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New comment by pehtis in "98% of all recent environmental claims can be categorized as "greenwashing""

pehtis — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:25:33 +0000

Agreed. Carbon offsetting always reminds me of this old The Register article: https://www.theregister.com/2008/02/01/bofh_episode_4/

New comment by pehtis in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

pehtis — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:47:06 +0000

Specifically for GPT-OSS I had great success with this: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ng9dkx/gptoss_...

New comment by pehtis in "A story about bypassing air Canada's in-flight network restrictions"

pehtis — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:27:02 +0000

Another option would be to setup a wireguard server listening on 53. Wireguard traffic is UDP so it would work even if TCP DNS requests are blocked. And it would also make the client configuration much easier, ie just connect to the wireguard server.

New comment by pehtis in "Using your phone on toilet may give you hemorrhoids: study"

pehtis — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:49:47 +0000

Leonardo da Vinci in his Codex Atlanticus said “Do not delay or prolong your visits to the lavatory”. Looks like that was some good advice.

New comment by pehtis in "A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory"

pehtis — Mon, 05 May 2025 18:14:07 +0000

Its called soft touch or "rubber oil". It's basically silicone suspended in plastic which gives that soft touch feeling before it biodegrades to the sticky goo.. We can easily clean that with isopropyl alcohol. You will be left with the clean hard plastic below that layer.

New comment by pehtis in "Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs"

pehtis — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:36:38 +0000

Meltemi is ok, but it's "old" and not that good by today's standards. If you need a good Greek local LLM try https://huggingface.co/ilsp/Llama-Krikri-8B-Instruct. Yes, I know it's based on LLama and not a foundation model, but it is still a LOT better than Meltemi.

Pompeii, new light on the secrets of Roman concrete [video]

pehtis — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 18:31:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKDkGQff28

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39962692

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pehtis in "My SBC Collection"

pehtis — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:21:47 +0000

Have you seen H3+ ? it looks like its an HC2 with a more powerful CPU. I just received one and my plan to install OpenBSD on it some time this week.

New comment by pehtis in "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music"

pehtis — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:42:21 +0000

Try Digitally Imported (https://www.di.fm) Streaming since 1999!

New comment by pehtis in "Russian oil sold to India at 30% above Western price cap, traders say"

pehtis — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 17:30:51 +0000

It has a lot to do with the 1971 war: https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/when-russia-stunned-us...

New comment by pehtis in "A blocky based CAD program"

pehtis — Wed, 24 May 2023 11:48:14 +0000

I would highly recommend moi3D.com. Its ‘only’ a NURBS modeler but I’ve successfully used from initial concept design all the way to DFM. Its user interface is extremely well thought out and its written by Michael Gibson who is also the original developer of Rhino3D.

Carl Zeiss Crafts Optics for a $150M EUV Machine

pehtis — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 18:06:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V__HbVlnICc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35032210

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pehtis in "MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence"

pehtis — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 21:24:36 +0000

About your first point, MAD was actually developed by John von Neumann and there is nothing accidental about it. 'He also "moved heaven and earth" to bring MAD about.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Mutual_assure...

New comment by pehtis in "Dicom File Format Basics"

pehtis — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:22:31 +0000

I'm using this one on macOS https://github.com/rordenlab/MRIcroGL It is available for linux too.

New comment by pehtis in "The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence"

pehtis — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:46:42 +0000

I think that the fact that our society was mainly designed (or evolved) to maximize the profits of the people in power as opposed to peoples wellbeing plays a huge part in depression. Some people just don't fit in our monoculture (school, job, family etc) and all we are offering them are ways to make them fit and become productive members of society which was the problem to begin with..

New comment by pehtis in "Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems"

pehtis — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 14:44:25 +0000

If you are on macOS you can use the "Network Link Conditioner" System Preferences pane that is included with Xcode for the same effect.

You can find that in the Additional Tools for Xcode download, in the Hardware folder.

New comment by pehtis in "Tailscale SSH"

pehtis — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:51:26 +0000

You can still use telnet v1.9.4 on macOS. Just copy it from an old version of OSX (pre High Sierra). It still works fine on Monterey.

Moxie: “I've decided it's a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal”

pehtis — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:43:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1480619206240522240

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29880749

Points: 43

# Comments: 4

New comment by pehtis in "The Framework Laptop Is Great for a Linux-Friendly, Upgradeable/Modular Laptop"

pehtis — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:49:28 +0000

There is a very nice writeup on using OpenBSD on the Framework laptop by joshua stein, one of the OpenBSD developers. Unfortunately he had to swap the wifi card as it was unsupported. https://jcs.org/2021/08/06/framework

New comment by pehtis in "No laughing matter? what the Romans found funny"

pehtis — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:42:34 +0000

In Cyprus, where i live, this is an actual joke still said today! I've heard (and said) this joke many times in my life, and it never crossed my mind that it's 2000 years old. Setup is the same and the punchline goes "Οτι νομίζεις τζιαι εν καλά τζιαι ύστερα τρώμε!" (in Cypriot greek)