formerly in tech (various roles), early retired, still loves tech; hates nonsense; political orphan; neurodivergent, trying to adapt stoicism in a world gone insane.
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"
Submissions
The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate – Part 1 (and Part 2)
unlimitedhangout.com
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The Great Unpatterning continues. Make sure you take advantage of it
medium.com
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All humans have SAME ancestors; a single couple living up to 200,000 years ago
dailymail.co.uk
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WeTransfer harasses journalists to take down stories
siliconcanals.nl
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Article showing tactics used to greenlight new EU copyright policies disappears
techdirt.com
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Obama's campaign director on how the Dems used Facebook to target voters
twitter.com
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Microsoft deploys first major server application on Ubuntu Linux
Jurassic Park was the first movie I saw as a twelve year old boy at the cinema, and it not only made me a huge fan of the series but as a boy I was really into dinosaurs and it was really something to see them being "real" on a big screen for the first time.
"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"
Closing inactive accounts in the EU is due to (interpretation of) certain provisions set in the GDPR (e.g. article 5 - https://gdpr-info.eu/art-5-gdpr/) and Sony is not alone, many services in the EU automatically close and delete orphaned accounts after a given amount of time, and if they are international ones even when they don't outside of the EU.
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).
Pi (https://pi.dev), a TUI based harness, lets you easily cycle through all configured models through the keybindings CTRL+P (forward) and SHIFT+CTRL+P (backwards).
Personally using it for switching from and to locally served Gemma and Qwen endpoints.
I really don't see how Google will make Samsung and the big Chinese Android phone manufacturers (Xiaomi, OnePlus, ...) put this crap on their own custom Android distributions, especially because all these guys know that if they do it will have a very severe cost -- Besides Play and the Galaxy Store F-Droid is probably the third most popular distribution channel for Android apps on Galaxy devices, for example.
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.
First it was Search (mostly Google), then Social (mostly Facebook) now AI turning the global internet into their own unregulated playground due to pay to play on US soil.
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?
46, and due to extreme mental health problems catalyzed by my previous employer I have been on disability benefits - or as I like to call it "early retirement" - since about a year.
Not planning, and due to these circumstances likely even able, to get to work in tech (or any other workplace) ever again.
> I'll keep a small Proxmox host around for experimenting with new kernel features (Intel GVT-g / SR-IOV graphics) and old operating systems like Windows XP or anything else that needs special QEMU options.
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.
Microsoft has already started. Copilot is now sitting behind a forced full browser window login popup.
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.
> "The game changer is the unified 128 GB memory. That is the path Apple took years ago. Instead of separate memory for the CPU and GPU"
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.
Ungoogled Chromium (https://ungoogled-software.github.io/) will 99.9% likely patch MV2 back in if they remove it (as there's already support and they will never remove it) and Ungoogled Chromium based Helium (https://helium.computer/) even ships with uBlock Origin by default.
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.
Why do people keep comparing Apples to Bananas (pun intended)?
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.
It's part of Vanguard. As Vanguard hooks itself into the Windows kernel through a low level (ring 0) system driver and all partitions except the system / UEFI service partition are not available at boot/init time (which is the moment Vanguard is loaded and activated) it uses the UEFI service partition to dump files it temporarily or permanently requires.
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.
In fact, a lot of companies throughout Europe do. Either through a fuel card (when leasing a car) or a travel allowance (which can either be used for gas or public transport).
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.
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"