igoose1
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Python Backend Engineer
Location: Malaysia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Open to discussion
Technologies:
- Languages: Python, Go
- Backend: FastAPI, Django, REST, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Celery
- Testing & Quality: pytest, ruff, pyright, pre-commit (prek)
- LLMs: OpenAI/Anthropic/Openrouter APIs, function calling, prompt templating, agentic coding tools
- Infrastructure: Hetzner, Heroku, S3, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, bare-metal deployment
- Observability: Sentry, Elasticsearch (ELK), PostHog
- Personal: Fluent English, native Russian, basic Mandarin
Email: [email protected]
Comment · 3 months ago
I use KOReader a lot. After your comment, I realized file browser annoys me too. After some searching, I found an alternative view. Turns out, you can open the File browser tab, swipe down and switch "Display mode" to "Mosaic with cover images". Also seems like it's default for new versions now. This mosaic view still uses directories but it lists books as rectangles (covers) instead of lines (covers + titles), it seems more pleasant.
By the way, in the same settings I finally found how to set up KOReader to launch with a previously opened book. What a relief!
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks for mentioning GrapheneOS. I'll just explain to others what "pretty trivially" means here. GrapheneOS adds a huge checkmark "Network access?" when you install an app. It's impossible to miss.
Comment · 3 months ago
What's next!? Let Claude analyse clinic visits!? Oh well...
Comment · 3 months ago
10 months ago I've built a Raspberry Pi 5 mini NAS with 3 SSDs connected through RADXA Penta Hat. It runs OpenMediaVault, system is on the SDcard, other data are on the SSD ZFS pool. I have autosnapshots enabled, and I tune compression methods on specific datasets (lz4 for almost everything, zstd for file backups).
We use it for storing (backups, media files), playing (PaperMC), and watching (Jellyfin). I can only complain about the lack of hardware decoding in Raspberry Pi 5. Jellyfin loads CPU much if I enable transcoding so it's always disabled. If I knew this, I'd consider a cheaper and faster, but less popular, RADXA machine. Storage is fast enough for me, rsync and Samba speeds are usually limited by my network. PaperMC also runs without a hitch, thanks for asking!
As I didn't have high requirements for the machine, I also considered USB Bays at first but they wouldn't go well with ZFS.
Comment · 4 months ago
> specifics of the Pi variant (i.e. RAM) are not mentioned
I agree with the rest but Pi Zero W is a specific machine with 512 MB RAM:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/
It's also the one everyone can buy online for $19, not Pi Zero 2 W (always out of stock)
Comment · 5 months ago
> I don’t know why fastfetch always report more memory being used than the actual values. I’ve never seen more than 3GiB used in btop for this server
Probably, it's because of ZFS ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache). It's similar to Linux's page cache, can be claimed back any moment and different tools name it differently: https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
Comment · 5 months ago
Thanks for sharing! This page also shows a KOReader UI on the right.
Comment · 5 months ago
I skimmed through Livio web-site and it seems like it's just a repacked wiktionary?
On my e-book I use KOReader and I uploaded dictionaries of my personal choice on it. When I see a new word, I hold a finger for a bit longer than usual and KOReader opens a modal window with a definition from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. It took some time to find a DRM-free version and convert it into StarDict format but I've done it so I can share you only need to use this Python script: https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary. I'm sure there's already a wiktionary stardict on the web and you won't need pyglossary.
KOReader can be installed on many popular e-readers, including jailbroken Kindles (this usually takes 10 minutes to do depending on Amazon mood).
Comment · 5 months ago
Visiting Chongqing city felt quite 3D to me
Comment · 5 months ago
@dang or @whoishiring, this is a job board.
> Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. [...]
Comment · 5 months ago
Way to stay connected with a family abroad.
I migrated to another country and it's hard to talk with parents, my sister and grandmas as much as I did when I was back home. We tried making weekly calls to talk and play games but someone could never make it. I got an idea to create a small chat, share a simple topic every morning and then let everyone take a picture of the object. For example, recently we had "Garden" which made my grandma in the countryside go outside and take a picture of her growing strawberries. Today is "Anything halal" and I hope this will make another (Muslim) grandma in the chat happier :-)
At first, all topics were made up by me. Then, I made it possible for others to suggest topics via a simple bot. I showed this chat to friends and they got excited and wanted to try the same so I upgraded the bot to support multiple chats. Since November 2025, it's hosted 11 chats and if you're interested, you can try it too.
It's free and won't be abandoned tomorrow because I personally use it.
When I studied at school, I used ZFS with lz4 enabled on my working machine. During that times I had a task of parsing Wikipedia's data. I had enough brain cells to find compressed dumps and download them with aria2 but not enough to leave the file compressed. I ran a decompressor. It'd been taking longer than I expected so I went out to walk a dog.
Imagine how fast me and the dog ran back 30 minutes later when I realized how cooked I was. I only had 10 GB left on my disks after I downloaded that 20 GB file. This decompressed file would have blown the machine up. I was terrified to find a frozen system with no storage space left.
Instead, the process finished and `df -h` reported 8 GB of the free space left. Files were decompressed. I could `less` them! That made no sense! Only many many minutes later I finally figured out to run a `zfs get compressratio` command which showed ZFS successfully and transparently recompressed everything on the fly. That was too impressive for that teenager and he never switched to a different file system.