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Ah, now it makes sense why my AI prompt last week for "Create a Spock moist towlette image" was so realistic.

Decoy Font 6 days ago

try squinting to see it

Cool effect. Reminds me of those board games that use red cellophane to reveal a secret message.

Qualcomm Linux 2.0 21 days ago

We'll see. They purposely dropped all server/console support and now only offer a Debian desktop image, which seems crazy for an SBC. Not exactly a welcome mat:

Other variants that were previously provided AS-IS are no longer provided. Interested users need to build those by themselves.

https://github.com/radxa-build/radxa-dragon-q6a

AI / NPU use cases have been severely hampered as well:

https://gist.github.com/Foadsf/3cc2e0ed357c3ac7180589701bf83...

I've personally been wrestling with their broken I2C for a couple weeks.

Really want to love this board but lots of sharp edges at the moment. Hopefully Qualcomm keeps dedicating resources to improving things - I know it's hard work!

Reminds me of the book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope" by William Kamkwamba. Good read.

Boot Naked Linux 1 month ago

the linux kernel configuration menu, a wonderful text menu system with a thousand options which has been baffling new users for about 30 years now.

So true.

In addition to C in the article and Rust linked to in the article, Go fans can use the similar https://gokrazy.org/ project.

While I tend to be cynical with big tech, if this statement is indeed true we owe them some thanks for staving off a zero day tsunami.

50 initial partners ... found more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity security flaws.