infofarmer

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by infofarmer 10d ago
-current is ok with the caveat that you have to be pretty engaged with the development process, ideally having developers employed (or be one yourself) I was a committer long ago, these days sticking to latest releases on my boxes Desktop i
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by infofarmer 29d ago
The most jarring effect is to look at incomes in ounces of gold before and after 1971. Explains a lot of things.
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by infofarmer 2mo ago
Incidentally, just replaced batteries in my Apple Watch S6, MBP M1 2020, and iPhone 12 Pro Max during a one-day visit to Shenzhen. A dude in Huaqiangbei did everything in two hours for a small fraction of what Apple would charge. ECG stoppe
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by infofarmer 2mo ago
They don't need to know that. Your low-entropy seed / private key will be compromised in the brute force enumeration.
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by infofarmer 2mo ago
A lot of smaller chores look trivial when considered in isolation, but have disproportionate time and mental cost because of how they fit in the flow of life. Sometimes the effect is similar to interrupting an engineer for a couple of minut
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by infofarmer 3mo ago
Yeah, I measured over 5000ppm in a taxi with two passengers. Showed the driver how to enable air intake (he didn’t know about the feature) and tried to explain this is deadly. Pretty sure this is commonplace globally. Generally it’s a mirac
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by infofarmer 3mo ago
Exacerbated by astonishing overuse for anything from a 2-minute endoscopy to a 15-minute hand surgery. The pursuit of “comfort” at the cost of fractional lobotomy.
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by infofarmer 3mo ago
Obviously an LLM and sad Carmack engages with slop to normalize it.
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by infofarmer 11mo ago
to be pedantic, a maxed out MBP is 90200 BRL in Brazil now before AC+ and software, around 16777 USD
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by infofarmer 1y ago
Holding Fallout 1/2 as the best gaming experiences of my life for a long time, just recently discovered Fallout Nevada and Sonora that some kind talent also ported to WASM/Web — and it finally hit the spot for me after ~25 years.
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by infofarmer 2y ago
decoding state can be bulkier than a key frame and opaque to the CPU if hardware acceleration is used I wonder if caching semi-compressed frames would be more efficient in either case (CPU or GPU)
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by infofarmer 2y ago
you'd have to "rebase" all the other frames to be derived from those
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by infofarmer 2y ago
search engines and wikipedia point to actively maintained versions
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by infofarmer 2y ago
somewhat related: /rescue/* on every FreeBSD system since 5.2 (2004) — a single statically linked ~17MB binary combining ~150 critical tools, hardlinked under their usual names https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.
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by infofarmer 3y ago
once you actually need to configure Caddy, it is an abomination beyond imagination — the docs, Caddyfile, JSON config — all of them lack coherence or sensible design never touching it again good defaults matter; nginx configs were very conc
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by infofarmer 3y ago
Lithium is <10% cost of a battery. Presumably much less now. Doesn't affect the price of EVs that much yet.
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by infofarmer 3y ago
discussed here a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34424150
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by infofarmer 3y ago
oh, interesting; it was ipfilter for ages, and suddenly pf-only now https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60993/pfovw-compa...
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by infofarmer 3y ago
Happily running FreeBSD 13 on Hetzner CAX11 since April [1] [2] Great to see OpenBSD is now available as well! [1] https://twitter.com/pandrewhk/status/1649020655558336514 [2] https://gist.github.com&#x
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by infofarmer 3y ago
Any of the three major branches are the first choice for lean, bespoke network appliances. For Mullvad in particular OpenBSD or FreeBSD would be the obvious choice.
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by infofarmer 3y ago
Not sure the actual authors of the various overlapping Linux network subsystems even know the comprehensive picture "inside and out" for chronic lack of consistent documentation. Last time I managed a small «supercomputer», 50x IB
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by infofarmer 3y ago
Not to provoke predictable responses, but I find it interesting that the tech-talented VPN providers are not using BSD in favor of Linux, especially with requirements like diskless operation, kernel customization, and tighter security.
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by infofarmer 3y ago
If you check the profile of the author, Jon Brodkin, https://arstechnica.com/author/jon-brodkin/ — roughly 100% of his headlines are political: anti-Musk, anti-GOP, pro-Biden, pro-gov. Disgusting how this goes und
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by infofarmer 3y ago
Without looking, chances are Apple is using the FreeBSD fork of pf, that diverged long ago (mostly to implement SMP to handle much more traffic).
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by infofarmer 3y ago
The OpenBSD OS is roughly as relevant today as it ever were. The OpenBSD project has significantly grown in relevance since inception through OpenSSH, LibreSSL and dozens of other high-quality implementations.
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by infofarmer 3y ago
Layman thoughts: (1) with enough high-quality training data, «AI» models should be able to output H265 / H266 / AV1 directly, can achieve simplicity and reduce artifacts by skipping an inferior compression step and leveraging temp
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by infofarmer 3y ago
As the old joke goes, whichever platform you're moving to, the average niceness of both X and that will stand to benefit.
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by infofarmer 3y ago
For the record, I'm currently in Saigon, and whenever I order delivery from the local Tops Market (around USD 1.5 fee, within two hours from order placement) they call me to say that bananas are either too ripe or too green and confirm
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by infofarmer 3y ago
A quick search says it's actually ticks, which is OS and machine dependent (kernel tunable). Nanosecond resolution is not enough for a seed if it's a real datetime, so the 32-bit truncation is a separate problem.
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by infofarmer 3y ago
Complexity management is key in any project. Lots of successful forks reduce total complexity. NetBSD and OpenBSD are excellent examples — one could argue that their goals and innovations (in portability and security) would also be useful i

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