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chrash0

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  • Ollama Server Component Recommendations

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  • thanks for clarifying. it was hard for me to dignify such a comment with a response.

    you’re also going to run into hardware acceleration issues trying to run Metal acceleration with a Linux kernel. i don’t really see a need to containerize these workloads these days anyway with tools like uv.

    it’s a big pain in my ass at times trying to do web dev work with an aarch64-darwin dev env vs the target x86_64-linux. adding in hardware acceleration issues just sounds painful.

    i also just personally don’t like containers. feels like bludgeon of a solution.

  • GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation

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  • i’m baffled GoDaddy still exists. i’ve never heard good things about them, but every normie i know mentions them first when the idea of buying a domain comes up

  • Ollama Server Component Recommendations

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  • in a container

    well there’s your issue. i get not liking the OS, but actively crippling your project will cripple your project.

    containers on macOS do kinda suck

  • Lua can be a really cool HTML templating engine

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  • tough read. super long. i don’t know if it’s my millennial attention span, but i have to admit i mostly skimmed it.

    anyway, i like the idea! i think the elephant in the room is that it just kinda sucks doing UI in XML. Kotlin has a similar HTML builder that is a joy to use for the same reasons: you don’t need some arcane templating language to do basic control flow.

  • Ollama Server Component Recommendations

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  • super fair. i am a Linux guy normally. i’m just being honest. i wish there was a better more open alternative.

    if you want to go with the Linux alternative it’s going to cost. get at least 32GB of RAM and at least a 4090 to run the kind of models you’re asking for. it’s the way she goes

  • Ollama Server Component Recommendations

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  • honestly it’s hard to beat Macs these days in this space for two reasons:

    • unified memory means that you don’t have to load up on RAM just to load the model and then also shell out for a video card with barely enough VRAM to fit a basic language model
    • their supply chain is solid and has mostly avoided the constraints that other OEMs and parts manufacturers are struggling with

    pricing is tough. sure, crypto is on its way out, but GPUs are still the platform of choice for most neural net workloads (outside of SoCs like Apple M-series). i built a PC in late 2024, and it’s easily worth twice what i paid for it.

  • The kind of 'reality TV' cooking show I would love to see...

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  • as someone who has been watching far too much Food Network on the treadmill: just give em some freakin time to cook. the best things i’ve made personally are low and slow or from scratch pasta or slaw that sat in the fridge overnight. the 15-45min time frame has produced so many undercooked or otherwise mangled $80 steaks. like, even for a weeknight dinner i’m using things i marinated overnight or whatever. and in a kitchen setting you literally have all morning to prep in addition to doing overnight prep or even coming in super early to start your fresh bread. the format precludes entire classes of dishes.

  • My University Hired a Terrorist

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  • i can generate this story, at least structurally, using Claude. given the other headline about how MAGA is easily fooled by AI slop, i’d be surprised if this was any more than the unholy rage bait/confirmation bias slop that has old men congratulating AI bimbos in red hats for being “a real American woman”

  • My University Hired a Terrorist

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  • Atlassian Will Collect Jira and Confluence Data by Default to Train AI Models

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  • guaranteed any company worth more than a handful of salt does not want this. my company would throw a library of books at them for using data in any way that isn’t 100% explicit. for the longest time they blocked me from running Ollama on my laptop cuz the lawyers didn’t understand how neural networks work and thought i was exfiltrating data.

    this is only going to hurt companies that probably shouldn’t be using Atlassian products anyway (ie any company with more agility than a boomer era corporate dinosaur)

  • Saying Goodbye to Agile

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  • 90% of CEOs Say AI Changed Nothing. The Other 10% Have a PR Team

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  • “changed nothing” can’t be really true. sure, productivity might have been on the whole unchanged, but in my experience it’s because of the clusterfuck of half finished and poorly understood work that all of a sudden gets a pass and takes real experts to come in and mitigate and clean up. measuring productivity with lines of code was always a bad metric.

  • Is AI the greatest art heist in history?

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  • art isn’t something you can generate as such. having a model that can copy the Mona Lisa pixel perfectly hasn’t stolen the Mona Lisa. it’s the shitty kids’ movies and TV ads and company logos that are at stake.

    art is about effort and ingenuity and is centered around people and places and times and can’t be simply replicated by an industrial process, as much as Disney wants that

  • Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

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  • Microsoft is running out of moat to commit this type of developer abuse. Linux numbers just this year have shown that Windows can bleed, and we’re starting to enter a world where the software that people need isn’t on Windows when the converse used to be a given.

  • No, Windows Start does not use React

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  • oic it’s using React Native. gotcha. of course the problem that everyone was worried about was which Javascript engine was running the task bar and totally not that the task bar was running Javascript in the first place

  • The "unhackable" Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it

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  • “unhackable” is a bit sensationalized here. the Xbox One is actually a security success story not because it is impossible to hack, but because it’s a rare example of a console that wasn’t hacked in its service lifetime. at the risk of giving praise to Microsoft, the architecture is actually really neat and informed the security features of subsequent Windows releases, ie a hypervisor with sandboxed sub containers (this is why they required TPMs).

    (also i’m not agreeing with requiring a TPM for general purpose machines; they make sense on a bespoke hardware platform like a game console)

    i bet this hack is nuts, but the blue team deserves some level of kudos

    https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo

  • Bypassing deep packet inspection with socat and HTTPS tunnels

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  • i have also thought about doing this on my work computer lol

  • Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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  • first, i’m biased. i’m a home row kind of guy. i live in the terminal.

    Which of the preferences you mentioned discounts this project?

    i’ll be direct: light weight dependencies. i understand why you’d use Electron to build a UI, but does an API tester need a UI as a first class feature? i think something like hurl shows it’s not necessary. i get that maybe it’s an accessibility problem (juniors and Java devs being afraid of the command line etc), but UIs are not composable. i could run hurl (or curl for that matter) via bash or nushell or Elisp or Rust or Powershell or JavaScript or GitHub Actions or as a k8s postDeploy… and, not to draw the ire of Lemmy armchair zealots, they’re not easily usable by agents. an 8B model on my Macbook could figure out hurl, no MCP or crazy preprompting required.

    plus: user adoption. this is the self hosted community, so maybe not everyone here has the same concern, but i can’t just commit a bunch of exotic files to my shared repositories. Bruno was a tough adoption, even though it seems obvious to version control this stuff and it was the only real option at the time. now i’m tired of Bruno cuz it goes out of date cuz it’s not easily scriptable with our internal auth services because it runs everything in its bespoke UI. if they haven’t made a button for it, you can’t do it. that’s the problem with UI dev tools.

    no shade, i understand some people would be totally lost if their IDE didn’t have a big green run button.

  • Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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  • i’ve been looking for a silver bullet in this space. hurl[1] seems promising as well. i feel like Bruno has always been jank, and going 1.0 didn’t help. at work i’ve stuck to vibe coding my API test code with a stack of TOML configs, that way i get to reuse/test my client code as well.

    what i want is something version controllable with lightweight dependencies that i can automate easily. i’m afraid that discounts this project. not going to ask my team to download Yet Another Electron API client UI. i’m hesitant to introduce hurl, which can at least be scripted.

    1: https://hurl.dev/