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Menethon VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

Open-source, eh? Where's the training data, then?

Menethon Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?

KeyboardInterrupt (Ctrl+C) has been a problem wherever I've used python async. It should just work out of the box.

Menethon We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

The word "badly" means different things to different people, so I believe you could not get a majority to agree that any law to such effect is perfectly good.

Menethon OpenMower – An open source lawn mower

Looks like the software project ( https://github.com/ClemensElflein/open_mower_ros ) uses GPL-3.0.

Menethon Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?

Mozilla cites what appears to be an auto-translated abstract of a chinese science paper:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

"China takes a different approach to protect the ad-based business model under unfair competition law and bans ad blocking software directly by regulation. The Chinese courts held that providing ad blocking software is anti-competitive under a vague general principle of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law."

Menethon The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

Quality is being sacrificed on the altar of Moloch [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140730043944/http://slatestarc...

Menethon Why is the Rust compiler so slow?

And the majority of the Rust standard library uses `unsafe`.

Menethon -2000 Lines of code

NoScript link: https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

Menethon Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy

National sovereignty is valued above democracy, because respecting sovereignty avoids wars between nations.

We assume such wars are more destructive to human well-being than the lack of democracy.

That's the idea, anyway. I'm not sure how correct it is.

Menethon Ground control to Major Trial

Around 130$ million yearly revenue? Matches RocketLab.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/rocket-lab-rev...

Menethon Flattening Rust’s learning curve

Feels like a cult manual. "Do all things our way! Don't question anything!"

Menethon Plain Vanilla Web

Nice, but it's no https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

and https://thebestmotherfucking.website/

Menethon Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants

Every Wikipedia page links to their sources. Have you tried reading those?

Menethon I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt

Upon seeing the term "school lunch debt", I was confused. My country has had free school lunches for all students since before I was born. Not a matter of economy or socialism, I thought, for everyone can afford food, but just convenience.

"7-year-old clarity" indeed.

Menethon An Interactive Debugger for Rust Trait Errors

Feels like Zig's comptime call stacks would make for better error reports than these Rust Traits.

Menethon Evolving OpenAI's Structure

So you assume a superintelligence, so powerful it would see humans as we see ants, would not destroy our habitat for resources it could use for itself?

Menethon I use zip bombs to protect my server

On my Waterfox 6.5.6, it opened but remained blurry when zoomed in. MS Paint refused to open it. The GIMP v2.99.18 crashed and took my display driver with it. Windows 10 Photo Viewer surprisingly managed to open it and keep it sharp when zoomed in. The GIMP v3.0.2 (latest version at the time of writing) crashed.

Menethon Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools

They would drive to and from the store. Drinking what they bought is a different matter.

Menethon LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them

Anything that amplifies a worker's speed will cause some layoffs if the amount of work needed doesn't change.

Menethon Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

I would suspect that if something is exclusively on GitHub, then it's not important.

There are many important Free Software projects such as GNU and Linux, and they've always stayed away from GitHub.

Menethon Open Source Mythology

The license says "you may not distribute the software or new works based on the software".

Komorebi's readme says "Anyone is free to make their own fork of komorebi with changes intended either for personal use or for integration back upstream via pull requests."

These texts seem to contradict each other, especially as there's no way to make a fork on GitHub without also distributing the software.

If I put on my "totally-uncharitable" hat, it seems this author, and the author of the "PolyForm Strict License" on which it was based, are stupid, self-righteous and don't understand the basics of copyright licensing.

Menethon Social media platforms are removing vital info on reproductive health

Putting any vital information on social media platforms was/is a poor idea.

Menethon The number line freaks me out (2016)

And the logical conclusion of that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...

Menethon What's happening inside the NIH and NSF

Side note: the article's author is Derek Lowe, who also wrote this memetic piece on Chlorine Trifluoride: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo...

Menethon Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours

I just tested my pair of Seagate drives. Their "Power-on Hours" are the same between SMART and FARM logs (via smartctl).

Menethon Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

Subaru Starlink is not the same as SpaceX Starlink.

Menethon Liberux: Linux phone

https://mastodon.social/@Liberux

Joined Sep 19, 2024. 0 posts.

Menethon C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us

From the backtrace, it seems strerror_r is not thread-safe, since it calls __dcigettext which calls getenv.

A similar bug related to setlocale was found in 2007 and fixed in 2014. That bug did not take getenv/setenv into account. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5443