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Key philosophy about tech: "A two-bladed sword is neither inherently evil nor good; its moral alignment depends entirely on how it is used and by whom"
Gemini on the freaking free tier got it right at the first try.
And this is not the first time I experienced that GPT - on any version - completely got lost, even when the info for the correct answer is widely available on the Web.
Text wise it seemed it more or less understood exactly what I wanted...
... but then I asked to draw a simple ASCII layout so my DIY savvy but not really that strong in English dad could understand better what the plan was.
But every single time it got the orientation of the led profiles wrong. I told it the orientation was wrong. It understood that the orientation was wrong (it kept saying sorry even) but even when warned multiple times the orientation was still wrong.
I really wonder if Astra will be smarter than this, and if not AGI still has a veeeeery long way to go...
Or what I am trying to say: Everybody has devices which have the potential to spy on you.
Unless your first name is Richard, only travel with open source hardware and software, and you have to ask someone to lend you a phone if you want to call someone even when you are at home.
A party like Helium or Brave might even already be working on it. Because while Google might not like it at all, a huge chunk of people love extensions like uBO and ease of use a little bit too much.
Never make the same mistake I made (several times) to hopefully create a better situation for both sides, even when you think it would be great for both you and them.
I lived through this and it broke me. Emotionally and psychologically. I will never be able to professionally work in any org ever again and I really wish that not to happen to anyone else.
This means that both Microsoft and Google have elected to disable support at build time and alternative, good, Chromium based browser like Helium (https://helium.computer) still support it. As a matter of fact Helium still uses it to fetch and run uBlock Origin out of the box for mitigation against trackers, malware and ads.
"I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts[...]That's the difference between imagining and seeing"
Thank you for everything, doctor Grant.
If implemented correctly the affected person is also warned/notified several times by email before this is going to happen, so you have enough time to log in at least once and prevent it (and also extend the time frame again).
Personally using it for switching from and to locally served Gemma and Qwen endpoints.
So I do think the only people who will be really affected by this are those running Google's own Pixel devices which are entirely locked into the Play ecosystem. The rest not so much.
All of which together will make algorithmic bias, data harvesting, and hyper-realistic misinformation flourish.
I really wonder when US citizens had enough. Third time is the proverbial charm?
There's a entire section about allocating GPUs to containers or VMs here: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/reference/device...
You can do the same with USB devices, NICs, infiniband adapters and whatever (as can be seen below and above the gpu part in the documentation)
For SR-IOV with VFs on a virtual machine the CLI command should look something like:
incus config device add <instance name> <device name> gpu gputype=sriov pci=<pci address>
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/reference/device...
But the possibility to just reroute a entire GPU to a virtual machine or container might be even more interesting:
incus config device add <instance name> <device name> gpu gputype=physical pci=<pci address>
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/reference/device...
Note that there's a possibility you'll need to play with the parameters a bit. All are mentioned in the docs.
Not planning, and due to these circumstances likely even able, to get to work in tech (or any other workplace) ever again.
So there are more ways than one to tap out.
The VM feature of Incus is based on QEMU/KVM so actually there's no need to keep Proxmox around, unless you really want to keep a host or cluster for experimentation with the Proxmox environment. With some configuration you can get SR-IOV and older operating systems working aswell.
And I do really mean forced popup, because all default functionality - which is still available to a anonymous user - is available right behind said popup, which I can clearly see due to the few milliseconds it takes before their shitty React code triggers the visibility of said popup on my secondary laptop.
Not really a game changer as AMD already has this (but is quite terrible at marketing it). This is the reason why you can run pretty big AI models on reasonable speeds on embedded GPUs on the Ryzen AI SoCs and get even better performance on the Ryzen AI Max+ SoCs.
As a example I have a HX370 based laptop with 128G RAM and due to these specs can instruct the included firmware to share up to 96G (or approximately 66% of available system memory) with the embedded GPU, which gives quite some headroom to experiment with local models as said before.
The included GPU with 6144 CUDA cores isn't really big news either to be honest, as the DGX Spark already has them too. Likely because they simply integrated the same (or very similar) GPU on this SoC. In fact the whole thing looks eerily similar to the DGX Spark SoC, so the only new thing pretty much seems to be the support for Windows.
And then there's still Firefox and all of its forks.
Best of luck to Big Tech as people will move on elsewhere.
I wouldn't call it incidentally. It's actually a very important story. It tells the tale about the early days of the Rebellion and how they sniffed out the construction of the Death Star, eventually leading up (and connected) to the events in Rogue One and A New Hope.
To be clear: These two are based on completely different system architectures. Ofcourse performance is different, and probably in favor of Apple. Especially because everything running on top of Apple Silicon is heavily optimized from the get-go to do so (due to hardcore system level optimization by the build chain and kernel engineering groups at Apple).
If you want a excellent quasi open and self repairable/modifiable laptop running Linux there's probably nothing better on the market than a Framework laptop. But I might be a little bit biased because my main system is a Framework 16 running Gentoo with OpenRC.
I can do everything I want with it including local AI, since the 6.x kernel series - including AMD NPU support - was released to stable, and AMD creating a excellent runtime to serve local AI models through AMD NPUs and GPUs called Lemonade (https://lemonade-server.ai/) a little while back.
If you no longer play any of Riot's games (which you should if you really care about the integrity of your system) and Vanguard is no longer active on your system you should be able to safely remove it.
Some governments, like in the Netherlands, also allow a percentage of travel costs to be deducted from yearly tax if a employer does not reimburse costs directly.
They do read the appeals. I know this because I was falsely permanently suspended, without lawful reasons and without prior notice, with an account in good standing, a few years ago.
After writing several appeals over the years, in which I even mentioned article 19 of the UN UDHR (which pretty much mentions everyone has the right of freedom of expression and freedom of speech), and after receiving several rejections with the standard boilerplate text I got a very angry human written reply from somebody working at the Safety and Security team mentioning amongst other things I should never try to appeal again, and that they would automatically reject every appeal if I would. Or at least, that was basically the gist of it.
And I tried it once afterwards, and they didn't lie about that.
This was after the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, by the way.
So yes, they do read appeals (even before the Elon purchase likely). But they don't care.
If Trump is truely insane and his plan "to bomb the living shit out of Iran's energy infrastructure" includes the Bushehr NPP, mainly operated by Russian nuclear scientists and engineers, the world will likely face even bigger problems than they are facing now.