Sarcastic Penguin @extrn@qoto.org

- Не съм зел една стотинка, един лев!
Да бе, брат, видехме че само у евро работиш. Истински Евроатлантик!

Вика „Влади Горанов не е член на ГЕРБ.“, усеща се като „Винаги сме били във война с Евразия“.

@jacqueline so ChatGPT is a falsehood engine. It is designed to lie. GPT stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer, which is to say:
Generative means it makes shit up
Pretrained means that it plagiarizes a huge database of shit
Transformer means it permutes the shit until it passes a plausibility metric

The @EU_Commission has released results of a “sweep” of 399 retail websites:
• 148 contained at least one dark pattern;
• 42 used a fake countdown timer;
• 54 used design to direct consumers to more expensive products;
• 70 hid important info.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_418

🚨 I'm trying to get the word out on this. Boost please. 🚨

Twitter is currently allowing the Wagner Group to post a recruitment ad for Americans to go and fight for Wagner in Russia. Wagner commits war crimes in Ukraine. Throws bodies at the fight. Encouraging Americans to become literal traitors. How is this different from ISIS recruiting?

https://twitter.com/Blackrussiantv/status/1619769832156860416

#USPolitics #Ukraine #Russia #WagnerGroup #RecruitmentAd #Twitter

I’ll probably run out of air before folks get this but, hey, one more time for those in the back:

If you’re creating “alternatives to #BigTech” that scale vertically, you’re doing it wrong. You’ll never beat Big Tech at vertical scale. They invented the game. They’ll destroy you at it every time. And say you somehow do manage it… congratulations, you’ve just become *checks notes* Big Tech. *golf claps*

So what do you do?

You limit vertical scale and #design for horizontal scale.

#SmallTech

@Johncdvorak

I still have my slide rule from college days

Time is a flat circle and all that.

It used to be that if you had a need for an embedded processor, you'd either write code that runs on "bare metal" (directly on an MCU), or you'd grab a real-time OS of some sort.

Nowadays, most people just grab a powerful SoC running Linux, even if the project is to blink some Christmas lights. But Linux does Linux things, and doing predictable and performant hardware I/O from userspace is a crapshoot. You do 'echo 1 >/sys/class/gpio/gpio60/value' and then, some unpredictable time later, a pin changes state. Forget gigabit data transfer speeds, you might have a hard time emulating a PC speaker this way.

So now, some SoCs come with a separate processor on the die - a PRU (Programmable Real-time Unit). It's a semi-standalone device that lets you run simple code on a "bare metal" processor with a bit of RAM and program memory to orchestrate GPIO:

https://beagleboard.org/pru

I suspect it's just a matter of time before we find a way to run Linux on the PRU, and then for a secondary PRU for that PRU to appear.

The Computer History Museum has released the source code for the Apple Lisa, today, on the Lisa's 40th anniversary. The whole thing.

https://info.computerhistory.org/apple-lisa-code

"an attacker can remotely attack Z-Wave Security Devices to increase their Power Consumption by three orders of magnitude ... reducing their Battery Life from a few years to just a few hours"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07202

ГЕРБ отхвърлиха законопроекта ни за намаляване на комисионните за винетките и за премахване на олигопола на националните доставчици на услуги. Няма да спекулилирам по какви причини - такива не бяха казани от трибуната.

Reverse engineering a Neural Network's clever solution to Binary Addition

https://cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-engineering-a-small-neural-network/

Кой искаше сорс кода? Демократично настроени партии?

От един друг, вече несъществуващ, акаунт в една друга социална мрежа преди години още бях предрекъл, че „#прокуратуратаЩеПровери кой е Сатоши Накамото“.

Каквото съм рекъл – станало е!

@Peio

RE: https://c.im/users/Peio/statuses/109675675546622919

Excellent neologism: the word “keming”.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/keming

Тъй като вчера се появиха някои по-шеговити и иронични интерпретации за "китайските камери и руските валидатори", ето и по-детайлен текст по темата https://blog.bozho.net/blog/4001

I'm working a build system on Windows. I have to say that devs who choose Windows as their preferred OS for development, have no self-respect.

Not only that, but I think certain teams In Microsoft are being paid to make our lives miserable on purpose. 😂

“You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code.”

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier

Via @stevelord #foss #supplyChain #supplier #provider