# Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
> The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments...
Well this is... probably one of the most chaotic Sound Canvas MIDI compositions I've seen. File name: arm_daue. Internal title: DAUERND ( NUCLEAR GEAR ) Composed by ARM. MIDI: drive.google.com/uc?id=1xNt1LC…. Original LZH: web.archive.org/web/2018100214….
#Framework16 performance issues continued. It took 117 seconds to run git status on the #HardenedBSD ports tree. The screenshots show a VM with 6 vCPU and 32GB vRAM.
For the first couple hours, when the system boots cold, filesystem access is just about as instantaneous as it ought to be. But after around six hours of uptime, the brand spanking new NVMe SSD starts going sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. Practically unusable when it gets like this.
You can see in the top output that the CPU is mostly stuck in the kernel.
Because of a stupid event from last week, I decided to sequence the first few bars of Phil Collins 'Take Me Home" on my Ableton Move, with emphasis on trying to get the drum pattern and drum sounds as close to the original as possible.
The song uses Roland TR-909 drums for everything except the Cabasa sound.
There is no way I will ever quite get the DX7 e-piano sound right, so I used something that sounds close enough except for the high-end. I couldn't quite get the chorus sound on the e-piano right. It's too stereo, and sounds weird when collapsed to mono.
The Move doesn't really have a gated reverb, required for the clap sound, so I just resampled it with reverb, and faked the gate effect with an envelope curve.
Came out good man! Congrats for not grabbing the first Karioke search result on YouTube and saying you did it (which is what happened last time I heard a remake of this).
@Scott I mean, I could have done that, but it's way more fun wasting a bunch of time trying to get stuff right that nobody but me actually cares about in a limited environment where it's almost impossible to do such things without compromise.
Tonight join @Liz, for Full Circle from 7 P.M. eastern (US time). Their will be a showcase, and in the third hour will be the next episode of Chickenman. So tune in tonight, and see who is hiding in the showcase. HKCRadio.com
Okay, running into some WTF-ery in the realm of network layer operations and security.
So, I have this network. It has some border routers, and inside the border routers are some core routers. I saw a message on a core router (so, one full device behind the outside edge of my network) that said this: > ospf[1027]: %ROUTING-OSPF-4-BADLENGTH : Invalid length 37614 in OSPF packet from x.x.x.x (ID y.y.y.y), HundredGigE0/0/0/0
Neither x.x.x.x nor y.y.y.y are IPs in my network or in my interior routing protocol at all. They are both several AS's away.
OSPF is based on multicast, and I can't easily see a way for it to get several hops inside my network like that. I don't think there's a way to send a unicast packet that will get read as an ospf packet by the destination host. What the heck am I looking at, here? I feel like I am missing something obvious but if so, I don't know what. (which is kind of implicit in "missing," but, you know).
Pro tip: if your Apple Watch is telling you it will take 2 hours to install a software update, just disable bluetooth on the watch. but before you do that make sure the watch itself is connected to your wifi network. that way, the watch will have to use wifi to download the update. worked like a charm when I did it just now.
@Bri sadly this behavior I remember being there even in WatchOS 4.0, nothing has changed since then. Of course back then Bluetooth was even slower on something like the Series 3, so you'd know when it would jump to using it because the update timer would jump from 30 minutes to 4 hours. Even in those early days the Wi-Fi was far faster.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
- you tried to install `requirements.txt` 18 times this year. Doing better than last year! - of the packages you installed 67% started with py, 11% python, and 6% Py. You guessed wrong 85 times. - your love for building source has no bounds, except maybe the 92 failed compiles - you updated `requests` 18 times. Urllib is feeling lonely. - the average time between updating `pip` was 97 days. But we warned you 338 times!
Hmm, I'm wondering whether there is a way to use the Eloquence community dictionary with the Android app? No idea what sort of format it requires, does anyone know more?
so, a while ago, I have been tricked into trying out a vibe-coded project. "tricked", because it wasn't disclosed anywhere, and just from screenshots and the readme, it looked fine'ish.
it was a small web-app used to upload and download files. you know, kinda like wetransfer, but self-hosted.
I gave it a quick try, and it worked well enough for the use-case I had (requesting one file from a user). except that.. chunked uploading was broken.
oh, and also: the project provided docker containers and a compose file, but.. the uploaded files weren't stored in the volume at all, they were just stored as part of the ephemeral container filesystem. very much a "you had one job, and you failed at it" kind of situation.
there was a github issue mentioning existing upload issues. I left a comment there pointing out the volatile storage, because I'm not a jerk. also, I felt it's kinda important to note somewhere, because that puts users at risk of actually losing data. that was at the end of october. just after leaving the comment, I noticed an earlier comment by the maintainer. it read:
Thanks a lot for reporting this bug! I actually struggled with the same issue during development. The v3.2.5-beta release was meant to fix it for good, sorry it didn’t work as expected. Just so you know, I’m currently working on v3.3.0-beta, where I’m rewriting all the upload/download logic from scratch.
and then it hit me: the maintainer actually had zero clue. looking at their commit history, it's pretty clear that there's very little - if any - architectural thinking. a lot of the commits were just "give up and rebuild everything", because that's what you get from GenAI: when they struggle writing code, they tend to suggest throwing everything away and starting from scratch.
anyway, I rm -rfed that project, but because I commented in a bug, I was still subscribed. just got a notification from the maintainer posting that a new "beta" is out, so of course, I checked out the commits.
the latest real commit:
[REFACTOR] Change upload and download architecture
oh dear. yes. once again, instead of fixing shit, it's just throwing away everything. and, hold your horses:
205 files changed, +28939 -15962
and sure, lots of that is also docs changes and i18n file changes, but it's literally throwing away everything and "writing it" from scratch. the docker container is now also installing and running minio, because of course that's perfectly reasonable to do. and, even funnier: the "important upgrade notes" - clearly AI generated - mention a lot of things, but what they don't mention is that if you already have uploaded files and you just build a new container... well... you'll no longer have uploaded files.
it's a total feverdream, and one of many similar stories I've seen in GenAI-driven projects. call me a hater all you want, but I, for once, am really happy about stories like that. it's been 2.5 years since people yelled at me with "GenAI will take your job in a few months", and they're still so laughably bad, that - as someone who knows how to debug and actually fix shit - am becoming less worried about my career as time goes on.
what wonderful times we're in.
(also, you can probably google these quotes and find the project and the maintainer. don't. don't harass them or their projects. for all I know, they might have the best intentions and are just heavily misguided by the fearmongering/FOMO-driven/hype-driven marketing of GenAI companies.)
Micron is shutting down Crucial, its longstanding brand for consumer-focused RAM kits and SSDs, as it shifts its attention to supplying memory for AI companies.
the Humble Bundle download experience is fucking terrible I can't even express in words how awful everything about it is.
Oh I have 175 items to download and I can click them all manually or use the "bulk download" button which DOES NOT WORK BECAUSE IT GIVES RANDOM ERRORS FOR SOME OF THE ITEMS AND STOPS DOWNLOADING
ok so I saved the download page HTML and made Qwen write a script to extract all the download links for the format I wanted, ran that through curl, and now I have the files.
I can't believe I had to resort to that, what a bullshit website
In late September, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his government’s plans to introduce a new digital ID scheme in the country to take effect before the end of the Parliament (no later than August 2029).
If you find that you're motivated to boost 20 posts in a row from one feed it might be better to merely point people to it and say hey go here it's a worthy follow. 😁🤣🤣
Me cago en todo lo que se menea. El Ayuntamiento tiene funcionando un centro sociocultural o cosa por el estilo en el bajo de mi edificio. Y los miércoles tienen coro. Y no está correctamente insonorizado.
The fact that it was possible for Cambridge UIS to “retire” Talks.cam over the objections of the entire Faculty and replace it with an expensive and unfit-for-purpose enterprise shittified program shows that the Tail is fully wagging the Dog at Cambridge now, and the days of faculty sovereignty are well and truly over.
In a partnership with Mistral AI, CNRS is deploying a locally-hosted LLM chatbot for its employees.
They provide some examples of tasks you can ask the chatbot: summarizing a long text; translating; and writing an outline for an article.
Tasks you'd want to delegate to an assistant because they're beneath you.
And then they decided it would be a great idea to "honor" Emmy Noether, one of the most influential women mathematicians ever, by naming this chatbot Emmy after her.
I cannot fully express how angry that makes me.
Can't be arsed to read something yourself? Ask good old Emmy to summarize it for you, that's right up her alley, she'll do it between proving two major results in algebra or mathematical physics, too bad she's only a website and can't make you a cup of coffee while she's at it.
@cazencott@lipn.info je viens de me rendre compte que le nom de domaine est "alan-poc". Je me demande donc quelle autre figure de l'informatique avait dû être choisie pour nommer l'outil initialement
Sometimes you just have one of those days. ^.^ Boosted from @jfmezei: Torontonian arrested in Ashland Virginia after breaking in to a liquor store, getting drunk and passing out in the bathroom. He was held until sufficiently sobered up and then released. 🙂
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Hi @JenMsft I was discussing the new start menu with a friend of mine as they were able to get access to it and I have not been able to yet. I noticed that the all section in the new start menu, when in grid or list views, contains an accessibility regression because it is no longer possible to use first letter navigation as I can in the old start menu. Several different times of running Insider builds, even with the option enabled to get the latest updates as they were available, I never received the new start menu, and I am very concerned about the gradual rollout approach because I am unable to test the features firsthand right away to be able to report accessibility findings such as this one. The only reason I knew that first letter navigation didn't work is because I explicitly asked my friend to try it. This is my biggest concern with these gradual rollouts, because I am concerned that there could be missed opportunities for catching accessibility issues. I much preferred how new features were handled in Windows 10 because I was able to immediately test the features as long as I was on the correct build, which was what kept me continuing to test Windows. I have not been involved with running insider builds nearly as often now as there's no way for me to know when I'll actually receive the feature I'm wanting to test. Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any input you may have. Thanks!
A small number of rich people with no racialised friends looked at the ICE abductions in the USA and thought it looked really cool, so now Bill C-12 is somehow getting its third reading tomorrow (the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act)
The concept of "coffee flavor" is seriously harmful to the entire coffee industry because it sets a specific expectation as for what "proper" coffee is "supposed" to taste like.
The reality is that there isn't one specific coffee flavor. What most people think of as the platonic ideal of coffee taste, the flavor that most people would describe as THE generic coffee flavor is actually so far from generic it's insane.
Practically ALL coffee available in stores and most cafes comes from just 3 regions of Brasil. The fruits are harvested with little to no quality control and then processed using the natural process since it's the cheapest. The resulting beans are then roasted very dark destroying lots of the aromatic compounds in order to reduce the flavor variety between batches and give the coffee that characteristic bitter, charcoal-like profile. The beans are then packed and shipped to stores where they often sit on shelves for upwards of 2 years, losing more flavor with each passing week. Eventually they're bought and brewed using boiling hot water to produce that intensely bitter beverage with tasting notes of cigarette ash and charcoal that we all know and hate.
This extremely specific process is how we arrive at the "general coffee flavor". Sadly, this flavor is what most coffee drinkers have come to enjoy and expect, often immediately dismissing any coffee that tastes different as "bad" or "poorly brewed". Even though coffee processed in any other way, from literally anywhere else in the world will NOT have that specific flavor profile. There is so much variety when it comes to coffee, so many possible delightful flavors and I hate that so many people are utterly unaware of that fact and unwilling to even try exploring the infinite possibilities because they're not the same as that extremely specific "generic" coffee flavor...
#Gnome is one of many open source projects I am regularly donating to. I use it every day on laptops at home, on laptop at work and hopefully one day on my daily driven phone. Do you also like it? Donate few dollars too. Be #FriendsOfGnome.
This post was contributed by the Fundraising Committee from the GNOME Foundation. This week we are launching an end-of-year fundraising campaign with a simple goal: to reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME...
aww, thank you! The mobile efforts from the community have been pretty incredible to follow—and so much of it makes GNOME better across all devices, as well. Thank you for sharing. ☺️
did you know that gnome os runs on OnePlus 6T? Postmaketos is on our advisory board as well. So we might see it. Combined with libadwaita many apps are mobile ready. That said there is still quite a lot of work ahead of us. Make sure you catch the mobile devroom at fosdem!
Of course. I am running Gnome on PostmarketOS on OnePlus 6. But it's not my main phone. It's not ready for my daily tasks yet. But it's improving over time.
Please boost and raise awareness to this well-researched article; and if possible, consider donating to him as donations is currently his only source of revenue
I still don't understand why nicco continues to minimise the harm of hyprland and ladybug? They're actively harmful to minorities, regardless if he insists on calling them conservatives instead of fascists.
@emmy I can't fault Nicco for not explicitly calling them fascists publicly.
The moment you show your full name, face, and contact information publicly while making content that call out fascists, you're putting yourself at a high risk of receiving threats from these people. At times like these, it is safe(r) to be careful with how you set your tone and present information. I follow a similar rule when writing articles.
Being sick with eg. the flu and meeting people unprotected being normalized + mysterious fatigue problems like ME/CFS that nobody understands the origin of + "huh it looks like something similar to Long Covid may be happening with the flu" = ???
@dvl I was renting a house in Miami, had bad wiring, they shipped me a UPS in 2 days. Wasn't possible to buy what I wanted at any local stores; they only sell the cheap line-interactive UPSes
also you can't beat them for batteries. They ship whatever you need including a tray if your UPS needs it, and last I checked they still give you return labels to send your old batteries back
Kara Goldfinch
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in reply to Kara Goldfinch • • •ARM's entire catelog is a lot of this sort of weirdness and I love it.
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