There is a lot of truth to that.

Google web search (and by extension services like Ecosia that rely on Google) has worsened in quality, especially for more niche content that requires some work to get to.

Thanks for the clarification!

I was under the impression this was all optical disc writing.

When the family got a computer with a CD-RW drive in 1999, I used a CD-RW disc as a sort of portable USB, I guessing that was the last time when I used packet writing. :)

This is more software news, but still a (nerdy) historical milestone of sorts.

I do hope it will be easy to enable CD/DVD/BD writing support if needed.

EDIT: I was mistaken, opticla disc writing is not being removed, just one specific (and somewhat niche?) technology/approach.

I am pretty sure Kyiv Star would rather use Eutelsat (or even another non-American provider), but there is no pragmatic alternative at this point.

I am really hoping Eutelsat can get their act together in the next ~18 months.

We need to move off Starlink (and reduce dependence on American providers in a pragmatic manner), that being said from what I’ve read Eutelsat is no where near in terms of performance (bandwidth), base station size and global coverage (although from my understanding Ukraine is somewhat well covered).

Even mid-range smartphones have been “good enough” in the last ~5 years in terms of device performance.

Flagships used to be distinguished by camera quality, but this benefit is not as noticeable as it once was.

I didn’t think of that, but it’s true! 😄

Worth pointing out that MIPS is a mere shadow of it’s former self (some of my first routers were based on MIPS). They are currently a relatively small RISC-V design firm.

I do wonder how much of IBM’s POWER business is based on net new installations.

If you are running a a critical system on a POWER system (e.g. banking core), it makes sense to pay a high price and avoid the risks associated with complete rewrite.

But does IBM get any new client for their POWER systems?

With a quote post, the post you are quoting is fully (text, avatar image) nested in your post.

It was commonly used on Twitter (I deleted my accounts some time ago).

This would be a really neat feature and would allow for the best of both worlds so to speak.

Yes, I didn’t mean cryptography of course. :)

There are some very useful use cases. One that I have a decent amount of experience in is upscaling SD (or even VHS) content. Depending on the quality of the source material, you can get very good results.

I’ve also found LLMs helpful as a compliment to web searching for my work (I deal with lots of public datasets from international organisations); LLM queries have helped me find sources that I missed via directed search.

It can also be helpful as guided learning/reference system for Linux CLI (I tend to forget the parts I rarely use) or even software application more broadly (used it to help learn about GIS applications that I needed to use to access historical weather data for a work project).

No idea, I do use Mastodon relatively regularly, but I am not on top of development discussions.

This was news for me so I decided to share. :)

I am assuming the fix for the second vulnerability will be backported to the older version in bookworn; 13p1 if I remember correctly.

I’ve seen theme backport security to older releases of much less important software.

Pretty good article; a nice overview of recent developments.

I also agree with their conclusion; avoid American commercial entities whenever possible. The culture of corruption and criminality is simply too deeply rooted among the executive class and it is highly unlikely that there will be any true anti-corruption reform in the next ~20 years (I hope I am wrong).

No idea who the Maguire fellow is, but since he works for a large American VC firm, the piece about “coming from a culture of lying” is clearly projection.

I wouldn’t go that far, both LLMs and other ML technologies clearly have novel use cases (unlike crypto where the only use cases are financial speculation and crime).

The issue is that AI promoters/conmen are knowingly misrepresenting the capabilities of their services to benefit from pump and dumps (case in point Microsoft and OpenAI agreeing to define AGI as any service that gets $100 B in annual revenue).

This wouldn’t apply to Debian derived distros (e.g. DietPi). I am assuming the fix will backported to the version of sudo shipping with bookworm.

With that in mind, the DoE hopes microreactors could be used to power small, remote sites, with an eVinci described as a possible power source for a remote datacenter. The Radiant Kaleidos, meanwhile, is described as an alternative to a diesel generator, being a similar tractor-trailer-mounted size while being able to operate for five years without needing refueling.

Alternative to diesel generator does not inspire confidence.

I support nuclear power, but not litering the landscape with random small scale reactors that may or may not be well contained.

I wish this was true, but it seems to be more tied to polticial matters affecting supply chain.