“Waydroid” is an exciting project that provides a full Android system in a Linux container. It runs on ARM, ARM64, x86, and x86_64 CPUs and has direct access to the hardware, since it is not a virtual machine (VM). Although it may seem obvious, I still want to mention it: this project is Open Source. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...
Automattic announced in its blog post “Shipping Tumblr and WordPress” that Tumblr blogs will be migrated to WordPress. This decision was foreseeable after large parts of the staff were moved to other projects and the attempt to revive Tumblr failed. Going forward, the same product will technically be marketed under two brand names. In the long run this will probably be reduced to a single brand — I’d bet on that. ...
Thio Joe has released a new YouTube video: “Secrets of Windows Notepad”. In it he presents some lesser-known features of Microsoft’s Notepad. For example, Notepad automatically inserts the date and time when a document that begins with .log is opened. I hadn’t known about most of these features before. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...
This study »AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data« compellingly shows what happens when an AI uses its own texts as a basis. If this process is repeated — i.e., the AI is repeatedly fed its own generated texts — a clear pattern emerges by the ninth iteration at the latest: the output becomes increasingly nonsensical. Therefore, developers of AI models must carefully weigh which sources are truly valuable and which are better avoided. In this context, applying digital fingerprints to texts could make sense, if not become essential, to prevent AIs from consuming their own output1. Technically, however, this will not provide complete protection, since these mechanisms could be circumvented by using different GPT models. Even if AI providers agree on common fingerprinting methods, truly free chatbots running on local hardware will always be able to bypass such measures. ...
While going through my notes I realized I hadn’t linked to the project “Hackberry-Pi_Zero” by ZitaoTech here yet. As the name suggests, it’s a project that integrates a Raspberry Pi Zero with a 720×720-pixel display into a case reminiscent of a BlackBerry and includes a keyboard. The device is an extremely portable, full-fledged Linux system that can be taken anywhere like a smartphone. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...