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dpi (dots per inch) is a measurement of camera resolution, not of the speed of the sensor processing. So the full processing goes like this:

60 times per second (60 Hz), the optical sensor in the mouse takes an image at 4000dpi resolution. That information is then processed and modulated onto a radio wave that swings up and down 2. 4 billion times per second (2.4 GHz) - but the information is still only sent 60 times per second, so less often than would be of a modern gaming screen updating 144 times per second.

The frequency of the motion processing (polling rate) is independent from the radio frequency.

File browser quantum allows for file sharing, supports Authentik through OIDC, and doesn’t mess with the data on disk.

In computational biology / biotechnology, LLMs are being trained on biological sequences and can then be used to generate new genes or genetic variants. These genes can be placed into bacteria who are then fed with e.g. sugar to make them produce various valuable molecules from renewable resources instead of from crude oil using conventional chemistry. There is also work on enabling plastic biodegradation this way.

No, it uses the WebView that comes with the operating system to minimize memory usage.

Telling tall tales about your height? Not a sign of greatness

I am very happy with Netcup. https://www.netcup.com/en/server/vps

Ah, missed the line in the article about secondary tariffs. Thanks for pointing it out to me. A 100% tariff on China and India until they stop importing Russian oil would indeed be very disruptive

What I’m missing from the articles is putting the potential consequences of the threatened tariffs into context. In 2024, Russian imports into the USA were 3.27 billion USD, whereas the GDP of the Russian economy in 2024 was 2.17 trillion. Even if there is fakery in the reported GDP, exports to the USA are likely less than 1% of the Russian economy

You can sign git commits using SSH keys, including the one you use to connect to GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg. These sites also support verifying the signature.

German soldiers can refuse orders under certain conditions (e.g. if they against human dignity)

Thanks for the comment. I have had exposure to similar claims, but wasn’t seeing anyone using AMD GPUs for AI unless they were somehow incentivized by AMD, which made me suspicious.

In principle, more competition in the AI hardware market would be amazing, and Nvidia GPUs do feel overpriced, but I personally don’t want to deal with the struggles of early adoption.

For inference (running previously-trained models that need lots of RAM), the desktop could be useful, but I would be surprised if training anything bigger than toy examples on this hardware would make sense because I expect compute performance to be limited.

Does anyone here have practical recent experience with ROCm and how it compares with the far-more-dominant CUDA? I would imagine that compatibility is much better now that most models are using PyTorch and that is supported, but what is the performance compared to a dedicated Nvidia GPU?

Here is an exported result list from Kagi that should be accessible without an account.

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I have been using it for the last 3 months to expose services from my home internet (plex, wireguard, etc.) through a VPS and I’m pretty happy with it. It’s relatively simple to set up, I haven’t had any outages so far, and it’s nice that it supports UDP port forwarding as well as TCP (for wireguard).

You could go even further and use hard links. That way, you can have two paths pointing to the same data on the partition, with the space getting cleaned up only after all references to it are removed.

Hey URL, go and fetch your friend JSON!

Makes perfect sense.

I’m pretty happy with Digital Ocean if I need a temporary VPS because I can pay by the minute and the UI is great. Anything that I want to stay alive for more than a month or two, I do on a single 6-core VPS rented long-term from Netcup, a low-cost German provider, deploying with Docker and Traefik.

Right! The last I remember hearing the “closed source is more secure” argument was about fifteen years or so ago, so it’s surprising that it is being pulled up from the dead.