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vitonsky

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About vitonsky

Founder of Linguist Translate - a privacy focused translation services. CEO at PrimeBits - a B2B solutions

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    > GPU sharing with docker and VMs Yeah, we really live in age of Internet Explorer 6 yet. We already have cool features in browsers, like transparent backgrounds, rounded borders, …

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    Comment #46338068

    Yet another promotional post of Mullvad team. Nice story, but I don't buy it. Email is fine when it is an option. Mullvad have even option to pay with a credit card & PayPal. That'…

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    Comment #45321464

    Well, somebody must validate data on top level. So that's fine to have packages like `is-number`/`is-arrayish` etc.

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    Comment #45321443

    Good idea. Probably nowadays this would not work due to changes in chrome extension API? They have limit a network interception API.

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    Comment #45182880

    Current incident confirms that we can't trust to authors of DuckDB, because they can't evade a trivial phishing attack. Tomorrow they will do it again, and attackers will replace b…

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    Comment #45182566

    Just for context. DuckDB team is consistently ignores any security practices. The single one method how to install DuckDB on laptop is to run `curl https://install.duckdb.org | sh`…

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    Comment #45161732

    Is there any real games with LLM dialogues? Recently I've tried Baldur's Gate 3, gameplay looks nice, but options in dialogues written by 12 y.o. kid. It would be nice to talk via …

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    Comment #45072400

    No, thanks. I already spent time to write tests while implementing a features, now I have a lot of tests that proof the feature is works fine, and I no more fear to make changes, b…

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    Comment #45054727

    I have couple open source NPM packages I develop together with other developers. In some of this packages I have less than 50% contributions in code. But I listed as contributor on…

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    Comment #45050932

    Huh, I just checked stats on ecosyste.ms It looks they consider as maintainer only those people who listed on package.json, not a real number of contributors on github or anything.…

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    Comment #44994551

    It looks like whisper + google translate + google TTS. Typical "quality" for that stack, bad latency, no any privacy. I'm developer of "Linguist", a browser extension for translati…

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    Comment #44910661

    > The old URL redirects to the new one, so in theory existing posts/backlinks keep working. We also agreed the original creator wouldn’t reuse the “unity-mcp” repo name under his G…

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    Comment #44898404

    How exactly this vision will make money for you? Currently it sounds you just a kid who want to be paid. Is there anything more except "you all owe to me" in this claim?

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    Comment #44898349

    One yet another narrative that claim all people owe to an open source. I believe, once in deep future, an open source developers will grown and stop repeating this sectarian mantra…

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    Comment #44623874

    Check discussion in GitHub issue https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-bot-sdk/issues/363 Quote > Decryption of messages in encrypted rooms always end with error `Error: Can't find t…

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    Comment #44622463

    No, as i wrote in issue title and explained twice in this thread, the problem is bot SDK does not support encryption. It must work by default, for "privacy focused" application. Ch…

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    Comment #44620229

    Matrix community scam everyone when claim a matrix is a privacy-focused. And you are part of this community who deceive people. The fact that anything is open source is not make it…

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    Comment #44617830

    Yeah, Matrix UX is disgusting in every aspect. Every client looks bad, works slow and most of them have only subset of features. At 2025 year I still can't see online status when I…

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    Comment #44384757

    I tried to use this model in my package with translators kit https://github.com/translate-tools/core/pull/112 It runs very slow. Test case that run translation for text in 3k chars…