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by b33f 3mo ago
Why are they not using GPUs? is it use cases that don't suit GPUs or because of the limitations they are imposing on themselves to use SMIC domestic chips?
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Phoenix Arizona is likely to see its earliest 100f(38c) day on record, in March(cnn.com)
4 points by b33f 6mo ago|0 comments
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by b33f 9mo ago
Maybe a good time to consider alternatives https://www.redpanda.com/compare/redpanda-vs-kafka
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by b33f 10mo ago
There's a standard perscription price in England, not the UK. in Scotland and Wales there's 0 charges to the patient
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by b33f 11mo ago
TrueCrypt. free multi-platform open source disk encryption that suddenly disappeared in mysterious circumstances
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by b33f 1y ago
American brands like Ford typically sold models that were both designed and manufactured in Europe such as the popular Ford Escort and Ford Transit. They are completely different to what is sold in the US.
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by b33f 1y ago
Oops HN truncated the title, I've fixed it. thanks for the heads up
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Which is the stronger pw? g72$l#pT9a or ..COW……………….(ianmccloy.com)
5 points by b33f 1y ago|3 comments
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by b33f 1y ago
We’ve been told for years that complex passwords full of symbols are required to be secure, but in reality, length beats complexity almost every time.
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by b33f 1y ago
It's not though, it's written by someone called nothankyou1 https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat/graphs/contributors
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by b33f 2y ago
Is this streaming server-side audio or is the TTS running locally on device ? Can it work offline ?
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by b33f 2y ago
Couchbase mobile has been doing this for over a decade and early versions of membase 15 years ago were using a sqlite backend as a noSQL JSON datastore
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by b33f 2y ago
Aiko is a free app for iOS and macOS that also uses whisper for local TTS
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by b33f 3y ago
No Place to Hide By Glenn Greenwald and Uncanny Valley By Anna Wiener
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by b33f 3y ago
Start investing for retirement and long-term care. The best time to start is yesterday, compound interest is a beautiful thing.
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Run LLMs Locally with an OpenAI API(jan.ai)
3 points by b33f 3y ago|1 comments
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by b33f 3y ago
Jan is a local app for running LLM models on Windows/Linux/MacOS, including an OpenAI compatible API.
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An interactive Monkey Island inspired text and image adventure in ChatGPT(twitter.com)
2 points by b33f 3y ago|0 comments
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by b33f 3y ago
The really nice part of Whisper is being able to use it offline and on-device, it seems whisper memos is uploading your audio and notes to a server of unknown security, confidentiality etc. I like Aiko for on-device transcription both in ma
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by b33f 4y ago
If you're talking about flip phones and trying to protect against an eavesdropper of a phone call or SMS, then there's no point. The network that these phones used is full of holes already https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by b33f 4y ago
In MacOS or Linux, you can use openssl on the CLI easily. $ echo -n "private-message" | openssl enc -e -aes-256-cbc -a -salt enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: Verifying - enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: Then to decryp
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by b33f 5y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/facebook-offic...
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Lenovo’s Newest ThinkPads Feature an ARM Snapdragon CPU(theverge.com)
3 points by b33f 5y ago|0 comments
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by b33f 5y ago
I don't understand how the size of the circles are determined. For example why is the UK with 439 the same size as the UAE with 15 ?
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Couchbase Adopts Business Source License (BSL 1.1)(blog.couchbase.com)
3 points by b33f 5y ago|0 comments
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Faces of the Riot website uses facial recognition to catalog Capitol protesters(arstechnica.com)
20 points by b33f 6y ago|13 comments