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Most of them can be compiled into kernel OR as a module based on your config, some configurations require things to be built in. A lot of the platform stuff is usually compiled in to make booting faster and initramfs easier
Re:PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:14AM (#50182429)
OpenCloud had been great for me lately
1.18 is out
Re:Why the AI future will be awesome on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:04AM (#50006705)
After working with the frontier models for over a year I agree with you. Some problems are "AI shaped" but it's not a universal solution
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:35PM (#49821354)
Personally I feel like Anthropic is underrepresented in "normie" marketing, all of my non-tech savy friends only know of ChatGPT and use "ChatGPT" in the same way my mom says "Nintendo" when talking about game consoles
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:33PM (#49821316)
Is it really all that different from "deep mind beat Gary Kasparov"?
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Re:Average IQ by Country 2026 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @03:41PM (#49173923)
If this told me anything it's that most of the world falls within 5 point difference, guess we're doing good
Re: on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @07:30AM (#49167112)
Yes, right now it would be obsolete in six months, but I also must add that this never stopped crypto miners from making new ASICs. However, with how useful Kimi is right now - at some point if someone makes a dedicated hardware board with "good enough" model for daily tasks - that would be a very sought after commodity.
Re: on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:26AM (#49165766)
Speaking of ASICs - how likely is it that as models get better we'll see someone baking a whole model directly into the silicon? It's like having l0 cache.
Re:OpenPrinter on Monday July 06, 2026 @04:15AM (#48801972)
Good thing they're not selling a printer then, they're selling a parts kit that you have to flash an open source controller firmware to and assemble yourself. Or you may just source them in any way you want. You can't really "outlaw" open source, we had this whole song and dance with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @03:17AM (#48757689)
No, they use AppGallery and HMS.
Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:54AM (#48757504)
This would be the line for me. If at some point I'm unable to build an .apk and install it on my phone without Google letting me, I'm moving to Huawei.
Re:No Systemd on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:12PM (#48736837)
I swear, the more time goes on, the more I disrespect the "no to systemd crowd", not because they don't have valid arguments, but because in recent years it attracted a very *specific* kind of audience, and now it smells bad.

I've used Linux for over 20 years at this point, my first Linux computer was a PS2 console and my second one was a PS3 console. I remember the rc scripts and upstart, and I hated dealing with any of it, systemd, its timers and the user units were the most convinient change in decades. I hear so many anecdotal accounts of "sytemd destroying someone's system", yet personally it was nothing but a pleasant experience.

I think there's always needs to be an alternative, and I welcome anyone who's actually building alternative code paths and doing the work to create the alternative tools, but every time some tool gains a dependency on systemd to improve the functionality and the mob comes in complaining I can't help but get angry. It's open source. You can patch it. You can switch to something else, but instead you hurl insults at people volunteering their time to make software you run better.

Exactly. They scraped the internet we all of us built with our own research, open source work, sharing, etc. I'm never going to agree that they own their models.
Re:The 2-Year Apartment Rule on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:22AM (#48582415)
Can't say I agree. When I used to rent I lived in the same apartment for 3 years, and not a single thing changed about it.
Re:Why is IPv6 so complicated? on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:32AM (#47813931)
And that's what you should do, since you're forcing the protocol update you should take the opportunity that might not come later
Re:Khamenei Dead on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:17PM (#47199749)
Going to pour one out for all the Iranian refugees celebrating
Re:WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:26AM (#47045779)
They need it hoard datasets.
Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers on Sunday February 15, 2026 @02:11AM (#47021678)
I also use ArchWiki as my personal software configuration journal. I know I'll be back to it when I'm going to have to re-install or re-configure something, so I make sure to record any new info I discover, worked out super well for me so far.
For mobile, you can use FluffyChat, it's another Matrix app
I haven't touched XMPP for over 10 years, how's screen sharing and file sharing over XMPP doing?
Re:How Did TVs Get So Cheap? on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:09AM (#46541121)
Please just make SmartTVs unattractive and force companies to make dumb TVs again Please just make SmartTVs unattractive and force companies to make dumb TVs again Please just make SmartTVs unattractive and force companies to make dumb TVs again
Steam takes 30%, other stores take 10-20%
Re:Win32 is the stable Linux ABI on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @09:14AM (#46433497)
I mean... isn't that just X11 light compositor (like IceWM) with binfmt enabled?
Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn on Monday December 29, 2025 @07:54AM (#46420171)
After living in Italy for a few years - if you're doing worse than Italy with your train schedule it's time to reflect hard.
Ok, let's see - yuan isn't a freely traded currency, it's heavily regulated by China. From that alone it can not be used a reserve currency by anyone - unless they want to hand over all control over their assets to CCP.

The rupee is better, but there's not a lot of trust in Indian institutions globally, so black swan events are more likely. I can see it becoming a better proposition as India further matures and taps into its population more.

No, euro - that's a solid contender. Not only it's already used in a lot of countries, and therefore backed by more than one economy, the EU institutions are legit to a fault - they continuously refuse to seize Russian assets, because there's no solid legal grounds for it, despite all political will towards doing so.

That alone makes it far removed from being politically suspect in my book, unless there's some blatant case against the euro that I'm missing.

Re:VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor" on Saturday December 27, 2025 @01:04PM (#46403751)
Probably not, that would significantly lower the training data quality for any future models
Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig on Thursday December 25, 2025 @03:42PM (#46386913)
Happened a lot in browsers.

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