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kaitocrosson DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

YaCy is something you can host, and it has a peer to peer distributed index. If the rankings would be more useful tho...

kaitocrosson DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

Qwant as search engine is pretty good.

kaitocrosson Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

The dealbreaker for me is the fact that I can't manually define the channel order (and sub-spaces instead of channel categories, which hurt usability) for everyone as a Space admin. For larger communities, Matrix becomes very unconfortable that way.

kaitocrosson Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

LoRa locally is often installed/managed by municipal governments.

kaitocrosson Run a legal LTE network at home for $100

Congress afaik relies on a temporarily borrowed/gifted license

kaitocrosson Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

I wonder why Luxembourgish is supported when German is not...

kaitocrosson Data viz project that maps all earthquakes by magnitude

Applies to certain former coal mining regions as well (like the Ruhr valley)

kaitocrosson Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty

You can. They offer debit cards.

kaitocrosson Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty

(Transfer)Wise

kaitocrosson MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

It's a chicken-and-egg problem. It doesnt exist in their day to day because they cant access it legally. Also, the political space would profit from more open access. How can I base my arguments on facts and logic if the primary sources of the facts are not accessible to me? How can I show others the facts if they cant access the source without getting into legal trouble?

kaitocrosson Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

Does it only support the US-made GPS (NAVSTAR GPS) or other GNSS systems like Galileo as well?

kaitocrosson Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics

Does that mean that Ants have a better healthcare system than the USA?

kaitocrosson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)

University of Bonn | onsite, with remote work options (Germany) | Bonn, Germany | Full-time

The University of Bonn is one of Germany's eleven Universities of Excellence and has a 200-year history of combining excellent research in a range of disciplines with research-led teaching.[1]

The University of Bonn is looking for:

- a network administrator

- both Junior and Senior IT Security Administrators

- employees for the University Data Centre in the area of Identity Management

More info can be found on the career page of the university: https://www.uni-bonn.de/de/universitaet/arbeiten-an-der-uni/...

[1] https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/university/about-the-university/a...

kaitocrosson 47 Anime for 47 Prefectures in Japan

Kinda surprised they didnt take Zombie Land Saga for Saga prefecture. It's literally made to promote the prefecture. Plus its a wonderful anime with lovely characters

kaitocrosson Gaia-1 a 9B parameter generative world model for autonomous driving

Seems like a good method to generate Dashcam footage for fun