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> Are you saying people haven’t been throwing unneeded GPU capacity on the market? That is happening. That, by itself, doesn't have to mean anything. AWS is far more compute capaci…

Note that we are still in the discussion period, and more proposals can and will be added. Some might even be withdrawn.

The death knell was Elop announcing that Nokia would be exclusively Windows, at a time when Windows had low single-digit market share and where this exclusivity was a one-way stree…

> Isotopic dating shows that whale falls in this region have occurred since at least 5.3 million years ago Anyone know why these wouldn't be covered under a thick layer of sediment…

> He’s the richest man on the planet and doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys. My impression was the other way around. The shenanigans he pulled around the Tw…

> They are not. They are best practices if you want reproducible builds. Or if you're writing a test suite, and you want failing test results to be actionable. Or you have any othe…

I agree that compromised source dependencies are the bigger problem, but that doesn't mean a compromised build infrastructure isn't. Just this last week, we had two Linux kernel LP…

> There was no bug or attack on Debian since 2007 that reproducible packages would prevent. I'm reading this as a suggestion that the reproducible builds effort was an ineffective …

> The reason is this: > Both ethical and safe conduct depend on context and intent. The same apples to knives, and they can be plenty useful, and used in a safe manner.

Yes, exactly. Anyone training a model to replace themselves, is replacing themselves -- with something that can run 24/7 and can easily scale. And the better the model, the easier …

I can understand the appeal; being able to be "present" without the time cost can mean (possibly significantly more) presence at the same cost. This could be very attractive especi…

USB/IP has been pretty useful to me, though locking it down is a bit of a chore, as it does not natively support any type of authentication or authorization (a not unreasonable des…

I can't really say as I don't use them. This is a host mostly working as a CI worker connected via ethernet. I just scanned for WiFi networks and that worked fine. I also see that …

The Radxa Orion O6 is a really nice ARMv9.2 ITX board, and supports UEFI boot. Installation of Debian trixie using Debian's vanilla installation media went flawlessly, and it's bee…

Austrian media are reporting that Peter Steinberger had a $100m exit with PSPDFKit in 2021. I'm extremely curious what OpenAI's offer was. The utility of more money is diminished w…

> So the illegality rests at the point of output and not at the point of input. It's not as simple as that, as this settlement shows [1]. Also, generating output is what these mode…

> To call training illegal is similar to calling reading a book and remembering it illegal. Perhaps, but reproducing the book from this memory could very well be illegal. And these…

somewhat related: "Seymour said he thought it was odd that Apple bought a Cray to design Macs because he was using Macs to design Crays. He sent me his designs for the Cray 3 in Ma…

> Some 30 years ago, someone challenged me to tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke in a blind taste test. I did something similar with co-workers recently, who didn't believe…

How low could that floor be, in dollar terms? The financial engineering with the Twitter/X takeover was already pretty bold, but Tesla would probably still be a chunk an order of m…

There is some nuance to this. Adding comments to the stated goal "Everyone who interacts with Debian source code (1) should be able to do so (2) entirely in git : (1) should be abl…

Coincidentally, the first issue (referencing Navi 21) was the one I started these experiments with, and this turned out to be pretty informative. Our Navi 21 would almost always go…

A lot of this coincides with my own experiments I did to pass-through consumer AMD GPUs into VMs [1], which the Debian ROCm Team uses in their CI. The Debian package rocm-qemu-supp…

Most likely, yes. The author mentions vixie-cron, which was the name of the project before Paul Pixie joined/founded(?) ISC, and it was released as ISC from after. Debian's fork is…