My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
On other hand, I kind of want Microsoft and Apple to force it through, charge $60/mo and lose all of their users within a few days and see Linux population exploded. Ah one can dream...
Well if anything we've learned about the last few years is that no company stay the same. Netflix is a big example of this where they used to allows password sharing now cracks down on it.
Well, I've worked for the government (as contractor), corporations, and small businesses, I could count a few times I've seen people using Apple Mac Pro devices on one hand (more often seeing Macbook Pro rather, but very rarely for development) and more time than I can count on either Linux or Windows workstation computers.
We use Linux desktop often, because most of our servers are running on Linux so it helps to have version conformity when matching up with server's versioning and we occasionally use Windows for Visual Studio, proprietary software and so forth. But there are a few times where we get discounts for buying software for Linux rather than Windows.
Employees in my office switched from Apple Macbook Pro to Windows/Linux based laptops like Framework Laptop, because Macbook Pro often time lacked GPU that you would find on Linux and Windows workstation. Apple is going off on it's own little world with their own Metal API/GPU and it doesn't reflect the reality in real world emerging technologies. For instance, there are some computational challenges that in my office, we make use of Vulkan Compute so that we can purchase both Nvidia GPU and AMD GPU to generate real-time data, had we used Metal API and Apple's products, it would've been cheaper to purchase cloud compute servers. (We wanted to ensure each developer can test the given Vulkan code on their own desktop/workstation.)
Yeah, and I am honestly surprised that you could do ok for AI on Mac since I was pretty sure that Tensorflow/Pytorch are pretty much CUDA implementation primarily and only have recently worked on branching out to other API.
They would try to alleviate the cost on running GPU by making an AI accelerator chip like Tensor Core, but it'll get bottleneck by limited VRAM when Neural Net models require steep amount of memory. it's more productive to have something like NPU that runs either on RAM or by it's own memory chips offering higher amount of capacity to run such neural net and avoid the roundtrip data copying between GPU and CPU.
That's an interesting dilemma when you bring up Android. I have always considered android device as a hardware compromised device and that it shouldn't be used for highly confidential data to an extent that you might be using PGP/GPG for.
But you could have all of your PGP/GPG centrally managed on a Linux system with android device having it's own unique keypair that is signed by your root PGP/GPG keypair on your Linux system. As for software for managing GPG/PGP on Linux system, I just simply use KGPG which does the job plenty well. If you have to use PGP/GPG on Android Phone, then I recommend sticking with f-droid repository for PGP/GPG key management app, not Google Play Store.
Few use-cases for GPG/PGP on android is encrypting email or chat, but application integration is limited to select few software like K-9 Mail or Conversations.
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Why the heck did server spam duplicates of my comments? :(
That's an interesting dilemma when you bring up Android. I have always considered android device as a hardware compromised device and that it shouldn't be used for highly confidential data to an extent that you might be using PGP/GPG for.
But you could have all of your PGP/GPG centrally managed on a Linux system with android device having it's own unique keypair that is signed by your root PGP/GPG keypair on your Linux system. As for software for managing GPG/PGP on Linux system, I just simply use KGPG which does the job plenty well. If you have to use PGP/GPG on Android Phone, then I recommend sticking with f-droid repository, not Google Play Store.
Few use-cases for GPG/PGP on android is encrypting email or chat, but application integration is limited to select few software like K-9 Mail or Conversations.
I'll keep this short and sweet. Some random guy on the internet compiled together and summarized a bunch of climate research papers analyzing global trends and a bunch of different slow actors that are all going to kick in soon like the permafrost in Russia or the polar ice caps etc....
I want you to at least consider stepping away from the news if you can. Focus on what make you happy, what make you enjoy a life. Do you have a hobby? Is it something we can play with sometime?
"You will find that if you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that will be all you will ever see." - Uncle Iroh in Legend of Korra
I am not going to deny that those topics you brought up are serious topics indeed, but it requires balanced mind to be able to confront such challenges and to ward off those who prey upon your vulnerability, so don't neglect yourself.
I would imagine that it would give everyone a VERY valid reason to start a civil war right there and then and my money is on the people since Americans possess more guns to population than the rest of the world. Oligarchy trying to push this is going to quickly realize how good they had it until they piss off enough people.
How about a new policy all of us should advocate for:
Every time we bail out or give public money to corporation, the public should own the share of that company. If public own enough share of that company, it should automatically be turned into a utility.
I agree that we need accountability and I suggested here that anytime we fund a company with public money, we should demand non-sell-able shares of that company (basically we never sell that shares and company will have to repay dividend to the public.) If we practically gave money to them that we would've own 50% or more of that company, that company should then be a utility since we literally paid tax money for it.
It's frustrating, because we are not only in an economic squeeze, we are also bleeding money left and right with money inflation going out of control.
although this is unlikely to substantially and directly impact us and is a more immediate concern for Mastodon and similar fediverse software, we've signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact as a matter of principle. that pact pledges the following:...
I think so long that the community is on an invite-basis community, it raise the cost of botting the website much higher than other platforms so it can de-incentivize them from gaming the platform.
New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...
It's one thing if he died alone and another when he took other 4 people with him. I would still chalk it up to greedy asshole, because he cheap out things that would've saved the four people.
Also you may want to get auto-sub-sync tool as well. As for livestream like Twitch or YouTube Live, you may want to use services like Otter.ai as I did (it's paid service unfortunately.) I highly recommends Linux, not Windows, when you want to make an audio loopback for Otter.ai on web browser to record what you hear from Livestream so it can generate transcription for it.
This one is something that were brought up a lot by developers including me who are very weary about corporations profiting off of our work for free and this basically put us off from contributing to open source in general....
You sum up what I thought about as well, yep. There are compromises to each license and obviously the loophole that is presented for each one. One of the idea I was exploring is licensing my GUI Toolkit (alternative to GTK and QT) something similar to Community License in Visual Studio (it allows commercial use for personal/small business and if organization is larger than that, then it would have to purchase a separate license.)
I don't think it's that revolutionary, but there are some things that doesn't exist in current GUI Toolkit worlds.
The GUI Toolkit I wrote utilize few things:
It runs on Vulkan and the pipeline use custom developed 2D rendering context, not 3D so there is a significant boost in performance and reduction in computation requirements on both GPU and CPU. Vulkan allows GUI to work on just about any devices made in the last decade and can fallback on CPU using Swiftshader.
I established FFI-JSON to simplify binding for any programming languages to bind to my GUI Toolkit as well as extending the GUI Toolkit itself.
Designed for Buffer-based controls - If you want to load up a 2GB text file into a textbox, it offers a way that it would work without freezing up the program.
Accessibility protocol in IPC - Similar to DBus, but documentations are provided to simplify the process of utilizing such protocol and it's focusing on cross-platform conventions where Dbus might not be available.
Library itself is Cross-platform and written in C Language, enabling the larger cross-section of compatibility
The project is built for IR linkage purposes hence why the code should be open source, because the code is already open by IR anyway. By offering IR linkage by default rather than Object files or dynamically linked library, IR allows everyone to gain immense performance boost through compiler's features of auto-vectorization, dynamic dispatch converting to static dispatch when possible, internalization pass and more aggressive dead code eliminations. It's not unusual to see a 80% reduction in code size through this process and see as much as 10x performance improvement compared to dynamically linked libraries.
Conventions for stylizing/theming the GUI through CSS (the goal is to offer a permanent theming capability in GUI even though it can be a challenge to maintain.)
That on top of my head, I wanted to have a GUI that focuses on making it easier to extend while keeping it conventional for those familiar with Windows Forms on Microsoft Windows and eventually WPF if time allows.
That the gist of why I wrote my GUI Toolkit and I have spend 4 years working on it, it's reaching the point that it could be ready for prime time basically.
The licenses you brought up is interesting and it could work too.
Currently early atm, but generally, I got the backend code sorted out where we have cross-platform windowing context, vulkan code, accessibility protocol, and so forth. The challenges are the front end GUI, making it looks pretty, it's still have a way to go.
And of course the documentation which is still WIP. I wrote other docs sometime like this for C language development community which I have put off for a while since I worked on few projects:
Finish making deliverable for AI Framework to replace Pytorch/Tensorflow that uses IREE Compiler for my client. (IREE Compiler basically takes in your MLIR code and compile that to either SPIR-V shader code, CUDA code, ROCm, or anything else really rather than just mainly CUDA on Pytorch/Tensorflow.) I should have this done by tomorrow, it just making a web for my client that is 90% done and I just have to plug my AI into it.
Work on Melosynthos which is basically a Compiler Generator, it's about 60% done and can help a lot on building unit tests for GUI Toolkit.
Finish up GUI Toolkit and try to make GUI that takes some inspirations from this
Finish up documentations for that GUI Toolkit
Build a web to demonstrates GUI Toolkit and let people go nut with it.
The best part is... I solo-develop all of it... facedesk
It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited (www.vice.com)
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
Futurama | Official Trailer | New Season July 24 (www.youtube.com)
Which anime series are you looking forward too? (anichart.net)
https://anichart.net/Fall-2023...
Warning: Lemmy doesn't care about your privacy, everything is tracked and stored forever, even if you delete it (raddle.me)
What is the fh did I just read
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (www.theverge.com)
You might boot laptops straight into a cloud OS in the future
Which professionals is the Mac Pro for? We couldn’t find them (www.theverge.com)
We asked professionals if they wanted Apple’s desktop, and they all said no.
Will there be AI accelerator cards in the future of gaming PCs?
Hi there, I want to share some thoughts and want to hear your opinions on it....
How to manage GPG / PGP keys on Android and Linux?
How do you manage GPG / PGP Keys on android and Linux, and why?
I am terrified of climate change
I'll keep this short and sweet. Some random guy on the internet compiled together and summarized a bunch of climate research papers analyzing global trends and a bunch of different slow actors that are all going to kick in soon like the permafrost in Russia or the polar ice caps etc....
DeSantis vows to end birthright citizenship as part of immigration plan (thehill.com)
US allocates $42B in broadband funding—find out how much your state will get (arstechnica.com)
non-stickied PSA: Beehaw has signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact
although this is unlikely to substantially and directly impact us and is a more immediate concern for Mastodon and similar fediverse software, we've signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact as a matter of principle. that pact pledges the following:...
Users Have Had It With Reddit...But Are Powerless (www.youtube.com)
A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest
OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub (futurism.com)
New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...
How to get subtitles even when they're not supported: a guide
If you’re hard of hearing, deaf, have an audio processing disorder or just like how subtitles look, this guide is for you....
Non-commercial Open Source License?
This one is something that were brought up a lot by developers including me who are very weary about corporations profiting off of our work for free and this basically put us off from contributing to open source in general....