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jetbalsa··on Gnome is better macOS than macOS
I'm a KDE User, by no means a power user. I would love to know what makes KDE Worse over GNOME, I come from Windows Land so its workflows tended to work best for me. but I can see from a MacOS User how GNOME might fit their habits better.
jetbalsa··on Control LLM Spend and Access with any-LLM-gateway
I'm currently using apisix its ai rate limits are fine and the webui is a little json heavy but got me going on load balancing a bunch of models across ollama installs
jetbalsa··on Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k
I suspect someone is updating that bar by hand :V
jetbalsa··on Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
I don't think its Microsoft directly that care about gaming, There are a few factors at play. but every time a game is ported to a Playstation/Switch its being ported to a form of Linux, and in most cases the Graphics APIs are the same. Its the companies making the game have no incentive to port to Linux if the tiny user base is fine with Proton and dealing with its hacks.
jetbalsa··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
Only runs on a handful of hardware, and still uses the binblobs from google for the hardware devices.
jetbalsa··on Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game
It did not like Backyard Starship, most likely its not something it has in its memory
jetbalsa··on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars
Some EVs have single pedal mode, where if you let off the gas it will bring you to a complete stop,
jetbalsa··on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it
I always loved the huge standard library that PHP offered, that and the comment section per function on the php docs pages
jetbalsa··on What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate
I also think anime is in the same boat, there is a ton of different stories you can tell and how they are animated. its a shame it gets all lumped together like it does
jetbalsa··on What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate
I've found and some have proven that sci-fi is just a setting of sorts, a background to the story at hand. For instance the Backyard Starship series is 100% a detective / cop novel set in space. Asimov did one called The Naked Sun that was pretty much a murder mystery and from what I understand written to prove a point that sci-fi really is just a setting to what ever main genre you want out of it.
jetbalsa··on How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]
Has this been proven for flash storage? Once a flash charge is depleted its gone forever, its not like magnetic storage of old.
jetbalsa··on How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox
Nice, I've had to do this to get NT4 for Open Stack, QEMU has better support for some of the older hardware required. I've also gotten DOS 6.22 and Networking turned on
jetbalsa··on Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials
I was looking for the modified client to look into, not the main line signal binary
jetbalsa··on Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials
Would be interesting to dump the app binaries so people can take a look at how its put together, I suspect its a minefield of sloppy injection functions into how signal works.
jetbalsa··on Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
reminds me of my own personal website at http://jrwr.sdf.org
jetbalsa··on Try Switching to Kagi
I guess I'm a power user, I'm at > Total searches this period 1,216 > Assistant interactions this period 92

I feel the 25$ is worth it for a product that I use this much and along with knowing the costs of trying to keep all this stuff alive at the smaller scale can be hard. until they get much larger I don't expect the prices to go down.

jetbalsa··on Try Switching to Kagi
Daily user for a few years now, the response times have not gotten that much better, but I do like the assistant feature of their higher tiers so I've stayed on for now.
jetbalsa··on DOGE's Plan to Rewrite Social Security's Code in Months
I'm surprised its not java, from what I understand IBM has a good migration path from COBOL to Java.
jetbalsa··on MCP: The new "USB-C for AI" that's bringing fierce rivals together
I have a few times. Even had a local llm attacking student VMs in a cyber comp I put on. it was rather good at hacking students using kali's built in tools.
jetbalsa··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Hyper-V as a Service ish?

I have a use case to have a need to provision at will hyper-v instances for others to have control over fully. I've looked into proper things for things like SCVMM and Azure local and really they do suck..

So off to build a set of automation scripts to provision hyper-v inside of hyper-v attached to S2D shares and give students admin access to them and work in teams to build things on their own.

Its going to suck... I've done this exact use case using openstack, incus, proxmox and they all kinda suck...

I need project isolation, I need freedom, I need compliance.

The compliance is where I'm stuck with hyper-v due to the powers to be....

Wish me luck!

jetbalsa··on Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo
I'm a huge fan of his A Mind is born demo 256 byte demo he did awhile back, freaking amazing

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/index.php

jetbalsa··on Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time
Eh, Linux can still be a crap shoot depending on what you are trying to do. differences in distros are still somewhat vast.

Do I target Wayland or X11? Do I target OpenGL or Vulkan, Deb or RPM, or one of the many App in a box (Snap, AppImage, Docker, Etc)

Don't get me wrong, its gotten better over the years, but still not at a streamlined experience as one would expect.

Don't get me started on the X11/Wayland issue, They really needed a reference composer, instead we have like what? 5? all varying their API levels they support for screen capture,

I feel bad for applications that have to do that.

jetbalsa··on Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
I was just screwing around today with data like this. I was making it to have as a exhibit at a up coming event at my university

https://bsky.app/profile/balsa.info/post/3lh7z776lbk2w

You connect to a special WiFi SSID and compares your traffic to known tracking/ad domains (Pi-Hole Lists mostly) and the "food" is the packets being sent to those servers.

its crude and has some high false positive rates, but it does have a chilling effect for me when exploring what data is going where

jetbalsa··on Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code
what work flow where you using to feed it code? was it cline? Cline has major prompting issues with DeepSeek, Deepseek really doesn't like you changing out its prompt with what normal LLMs are using.
jetbalsa··on Cloud Virtualization: Red Hat, AWS Firecracker, and Ubicloud internals
I've become a huge fan of incus as of late. I do wish it had more out of the box support for some of the firecracker/microvm qemu workflows
jetbalsa··on Don't Use Session (Signal Fork)
> Cryptography nerds should NOT be finding the software that activists trust with their privacy hilarious.

This is very much true. Why in the world would session do the things they listed unless it really was just a state actor trying to get something in place to snoop on people.

jetbalsa··on Stimulation Clicker
a fun way is to resize the window to be super tiny and the DVD Bounce really gets going into the millions
jetbalsa··on How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
I'm love old school HTML, need a autoscaling page, lets break out some FRAMESETs and some tables/iframes
jetbalsa··on Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)
I agree with the first statement and I want to point out that PHP had the exact same issues with its ecosystem. its getting better but not by much.
jetbalsa··on Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
and physics bugs, there are a few edge spots you can clip into and really send yourself flying!
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