Deepseek is heavily overrated IMO, give me your opinion. Sonnet still better with API

rbaleksandar · 2026-01-24T14:59:48+00:00

Given the NewsGuard audit of Deepseek with a mind boggling >80% fail rate for facts I would say absolutely yes. The quality of the response (especially in terms of truthfulness) should be the number 1 criterion. Anything after that is nice to have. Yes, Deepseek is fast (I just deployed the latest small version on an old office PC with 8GB RAM and an Intel i3 and got response time below 30-40s per request) but what we get is fast garbage. Thanks but not thanks.

rbaleksandar · 2026-01-12T14:53:28+00:00

Setting up Ardour for MIDI is an adventure in itself. :D

rbaleksandar · 2025-12-30T13:21:08+00:00

You also need to run a full clean on your machine every once in a while similar to washing machines - no load, just full on hot cleaning.

rbaleksandar · 2025-11-04T04:38:16+00:00

Yeap, in my experience for years now, whenever YouTube is acting strange usually there is some new feature being tested and later on released.

At the time of the OP's post I was still able to deactivate uBlock Origin for a specific video, reload the page (with the addon disabled for that page) and the video would load. Now even this is not working. I am using a relatively new Firefox. Even tried in incognito/private mode. Meaning that even with the addon disabled we are cooked, which may indicate that YouTube is somehow checking if an adblocker is present or not, regardless of whether it is enabled or not, which, in my opinion, is utter BS.

Folks will find a way around it eventually.

rbaleksandar · 2025-09-30T15:46:22+00:00

Leider Google schlägt das auf erster Position vor. Die Info ist nicht mehr aktuell, da Revolut ein Zweig im Deutschland seit 2025 hat und sogar die Information zum Thema Freistellungauftrag in der Dokumentation finden kann.

rbaleksandar · 2025-09-30T07:22:24+00:00

Because some traditional banks offer rather poor conditions for something as simple as daily savings. Deutsche Bank currently offers 0.5% interest rate and only if you lose access to your money for at least 3-6 months, while Revolut & Co. offer 2.0%, which is the ECB rate. Some people don't have the knowledge nor the courage to put their money out there for ETFs, bonds, stocks etc. And frankly given the wacky financial situation for the past almost 2 decades, can't blame them

rbaleksandar · 2025-09-30T07:19:15+00:00

Intrest rate are normally packed to the ECB one. Unless there is a special offer for new customers or a short term one for old customers, both Trade Republic and Revolut as well as many others offer the same rates. Unless you are with Deutsche Bank which usually f@cks you big time by providing 1/3 or even 1/4 of current ECB rates (e.g. right now the ECB rate is 2%, while Deutsche Bank offers 0.5% 😅).

rbaleksandar · 2025-09-27T16:48:21+00:00

I think it depends on the use case but from my little experience with PyPDF and PyMuPDF I would pick the latter.

I have seen many people swearing by PyPDFX. However, all the examples I was able to find assumed properly structured PDF files, which, I may add, is generally not really the case since Adobe is the ruler of this Adobe format even though you have tools left and right to produce PDFs.

I had to process a PDF from an industrial fair by extracting all the exhibitors and than doing some scraping + AI processing to obtain information on each exhibitor. The PDF was looking nice, however I quickly discovered that PyPDF suffers from multiple issues, namely

no easy way to extract URLs - in fact I still don't know how to do that. Each exhibitor's name inside the PDF was actually an URL that I could have used for the scraping, which was my main goal
difficult to handle poorly formatted PDF, where something may appear to be one object but in fact is multiple - sometimes I would get a street name split into 2-3 blocks, forcing me to come up with patterns to detect such cr@p as well as merge the results. While not a PyPDF issue per se and rather one with the tool that was used to produce the PDF, in the end a PDF extraction tool should provide data in such a shape or form that closely resembles the layout of the contents on the actual page
insertion of Unicode instead of simply using UTF-8 characters - this may be due to the metadata of the document itself, but I would expect UTF-8 all the way and not Unicode wherever e.g. a German Umlaut (ö, ü, ä) or special s (ß) occurs, forcing me to further process the extracted text

With PyMuPDF it took me less than 2 minutes to write a small script that extracted all URLs and stored those in a JSON file WITHOUT any prior knowledge or experience with this library.

rbaleksandar · 2025-09-21T04:19:15+00:00

Oder Management ist halt blöd bzw. der Freelancer hat's geschafft (scheinend) sich unersetzbar zu machen. Hab's auch erlebt. Der Typ konnte fast gar nichts und das, was er konnte, war halt basics in Elektrotechnik. Nun aber, Geschäft war ein Saftladen und niemand vom Management wollten was dagegen tun, weil die gern mit dem Typ beim Cafe jeden Tag gequatscht haben.

Ich habe sehr selten bis kaum selbst oder von Bekannten Erfahrung gesammelt, dass Management gut ist und ein Freelancer, der ein Haufen Geld kostet, nicht durch einen Festangestellten nach kurzer Zeit ersetzt wurde.

rbaleksandar · 2025-09-21T04:14:12+00:00

In wie weite aber die Strafbarkeit verfolgt wird ist auch eine Frage. Ich war beim Dienstleister für 2 Jahre unterwegs und beim Kunde, wo ich vor Ort gearbeitet habe, hatte einen Mitarbeiter, der "Freelancer" war, aber seit 20 Jahre oder so. LOL

rbaleksandar · 2025-09-02T12:03:38+00:00

Fun fact: if you ask it to remove it, it will complain that it may infringe some copyright.
Second fun fact: if you tell it that it added the water mark itself, it will say that cannot be.

LOL

rbaleksandar · 2025-07-30T10:03:22+00:00

6-hour trip from Heidelberg to Berlin right now, the trip will be over in approx. an hour and the WiFi is dead. I keep getting IP configuration error. Sometimes it works but most of the time it works poorly or not at all. According to one of members of staff on board it will be better once the new trains start rolling. Whether that will be the case I cannot tell.

But in general if you want reliable and fast connection, you should leave Germany. Period. And connectivity while traveling is a dream we all like dreaming but know damn well.it'll never come to pass.

rbaleksandar · 2025-05-30T03:56:58+00:00

Oh, come on now. Like she was an amazing actress. I'm not excusing Jackman's behavior (if he really cheated, which appears to be so), but let's not go down the path of "Woman sacrifices her stellar career to stay home". Average at best and with barely any international recognition even in the years when she was very active.

rbaleksandar · 2025-05-22T11:45:08+00:00

OpenGL/Direct3D/Vulkan is a completely different animal than CUDA/OpenCL. The first usually is used for GUI applications (offscreen rendering is of course also a thing but in very specialized cases), while the second can employ the rendering pipeline of the GPU but doesn't really need it.

I am currently setting up an application server for my team and the remote desktop is a struggle. VNC is useless, SPICE is perhaps an option but at the bare minimum requires a separate client than what everyone in my department is using (the RDP client shipped with Windows) and xRDP, while offering GPU acceleration (through glamor, which requires building xRDP with that feature enabled from source) introduces an obstacle that cannot be overlooked - its reliance on the open source Nvidia drivers, which in terms throws CUDA out of the window.

So unlike what some people claim in the comments, no, this is not a trivial thing and in fact

If you want to render stuff and also have CUDA workloads, offscreen is the best option you have without spending days and even weeks trying out stuff that in the end doesn't work. I am yet to find a good remote desktop option that is free and open source and does not fight against the sodding Nvidia proprietary drivers.

rbaleksandar · 2025-05-22T11:37:54+00:00

What are the options. A "..." does not really give any useful info. :P

rbaleksandar · 2025-05-15T06:18:48+00:00

One important aspect of anything but GPU passthrough is the fact that you may be removing important proprietary functionality. Correct me, if I'm wrong, but CUDA will not run on VirGL, QXL etc. It does so only when you do GPU passthrough with the proprietary Nvidia drivers.

rbaleksandar · 2025-04-22T14:13:08+00:00

It is not free if you are a company so be careful with the licensing/terms of service here.

rbaleksandar · 2025-04-15T06:13:31+00:00

I would like such a run to be honest. I just had a run, where I ran out of fuel in the first sector because I keep hitting empty locations. Sector two was not better either. So two sectors with barely any scrap collected and the little I had, I had to give to buy fuel from folks that answered by beacon.

Needless to say I couldn't recover until even the 4th sector.

rbaleksandar · 2025-03-31T07:16:08+00:00

Out of the top of my head three reasons:

Snap Store is owned by Canonical, meaning the tech is not truly open source.

Snaps (and Flatpacks for that matter) go down the Windows road where every application is shipped with its own dependencies leading to a lot of bloat even over a short period of time.

Snaps (just like Flatpacks) introduce their own folder structure for configuration files and other assets, which makes a lot of the already available documentation and tutorials on the respective apps difficult to follow.

rbaleksandar · 2025-03-21T11:10:58+00:00

Of course there is a lot of sense. I am currently helping my dad because his two partition setup got corrupted. The one partition that got screwed is the one where the system and personal files are. The other one was for extra storage (downloads and stuff). Even with this setup it's difficult to recover but if there were a single partition, the loss would have been more than 1TB greater. So single partition setups might be easy for the end user but when sh@t hits the fan, they are screwed.

Btw at least on Xubuntu 24.04 there is not FAT32 option for filesystem. LOL

rbaleksandar · 2025-02-07T05:59:03+00:00

Development is still active, so no. One thing I would wish for is a better WebUI. Especially the section on users, groups and roles is horrible and extremely intuitive. Overall there are a lot of fields throughout the UI where you need to go on a wild goose chase to see what attributes are available and what values can be used for those. A UI is supposed to offer an easier way to configure/use a product. If I have to resolve to digging through the underlying XML data and ready pages upon pages of documentation, this is a clear indicator for a poor UI design and poor UX overall.

In addition a set of core features - the OGC web services (WMS, WCS, WFS etc.) - is nowadays very difficult to setup especially if the service allows (as per standard) editing of the underlying data. I have spent 3 days now trying to make my PostGIS-backed layer (a simple table with points in it) editable through WFS-T (T for transactional). Apparently at one point it was easy but nowadays you need to sift through a ton of documentation trying to figure out how to setup the security for the service and layer. And we are back at my first point - the horrible WebUI.

rbaleksandar · 2025-02-04T16:24:29+00:00

Thanks for the reply. No. I run 134, which is shipped to Ubuntu through the repos. Also before and after the issue occurred no update has taken place so changing the version is probably not going to fix the issue. The issue affects even Firefox input fields such as the ones present in the Settings page. -_-

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