Apple's new Mac Mini (M2, 2023) model is one of the most powerful Macs yet. It runs macOS Ventura and is great for creative types who might be video editing. But what if you want to use a different operating system, say, Linux? Perhaps it might be for coding or any other reason. Well, the answer to that question is that you can't run Linux natively on your Mac Mini. You can, however, virtualize the Linux operating system and run it on top of macOS in the background. We have all the options for you right here.
Zorin OS and Linux Mint are two outstanding Ubuntu-based Linux distros. In this video, we'll see how they compare against each other in terms of performance, speed, stability, user interface, gaming, community support and ease of installation. Which among them is the best? Which among them is more suitable FOR You? Linux Mint or Zorin OS. Let's find out.
When you download a flatpak it's hard to know if that project is by the official developers or a 3rd party, that is until now over on the beta Flathub website, now developers are clearly labled and it even tells you how they were verified
Since I use mainly Arch Linux based distros, I often highlight pieces of software that have not yet made it into the Debian and Ubuntu repos. This makes sense since those distros tend to focus more on stability rather than having the latest software.
No matter whether you're a tech professional like me or a mere hobbyist, you should have already realized the redundancy associated with the heavy use of mouse clicks in everyday computing. Simply said, most tech geeks find it demoralizing to browse the app menu each time they want to invoke a different app.
A canny crop of useful enhancements are included in the latest update to Tokodon, an open source, Qt-based Mastodon client.
Most notably, Tokodon 23.02.0 make big changes to the post composer.
You can now enter alt descriptions for images and videos you send through the app. Alt descriptions are an important accessibility consideration, and some Mastodon instances now advise/require them by default.
On the subject of media, Tokodon’s composer shows upload progress when you share media so that you’re not left wondering whether anything is happening at all. And if a post can’t be sent you now see an error message to tell you (and if possible, the option to try again).
The clocks featured in this article are more sophisticated than the basic tray clock. Free and open source software.
Use HTTPie to test your web apps and API endpoints from the comfort of the Linux terminal.
Bash is a powerful command-line interface that can be used to perform a wide range of tasks on a Unix or Linux system. By mastering Bash commands, you can streamline your workflow, save time, and boost your productivity. In this article, we'll explore some of the most essential Bash commands that you can use every day to improve your efficiency and effectiveness.
Are you a Python programmer learning to work with PostgreSQL? If so, this tutorial on psycopg2, the PostgreSQL connector for Python, is for you. You can connect to PostgreSQL databases and run queries—all from within your Python script—using the psycopg2 adapter.
Want vertical workspaces in GNOME 43 or above?
If you do, you probably know about the Vertical Workspaces GNOME extension. It’s a well made bolt-on that (shock) brings vertical workspaces back to the GNOME desktop, similar to how things were prior to GNOME 40.
But I’m not here to talk about that – well, not specifically.
See, a major update to this extension is in development. So major in fact that the developer is rebranding the extension to V Shell.
The addition of “shell” should give users a better idea about what this extension can do as it’s now grown well beyond “just” offering a stack of vertical workspaces.
The second BETA build of the 13.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
Installation images are available for:
o 13.2-BETA2 amd64 GENERIC o 13.2-BETA2 i386 GENERIC o 13.2-BETA2 powerpc GENERIC o 13.2-BETA2 powerpc64 GENERIC64 o 13.2-BETA2 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE o 13.2-BETA2 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE o 13.2-BETA2 armv6 RPI-B o 13.2-BETA2 armv7 GENERICSD o 13.2-BETA2 aarch64 GENERIC o 13.2-BETA2 aarch64 RPI o 13.2-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64 o 13.2-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64-LTS o 13.2-BETA2 aarch64 PINEBOOK o 13.2-BETA2 aarch64 ROCK64 o 13.2-BETA2 aarch64 ROCKPRO64 o 13.2-BETA2 riscv64 GENERIC o 13.2-BETA2 riscv64 GENERICSD
Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally, the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system.
Installer images and memory stick images are available here:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.2/
The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail.
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.
If you would like to use Git to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/13.2" branch.
A summary of changes since 13.2-BETA1 includes:
o OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.2p1.
o The ahci(4) timeout on Marvell 88SE9230 has been increased.
o A bug fix to [hash]sum -c.
A list of changes since 13.1 is available in the releng/13.2 release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/relnotes/
Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.2-RELEASE cycle progresses.
=== Virtual Machine Disk Images ===
VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386, and aarch64 architectures. Disk images may be downloaded from the following URL (or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors):
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/13.2-BETA2/
BASIC-CI images can be found at:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/CI-IMAGES/13.2-BETA2/
The partition layout is:
~ 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label) ~ 1 GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label) ~ 20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB and 165 MB respectively (amd64/i386), decompressing to a 21 GB sparse image.
Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine images: a modified QEMU EFI loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be able to boot the virtual machine images. See this page for more information:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/QEMU
To boot the VM image, run:
% qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt \ -bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::4444,server -nographic \ -drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0 \ -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \ -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \ -netdev user,id=net0
Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to the virtual machine image.
Most of you know Ubuntu as a desktop operating system; others know it as an outstanding server Linux; or as a popular cloud OS. But Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, is also a serious Internet of Things (IoT) player. And after years of work, IoT release, Ubuntu Core 22.04, Canonical is offering a true real-time operating system.
A real-time operating system is one that's fast enough that it can guarantee a reaction to data within a tight, real-world deadline. Typically, real-time computing delivers results from microseconds (one-millionth of a second) to milliseconds (one-thousandth of a second). Real-time applications that take things down to microsecond latency include stock market high-frequency trading (HFT) applications. The much more common millisecond real-time processing is used in banking and telecom applications, digital ad networks, and self-driving cars. Us? People? We have average reaction times of around 250 milliseconds.
According to Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's CEO, "The real-time Ubuntu kernel delivers industrial-grade performance and resilience for software-defined manufacturing, monitoring, and operational tech."
These days, everyone seems to turn to robots for automating tasks in the physical world. But robots are often clumsy and unreliable — not to mention expensive.
Though the situation is improving, it can still be difficult to find a Raspberry Pi in stock. Meanwhile, companies from around the world continue to offer their own alternatives to the world's most popular single-board computer. A product of Polish Electronics Maker EVEO, the Urve Board Pi (opens in new tab) has identical dimensions and a nearly-identical layout to the Raspberry Pi 3B / 3B+ but throws in unique features such as an M.2 SSD port, a real-time clock and a power-over-Ethernet (PoE) connector.
Available now for the equivalent of $90 (opens in new tab)on Polish web store TEM, the Urve Board Pi has an all-white PC PCB that's the same 85 x 56 mm size as the Pi 3B and it has pretty-much the same ports in the same locations so it should fit into a case that would accept a Pi 3B / 3B+.
TL;DR: No, it's not safe. I show race conditions that could happen to any View, and consider AsyncLayoutInflater.
Stress occurs when there is a perceived imbalance between demands and resources. It is therefore important to address stressors, perception and resources when dealing with stress, as often the importance of resources is overlooked.€ Resources are keyResources are the aspects
Around 2,340 flights were to be canceled, affecting almost 300,000 passengers, said the German Airports Association.
Todd Hayen “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” Kurt Cobain What is paranoia? Usually the condition is coupled with another mental malady: schizophrenia, due to the psychosis brought about by that particular mental illness.
Simon Elmer “If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the mainspring of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing but swift, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.
Turkey's hospitals are full of€ patients€ injured in the earthquakes, and many of the millions left homeless in the cities have left for rural areas to find refuge with relatives, making it harder for sick people to find medical assistance. A group of Turkish and French paramedics has been travelling to rural areas to respond to this need. FRANCE 24's Thameen Al-Kheetan, Julien Chehida and Brice Agier-Grégoire accompanied the team on a visit to a village near Adiyaman.
More than 45,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, and the toll is expected to soar with some 264,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many still missing in the country's worst modern disaster.
The New York Times has the most robust online archives of any newspaper, but it’s proving difficult to square their handling of a recent controversy with the quality of those archives.
As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I believe the termination of the AATIP (which lead to the creation of TTSA) to be a result of the AATIP's failure to address the DoD's actual concern: that UAP represented a threat to airspace sovereignty.
I just used a lot of four- and five-letter acronyms without explaining them. These topics were all discussed in the previous post and if you are not familiar with them I would encourage you to read it. Still, I will try to knock it off. Besides, now there is a new set of four- and five-letter acronyms. The end of the AATIP was not the end of the DoD's efforts to investigate UAP. Instead, military UAP research was reorganized, first into Naval intelligence as the UAP Task Force, and later in the cross-branch military intelligence All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO.
It is unclear exactly what the AARO has accomplished. As a military intelligence organization, the DoD will not comment on it. Most of what we know comes from legislators briefed on the program, like Sen. Gillibrand and Sen. Rubio. In various interviews and statements, they have said that AARO's work is underway but hampered by underfunding---underfunding that is, embarrassingly, a result of some kind of technical error in defense appropriation.
His paper was called “the miracle result.” But it never turned into an Alzheimer’s treatment. Now, four former Genentech senior scientists and executives allege that an internal review in 2011 discovered the paper had been based on fabricated research — and that Marc Tessier-Lavigne kept the results of the review from becoming public. He denies the allegations.
Marc Tessier-Lavigne sent faculty and staff an email Friday stating that The Daily's reporting on allegations that his Alzheimer's research contained falsified data was "replete with falsehoods." Daily Editor in Chief Sam Catania ’24 said the paper stands by its reporting.
Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24 last year, thousands of Ukrainian refugees have enrolled in the French school system. As they adapt to their new daily routine, their teachers look back at how the integration process went.
The number of drownings nationwide last summer exceeded the 10-year average by 44 percent, while New South Wales is presently having “one of our worst summers on record.”
The moves sets the stage for the agency to issue tighter controls on mercury, a neurotoxin emitted by power plants.
After a train accident caused hazardous chemicals to spill and burn in their community, residents of East Palestine, Ohio, await answers on their long-term safety.
Repairing the damage from chemical spills like the one in Ohio start with mending faith in government.
By Ludovic Ehret, Wang Jiawei, and Vivian Lin With China’s dropping of its “zero-Covid” policy, makeshift quarantine centres and testing booths are being repurposed as mini-libraries, information points or even housing. Since Beijing suddenly abandoned its hardline virus control measures in December after almost three years...
Twitter users will soon have to use an authenticator app or a security key to be able to use two-factor authentication if they're not a Blue subscriber. The website has made text-based 2FA an exclusive feature for members paying for its subscription service. Non-Twitter Blue members can no longer activate it if they haven't yet, but those who've already been using it will have until March 20th to disable the method and enable another type of authentication. Twitter will simply disable their 2FA if they fail switch before that date.€
“The vulnerabilities have less attack complexity than previously observed variants, but they maintain a critical security impact that can lead to remote code execution,” Unit 42 said in its report on the new variant.
The U.S. says it’s punching back in the digital cold war over emerging technologies with a new “Disruptive Technology Strike Force.”
“Our goal is simple but essential—to strike back against adversaries trying to siphon off our best technology,” a deputy attorney general said.
Phishing-scam training has become a commonplace requirement in many workplaces these days. But not everyone is adhering to its lessons.
When emails from a fake paving company landed in the inbox of an accounting assistant working for a small Ohio city last month, the assistant was hooked.
A former 111 call centre advisor has been found guilty and fined for illegally accessing the medical records of a child and his family.
Martin Swan, 56, from Pinner, London, worked as a service advisor at the NHS 111 call centre in Southall when he illegally accessed the records.
Lancashire County Council has referred itself to the Information Commissioner's Office following a data breach involving its new HR and finance system.
At this point there is no evidence that personal data has been publicly available, only that this information has been visible to internal users should someone want to find it.
This breach occurred as a result of the implementation of the new HR and finance system and not an external cyber attack.
The system, which was introduced just before Christmas, is used by Lancashire County Council, West Lancashire Borough Council, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service and Lancashire schools and academies.
A Scots cancer patient had hit out after discovering his confidential medical records were 'inappropriately' accessed by a member of NHS Lothian staff amid a major data breach. Martin Laing received a letter from the health board last week informing him of the incident, which is understood to have affected around 90 people.
The 57-year-old, who is suffering from leukaemia and pancreatic cancer, has spoken to Police Scotland - who are investigating - but feels he has been 'left in the dark' about the circumstances of the breach. Martin, from Blackburn, West Lothian, said: “I’m involved in this through no fault of my own and yet I’m being kept in the dark as to who did it, as to what they were intending on doing or whether they’ve actually done anything with the records already.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault, the latest in a string of attacks from the group that have shaken many Pakistanis’ sense of security in recent months.
Russia has committed "crimes against humanity" in Ukraine, US Vice President Kamala Harris told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, with its forces having conducted "widespread and systemic" attacks on the country's civilian population.
Western support for Ukraine has been top on the agenda at the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of heads of states, officials, diplomats, and experts that is under way in Germany.
Canadian law students are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Canada. Mélanie Cantin is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada and a 2L at the University of Ottawa.
A terrorist attack at a police building in Pakistan's Karachi on Friday night has killed at least three people and injured 10.
Amnesty International Friday reported that members of the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group killed at least 20 men and raped “scores of women” in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The three-day state visit by Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi to China on February 14-16 is a landmark event affecting regional politics and international security.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that promotes the peaceful use of nuclear energy and works to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
Pakistan army is one of the most acclaimed institutions in the world for combating domestic and foreign intrusions.
Japan's foreign minister meets his Chinese counterpart on the Munich Security Conference sidelines.
Since the start of the war, tens of thousands of Muslims have either picked up arms or assisted in the war efforts in other ways. While most of these Muslims are of course Ukrainian, many are from Caucasus, and Chechnya in particular. Together with the Ukrainians, they are not only defending Ukraine and its values, but fighting a common enemy: Russia. FRANCE 24’s Raid Abu Zaideh and Anaïs Guérard report from the front line.
Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv put up a fierce resistance when Moscow's forces launched their full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Russian troops eventually withdrew back to their side of the border, 40 kilometres north of Ukraine's second largest city. But one year on, the people of Kharkiv are still living under the constant threat of Russian missile strikes.
The death toll from an attack blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria has risen to 68, a war monitor said Saturday, the deadliest attack in over a year.
Five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to second-degree murder and other charges in the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, with his mother saying afterward that none of them would look her in the eye in court.
The state media said the missile flew 989km to an altitude of 5,768km for 4,015 seconds.
North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile Saturday which landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone, Seoul and Tokyo said, after Pyongyang warned of a strong response to upcoming US-South Korean military drills.
It was the North’s first test of a long-range missile in three months, and came as the country warned of strong countermeasures against joint military drills by the United States and South Korea.
At least two civilians were wounded and the windows of several homes shattered in the city of Khmelnytskiy in western Ukraine on February 18 as Russia launched missiles from the Black Sea, Ukrainian authorities said.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on February 18 he met with the chief executive of German defense manufacturer Rheinmetall to discuss future supplies of tanks and armored vehicles to Ukraine.
The risk of a disaster at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine due to fighting or the loss of external power remains high despite the threat having fallen from the headlines, the head of Germany's Federal Office for Radiation Protection said.
War by Other Means tells the story of those conscientious objectors who did not cooperate with the government's alternative-service schemes.
A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, which Beijing denies was a government spy vessel, spent a week flying over the United States and Canada before being shot down off the Atlantic Coast earlier this month on U.S. President Joe Biden's orders.
Oksana Kovtun, 39, shared with The Post how she's helped refugees and soldiers in the year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The former security guard, who was caught in an undercover operation, had pleaded guilty to passing secret information to the Russian authorities.
Foreign Affairs Minister Edgars RinkēviÃÂs (JV) has decided to include three more Russian citizens –€ Damir€ Sadreyev, Alexey Shvecov, and Vitaly Sokolov – in the list of personae non gratae€ for€ Latvia...
Speaking in Munich, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris called for the international community to hold accountable Russian perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
Cotton farmers in Texas suffered record losses amid heat and drought last year, new data shows. It’s an example of how global warming is a “secret driver of inflation.”
It's not just international police trying to hold Terraform Labs accountable for a collapse that took $40 billion from investors.
The French government's plans to raise the retirement age to 64 from 62, which has led to widespread protests, moved on to the Senate after a tense parliamentary debate ended on Saturday.
With well-heeled tourists replaced by penniless refugees from Venezuela, Peru, and Ecuador, revenue has plunged.
In the context of international proposals to use frozen Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine, the Swiss Federal Council sought official clarification on the legal basis for any such action.
One of the recent trends that has been promulgated by the authorities in the advanced economies is friend-shoring, namely directing economic activity towards those countries that share the values and principles of the advanced world. The term friend-shoring is related to the concept of “onshoring,” i.e. the process of transferring of supply chains back home...
There was a surprise for government-watchers when it was reported that our new bosom buddies in Saudi Arabia had been told there were now no Covid-related restrictions at all in Hong Kong. This was, at best, a rather slippery use of language.
With England facing hundreds more cuts to bus services due to the ending of government support [1], the Green Party is calling for the introduction of a €£1 single fare on all routes across the country.
Coined, ‘A One Pound Fare to Take You There,’ the policy seeks to increase usage of buses - passenger levels in most areas have never fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
The Greens are also calling for free bus travel for everyone under 21, and protection of existing schemes such as free local bus travel for over 60s in many areas.
They say these incentives must be coupled with huge investment in new buses and bus services and to ensure there are no cuts to existing services. They also want to re-regulate bus services with all regions operating a franchise system, where local authorities determine routes and frequencies, as is currently the case in London and Manchester.
The Green Party say they would pay for bus service improvements by scrapping the €£27bn road building programme - diverting this money to public transport - and allocating a proportion of their proposed carbon tax [2] to fund the €£1 fare and free travel for under 21s.
Dora Moono Nyambe, a Zambian teacher, used TikTok to share videos of daily life in her village and drew millions of followers. Thanks to the donations from her fans, she plans to bring education to hundreds of rural African children.
Israel on Saturday condemned the "severe" expulsion of a senior diplomat from the African Union summit, accusing arch-foe Iran of orchestrating the move with help from Algeria and South Africa.
China's top diplomat Wang Yi on Saturday blasted the US reaction to what Washington has called a Chinese spy balloon as "hysterical and absurd", in uncharacteristically strong remarks against the top Western power.
When COVID-19 and the U.S. government stopped kids from seeing each other, social media was their lifeline.
Elon Musk’s shambolic takeover may not have been great for Twitter, but it was fantastic for Mastodon.
Hungary must bolster the independence of its judiciary "very soon" to stand a realistic chance of getting any of the 15.4 billion euros ($16.5 billion) envisaged for Budapest from the European Union's COVID recovery stimulus
Britain offered to help other countries that were willing to send aircraft to Ukraine now, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on February 18, as he urged allies to maintain their support in the war against Russia.
The U.S., British, French, and German foreign ministers on February 18 expressed concern over the deepening cooperation between Russia and Iran, the manufacturer of drones the West says Moscow deploys in Ukraine.
There’s no evidence China sent the last three unidentified objects shot down by U.S. military, president says.
The review is being criticized as a distraction from pressing challenges in the economically lagging country.
The Israeli battle over proposed laws to weaken the judiciary is spurring warnings of a national emergency and a sense of disbelief among protesters that democracy is being threatened.
The Indian Income Tax Department Friday revealed that they uncovered irregularities in the BBC’s accounting books following a search of the broadcaster’s offices. In a statement, the tax authority said that a survey action was carried out across the broadcaster’s Delhi and Mumbai offices which found “several discrepancies and inconsistencies” regarding the company’s tax declarations.
Tesla has denied that it terminated employees at its Buffalo, New York Autopilot facility in response to a new union campaign.
The dead appeared to have suffocated inside a secret compartment under a load of lumber.
Migration is one of the bloc's major issues, resulting in internal divisions among its members, said an EU Commissioner.
Catalog zones are specially-formatted DNS zones that allow for easy provisioning of zones to secondary servers. The zones listed in a catalog zone are called member zones, and when a catalog is transferred and loaded on a secondary with support for catalog zones, the secondary creates the member zones automatically. This is a DNS server integral method for provisioning secondary servers without having to manually configure each secondary (even if it is via configuration management). BIND was the first server to support catalog zones, but these have meanwhile reached PowerDNS and Knot.
As described in this post, member zones are typically added to the catalog by, say, performing a dynamic update on the catalog. This causes the catalog zone to get its SOA serial number incremented and NOTIFY its secondaries, whereupon they transfer the catalog zone and provision themselves with the member zones, deleting members which have been removed and adding new members.
Knot has a special mode with which the catalog zone can automatically generate its content from configured zones. This is enabled with catalog-role: generate which causes the catalog zone to include member zones which have a catalog-role: member. The members are added to the specified catalog, of which there can be many.
I explain how to create certificates with OpenSSL on your Windows computer in my blog post “How-to: Make Your Own Cert With OpenSSL on Windows (Reloaded)“.
If you can’t or don’t want to install OpenSSL, there is a solution now with Web OpenSSL.
Germany is the latest country to officially ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement. On 1 February 2023, the UPC member states at the Administrative Committee meeting in Luxembourg confirmed that the UPC start date remains 1 June 2023, meaning Germany had to deposit its instrument of ratification in Brussels by 1 March at the latest.
Well fountain pen madness continues. I have acquired another teeny tiny pen - a Kaweco Liliput. This is a similar size to the Ohto Tasche but in a more attractive package. There is some 3 to 5 mm difference. I ended up getting a black aluminium version of the Liliput, mostly down to cost and worry about how well it writes. There are lots of warnings about bad nibs. It cost around $45. The steel and brass versions are closer to $100. The design of theLiliput is essentially a tube with rounded edges.
While we are accelerating towards a crash due to unsustainable consumption, there are still believers in progress. The singularity is near, we are told. Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, and Life Extension – summarised in the catchy formula SMI€²LE – was LSD guru Timothy Leary's vision already in the early 1970's. General AI might reach a point where it becomes capable of improving itself and, at that point, we're done; the all-mighty AI will start making paper clips in enormous quantities and will be unstoppable, unless it comes up with something even worse. Already, automation and AI have seriously reshaped the labour market, increased wage gaps between skilled and unskilled workers, and is about to make some previous professions obsolete. Designers and illustrators might feel somewhat threatened by generative art, now that anyone can produce images from a text prompt. Contemporary artists hardly worry, for them generative art is just another opportunity to be explored.
This week has been a tinkering one where I haven't been doing anything very productive. It has been so long since I properly used C, so I am working my way through a book on C programming as a refresher. I was recommended a game, Tales of Maj'Eyal [0], on IRC [1] and I have been hooked on that most of the day! As a sidenote, I am pleasantly surprised with the games available on OpenBSD so far.
I did notice at the beginning of the week that bash somehow ended up installed on my system, since I use ksh and never installed it directly it must be a package dependency. I managed to track it down to the password-store [2] utility.
I received my Pico W long time ago but couldn't find the time to finish this.
I decided to do this in Python (using MicroPython) first, then translate to C and see how things can be improved.
It's very simple and very basic, without concurrency. Like my ESP32 setup, it uses Duck DNS.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.