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The issues from the Great Green Wall [1] are worth looking at [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(China)

Using Docker Compose and llama.cpp, this repo summarises what has been happening in a given signal chat. It attempts to maintain the security model of Signal by keeping the data on…

The Apache TVM machine learning compiler has a WASM and WebGPU backend, and can import from most DNN frameworks. Here's a project running Stable Diffusion with webgpu and TVM [1]. …

+1 for ninja. I first encountered is using Apache TVM, which uses CMake. I was first of all using the default make backend, and it was taking a while. Then the docs said to try add…

This is used heavily by hardware tokens like Yubikeys, and especially for cryptocurrency people with so called "hardware wallets" like Trezor and Ledger (which can generate many su…

This community ran GitHub guide is a bit more up to date, and has troubleshooting in the Issues: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide >

WoN is a good read, though I hope you like reading a lot about how the price of Scottish wool changed year-on-year

Signal keeps all downloaded media locally until you delete it. They don't have the resources to store files on the cloud, even encrypted, and don't appear to have taken WhatsApp's …

I would be keen to try, but afaik there's no way to do it on Linux which is my main dev/deploy environment. It feels like Linux debugging is stuck in a viscous cycle, since few peo…

I started software dev in the mid-2010s, and had never heard of Borland, until I heard a former colleague mention it having great built-in debugging tools and that they missed it. …

I recall seeing a Show HN post a while back about a research focussed web browser that helps as a thinking tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28446147

> BTC mining is just one of those operations that is resistant to a carbon tax since the price of BTC and therefore the mining rewards can just rise to compensate. I don't follow y…

This headline is misleading, the jury ruled that Wright owes W&K and Kleiman's estate $100 million in intellectual property rights. The trial was never meant to ascertain if Wright…

Perhaps you have not been keeping up with recent events such as the Texas Heartbeat Act 2021 [1], which makes most cases of abortion illegal in Texas. There are further policies pl…

most "artificial origin" hypotheses centre around a lab-leak. The number of scenarios where the new variant is engineered are vastly reduced, since it's less likely that this varia…

It's good to see they also support Google Sheets [1], which is essential imo if you're in an budding SME team with mixed specialities. Ofc, it's not good to scale, but that doesn't…

Apache TVM [1], which is a tensor compiler stack focussed on deep neural networks. It is mostly written in C++ and Python, integrates external libraries like LLVM, OpenCL, CUDA, et…

> I'm sure trillion dollar companies can pay for the best knowledge on union busting. Indeed, Amazon have used the Pinkerton detective agency [1] against their employees to root ou…

there is a blocklist for LG Smart-TV features available [1], intended for use with the PiHole software [2], which is a popular and easy-to-use network level firewall. [1] https://g…

that appears to only be connected to requests under those specific acts. Otherwise, given their involvement in the PRISM program [1] I don't see how we can take that canary serious…

Most of these systems are designed around pseudonymity, not anonymity. Only things like Zcash, and Monero set out with that explicit goal. I suppose much like with BitTorrent, the …

This is a really fun format. It seems that this is their first month in posting --- I spent a minute looking for older scan, before checking the wayback machine.