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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
recent activity (3,567 total)
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I've tried to adopt Matrix multiple times over years. IMO the UX is evidence that e2ee is not solved.
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Tailscale + Proxmox is still an order of magnitude more difficult than this is going to need to be.
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Signal is a promising example, but ephemeral messaging is a very different use case from things like photo management.
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I'm optimistic about self-hosting/self sovereignty (which both fall under the umbrella of what I call indie hosting) long term. But I think both of these articles gloss over the fact that en…
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Those red Xs represent libraries that only work on Nvidia GPUs and would represent a massive amount of work to re-implement in a cross-platform way, and you may never achieve the same performance eith…
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Do you have a link? I went to the rust GPU repo and didn't see anything. I have an academic pipeline that currently heavily tied to CUDA because we need nvCOMP. Eventually we hope us or someone e…
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Could something like this be done in WebGPU?
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I'm not generally an open source purest but I believe their license is no longer OSI-compatible.
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I'm new too. Found this article helpful: https://crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-agents …
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I've seen people say the models get more erratic at higher (lower?) quantization levels. What's your experience been?
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But local aka desktop Linux is still an awful experience for most people. I use Arch btw
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Even if they provide the code/data and not just the weights, aren't you taking their word for it that the weights were trained using that code, and not modified? Or is there some way to veri…
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How does multi-user work, and how many users could it handle concurrently? My only experience is running much smaller models, and they easily peg my GPU at ~90 tokens/s. So maybe I could run 5-10…
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And many more: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
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Halfway through reading this I thought "did I already bookmark this? I need to make sure I bookmark it so I can review it later." Ruh roh
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That emulator is awesome. Especially cool about the easter egg. I've seen a few of these WASM emulators and fantasy consoles, but they all seem to be focused on games. Are you aware of any that a…
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> Personally, although I do use wasi-sdk (clang) and the wasm32-unknown-wasi triple, the result can be basically free-standing, depending on what flags you use. This is what I've been doing fo…
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> In immediate mode, you can't just destroy and re-create the a11y tree on each render You don't need to do it each render, just when something structural changes, right?
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This is actually pretty compelling to me. I think the more support for freestanding wasm modules the better. I'm working on a custom wasm app runtime and I don't want to have to implement th…
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Are there any tools that automate using containers for this?
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Unfortunately Nvidia GPUs are the only ones that matter until AMD starts taking their computer software seriously.
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watchexec looks like exactly what I was looking for recently. Thanks for this.
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> The browser is my agent, and it will do my bidding, not google's I've got bad news for you
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> On Firefox this is easily resolvable - you can use a HTML filter to filter out the script tag from the source HTML before the page even starts being parsed. But that relies on extension APIs that…
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If you've never heard of Uxn I highly recommend reading this: https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html …
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> All of a sudden one day, I was cut off from all my music, by the creators of the iPod! iCloud: $1000 in Apple's pocket
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Maybe I'm being a little too cyberpunk but it would be cool if the system somehow rewarded people for delivering messages over a long physical distance. You could end up with a courier community …
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What makes you so confident it would pan out that way rather than the meme way? Especially if potential warlords only have the memes for inspiration.