BartyDeCanter

Honestly, this is one of those things where you need to define what AI means. Paperless 2.x used a machine learning-backed OCR library called Tesseract that has been in development since 1985.

The current version of Tesseract does use a LSTM neural network, since 2018. Is that an AI? Fuck if I know because AI is a basically meaningless term.

It’s not an LLM or a diffusion model, which is what backs a lot of the things people are calling AI nowadays.

For Linux, stress-ng is extremely comprehensive, covering CPU, RAM and drives in a wide variety of ways.

gpu-burn will take care of your GPU needs.

Exactly, that’s the “in theory” part. In theory, 802.11ax (aka WiFi 6) can hit 1.1Gb, and 802.11be (WiFi 7) can hit 23Gb(!!) with an expensive router, while most common cheap Ethernet devices support 1Gb, though fancier ones support 2.5 or 10, and if you have the money you can get 40Gb or 100Gb devices. But you’re only going to hit those WiFi rates in an anechoic chamber with perfect antennas, placement and no other devices. And that speed is shared between all connected devices.

But a $20 Ethernet switch can support 8 devices getting a solid 1Gb connection simultaneously.

Related, I have a Roku TV that only has a 100Mb Ethernet connection but generally reports several hundred Mb over WiFi. I still only use the Ethernet connection because a 4k show only needs about 60Mb, and I never have had a problem with the Ethernet connection, while WiFi would drop out several times a week.

So I don’t mean to shoplift, but since most big box stores barely have any employees working at them anymore and I have to do my own checkout, well, I’m sure that I sometimes forget to scan some things.

It does, and they work well.

The basics for anything:

• ssh key access only
• and a hardware key if available
• disabled root
• fail2ban
• rate limiting
• unattended upgrades
• calendar reminder to run full updates

After that, it really depends on what you’re running and who needs access where.

If it’s just you, or a small group of devices that you have access to and can maintain, Tailscale is the easiest best first step, or your own headscale server.

Now that I work from home and can ssh into my work laptop, all my screens are the same screens. I don’t know if this is good or bad, but my boss is happy with my work and I’m happy I get to use a window manger that doesn’t suck. 🤷

I’m fond of https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/ as a podcast. I listened to a whole lot of it with a single earbud in while my kids were in that stage.

In theory, yeah, modern WiFi and gigabit Ethernet are about the same speed. But WiFi will always be less reliable, the bandwidth is shared rather than per device, and if you have neighbors you will lose some to interference. Also, cat6 can get you to 10 gigabit, so is much more future proof.

If you can reasonably easily get to the runs, put in the Ethernet beside the cable. It will be more reliable, future proof and cheaper. If it’s a major pain in the ass, MoCA will be fine.

Last time I tried using my Xbox controller, I found that it was very unstable using Bluetooth or a USB-C to A cable, but just fine with USB-C all the way. 🤷

Yeah, and while I’m iffy on Canonical and have migrated off Ubuntu, they do seem to only be focused on local LLMs for those features.

It wasn’t my gateway, but I do remember when it started and rapidly became my distro of choice because of it’s focus on a good, easy, well supported desktop. sigh

Nowadays I just use Debian Stable.

Not 8000 years ago, but both in the past and in the future it is.

Dullards of all genders are welcome here. Just don’t be too excited.

And also he’s not advocating for everyone to start using it, rather saying that as the primary kernel maintainer, he’s finding it useful to help do a first pass triage on the flood of PRs.

Yup. Most of my career has been working on embedded realtime software, so interpreted languages are right out and really only C and a subset of C++ are available. I’ve now been using Rust in that way for about nine months now and while the syntax is sometimes silly feeling, being able to not worry about some many other issues has made development much better.

That headline is a hell of a cherry pick of his full email, which itself is in a very specific context.

If you decide to give i3 a try, I recommend this repo as a sane starting config: https://github.com/shreyas-a-s/debian-i3

My current solution is usually to just make a bunch of stupid match statements and fix whatever clippy complains about. Then if any remain be sure to “accidentally“ tag the friendliest rust expert I know on the PR and see if they say anything.

edit: They usually say something like, “you could replace those matches with a and_else, map_err, unwrap_or, and_then? and a filter_map.”