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  • Starting using Weblate for FreeBSD localization

    February 18th, 2024

    https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc-translate/commit/a40088fd18c9c02c1395795084fe8efabce79bc8

  • Uber – Database model

    February 18th, 2024

    Uber uses Docstore an in-house, distributed database built on top of MySQL, serving 40 Million Reads Per Second in a dataset of tens of Petabytes.

    https://www.uber.com/en-IN/blog/how-uber-serves-over-40-million-reads-per-second-using-an-integrated-cache

  • GNOME 46 beta

    February 18th, 2024

    With Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support by Mutter

    https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46-beta-released/19505

  • OpenZFS – Fast Dedup

    February 18th, 2024

    Fast Deduplication was developed by Klara Inc and iXsystems and offers up to x20 greater performance.

    “With the introduction of Fast Dedup, there have been several major innovations including:

    • The size of metadata is now dynamically sized to fit in either RAM or dedicated flash devices to avoid hitting the performance penalty wall.
    • The metadata structure has been completely re-engineered to enable efficient updates using a log append process, greatly improving performance for large updates such as deletions.
    • The dedup table will favor dedup-able data and prune blocks that show no dedup potential.
    • Combining metadata improvements with properly configured storage, including dedicated metadata flash devices, will improve the sustained dedup performance by over an order of magnitude for larger systems.”

    Some users are sceptical about potential data loss issues, as with any filesystem technologies..

    https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/fast-dedup-is-a-valentines-gift-to-the-openzfs-and-truenas-communities

  • FreeBSD – progress made on SIMD

    February 18th, 2024

    String processing is essential in many UNIX commands. C strings are terminated with nul characters.

    Routines processing such strings, such as those provided by the C standard library libc are often reduced to walking through strings character by character in search for the nul terminator. This is why these operations have the reputation of poor performance.

    The FreeBSD Team has been working in a reimplementation of libc string functions using SIMD techniques and getting advantage of instruction set extensions by new CPUs.

    https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/a-sneak-peek-simd-enhanced-string-functions-for-amd64
    https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=simd&manpath=FreeBSD+15.0-CURRENT
  • Anki – Qt update to 6.6.2

    February 18th, 2024
  • antimicrox – could not open uinput device file

    February 17th, 2024

    This problem came up today. Adding a udev rule solved the issue:

    cd /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/
    sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AntiMicroX/antimicrox/master/other/60-antimicrox-uinput.rules

    https://github.com/AntiMicroX/antimicrox/wiki/Open-uinput-error
  • An interesting publication for patient data hashing

    February 17th, 2024

    Use of a hash algorithm in patient’s sensitive information (Name, Date of Birth or Social Security Number) using salt has the advantage of de-identifying personal data and also yields a unique identifier. This unique identifier can be later used to compare the disease course or follow ups in a different clinic. On the contrary an alphanumeric code can not re-identify these individuals.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10030136

  • February 17th, 2024
  • FreeBSD 13.3 BETA 3

    February 17th, 2024
  • GNOME Mutter and XWayland fractional scaling

    February 17th, 2024

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3567

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-XWayland-Frac-Scaling

  • New Anki beta after Qt 6.6.3 release

    February 17th, 2024
  • Keeping optimized parameters

    February 17th, 2024

    This commit permits the use of previously better optimized parameters in case the new optimization yields worse standard error from the predicted memory states.

  • AI is getting scary – Sora/OpenAI

    February 17th, 2024

    “Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. We’ll be taking several important safety steps ahead of making Sora available in OpenAI’s products. We are working with red teamers — domain experts in areas like misinformation, hateful content, and bias — who are adversarially testing the model.”

    Sora is not yet publicly available.

    OpenAI has restricted its use to “red teamers” and some visual artists, designers and filmmakers to test the product and deliver feedback to the company before it’s released more widely.

  • New FreeBSD Reddit flairs

    February 17th, 2024
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