@xuv writes

  • Where is my ARM?

    Continuing with the exploration of Linux on Mx chips, I’m faced with another potential set back, and this time it impacts software availability. And it’s not just affecting people that want to replace MacOS by Ubuntu on their pricey second hand laptop.

  • Where is my bootable USB?

    I spend 2 days trying to figure out how to create a bootable USB key to install Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro M1. And all you are going to get is this wordy blog post to explain how vain that search is. Skip to the end to learn how to install Ubuntu on a Macbook…

  • Citation de Johann Chapoutot

    « une politique d’austérité, dogmatique, qui aggrave la crise et la misère ; un pouvoir exécutif qui fait adopter des mesures de destruction du modèle social à coups de 48-2 ; une gauche sociale-démocrate qui soutient cette politique afin, dit-elle, d’éviter le pire ; un régime politique qui (…) se présidentialise et concentre des pouvoirs exorbitants dans les…

  • Quoting Cory Doctorow

    What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it for and who it does it to. Your car can use a cutting-edge computer vision system to alert you when you’re drifting out of your lane – or it can use that same system to narc you out to your insurer so they…

  • Citation de Juan Sebastián Carbonell

    Une tech­no­lo­gie ne s’impose pas iné­luc­ta­ble­ment parce qu’elle est plus “effi­ciente”, mais parce que des acteurs qui contrô­lent les res­sour­ces économiques, consi­dé­rant qu’elle cor­res­pond mieux à leurs inté­rêts, déci­dent de lui donner réa­lité. — Juan Sebastián Carbonell Via Rezo.net qui reprend un article de Mediapart sur le dernier livre, intitulé “Taylorisme augmenté”, par l’auteur.

  • My selection for the Susanne Award 2025

    I’m always interested by what people do with Blender and especially in the animation category. So, every year, I’ll go and have a look at the submissions for the Susanne Award. Here is my top 3 for this year.

  • Quoting Martin Fowler

    All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful. https://martinfowler.com/articles/202508-ai-thoughts.html

  • Quoting cats4606

    All I wanted was to use my Quest 3 as a Minecraft server for an upcoming LAN party with my friends and turn off the display to keep temperatures down says, by his own description, “an Australian teenager who had just stepped into the VR world”, who’s just published an exploit to get root access…

  • Citando Marta Peirano

    Los modelos viven encerrados en un mundo de palabras, un universo wittgensteniano compuesto exclusivamente de signos, jerarquías y estadística. No pueden mentir, alucinar o equivocarse porque todas las palabras son verdaderas cuando dejan de describir el mundo. No habrá inteligencia artificial general

  • Quoting Janelle Shane

    I wish more people understood that any “apology” or “self-reflection” from chatbots are meaningless – they’re just continuing with your improv session. ChatGPT will apologize for anything – by @janellecshane

  • Quoting Emilia Di Lorenzo et al.

    Eggs are one of the most valuable foods on the tables of consumers and in the kitchens of chefs due to their abundant functional properties that make them the funniest and most versatile ingredients to work with. In fact, not only do they contain almost all essential nutrients, which is fundamental for human nutrition, but…

  • Quoting Nick McGreivy

    To be clear, AI can drive scientific breakthroughs. My concern is about their magnitude and frequency. Has AI really shown enough potential to justify such a massive shift in talent, training, time, and money away from existing research directions and towards a single paradigm?