gforce_de

12 days agodiscuss

As always: build and install soon

17 days agodiscuss

Really slow and not snappy on my machine (i7-8550u). each animation takes ~60kb (avif) - way too much!

It needs to download 50 megabytes to show a single startpage.

gforce_de

last monthdiscuss

It's all about licences. If you need the images for the web: go for jpegli, webp and avif - the distance to jpegxl or webp2 is not worth the hassle:

https://show.quicky.club/results/14/f8/f1/d8db84d57222d32db6...

gforce_de

2 months agodiscuss

Yeah, thats slow - but the approach is at least interesting:

I tried to compare it with other encoders for the sample (girl/face painting): https://show.quicky.club/results/14/f8/f1/d8db84d57222d32db6...

The PICO-result claim to achieve 0.268 bpp (bit-per-pixel): Even webp (version 1) can do that good enough.

I understand, that one needs really advanced hardware to decode this. Not sure if this is worth the hassle.

gforce_de

3 months agodiscuss

Interesting! The produced Markdown (gemini flash) seems fine and correct, i was hoping for a PDF and markdown download. It seems not possible.

gforce_de

3 months agodiscuss

A similiar graph for germany: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/75719/umfrage...

Typically 13-14% - my own statistics says ~17%

gforce_de

4 months agodiscuss

  user@NAS:~$ curl -fsSl https://www.purl.dev/install.sh | bash
  ...
  purl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by purl)
  
  user@NAS:~$ uname -a
  Linux NAS 6.1.0-43-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.162-1 (2026-02-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux

gforce_de

6 months agodiscuss

Wow - interesting how strong the differences are!

What seems missing: I can not see the answer from the different models. One have to rely on the "correctness" score.

Another minor thing: the scoring seems hardcoded to: 50% correctness, 30% cost, 20% latency - which is OK, but in my case i care more about correctness and latency I don't care.

Wow! This was my testprompt:

  You are an expert linguist and translator engine.  
  Task: Translate the input text from English into the languages listed below.  
  Output Format: Return ONLY a valid, raw JSON object.  
  Do not use Markdown formatting (no ```json code blocks).  
  Do not add any conversational text.
  
  Keys: Use the specified ISO 639-1 codes as keys.
  
  Target Languages and Codes:  
  - English: "en" (Keep original or refine slightly)  
  - Mandarin Chinese (Simplified): "zh"  
  - Hindi: "hi"  
  - Spanish: "es"  
  - French: "fr"  
  - Arabic: "ar"  
  - Bengali: "bn"  
  - Portuguese: "pt"  
  - Russian: "ru"  
  - German: "de"  
  - Urdu: "ur"
  
  Input text to translate:  
  "A smiling boy holds a cup as three colorful lorikeets perch on his arms and shoulder in an outdoor aviary."

gforce_de

6 months agodiscuss

can you please:

* add an correct HTML image alt information

* compress your HTML and CSS with brotli (or gzip)

thanks!

gforce_de

6 months agodiscuss

Wow, for screenshots much faster than chromium:

  $ time target/release/fetch_and_render "https://www.lauf-goethe-lauf.de/"
  real 0m0,685s
  user 0m0,548s
  sys 0m0,070s
  
  $ time chromium --headless --disable-gpu --screenshot=out.png --window-size=1200,800 https://www.lauf-goethe-lauf.de/
  real 0m1,099s
  user 0m0,927s
  sys 0m0,692s

# edit: with a hot-standby chrome and a running node instance a can reach 0,369s seconds here

gforce_de

6 months agodiscuss

Does look alien. When Going to http://baremetal.returninfinity.com/ one can only see some b0rken plaintext in the browser:

  GET / HTTP/1HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
  Server: BareMetal
  Content-type: text/html
  
  <!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
   <head>
    <title>404</title>
   </head>
   <body>
    <p>404 - Not found</p>
   </boGET / HTTP/1

gforce_de

7 months agodiscuss

It seems not possible to drag and drop from one day to another.

gforce_de

8 months agodiscuss

sorry for the german comment - ECC is mandatory!

Obligatorische Pastete: "16GB Ram sind Flischt, ohne wenn und aber. ECC ist nicht Flischt aber ZFS ist dafür ausgelegt. Wenn in Strandnähe Daten gelesen werden und es kommt irgendwie was in den Arbeitsspeicher, könnte eine eigentlich intakte Datei auf der Festplatte mit einem Fehler "korrigiert" werden. Also ECC ja. Das Problem bei ECC ist nicht der ECC-Speicher an sich, der nur wenig mehr als konventioneller Speicher kostet, es sind die Mutterbretter, die ECC unterstützen. Aufpassen bei AMD: Oft steht dabei, dass ECC unterstützt wird. Gemeint ist aber, dass ECC-Speicher läuft, aber die ECC-Funktion nicht genutzt wird. LOL. Die meisten MBs mit ECC sind Serverboards. Wer nichts gegen gebrauchte Hardware hat, kann z.B. mit einem alten Sockel 1155-Xeon mit Asus-Brett ein Schnäppchen machen. Ansonsten ist die Asrock Rack-Reihe zu empfehlen. Teuer, aber stromsparend. Generell Nachteil bei Serverboards: Die Bootzeit dauert eine Ewigkeit. Von Consumerboards wird man mit kurzen Bootzeiten verwöhnt, Server brauchen da oft mal 2 Minuten, bis der eigentliche Bootvorgang beginnt. Bernds Server besteht also aus einem alten Xeon, einem Asus Brett, 16GB 1333Mhz ECC-Ram und 6x 2TB-Platten in einem RaidZ2 (Raid6).6TB sind Netto nutzbar. Ich mag alte Hardware irgendwie. Ich reize Hardware gerne bis zum Gehtnichtmehr aus. Die Platten sind auch schon 5 Jahre alt, machen aber keine Mucken. Geschwindigkeit ist super, 80-100MB/s über Samba und FTP. Ich lasse den Server übrigens nicht laufen, sondern schalte ihn aus, wenn ich ihn nicht brauche. Was noch? Komression ist super. Obwohl ich haupsächlich nicht weiter komprimierbare Daten speichere (Musik, Videos), hat mir die interne Kompression 1% Speicherplatz beschert. Bei 4TB sind das ca. 40GB Platz gespart. Der Xeon langweilt sich trotzdem ein bisschen. Testweise habe ich gzip-9-Komprimierung getestet, da kam er dann schon ins Schwitzen."

gforce_de

9 months agodiscuss

wow! can you please include the example for Okabe-Ito (Masataka Okabe, Kei Ito): https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/color/#pallet

  COLOR='#000000' # Okabe-Ito: 1 black
  COLOR='#e69f00' # Okabe-Ito: 2 orange
  COLOR='#56b4e9' # Okabe-Ito: 3 skyblue
  COLOR='#009e73' # Okabe-Ito: 4 bluish-green
  COLOR='#f0e442' # Okabe-Ito: 5 yellow
  COLOR='#0072b2' # Okabe-Ito: 6 blue/darkerblue
  COLOR='#d55e00' # Okabe-Ito: 7 vermilion/red
  COLOR='#cc79a7' # Okabe-Ito: 8 reddish-purple

gforce_de

9 months agodiscuss

Is this sentence true, or should just sound important?

"Cachet created the word «usability» for that, meaning «start it and be able to use it right away.»"

gforce_de

9 months agodiscuss

Thank you for clarifing this, it was a misread on my side. The overall percentage deviation from the reference implementation is marginal, but just the pure existance of 'validate.py' looked to me like it must match.

gforce_de

9 months agodiscuss

It does not match with the reference implementation in my side:

  #!/bin/sh
  # originally from https://jpegxl.info/images/precision-machinery-shapes-golden-substance-with-robotic-exactitude.jpg
  # URL1="http://intercity-vpn.de/files/2025-10-04/upload/precision-machinery-shapes-golden-substance-with-robotic-exactitude.png"
  # URL2="http://intercity-vpn.de/files/2025-10-04/upload/image-png-all-pngquant-q13.png"
  curl "$URL1" -so test.png
  curl "$URL2" -so distorted.png
  
  # https://github.com/cloudinary/ssimulacra2/tree/main
  ssimulacra2 test.png distorted.png
  5.90462597

  # https://github.com/gianni-rosato/fssimu2
  fssimu2 test.png distorted.png
  2.17616860

gforce_de

10 months agodiscuss

You can build the image yourself, but have to switch off some packages or features - otherwise the image (linux-kernel + tools) is just too large or consumes too much memory. The original router has 8 megabytes RAM-memory and 2 Megabytes flash ("storage"). You can boot a recent kernel 6.16.5, but with 8mb there is not much left to work with 8-)

A starter is here: https://intercity-vpn.de/files/openwrt/wrt54gtest/minimal/

gforce_de

10 months agodiscuss

Why is there no support for compression?

  $ URL=https://herman.bearblog.dev/
  $ curl -v -H 'Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, br, zstd' $URL 2>&1 | grep --text ^'< Content-Encoding:\|< Content-Length:\|> Accept-Encoding:'

> Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, br, zstd ...

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