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Henry Spencer still around?

Robo-marriage

Watch: Robot Couple Gets Hitched in Russian Wedding Ceremony | Coast to Coast AM

Moscow recently hosted a historic technological event: the world's first AI-powered humanoid robot wedding.

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Artificial reality

New AR display tech boosts real‑world visibility while keeping virtual objects lifelike

Optical see-through augmented reality (AR) glasses are designed to overlay digital information onto the real world, but improving the realism of virtual objects often comes at a cost. Existing occlusion technologies physically block part of the incoming light, reducing the brightness of the real...

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New chip

'Chameleon' chip adapts to changing data speeds, cutting prediction errors by up to 40-fold

AI semiconductors are becoming more programmable. KAIST researchers have developed a device whose response characteristics can be programmed to process data that changes at different speeds. The technology reduced prediction errors for time-varying data by up to 40-fold and is expected to...

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The World Bank

World Bank warns developing countries to embrace AI or be left behind

The World Bank on Tuesday called on developing countries to embrace artificial intelligence tools to deliver better governance outcomes, warning that they risk being left behind if they fail to do so.

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[Candleicious Ghost]

Some bad news for Amazon Luna users

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[Asbo Zaprudder]

I once subscribed to music cloud storage on Amazon and the service was withdrawn with very little notice. That lowered my trust in the company to practically zero.

However, discussion about why tech billionaires believe you should own nothing (perhaps because they are so highly leveraged themselves) is maybe going too off topic for this thread.

 

[Marc]

in today's ep of rm -f can be dangerous we have my media collection.

I've moving from TuxedoOS to Fedora 44 to try and get around some stability issues (how the fuck do I get out of memory errors when it's VM with 20GB allocated).

Anyway play around and nuked the profile directory on the Fedora VM which had an SMB share with all my media mounted.

And rm being a good little rm followed things through and nuking things from the file-server.

Music calms the savage beast but this savage beast didn't have his music any more.

Then I doubled down on the stupid.

First thing to do would be to look at options to undelete/recover but that thought didn't enter my head until after I'd started copying some files I had locally back.

Enter R-Linux which scanned the drive volume and found/recovered a big chunk of them.

Now I did have backup - at my in-laws who live an hour from here. Fortunately they're coming down and will bring my backup drive so I should be back to were I was by the weekend.

Been thinking of leaving a backup with another relative in this city for some time and will do so now. Just shuddering at the drive prices.

 

[Santaman]

^^ That sucks, my personal strategy is external drives as temp storage and copies on both Linux and Windows machines so even if one machine would do the unthinkable then I've got more machines and the external drives.

Hope you'll get everything up and running as soon as possible.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

remember the old days of computer games when they used to be from the ms dos days

 

[Marc]

remember the old days of computer games when they used to be from the ms dos days

I remember playing games from the CP/M days.

 

[StarCruiser]

You young whippersnapper! Why, back in my day (aaaaahhhh) we played games on minicomputers and printer terminals!

 

[Kraig]

How exciting.

 

[Marc]

^^ That sucks, my personal strategy is external drives as temp storage and copies on both Linux and Windows machines so even if one machine would do the unthinkable then I've got more machines and the external drives.

Hope you'll get everything up and running as soon as possible.

I have a Debian VM that runs a SAMBA install (no truenas etc) that I run as file server (authetnication and authorization handled by a another Debian VM using SAMBA-AD-DC) and that's where files are stored.

my backup is an WD drive in an external case that's at my-inlaws.

It was also dropped today when they were bring it down

haven't fired it up yet to know if it will still run.

something that might have saved it was the enclosure took the brunt of the impact.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

How exciting.
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lol lol pong

the very first video game on earth

 

[John Clark]

How exciting.
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First game I played, then different games on, Oric, Spectrum, Amiga, PC (Some PS1/PS2/Wii - but consoles were post pc)

 

[Santaman]

IBM's online museum so to speak, lots of nice information about anything from mainframes to the people who work(ed) there.

IBM Heritage

These are the stories of the people, innovations and values that have defined IBM for over a century, and the tales of how IBM helped pioneer the information technology industry.

www.ibm.com

 

[Unicron]

You young whippersnapper! Why, back in my day (aaaaahhhh) we played games on minicomputers and printer terminals!

Did you have to deal with the fearsome Arthurian connector?

"Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord."

 

[StarCruiser]

Did you have to deal with the fearsome Arthurian connector?

"Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord."

Of course! Didn't everyone?

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

OOH LG you've done it

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[John Clark]

Fourteen years ago, I picked up a Raspberry Pi 1 type b (it was a gift for someone, but due to circumstances, now I've got it back and am trying to figure out something I can do with it.

I could use it as a standard def media centre (though it's only 512mb) or retro gaming, either would be fine for me, but I kind of want it to be a tribute to the person I bought it for originally. Thinking maybe a digital frame (Though he hated having his picture taken which is the harder part )

Still, it'll be fun to experiment again with it.