mongrelion (u/mongrelion)

mongrelion commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? · Posted by u/lemonlime227

I find all AI code to be lower quality than humans who care about quality. This might be ok, I think the assumpt with AI is that we don't need to look at code so that it looks beautiful because AI will look at it .

mongrelion · 4 days ago

My experience with generating code with AI is very limited across a limited set of programming languages but whenever it has produced low quality code, it has been able to better itself with further instructions. Like "oh no, that is not the right naming convention. Please use instead" or "the choice of design pattern here is not great because ${reasons}. Produce 2 alternative solutions using x or y" and in nearly every case it produces satisfactory results.

Has this also been your experience?

mongrelion commented on Slax: Live Pocket Linux slax.org/... · Posted by u/Ulf950

mongrelion · 4 days ago

This brings back good memories.

When I was in college I didn't have my own computer so I relied on the Windows machines from the library.

That's when I discovered Slax and Puppy Linux [1] and all its different variants. Such a beautiful thing to boot into these pendrive distros and discover the world of Linux through them without altering the host system.

Good times.

[1] https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/

mongrelion commented on DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says finance.yahoo.com/news/ch... · Posted by u/goodway

mongrelion · 7 days ago

I recommend everyone to watch GamersNexus' documentary on the NVIDIA AI GPU black market. They explain how companies like DeepSeek can get a hold of chips that are otherwise banned by the US government to export to China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3xQaf7BFI

mongrelion commented on Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files github.com/ventoy/Ventoy... · Posted by u/wilsonfiifi

mongrelion · 2 months ago

I was going to ask how this would be better than any of the other options out there (like dd, the RPi imager and similar) but after seeing the README I consider this the superior alternative because you don't have to reflash the USB stick over and over again.

It supports multiple images at the same time, unlike the other solutions where one image take over the whole USB stick.

Love it.

mongrelion commented on Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos stepsecurity.io/blog/hard... · Posted by u/varunsharma07

v1sionSec · 9 months ago

Thank you, unfortunately we have a multiple of repositories with multiple runs that use this action so checking the logs one by one will be hard. Any idea how to get all logs? Thank you

mongrelion · 9 months ago

I think your best bet is to traverse all the pipeline logs that make use of the action using Github's REST API.

It should be easy to do with thr Github CLI tool and some bash scripting.

Not sure how easy it'll be to parse the logs to look for a base64 string but it shouldn't be that complicated either.

mongrelion commented on Ask HN: Cheapest way to run a time-series database in cloud? · Posted by u/cedws

mongrelion · a year ago

Is the cloud a must? What kind of performance are you after? You could repurpose an old desktop computer / server, slap a 4TB HDD on it and have it run at home or in your office.

The longer you use it, the cheaper it gets.

mongrelion commented on The Battery Revolution Is Finally Here insideevs.com/features/73... · Posted by u/xbmcuser

pmontra · a year ago

“The new cell that [Molicel is] coming out with, the X series, boy, they’re claiming they can charge that from zero to 100% in 90 seconds,”

That's great but how do we push all that energy into the battery at home in just 90 seconds? OK, we can push it in maybe 9 hours at home and still be happy so another question: what kind of equipment would back a charging station on a highway to make it able to charge a few of those batteries at the same time?

mongrelion · a year ago

> how do we push all that energy into the battery at home in just 90 seconds?

If they are talking about an individual cell with a nominal voltage of 3.7V, then "any" modern fast charger will do.

I don't think they were talking about a full-blown EV power bank.

mongrelion commented on Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative github.com/OneUptime/oneu... · Posted by u/devneelpatel

Rapzid · 2 years ago

Lot of interesting OSS observability products coming out in recent years. One of the more impressive(and curious for many reasons) IMHO is OpenObserve: https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve .

As opposed to just a stack, they are implementing just about the whole backend shebang from scratch.

mongrelion · 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing this.

Others have mentioned Signoz which I have tried but for my homelab it just feels like too much.

OpenObserve might be the solution that I have been looking for.

mongrelion commented on Nintendo emulator 'Suyu' removed from Gitlab following DMCA request overkill.wtf/suyu-emulato... · Posted by u/brandrick

yellow_lead · 2 years ago

Still up here: https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu

Fuck Nintendo

mongrelion · 2 years ago

Do you know if there is something similar for yuzu? did their code find a new home? forks are meh.

mongrelion commented on Swedish data brokers claim journalists' legal protection to evade EU law noyb.eu/en/swedish-data-b... · Posted by u/dotcoma

Kiro · 2 years ago

I don't know how this would actually fix anything. You can get the same information on a person by simply calling the tax authorities since it's public information in Sweden. MrKoll is just publishing it on a website.

mongrelion · 2 years ago

Perhaps this is more security by obscurity but making it easier on criminals to find your personal information is not necessarily a good thing.

Imagine being a criminal and now you want to find your victim's personal information and you directly call Skatteverket...

Less compelling than going to hitta.se from a public, open wifi network

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