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Do you mean the glowglobe rather than an umbrella? The glowglobes were used for lighting.

It was removed. Here is the archived version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260313125244/https://old.reddi...

Sounds like a massive waste of your time for NextDNS admins and a poor UX for end users. If your security relies on trusting old domains, then you need to rethink your security. Also, I bet it's just as easy for you to accidentally whitelist a bad actors as to blacklist a good one. What am I missing here?

You're missing the point. The effective tax rate of many billionaires is lower than ours. "Musk with a fortune of $244 billion, paid an average effective tax rate of 24% from 2018 to 2020". In other years it was as low as 3%[2].

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/income-taxes-billionaire-tax-ra...

[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

I too found that interesting that Apple's Neural Engine doesn't work with local LLMs. Seems like Apple, AMD, and Intel are missing the AI boat by not properly supporting their NPUs in llama.cpp. Any thoughts on why this is?

FastVLM: https://huggingface.co/collections/apple/fastvlm-68ac97b9cd5...

MobileCLIP2: https://huggingface.co/collections/apple/mobileclip2-68ac947...

Very interesting model. Some key points from the blog:

* NVIDIA is also releasing most of the data they used to create it, including the pretraining corpus

* The model uses a hybrid architecture consisting primarily of Mamba-2 and MLP layers combined with just four Attention layers. For the architecture, please refer to the Nemotron-H tech report. The model was trained using Megatron-LM and NeMo-RL.

At this size and with only 4 attention layers, it should run very fast locally on cheap 12GB GPUs.

Higgs Audio V2 is an advanced, open-source audio generation model developed by Boson AI, designed to produce highly expressive and lifelike speech with robust multi-speaker dialogue capabilities.

Some Highlights:

* Trained on 10M hours of diverse audio — speech, music, sound events, and natural conversations

* Built on top of Llama 3.2 3B for deep language and acoustic understanding

* Runs in real-time and supports edge deployment — smallest versions run on Jetson Orin Nano

* Outperforms GPT-4o-mini-tts and ElevenLabs v2 in prosody, emotional expressiveness, and multi-speaker dialogue

* Zero-shot natural multi-speaker dialogues — voices adapt tone, energy, and emotion automatically

* Zero-shot voice cloning with melodic humming and expressive intonation — no fine-tuning needed

* Multilingual support with automatic prosody adaptation for narration and dialogue

* Simultaneous speech and background music generation — a first for open audio foundation models

* High-fidelity 24kHz audio output for studio-quality sound on any device

* Open source and commercially usable — no barriers to experimentation or deployment

Model on Huggingface: https://huggingface.co/bosonai/higgs-audio-v2-generation-3B-...

How is this the trolley problem for someone with a terminal disease? I assume the sick population are the people in the trolley and the experimental patient is the person on the track? In this scenario, by not pulling the lever you just extend the life of the people on the trolley to the end of the ride for a dangerous drug. Where as, pulling the level could save the life of the person on the track and the people in the trolley if the drug is successful.

What am I missing? For non-terminal diseases, it's a bit murkier, but still I don't follow the analogy.

Why don't recommend atop? When a system is unresponsive, I want a I want a high-level tool that immediately shows which subsystem is under heavy load. It should show CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network usage. The other tools you listed are great, once you know what the cause is.

All of the features descried in the article are supported by clang except maybe for the constexpr keyword. By your own list, neither one supports all the features. Also, gcc only supports about 4 or 5 features more than gcc, and clang supports a few gcc doesn't. Hardly "much better".

For the Internet as a whole, yes, but not for this narrow case of legitimate news organizations. If Facebook could have building full of moderators to review flagged content on their site, Google could easily fix this issue with a team to handle reports of low quality AI content. Not to mention, how most of these sites sprung up out of nowhere. That should already be a red flag for the algorithm to de-rank until a human could review. And the example of reworded blog spam with identical photos, posted at a later date, again, should be trivial for a team that cared to catch manually(flagged) or through an algorithm.

It's not over, unless Google doesn't care enough about Google News to fix it.

So you prefer, the DSL or GPL over GPLv2? The Doom Source License (or DSL) is the original source code license under which the Doom source code was released in late 1997.[1] I'll take this over the years and years the past licensing has caused any day.[2]

[1]https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_Source_License#:~:text=The....

[2] https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/44358-doom-license-amp...

This vulnerability is about injecting keystrokes into connected wireless keyboards and mice.[1] With the phone industry adoption of USB-C, they've made wired easier than ever before.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/pr...

Did you even read the post before you commented? From the post:

> I believe this only triggers on software decoding, which is why it particularly affects us (and not, say, macOS which has hardware decoding).

It's completely sensible for YT to assume an ARM device without acceleration needs lower quality video.

Would be interesting to see a a Debian derivative that combines this with the Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils.[1] Could be a big win for memory safety and performance.

[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

Cat fluff piece. Owl’s are far more “evolved” to their predatory niche. In addition, every land animal of prey are on are on the menu for wolves. Cat’s lack of social evolution greatly limits their choice. So much for perfection.

Wolves have taking their social evolution one step further by allowing them to join forces, co-evolving with man. This cat biologist could use a lesson from a human evolutionary biologist.[1] There is a good chance we wouldn't be where we are today, if it weren’t for that perfect combination.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/dogs-humans-evolved-toge...

The author said he is just starting on the book, so he's not claiming it's perfect. And the beauty of github, open source is you can fix them with a pull request. For example, the svg is here: https://github.com/abuseofnotation/category-theory-illustrat...

Counter point, I've been using a VoIP service called GrandCentral since college. Google purchased them. Nearly 20 years later, I'm still using that same number with far more feature. In this case, Squarespace acquired Google Domains. Assuming the transition as seamless as GrandCentral was for me, what's the issue here? From what I've heard of Squarespace and their support, they will be just as good a custodian as Google.

Network level ad-blocking like Privoxy and pi-hole have so many downsides like they can't handle inline adverts. My pi4 pi-hole is unplugged right now because it just didn't work well. After hours wasted trying to make it work with all the services, I've thrown in the towel. The time involved is just not worth it for a home network.

What works are browser based ad-blockers and app patchers like ReVanced. As my savings have gone up, I've relied more and more on just paying for ad-free services like YouTube Premium, Hulu, Netfix, and Max for the cases those 2 can't handle.

I’m diagnosed as having pollution induced Asthma and allergies to wood smoke. While I need steroids or an N95 mask when the air quality is very poor, Benadryl indeed does help with the symptoms.

What value does your comment add by nick picking his comment? The premise of his argument is correct. Fossil fuels kill far more people than renewables and nuclear.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/which-powe...

One argument I made was sponsoring a project, especially buys you support / developer relations. For example, we replaced a commercial PKZIP license with 7-zip. Was able to use the fact that one of the project we donated to, 7-zip, implemented a feature request that helped in this transition. That combined with the fact that these donations relative to our proprietary software costs were insignificant, made it an easy sell to my boss.

Absolutely. For the first startup that I worked for, I earned a position with budgeting authority. Once we achieved profitably, I added donations to the open source tools we relied upon. I received some pushback and defended it. Looking back, I am proud of that choice. I encourage you all to do the same.

You can watch it outside of the UK here: https://vimeo.com/838023699

Did you find sources and make the edit? Or just assume it would be rejected?

In my experience, the vast majority of my edits were accepted when properly sourced, especially on esoteric topics like this. Yes, there are exceptions and bad apples in the community. Those get a all the attention and media coverage but I've only encountered them on heavily edited and visited pages, not the more rare academic or historic pages. While it's anecdotal, I just checked and I've clocked nearly 800 edits in the past decade.

I experienced this back when I configured my home Linux boxes as a router, VPN server, firewall, media server, etc. Since I had the time, compiled all of the info I found on random blogs and sites and added them to the Ubuntu Community wiki. That was the 12.x days, when Ubuntu was in its prime and the distro to use.

While these blogs were a great resource, I often found the commands outdated or applied to a different distro. A distro specific wiki solves both those issue. While I don't get the glory of a blog, I just checked an it's nice to see my notes still there for future Denvercoder9's.

Yes, or put a bit more elegantly, 'The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.' — Carl Sagan

No mention of the models or tech used in the article. I did some digging and found this. Seems to be made with QuickWick on Hugging Face[1] with the community on Discord[2].

Amazing how fast AI is moving these days. Hard to tell if we're at an infection point or a plateau. Whatever the case, this is what drew me into tech, and I'm loving the ride.

[1] https://huggingface.co/QuickWick/Music-AI-Voices

[2] https://discord.gg/aihub

Do you know anything about HP's failure under her rule? I don't care about her gender, but I do know for a fact that they lost market share and had a massive brain drain under her tenure. Her massive layoffs included axing their R&D. Why don't you read this before jumping to conclusions?[1] It identifies many of the issues I saw first hand during that period, while still trying its best to find reasons to praise her.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/04/20/analysts-carly-fiorin...

Yes, unless you are a botanist, you don't need the ability to identify a zoomed individual leaf. After about 10-20 Qs, I identified all 3 of the zoomed out poison ivy plants correctly, but incorrectly labeled 2 zoomed in leaves as poison ivy. In the real world, both of them I am familiar with and know for a fact they do not have leaves of three.