My Predictions for the Ukraine WarMy Predictions for the Ukraine War
There are a lot of people talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a lot of moving goalposts in such discussions. I think that everyone who wants to advocate[...]
Author: etbe
Links July 2023Links July 2023
Phys.org has an interesting article about finding evidence for nanohertz gravity waves [1]. 1nano-Herz is a wavelength of 31.7 light years! Wired has an interesting story about OpenAI saying that[...]
MatrixMatrix
Introduction In 2020 I first setup a Matrix [1] server. Matrix is a full featured instant messaging protocol which requires a less stringent definition of “instant”, messages being delayed for[...]
Sandboxing Phone AppsSandboxing Phone Apps
As a follow up to Wayland [1]: A difficult problem with Linux desktop systems (which includes phones and tablets) is restricting application access so that applications can’t mess with each[...]
Links June 2023Links June 2023
Tablet Magazine has an interesting article about Jewish men who fought in the military for Nazi Germany [1]. I’m surprised that they didn’t frag their colleagues. Dropbox has an insightful[...]
Running a ChatGPT Type SystemRunning a ChatGPT Type System
Alpaca I’ve just done some experiments running ChatGPT type programs. The first one I tried was Alpaca [1] (because I saw an alphabetical list of such systems). Here’s the 4GB[...]
Cheap Peripherals for WorkCheap Peripherals for Work
A problem with a lot of the purchase of peripherals is that they don’t match the needs of the users and often get thrown away long before they wear out.[...]
BOINC and Idle UsersBOINC and Idle Users
The BOINC distributed computing client in Debian (Bookworm and previous releases) can check the idle time via the X11 protocol and run GPU jobs when the interactive user is idle,[...]
Do Not Use …Do Not Use …
When I connect my Desklab USB-C monitor [1] (which has been vastly underused for the last 3 years) into a Linux system the display type is listed as “DO NOT[...]
PinePhonePro First ImpressionPinePhonePro First Impression
Hardware I received my PinePhone Pro [1] on Thursday, it seems in many ways better than the Purism Librem 5 [2] that I have previously written about. The PinePhone is[...]