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guerbyon AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history

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guerbyon AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

In aviation all code and doc are available to inspectors when a catastrophic failure or near miss happens.

It's not the case for other industries, and in particular car industry is able to hide about everything software related from inspectors.

guerbyon Debian Votes to Allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI"

Lucas Nussbaum reply:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00362.html

"I produced¹ another version of the results graph, with all pairwise results and percentages, so that it's easier to read, for example, that the community is split 64%/36% between the winning option and the most popular "ban" option (Debian is created by humans). Or 61%/39% with the most popular "discourage" option. (...)

¹ obligatory disclosure: the script used is AI-generated "

And provided graph:

https://people.debian.org/~lucas/gr-2026-002/results.png

guerbyon Debian Votes to Allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI"

Detailed vote results:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html

guerbyon Debian Votes to Allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI"

Winning resolution:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/07/msg00018.html

guerbyon FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

Interesting device for those using diet to induce ketosis for diabete or mental illness care.

One great thing about the keto diet is that it is the only diet where you can be sure you follow it correctly ... by measuring your ketone levels.

And for glucose since different people will react very differently to various forms of carbohydrate (and associated foods) a CGM is always a must. (1)

(1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03719-2

guerbyon Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

Old frame.work mainboards make fantastic proxmox home servers: 3 watt idle 8 cores 64 GB RAM.

guerbyon Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

Dell latitude 7480.

usb-c port is now dead, it is soldered.

Not going to happen to my https://frame.work laptop, 10 eur part, no soldering, not even a screwdriver, and good as new

guerbyon The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes

The article talks about above 10 hours run time, is that "high intensity endurance" or something different in the context?

(Curious)

guerbyon The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes

Tim Noakes is cited in the article for his 1987 book "The Lore of Running", I wonder if people following its 2021 "Real Meal Revolution" about keto would be subject to the very same OTS or not in the long run.

guerbyon Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

Do you have a reference for the leaks? I read leaks were underestimated but I didn't find recent studies about it.

Thanks!

guerbyon FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill

Isn't diabete and metabolic syndrome way more predictive than ldl or apob?

Do you have a reference comparing the various factors?

guerbyon FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill

Documentary: The Cholesterol Code

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=57Z8bUb1P94

guerbyon Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

discourse combines web forum and email, people can use either one as they see fit.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse

guerbyon SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

In French

https://www.francenormalisation.fr/les-acteurs-de-la-normali...

If there is only knowing the norm that makes you able to follow the law that refers it then it's a "obligatory norm" and must be readable without cost.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI00004...

List of such norms in spreadhseet linked here:

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/contenu/menu/autour-de-la-loi...

guerbyon SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

Interesting, could you cite one such law and norm?

guerbyon SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

In France if a standard is mandated by law (like electrical home wiring) then it must be freely available.

I assume most democracies have similar laws, it's a basic right to know what laws you should follow ...

guerbyon Performance of Rust Language [pdf]

On https://godbolt.org/ select Ada and compiler option "-O2"

    function Square(num : Integer) return Integer is
        tab : array (0..100) of integer;
    begin
        for i in 0..101 loop 
            tab(i):=i; 
        end loop;
        return tab(100);
    end Square;

The assembly code generated is :

    sub     rsp, 8    #,
    mov     esi, 11   #,
    mov     edi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0     #,
    call    "__gnat_rcheck_CE_Index_Check"  #

Loop is not run and exeption handler is called directly.

Link : https://godbolt.org/z/qT4TsKPxz

guerbyon Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash

In the french system an appeal is basically a re-trial since the appeal court can confirm, infirm or modify the lower court verdict.

guerbyon Everything in C is undefined behavior

You're mixing specification (a language reference manual) and implementation (a given compiler, target, options, ...).

The Ada language specification says the Ada programmer can expect any Ada compiler when used in fully compliant mode to properly raise STORAGE_ERROR when a stack overflow occurs.

Only the Ada compiler writer has to deal with this, not every single programmer on every single program and platform (the UB behaviour of some languages).

In the case of GCC/GNAT the compiler manual provides insight on how to be in compliant mode per target regarding stack overflow, what are the limitations if any. You have tools to monitor and analyze you Ada code in this respect too.

guerbyon Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

That's exactly what the CEO of Mistral Arthur Mensch says in this audition before french legislators:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I20fcnkzj5A

guerbyon Everything in C is undefined behavior

Ada 83 has no UB on call stack overflow, from the reference manual :

http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/lrm-11-01.html

"STORAGE_ERROR This exception is raised in any of the following situations: (...) or during the execution of a subprogram call, if storage is not sufficient."

guerbyon I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

"I've been distro-hopping for probably twenty years. Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Arch, and most recently Fedora with KDE Plasma."

Missing : good old debian :)

guerbyon After Spain's blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

I found this video by Modo Energy interesting on why Spain has so little battery right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CwB38oLEYM

Solar Saturation & Grid Collapse: Spain's BESS Opportunity - Modo Energy

guerbyon Framework Laptop 13 Pro

"With a USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface, it reaches 1000 MB/s read and 800 MB/s write speeds. It is fast enough to run apps and even boot an operating system from"

guerbyon Framework Laptop 13 Pro

You can add extra disk via the removable slots, frame.work shop has various disk sizes.

guerbyon IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

About Tandem :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSSB7ZTSXH4

The Remarkable Computers Built Not to Fail by Asianometry

guerbyon LeWorldModel with Yann LeCun

Full title: LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels

https://github.com/lucas-maes/le-wm

Abstract: Abstract: Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) offer a compelling framework for learning world models in compact latent spaces, yet existing methods remain fragile, relying on complex multi-term losses, exponential moving averages, pretrained encoders, or auxiliary supervision to avoid representation collapse. In this work, we introduce LeWorldModel (LeWM), the first JEPA that trains stably end-to-end from raw pixels using only two loss terms: a next-embedding prediction loss and a regularizer enforcing Gaussian-distributed latent embeddings. This reduces tunable loss hyperparameters from six to one compared to the only existing end-to-end alternative. With ~15M parameters trainable on a single GPU in a few hours, LeWM plans up to 48× faster than foundation-model-based world models while remaining competitive across diverse 2D and 3D control tasks. Beyond control, we show that LeWM's latent space encodes meaningful physical structure through probing of physical quantities. Surprise evaluation confirms that the model reliably detects physically implausible events.

guerbyon Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy

Open source open hardware microinverter incoming (with certification for EU grid):

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7Q9HMF-open-solar-pow...

2025 for archive:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6...

guerbyon Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8755961/

"A narrative review on the effects of a ketogenic diet on patients with Alzheimer's disease"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S127977072...

"Effects of ketogenic diet on cognitive function of patients with Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis"

And anecdotes from the field:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86CFw0qhVc

Revolutionizing Assisted Living: Hal Cranmer's Ketogenic & Carnivore Approach to Senior Wellness / Metabolic Mind