Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

Hello Fediverse. Goodbye walled gardens.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/flipboard-joins-the-fediverse-with-a-mastodon-integration-and-community-plans-for-activitypub/

Imagine we could iterate on human buildings like this. Just have the idea, sketch it on the computer, watch robots snap together your new living room.

Hi folks, I am pleased to announce that Mozilla is our principal investor.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI (developer of ChatGPT), keeps a cache of weapons and survival gear on a remote estate in case he needs to escape "AI that attacks us". I'm sure it's nothing

whoa

https://bird.makeup/users/zoeschiffer/statuses/1629917304799760384

This idea that somehow search engines _can_ arbitrate "truth" is just so… not how any of this works or could even conceivably work.

The reason that search engines "backstop" with wikipedia is because wikipedia is a giant curated and mostly-audience-appropriate collection of knowledge.

Knowing what is "true" is so incredibly nontrivial.

There is an ongoing news cycle about Linux 6.2 being the first kernel to support the M1, started by @ZDNET. This article is misleading and borderline false.

You will not be able to run Ubuntu nor any other standard distro with 6.2 on any M1 Mac. Please don't get your hopes up.

We are continuously upstreaming kernel features, and 6.2 notably adds device trees and basic boot support for M1 Pro/Max/Ultra machines.

However, there is still a long road before upstream kernels are usable on laptops. There is no trackpad/keyboard support upstream yet.

While you can boot an upstream 6.2 kernel on desktops (M1 Mac Mini, M1 Max/Ultra Mac Studio) and do useful things with it, that is only the case for 16K page size kernel builds.

No generic ARM64 distro ships 16K kernels today, to our knowledge.

Our goal is to upstream everything, but that doesn't mean distros instantly get Apple Silicon support.

As with many other platforms, there is some integration work required. Distros need to package our userspace tooling and, at this time, offer 16K kernels.

In the future, once 4K kernel builds are somewhat usable, you can expect zero-integration distros to somewhat work on these machines (i.e. some hardware will work, but not all, or only partially).

This should be sufficient to add a third-party repo with the integration packages.

But for out-of-the-box hardware support, distros will need to work with us to get everything right.

We are already working with some, and we expect to announce official Apple Silicon support for a mainstream distro in the near future. Just not quite yet!

You can follow any #birdsite account on the #fediverse. Just search for "@accountname" followed by "@bird.makeup". Done.

Finally, an explanation for bikini armor that makes sense!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Which of these worlds sounds best for FOSS:

a) a world where all the projects have clear steps to compiling, participating

b) a world where you trust the developers to compile and put things together from black boxes, don't touch them, the devs know what's best for you

fuck flathub/flatpak/docker as "the way to run FOSS software", go guix and nix and debian

down with "father knows best" architecture

Planning for AGI and beyond: https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/

Today we're publicly releasing LLaMA, a state-of-the-art foundational LLM, as part of our ongoing commitment to open science, transparency and democratized access to new research.

Learn more & request access ➡️ https://bit.ly/3SoXdQE

If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.

Help me spread the word! You can now follow @panic and @playdate right here on Mastodon! ✨

We’ll keep you up-to-date with news about our Mac/iOS app updates! Information about upcoming video games we’re publishing (there are a few in the works!) And of course the latest on our unique yellow handheld game system.

Let’s go! 😆👍

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