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by zoobab 9mo ago
BTW there were rooms in the past (2005 if I remember) where people could sit with their laptops and hack around.
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by zoobab 9mo ago
"open source software and models such as Mistral.AI" No training data -> not "open source" No code for the training -> not "open source"
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by zoobab 9mo ago
Strikes are normal when politicians wants to steal pensions.
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by zoobab 9mo ago
"But in the end, FOSDEM is not just about talks. It is about meeting people, reconnecting with friends, and having spontaneous conversations that no video stream can fully replace." I don't go to the talks because they are re
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Olimex ESP8266 Red Chip Earings by MaChaPiaNa(machapiana.com)
3 points by zoobab 9mo ago|0 comments
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My answers to the questions I posed about porting open source code with LLMs(simonwillison.net)
1 points by zoobab 9mo ago|0 comments
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by zoobab 9mo ago
I have an idea for a static linux distribution based on musl, with either an Alpine rebuild or Gentoo-musl: http://stalinux.wikidot.com The documentation to make static binary with GLibc is sparce for a reason, they don't l
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by zoobab 9mo ago
"opt-in" FAIL
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by zoobab 9mo ago
Who wants to pay for chroot?
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by zoobab 9mo ago
I heard when Bush came to power, the antitrust complaint against Microsoft monopoly driven by the government was dropped.
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by zoobab 9mo ago
Antitrust do not work against large companies. Just dissolve them in acid.
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by zoobab 9mo ago
Just replace it with zeromq with curvemq. I could vibecode an SSH zmq daemon in an afternoon.
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by zoobab 9mo ago
"Actively lobbies to restrict Americans from access to open weight models" Do you have a reference/link?
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by zoobab 9mo ago
Where is the training data? We can't keep calling those models "open source" if we have a black box and know precisely how they were made. "Open weights" are the new binary.
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by zoobab 9mo ago
Louvain-Li-Nux forever!
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by zoobab 9mo ago
I used CoLinux with pubuntu, and from there install GCC.
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by zoobab 9mo ago
You need 2 kind of networks: one stable with fixed nodes, with very low refresh rates of the routes, and another one for mobile nodes.
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by zoobab 9mo ago
"Microcontrollers like the Puya PY32 Series (e.g., PY32C642, PY32F002/F030) can cost in the $0.02 - $0.05 range" LCSC says between 6 and 8 cents in volume: https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C5292058.htm
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by zoobab 9mo ago
I did not know you could make donations with a string attached ("improve security")...
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by zoobab 9mo ago
When the Yahoo news website was not responding, my reflex was to do a traceroute. The last hop was not resolving, and it was arriving Somewhere in NY. Guess what, they were hosted in the tower. It took a while to get redirected to the West
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by zoobab 10mo ago
Will read the court decision during Xmas time. As a side note, my organization FFII eV was sued for defamation for criticizing patent trolling companies in the past: https://edri.org/our-work/edrigramnumber3-16ffii&#x2F
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by zoobab 10mo ago
We need Techrights to expose corrupted institutions like the European Patent Office. Trying to bankrupt them with defamation lawsuits does not help.
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by zoobab 10mo ago
Git was supposed to be "distributed", but we ended up with a central HTTP hub. Can't we switch to something more advanced in terms of protocols (like one that always maintain 3 copies, and where people can give ressources (cp
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by zoobab 10mo ago
"I think the American government is mad at the DMA" It's the not the government, it's the large american companies behind it.
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by zoobab 10mo ago
"effective antitrust enforcement, and escape regulatory capture" Give me an example where Antitrust was actually breaking any monopoly. In the EU and the Microsoft antitrust case, the remedy was to give the best poison to the comp
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by zoobab 10mo ago
Qualcomm is a patent troll, no money for those guys. We need an arduino fork.
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by zoobab 10mo ago
Use stagit, static pages served with a simple nginx is blazing fast and should resist any scrapers.
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by zoobab 10mo ago
FTP was better.
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by zoobab 10mo ago
"in favor of a censorship-resistant internet" At least that's a good incentive to build censorship-resistant internet.
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by zoobab 10mo ago
Is there a patch for systemd so that you can start it without PID1 monopoly?

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