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by aduffy 1y ago
Believe it or not, this is how the Linux Foundation organizes itself. It's more legwork than something simpler like Apache Foundation. Basically in the US you need a legally recognized entity to hold intellectual property. "Donati
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by aduffy 1y ago
> The whole "donated by spiral" on the vortex.dev website also gives big tax write-off vibes. Donated is the Linux Foundation terminology. Sadly the last time I filed a tax return there was no way to itemize a Github repo. Alas
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by aduffy 1y ago
The AnyBlox paper has some very cool ideas, and the authors are friends. In the paper you'll notice a large portion of it analyzes Vortex, both standalone and embedded. Definitely worth a read.
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by aduffy 1y ago
You’re welcome to read the code yourself once you check it out, it’s not very big. Supply chain attacks are a thing but I don’t think this is one.
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by aduffy 1y ago
There is nothing wrong with running a receive-only hotspot. Not sure what you’re implying here.
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by aduffy 1y ago
Just wanted to advertise that the EFF recently released an open source tool for detecting cell-site simulators. The hardware is like $20 and it's pretty easy to setup yourself. Worth having around to stay aware of what's out there
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by aduffy 1y ago
Sure, not directly. But most of that is imaging and communications payloads, and the vast majority there is being purchased by militaries and intelligence agencies. Government still props up this whole market.
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by aduffy 1y ago
Major Hari Seldon vibes
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by aduffy 1y ago
Java only became Java because of enterprise. Getting students to use it was just an exercise in soft power.
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by aduffy 1y ago
Students aren’t a market though. Sun and Java was really just marketing to future users
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by aduffy 1y ago
That's quite a war chest to raise in such a short period of time. The market has concentrated with the couple of recent acquisitions. Sounds like likely uses of that cash are - Buy a few million more users with more generous free tier,
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by aduffy 1y ago
And let's not forget PLTR still hovering just over 100x revenue multiple.
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by aduffy 1y ago
Seeing v4-mini reminds me of an LLM. I can only assume the next major release will be zod-3.9-medium-high
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by aduffy 1y ago
Every defense company. c.f. Anduril's "arsenal of democracy" campaign
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Using Vortex to accelerate Apache Iceberg queries up to 4x(spiraldb.com)
5 points by aduffy 1y ago|0 comments
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by aduffy 1y ago
These are not new releases, here's Reddit from a year ago people discussing them: https://old.reddit.com/r/StrangeEarth/comments/1aru95c/these... Search for "The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Club
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by aduffy 1y ago
> By taking this scorched-earth route, the government has effectively telegraphed to all the other universities, as clearly as possible: “actually, we don’t care what you do or don’t do on antisemitism. We just want to destroy you, and a
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by aduffy 1y ago
You are right, I should’ve RTFA
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by aduffy 1y ago
I don’t think so. To my knowledge GCP has no approval for classified networks, which is by far the hardest part. Contrast with Azure OpenAI has been approved to run on government networks for over a year now. This feels like a play for comp
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Raspberry Pi: rpi-image-gen(raspberrypi.com)
13 points by aduffy 2y ago|0 comments
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by aduffy 2y ago
Edward taught a Programming Languages class I took nearly a decade ago, and clicking through here I immediately recognized the illustrated slides, brought a smile to my face
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by aduffy 2y ago
Very funny. The CSS makes it hard to read for me (it comes out almost white on white for me).
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How to Not Pay Your Medical Bills(wsj.com)
8 points by aduffy 2y ago|1 comments
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by aduffy 2y ago
To their credit they actually fixed the problem. Good luck getting this level of support from any of the big 3 public cloud providers.
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by aduffy 2y ago
I keep seeing this bits and pieces of this story pop up, does anyone have an ELI5 on what the Ziz cult is?
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by aduffy 2y ago
> He should have a future as a productive member of society, perhaps even one of its titans ...did we read the same article? It sounds like he was a failed script kiddie that registered some vanity domains, had exactly one job that he wa
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by aduffy 2y ago
The code is literally open source with MIT license to boot https://github.com/ollama/ollama
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by aduffy 2y ago
The project existed in the open source and then subsequently the creators sought funding to work on it full time.
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by aduffy 2y ago
The thing about FedRAMP is that it's not one thing, it's a framework. Even if you have a FedRAMP package for a system, you need a fresh ATO to use it at any customer. Technically, there is no citizenship requirement for FedRAMP. I
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by aduffy 2y ago
I expect as much. Having going through FedRAMP before, the alternative would be to make their regular commercial infrastructure be up to FedRAMP standards, which is incredibly onerous (things like change tracking, DR, US Citizen access only

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