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New comment by te0006 in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

te0006 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:38:52 +0000

Thx. Perhaps have another try with https://pypi.org/project/esptool/ .

New comment by te0006 in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

te0006 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:44:26 +0000

"it says" - where did you find info on HW support? Or did you try to build and flash the thing yourself?

New comment by te0006 in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

te0006 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:40:24 +0000

Does it run on the CYD? https://github.com/witnessmenow/ESP32-Cheap-Yellow-Display

New comment by te0006 in "Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro"

te0006 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:34:03 +0000

Yes, same for the case where the technology would have been found embodied in machinery aboard a crashed UFO.

New comment by te0006 in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

te0006 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:44:13 +0000

Does anybody think Aluminium as a brand name is a good choice? Especially considering the intended expansion towards the premium market. To me it sounds cheap, second-rate, ersatz. What you use if you cannot afford a better metal. Chrome is shiny, aluminium surfaces soon get dim again after any polishing attempt.

New comment by te0006 in "Efficient LLMs: how active is this research area today?"

te0006 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:35:17 +0000

Perhaps you are looking for larger savings but I would count the RWKV line of LLM architectures in this category: https://wiki.rwkv.com/basic/architecture.html

New comment by te0006 in "Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing"

te0006 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:51:56 +0000

If you have a south (or SE or SW) facing wall without much shadowing from nearby buildings or trees, vertikal mounting does work OK. Do not expect to reach the panel's nominal Wp rating though, output will peak at 50-70% of that. But panels are cheap - if there's enough room, just overprovision twofold. Just take care to buy an inverter that is OK with such a bigger configuration. And vertically mounted panels will generate more power off-season than tilted ones.

New comment by te0006 in "Qwen3-VL"

te0006 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:37:52 +0000

Loooking closely, the shop does not seem to be located within the EU. And the 50€ discount does not apply to the 128GB config. Also, if you are interested, it might help to have a look into the user forum: https://de.gmktec.com/community/xenforum

New comment by te0006 in "Qwen3-VL"

te0006 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:21:30 +0000

Note that the small print on the GMKtec site says that prices do not include customs and VAT. Which seem to amount to 19% in the EU. So, almost 2,4K€.

New comment by te0006 in "Qwen3-VL"

te0006 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:40:51 +0000

Interesting - do you need to take any special measures to get OSS genAI models to work on this architecture? Can you use inference engines like Ollama and vLLM off-the-shelf (as Docker containers) there, with just the Radeon 8060S GPU? What token rates do you achieve?

(edit: corrected mistake w.r.t. the system's GPU)

New comment by te0006 in "Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall"

te0006 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 08:56:15 +0000

This brings back fond memories from the 8-bit era. Tasword II was a text processor for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum where the developers resorted to extra-narrow fonts to cope with the Speccy's very limited (256x192) screen resolution. The lower screenshot in [1] provides a glimpse of what seems to be a 3px wide font.

OP's 2px width are a bit too extreme for my taste though.

[1] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4000080/Timex/Tasword_...

New comment by te0006 in "Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV"

te0006 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:04:36 +0000

Another country with highly developed district heating system is Denmark. They heavily invested in this technology since the 1970s, and currently around 2/3 of all households have district heating, in the capital, Copenhagen, 98%. Moreover, more than 60% of the energy used for these systems comes from renewables. No nuclear power involved (which hast been banned in the country since 1985). A few sources: - https://dbdh.org/all-about-district-energy/district-heating-... - https://stateofgreen.com/en/news/new-plans-to-expand-the-dan... - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403212...

New comment by te0006 in "Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record"

te0006 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 23:27:31 +0000

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674

New comment by te0006 in "DIY experimental reactor harnesses the Birkeland-Eyde process"

te0006 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:14:14 +0000

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the feasabilty of this idea: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ee/d0ee0...

"Due to the emergence of low cost renewable electricity from solar and wind, there is renewed interest in decentralized opportunities for electricity-driven nitrogen fixation."

"This analysis shows that the energy consumption for NOX synthesis with plasma technology is almost competitive with the commercial process with its current best value of 2.4 MJ mol N−1, which is required to decrease further to about 0.7 MJ mol N−1 in order to become fully competitive"

Note that this measure of competitivity is based on energy, not cost. So the (intermittently) ultra-low cost of electrical energy generated by modern PV installations (where substantial overprovisioning is becoming normal) has not been taken into account.

An Agri-PV installation that produces all the fertilizer it needs from its own surplus electricity would be cool indeed.

New comment by te0006 in "AI 2027"

te0006 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:50:48 +0000

You might find Stanislav Lem's Golem XIV worth a read, in which a what we now call an AGI shares, amongst other things, its knowledge and speculations about long-term evolution of superintelligences, in a lecture to humans, before entering the next stage itself. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10208493 It seems difficult to obtain an English edition these days but there is a reddit thread you might want to look into.

New comment by te0006 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

te0006 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:36:23 +0000

or of a CERN experiment in ~2015 having had ...side effects

New comment by te0006 in "Balcony solar is taking off"

te0006 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:18:56 +0000

Interestingly, owning even a small PV setup like these "balcony solar" devices, and monitoring its output, causes many people to think more about their grid power consumption, and to reduce it or adapt their usage pattern to solar energy availability to some extent. There is something like gamification going on.

New comment by te0006 in "Tell HN: 2FA code for Google account gone after Google Authenticator update"

te0006 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:55:07 +0000

Good job indeed.Started happening some time in Novenber, and they merrily keep rolling out this buggy Google Authenticator update after people reported the lock-out behaviour you encountered. Apart from corrupting the TOTP seeds for some users, this update also introduced the splendid new feature of backing up those secrets in, of all places, the Google cloud, opening up new vistas for hackers to take over your Google account completely. Which apart from being a rather catastrophic issue in general for many people is a very good starting point for emptying your online bank or crypto exchange account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450221 So farewell, Google Authenticator, won't miss you.

New comment by te0006 in "How to lose a fortune with one bad click"

te0006 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:17:14 +0000

My first impulse after ruling out Google Authenticator was to simply switch to Microsoft's Authenticator app (which I already had to use for a work-related thing anyway), thinking "of course MS would not make the same stupid mistake". Turns out they would, and they did. So alternatives from smaller vendors were the only option. In evaluating them, I focused on popular open-source solutions that had the features I deemed important (notably, local backup), and looked into the history, provenance and reputation of their vendors. Nevertheless, some risk will always remain.

New comment by te0006 in "How to lose a fortune with one bad click"

te0006 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:46:51 +0000

Google rolled out that hare-brained "improvement" in an update to Google Authenticator a few months ago, with the nice extra that for some users, when you dared unselecting the new cloud backup checkbox, the secrets stored in the app were instantly corrupted in some way, so you were locked out of your Google accounts immediately as a bonus . Happened to a family member, luckily they had a working emergency access method. We will never use Google Authenticator again.

Recommended alternative: 2FAS (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twofasapp) which allows you to import the secrets from Google Authenticator via QR codes, and has a local backup feature (e.g. to a USB drive).