I bought 10 of them!
And the ultimate April Fool's prank, I would actually be down with....
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I wish this wasn’t a joke.
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Regarding the data centers over here in the Netherlands: It's not just a bunch of farmers protesting against them. Many citizens don't want them, but since there hasn't been any clear nation wide regulations regarding topics like these, local politicians get seduced by big tech to promote campaigns like these. Mostly boomers who think they should embrace each and every technical initiative in order to stay relevant, IMO.
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Sounds a lot like the US in many regards, as well.
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Referencing our old friend Jonathon
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The infamous laptop incident that changed history for a lot of us here. Old wounds reopened!! 
That was ONE problem with Manjaro. The book of grievances is quite large.
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I've heard about most of it before, but the recent news of trying to "save face" with a PR move after Jonathon is dead....?! Wow... just.... wow.... Not exactly the best way to try to gain any lost respect by any stretch....
It doesn't look good to wait that long after the problem to say anything additional after Jonathon is dead. Not to mention it is in very poor taste to do that. They had years to do it and yet choose now?! Great way to lose even more respect.
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As Brodie has pointed out, on paper this new "official" narrative appears to check out and everything seems above board.
The fact that they waited until @jonathon was literally dead before speaking up about it is shady AF.
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WebKitGTK already makes use of DMA-BUF buffer sharing for WebGL and media rendering while moving forward they are shifting to make use of it as well for rendered buffer sharing between the web and UI processes.
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A Google engineer reportedly quit after warning CEO Sundar Pichai that the company was wrong to train its AI search chatbot Bard on text generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Netizens have posted snippets of their conversations with ChatGPT on a website called ShareGPT. OpenAI prohibits people from using its outputs to train their own models.
AI engineer Jacob Devlin raised concerns that Google would violate OpenAI's terms of service by harvesting data from the website to train its own Bard chatbot, The Information reported last week. Devlin thought the practice was not only wrong, it would make Bard behave too similarly to ChatGPT. After he escalated concerns to Pichai, he reportedly resigned from the company, and joined OpenAI.
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Via its FOSS Fund – and initiative many other companies also use — Bloomberg employees can nominate open source software projects they use/contribute to. From the nominations a vote is held quarterly and up to three $10,000 (USD) grants are awarded.
Bloomberg awarded the first of its grants in January. The three recipients (selected from a pool of five) were:
- Apache Arrow – analytics tool
- Curl – CLI data transfer tool
- Celery – primary task management tool
Built using the latest Qt 6 and FFmpeg 6 frameworks, the upcoming Shotcut 23.04 release promises improved Wayland support, an ARM64 (AArch64) build of the Flatpak binary, timeline optimization, faster previews for most video clips without filters, and additional multi-threading in audio/video file reading.
Shotcut 23.04 will also reintroduce the GPU Effects feature, which has been greatly improved to be more performant and stable. GPU Effects now comes with new functionality like end-to-end support for 10-bit sources, text filters, video scopes, stabilization, and support for showing only or all GPU filters when searching for “gpu” in Filters.
Because the BIOS version is exposed via the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) tables, we can access it on Linux using the dmidecode command. Furthermore, because access to this information requires root privileges, the command must always be prefixed with sudo .
I've recently been putting the 7800X3D through its paces under Linux and have a plethora of benchmark data to share for launch day.
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EWwwww... a new privacy browser on the scene.
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Wow Tor plus Mullvad seems like a pretty good combination. Quite exciting to see
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Perfect timing as the US is trying to pass a bill to restrict Tik-Tok, which is really a bill to restrict VPN usage and so much more, it is basically a total totalitarianism move. Big brother getting larger.
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