ruffsl
I’m a robotics researcher. My interests include cybersecurity, repeatable & reproducible research, as well as open source robotics and rust programing.
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1·9 months agoThank you for all the efforts the admins put into maintaining this place!
2·10 months agoI’ve observed some notable improvements when benchmarking with the CachyOS kernel on NixOS via Chaotic’s Nyx using moderately old hardware:
https://programming.dev/post/38304031
Haven’t yet tried replicating the same comparison on newer hardware, but would be interested to see what others have tested. Any observations?
5·11 months agoI top linked the most recently published video mostly for the introductory breakdown in ternary logic equivalence, but the interview with the ternary researcher, Dr Bos, also linked in the description above includes a number of corrections and accurate description of the subject.
Yeah, definitely not a lost art or anything, as physical ternary signals already have applications in communication like high data rate interfaces. Still, would be interesting to see ternary expand into logic domains with emerging developments in TCMOS research.
This is discussed around the 27 min mark of the video with Dr. Steven Bos, particularly in maintaining voltage thresholds for signal propagation when using multiple devices, in context of logic, memory, and communication use cases. Interestingly, for example, GDDR7 and USB 4.2 already use physical ternary signals.
Edit: signal to noise ratio is also discussed at the 40min mark, also with respect to increasing information density vs complexity from higher symbol bandwidth, or terms of radix vs frequency.
Thank you for all the work that goes into maintaining this instance!
4·1 year agoDoes anyone know of an Android app to install an additional 3rd party TTS engine that can then be configured to point to a custom Open-AI/Fast-API endpoint for self hosting higher quality voices that are not easily run/fit on mobile hardware?
16·1 year agoSome poignant questions for these new platform requirements:
- How do you anticipate this being used against journalists and advocacy groups?
- What research and statistical quantification will be done to evaluate the amount of harm these restrictions can inflict?
- What precautions or safeguards will users have against malicious state actors or capitulating corporations?
- How can developers protect themselves from liable damages due to service interruptions caused by third party verification?
- Do you foresee legal restrictions in rollout due to national security concerns from differing nation states?
FYI, VSCode can now natively show commit info inline, no GitLens extension required:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/tips-and-tricks#_git-blame
Mainly the official git CLI for controlling branches and sub modules, and sometimes the GitHub CLI if quickly checking out a pull request from a forked repo.
Also use the source control tab in VSCode rather often, as it’s really convenient to review and stage individual line changes from its diff view, and writing commit messages with a spell check extension.
If it’s a big diff or merge conflict, I’ll break out the big guns like Meld, which has better visualizations for comparing file trees and directories.
About a decade ago, I used to use SmartGit, then tried GitKraken when that came around, but never really use much of the bells and whistles and wasn’t keen on subscription pricing. Especially as the UX for GitHub and other code hosting platforms online have matured.
I think it stands for Managed Service Providers.
I’m still using an old UC Gateway, doubt my homelab will outgrow it.
I hope this rust library can make its way back into Moonlight and Sunshine projects.
One thing I appreciate about NixOS is the ability to use overlays and override package sources. For example, overlays can be used to selectively install unstable and stable packages alongside each other:
While there may be caveats, this approach has been working for me just fine, as I can install VSCode from unstable to get the most recent monthly releases as they roll out, but then pin the rest of my desktop environment to stable to limit anything else shifting underneath me unexpectedly.
Looks like they introduce the use Traefik with NixOS here:
How does
Traefikcompare to a reverse proxy likeCaddy?
If there was a simple Debian based distro that I could declaratively manage via a single config file, I think I’d try it. I.e. not using Puppet or Chef that can only bootstrap a system state, but something to truly manage a system’s entire life cycle, including removing packages and anything littering the system file tree. But since there isn’t, I’m using NixOS instead.
Having a DSL to declare my entire system install, that I can revision control like any other software project, has been convenient for self documenting my setup and changes/fixes over time. Modularizing that config has been great for managing multiple host machines synchronously, so both my laptop and desktop feel the same without extra admin work.
Nixpkgs also bolsters a lot of bleeding edge releases for the majority of FOSS packages I use, which I’m still getting used to. And because of how the packaging works, it’s also trivial to config the packages to build from customer sources or with custom features. E.g. enabling load monitoring for Nvidia GPUs from
btopthat many distros don’t ship by default.
I’m waiting on support for inserting PDF figures, the most common format my tools export.
I’m not the original author, even with the YouTube title being as is, but what do you mean? Perhaps relying that the desired services exist as nix packages, or that nix packages have desired defaults or exposes desired config parameters?
There are two other nix media server config projects I can think of, but I think this approach mostly facilitates the install, but not the entire initial config setup, given that a lot of the stack’s internal state is captured in databases rather than text config files. So simplifying the backup and restoration of such databases seems the next best thing to persist your stack configs with nix.
3·2 years agoOn top of that, it’d be nice for the Bluetooth spec to roll out a higher bitrate version of HFP, as it’s common 16 kHz monaural configuration is awful when listening to multimedia while on video calls, like for remote watch parties or just listening to music or playing video games while hanging out on discord. I ended up just buying a USB to TRRS adapter with pass through Power Delivery in order to use my Android device with proper AV quality.
Have you had any luck with projectors for coding? I’ve only ever used them for large mob-programming sessions, like during hackathons. I feel like the low/narrow contrast of projectors makes it hard to use for dark mode, not to mention the space real estate requirements. :P
Yeah, would definitely prefer using a package manager from a maintained repository like nix over raw dogging remote shell scripts. E.g. from nixpkg