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VadimPR··on The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen
We fix this issue by distributing ours in a tar file with the executable bit set. Linux novices can just double click on the tar to exact it and double click again on the actual appimage.

Been doing it this way for years now, so it's well battle tested.

VadimPR··on A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
How can you tell if a short person is slouching? Or a tall person?
VadimPR··on Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience
Very cool, thanks! I will try this with Mudlet.
VadimPR··on Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
Would love to see a Linux native application for this, after all a lot of folks are using it more and more these days.
VadimPR··on Play Aardwolf MUD
MS2 has a great Mudlet UI too, one of the best early ones!
VadimPR··on Lua 5.5
There are nice new features in recent updates, but so far our strategy has been to stick to the version we use.
VadimPR··on Lua 5.5
One challenge we have with Lua in Mudlet (FOSS text-based MUD client, think something akin to Roblox but for text) is that all of the player-created content is on Lua 5.1, and upgrading to 5.5 would be a breaking change for most.

Has anyone solved an ecosystem upgrade like this?

VadimPR··on 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
If you know what a distro is, and that distro is most trustworthy when the website looks unappealing, chances are you don't need to be convinced of benefits of Linux!
VadimPR··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
In Sweden and Netherlands it is quite easy and straightforward to register a business, speaking from personal experience. Tax filing is quite straightforward as well, especially for personal income tax.
VadimPR··on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
Right, the period closed:

Feedback: Closed Consultation period 17 July 2025 - 24 October 2025 (midnight Brussels time)

VadimPR··on Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day
I need this so badly - but on Linux :)
VadimPR··on Terminal app can now run full graphical Linux apps in the latest Android Canary
This is great. We build a graphical MUD client (Mudlet) that's available for Linux/macOS/Windows, but Android support has (so far) eluded us. Would be amazing if this ran a native Linux binary.

Of course, UI adjustments would be the next step!

VadimPR··on Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden
What is the benefit of limiting battery charging?
VadimPR··on Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards
Ollama runs really, really slow on my MBP for Mistral - as in just a few tokens a second and it takes a long while before it starts giving a result. Anyone else run into this?

I've seen that it seems to be related to the amount of system memory available when ollama is started (??) however LM Studio does not have such issues.

VadimPR··on Show HN: Statusduck – Website monitoring tool where the data is public
There's a trick to it:

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Statusduck Pro - $50/month

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VadimPR··on Covid Test Data Breach: 1.3M Patient Records Exposed Online
I've gotten myself tested by a lab in Amsterdam a few times. What do I do now?

I'm in the industry and even I don't have an actionable course to take.

VadimPR··on LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud
Basecamp/HEY is one publicly famous example.
VadimPR··on Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller
Does anyone know if it is possible to fine-tune the whisper models to add new words? Say, brand names it doesn't yet know about?
VadimPR··on Show HN: OpenLLMetry – OpenTelemetry-based observability for LLMs
Will vLLM be supported as well?
VadimPR··on Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone
How does it actually work?
VadimPR··on Show HN: I rewrote the 1990's LambdaMOO server
Mudlet represent :)
VadimPR··on How to create a Qt 5 ARM/Intel universal binary for Mac
Anyone have Qt5 universal binary builds working as part of CI/CD?
VadimPR··on Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator
Are there prebuilt binaries available for macOS? I'm running the GTK version on an m1 and it always takes a few seconds to get going.
VadimPR··on Vicuna v1.5 series, featuring 4K and 16K context, based on Llama 2
How good is recall at 4k and 16k prompt sizes?
VadimPR··on A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team
Firefox is working great for me on the M1, have not noticed any issues worth complaining about.
VadimPR··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Worldwide | Remote

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HL7 FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CDS Hooks, SNOMED, LOINC

Website/resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadimperetokin

Email: vperetokin at hey.com

Available for consulting engagements.

VadimPR··on Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to create PDF invoices
Canva works surprisingly well for small enough invoices for a solo consulting gig.
VadimPR··on Use pytorch2+cu118 with ADA hardware for 50%+ speedup
I can confirm that it's true on RTX 4080 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
VadimPR··on Llama 2
How are you running Falcon? ggllm.cpp is really slow at tokenizing the input, so it doesn't work for large context.
VadimPR··on Iron fuel shows its mettle
We are already using the most economically viable option. The trouble is that it's not sustainable long term. The solution then will not be the most economical one.
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