@Gabriele Svelto
Old school nerd
Knows things about computers that would drive you insane
Hacks on Firefox at Mozilla
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- wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write
Recent Notes
So repeat after me: the CEOs, the executives, the decision-makers, every single moron running this circus could have used a minuscule amount of the money they spent on it to fund the FOSS ecosystem bu...
So don't get too worked up about an individual using LLMs, that's not what's undermining the very foundations of FOSS. It's a drivel-spewing idiot who's happily planning to sink another 100 billion $ on a probabilistic text generator. We're talking about people using money that could have solved several world-spanning problems - even profitted from doing so! - and still didn't. That's who we're talking about.
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Current estimates set the total amount of money that has been spent on large-language models and adjacent generative AI at 1.4 trillion $ over the past four years. For the sake of simplicity let's cut...
So repeat after me: the CEOs, the executives, the decision-makers, every single moron running this circus could have used a minuscule amount of the money they spent on it to fund the FOSS ecosystem but they didn't. And guess what, they would have benefitted from it! Immensely! But they still didn't.
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In the recent discussions around rsync I've seen people focusing on whether a maintainer has or doesn't have an obligation towards its users, or whether it's the users' job to maintain something they ...
Current estimates set the total amount of money that has been spent on large-language models and adjacent generative AI at 1.4 trillion $ over the past four years. For the sake of simplicity let's cut that to 1 trillion $. With 1% of that money you could have paid 25000 FOSS maintainers 100k dollars per year each over the same time period. That probably covers most of the FOSS ecosystem and then some. And it's one percent. ONE FUCKING PERCENT.
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In the recent discussions around rsync I've seen people focusing on whether a maintainer has or doesn't have an obligation towards its users, or whether it's the users' job to maintain something they depend upon. I believe this discussion is missing an important point: the money.
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Is that tool really that impressive now that it costs 100x times as much as it did? Or does it start looking like an extremely expensive toy for the privileged?
We built our current societies around computing and now we're actively sabotaging the very foundations of computing
Great article about what makes #Gentoo special. And if you want to know where the "Gentoo is for ricers" joke comes from here's a blast from the past with choice Gentoo forums quotes from 20+ years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20060110073650/http://funroll-loops.org/
Can't help but think about all these people who are busy finding vulnerabilities in existing projects, the companies behind them, the hundreds of billions that subsidized LLM development and the hardware running them without which this extreme fuzzing wouldn't have been possible.
And literally no one moving to the other side of the fence, rolling up their sleeves and actually fixing the bugs.
Regarding the Raptor Lake bug I received a couple of messages from confused users that had read articles on Tomshardware and Neowin. They asked about erratas and microcode updates which puzzled me, because that was part of my early investigation into the bug and we know that the failure is not caused by a known errata and microcode updates cannot fix broken CPUs. So why did they ask? As it turns out it was slop. Both articles are 100% slop full of confusing and inaccurate claims.
OK #Firefox users, this is a special request. I'm looking for someone with a high-end Raptor Lake machine that is experiencing instability in Firefox (or anything else for the matter). The best candidate is a CPU from the 13900* SKUs. K or not doesn't matter as long as it's one with the 8P+16E cores.
We have a potential workaround for one of the most common bugs of this CPU, but we need a broken machine to test it.
We have a potential workaround for one of the most common bugs of this CPU, but we need a broken machine to test it.
@nprofile1q... if you need a pre-boot PIN to make BitLocker work, wouldn't using hardware full disk encryption just be a better option? If I have to input a password or PIN at boot I'd rather use what the hardware already provides rather than Microsoft's implementation.
Earlier this year I decided to react to the chatbot insanity griping the entire tech industry by studying. I am extremely proud of the work I did in the past few months because I learned a lot while doing it. I'm a better professional than I was six months ago and I'm completely comfortable dealing with complex topics I found daunting only a year ago.
As people around you deliberately deskill themselves, do the opposite. It will pay off, believe me, it always does.
As people around you deliberately deskill themselves, do the opposite. It will pay off, believe me, it always does.