today's leftovers
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Merry Christmas December 2022
Hi guys, wishing you the best. Just to let you know that I have greatly appreciated the feedback and help with EasyOS development over the year and before.
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Star Labs Discount Codes
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Top 10 Stories about Compute Engines, Linux in 2022
Developments around compute engines and Linux in 2022 included geopolitical competition and a new Kubernetes-based startup. Review the 10 most-read stories.
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UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
A modern Android smartphone relies on a lot of services, from app stores and calendars to messaging and push notifications. Most of them have open alternatives, but until now, the only option for push notifications was Google’s proprietary service, Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). UnifiedPush is a new alternative that allows you to get push notifications without being tied to a single company.
Push notifications are essential to the modern mobile experience because they allow apps to communicate with users in real-time, even when not actively in use. Relying on Google-provided push notifications is a concern for both privacy and independence. The proprietary FCM library cannot be included in F-Droid apps and relies on having Google services. As a result, it is common to see FOSS applications adopt a persistent direct connection between the application and the server as an alternative.
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OpenAI gets to the Point•E with open source text-to-3D model • The Register
OpenAI has extended the capabilities of its text-to-image software from two dimensions into three with the release of Point•E, an open source project that produces 3D images from text prompts.
The AI research firm has attracted considerable attention for its DALL•E software, which like rival projects Stable Diffusion and Midjourney can generate realistic or fantastical images from descriptive text.
While Point•E shares the bullet point symbol used in OpenAI's DALL•E branding, it relies on a different machine learning model called GLIDE. And presently, it's not nearly as capable. Given a text directive like "a traffic cone," Point•E produces a low-resolution point cloud – a set of points in space – that resembles a traffic cone.
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M5Stack T-Lite Wi-Fi thermal camera integrates 1.14-inch color display - CNX Software
M5Stack T-Lite is a Wi-Fi thermal imager with the same MLX90640 IR array thermal camera found in the M5Stack Thermal Camera 2 Unit plus a 1.14-inch color display to visualize the results on the device itself.
Based on the ESP32-PICO-D4 system-in-package with WiFi and Bluetooth, the solution allows the user to access the 32×24 pixels thermal image either on the built-in display, or streamed to the local network or the cloud.