Nature-Inspired Computers Are Shockingly Good At Math
An R&D lab under America’s Energy Department annnounced this week that “Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex mathematical problems that underpin scientific and engineering challenges.”
Phys.org publishes the announcement from Sandia National Lab:
In a paper published in Nature M … ⌘ Read more
Four More Tech Bloggers are Switching to Linux
Is there a trend? This week four different articles appeared on various tech-news sites with an author bragging about switching to Linux.
“Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop,” quipped the Verge’s senior reviews editor, who finally “got fed up and said screw it, I’m installing Linux.
They switched to CachyOS — just like this writer for the videogame magazine Escapist: … ⌘ Read more
@mckinley@mckinley.cc ohai, long time!
For me, the “Be kind.” sentence is more of a threat than anything else.
The redirects are there, now whether how long anyone will take to catch up is anyone’s guess
信じたいよ私達、孤独じゃない。
I’ve moved
AI-Powered Social Media App Hopes To Build More Purposeful Lives
A founder of Twitter and a founder of Pinterest are now working on
“social media for people who hate social media,” writes a Washington Post columnist.
“When I heard that this platform would harness AI to help us live more meaningful lives, I wanted to know more…”
Their bid for redemption is West Co. — the Workshop for Emotional and Spiritual … ⌘ Read more
@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Whoohoo! That’s a start to cross-platform support 🤣
Patch applied!
AI Fails at Most Remote Work, Researchers Find
A new study “compared how well top AI systems and human workers did at hundreds of real work assignments,” reports the Washington Post.
They add that at least one example “illustrates a disconnect three years after the release of ChatGPT that has implications for the whole economy.”
AI can accomplish many impressive tasks involving computer code, documents or images. That has prompt … ⌘ Read more
I’ll see you from yume.laidback.moe!
Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland
The Budgie 10.10 desktop has been officially released in marking the open-source project’s transition from X11 to Wayland… ⌘ Read more
Amazon Plans Massive Superstore Larger Than a Walmart Supercenter Near Chicago
Amazon “has submitted plans for a large-format store near Chicago that would be larger than a Walmart Supercenter,” reports CNBC:
As part of the plans, Amazon has proposed building a one-story, 229,000-square-foot building [on a 35-acre lot] in Orland Park, Illinois, that would offer a range of products, such as grocerie … ⌘ Read more
China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Breaks Nuclear Fusion Limit Thought to Be Impossible
“Scientists in China have made a breakthrough with fusion energy that could finally overcome one of the most stubborn barriers to realising the next-generation energy source,” reports the Independent:
A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said its experimental nuclear reactor, dubbed the ‘artificial Sun’, a … ⌘ Read more
Meta Announces New Smartglasses Features, Delays International Rollout Claiming ‘Unprecedented’ Demand’
This week Meta announced several new features for “Meta Ray-Ban Display” smartglasses:
- A new teleprompter feature for the smart glasses (arriving in a phased rollout)
- The ability to send messages on WhatsApp and Messenger by writing with your finger on any surface. (A … ⌘ Read more
Medical Evacuation from Space Station Next Week for Astronaut in Stable Condition
It will be the first medical evacuation from the International space station in its 25-year history. The Guardian reports:
An astronaut in the orbital laboratory reportedly fell ill with a “serious” but undisclosed issue. Nasa also had to cancel its first spacewalk of the year… The agency did not identify th … ⌘ Read more
More US States Are Preparing Age-Verification Laws for App Stores
Yes, a federal judge blocked an attempt by Texas at an app store age-verification law.
But this year Silicon Valley giants including Google and Apple “are expected to fight hard against similar legislation,” reports Politico, “because of the vast legal liability it imposes on app stores and developers.”
In Texas, Utah and Louisiana, parent advo … ⌘ Read more
Mageia 10 Alpha Released - 32-bit ISOs Still Available
The first alpha release of Mageia 10 is now available for this Linux distribution who’s lineage traces back to Mandriva and before that the legendary Mandrake Linux… ⌘ Read more
Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes
Debian 13.3 is out today as the newest stable point release for Debian Trixie… ⌘ Read more
Linux Working Around Audio Problems On The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X
For those loading Linux on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld, there is currently audio quality issues, including gaps/dropouts in audio playback. A workaround is in the process of making its way to the Linux kernel until a proper solution can be sorted out… ⌘ Read more
How the Free Software Foundation Kept a Videoconferencing Software Free
The Free Software Foundation’s president Ian Kelling is also their senior systems administrator. This week he shared an example of how “the work we put in to making sure a program is free for us also makes it free for the rest of the world.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, like everyone everywhere, the FSF increased its videoconferen … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Aha! Well, happy hacking. A tiling window manager seems to be good fun. :-)
It drizzled all morning when we picked up the old christmas trees in town with the scouts. Right after lunch the snow storm suddenly hit and dumped three centimeters of snow in just 15 minutes. I cycled home in these crazy conditions, freezing rain hammered my face. As soon as I arrived, it stopped. It’s now down to drizzling again.
All my soaked gear is now hung up to dry. The next 11 months, I’m going to find needles over needles in all kind of impossible places.
French-UK Starlink Rival Pitches Canada On ‘Sovereign’ Satellite Service
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC.ca: A company largely owned by the French and U.K. governments is pitching Canada on a roughly $250-million plan to provide the military with secure satellite broadband coverage in the Arctic, CBC News has learned. Eutelsat, a rival to tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink, already provid … ⌘ Read more
Nyon!
Nyon!
Nyon!
[a block of smoked cheese hung up further upwards, beyond the reach of the person who wants to eat it]
Nyoro~n :(
But hey! The read-eval-print-loop works!
Damn it, Postfix! Plan B! https://termbin.com/y1vf
I actually had to verify /usr/include/sys/syscall.h on my own for this one, even if they’re the same
@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe No email has arrived here? 🤔
Linux 7.0 Readying Improvement For Rust + LTO Kernel Builds
Alice Ryhl of Google has been working on an improvement to the Linux kernel code for inlining C helpers into Rust when making use of a Link-Time Optimized (LTO) kernel build. At least some of the patches are queued up for merging in the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 cycle for helping those enabling the Rust kernel support and also making use of the LLVM/Clang compiler’s LTO capabilities for greater performance… ⌘ Read more
ollama 0.14 Can Make Use Of Bash For Letting AI/LLMs Run Commands On Your System
The ollama 0.14-rc2 release is available today and it introduces new functionality with ollama run –experimental for in this experimental mode to run an agent loop so that LLMs can use tools like bash and web searching on your system. It’s opt-in for letting ollama/LLMs make use of bash on your local system and there are at least some safeguards in place… ⌘ Read more
it’s going to be a cold day in Hell before I’ll ever get into ARM again
I mailed you a patch (at least my mail server caught notice of it), should be arriving any time soon
KDE Plasma 6.6 Adds oo7 Secret Service Provider Support, Save As New Global Theme
With new volunteers stepping up for This Week in Plasma, there is a new issue out this week to highlight more development activities going into the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release… ⌘ Read more
@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Okay I pushed a commit that hopefully fixes this. I hope!
nyoro~n
@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Yes; however the interpreter is also platform dependent and relies on making raw syscalls. This is so the runtime semantics remain the same between the two execution modes.
I’ll see if I can add support for linux/amd64 and netbsd/amd64 for the VM at least.
Shin'ya M. > ./bin/mu
panic: native backend does not support syscall platform netbsd/amd64
goroutine 1 [running]:
git.mills.io/prologic/mu/internal/native/arm64.init.0()
/home/shinyoukai/mu/internal/native/arm64/emitter.go:45 +0x7bf
…that was supposed to be the interpreter?
Scientists Tried To Break Einstein’s Speed of Light Rule
Scientists are putting Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant to the test. While researchers found no evidence that light’s speed changes with energy, this null result dramatically tightens the constraints on quantum-gravity theories that predict even the tiniest violations. ScienceDaily reports: Special relativity rests on the principle that the … ⌘ Read more
Meta Signs Deals With Three Nuclear Companies For 6+ GW of Power
Meta has signed long-term nuclear power deals totaling more than 6 gigawatts to fuel its data centers: “one from a startup, one from a smaller energy company, and one from a larger company that already operates several nuclear reactors in the U.S,” reports TechCrunch. From the report: Oklo and TerraPower, two companies developing small modular … ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s not super comfortable, that’s right.
But these mouse events come with a caveat anyway:
ncurses uses the XM terminfo entry to enable mouse events, but it looks like this entry does not enable motion events for most terminal emulators. Reporting motion events is supported by, say, XTerm, xiate, st, or urxvt, it just isn’t activated by XM. This makes all this dragging stuff useless.
For the moment, I edited the terminfo entry for my terminal to include motion events. That can’t be a proper solution. I’m not sure yet if I’m supposed to send the appropriate sequence manually …
And the terminfo entries for tmux or screen don’t include XM at all. tmux itself supports the mouse, but I’m not sure yet how to make it pass on the events to the programs running inside of it (maybe that’s just not supported).
To make things worse, on the Linux VT (outside of X11 or Wayland), the whole thing works differently: You have to use good old gpm to get mouse events (gpm has been around forever, I already used this on SuSE Linux). ncurses does support this, but this is a build flag and Arch Linux doesn’t set this flag. So, at the moment, I’m running a custom build of ncurses as a quick hack. 😅 And this doesn’t report motion events either! Just clicks. (I don’t know if gpm itself can report motion events, I never used the library directly.)
tl;dr: The whole thing will probably be “keyboard first” and then the mouse stuff is a gimmick on top. As much as I’d like to, this isn’t going to be like TUI applications on DOS. I’ll use “Windows” for popups or a multi-window view (with the “WindowManager” being a tiny little tiling WM).
@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe if you don’t show me the actual full stacktrace, I can’t fix the problem 😢
AI Models Are Starting To Learn By Asking Themselves Questions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: [P]erhaps AI can, in fact, learn in a more human way – by figuring out interesting questions to ask itself and attempting to find the right answer. A project from Tsinghua University, the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI), and Pennsylvania State University shows that AI ca … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net well I ran into a panic() in netbsd/amd64 so there’s that
Most of it should work on other platforms, the bytecode VM that is. You may run into some platform quirks though that rely on syscall() – Let me know what you run into and I’ll try to fix them nw. The problem right now is I haven’t even begun to start work on another platform/architecture yet.
AI Is Intensifying a ‘Collapse’ of Trust Online, Experts Say
Experts interviewed by NBC News warn that the rapid spread of AI-generated images and videos is accelerating an online trust breakdown, especially during fast-moving news events where context is scarce. From the report: President Donald Trump’s Venezuela operation almost immediately spurred the spread of AI-generated images, old videos and altered photos ac … ⌘ Read more
I was soundly proven wrong
@prologic@twtxt.net the bytecode shouldn’t be a problem beyond Mac though?
I mean, since the current implementation is in Go
AI Assistant App For GNOME Adds MCP Server Support To Integrate With Much More Software
Hitting the “1.0” milestone last summer was the GNOME AI virtual assistant app called Newelle. This third-party GNOME app has continued evolving as an AI-focused assistant on the GNOME desktop and has now rolled out MCP server support to integrate with “thousands” of other apps… ⌘ Read more