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The monks got mad too when the printing press was invented because it took their jobs of hoarding knowledge.

AI is just another tool, learn to use it.

Yep. It's nearly identical to the neural nets we were using in the 90s. Back then even a supercomputer wasn't big enough or fast enough to do what we do today.

I have to wonder though. Is this all a human brain is? A similar thing to an LLM just scaled exponentially larger. I mean a brain is not just neurons with simple connections to each other. The neurons, axons, dendrites, <insert_unexplained_thing>, etc in a brain are all holding and processing information in different ways and doing it nearly 100% in parallel. That's a really big model.

The biological discoveries show how complex a biological brain actually is. Even the tiny brains in a bee or spider are able to solve puzzles and use tools. That's crazy.

I learned TCP/IP by watching and reading raw packets over packet radio at 1200 baud.

I've noticed the same thing is possible if you watch the output of a slow LLM. Eventually you start to see the machinery. input tokens = output tokens, it's math. I can't exactly predict the tokens generated but I can see how they are formed. It's a lot like chess. You can't see every possible move but the mechanism is understandable.

In some ways Nintendo suing the original project was a good thing. It brought the project to the attention of a lot more people. Now there is a new version with a bunch of bugs fixed. Who knows how many new developers will be working on it now.

I have to think Nintendo knew this. They had to defend what they could and did so because the original project actually seemed to be doing some sketchy stuff. They know they can't stop everything though.

Reminds of of reddit. Man that text edit box is so dysfunctional. Sometimes you type and nothing happens. Sometimes typing will start selecting random stuff on the page, hiding comments, saving some, and other weird stuff. Cut and paste is a 100% gamble. Random keys won't work some times. Sometimes you post a comment and only half shows up or other weird things.

It's really bizarre and I think has to do with some sort of logging/spyware they run on the site.

TI-99 was my first real computer bought in 1982 for $50 from K-mart. I learned to program on it. I remember buying a few "whatever" games to get the speech synthesizer for cheap (or free?). Took forever to save enough money to buy Extended Basic so I could do sprites and stuff.

Fun times. I still have it in the original box with all the carts and speech synthesizer. I always wanted that big expansion module with the disk drives. Never could afford it.

A few years later got an excellent deal on a used C64 and moved on to it where it was a little more open platform.

I remember it but it was no competition to VMware which I had been a user of since 1999.

I run email servers and I get such a massive amount of spam on "vanity" TLD's that I just block them outright. I don't automatically block them all but any that start sending serious levels of spam get blocked. Which is most of them and that block covers the whole TLD. It's just too much work to try anything else.

Now this is just for incoming email. I still allow web browsing and links to these domains through various systems and outgoing mail to those domains works.

The incoming mail though, I just can't allow it. It's just pure spam at ridiculous levels.

I don't think prices are "cratering" so much as just returning to normal rather than price gouging.

Now if I could just buy a GPU for a normal price...

We have all this deepfake AI technology. It could probably be trained to filter out background music. Seems like a good research project.

Eh, after using Linux mostly as my primary OS and 100% for servers for nearly 30 years I think Linux is only just now in the last 10 years started to come in to its own. The game isn't ending, it has just started! Linux is more than ChromeOS and Android. Everything Internet is Linux, IoT, routers, appliances, cameras, vehicles, the list is endless.

Fuchsia, being Google, will be as evil as Chrome. And it may be popular just like Chrome and Windows but that doesn't mean there isn't something better for users who care about control, security, and privacy.

There is no way in hell Fuchsia or anything else is going to run the Internet like Linux does. Even the alternate OS's like Fuchsia, Haiku, MacOS, etc don't have server versions. The mammoth Microsoft even failed at servers and they do have server versions.

Barring some unforeseen conspiracy, Linux is going to be around for a long, long time.

This article sort of makes the case for Matrix but I find Matrix incredibly clunky and slow. Plus every time it "verifies" me it always goes back to the app on my phone like it's some sort of permanent and authoritative identifier. So in that sense it's similar to Signal and Telegram being attached to your phone in some way.

Hard to know what to trust these days. "Nobody" I guess.

Xiaomi has a history of using open-source to power their stuff like their cameras. Though I'm uncertain how often they strictly follow the rules like GPL they have published some amount of open-source. I wonder if these will be hackable and the source published. That would really make these popular I think.

Agree with the management issues. Also their political activities have not made them look good. They need to focus more on the software.

Also, stop removing useful features from Firefox. It's insane the amount of functionality that has been totally chopped out.

It seems they both denied and admitted to it at the same time, with twisted wording.

Has anyone come up with a decentralized social media platform yet? I wonder if it's even possible without it devolving in to a complete cesspool even worse than the centralized cesspools.

YouTube has so many bad practices beyond just this kind of stuff. There are a lot of reasons not to go there any more.

We need suitable alternatives. Maybe something decentralized in nature.

Nice. Now do it in Rust running (and building) on a Pentium.

I play 1080p and 720p H.265 all the time without issue on my 3 B+. It's just barely fast enough.

Kodi's Achilles heel is their choice to implement in Python. I've gotten used to the interface though it gets slower with every release.

Sucks the Pi3 is not supported. "current development is focused on RPi 4"... Yeah, the Pi3 is only like the most widely used embedded system on the planet and Pi4's are still incredibly hard to find. I would have focused on the 3 first. :/

Interesting. It still works for me even with gfx.color_management.mode set to 1. Might be hardware differences or maybe desktop (compositing, etc). I'm using XFCE defaults.

Weird. I'm using Firefox 91.0.2 on Ubuntu 20.04 and it works fine. Maybe try opening it in a new empty profile and see if it works?

Why is Debian unstable still stuck way back on Node v12?

Now if VPN providers would do the same because they can be compelled to log just like Proton was.

Well known but still interesting.

Nowadays I generally don't use any swap at all and find it annoying when distros/Windows create swap anyway. I mean if my 128GB+ or even 32GB of primary memory runs out, is it really going to help to swap 2GB to disk? And any larger swap than that is too slow to be usable.

I find BusyBox init perfectly acceptable and small. I use it extensively as init for lightweight containers. It supports just enough init to handle complex or simple config.

Does tini offer something better? On quick glance it seems rather limited.

Next I want to see Crysis running in a terminal.

Actually that raises an interesting question. Can OpenGL work in Notcurses?

Interesting craft in that it's essentially just a larger version of the R/C toys you can buy. I wonder how they tested the blade design. Did they fly it at 100,000ft on Earth?

> it can feel quite overwhelming as you need to visualize the tree in your head

And that's why I don't use a tiling window manager. I prefer to use my brain for actual work, not futzing around with configuration and OS BS. I mean if it takes 3000 lines of code to make your friggin window manager work then you're doing it wrong.

I happen to like overlapping windows, it's just natural and free-flowing. I don't mind wasting a little space when I have a 6400x1200 desktop.

Bloomberg continues to build on this theory (same reporter AFAIK) even as recently as this year https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/