asnelt

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by asnelt 6d ago
That's the premise of Tau Zero, a very good novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zero
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by asnelt 9d ago
I hear you. This is exactly the reason why I have a digital signage display rather than a Smart TV.
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by asnelt 12d ago
> Can we take this as an official statement that Nvidia supports local models? The first reply on the X thread is by Gerardo Delgado, who is "Sr. Director of Product - Local AI, Creators, Developers @NVIDIA" according to his pr
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by asnelt 15d ago
I couldn't immediately find whether GrapheneOS grants READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE to Google Play. It might very well be that the GrapheneOS sandbox spoofs a fake IMEI, and I do hope so. In any case, my parent comment was meant for stoc
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by asnelt 15d ago
Even with a burner sim, there is the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, which is tied to the phone, and is known to all apps with the android.permission.READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE permission.
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by asnelt 18d ago
The outcome of this vote is not set in stone. If the situation changes, there can be another general-resolution vote to adapt to the new situation. I think the result of this vote is appropriate for the current degree of automation when use
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by asnelt 20d ago
Exactly. Just tweaking the order of suggested models for a search query could already have a huge impact on model popularity.
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by asnelt 25d ago
> AOSP has a massive amount of non-Google companies and individuals working on operating systems based on it. based on is the important part here. Yes, AOSP would survive without Google. But as long as Google is in control of AOSP, it
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by asnelt 26d ago
That's an interesting video. If the skyscrapers were flickering just a little faster, the sky would be the color of a television tuned to a dead channel.
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by asnelt 1mo ago
> If it bears the mark, it is likely generated (or someone deliberately made it look generated). One could even say, the mark is load-bearing .
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by asnelt 2mo ago
Given the context, I had to read this twice to understand that PR is not referring to Pull Request here.
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by asnelt 2mo ago
Yes, I do mean the glowglobe. As they are floating right above the person, they should also protect from rain. And there was a scene where one was floating through the rain.
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by asnelt 2mo ago
Reminds me of the floating umbrella that appeared on Caladan in the 1984 Dune movie.
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by asnelt 5mo ago
Can you elaborate on your setup? What harness are you using with Gemma 4 on your 32GB machine?
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by asnelt 1y ago
I live in a small apartment and do 20m using an attic antenna. Of course, I can't compete with big outdoor antennas. But from Scotland, SSB to mainland Europe and FT8 to the US or the Caribbean is not a problem. Even if you don't
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by asnelt 3y ago
I agree that it's a bad idea to use non-cryptographic PRNGs as defaults. I think most people are not aware of how easy it is to break them. For fun, I wrote an Android app to break LCGs and Mersenne Twisters: https://github.
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by asnelt 4y ago
I suppose I could be ridiculed too, but there is also my `rrep` utility which still has an `-r` option: https://git.sr.ht/~asnelt/rrep It's packaged for Debian, Arch and openSUSE: https://repology.org&#
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by asnelt 5y ago
I moved from fastmail to Runbox many years ago. The Runbox service is very reliable and all the servers are outside of the US.
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by asnelt 6y ago
Regarding support on Android, if you are using a custom rom like LineageOS without Google Play Services then it won't work currently. Unfortunately, Google implemented FIDO2 in the play services, not in AOSP: https://bugs.ch