On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Season 5, TNG https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/11/14/ng-season-5.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Can’t resist writing something here. Heading to 2025. Time flies!

Back from the future! Or the past..

So, I had a talk with the CFO last night about this. Nothing to be gained yet, but baby steps. I think we might be able to get one for Christmas. That is, if there is any left. These little things are flying off the shelves like hot apple pies!

Advancing Open-Source Support for MediaTek’s Genio IoT Platforms with Collabora
MediaTek is advancing its IoT Edge AI capabilities by expanding upstream support for its Genio platforms. Building on the success of the MediaTek Kompanio Chromebook project, this new initiative brings the focus to MediaTek’s Genio Evaluation Kits, which are being integrated into Collabora’s Linux development ecosystem. Collabora’s support for MediaTek Chromebooks over the last four

It’s terrible that the best people on the planet are leaving us (

@bender@twtxt.net Sorry, I feel like I have to … 😅

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@prologic@twtxt.net Same here… Twtxt and Mastodon are more than enough for me. I used to have a BSky account with my own domain name as a handle (which I ended up deleting after a while) and even taught about running my own PDS and the whole nine yards but, it didn’t feel like it was worth the hassle.

I think it’s centralized shit with lying about decentralization. All network is worked by two centralized things: plc.directory (did storage?) and network relay (bsky.network). You can host your relay but this require TOO MUCH resources (2TB storage and 32GB RAM read more ). Also i try running PDS and: 1. I can’t register account via app,only via cli 2. It leaked on 2GB virtual machine then killed by oom after trying to register account via cli

@bender@twtxt.net Try blocking JS.

@bender@twtxt.net Hah looks like you get more interactions here 🤣

Oh, now it seems that the website of the gophernews person isn’t reachable, too.

@bender@twtxt.net Ok 🙏

Clipper HAT Mini Brings 4G LTE Connectivity to Raspberry Pi, Includes Free 100MB SIM Card
Pimoroni’s new Clipper HAT Mini brings 4G LTE connectivity to the Raspberry Pi, enabling projects to operate where Wi-Fi is limited or unavailable. Designed for remote applications, it supports reliable data transmission for outdoor sensors, mobile setups, and monitoring systems. The Clipper HAT Mini integrates a SIMCom A7683E 4G LTE module, supporting LTE Cat 1

System76 Meerkat MiniPC with 13th Gen Intel Processors and M.2 2280 Slot
System76 Meerkat MiniPC with 13th Gen Intel Processors and M.2 2280 Slot ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Can you suggest a better default font size that works well on desktop and mobile? 🤔

How’s that?

@bender@twtxt.net II’ll try it 👌

Sad if gophernews is lost.

@ec8ad I sent an email to the person who is running gophernews.net 3 day ago. Currently no answer.

É #MusiQuinta de música que #TeInspira …
… e a mim inspira-me isto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpD1IPCOEw

Where GopherNEWS ((((

@prologic@twtxt.net yes.

The web is such garbage these days 😔 Or is it the garbage search engines? 🤔

I’m alive 👋 Juat ill 🤧

Oh. so i can see it now that i trust your pod.

I am headed to Amsterdam.

Oh the joy of working half the day in remote desktop environments with intermittent Internet connection issues… Good thing there is still some LTE left.

@prologic@twtxt.net just rebuild my image.. though git says i am already at latest

Where all? What happened with GopherNews server? Who know?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, the Swiss and C++ programmers use apostrophes. :-) My grandpa had an electronic desk calculator that also used some kind of apostrophes as the thousands separator on its cool display. Maybe it consisted of Nixie tubes, can’t remember anymore.

I think non-breaking spaces are preferred nowadays to avoid the confusion.

Cost-Effective DART-MX91 SoM with 1.4GHz NXP i.MX 91 Processor Available from $35
Variscite has introduced the DART-MX91 System on Module, a compact and cost-effective solution within the DART Pin2Pin family, targeting edge devices for IoT, smart cities, industrial applications, and more. Powered by a 1.4 GHz Cortex-A55 NXP i.MX 91 processor, the DART-MX91 supports up to 2GB of LPDDR4 memory and offers eMMC storage options ranging from

Celeron Powered Fanless Mini PC with Dual 4K Display Support and M.2 2280 Slot
The EMP-100 is a compact, fanless mini PC built for versatile applications, including digital signage, industrial control, and retail environments. Designed with an aluminum chassis and VESA mounting support, it provides silent performance, dual 4K display support, and storage expansion via an M.2 2280 slot. The EMP-100 series offers a choice between Intel Celeron processors,

Educação em Portugal:

Há uma greve de todos os Profissionais de Educação agendada para 15 de novembro de 2024, porque se reenvidicam coisas como a necessidade de mais profissionais da educação.

O que faz o Governo? Anuncia a Inteligência Artificial Portuguesa, um LLM que vai ser usada para “dar a cada aluno um tutor educativo de inteligência artificial”.

https://stop-sindicato.pt/pre-aviso-de-greve-de-todos-os-profissionais-de-educacao-15-de-novembro-de-2024/
https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/tech/2668241/montenegro-anuncia-lancamento-de-modelo-de-linguagem-de-ia-em-portugues

@prologic@twtxt.net All good mate.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club sorry I meant to get to this today, please remind me to elaborate on this position a bit more later but I think it’s otherwise pretty rubbish

LOL what does “lightly encrypted” mean?! 🤣

Oof, is it any wonder some of us don’t want to just give out our info online willy-nilly.

Also that credit card ‘encryption’ will likely land that company in very hot water, no doubt far away from PCI DSS requirements.

@prologic@twtxt.net what do we make of Labor’s proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven’t been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it’s broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The dot is the thousands separator, so I’m surprised that it did not interpret it as €334,900.00. Luckily, you caught it in time! :-)

@xuu@txt.sour.is Hahaha, nice expression. :-D

Lol. “Lighty Encrypted” https://www.pcmag.com/news/hot-topic-breach-confirmed-millions-of-credit-cards-email-addresses-exposed

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@prologic@twtxt.net He is a Norwegian singer who has solo work and has collaborated with Anywhen and the Exit North project.

@wbknl@twtxt.net Tell us more! Who is Thomas Feiner? 🤔

Thinking about how underrated is Thomas Feiner!

@xuu@txt.sour.is direwolf is not hard. It takes just a bit of manual reading :)

You need to figure out what it means to have “free thought”, “to reason”, “have deep understanding” and be able to apply knowledge in unfamiliar environments or scenarios. You have to figure out what it means to “dream”. You have to figure out what it means to hold “ethics”, “morals” and even “beleifs”.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net When are we going to resign ourselves to a position of not achieving AGI and so-called AI in the first place? Hmmm 🧐 Fundamentally I don’t think we understand how the human brain works or what it means to be a “conscious free thinking being” – I’m not convinced we’ll figure this out to be honest.

OpenAI and Others Seek New Path To Smarter AI as Current Methods Hit Limitations
AI companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to “think.” From a report: A dozenAI scientists, researchers and investors told Reuters they believe that these … ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is must be extremely unlucky, as it picks a random pod in the peering list 🤣 – Oh but wait… @xuu@txt.sour.is have you updated recently? @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org did add some new feature that means you have to go to Settings -> Poderator settings and trust the peers you have there, including my pod 😅

@bender@twtxt.net True I just wanted to make sure 👍

They are however pretty good at auto-complete though. If you wire up Continue.dev with VSCode and a local Ollama powered codeastral model, it’s pretty decent. Or if you use the open source friendly Codeium.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club With enough data and enough computing power you can simulate anything right or create grand illusions that appear to real they’re hard to tell 😅 – But yes, at the end of the day LLM(s) today are just large probabilistic models, stochastic parrots.

@xuu@txt.sour.is You don’t follow the Slashdot feed? 🤔

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyRecord Week 46

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@prologic@twtxt.net I never got the root for this

@wbknl@twtxt.net I have thought of getting one. I wish there were easier tools for it than direwolf

🤑😜

@bender@twtxt.net Linux and Android. I would never iOS my friend.

What goig on

I have ethical concerns about executing killall node in my console, regardless of how necessary it is.

Wishing all carnevalists around the World a great start of the fifth season of the year.

My German word of the week: der Einfallsreichtum

Not sure that I really like where Microsoft is taking VSCode - it looks like soon it will be just another frontend for them to sell Github Copilot subscriptions.

We turned the heating up/on in our home for the first time this year.

Radxa Introduces the Palmshell SLiM X4L with Intel N100 Processor and 2.5GbE RJ45 Port
The Radxa X4L, also known as the Palmshell SLiM X4L, is a compact device powered by Intel’s quad-core N100 processor. With features like a 2.5GbE LAN port, Wi-Fi 6E, and dual 4K@30Hz display support, it’s well-suited for multimedia and general-purpose use. Unlike the Palmshell SLiM X2L released this year, the X4L integrates the Intel Alder

I like this comment on Slashdot in the above link:

LLMs don’t have an understanding of anything. They can only regurgitate derivations of what they’ve been trained on and can’t apply that to something new in the same ways that humans or even other animals can. The models are just so large that the illusion is impressive.

So true.

Radxa Enhances Compact RK3582-Based Networking Device with Dual 2.5GbE Ports
Radxa recently introduced a compact networking device powered by the hexacore Rockchip RK3582 System-on-Chip. This new model builds on the design of the previous Radxa E20C but features dual 2.5GbE RJ45 ports, enhancing its networking capabilities. The Radxa E52C is built on the Rockchip RK3582 SoC, which includes a 6-core CPU composed of a dual-core

Generative AI Doesn’t Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem like the models are implicitly learn … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Ull Twt to find the references later. But my memory is quite good 🤣

I’ve been testing our new APRS digipeater, that allows us to report our geographic position via radio.

@bender@twtxt.net Fair point, could be. I probably have to implement it first or create some kind of a mockup to spare me the effort of some feature that I rip out again. :-)

@xuu@txt.sour.is Yep!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Riiiight, I now remember reading that a long time ago. :-)

@bender@twtxt.net I now read the German Wikipedia article on fog. These are some really beautiful pictures:

• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Nebelbank_in_der_W%C3%BCste_Namib_bei_Aus_%282018%29.jpg
  
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_moving_through_fog.jpg
  
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Fog_Bow_%2819440790708%29.jpg
  
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/360_degrees_fogbow.jpg

To @anth@a.9srv.net’s points, I think this should be written as “Client recommendations” and “Serve recommendations”. Separate from the “Twtxt format” spec.