The processors inside every single device we have in our homes today will no longer be manufactured in 10 years.
In 20 years, few will know how to build the firmware for them or how to fix them.
As time goes on, those numbers could drop to 5 and 10 years.
Given that 50% of the time, the generated code is unworkable garbage, having an AI automatically write code to create new training models will either solve all problems, or spontaneously combust into a pile of ash.
My money’s on the latter.
Does “Please shut up and get to the point!” count?
Blocked all the server domains. There are a bunch of lists out there for various TV brands.
Blocked all this crap at the network level. Don’t get any ads now.
More details here: https://www.eufymake.com/eufymake-uv-printer-e1
Not clear how much the refills will run.
Be funny if someone started a gofundme.
Was working on a simulator and needed random interaction data. Statistical randomness didn’t capture likely scenarios (bell curves and all that). Switched to LLM synthetic data generation. Seemed better, but wait… seemed off 🤔. Checked it for clustering and entropy vs human data. JFC. Waaaaaay off.
Lesson: synthetic data for training is a Bad Idea. There are no shortcuts. Humans are lovely and messy.
Big fan of Geerling, precisely because he goes down these obscure rabbit holes. Found out about Meshtastic through him, and now BPS.
There are lots of applications to having a super-accurate time source, without having to have antennas and view of multiple satellites.
Synchronizing time is tricky. WWVB is too coarse resolution. NNTP requires access to the internet and all the inherent lags and delays. GPS was the only accurate source, but the super high resolution time signal is classified, and you are at the mercy of view of the sky. Also, signal jamming, thanks to what’s going on in Europe and Ukraine.
BPS could be a niche experiment, or a Big Deal.
Sans Serif strikes again.
USB hubs.
Plain old splitters will almost certainly damage the port, and if this is with a machine where USB-C is part of the motherboard, it could cause even more damage and be really expensive to repair.
The power-only ones are not too pricey. But if you also need high speed data transfer (like drives) those cost a bit more. Be careful that even the ones that claim data exchange may not support drive speeds. It took me three tries to finally find one that worked.
For those wondering who he is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus#Artificial_intelligence
NTP is one of those fundamental working parts of the internet that nobody has to think much about, because it works so smoothly.
It’s taken for granted, like the lights will come on when you flip a switch. But there’s SO much more to make that happen.
Came across this a few weeks ago. ATProto plugin for Wordpress: https://wordpress.com/plugins/neznam-atproto-share
Combined with the existing https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ ActivityPub and RSS/Atom support, it should be possible to post once / share everywhere.
I was one of those. Happily discovered Voyager. I go back, usually when a search link takes me there.
The mobile app is designed by people who I only imagine get paid by the bulk number of raw clicks/taps on UI elements.
Signal could improve its user interface around groups and people with duplicate display names.
Nah, they really shouldn’t. Way more fun this way.
So this showed up last week: https://github.com/raminf/RoboNope-nginx
Similar vibe, minus the AI.
The ground level weedwhacker blades could do double-duty clearing out brush (and pesky pedestrians).