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Ok, we've all been sick of memes for a decade or more.
But this one is built different.
"This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog.
We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise."
Note that this is three attempts to match current quantum computing records, not a single attempt utilizing all three tools.
(The IACR is a legit cryptology organization. Been around for years and years.)
(h/t @cstross )
so, #sysadmin sorts: chill your quantum computing worries
The Man Who Beat IBM
every.to/feeds/b0e329f3048258eโฆ
Compaqโs Rod Canion broke Big Blueโs hold on the PC market โ & changed computing forever
<- very few computing histories make me LOL. This did. Superb!
Compaqโs Rod Canion broke Big Blueโs hold on the PC marketโand changed computing foreverevery.to
@cjwatson from #Freexian gave a great talk at #DebConf25:
โUsing Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploadsโ
debconf25.debconf.org/talks/29โฆ
Learn what Debusine is, why we built it, and how you can use the features we have built to do QA work in Debian right now, including dput-ng integration, and scaling into clouds. Understand how Debusine runs builds & reverse-dependency tests before your package hits the archive โ ideal for safer uploads and smoother transitions to Testing.
Watch the recording:
meetings-archive.debian.net/puโฆ
Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning shines a light on some chemical reactions triggered by the sunโs raysAndy Brunning, special to C&EN (American Chemical Society)
An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT.poloclub.github.io
Mastercard said it has not 'evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity onย game creator sites and platforms,' but Valve begs to differ.Chris Kerr (Game Developer)
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-neโฆ
Eh.
Allora non sono l'unico a fare fatica con 'sta cosa.
I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiรณs Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO.Terence Edenโs Blog
Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!
As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.
Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.
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Please boost.
@agateau Thanks for the hint, but the Linux Foundation does not sponsor directly. I am working together with them to get help for getting directly sponsored and also to turn OpenPrinting into a legal organization, so that we can receive sponsoring.
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La storia era ben spiegata in questo fumetto editions-delcourt.fr/bd/seriesโฆ da cui รจ stato tratto un film: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Alguโฆ
Tutto questo per dare un'idea degli effetti di un'industria agroalimentare talmente accentrata da diventare un potere economico fuori controllo.
Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare
theregister.com/2025/07/22/arcโฆ
The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness
<- by me on @theregister
: The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weaknessLiam Proven (The Register)
I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
Itโs not every day you watch a company faceplant so theatrically in public, but Cloud Innovationโs latest stunt deserves a slow clap. Cloud Innovation, which youโd probably never heard of unless yoโฆTechdirt
@bortzmeyer is reporting in bortzmeyer.org/menaces-de-clouโฆ that Cloud Innovation, the Chinese company that has paralyzed #AFRINIC with legal actions, is threatening people who share links to this article: medium.com/@emmanuelvitus/afriโฆ .
I expect that the Streisand effect will manifest...
@joebeone too has received a threatening letter from Cloud Innovation, and his counsel's reply is instructive and fun:
techpolicy.social/@joebeone/11โฆ
I have retained counsel, Albert Sellars LLP, to respond. I will not be taking down my social media posts. My response is here [1]. No further comment at this time. These views are mine and mine alone. 2/ [1]: https://drive.google.techpolicy
You know, Confy: the Gnome-based, mobile-friendly Conferences schedule viewer
Some days ago I posted a screenshot about an experiment I was doing with #confy , which atm is on hold.
I'm still looking about the best way to draw a calendar view which can be zoomed in and out fast.
This is using Gtk.Snapshot to draw boxes and Pango.Layout to draw text.
It's still not fast enough with large conferences (mostly because I want to keep the text the same size and just change the boxes...)
Meanwhile I made some other things: some are papercuts, some are to try to have cleaner code, and some are quite big changes:
Actions get enabled/disable correctly per context
"search" action is disabled until an event is opened, and "copy" action is enabled only while a details page is shown.
Small change but prevents some errors.
Update recent list when deleting custom event from menu
Custom event in the "open" window can be removed. Now the entry is also removed from the recent events list.
Navigation sidebar has been updated
Now items does not get out of order after opening an Event with one already opened. Previously, items not needed (eg. 'Traks' where the Event has no tracks) were removed and re-added, which caused them to appear out of order.
Now the items are hidden and shown as needed, thus they do not change order anymore. Plus they are now defined in sidebar widget template. More clear and nice.
Navigation between pages has been revisited.
Originally, every talk details page opened was simply pushed on the stack. This caused some trouble as details page can link to other details pages via overlapping talks, which where pushed on the stack too. But overlapping talks are 'circular' as if Talk A overlaps with Talk B, also Talk B overlaps with Talk A, which can lead to very long stack to navigate back, e.g.:
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Talk C -> Talk A -> Talk C List -> Talk A
user clicks on overlapping Talk B
List -> Talk BList -> Talk A
user clicks on overlapping Talk B
List -> Talk A -> Talk B
user clicks on overlapping Talk C
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Talk C
user clicks on overlapping Talk A
List -> Talk AThis is also relevant for the new Search page navigation.
Search can be toggled
Search action now is toggleable (is this a word?), the "search" button in the headerbar is now a togglebutton. One click opens the search, another click closes the search (as does ctrl-f).
When search is opened, the search page is pushed on the stack. Closing the search pop the page (and popping the page closes the search).
From the search page, talk details pages follow the same logic as before, but in a separate 'group'. That is, if the search page is opened from a detail page, and from the search page the same talk is clicked, we don't pop back to the already pushed page (which closes the search) but a new detail page is pushed on the stack:
List -> Talk A -> Talk B
user clicks the "search" button
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search
user clicks talk C
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search -> Talk C
user clicks overlapping talk A
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search -> Talk C -> Talk A
user clicks the "search" button
List -> Talk A -> Talk B( btw: the search entry still get focused when the search page pops in. I'm quite proud I managed to keep that :) )
Updated Preference dialog
The design has been moved to template, with a simple custom widget to set caches duration.
Option to clear the recent opened events list has been added.
Everything is in git if anyone want to test it, maybe on some mobile devices, maybe during one of the upcoming conferences...
That story about an AI startup collapsing after it turned out to be 700 Indian developers in a Trenchcoat? It was a made up story by a crypto guy that became clickbait, published unchecked by tech media everywhere. Read the real story behind Builder.ai here: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/buiโฆ
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The claim that the AI startup โfaked AIโ with hundreds of engineers went viral โ and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.Martin Holland (heise online)
Mh.
last update of #archlinux defaults to #GTK4 #GSK #Vulcan Renderer:
GDK_BACKEND=wayland because the terminal is in VSCode, which runs on XWayland and define GDK_BACKEND=x11. In VSCode because gnome console was a black rectangle too)Yes, that white rectangle is the window.
I had to set GSK_RENDERER=ngl in .config/environment.d/gtk4.conf
Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.
"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect โ which is where you read whatโs actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."
"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook โ the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping theyโll get a win this time."
"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and theyโll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send โem a copy of this post."
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/genโฆ
Youโll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like youโre trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias DรถpmโฆPivot to AI
@cstross It does look money!
Breaking news, a new startup has announced they will produce new *AI* infused technology to insert as many brainslugs into any machine you want.
*Five*years*later*: Brainslugz has declared bankruptcy after years of complaints revealed that Brainslugz were not aware that half the slugs froze to death while kept on the floor.
I'm probably trying to approach this the wrong way (trying to understand the cause of this error)
I don't get where the 0.21 result is coming from ๐คฏ
Just for fun i asked ChatGPT the same question and now the answer is "correct" (it was wrong but it "corrected" itself)
Funny enough, when pressing it that it was wrong and the right answer was 0.21 I got this
Mario non sa fare il lavoro, Paolo sรญ.
Paolo con il macchinario di Mario potrebbe fare il grosso e poi fare gli aggiustamenti di fino che รฉ in grado di fare con l'esperienza.
Io uso da due anni e mi ha velocizzato molte fasi del lavoro noiose senza impattare sul risultato finale, anzi a volte ho visto approci nuovi e interessanti facendo crescere le mie conoscenze di tubarolo.
ร il vibe piping che รฉ una ๐ฉ
@๐๐ช๐พ๐ป๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป mi unisco agli utenti di friendica che scrivono โla primaโ
prima di aver sentito come @Diego Roversi รจ arrivato al risultato, che รจ un sistema molto piรน furbo di quello con cui ero arrivata io
Climate change and energy: We did the math on AIโs energy footprint. Hereโs the story you havenโt heard.
technologyreview.com/2025/05/2โฆ
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem smallโuntil you add up what the industry isnโt tracking and consider where itโs heading next.
โ MIT Technology Review
We just got Post Quantum SSH
openssh.com/pq.html
do we need to worry about post-VIC20 SSH?
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@cstross
OpenSSH: Post-Quantum Cryptography
www.openssh.com