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traverseda··on Pebble Watch software is now open source
Yeah, but it's running on a device that has closed source blobs in it. Hell, even the linux kernel often has firmware blobs for wifi devices.
traverseda··on Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand
But they're creating the demand themselves by putting AI features that may not be creating actual value for users.
traverseda··on A file format uncracked for 20 years
ImHex will tell you if it's compressed. Do you understand data structures? Floats, all those data types?

I'd suggest looking at a format like msgpack to see what a binary data format could look like: https://msgpack.org/

Then be aware that proprietary formats are going to be a lot more complicated. Or maybe it's just zipped up json data, only way to tell is to start poking around at it.

traverseda··on Why we migrated from Python to Node.js
>We did this so we can scale.

>Python async sucks

Python async may make certain types of IO-blocked tasks simpler, but it is not going to scale a web app. Now maybe this isn't a web app, I can't really tell. But this is not going to scale to a cluster of machines.

You need to use a distributed task queue like celery.

traverseda··on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
How do you justify specializing in mobile development when it's very clear that you're just sharecroppers on someone else's land?
traverseda··on Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
No one is going to walk away from that kind of alliance tomorrow, sure. Stuff like "we're going to remotely disable military equipment we've sold you" is going to have consequences though. It's not walking away from alliances, it's just focusing on more stable countries.
traverseda··on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
A specific women? Women in general? Is vague-posting back in vogue?
traverseda··on As Android developer verification gets ready to go, a new reason to be worried
GrapheneOS is only allowed to live because google lets it. This signals a wider ecosystem change that tells us that GrapheneOS is going to stop being usable when this generation of hardware dies. This generation or maybe the one after it.
traverseda··on KDE is now my favorite desktop
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107302

How can we make this happen? I am a programmer but I am not in a good position to do this specific kind of programming myself. This seems tightly integrated to a lot of stuff I don't have a good understanding of. Is there a way to donate to specific features, could I do some crowdfunding to hire a dev to do this feature and if so who? Is there any way at all you can think of that I could effect this feature landing other than spending a few years learning this kind of development?

traverseda··on How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
What alternative do you suggest?
traverseda··on I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack
Worth noting that lidarr is broken right now. It relies on a metadata server provided by the lidarr org (like that's not going to blow up in our faces) and that metadata server is currently down. It's been like that for I think 6 months?

https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr/issues/5498

>If you're starting a NEW lidarr library, you should wait. It's not ready for that.

traverseda··on Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery
Advertising beamed directly into your face. Eye tracking to build a better psychological profile to better manipulate you.

The better question is do the major tech companies have enough power to force you to use smart glasses, like you can be forced to have a google or apple account to interact with certain banks? What can they break and make it so you need to use smart glasses to continue to use them?

With the matter protocol and smart IoT, maybe you'll need glasses to turn on lights, or some much clunkier interface with a phone. Maybe something more facebook like where you'll need them to communicate with your friends, leverage some network effects. I'm sure someone is figuring that out as we speak.

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There's a lot of legitimate use for a HUD too, but I doubt that is what will drive investment.

traverseda··on Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499
Anything latency sensitive. Anything bandwidth constrained.

Simple example, Security cameras that only use bandwidth when they've detected something. The cost of live streaming 20 cameras over 5g is very high. The cost of sending text messages with still images when you see a person is reasonable.

traverseda··on Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit
It will! For Linux hosts and Linux guests, if you use virtio and memory ballooning.
traverseda··on Where's Firefox going next?
Most of the Firefox adoption I've seen has been driven by tech evangelists pushing it. It's a vocal minority that is upset but it's also a vocal minority that was responsible for a lot of growth.

Firefox Mobile is great, it has uBlock Origin. I'm not recommending it to people though.

traverseda··on FMD Android: secure open source alternative to Google's Find My Device
I primarily use find my device to ring my phone even when it's on silent.
traverseda··on What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512
Why though? This is clearly a problem I just don't understand what the vendors are getting out of it.
traverseda··on Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice
Paying for a subscription is explicitly not what this is about. No one is suggesting this for MMOs. Just that it be clear that it is a subscription, that you're not actually buying the game. What a one-time fee for an MMO? Give it an expiry date. You can keep pushing the expiry date, but you have to promise support up to at least that date.
traverseda··on Will Scaling Solve Robotics?
You'd expect someone who's never seen a kitchen before to be able to cook?
traverseda··on Fun with uv and PEP 723
I don't think nix is that hard for this particular use case. Installing nix on other distros is pretty easy, and once it's installed you just do something like this

    #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
    #! nix-shell -i bash -p imagemagick cowsay

    # scale image by 50%
    convert "$1" -scale 50% "$1.s50.jpg" &&
    cowsay "done $1.q50.jpg"
Sure all of nixos and packaging for nix is a challenge, but just using it for a shell script is not too bad
traverseda··on Show HN: EnrichMCP – A Python ORM for Agents
That's an odd question. If you have a regular ORM how do you handle sensitive data that your user shouldn't know about? You add some logic or filters so that the user can only query their own data, or other data they have permission to access.

It's also addressed directly in the README. https://github.com/featureform/enrichmcp?tab=readme-ov-file#...

I know LLMs can be scary, but this is the same problem that any ORM or program that handles user data would deal with.

traverseda··on A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant
Do you have it embedded in the Home Assistant UI, and using HA user credentials?
traverseda··on Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer
For a long time most PC games came bundled with a server. Consoles being the exception, but many games were released on PC as well.
traverseda··on A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant
NodeRED is a complete PITA to set up outside of supervisor. It requires extensions on both ends, and it passes the auth in a weird way.
traverseda··on Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python
LLMs are deterministic. So far every vendor is giving them random noise in addition to your prompt though. They don't like have a free will or a soul or anything, you feed them exactly the same tokens exactly the same tokens will come out.
traverseda··on Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python
This is achievable with deepdiff today: https://pypi.org/project/deepdiff/

Maybe not as performant as if you designed your data structures around it. But certainly achievable.

traverseda··on A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant
Supervisor is more or less required for some pretty critical add-ons.
traverseda··on A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant
Home assistant supervisor is not very friendly. It's designed so that it must be kept up to date, and handles it's own auto-update features. It also won't run nicely in a docker container with some significant hacks. This means that the only deployment option if you want a complete home assistant install is to use their "Home Assistant OS" or specific debian versions.

Generally it feels like they're making deploying it as hard as possible, doing stuff like checking if supervisor is running in a docker container and just not working if it is.

This is presumably born out of frustrations with users deploying it incorrectly, but there really is no reason a supervisor based HA install can't run in a docker container. I've got a some private hacks doing just that, that I'm hesitant to post publicly in case they find some way to break it.

No idea what the obsession is with keeping a full home assistant install from running in a container, but it's very strange. Trying to add more friction so they can sell more of their dedicated hardware? Their hardware is nice and stands on it's own, the only reason I don't use it is because I want to run on an old touch screen chromebook for very low power usage.

traverseda··on Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer
Space station 13 was the big game for it.
traverseda··on Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer
Consider just releasing it under a BSL license forbidding commercial hosting? If that works with your business model.
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