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technerder··on Mullvad Leta (Search Engine)
>Mullvad Leta uses the Google Search API as a proxy search engine. Searches are cached each time, and the cached results are shared by every user of the

I was under the impression that the search API terms didn't allow people to cache the results/data, although I might be thinking of another one of their services.

technerder··on Minetest: An open source voxel game engine
I could be wrong but IIRC the chat moderation can not be disabled on a per server basis. Microsoft forces it onto every server and if your account is banned because of something you said on one server you won't be able to join other servers, even those you run yourself.
technerder··on Rust – Are We Game Yet?
I believe this is only true for the "Bedrock" version of the game, the "Java" edition is still written in Java.
technerder··on Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers
Would love to see these offerings being available in the Ashburn VA location.
technerder··on Alpaca: A strong open-source instruction-following model
Is there anyway to use Google's Coral TPU PCIe Accelerator[1]'s to increase the inference performance of GPT models like this and Llama?

[1] https://coral.ai/products/pcie-accelerator/

technerder··on Llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++, with Apple Silicon support
Absolutely love ggerganov's approach with models like this and Whisper. It's just awesome being able to experiment with (what I consider) complex models without needing a billion python/c/cpp dependencies!
technerder··on Google Has Developed Its Own Data Center Server Chips
Would you be able to provide a source or examples relating to the "improved security" claim? I'm not doubting you, I'd just love to learn more about whether the improvements are just architectural (x64 -> ARM) or not
technerder··on [dead]
Disclaimer: this is not my website, just a rather useful one I often use when searching for storage devices
technerder··on High-performance image generation using Stable Diffusion in KerasCV
I've been seeing a lot of HN submissions and images generated by stable diffusion but I've yet to actually toy around with it due to a lack of time, what fork appears to produce the best results for people that don't have a 3090s worth of VRAM? (Currently only have a 3060 with 12GB which I thought would be enough for almost anything haha)
technerder··on Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
Is there an alternative to Stripe/Paypal that don't suck from a customer service support angle?
technerder··on China opens unofficial police stations in Britain to hunt down people for return
Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/6A136
technerder··on USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps
Are there any reputables places where I can buy a USB type C cable that supports everything? It probably wouldn't be cheap but I'd love to just stop having to check to see if my cable is the issue.
technerder··on Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
I've been trying to understand the codebase of Solvespace in order to add a feature (combining both windows into one) but I haven't had much time.
technerder··on Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
I really do hope this finally pushes the open source community to create a viable and enjoyable to use 3D CAD modelling software. I work with code a lot but I was never really able to get into OpenSCAD, and FreeCAD crashes too often for my liking in addition to having a (in my opinion) unintuitive UI/workflow. I've moved on to Solidworks (student edition as I am a student) for now but am still keeping an eye out for alternatives.
technerder··on Firefox Loses Users and Websites
I sadly don't think anything will change unless upper management decides to stop trying to kill Firefox.
technerder··on Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running Kubernetes
Tangential, but are there any easy ways to run server applications on bare metal in a way that removes the need for an underlying OS in order to decreases the overall attack surface an attacker can look for exploits in? (Mainly talking about applications written in Go(TinyGo), Rust, and C++ that can be easily compiled to run on bare metal)
technerder··on Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
I may not be getting the joke, but is that code actually real?
technerder··on Air Force Jet Was Scrambled to Intercept a UFO–Then Disappeared (2020)
Running into the same thing here in Canada
technerder··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
Still have to disable the scripts that Cloudflare injects into my HTML and convert my main image to an svg but I'm pretty satisfied with how it looks.

https://technerder.com/

technerder··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
I really do hope our politicians in Canada pass something like this
technerder··on Future Intel Systems to Be Even Less Friendly for Open-Source Firmware
Really hoping for RISC-V to take off and become a viable and mainstream alternative for consumer desktop machines so we can have a modern, fully open, and customizable computer.
technerder··on NSA-linked Bvp47 Linux backdoor widely undetected for 10 years
Out of curiosity, what backdoors are you referring to?
technerder··on The IPv4 Cleanup Project
Does IPV6 actually allow any two devices from anywhere in the world to connect directly to one another without requiring port forwarding?
technerder··on GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town
It'd be awesome if instead of the proof of work algorithms being based on generating useless hashes, they were instead based on computing protein folding simulations in a way that actually benefits everyone.
technerder··on Mullvad VPN Introducing WireGuard over TCP and IPv6
That actually makes a lot of sense, thank you!
technerder··on Mullvad VPN Introducing WireGuard over TCP and IPv6
The article mentions that places such as cafes and trains block UDP. What is the reasoning for this?
technerder··on Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "Discord is sandboxed"? Are you using an app to sandbox it?