today's leftovers
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Google frees nifty ML image-compression model • The Register
A new application of machine learning looks both clever and handy, as opposed to the more normal properties of being somewhere between privacy-, copyright-, or life-endangering. But before you get too excited, you can't have it.
The true cost of ML applications varies. Many are free to use, which means they endanger the paid income of someone somewhere. Speech recognition puts poor people in call centers out of work. "AI" image generators deprive creative artists of their income, and "AI" text generators threaten writers – in those few jobs which survived the web destroying print journalism, anyway.
Applying ML to image compression and decompression seems like a relatively safe use. Adding more smarts to image compression has felt like it was an inspired idea waiting for its moment ever since Michael Barnsley invented fractal image compression in 1987.
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Privacy-Preserving Ads Make a Debut on Brave Search
Brave Search is an independent search engine that claims not to track its users and provides a safe and secure search experience.
It aims to be a privacy-friendly alternative to the extensive tech services from Microsoft and Google.
With a recent announcement, they introduced a new feature to Brave Search. The search will now show 'privacy-preserving' ads as part of a global beta program.
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Sparky news 2022/11 – SparkyLinux
The 11th monthly Sparky project and donate report of 2022:
– Linux kernel updated up to 6.0.10 & 5.15.80-LTS & 4.9.334-LTS49 – Added to repos: Blisk, SC Controller – Sparky oldoldstable “Tyche” repositories deleted for good – the US1 mirror is down, swith to DE2 or the main one – Sparky 6.5 “Po Tolo” of the stable line released
The good news is we already have, thanks to all of YOU, ~53% donations to cover the VPS bill for the next year. The bad news is, we still need ~47% from the 510 E amount, and 44 days left to the deadline (until January 15, 2023). And, we still strong believe you We can do it!
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Winners in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2022! - The Document Foundation Blog
At the start of November, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. We do these every six months – so how many people got sticker packs this time?
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Looking for our 2022 Qt Champions!
It's that time of the year again, and we present the usual end-of-year question. Who from your peers should be recognised as a Qt Champion?
Look back at 2022, and think about someone who helped you and the Community in general during this past year.
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Samsung, LG, Mediatek certificates compromised to sign Android malware (Bleeping Computer) [LWN.net]
Bleeping Computer reports that the Android platform signing certificates for several manufacturers have leaked and been used to sign malware.
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Linux pwd Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
The pwd command, like ls and cd, is one of most frequently used Linux utilities.
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Performance Analysis Using PCP
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[Old] Data-centric tracing
Here we continue our series of BPF blog entries by looking at observability improvements the Oracle Linux team have worked on with the upstream BPF community.
In particular, we will discuss how BPF - and libbpf in particular - can facilitate observability of kernel function execution, showing arguments and return values in a similar way to that supported in debuggers.