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nialv7

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nialv7··on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
Terry A. Davis will be proud
nialv7··on Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
Mark Zuckerberg reminds me of a spoiled child.
nialv7··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Have you warned Gabe about this
nialv7··on You can now run a full Linux operating system inside a 6mb PDF
seems like an account reposting stuff to get attention to advertise his AI stuff.
nialv7··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
There always will be old games that will never be ported to Linux.
nialv7··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
esync and fsync both use mainline kernel features.
nialv7··on Chat GPT 5.2 cannot explain the German word "geschniegelt"
Maybe this is why? Most of the training data has the single token version, so the three tokens version was undertrained?
nialv7··on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow
i don't have an openai subscription, but i still want to participate
nialv7··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
ZK proof can't solve the TOCTOU problem.
nialv7··on Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
i'd say atlas is roughly on par capability-wise. see their recent video: [1]. but boston has different priorities.

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk

nialv7··on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
i am happy i bought 5x10TB drives two months ago, anticipating this exact scenario.
nialv7··on Why I don't think AGI is imminent
all the hallmarks of someone who don't understand how machine learning and transformers work talking about llm.
nialv7··on Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas
the comment you are replying to is talking about marginal cost pricing, which wasn't addressed by this article.
nialv7··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
https://kyuz0.github.io/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes/
nialv7··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
> Didn't expect to go back to macOS but their basically the only feasible consumer option for running large models locally.

Framework Desktop! Half the memory bandwidth of M4 Max, but much cheaper.

nialv7··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
Sure... you `git add` the context text generated by AI and `git commit` it, could be useful. Is that worth 60 million?
nialv7··on We mourn our craft
> I can't empathize with the complaint that we've "lost something" at all.

you won't feel you've lost something if you've never had it.

sorry.

nialv7··on Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
The mmap/msync one is incorrect I believe? (Correct me if I am wrong).

msync() sync content in memory back to _disk_. But multiple processes mapping the same file always see the same content (barring memory consistency, caching, etc.) already. Unless the file is mapped with MAP_PRIVATE.

nialv7··on Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
looks like we have it. in the end it's pretty mundane...
nialv7··on CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
nialv7··on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs
> won't cause a sense that peripheral vision is fuzzy

it won't because your eyes literally doesn't have enough sensors in those regions to see it.

nialv7··on GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations
better luck with your next job :)
nialv7··on Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support
If you want to learn the system from scratch, the best way will be writing your own little init system from scratch, so you can understand how the boot sequence works. And as you make use of more and more of the advanced features of Linux, your init system will get more and more complex, and will start to resemble systemd.

If you only learn about sysvinit and stop there, you are missing large parts of how a modern Linux distro boots and manages services.

nialv7··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
sure is nice to be paid for staying out of the way.

i think i am an expertise on not getting into other people's business. can someone pay me?

nialv7··on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
there will be incentives once windows becomes shit enough.
nialv7··on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
nothing stopping them from developing on Linux workstations, cross-compiling to Windows, and testing with Wine/Proton. saves them Windows license fees too.
nialv7··on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
They don't need to beat valve. The contribution made by valve is going to benefit GOG too. That's the power of open source.
nialv7··on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
If we care about the future of computing, the future of consumer rights, we need to MAKE THEM GIVE A SHIT.

Cory Doctorow is doing a very good job of that, but there is only one Cory Doctorow.

nialv7··on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
yes, once i saw that i stopped reading. if the author can't get that right i am not going to trust anything else they say.
nialv7··on How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital
Very true. If you really want to see rail lines materialise out of thin air, go to any major cities in China.
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