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After a long period of inactivity for vision language models, llama.cpp merged the support for MiniCPM-V-2.5. Hopefully the support for 2.6 is also on the way soon. #LLM #Multimodal #AI #ML
huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM…
huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM…
github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp…

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in reply to Chi Kim

Ah, the description was under the second link. I clik on the first one, of course! Have to try it though before I believe the claims. So many people claim to outperform OpenAI these days! :)
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 You can't trust numbers from benchmarks alone, but I'm waiting for InternVL2-Llama3-76B which is #1 on MMBench! GPT-4o (0513 is #3, the old original GPT-4V-1106 is #31, and MiniCPM-Llama3-V2.5 is #35. mmbench.opencompass.org.cn/lea…


linux-game-manager
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Reorganized how addons are found and added when loading games. As a side affect, fixed a major bug with the way the latest version of the game is loaded.


Decided to start posting images to Mastodon for my zero followers as well as Instagram. We’ll see how it goes!


Okay so let's talk about tech company map racism.

This is a section of my town. My town has a LOT of restaurants — so many that some are left off of maps to make room.

It also has one neighborhood that's largely Dominican.

Guess whose restaurants aren't listed.





X has always had a bot problem, but now scammers are utilizing the Ukraine war and earthquake warnings in Japan to entice users into clicking on fake content warnings and videos that lead to scam adult sites, malicious browser extensions, and shady affiliate sites.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…



The July 2024 Reproducible Builds project report is out!

* Reproducible Builds Summit 2024 in Hamburg in September
* "Pulling Linux up by its bootstraps" in LWN by @setupminimal
* Idempotent Rebuilds
* AROMA: Automatic Reproduction of Maven Artifacts
* Android R-B at IzzyOnDroid @IzzyOnDroid
* And much more!

reproducible-builds.org/report…

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Do people who live in Europe ever have to grapple with this insanity? I’ll move tomorrow if the answer is “no”.


War heute mal wieder in #Güstrow. #Barlachmuseum. Wunderschöne Gebäude und beeindruckende Skulpturen, tolles Licht.


The Commodores were a 70s funk / soul group with hits such as "Easy like PET BASIC", "Once, Twice, Three times I've had to do the tape drive head alignment", and "Keep on loading".

#RetroComputing #RetroGame #RetroGaming #Commodores #LionelRichie #Commodore #C64

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I just had to share this one!

Notable is a user-friendly tool designed for managing and editing your personal wiki.
It is a single executable that embeds feather.wiki, a versatile, lightweight and accessible wiki tool.
I created this as a quick solution when I couldn't find a local personal-wiki tool that fit my needs.

Find Notable here:
github.com/mush42/notable

#TechTips

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in reply to Musharraf

Have you considered using Redbean for this? Tat would allow for true portability, with one executable file across all platforms. redbean.dev
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki
That's actually an excellent idea. I'll keep it in mind for future improvements.
I didn't plan for this, it was a 30 minute excursion.
in reply to Musharraf

Very nice! It might be good to add some kind of interface that stops the server when you're done or re-open the wiki after you've closed it, otherwise it appears to just live in the background and open multiple instances if you open the executable again (at least in Windows).
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@FeatherWiki
I think an extension is a good option to implement that.
Will work on it ASAP.
in reply to Feather Wiki

I think only a single instance is running at the time. Subsequent instances eventually die as they try to bind to the same port.
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Phone René Magritte — new Treachery of Images has just dropped


Before the Internet, if you wanted to update your Debian install, you’d have to drag your computer all the way here. Linux users have it so easy these days


I think about this song every now and then. I do not know why.

youtube.com/watch?v=jtgA0jvhp2…

in reply to Patrick

Reminds me in spirit to some songs by RotFront, like Vodka & Garlic: youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BObSlMPX…


I believe the APH Braille Plus might have been one of the most innovative mobile devices for our community when it was released in 2007. But 17 years later, how does this device hold up? My latest video explores this, and the answer may surprise you. youtube.com/watch?v=R6Pt5iAOin…
in reply to Cullen Gallagher

Marc Malcahy is one of the most gifted developers ever to work in the AT industry. Amazon is lucky to have him.
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

@JonathanMosen I loved working with Mark and his family on the Icon/Braille Plus. Sadly I wasn't able to give them financial support at the time. If there was one team in the at industry that deserved financial support, it was them.


Got gifted a chilli growing kit years ago, and only managed to get it properly planted recently. It took a bit to get going, and at first we thought the seeds had spoiled; but now we’re finally getting a steady supply of 70-80k scoville chillies without having to hunt them down in shops
in reply to Emmanuele Bassi

nice. it seems like most people on here are secret pepper gardeners. :p
in reply to Hylke 🍵

@hbons Have never managed to make one last more than one growing season. What's the secret?!
in reply to Calum

@scottishwildcat @hbons these are Apache chilli peppers, so: sun, and not watered a lot. They are also self-pollinating, so you need to brush the flowers when they open up. This plant has lasted two seasons, and it's very low maintenance, which is great because I can kill anything that is green either by obsessing on it too much, or by forgetting it exists the second I leave the room.
in reply to Emmanuele Bassi

This former professional chili farmer/breeder is proud of you guys. If you ever get inspired and have a sunny window or can move a plant in and out for freezing weather, try one of the C. pubescens varieties. These are very hot, high altitude varieties that produce all year and like coastal environments. Here in the PNW they can produce all winter if they don't freeze. They produce fruit in cooler weather than C. annum.

They are colloquially known as "manzano" or "rocoto" and you'll know you've gotten the right thing if the seeds are black. Cuttings from your local chilihead will work too.



Dneska jsem dal svůj osobní rekord na 5km! 🥳🏃🏼‍♂️
00:34:52 (hh:mm:ss)
strava.app.link/u9gsrNoDWLb

#AppleWatch #sport #running #běh #běhání #sportovani #AppleHealth #Strava #fitness

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in reply to Archos

@archos Mockrát díky! ✌️😃

Doufám, že se budou mé výkony zlepšovat. 🙏🏃🏼‍♂️

in reply to Jan Sobotka

Určitě, kdyz budeš běhat pravidelně, tak to bude rychlovka 👍👍


With the help of @emersion , @drakulix and others, we now have a new screen capturing protocol for Wayland. I wrote a blog post about it here: andri.yngvason.is/making-a-way…
in reply to Sebastian Wick

@swick @YaLTeR @matt I'm not sure whether that implies that you want to say things about me that are against the CoC, or whether that implies the CoC committee doesn't take matters seriously by putting their alleged personal interests first, or banning as a second thought. Both options sadden me a lot.
in reply to Simon Ser

@swick I'm taking the liberty of removing a few people from the mentions, in case they don't want to keep watching this subthread. I feel I should do this because I started this subthread. I'm OK with staying on the thread myself, unless you think it would be better to remove me since I'm a relative outsider to the space (I'm working on a protocol extension for accessibility).

I hope this can be resolved peacefully so all the compositor developers can work together on common goals.



@bagder a very belated reply to your 'Rust in curl' talk from curl-up ... I think we should deprecate hyper support ... if not mainly in that rust people just use plain ole curl rust bindings crates.io/search?q=curl .... even rust crate tool uses it. We could investigate if there is anything we can do to make those bindings work better.
in reply to Jim Fuller

yes, it is certainly in line for deprecation. The only reason we have not pushed for that further just yet is that ISRG said they might have an engineer "soon" to work on it. It now seems that maybe was incorrect.


according to Steam stats, there are now more users with Linux than Mac. Steam Deck probably helped quite a bit I'm guessing. store.steampowered.com/hwsurve…


Nebojte nezapomněl jsem, sice točená #birellovka to není, ale jedu k našim na chatu, tak aspoň z pumpy v Kraslicích.
#cyklovýlet


iOS versions: Every version of iOS from the oldest to the newest macworld.com/article/1659017/i…


Doctor Who stories: How The Enemy of the World became a forgotten classic blog.lovarzi.co.uk/doctor-who-…

in reply to Archos

Jojo. Byl velký asi jako teď jeho hlava. 👍 Mrňavý píďa.


"We keep pretending that the pandemic is done and over, but it keeps knocking us off our feet"

#COVID

Noah Lyles' collapse underscores our collective COVID denial | Salon.com
salon.com/2024/08/10/noah-lyle…

in reply to Mark W. Alexander

Thank you for sharing this Salon article on collective denialism. It touches so many subjects including Olympic athletes competing with covid, Taylor Swift superspreader concerts, surveillance of cases and deaths, how covid is not a cold or flu but a multisystemic disease that leads to disability in kids and adults, economic fallout, vaccination, and finally MASKING for mitigation. Superb article that needs a wider audience.
salon.com/2024/08/10/noah-lyle…
#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp

in reply to ronny

@ronny
Je tam hrozně čistá voda. Máme to hned za barákem. Parádní místo 👍
vary.rozhlas.cz/medard-je-nejv…


A great article from Awful Announcing, and I totally agree NBC finally, finally figured out the Olympics.
How NBC found the golden touch for the 2024 Paris Olympics
awfulannouncing.com/olympics/n…


Something in @pluralistic’s @defcon talk has been sitting with me all day. To summarise badly:

Tech workers were looked after when it was a scarce skill. The layoffs make it clear it isn’t as scarce anymore.

As the saying goes - the future is here just not evenly distributed.

Abused amazon delivery/warehouse workers are the tech worker future.

The only defense is to unionise.

Update: A recording of the talk is now out defcon.social/@defcon/11314983…

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Dobré ránko slůňátka a prima neděli 😘🍀🌞☕️ šla bych na houby.... ale musím do práce 🤭😉


I reached a new level of Pagliacci'ing myself: I googled something and got exactly one result: ME.


Elon Musk having freedom of speech explained to him by a parody account of a cat is very 2024...


Yesterday, I learned from a friend that the software running the Evo E10 daizy book reader/digital recorder for the blind is based on, of all things, OpenWRT. Wait... what?
Of course, you won't find that in any of the documentation. This friend only found out because he decided to telnet to the IP address associated with the E10 on his network.
Also, the official website for this thing has an abundance of fantastic English.
vin-vision.com/html/daisy_play…
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in reply to Rui Batista

@ragb I mean, sure, why not? It's tiny. I just ... didn't expect to see that in such a context.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

couple years ago I met a guy from this company at Sight City in Germany. Communication was kinda fun.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

I mean… The famous BTSpeak is basically a Raspberry Pi in a fancy box with a bunch of Linux software updated with git pull, as far as I'm informed.



✍️ Napsala jsem pro @enkocz článek o tom, čemu se věnujeme ve vzdělávacím spolku Aignos. ❤️🔓 Odemčený text najdete tady: denikn.cz/1487838/myslite-ze-b…


It's called quishing when a criminal gets you on the hook via a QR code and you hand over personal information such as credit card details, passwords and your home address.

There are many hooks in our everyday environment today.

QR codes are found in hotels, gas stations, museums, restaurants, medical centers and many other places you trust. It takes a second for a criminal to cover a QR code with his own sticker. How would you tell the difference?

Via the fake QR code you are guided through a flow that feels like what you expect. It's just controlled by someone with nefarious intent.

The German magazine Auto Motor Sport reported earlier this week about how this affects gas stations. per.ax/autoqr

Imagine scanning a QR code at a charging station to start charging your electric car. You enter your credit card details and press start. But the charging doesn’t start. Because you just gave your card details to a criminal who put their own QR code sticker on the charging station.

A clever criminal will perhaps display an error message on the web page and redirect you to the real supplier, enabling you to start charging for real. In which case you may not even notice that money is being covertly withdrawn from your account until much later... or blame the charging supplier who is completely unaware...

But of course it doesn't just affect charging stations. It can happen anywhere.

Queuing systems at sampling locations increasingly rely on QR codes here in Sweden. Let's say a criminal covers this code with their own. You will arrive at a page that asks if you want to join the queue or pay the patient fee of 50 kronor in advance. You may know that you do not have to pay a patient fee. But does everyone know that? Maybe some will bite and pay.

If you join the queue, you will be directed to the correct queue. So not much to react to. And if you have paid the 50 kronor, you will then also be led to the correct queue.

The fake QR code can therefore go undetected for a long time.

As a company, do you know if someone perhaps has already covered your code and is quietly using it to create intermediate flows that steal personal data, or money? Do you have routines to check this? In some places, fake QR codes may live on year in and year out. Like a dripping data leak.

QR codes are in many cases a really, really bad idea from a security and privacy perspective. And it can be a real setback for your brand if people are duped on your premises. Or on your products.

So, do you encourage people to scan, or do you warn?

If I see a QR code in everyday life, I also see many ways to intercept and abuse it.

How did this vulnerability appear just about everywhere? It's as if QR codes have completely gone under the radar of security departments.

I will restructure this post for my blog/newsletter later, but didn't want to wait with my warning, after seeing the clear example from charging stations.



It's time for ice cream! 🍦 😎

Enjoy your weekend and the sun. 🌞