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dagacion AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU

Its used for improving video calls, special effects, image editing/ effects and noise cancelling, teams stuff

dagacion FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs

Just think that before 1995 (and in reality, decades later than that) most of the world would never have access to 99% of the worlds art.

And between 1995 and 2022 the amount of Art produced surpasses the cumulative output of all other periods of human history.

dagacion Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

Not to get into it here, but i believe the fancy non-lethal warnings is done for the TV audience. There are so many incidents of bombings civilian areas stretching back for decades. And the statistics for the IDF killings of children alone are off the scale.

dagacion Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

Any .org should be considering the risk of allowing devices unfettered into onto their businesses premesis which could be used to trigger remote explosions, allies and enemies.

dagacion Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

TBH Israel does not concern itself about killing bystanders generally and our western press will also laser focus on hezbullah.

dagacion Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

J*sus. I fully plan to stop going around with my iphone everywhere (until this is fully explained). We could all be 1 glitch (think CrowdStrike) away from getting lithium exploded mysteriously.

dagacion DevHub.app – Developer Utilities for macOS

This seems to be similar to DevToys (https://github.com/DevToys-app/DevToys) which runs on MacOs also on Linux and Windows.

dagacion Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years

Analysts have spoken about the situation in Sudan over time and the Risks. The talk of a real critical famine being in effect is recent.

Just to be clear the famine is deliberately being caused by occupying g*nocidal Janjaweed army (the RSF), they are besieging towns across the region destroy to prevent food production, blocking supplies and trade.

Famine is always deliberate and caused by military and political decisions.

dagacion Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years

UAE 100% will get permission (if not direction) from state department! before they start throwing arms (bought from the US) into middle eastern conflicts

dagacion Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years

Yes the situation in Sudan got worse so that it exceeded the situation in Gaza. It has been deteriorating for many months since April 2023.

The collapse of the Sudan is not directly being enflamed directly by any western power compared to the Gaza collapse. So the Sudan conflict is less interesting to us.

The Sudan collapse is being enflamed by regional powers where the UAE is funding the Janjaweed (who are officially declared a g*nocidal outfit) whereas the Sudan government actual is being supported by Iran.

The UAE might be considered a proxy for the US though but this kind of indirection makes the conflict too complicated talk about in the general media i guess.

dagacion Black Myth: Wukong Devs Told Streamers to Avoid Politics in Their Playthroughs

I only became aware of all the bruha about "Black Myth: Wukong" after i'd already bought it and my first thought was OMG is tripitaka missing ????(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8_bNY_4VF4)

Anyhow the politics and commotion only exists if you follow twitter.

dagacion Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel

Since when did Mac's become the cheap option :)

dagacion No price Microsoft could pay Apple to use Bing: Google antitrust ruling excerpts

So .. we are ... saying ... gooole pays $20 billion cause yah know ... apple is cool.?? homage

dagacion Downing Street condemns Elon Musk for claim 'civil war is inevitable' in UK

They are very similar; they can both say anything (even nonsense) and they have a tribe of sensitive people who will lose the plot if anyone challenges their statements.

The biggest problem for Musk is that he can't run for president himself. Which may or may not be a shame for the USA, but I do wish he could run for president anyhow. Perhaps trump could arrange the supreme court to fix that issue.

dagacion What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images

Mental Images (of things) 1/10, Inner Voice 9/10 (reading)

So these are be relative to what i see with my open eyes and hear with my ears. I think this is the only way you can measure.

(What i see vividly with eyes shut is more like something random a kalidescope.)

dagacion Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

If you have the hardware (24GB VRAM plus 32GB) the easiest way to run locally seems to be SwarmUI

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableSwarmUI/comments/1ei86ar/flux... (SwarmUI is cross platform and runs on macs, and linux)

dagacion Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

Open source must include source material so that another can reproduce that the model. I would expect that to be a minimum.

dagacion Torchchat: Chat with LLMs Everywhere

>> "If running windows" << All of these have web interfaces actually, and all of these implement the same openai api.

So you get to browse locally and remotely if you are able to expose the service remotely adjusting your router.

Coudflare will also expose services remotely if you wishhttps://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...

So you can also run on any LLM privately with ollama, lmstudio, and or LLamaSharp with windows, mac and iphone, all are opensource and customizable too and user friendly and frequently maintained.

dagacion Torchchat: Chat with LLMs Everywhere

If you running windows anywhere then you better off using ollama, lmstudio, and or LLamaSharp for coding these are all cross-platform too.

dagacion Microsoft Confirms New Blue Screen Warning for Windows 10 and 11 Users

Oh yes this happend to my dear mother who is using a Surface Pro 3 from 2014. I was able to login to her Microsoft account and send her the bitlocker key. I thought it might have been a pram type thing glitching, like how we used to need to reset the PRAM on the big old imac's for some reason to get it to behave...

dagacion CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent

CrowdStrike moved ahead in 2023 for some reason to be #1

dagacion CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent

Microsoft has a high share in this area but enterprise security is generally a very competivite market. Microsoft may even move into #1 position as a fallout from this debacle becasue the market share between them and the #1 CS is very small (that does not mean people actually buy more Ms btw... if that needs to be said ;)

This is not neccesarily a good thing for MSFT as it will 100% trigger regulator rage in the EU.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/917405/worldwide-enterpr...

dagacion The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?

Think more, imagine that the your CrowdStrike security layer detects an 'unexpected' kernel level data file.

Choice #1 Diable security software and continue. Choice #2 Stop. BSOD message contact you administrator

There may be nothing wrong with the drivers.

dagacion The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?

/* Acceptance criteria #1: do not allow machine to boot if invalid data signatures are present, this could indicate a compromised system. Booting could cause presidents diary to transmit to rival 'Country' of the week */

if(dataFileIsNotValid) { throw FatalKernelException("All your base are compromised"); }

EDIT+ Explanation:

With hindsight not booting may be exactly the right thing to do since a bad datafile would indicate a compromised distribution/ network.

The machines should not fully boot until file with valid signature is downloaded.*

dagacion CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Apps-and-Installations/New-D...

Is this happening with or without kernel extensions?

dagacion CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

I think you represent the schism in your own post. Retail is hyper focused on the name Microsoft and Windows. But the enterprise and technical people are focused on rolling back a bad CrowdStrike bad update. They will spend hours and even days focusing on doing that, asking why they were vulnerable to such an update and what they should have done to avert being vulnerable to a bad update.

And for them it will be a bit of a stretch to say Microsoft should have stopped us deploying CrowdStrike. I’m sure Microsoft would love to do just that and sell its own Microsoft Solution.

Now if enterprises decide to run only Linux, BSD, or MacOS would they have been invulnerable to a bad CrowdStrike update: https://www.google.com/search?q=crowdstrike+kernel+panic

No so your entire premis is fully invalidated by a single google search.

On the other had I do feel Microsoft does have life far too easy in so many enterprises, but the fault here lies as much with the competition.

dagacion CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

Most enterprises will have teams of risk and security people. They will be asking who authorized deployment of an untested update into production. If CrowdStrike deployments cannot be managed, then they will switch to a product which can be managed.

dagacion CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

Be aware that enterprise firms actively choose and "asses" who their AV suppliers are on-premis and in the cloud not imposed by msft. Googling it does seem that CrowdStrike, does have a history of Kernel Panics. Perhaps such interesting things as Kernel panic should be part of compliance checklist.

Googling it seems crowdstrike has a history of causing kernel panics.

https://www.google.com/search?q=crowdstrike+kernel+panic

dagacion Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage

A whole lot of people are running Crowdstrike in the cloud and on local PC An crowdstrike update last night caused a windows kernel panic Azure/Crowdstrike personel have spend rolled back the update in the cloud Local IT people will have to revert it from local machines manually

dagacion Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage

On the wireless they are reporting a bad Crowdstrike update and a major Azure failover in central USA as separate events, are they they the same or different?