Alex @ stsquad @lemmy.ml

FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

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Context is king which is why even the biggest models get tied in knots when I try them on my niche coding problems. I've been playing a bit with NotebookLM which promises to be interesting with enough reference material but unfortunately when I tried to add the Vulcan specs it complained it couldn't accept them (copyright maybe?).

We have recently been given clearance to use the Gemini Pro tools with Google office at work. While we are still not using them for code generation I have found the transcription and meeting summary tools very useful and certainly a time saver.

I don't doubt the a MAGA crowd leant into the Q conspiracy and were happy to co-opt it's adherents into it's electoral base. However is there any evidence that links its genesis to the like of Banon? Most of what I heard (from across the pond, indirectly) was more traditional wedge issues like anti-DEI and anti-trans rhetoric.

A corrupted Mrs Davies?

You need to pair 1984 with Huxley's Brave New World to see where we actually ended up.

It didn't work out for Littlefinger in the end.

It's a bit he did for Last Week Tonight if I remember correctly. Definitely post watershed.

I used to think about it a lot when I was younger because it seemed so unfair that life comes to an end. As I've gotten older (and closer to the inevitable) I think about it less. Hopefully you'll get to the point you realise worrying about something you can't change isn't productive use of the time you have left. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can to eat well, keep fit and put off that final reckoning as much as you can.

I don't think Google drive supports encryption.

Isn't he named after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets

Very mediative.

The OSI have had a go: https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

I'm usually wary of hot takes of developing situations but he obviously knows his stuff. Very clear explanation, very professional response from the controllers who must be in shock in the moments after.

I just spec a machine up to the defined limit and then buy it, install and claim back on expenses. I'm fact "do I have root on my machine" is one of my standard interview questions.

I've been using https://containertoolbx.org/ recently to manage my "other distro" requirements. It doesn't do anything special but works nicely as a wrapper around podman and does all the bind mounts and uid mappings so you can just enter your $HOME as though you have set up your account in a new OS.

I don't know if the Culture is filmable? Having said that I think they said the same of things like Dune so maybe?

Whatever time I'd get by tuning my start-up would be dwarfed by the BIOS and grub startup dance. I only really reboot when I need to test a kernel.

Old demo crew I formed with school friends when I was a teenager.

Yep I've been a happy Antenna Pod user for years. A double tap of my headphones skips 30s forward, triple 10s back and makes skipping past the ads easy.

Also the PFN page locking patches so device memory can be reliably shared with VMs (used for some of the virtio-gpu modes).

That was a trip down memory lane. I think a lot of the engineers that worked at Transmeta ended up in places like Intel (and maybe Apple?) which tracks with them being an early pioneer in managing power envelopes.