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IceWreck··on Solid (formerly Wise) files for bankruptcy
Yeah I was a bit worried after seeing the headline and the article doesnt do much to clear that up. Thank you.
IceWreck··on VSCode Marketplace Web Pages No Longer Allow Direct VSIX Downloads
Use this instead - it's OSS and not microsoft controlled.

https://open-vsx.org/

IceWreck··on "We're building a new static type checker for Python"
You should check out litestar

It's essentially what you described and it's growing in popularity.

IceWreck··on Sourcegraph went dark
> (our biggest customer has ~600k repositories

I'm wondering what kind of company has (or needs) 600k repos.

IceWreck··on A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes
I've switched to kustomize for my homelab. Its built into kubectl (no extra tool needed) and its not really templating.

It doesn't fully replace helm for 3rd party tools or packaging but its a solid alternative for less complicated setups.

IceWreck··on DuckDuckGo was down
Yes, ddg is just a bing frontend which anonymizes results before sending them to MS.
IceWreck··on Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
I love Spice too but it has been deprecated for a while now. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
IceWreck··on Nitro: A fast, lightweight inference server with OpenAI-Compatible API
I recommend using https://ollama.ai/ if you dont care about openai compatibility.
IceWreck··on Vitess 18
Why is planetscale making release notes for vitess - a google project
IceWreck··on Firefox 118 brings browser-based website translation (no cloud servers required)
I have a pretty similar experience. It's slower and worse translation (at least for Dutch) than the TWP extension, but hey it's local translation and I'd rather use this than send the contents of browser to a 3rd party like google, bing or yandex.
IceWreck··on Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud Tools
Why use this - a stripped down unusable version of vscode when you can host a full instance of vscode on your linux server

https://github.com/coder/code-server

IceWreck··on Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
Huh nice. Looks like it uses Supabase as a backend.
IceWreck··on Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
> Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.

100% PR. They know Red Hat will not actually do it so why not offer for PR points.

IceWreck··on OwnCloud Infinite Scale added EULA that prohibits commercial use [pdf]
https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/pull/6755 - its only for published binary builds.
IceWreck··on Story Behind Hackathon Photo
As a very recent grad, the hackathons I've attended are usually more chaotic than this but the situation regarding viewing angles is the same. You cant be bothered to bring an entire monitor, or even stands to the event.

Some venues provide a monitor, but thats usally one per team.

IceWreck··on If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython
https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder

Instagram (and presumably threads) runs on Cinder which is Meta's fork cpython with GIL removed.

IceWreck··on Using Nginx to block Meta, Twitter and ChatGPT access to your sites
And you think Meta or Twitter's bots would be dumb ?

If they wanted to scrape your site, nobody can prevent them.

IceWreck··on Hundreds of subreddits plan to go dark indefinitely after Reddit CEO's memo
Private subs are private for everyone, even members.

Only sub moderators and admins can access private subs. You won't be able to see the threads that come up in your search results either way unless they become public again.

IceWreck··on A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
Well we already have Hetzner and OVH which are European so just being European does not give them a selling point over others.
IceWreck··on Quick VPN Setup with AWS Lightsail and WireGuard
Another reason to host your own VPN is that you want all your devices to be on the same network.
IceWreck··on Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion
some guy in /r/stablediffusion made a lora that can do that (or maybe a derivative model, dont remember which)
IceWreck··on Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion
Forget QR codes, until very recently Stable Diffusion and Co could not generate legible text in images.
IceWreck··on Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM
The solution is to not install CUDA on your base system because you need multiple versions of CUDA and some of them are often incompatible with your distro provided GCC.

Here is what works for me:

- Nvidia drivers on base linux system (rpmfusion/fedora in my case)

- Install nvidia container toolkit

- Use a cuda base container image and run all your code inside podman or docker

IceWreck··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Awesome trailer, but the Meta Quest 3 can do the same things, with somewhat worse hardware but that's acceptable considering its 7x cheaper.

The biggest improvements over it are the higher resolution, the spatial audio and using a PS5/xbox controller to play regular apple arcade games. They are heavily leaning into the "use it as a large monitor aspect" which is something Meta Quest sucks at because of poor resolution.

IceWreck··on Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset
You wipe them clean after use. Most 3rd party "elite" straps come with a special cloth to wipe them which I think is similar to the one you use to wipe your glasses.
IceWreck··on Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset
The games are nice but noone mentions the fitness apps. I use my quest 2 for cardio/workout and some of those apps get my heart rate up faster than running or other forms of exercise.
IceWreck··on JMAP – a modern email open standard
Why would you need to enable IMAP ? It works out of the box. Every non-android platform uses IMAP to access your account (k9 mail, outlook, thunderbird, the iOS/mac email client, etc).
IceWreck··on Show HN: Open-Source, AI Powered Notebooks for SRE Teams
I'm sorry but do you really expect engineers to create workflows on the graphical interface by clicking a button, choose from options, choose conditions and iterators ?

Your target audience - SRE Teams are engineers who would give up on using this in five minutes. They can accomplish the same thing using ansible, etc which they can configure using a text editor, mix with real programming languages where needed, store in version control and run using both a terminal and a GUI if needed.

Docs for anyone else who can't figure out what this actually does from the homepage. https://docs.unskript.com/unskript-product-documentation/gui...

Also, where does "AI" come in ? Also who uses jupyter notebooks to run production code.

IceWreck··on Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11
I would love this in Linux, but only if it works offline. Not a fan of sending everything I do to a remote machine.
IceWreck··on Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
What about development costs ?
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