MidnightBSD project lead, senior software engineer, tech geek. @laffer1@bsd.network on Mastodon
Ypsilanti, MI
Joined July 2008
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Our stupid LG TV died last night. Backlight flaked out. Half the screen was dark then then whole.
In light of the recent @GamersNexus videos, we won't be buying a new LG TV. I just wish we knew what brands were actually "safe" to buy.
I see a lot of coverage on the open source exception in California for age verification. That doesn't really solve the problem.
1. websites still have to block users who don't verify. That means the OS is off the hook, but the user is treated as a child online.
Meta should just take away the ability to record video on their smart glasses. That solves all the "perv" issues in one go.
What's your favorite root kit? I think Sony wins this with their classic DRM rootkit on audio CDs.
Their recent anti consumer stance on physical media reminds me of that time.
I find it annoying that aside from copilot, there is no solution to an IDE plugin for jetbrains products outside of their own AI sub. Mistral locks there tool behind enterprise plans (stupid). Google took theirs away with the antigravity downgrade.
I can work in the terminal with intellij most of the time and be OK. What I miss is having it in datagrip!
If i trust the ai (which i don't that much), i could have it work on the database directly but i'd rather have it help me with my sql in the editor and review it first.
Lucas Holt retweeted
Announcing Robostral Navigate, our first model for embodied navigation: an 8B robotics navigation model that guides robots to autonomously perform tasks specified with natural language. Single RGB camera. State-of-the-art on R2R-CE.
AI training is now running on botnets. They're coming from consumer IP addresses across the world. wow.
I managed to get mistral vibe running on MidnightBSD! There is a port now. A few caveats:
vibe is built on some python libraries that have changed a lot between versions. Not their fault, but it complicates things. I had to add a patch for this.
Mistral vibe uses python 3.12+ so i'm in the process of updating a number of mports to use allflavors so I'll have 3.12 versions of dependencies. It's taking some time. So I don't know if it works or not quite yet.
