both ways: you can geolocate the user, and you can sell the BSSID data for future lookups. Not sure how valuable that still is in 2026 now that every mobile phone is adding that to the Goople databases, but it was in the past.
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by Confiks 8d ago
> Is there anyone who has done a technical write up and investigation into the firmwares? I extracted the firmware and filesystem of a webOS 3.5 and webOS 24 TV previously so I could remove the spying bits and get an internet connected T
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by Confiks 2mo ago
> I bought Qty 10* of HC520 (12TB) SAS drives for $1000 about 3 weeks ago, avg age is about 2.5 years, still well within its rated lifetime. That's cheap indeed. Enough headroom for some failing disks too. How is the noise and power
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by Confiks 2mo ago
Yes, indeed. ECC RAM is better than non-ECC RAM, also for ZFS. The myth, popularized by a notorious thread on the TrueNAS forums [1], is specifically that ZFS requires ECC RAM, and will do worse than other filesystems without it, because
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by Confiks 2mo ago
> I’m running an 8-drive ZFS RAIDZ2 pool. I’m wondering if you know — are the free space recommendations around ZFS cargo or real? I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to me that free space (and the 20% reservation) is mostly a proxy
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by Confiks 2mo ago
It was €329 per hard drive (through a reputable store), and I chose the ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 mATX motherboard combined with a Ryzen 5 8500G. Stock CPU cooler, replaced the Jonsbo case fans with Arctic P12 Pro PST LN. I only slightly re
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by Confiks 2mo ago
Not a great time price-wise to be building a NAS, but I have been doing so for the last two weeks. Inside a Jonsbo N6 case, which is pretty nice with an 8x SATA backplane and drive bays (unlike the earlier Jonsbo variants). I ended up on sh
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SDR tiles for spatial RF vision and beamforming that scales as a phased array(crowdsupply.com)
2 points by Confiks 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Confiks 3mo ago
For writing and languange learning it's very decent, especially Mistral Large. The pricing is very good too. I really like the consistently low time to first token and good token per second. Claude, especially in the past, would be ver
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by Confiks 4mo ago
The "Lists" page, lists most of such 'hidden' functionality: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (which itself is linked in the footer).
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by Confiks 4mo ago
Indeed, this seems to be exactly the area where the Data Act could be used to regain access. Unfortunately it seems that it's not possible to directly sue (e.g.) Volkswagen to get access, unlike the GDPR where you have direct standing
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by Confiks 4mo ago
I'm not quite sure why all that swapping is necessary. I really does age your SSD quite fast considering the enormous memory bandwidth required. Gemma 4 31B at 4-bit quantization should only be around 19 GiB [1], not 28.4 GiB. I'm
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by Confiks 5mo ago
So you made this change completely invisible to the user, without the user being able to choose between the two behaviors, and without even documenting it in the (extremely verbose) changelog [1]? I can't find it, the Docs Assistant ca
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by Confiks 5mo ago
I recently bought a second hand eight year old 4K LG TV. Pretty cheap too. All models running webOS 3.x and 4.x are trivially rootable as LG never provided an update against DejaVul [1]. There's a handy website to check which models ar
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by Confiks 5mo ago
Not restricted to Apple, but TIL: Double-clicking on a word an keeping the second click pressed, then dragging, allows you to select per word instead of per character.
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by Confiks 5mo ago
Get into a venv, and run: > pip3 install git+ https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-lm.git > ./venv/bin/mlx_lm.generate --model "$MODEL" --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 64 --max-tokens 128000
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by Confiks 5mo ago
It is, as I'm running it; it has been added this week. As I said I'm running the main version from Github and doing nothing special, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761308
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by Confiks 5mo ago
> The same Gemma 4 MoE model (Q4) As you have so much RAM I would suggest running Q8_0 directly. It's not slower (perhaps except for the initial model load), and might even be faster, while being almost identical in quality to the o
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by Confiks 6mo ago
Not necessarily, but most inverters (in Europe, at least) aren't designed to function without a grid anyway. Some models of inverter brands like Victron (which isn't very common outside its niche of self-sufficiency because they a
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by Confiks 6mo ago
You say "tax money", but this project isn't a government project or using public money at all. As for contributing back to Nextcloud: there is a long list of Nextcloud partners [1] that contractually obligated themselves to c
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by Confiks 6mo ago
This is just a Nextcloud rebrand with a confusing domain name. It claims "Core is [100%] Open Source" but no source code is provided beyond what's already available in the upstream projects, and it's unlikely that there
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Dabao Evaluation Board Risks and Challenges(crowdsupply.com)
2 points by Confiks 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Confiks 7mo ago
> That is not true and "true zero knowledge ID check" + "age verification" with blind signatures is what's being implemented by the EU ID project. You are mistaken. In the EUDI wallet project, unlinkable signatur
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by Confiks 7mo ago
> This whole end-to-end attestation with play integrity is supposed to make setting up token-as-a-service things impractical. Indeed according to some (i.e. the Commission) it's supposed to, but they should know better. And many mem
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by Confiks 7mo ago
> This is the fallback mechanism. You are supposed to use bbs+ signatures that are zero knowledge, are computed on the device and so on. You're mistaken. SD-JWT with linkable ECDSA signature is the main mechanism. An unlinkable si
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by Confiks 8mo ago
As the DPA indeed doesn't function for these kinds of cases, it's also possible to involve the courts and get a legal remedy (i.e. sue them). In The Netherlands that's possible with a 'complaint procedure' in the ca
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by Confiks 8mo ago
Solvinity (now acquired by Kyndryl) owns and runs a lot of the underlying infrastructure of DigiD, but the application itself and the day-to-day operations are handled by an autonomous body of the government (Logius). DigiD is mainly about
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by Confiks 1y ago
> So given that the current spec is not in use, this seems incorrect. No, that's not what they mean. They just mean that the spec (and for now only the spec, not the implementation) will be amended with an experimental feature, whil
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by Confiks 1y ago
> The insane question here is, why would the EU mandate hardware attestation controlled by two private American companies in order to access services? Please (kindly) ask Paolo De Rosa [1], Policy Officer at the European Commission and d
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by Confiks 1y ago
> a lot of people are confused about the project This is misleading. They are merely exploring options that may allow for issuer unlinkability, but they are actually implementing a linkable solution based on standard cryptography that

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