berkes

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by berkes 5d ago
Aside from the actual protocol, it makes a lot of sense to have a standardized, discoverable protocol. Because the alternative, as proposed in the article, is that an agent researches an API/CLI/UI, builds software to interact wit
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by berkes 5d ago
Low effort, or low friction? If I send a single email "subject: poster" "make me a poster for our event, details below, we need 200 printed" that's also low effort. If I do this on fiverr, it's also "unw
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by berkes 6d ago
Misinformation is unfortunately also available. And contrary to "information to build bombs and bioweapons", it's doing actual harm. To societies, economies and above all, to individuals.
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by berkes 7d ago
The blog also mentions, several times, that it wasn't the goal to be indistinguishable. I think it's actually a feature when people can recognize it as AI. Why would someone want it to be unrecognizable as AI? What is the reason p
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by berkes 9d ago
The way I understood it, rust would become an option next to Vulkan, WGPU (and opengl etc?). But only for compute tasks. So, practically an alternative language to write compute shaders in.
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by berkes 10d ago
I get that for Mozilla. But what has Mistral done?
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by berkes 10d ago
Very much agreed. I believe many of the problems we have, need social and human solutions, especially when the technical solutions are hard or impossible. Like here, where we can no longer trust images to depict reality and act as proof. Wh
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by berkes 16d ago
This is much bigger than the banning of a volunteer webhost. It shows the US government won't go through usual channels when Europeans do things that under european law, are probably¹ allowed. It shows, again, that US infrastructure is
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by berkes 25d ago
Also, EU is pushing towards more "open" app-stores through anti-trust. Not that it requires Google to "open up" their play-store, but that they must allow other app-stores to work on the same level. So basically allowing
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by berkes 25d ago
What is an "official API"? Honest question, because AFAIK there's no guarantee or (legal) requirement to support any API. Whether that's fully documented, has SDKs or whether it's something reversed-engineered doesn
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by berkes 1mo ago
> most programming languages internal memory representations Often heard wrt JSON but incorrect. It maps to the primitive types in JavaScript. But almost all programming languages treat floats and integers different, make distinction bet
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by berkes 1mo ago
So you compress a format that inflates binaries with 30%? That not only ends up larger than "just the binary", it also eats a lot of extra CPU to (de)compress AND encode-decode. This idea is novel, but wasteful. (edit: I thought y
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by berkes 1mo ago
> Culture is important Which brings us back to why so many people dislike Gimp, and/or see it as a posterchild example of bad FOSS alternatives. I agree, and Culture IS important. And I think the culture around many Open Source &quo
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by berkes 1mo ago
> with git I suddenly imagine a zip format with built-in git. Does this already exist? Basically a file-format that has built-in history, rollback, logs etc. Enabling all these "zipped XML" formats to get this feature "for
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by berkes 1mo ago
yea. I have some of these dumb ones too. After a few days I found one crawled into the pizza oven to sleep.
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by berkes 1mo ago
Yes. We used to have these. And i turned it to most conservative twighlight. It worked most of the times, until in winter, twice, some chickens were locked out. First time I saw it in time. Second time I only found feathers the next morning
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by berkes 1mo ago
For that you need wifi and/or power. I have neither at the coop. Most commercial automated doors work on solar + a battery.
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by berkes 2mo ago
> crepuscular So not specifically at 5AM, but around twilight. In my area, and for my cats, that changes a lot between summer and winter. Same for my chickens, which is why "automatic chicken doors" are difficult/impossibl
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by berkes 2mo ago
This was international. And it was a long while ago, so I don't have anything online to point to anymore. Sorry. If "Map Notes clog the map" then there still is something needed in OSM to allow data that's not directly g
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by berkes 2mo ago
> I completely understand that they only want high quality data I worked on "openopeningstijden", where my aim was to improve the data for businesses in OSM and to disclose that in apis and uis. There were other reasons why I
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by berkes 2mo ago
No, sorry. It's simply not true. Energy prices, and electricity prices are rising, indexed for inflation. For households and for commerce. E.g. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=UUeu
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by berkes 2mo ago
> Economies of scale -> more energy = bigger electric plants = cheaper energy. This isn't true. Certainly not globally. Because electricity in 2026 is converting finite and scares resources. Plants need fuel to burn, water to coo
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by berkes 2mo ago
> Pandora's box is open. And it's not Linux' task to close that, even if it could, which it cannot. How is that disingenuous? I agree that we should keep discussing the merits and dangers of AI-aided software development.
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by berkes 2mo ago
Are you a lawyer or an interlectual-property legal expert? Because if so, please, please elaborate on > I do not see how AI could be legally used on a GPL project. Too many people "believe" or "are convinced" about ma
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by berkes 2mo ago
I'm "berkes" almost everywhere. And my domain is my handle as well: berk.es. So I do the same as you. But I am quite sure e.g. The Great Musk In All His Wisdom will one day either find me annoying and hand over the now discon
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by berkes 2mo ago
My point is that you don't own your handle. Therefore you aren't your handle. Edit: to clarify: You aren't your handle, because it can be taken away from you, can be injected, blocked, overridden, etc. My technical rambling t
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by berkes 2mo ago
We've moved "identity" to a few large monopolists. Who lack all incentive to properly "enforce" it. And whose interest are perpendicular to people owning their identities (being able to take them elsewhere). "P
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by berkes 2mo ago
And also, there's certainly places and situations where you do want to spend tens of thousands on PLCs, buttons and wiring. But not all of it needs this level, quality or insurance. A factory, farm, supermarket, stage, etc, is filled w
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by berkes 2mo ago
> be able to survive field conditions you are right. But my point was that not all of needs to survive the same conditions. E.g. in a theater, you want the high class industry grade rigs for the main lightning when you are running the
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by berkes 2mo ago
> There are many opportunities to retrofit old systems of all types with modern low-cost embedded technologies. I'd leave out the "old" there. An example: Friends work(ed) as engineers in theaters and music-venues. The cos

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