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I used to be an open-source developer like you, but then I took a promotion to the knee and now I just whine on the internet. Certified by Reddit to have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to computer chess.
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"Allow edits from maintainers" is a really nice small feature and we're jealous at not having it.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

23 years after the initial release, and 12 years after it has been deprecated, Apple adds support for patent free audio codec.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Reading the EU plans for Ukraine and am involuntarily reminded of Dutchbat & Srebrenica. Small peacekeeping force "safeguarded" by air support from another country. "The non-Dutch in charge of air support refused to give aid as requested" "US general: Gay Dutch soldiers caused Srebrenica massacre"

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Cleaning out the local computer history museum, which is to say, my attic. Some of this stuff is so old, it still came with an actual manual. How the hell was 2004 already 21 years ago?!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

API hallucinations are definitely one of the worst things when dealing with LLM.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-LLama-70B scores only 8.4% in the Aider polyglot benchmark: github.com/Aider-AI/aid..., significantly worse than for example Qwen2.5-Coder-32B. Real DeepSeek-R1 scores 56.9%. The distilled models that "you can run at home" are nothing like the real thing, not even close.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

For something like astral uv (the Python package manager), what do we prefer? a) sudo snap install astral-uv b) curl -LsSf astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh c) pip install uv Pros/cons of each method?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I tried to buy a GPLed program today. Buy link fails with a PayPal error. Turning off Adblocker, Tracking Protection and spending like half an hour trying stuff and looking at the devtools networking tab didn't help.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Bug 1944784 - Minidump DumperError only contains the letter 'E', 'F', 'N' or 'W' bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

DeepSeek was nice while it lasted. In other, totally unrelated news, I have 64GB RAM arriving today and will be having fun aligning RAM stick timings.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04. See all my terminals disappear if an application OOMs. Read github.com/systemd/syst.... Rage at Linux/systemd ecosystem.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

The NVIDIA GTX 750 is 10 years old. It's the first NVIDIA GPU I got in a decade and what lead to the whole Leela ➡️ Leela Zero project. I paid 50 EUR for it, second hand. NVIDIA is now suggesting they could, perhaps, wind down support in the future. How's AMD's ROCm support for the Radeon R9 280?

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

The reactions to this blunder remind me of the people who looked at computer blunders and concluded "computers can't play chess", e.g. timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/honor... It's not because the computer makes a blunder that an 1800 Elo player would avoid, that the computer is <1800 Elo.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments