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by rft 10d ago
I have a "Homatics Box R 4K Plus" with CoreELEC/Kodi installed. The UX is then determined by your Kodi skin or apps. I wouldn't exactly recommend that box for ease of installation, but it works. It only needed to boot on
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by rft 1mo ago
I intentionally avoid this, especially if I am not the only one connecting to a server. I see potentially breaking others' expectations for my convenience as a clear downside. Plus there is a level of paranoia there, I might have unint
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by rft 1mo ago
ssh, scp, tmux, (grml-)zsh, grep, less, file, tar, git The time saving of a well filled ~/.ssh/config is impressive, especially once you start juggling ProxyJump hops.
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by rft 1mo ago
Chris just has some fun projects. Sandsifter was pretty well known back then due to finding that VIA x86 opcode, the movfuscator is just an amazing piece of mostly useless engineering and the fun reverse engineering psychological warfare wa
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by rft 1mo ago
I get that argument, but I don't think it is that bad. Open weights that are out of reach for local use are still within reach for groups of people or small to medium companies. Even if you only rent enough cloud GPUs to run the weight
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by rft 2mo ago
Article is missing a note on the existence of MX records for the domains. Sure, you can easily have a send-only domain without an MX record, but the common case is likely to setup both send and receive capability. It would be interesting to
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by rft 3mo ago
Those numbers are wrong for most use cases. Likely the LLM did not take SWA (Sliding Window Attention) of G4 into account. Without SWA those numbers could be correct, I can't load a q8 without SWA on a 24GB card. I tested this with the
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by rft 4mo ago
Ah, ok. I took a look at the 3090 numbers and they list 400 tok/s prefill, so if I normalize my expectations to that base line the numbers you posted do make sense. I haven't dug deep into that site's methodology, but their e
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by rft 4mo ago
> The MI100 is roughly double the performance on Qwen 3.5 35B A3B Q5_K_M to the R9700 (462 token/s prefill vs 239 tokens/s, 217 tokens/s vs 118 token/s for inference) Those prefill numbers look really low to me. I can
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by rft 4mo ago
For those who, like me, had to do a double take on that number: https://www.businessinsider.com/openclaw-peter-steinberger-a... Yes, $1.3M in token cost in less than 30 days and some days were even off-peak, if you can call
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by rft 4mo ago
Without having firm data, I can see a few factors that are different. After the collapse of the GDR, it was easier for eastern Germans to move to west Germany than for Polish to move to a different country in the west. Mostly younger and ed
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by rft 5mo ago
And a minority of those kids will get curious about the How and Why. Those are the security nerds of the future securing the networks against both the kids they were themselves and actual malicious actors. Source: Early interest in wifi sec
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by rft 7mo ago
In 2019 there was a talk about data mining the DB arrival data [1] (yes, this problem is nothing new). One of the takeaways was that on some connections you can actually buy a "Sparticket" (cheaper, but only valid for a specific t
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by rft 8mo ago
Related, there is a stable way to detect whether your .exe is running under Wine and even which version by looking up the address of the export wine_get_version in ntdll [1]. Years ago I actually had to do this to work around some weird pat
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by rft 9mo ago
I still have to go through my watch list, the age old issue of not having my slides done before congress... The 10 year of Dieselgate is interesting just from a "how bad is it really?" PoV, I saw the part about curves and other de
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by rft 9mo ago
Author here, happy to answer any questions you might have.
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by rft 10mo ago
SteamVR works ok, but last I checked it still performs worse than on Windows. If you are feeling adventurous, you can try a FOSS VR stack [1]. It works for Steam games running Proton and when it works it provides better performance. I had s
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by rft 10mo ago
At this point escalating, or threatening to, might be the better option. But I can't help trying to figure out how to solve a people/organizational problem with a technological solution. Github is still famously IPv4 only. I don&#
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by rft 10mo ago
As much as I hate where this might lead, I can't help but amuse myself over a scene like this: You walk up to a bearded fellow in a dark alley and quietly whisper "Stallman..." only for him to quietly respond "... was ri
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by rft 10mo ago
That part also caused my tin foil hat to heat up. At least they get the credit of including it directly instead of adding it in a later revision that gets even less news coverage. It is hard not to grow cynical when you see this. I am also
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by rft 10mo ago
I managed to find some statistics on hull losses per million departures [1, p. 13]. Seems like indeed MD-11s have a highish rate of incidents by that metric compared to other types, even if they are not catastrophically less safe than other
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by rft 10mo ago
At some point it comes down to probabilities. With so many flights going on, one in a million incidents become a certainty. For example UA232 [1] suffered failure in all 3 redundant hydraulic systems due to an uncontained engine failure. An
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by rft 10mo ago
Given that the report only mentioned a single other seemingly related accident in 1979 I am not sure that objectively this is a reason to discontinue flying these planes. The fact that these planes have been in service since the early 70s i
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by rft 10mo ago
I haven't seen that one, this video [1] includes a different angle taken from a vehicle on the airport. [1] https://youtu.be/POKJUJk_2xs?t=342
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by rft 10mo ago
Grounding all MD-11s and DC-10s is a major move. I guess it makes sense as a big factor was the fatigue cracks on the pylon (lugs), despite the pylon not being behind on inspections. I am wondering what the inspections of pylons in other pl
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by rft 10mo ago
Had to check, but that is actually beyond what DNS allows. Labels (the part between dots) are limited to 63 characters. We could sneakily drop an s somewhere in there and then it would fit. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc&#
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by rft 10mo ago
Would be great of Valve to just drop a Steam Machine Max++ with an AMD Ryzen AI 395 and 128GB unified memory. I know this is not going to happen, but SteamOS should boot fine on that SoC, so you can DIY a Steam Machine that also runs LLMs (
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by rft 10mo ago
I want to echo a previous comment of mine on this topic: With the rise of mainstream-compatible, as in a standard gamer can get them running and use them with a similar frustration level as Win11, Linux first systems like steam deck, steam
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by rft 10mo ago
Yepp, saw that number and I am very hopeful about it. But numbers are not everything and can be gamed (heh), the "feel" during gameplay is most important. I hope to try it out "early 2026" :). I get very annoyed by the a
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by rft 10mo ago
I have seen different options of "HUDs" in VR games, not all are actually "heads up". Adding them to the proper context sometimes makes more sense than having them floating in mid air like in pancake view. Examples I hav

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