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  • Anki 23.10 Beta 4 released

    October 4th, 2023

    https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases

    https://github.com/ankitects/anki/compare/23.10beta3…23.10beta4

  • September 30th, 2023
  • FreeBSD 14.0-BETA4 Now Available

    September 30th, 2023

    A summary of changes since 14.0-BETA3 includes:

    1. A fix for a pnwerpc-related panic.
    2. Console output on Raspberry Pi 3B+ and 4B have been silenced at boot.
    3. A fix to freebsd=update(8) had been implemented to avoid restarting sshd(8) when updating the basedir.
    4. Support for hidraw(4) has been added.
    5. Several ZFS-related fixes.
    6. Several VFS-related fixes.
    7. Several miscellaneous fixes and driver updates.

    https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/

  • Meme of the day

    September 29th, 2023
  • Quiz of the day and some fun facts about Anki

    September 28th, 2023
    1. Anki comes from the Japanese word for “memorization” (暗記)
    2. The oldest mention of Anki that the developer Damien Elmes could find in 2011 was dated 5 October 2006, which was thus declared Anki’s birthdate.
  • Raspberry Pi 5 launched

    September 28th, 2023

    Designed to deliver a 2~3x performance improvement over the Raspberry Pi 4.

    Now with:

    1. 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU
    2. 4Kp60 HEVC decoder

    “The Raspberry Pi 5 4GB board will cost $60 while the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB single board computer is $80, a $5 increase over the stock Raspberry Pi 4 pricing.”

    https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/

    https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-benchmarks

  • I just donated to the KDE Project

    September 27th, 2023

    https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

  • Anki 23.10 Beta 3 released

    September 27th, 2023

    Primarily focused on FSRS usability. Some important changes

    1. Desired retention range is now 0.7-0.97
    2. Fixed incorrect FSRS scheduling in filtered decks !!!
    3. More sensible FSRS progress indicator precision
    4. Weight generation now handles outliers

    https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases

  • How to generate random passwords using OpenSSL

    September 26th, 2023

    run the command:

    openssl rand -base64 16

    rand denotes randomness, base64 denotes readable format and 16 the password length

    the output: 4twmIodX5QwjWP+OsTePLg==

  • Firefox 118

    September 25th, 2023

    With many performance enhancements

    The binaries are available ahead of the official release announcement at: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/118.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-118-Released

    https://www.phoronix.com/review/mercury-firefox-perf/4

  • Second paper of Junyao Ye about his new spaced repetition algorithm

    September 25th, 2023

    Junyao Ye, also known as Jarrett Ye is the author of the new stochastic model of spaced repetition

    “It’s a substantial extension of my previous conference paper A Stochastic Shortest Path Algorithm for Optimizing Spaced Repetition Scheduling. FSRS is based on the model proposed in that paper.”

    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10059206

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369045947_Optimizing_Spaced_Repetition_Schedule_by_Capturing_the_Dynamics_of_Memory

  • Many bug fixes and UI tweaks today regarding FSRS

    September 25th, 2023
  • I hope … :)

    September 25th, 2023
  • September 24th, 2023
  • FreeBSD will need at least another beta for the 14 release

    September 24th, 2023

    Due to the following issues according to Glen Barber, the Release Engineering Lead of the FreeBSD Project:


    1) freebsd-update(8) has previously failed to upgrade from 13.x and
       earlier due to a file name that had been replaced with a directory of
       the same name.  A patch for this is under testing.
    2) FreeBSD arm64/aarch64 EC2 AMIs have been failing to build properly,
       presumably due to lang/rust build failures leading to the ec2-scripts
       package from being prevented to be available.  The last 15.0-CURRENT
       snapshots seem to have this resolved, so hopefully it is also
       resolved for what will eventually be the ‘release_0’ package set for
       14.0-RELEASE, but that is still over a week away.
    3) There are no “official” FreeBSD base packages available.  I have been
       occupied with external factors preventing me from having cycles
       available to look into this without interruption, but I think I am
       going to err on the side of caution and have a manual package set run
       available via https://download.freebsd.org/ somewhere within the
       version, architecture, and machine type namespace.
    4) Vagrant images fail to upload due to an incorrect target following
       the addition of ZFS images.  This is another issue where I have
       personally been blocked/blocking progress.
    5) The ‘ftp-stage’ target does not currently account for ZFS virtual
       machine images.  I again have this in my queue.  I do not know if
       I necessarily care too much about this for 14.0-RELEASE, since all
       virtual machine images are within the ‘Latest/’ directory namespace
       for all builds, but I am intent on fixing it.
    6) The ZFS-root EC2 AMIs panic a few seconds after booting, apparently
       due to memory corruption in ZFS.

    Note regarding (3) above: this is not yet done, but the datasets in
    which the builds were done are preserved.  I hope to have at least a few
    hours this weekend to try to get binary packages for the FreeBSD base
    system in place, wherever that ends up being.

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