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3Blue1Brown[1] has opened my eyes on the intuitive understanding of linear algebra, many, many years after taking a first course in linear algebra, which left me completely mystified.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
Interview with Mark Graham, director of Wayback Machine, and Chris Freeland, director of library services at the Internet Archive.
Fond memories of Knoppix from when I was younger. Many many thanks to the authors.
Thanks for asking, I had to search the quote since I recalled it from memory. I couldn't find it, but here's the closest I got [1]. The disdain and arrogance of this person is just incredible.
"I don't know how to make a screenshot"
Linus Torvalds often says that he does not know how to do X (like install a Linux distribution, or other simple stuff). I wager that it's a status thing.
If anything, LLM's seem more resistant to propaganda than any other tool created by man so far, except maybe the encylopedia. (Though obviously this depends on training.)
How would you know? My first thought is that the data on which LLMs are trained is biased, and the commercial LLMs enforce their own "pre-prompts".
It's a shame
No, it's not. This goes against the whole thread and the article posted.
Videos that go through the xv6 source code: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbtzT1TYeoMhTPzyTZboW...
I hope these rather unorthodox leaps between linguistics and mathematics helped make it almost obvious that some words and ideas are untranslatable in practice. I also hope you don't take the analogy too seriously, because it won't go much further than this.
Phew! Thanks for clarifying.
I don't buy any appliance that has "smart" in it. Yeah, no, thanks.
Maybe a less subtle self-promotional blog post, as compared to others.
Thanks! Nice to see it has plenty of diagrams.
How does he know who is "native brit" and who is not? Rhetorical question.
I wish I had your confidence in "detecting" LLM sentences. All I can do for now is get a very vague "intuition" as to whether a sentence is LLM-generated. We know how intuitions are not always reliable.
Incredible work! I really wish the author's book had an English translation.
From what I understood, it's the torrent link that downloads a compromised zip file rather then the authentic image:
"Torrent downloads over at https://xubuntu.org/download/ are serving a zip file with a suspicious exe and a tos.txt inside. The TOS starts with Copyright (c) 2026 Xubuntu.org which is sus, because it is 2025. I opened the .exe with file-roller and couldn't find any .torrent inside."
Yes indeed. Qubes has a good article on verifying distribution images not only with checksums but also with cryptographic signatures that verify the checksum files [1].
[1] https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/project-security/verifyin...
On second thought, Qubes OS does not prevent such types of malicious downloads; it can also happen to Qubes images. Verify your downloads with checksums and cryptographic signatures [1].
[1] https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/project-security/verifyin...
That is why I use Qubes OS [1] in order to have a certain peace of mind.
EDIT: further comment below:
On second thought, Qubes OS does not prevent such types of malicious downloads; it can also happen to Qubes images. Verify your downloads with checksums and cryptographic signatures [2].
[2] https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/project-security/verifyin...
What do you find insulting about the title?
The title itself. Without reading the article, I can sense the "we are living in a stupid age" arrogant trope characteristic of the "winning" social classes.
Insulting title. Sorry, but no thanks.
At any rate, they explicitly said that they are not working with fairphone [1]
In the link you provided, this is what I read: "An in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite."
Compatible with SQLite. So it's another database?
I don't understand the people trying to convince others that this tool is useless by saying "just do it this way, duh!". It is useful, even from a rapid glimpse at the website.
Be kind and sensible.
For me: Try queries without the hassle of setting up a database. Learn SQL. Experiment. Etc.
It's not just programming tutorials, but it's a phenomenon that is widespread [1].
I use Emacs and Org-Roam, and some Emacs packages. It is hosted in a VM that is not connected to the internet (a Qube in Qubes OS). I just cannot review all the code running in Emacs.
The problem is, we have to take the word of companies for our privacy.
I think it requires a twitter/X account. Why?
after Ubuntu went way downhill and haven't had cause to regret it.
In what way Ubuntu went downhill?