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by halz 7d ago
I'd really like to just buy some collective shares of a GB300 NVL72 in a datacenter somewhere and have a daily token quota on a shared DeepSeek model or whatever was hot that week. I would just need to find ~100 like-minded folks at th
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by halz 7mo ago
This echos of Google's strategy with Chromium.
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by halz 10mo ago
Ditto on having services expressed in more portable/cross distro containers. With NixOS in particular, I've found the best of both worlds by using podman quadlets via this flake in particular https://github.com/SEI
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by halz 1y ago
This "NixOS & Flakes Book" https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world was posted to HN some years ago and is still a good/relevant read.
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by halz 1y ago
On a whim, there is a nuanced situation with some Realtek (RTL8671B) bluetooth firmware on Linux that is 'solved' by downgrading firmware version. This random gist has a nice thread https://gist.github.com/peterist
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by halz 1y ago
I've wondered if that's to make dealing with full disk backup/forensic collections/retention legal hold/etc easier: keep the official amount of end-user device storage to a minimum. And/or it forces the endpoin
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by halz 2y ago
Somewhat reminds me of a project out of IBM some years back: "Billy Goat" https://dominoweb.draco.res.ibm.com/reports/rz3609_revised.p... (bummer looks the site certificate expired a few days ago.. sign of
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by halz 2y ago
Another rough take with some orchestra music from Stellaris, of all things. Start the SpaceX video and 'Towards Utopia' at around the 2:21 mark https://youtu.be/887f76RXvdE?t=141
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by halz 3y ago
I replaced the Slack client with wee-slack [ https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack ]. It brings a much more "zen" experience to using Slack and better compliments my keyboard-centric desktop/workflow (e.g
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by halz 3y ago
It appears the short 'magic link' was along the lines of https://www[.]klm[.]nl/s/AbCdEf
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by halz 3y ago
Looks like support for S3 Express was merged in with version 1.30 just a few hours ago https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3/pull/642
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by halz 3y ago
If you're on a distro which has migrated to pipewire+wireplumber, the available and active bluetooth profiles can be discovered with something like: pw-dump | jq -r '.[] | select(.type == "PipeWire:Interface:Device"
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by halz 3y ago
I experienced a similar sounding issue, but was able to decipher the blocked emerge output from portage to find that app-crypt/tpm2-tss-engine was blocking the whole system from getting onto openssl-3. Once I dropped tpm2-tss-engine,
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by halz 3y ago
Ooooh yes.. Fond memories of attending a few events that were hosted by Hurricane Electric on folding tables in some conference room annex of their data center. And the marvel of finally having an Ethernet connection to the Internet instead
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by halz 4y ago
Definitely lower battery consumption than Alacritty, at least while this is still an unresolved issue https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3108
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by halz 4y ago
Perhaps tpm2-pkcs11 and its ptool are approachable enough? https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-pkcs11/blob/master/doc...
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by halz 4y ago
I am reminded of an article some years ago about a group that claimed to detect/track the F-35 via this sort of passive radar technique. https://archive.is/1t5eT and/or https://www.c4isrnet.com/int
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by halz 4y ago
It may be worth checking the fzf plugin you're using with Fish. There is a more recent+maintained effort[0] that brings an even more delightful feature set, particularly with Ctrl+R/_fzf_search_history [0] https://githu
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by halz 4y ago
There is a pretty well updated cli for Slack built on top of WeeChat (hailing from IRC heritage) https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
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by halz 4y ago
When browser managed credentials are synchronized across devices, an attacker may be able to move laterally into an enterprise by compromising the personally managed device or personally managed account (since it may be without 2FA, or may
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by halz 4y ago
Really depends on the role of the system. Will it be multi-user/single-user? Hosting containers? Hosting virtual machines? Running as a virtual machine? Doing network magic? Each of these classifications will take hardening in differen
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by halz 4y ago
Would only suggest using the Pi's HDMI output to an "HDMI audio extractor", feeding out toslink/spdif to something else, and avoid having the Pi DAC involved with it's 3.5mm output. Keep the signal digital across th
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by halz 4y ago
There is some rough functionality for operations with wlroots via wlrctl https://git.sr.ht/~brocellous/wlrctl and more generically (via uinput) ydotool https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool
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by halz 4y ago
Some vendors may only 'test' as far as getting the compiler to produce something without errors. So, first thing an end-user/consumer/enterprise customer can do when encountering a new platform is to run the platform thr
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by halz 4y ago
The Lexend group was formed out of research on second grade students (US) [ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777945/ ] that lead them to a font design [ https://design.google/library
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by halz 4y ago
The "Planned Obsolescence" documentary is (infuriatingly) great on how goods have degraded in quality over the years. https://youtu.be/wzJI8gfpu5Y
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by halz 5y ago
I think a great deal of success with this laptop and Linux is owed to the stewardship provided by Mario Limonciello while he was with Dell [ https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dell-Mar... ]. Hopefully De
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by halz 5y ago
Sure! This old one from GamersNexus runs through some pretty good detail and even arrives at the same "20C temperature reduction" conclusion I experienced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d42PSM0CN8g Best will be
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by halz 5y ago
As thermal budgets get pushed with more power in smaller packages, replacing the OEM thermal paste/pad is almost becoming a standard operation. Recent AMD/Nvidia GPUs have experienced thermal throttling issues due to poor or outri
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by halz 5y ago
A helpful utility to run before you get too deep into trying to run Linux on some hardware is the 'Firmware Test Suite'; https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite It runs an impressively large suite of checks and

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