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gdevenyion Residential proxies detected on White House network

It would be really great to have some info about how to detect such things locally.

I used to be a contributor to distros, but I found that Ubuntu simply has no method by which I can fix things and contribute them back.

gdevenyion WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

Perfect honeypot

gdevenyion Apple HomeView

> an old ipad

You've just realized they're going to obsolete all those products.

gdevenyion Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac

This is the result of so many very vibe developers on Mac.

gdevenyion WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload

Could get all the performance back if you just ran Linux natively.

gdevenyion Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

I had this working with the FreeToken inference engine a month ago when they launched.

https://github.com/FlashML-org/FreeToken

gdevenyion Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

This sounds like a terrible situation, but I wonder if a weekend of Claude iterating could improve on any of these problems. They seem to have been pretty successful on the Mac M series.

gdevenyion AI Protest in Montreal

You got it

gdevenyion AI Protest in Montreal

> They argue that LLMs are stealing our culture to feed it back to us.

How is that any different from what media already did.

Most of Disney's original material was European cultural stories.

gdevenyion Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

Reporting bugs _at all_ in Ubuntu has never worked for me.

gdevenyion Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

People still see ads?

gdevenyion Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

Anyone pointed it at the Voynich manuscript?

gdevenyion Homebrew 7.0.0

Does it still need root on Linux? That makes it an instant no go.

gdevenyion Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language

Who remembers turning and object oriented turing from the university of Waterloo?

gdevenyion A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas

https://archive.ph/h66Jg

gdevenyion 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

Like gazing into hell

gdevenyion Where did all the public bathrooms go?

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41212064

gdevenyion Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery

Google already has a product called PhotoScan.

Come on guys!

gdevenyion Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Brave has the same style of engine built into the browser.

gdevenyion Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

People who are likely to get Alzheimer's don't get jobs as taxi drivers.

gdevenyion GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

My 1080ti is my local inference machine now. With the release of the Bonsai 27B models I can run a genuine dense model with usable context. GOAT card.

gdevenyion Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh

> Typescript to bash

Literally the worst of both worlds.

gdevenyion Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3

There is some kind of advertising push for this going on. I got Twitter ads for this repo.

gdevenyion Podman v6.0.0

Because they don't publish up to date packages for major distros.

gdevenyion Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions

As a sysadmin R is the absolute worst for installing and supporting packages.

gdevenyion Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)

People have been noticing the effects of this in local LLM inference. Power limiting seems to improve overall performance!

gdevenyion Qwen3.6-35B-A3B speculative decoding is net-negative on RTX 3090

I'm very interested if more VRAM limited setups (8-16GB) show the same performance loss or if they react differently.