ericra

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by ericra 6mo ago
Not only are loading times and total network usage ridiculous, sites will continue to violate your privacy via trackers and waste your CPU even when background idling. I've written about these issues a few times in the last few years,
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by ericra 2y ago
Cool resource. Took me a bit to find it, so for anyone curious: "All game assets found on the asset page are public domain CC0 licensed..." There is a small FAQ if you click Support at the page bottom.
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by ericra 2y ago
Info from the FAQ: - Currently using Mistral 7B, but ability (by Mozilla) to swap the model used to another open source at any point. - Hosted "by Mozilla" on their GCP instance. - No obvious info about what it will cost them to r
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by ericra 2y ago
I wasn't able to get many decent results after playing with the demo for some time. I guess my question is...what exactly is this for? I was able to get substantially better results about 2 years ago running SD 2 locally on a gaming
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by ericra 2y ago
It does seem like this is one of those domains where new AI models could thrive. From my understanding, the amount and variety of data necessary to make these models work is huge. In addition to historical data, you've got constant s
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by ericra 2y ago
No problems here with a very similar setup (22.04, Firefox), and this is on a 2015 laptop. Very stable and uses very little background resources. I am running unlock origin and privacy badger, but they don't block much of anything the
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by ericra 2y ago
This looks very interesting and I'm checking out the details now. Btw, the link on the site to your GitHub repo has an extra dash, so it's leading to a 404.
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by ericra 2y ago
I like the general idea of this, but this feels like it is trying to do too much. Removing ads, trackers, and unnecessary widgets is mostly a solved problem using unlock origin (+ possibly privacy badger). I think it is a step too far to t
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by ericra 2y ago
I genuinely think this is a great thing to offer and very much needed. Great work. Your ffmpeg tutorial also looks really interesting, and I'll definitely be checking that out when I have time. But please consider removing or changin
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by ericra 2y ago
Honestly, this is just repulsive. Crypto has brought nearly zero benefits to society and has made income inequality even worse. Not to mention the environmental impact. I don't see how any reasonable person can celebrate this. Ask y
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by ericra 2y ago
You make a very good point about "good" option source options. There are also situations where plenty of open tools exist, but whole-system complexity is such that people choose proprietary/managed options anyway. Email hos
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Ask HN: Software with no Open-Source alternatives
7 points by ericra 2y ago|3 comments
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by ericra 2y ago
This is not surprising, and unfortunately, this situation is unlikely to get better any time soon given our increasingly conservative (corp friendly) federal courts. It's really a shame because these corps have shown they can't b
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by ericra 2y ago
Gotta be honest, given much of the news I have been consuming in the past few weeks, I could read 100 articles like this. Concise, well-written, interesting and about potentially useful research... And the prospect of helping wounds heal w
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by ericra 2y ago
Sorry that I wasn't clear. This was in Toronto. I've yet to see quite as many such ads here in the US, but it's possible they were just pushed out by political ads during this period.
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by ericra 2y ago
I'm American but lived in Toronto from 2022 until a couple months ago. I was astounded by the amount of online gambling ads just literally pasted everywhere in Toronto. When I got YouTube ads, a huge percentage was for these. They we
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by ericra 2y ago
Great project. I particularly love the: 1) mit license 2) using plausible instead of Google analytics. Practically speaking, uBO is going to block both by default, but for non-tech users this is great. 3) appreciate how the app respects y
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by ericra 2y ago
Appreciate it! Looks like it's just on my end.
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by ericra 2y ago
Ok interesting. Very weird since I tried from multiple devices and IPs. Anyway thanks for confirming.
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mods: this post can be removed(usps.com)
1 points by ericra 2y ago|5 comments
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by ericra 2y ago
Is anyone able to access the USPS website? I have been trying from multiple different IPs and had no luck. Could not find any info on social media about it. I would normally think nothing of it, but the timing is conspicuous.
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by ericra 2y ago
Having produced only a single book for standardebooks, I don't think many people appreciate the amount of effort that goes into the corrections, semantic html additions, and other edits it takes to go from a typical Gutenberg file to a
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by ericra 2y ago
I've always been a bookmark guy, and I don't know how you hundreds-of-tabs guys do it. It would driv me crazy I think. That being said, have you looked into something like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US&#x
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by ericra 2y ago
That's interesting. I don't have a Facebook account anymore to check, but I'm guessing you only see this when logged in, correct? I get very little CPU usage on their main/login page when logged out. I don't doubt
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by ericra 2y ago
At least the news/media sites can pretend they are loading something useful for the user, even if that is not usually the case. I can't figure out why Google needs 15X more CPU indefinitely to display a white page with a search bo
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by ericra 2y ago
Thank you. It surprised me quite a bit that so many resources were being used even though Firefox is not in focus. It makes sense from the browser perspective, though, since you don't want to completely stop a web app when tabbing awa
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Terrible popular websites waste your CPU and energy(ericra.com)
25 points by ericra 2y ago|11 comments
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by ericra 2y ago
Just a little experiment I did to test the inefficiency of websites. When looking into this, I found that most people measured website efficiency mainly based on the amount of network requests or just general subjective slowness. I wanted
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by ericra 2y ago
Yes this is similar to the popular Stephen Mitchell "translation" in that neither spoke the original language. That being said, I'm glad both of them exist. They are interesting and feel much different to me than the literal
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by ericra 2y ago
This looks great, and your examples seem very high-quality. I'm curious to play with it, but I'm always weary of signing into things with my Google / other accounts. Any plans to have the option to just make an account for y

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