today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 05, 2023

• Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI Accused of Software Piracy, Sued for $9B in Damages

  GitHub Copilot was designed to streamline software development by enabling developers with relevant artificial intelligence-generated code suggestions as and when they type the code. Meanwhile, the code it is trained on is licensed under the MIT license, GPL, Boost Software License (BSL-1.0), BSL 2, Eclipse Public License, Mozilla Public License 2.0, the Apache license and others.

  Litigants claim that Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI ingested and distributed licensed materials (i.e., the training code) without appropriate attribution, copyright notice, or adherence to licensing terms.

• Don't do this: creating useless indexes

  Indexes are not bad, but can really harm your workload if not used the proper way. Defining a great indexing policy is an everyday job as the application queries, the data and the data model will change. Also, remember Postgres creates btree indexes by default but there are a lot more than mono column btree indexes in Postgres. Read chapter 11 of the Postgres Documentation to find out more about indexes in Postgres!

• DON'T UPDATE: Some Samsung phones bricking bricked after One UI 5 Android 13 update - has your digital twin been digitally assassinated by friendly fire?

  Multiple reports have emerged of Samsung smartphone owners in South Australia, and now "two" other Australian states, having their phones go into a bricked boot loop mode after updating to the One UI 5.0 update featuring Android 13, but which models are affected, and is there a fix?

• The Ubuntu Linux Operating System - OSNote

  Ubuntu Linux is one of the most popular Linux operating systems. It’s an open-source operating system that is user-friendly and secure. In this article, I’ll look at the history and some of the features of Ubuntu.

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  The Ubuntu Linux operating system is developed by the company Canonical, powered by the Linux kernel, and based on the Debian Linux distribution. For beginners: Ubuntu has an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GNOME) that makes using your a breeze. Ubuntu is designed with security in mind, which means there are fewer risks when surfing online or installing new software. There are plenty of applications available for free in the Ubuntu software installer. Software packages use the .deb package format.

• Year of The Broken Desktop - Alan Pope's blog

  This morning I attempted to start work on my desktop PC and couldn’t. The screen is black, it doesn’t want to wake up the displays. I used the old REISUB trick to restart, and it boots, but there’s no output on the display. I did some investigation and this post is mainly to capture my notes and so others can see the problem and perhaps debug and fix it.

  The setup is an Intel Skull Canyon NUC connected to an external GPU enclosure which contains an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. I’ve previously blogged about this weird machine, get more details there. I have since upgraded the GPU since that post, however.

  There are three displays connected to the GPU, and no displays connected directly to the PC itself. I’m running Kubuntu 20.04.1. I did all my updates a couple of days ago, but have not rebooted since.