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3Blue1Brown[1] has opened my eyes on the intuitive understanding of linear algebra, many, many years after taking a first course in linear algebra, which left me completely mystifi…

Interview with Mark Graham, director of Wayback Machine, and Chris Freeland, director of library services at the Internet Archive.

Fond memories of Knoppix from when I was younger. Many many thanks to the authors.

Thanks for asking, I had to search the quote since I recalled it from memory. I couldn't find it, but here's the closest I got [1]. The disdain and arrogance of this person is just…

"I don't know how to make a screenshot" Linus Torvalds often says that he does not know how to do X (like install a Linux distribution, or other simple stuff). I wager that it's a …

> If anything, LLM's seem more resistant to propaganda than any other tool created by man so far, except maybe the encylopedia. (Though obviously this depends on training.) How wou…

> It's a shame No, it's not. This goes against the whole thread and the article posted.

Videos that go through the xv6 source code: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbtzT1TYeoMhTPzyTZboW...

> I hope these rather unorthodox leaps between linguistics and mathematics helped make it almost obvious that some words and ideas are untranslatable in practice. I also hope you d…

I don't buy any appliance that has "smart" in it. Yeah, no, thanks.

Maybe a less subtle self-promotional blog post, as compared to others.

Thanks! Nice to see it has plenty of diagrams.

How does he know who is "native brit" and who is not? Rhetorical question.

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I wish I had your confidence in "detecting" LLM sentences. All I can do for now is get a very vague "intuition" as to whether a sentence is LLM-generated. We know how intuitions ar…

Incredible work! I really wish the author's book had an English translation.

From what I understood, it's the torrent link that downloads a compromised zip file rather then the authentic image: "Torrent downloads over at https://xubuntu.org/download/ are se…

Yes indeed. Qubes has a good article on verifying distribution images not only with checksums but also with cryptographic signatures that verify the checksum files [1]. [1] https:/…

On second thought, Qubes OS does not prevent such types of malicious downloads; it can also happen to Qubes images. Verify your downloads with checksums and cryptographic signature…

That is why I use Qubes OS [1] in order to have a certain peace of mind. [1] https://www.qubes-os.org/ EDIT: further comment below: On second thought, Qubes OS does not prevent suc…

> What do you find insulting about the title? The title itself. Without reading the article, I can sense the "we are living in a stupid age" arrogant trope characteristic of the "w…