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In a recently created issue on the fish GitHub repo, Peter Ammon, the lead developer, shared a plan to release a beta build of Rust-based fish to tackle the inevitable bugs.

Even though the current state of the Rust port for fish is said to be finished months ago, Peter thought that it was not in a release-ready state back then, but says that they are close now.

He believes that an open beta is the way to go before a stable release to root out any bugs before release instead of fixing stuff with multiple patches later.

[Sorry, I couldn’t resist it]

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When I read ā€œWilmaā€ I hadn’t seen your picture yet, but immediately the scream of Fred Flintstone popped into my head :rofl:

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Watch the video - it’s only 3 sec long :wink:

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I did before posting and did not pay attention to the volume setting. That woke up our cat, who then gave me a nasty look :slightly_smiling_face:

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Intel voltage monitoring patch:

EDIT: Sorry this wasn’t supposed to be a direct reply to Austin :upside_down_face:

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I have to wonder if this will affect Arc production…

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Between Mint with the optional Timeshift, and openSUSE, Garuda, siduction, Spiral Linux, Linux Deepin, and Vanilla OS, multiple efforts are exploring distros where undoing an inadvisable software update is as easy as hitting the undo button in a desktop application. Similar efforts are afoot in the server space too. There are big gains to be made by any outfit that can make Linux as robust as Android.

CrowdStrike, after suggesting canary testing as a way to ensure it avoids future blunders leading to global computer outages, has been sued in federal court by investors for not using a phased approach in rolling out updates to customers in the first place.

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…larger the kernel driver is now that the initial RDNA4 support is merged… Well, it’s about to cross 5.8 million lines, or about a 16% increase just over the past year.

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Google’s monopoly over web search was bound to raise concerns with the various antitrust watchdogs around the world, and reports revealing that Google paid $26 Billion to be the default search engine on several platforms in 2021 didn’t help.

Putting an end to a long-running battle between Google LLC and the State of Colorado, a recent ruling by District Judge Amit P. Mehta found Google to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Why? Due to their monopolistic hold over two product markets in the United States.

No doubt Google will appeal the suite, but the judge is set to hold a new trial for deciding on the remedy for this case. Many are waiting to see what kind of penalties would the search engine giant be subject to.

In all this, Mozilla, the ones behind Firefox, which is the most popular alternative to Google Chrome, might stand to lose a massive chunk of their revenue.

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Linux-first reviews:

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This article is partially redacted until the 14th due to offset embargo end dates, but is especially interesting: Zen5's AVX512 Teardown + More...

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Even reading the article, I can’t quite figure out why Nvidia is printing money and Intel is going down the tubes.

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:man_facepalming:

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The last one :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: :man_facepalming:

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0day? LOL! That’s expected behavior since before I was born!

Seems this Israeli security startup is really trying to find some limelight. I don’t know anyone running local services who is unaware that the services are accessible via loopback.

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Nvidia is printing money because they supply most commercial AI hardware. 6 months ago, if you bought an H100 for $10-15,000 US, you would be waiting 11-12 months before it was delivered and you could use the hardware. Now the fulfillment window is 3-4 months. They can hardly keep up with the demand, even when production has ramped up.

Intel is currently experiencing an event that removes people’s general trust in their hardware. It’s hitting them hard. On top of this, their enterprise platform sales have taken a huge hit due to AMDs move on the datacenter market with EPYC in recent times. Intel can hardly compete for performance, and just can’t compete when it comes to efficiency, and people are abandoning their platforms because of it.

To further hurt Intel’s feelings, Gaudi 3 (their AI acceleration product) has stagnated and lost most of what little hype it had. AMD’s MI300X removed most of any excitement the AI world had for ONNX accelerated supercomputing from Intel, and the H100 took the hype from the MI300X due to software support being leagues better than the next best.

Welcome to an AI-fever-dream future.

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