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> I bought Qty 10* of HC520 (12TB) SAS drives for $1000 about 3 weeks ago, avg age is about 2.5 years, still well within its rated lifetime. That's cheap indeed. Enough headroom fo…

Yes, indeed. ECC RAM is better than non-ECC RAM, also for ZFS. The myth, popularized by a notorious thread on the TrueNAS forums [1], is specifically that ZFS requires ECC RAM, and…

> I’m running an 8-drive ZFS RAIDZ2 pool. I’m wondering if you know — are the free space recommendations around ZFS cargo or real? I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to me that fr…

It was €329 per hard drive (through a reputable store), and I chose the ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 mATX motherboard combined with a Ryzen 5 8500G. Stock CPU cooler, replaced the Jonsbo c…

Not a great time price-wise to be building a NAS, but I have been doing so for the last two weeks. Inside a Jonsbo N6 case, which is pretty nice with an 8x SATA backplane and drive…

For writing and languange learning it's very decent, especially Mistral Large. The pricing is very good too. I really like the consistently low time to first token and good token p…

The "Lists" page, lists most of such 'hidden' functionality: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (which itself is linked in the footer).

Indeed, this seems to be exactly the area where the Data Act could be used to regain access. Unfortunately it seems that it's not possible to directly sue (e.g.) Volkswagen to get …

I'm not quite sure why all that swapping is necessary. I really does age your SSD quite fast considering the enormous memory bandwidth required. Gemma 4 31B at 4-bit quantization s…

So you made this change completely invisible to the user, without the user being able to choose between the two behaviors, and without even documenting it in the (extremely verbose…

I recently bought a second hand eight year old 4K LG TV. Pretty cheap too. All models running webOS 3.x and 4.x are trivially rootable as LG never provided an update against DejaVu…

Not restricted to Apple, but TIL: Double-clicking on a word an keeping the second click pressed, then dragging, allows you to select per word instead of per character.

Get into a venv, and run: > pip3 install git+ https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-lm.git > ./venv/bin/mlx_lm.generate --model "$MODEL" --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 64 --max-tokens…

It is, as I'm running it; it has been added this week. As I said I'm running the main version from Github and doing nothing special, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761…

> The same Gemma 4 MoE model (Q4) As you have so much RAM I would suggest running Q8_0 directly. It's not slower (perhaps except for the initial model load), and might even be fast…

Not necessarily, but most inverters (in Europe, at least) aren't designed to function without a grid anyway. Some models of inverter brands like Victron (which isn't very common ou…

You say "tax money", but this project isn't a government project or using public money at all. As for contributing back to Nextcloud: there is a long list of Nextcloud partners [1]…

This is just a Nextcloud rebrand with a confusing domain name. It claims "Core is [100%] Open Source" but no source code is provided beyond what's already available in the upstream…

> That is not true and "true zero knowledge ID check" + "age verification" with blind signatures is what's being implemented by the EU ID project. You are mistaken. In the EUDI wal…

> This whole end-to-end attestation with play integrity is supposed to make setting up token-as-a-service things impractical. Indeed according to some (i.e. the Commission) it's su…

> This is the fallback mechanism. You are supposed to use bbs+ signatures that are zero knowledge, are computed on the device and so on. You're mistaken. SD-JWT with linkable ECDSA…

As the DPA indeed doesn't function for these kinds of cases, it's also possible to involve the courts and get a legal remedy (i.e. sue them). In The Netherlands that's possible wit…

Solvinity (now acquired by Kyndryl) owns and runs a lot of the underlying infrastructure of DigiD, but the application itself and the day-to-day operations are handled by an autono…