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gforce_de commented on OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices openwrt.org/... · Posted by u/pykello

xattt · 4 days ago

I do find it sad/ironic/interesting to note that the router that started it all is no longer supported.

Not to bell the cat, but some sort of symbolic build for the WRT54G(L) should still be possible… right?

gforce_de · 4 days ago

You can build the image yourself, but have to switch off some packages or features - otherwise the image (linux-kernel + tools) is just too large or consumes too much memory. The original router has 8 megabytes RAM-memory and 2 Megabytes flash ("storage"). You can boot a recent kernel 6.16.5, but with 8mb there is not much left to work with 8-)

A starter is here: https://intercity-vpn.de/files/openwrt/wrt54gtest/minimal/

gforce_de commented on Bear is now source-available herman.bearblog.dev/licen... · Posted by u/neoromantique

gforce_de · 10 days ago

Why is there no support for compression?

  $ URL=https://herman.bearblog.dev/
  $ curl -v -H 'Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, br, zstd' $URL 2>&1 | grep --text ^'< Content-Encoding:\|< Content-Length:\|> Accept-Encoding:'

> Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, br, zstd ...

gforce_de commented on Show HN: SJT- A lightweight structured JSON table format for APIs · Posted by u/yukiakai

gforce_de · 13 days ago

Interesting idea, but usually a JSON payload is compressed with brotli anyway.

It seems, the computational overhead is not worth it?

gforce_de commented on Prediction-Encoded Pixels image format github.com/ENDESGA/PEP... · Posted by u/msephton

msephton · 18 days ago

The creator says that the PEP image format is meant for small, limited colour images and of course it does lossless compression.

gforce_de · 17 days ago

Thanks for making that clear. But is it worth the hassle?

https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/fastest-safest-png-deco...

PNG decoding seems to be fast enough:

  tree1    - PEP =  0.412 ms PNG = 0.25 ms
  font     - PEP =  0.602 ms PNG = 0.663 ms
  nz_scene - PEP = 32.121 ms PNG = 3.069 ms

Anyway, PEP is interesting!

gforce_de commented on Prediction-Encoded Pixels image format github.com/ENDESGA/PEP... · Posted by u/msephton

gforce_de · 18 days ago

I really needs more benchmarks, especially decompression time. Also the sizes are interesting for very small images, but for real images, there are maybe better lossy variants:

  nz_scene - PEP = 73.542 bytes,
       lossy-PNG = 43.557 bytes,
      lossy-WEBP = 26.654 bytes,
  lossy-mozcjpeg = 15.716 bytes

So it's not about filesize here, it must be decompression speed.

gforce_de commented on Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection realitydefender.com/platf... · Posted by u/bpcrd

sidcool · 24 days ago

Congrats on launching. Would be good to have a quick trial on the website for a sample image, rather than going through the SDK route.

gforce_de · 24 days ago

I'am also a bit shocked by this SDK approach, why not a simple API where you upload a file, get an ID and wait till it's done? Beside that, sometimes it works, sometimes not:

  {
      "request_id": "9622a21f-37bf-4404-ac84-8728977a5272",
      "status": "ANALYZING",
      "score": null,
      "models": [
          {
              "name": "rd-context-img",
              "status": "ANALYZING",
              "score": null
          },
          {
              "name": "rd-pine-img",
              "status": "ANALYZING",
              "score": null
          },
          {
              "name": "rd-oak-img",
              "status": "ANALYZING",
              "score": null
          },
          {
              "name": "rd-elm-img",
              "status": "ANALYZING",
              "score": null
          },
          {
              "name": "rd-img-ensemble",
              "status": "ANALYZING",
              "score": null
          },
          {
              "name": "rd-cedar-img",
              "status": "ANALYZING",
              "score": null
          }
      ]
  }

gforce_de commented on Why can't HTML alone do includes? frontendmasters.com/blog/... · Posted by u/susam

matchagaucho · 4 months ago

I've become a fan of https://htmx.org for this reason.

A small 10KB lib that augments HTML with the essential good stuff (like dynamic imports of static HTML)

gforce_de · 4 months ago

The minified version needs ~51 kilobytes (16 compressed):

  $ curl --location --silent "https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@2.0.4" | wc -c
  50917
  
  $ curl --location --silent "https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@2.0.4" | gzip --best --stdout | wc -c
  16314

gforce_de commented on World's largest '100 per cent electric' ship launched abc.net.au/news/2025-05-0... · Posted by u/perilunar

adrianN · 4 months ago

40MWh only keep it running for 90 minutes?

gforce_de · 4 months ago

For 1500 passengers and 30 MWh (i expect they dont arrive 100% empty) this is 20kWh per person. If they travel 80 kilometers, thats 0.25 KWh/person/kilometer. Sounds OK to me (all values are guessed).

gforce_de commented on Signal Carnival quiss.org/signal_carnival... · Posted by u/adunk

layer8 · 5 months ago

I’d like to see & hear the correctly plugged version of the video.

gforce_de · 5 months ago

My first reaction too, but...

gforce_de commented on How Big Is VMS? vmssoftware.com/resources... · Posted by u/rbanffy

zie · 5 months ago

Exactly! One would never, ever do that with x86.

gforce_de · 5 months ago

You have not seen it, but there are vendors selling such stuff since ~20 years. Google for linux + hardware + cpu hotplug or memory hotplug. The PCI bus helps here.

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