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ahendriksen

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ahendriksen··on New Laptop: Thinkpad P14s
If you read this blog post and think "Nice! I will buy the same Thinkpad and use Linux", then be aware that the previous generation P14s has serious issues with power drain in standby[0]. These issues have been not been resolved since September 2020.

In large parts of Europe, the second generation P14s is not yet available. So buyer beware!

[0] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/T14-AMD...

ahendriksen··on PyTorch 1.8, with AMD ROCm support
What do you mean by “seems to be highly explosive”? I have used Pytorch to model many non-dnn things and have not experienced highly explosive behavior. (Could be that I have become too familiar with common footguns though)
ahendriksen··on The Shame of Swedish Education: J’Accuse
Grade inflation: the same test outcome is rewarded with progressively higher grades as time goes on and pressure increases to improve grades.
ahendriksen··on I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
I have been plugging and unplugging multiple displays into my laptop since March. Usually I have emacs running locally (xwayland) and an emacsclient over X11 to a remote server. I have not experienced any issues so far. Maybe the readme is too conservative in this regard?
ahendriksen··on I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
Emacs works perfectly fine under xwayland. The recent pgtk feature branch does not use X anymore under wayland. What is not working for you?
ahendriksen··on Neutron Radiography
The disadvantage of neutron imaging is that you may have to wait two weeks until you can pick up your imaged objects.. Many objects turn radio-active due to the bombardment with neutrons.
ahendriksen··on Crowdsec: A Fail2Ban alternative written in Go
For me definitely! I have a tiny VPS running ARM that I use as a build server. I get so much SSH spam that it noticeably slows down the VPS (both with and without Fail2Ban)..

"Written in Go" signifies to me that it can be faster and more resource-efficient than Fail2Ban: a good reason to check it out.

ahendriksen··on Emacs xwidget-webkit enhancement suite
low-hanging fruit presumably.
ahendriksen··on The facts around Zoom and encryption for meetings/webinars
To me, this quote gave the impression that Jitsi developers similarly (and falsely) claim that it is end-to-end encrypted:

> Is Jitsi Meet end-to-end encrypted? #409

> ... "yes, https://meet.jit.si/ encrypts the communication, only the two clients and our server has access to them". ... [1]

In fact, "yes, .. " is an answer to the question "is it reasonable to use Jitsi Meet from an untrusted wifi network?". It was written by a user of Jitsi and not one of the developers.

A developer answers "when talking on meet.jit.si your stream is encrypted on the network but decrypted on the machine that hosts the bridge."

ahendriksen··on Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?
MEMRI is a Israeli non-profit organisation to "aid the understanding of the Middle-East". It is not by any means objective. Its goal is mostly to find inflammatory or antisemitic fragments in Middle Eastern media and provide them to a Western audience.

I looked at the fragment on the MEMRI site and it was devoid of any context. Airing a speech does not imply endorsement. (Most, if not all, American media outlets have shown Iran's Ahmadinejad tirades against Israel, for example).

tl;dr: Take Israel's PR department with a grain of salt.