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kosolam··on Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
Could you please enlighten me regarding all these engines, I’m using lamacpp and ollama. Should I also try mlx, onnx, vllm, etc. I’m not quite sure whats the difference between all these. I’m running on CPU and sometimes GPU
kosolam··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
The full comment quoted:

  >I like the idea, I just don't know how to implement a robust micropayment system that does not require a lot of messages back and forth for a transaction. Given the intended use-case, that would not work.

My reply is: here is the system that will work. Very simple. Keep in mind that multiple use cases and applications were mentioned, so I don’t see an issue for such an economic model to support at least some of the use cases.
kosolam··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
Please check the parent comment which I replied to, this is a solution to “how to implement a robust micropayment system” in this context, not how to solve a “decentralized communications problem”.
kosolam··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
I gather you aren’t familiar very well with smart contracts, are you?
kosolam··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
Absolutely, to deposit and withdraw. But relay can be done without the Internet.
kosolam··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
I can design such a system in a couple of minutes. As the adjacent commenter said it can be done with a blockchain, using smart contacts. 1. Sender deposits fee 2. Message includes unlocking code that itself only can be unlocked by the recipient 3. Message getting wrapped with details of forwarders while it moves between peers 4. Recipient unlocks the message via the smart contract thereby releasing the micropayments to the forwarders
kosolam··on Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON
There is this generic tool: https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya
kosolam··on Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok
It looks very interesting, but I’m getting lost in the pages of features and different use cases. It would have been nice to have a succinct list of features/capabilities (technical, not buzzword) and why this solution solves better than alternatives.
kosolam··on Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso
I just wanted to point out after reading the thread of the Chromium maintainers that it looked to me like they rushed out this change without proper consideration of all possible implications. Other comments there show that the developer isn’t intimately familiar in depth with the Chromium project at large, yet making changes with very wide impact. I apologize if anyone got me wrong, especially if there are any Googler here that took this personally.
kosolam··on Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland
The reason that I started using Linux more than 20 years ago wasn’t a nice API for sure.
kosolam··on Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland
Got it. The practical benefit is that you have a library that you want to use, now? Good for you, sir. But seriously, why have another native c++ gui library?
kosolam··on Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland
What are the practical benefits of this library? We have gtk,qt,fltk,wx, and a long list of others some cross platform some not..
kosolam··on Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso
You mean it’s consistent on the machine code level and this allows patching and debugging more easily? Trying to understand..
kosolam··on Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso
Looks like the Google developer in the discussion is clueless.
kosolam··on Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry
This approach is akin to the prod server pulling an image from a registry. The op method is push based.
kosolam··on Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
Is this open source software that I can run my own hacker news as well?
kosolam··on JEP 519: Compact Object Headers
I’m asking if this JEP will also improve the performance of native image graal built executables, or only when an app is ran using the jdk?
kosolam··on JEP 519: Compact Object Headers
I wonder if this also improves the efficiency of native image graal built executables?
kosolam··on QModem 4.51 Source Code
Modems were the way to connect to the internet providers so I guess he used QMODEM to dial up.
kosolam··on ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser
Looks interesting. What is it?
kosolam··on Writes Large Correct Programs (2008)
Yet, some visits to the stratosphere are misadventures.
kosolam··on Go-taskflow: A taskflow-like General-purpose Task-parallel Programming Framework
Is it like Temporal?
kosolam··on Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#
Yes. This is the most interesting part for me here.. check out the web version https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
kosolam··on Lynis – Security auditing and hardening tool, for Unix-based systems
Seems like a good thing. Anyone here has experience with this tool?
kosolam··on JetBrains Rider is now free for non-commercial use
Btw, as a paying ultimate user for the Java EE features I was surprised how good vscode support for the same is. And completely for free
kosolam··on OpenVMM – A New VMM for Windows and Linux, Written in Rust
A very interesting project. If I understand correctly it’s being used for Azure infrastructure.
kosolam··on Meta Movie Gen
Must be because Facebook use php
kosolam··on This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more
It’s interesting to see servo keeps living. Thumbs up.
kosolam··on Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
Facebook is full with this shit. I deem them legally complicit in drug dealing/trafficking/whatnot
kosolam··on Windows recovery environment and bootable USB creator in 200kb
Eli5?
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