vwbusguy

vwbusguy, 2 days ago to fedora

It's surprisingly difficult to find options for laptops shipping #Fedora or any other supported non-ChromeOS flavor of #Linux from the #Lenovo website.

vwbusguy, 2 days ago to random

Me, watching a YouTube video of a guy explaining how donuts in Japan vs America are different and saying American donuts are for dessert and I don't have the heart to comment to let him know they're for breakfast.

Image from Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard

vwbusguy, 3 days ago to fedora

The #Fedora 40 Release Party just ended and it was great as usual to connect with familiar faces and get updates on current and upcoming things for the project. Fedora is alive and well with a thriving global community!

#Linux #opensource

vwbusguy, 5 days ago to random

Got to jam with a group today with the #Gretsch and it's got some neat tricks to it. It has some particular sweet spots with rhythm distortion. I can see now why this was popular with some grunge era guitarists. A little bolder and easier to tame than a Strat and not as overruling as a Les Paul.

#guitar

vwbusguy, 5 days ago to random

The state of LLM right now is more or less that of a corporate-sanctioned Napster that hasn't (yet) been gutted by litigation. I'm curious to see what kind of more mainstream torrent/Spotify type thing emerges from this after the hype bubble inevitably pops. In the meantime, I suggest not betting the bank on any one major vendor. Copilot, ChatGPT, Llama, etc could all be one good lawsuit away from shutting down. Factor that into the business risk of adoption.

vwbusguy, 5 days ago to random

#Atari has died and been reborn around a dozen times. Yes, the company as it currently exists isn't the same as when Pong came out. Neither was it the same company as when Warner Brothers piecemeal sold it in the 1980s to Jack Tramiel, Mitsubishi, etc. Nor the same company when it was a Naamco sub-brand. Nor when Hasbro owned it.

Sure, Atari today isn't the same as it was in the 1970s, but the same is largely also true for Activision, SEGA, Rare, Square, etc.

vwbusguy, 6 days ago to RedHat

TIL that #RedHat offers a generative AI service for #Ansible playbooks via #WatsonX.

https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/ansible/ansible-lightspeed

vwbusguy, 6 days ago to random

The problem with the #TuringTest is that there are a whole lot of people who aren't very discerning, critical thinkers.

vwbusguy, 6 days ago to linux

Audio on #Linux was long the butt of many joke. My goodness, has #pipewire delivered. I love how well my A/V IO works and behaves out of box on #Fedora these days.

vwbusguy, 6 days ago to opensource

FYI - #llama is NOT #opensource. The license is categorically not open source. Among other things, the llama 2 and 3 licenses explicitly violate Field of Endeavor.

I see all sorts of blogs and marketing materials claiming things are "open source" because they used llama somewhere. Please do not take these claims at face value.

#Meta #AI

vwbusguy, 7 days ago to linux

I wonder if #Linux has some kind of minimal #qemu and/or #KataContainers way to run x86 applications on an #ARM host, similar to Rosetta for MacOS or the similar WIP Microsoft compatibility.

vwbusguy, 7 days ago to random

I just had an AI help me write some necessarily regex heavy stuff and I'm not complaining about that.

vwbusguy, 8 days ago to ChatGPT

#ChatGPT failed hard on this one.

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vwbusguy, 8 days ago to random

CentOS Stream mirrors are struggling right now, from the looks of it.

vwbusguy, 8 days ago to random

It's been zero days since I wrote a perl script at work and today it's because there wasn't an obvious way to do something in Ansible.

vwbusguy, 8 days ago to random

Generative AI hallucinating its own sources is quite extra.

vwbusguy, 9 days ago to classicrock

If you're a #classicrock fan or a #rock fan in general, the new single Lead Heavy by #UnclePigeon is also worth a listen.

https://open.spotify.com/track/281VoYTCdmzKZHvj6W5oJt

#music

vwbusguy, 9 days ago to music

This new #WeTheKingdom song is 🔥

https://open.spotify.com/track/46ZBM9R4bs8utYpAnEBoeI

#music

vwbusguy, 9 days ago to random

Spent some time chiming, chugging, and squealing on the Les Paul this afternoon. There's just no substitute when you're in the Les Paul kind of mood.

vwbusguy, 9 days ago to guitar

This is my general recommendation for the best acoustic #guitar for the price. They play and feel like an $800 guitar. The tone, neck, and overall quality is phenomenal. You can occasionally find deals on these around $300. The "folk" version is incredibly versatile, so it is worthy for unplugged campfires as well as playing live. It's a solid workhorse that won't have a problem keeping up with a Martin or Taylor and won't give you "glass mandolin syndrome".

https://alvarezguitars.com/guitar/af30ce/

vwbusguy, 11 days ago to ai

For anyone at #UCSB that's interested in #AI for any reason, there's a symposium happening next week you might be interested in engaging in.

https://otl.ucsb.edu/ai-cop-spring-symposium-2024

#UniversityofCalifornia

vwbusguy, 11 days ago to Kubernetes

#AlpineLinux is generally my default goto for #kubernetes #container image bases when I'm writing stuff from scratch. I love how lightweight and simple it is, so I'll often start there until I can prove that I need something more complex.

vwbusguy, 11 days ago to random

Tech bros might think I'm using AI today to solve modern, complex problems.

What I'm actually using it for is a lorem ipsum to generate garbage filler for stuff like arbitrary test files.

vwbusguy, 11 days ago to random

I had a dream last night that beagles became the world's top domesticated animal, surpassing chickens.

vwbusguy, 12 days ago to random

I need to set aside some time to experiment with passkey with in #KeePassXC and #KeePass2Android.