Notices by Daniel Feldman (dfeldman@hachyderm.io)

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@GossiTheDog Thanks for the awesome thread! I don't have an ARM machine other than my Mac, but I was able to get Recall running in an ARM Azure VM very easily.

It's interesting that this is an ARM-only feature actually! It runs fine in a fairly small Azure VM with no GPU or NPU, so it would work on x86 just as well. It must be a marketing/strategy reason, not a technical reason.

@GossiTheDog they got in some trouble for that , as I recall

@dalias while that would make sense, most distributions cannot build everything from source
and even if they could, builds are usually not reproducible -- there will be small differences anyway that will cause false positives

If there were another binary backdoor similar to the xz attack that was found today... how would you find it?

(The xz attack was found by chance and some trivial issues that caused performance degradation)

If you feed AI an MRI, it will happily write a detailed and very convincing diagnosis...

even if the patient is a dead salmon.

Microsoft and Apple have learned the same lesson:

Whichever platform is better for developers, will get all the apps, and then users will follow

It will be interesting how this plays out with Apple Vision and Meta Quest

@JessTheUnstill I’m sure they’ll lower the price, though I couldn’t say when or how much

just one more notebook bro. i promise just one more notebook and we'll finally be organized bro. it's just a smaller thinner notebook bro. please just one more. one more notebook. we'll take notes on everything bro. just give me one more notebook and a fancy pen. bro bro please i just need one more

Apple has Thunderbolt and Lightning ports

Logically, today's big announcement will be Very Very Frightening ports

This is fascinating. The entire UK air traffic control system crashed for a day because of a single flight plan that was filed that contained an ambiguous waypoint, and the software wasn't designed to handle this situation. https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail/

I love learning software engineering practices from case studies! Here's one about how Knight Capital lost $440 million in one day due to a software bug. https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/06/project-failure-case-study-knight-capital.html

does he realize The Matrix is a trans allegory

Bill Lear had a daughter and named her Shanda

Shanda Lear

I bet she hated him

Bill Lear developed the 8-track tape player and the LearJet IN THE SAME YEAR, 1963

Fun fact: the MP3 file format is as old today as 8-track tapes were when MP3 was invented