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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
Personal site:
apitman.com
Projects:
IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.
LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider
TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters
boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy
droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing
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This is great news. Given the proliferation of solid local models, it would be cool if llamafile had a way to build your own custom versions with the model of your choice.
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I suspect in the short term users are going to start solving this more and more by asking ChatGPT how to make their video work on their phone, and it telling them step by step how to do it. Longer ter…
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But this is specifically for relays, so you shouldn't need NAT traversal right? ie in the browser you already know p2p isn't going to work (unless Tailscale implements WebRTC support) so you…
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Main downside I see compared to DERP is there's no way for this to work in the browser since it's native UDP. I wonder if it'd be possible to make it work over WebTransport in the futur…
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Thank you for the kind words!
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IMO the achilles heel of "Web"DAV is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to add it to web apps, which precludes using it as a remote file system a la Google Drive. I'm assumi…
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If you have to call out compatibility with specific clients doesn't that indicate pretty serious issues with the spec?
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Thank you for rclone. In your opinion, is WebDAV good enough to be the protocol for exposing file systems over HTTP, or is there room for something better? I was bullish on Solid but they don't s…
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I was working on a custom runtime for minimal wasm apps recently. I didn't want to have to write all apps in C or Rust, so I went looking for tiny scripting languages. Lua is pretty small, but I …
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I didn't realize JMAP had a file system protocol. I'd be very interested to learn how it compares to Solid.
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I've really been enjoying "hey Codex I just implemented such a fun such code change, where are all the places in the docs that I need to update?" I've been slow adopting things. I …
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Is takeout the only way to get the original photos out?
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> Configuration is like SSH, drop a key in a configuration file to grant access. It removes most of the friction associated with consuming and producing storage as a resource. What's the story…
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Cool. Especially love the low dependency approach. Readme says OpenGL 3.3. Are you doing the GPU compute using old-school GPGPU techniques?
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I'm working on something[0]. It actually supports Go, JS, and Rust (through the power of server-side WASM). Python and others are planned. It's unlikely to ever have all the features and pol…
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Mixing feelings about this. On the one hand a core value proper of fly is managing the complexity of a global deployment for an arbitrary number of regions. On the other hand, if I did want to manage …
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IndieWeb?
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Love it. Jonathan Blow had a nice thread about dependencies a while back: https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1924509394416632250 …
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I think GP was probably using Emscripten
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Here's a fun example of a language that takes advantage of this: https://spritely.institute/hoot/ …
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You're doing all these things with web apps also, it's just that the browser orchestrates it for you. But for some reason this takes 20M lines of code, which creates a moat that prevents bro…
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Both made by the French
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At 4 bit quantization the weights only take half the RAM. You need a good chunk for context as well, but in my limited testing Qwen3-30B rand well on a single RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM).
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You could put your faith in LastLogin: https://lastlogin.net
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> This is the mechanism by which the Austrian government, for instance, prevents you from using an Open Source or any other software-based authenticator to sign in to do your taxes, access medical…
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> pre-seed funding I see what you did there
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Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Remote: Yes
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Technologies: Go, Rust, JS, Python, C, web, CUDA, Node/Deno, Docker/Apptainer, WebAssembly, Wasmtime, web st…
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If you want to run small models fast get the 5090. If you want to run large models slow get the Spark. If you want to run small models slow get a used MI50. If you want to run large models fast get a …
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Maybe people will start making simpler/smaller websites in order to work better with AI tools. That would be nice.