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data1701d (He/Him)

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"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"

Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • "Dammit, Johnson! I needed that report yesterday!"

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  • Cute little Arex!

    Now the question is, if they can do Edosian makeup, will we get Cadet/Ensign Arex cameo in SNW?

  • "The only good warp core is an ejected warp core." - Shaxs (presumably)

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  • In canon, it was described as an implementation of “variable warp geometry”.

  • "The only good warp core is an ejected warp core." - Shaxs (presumably)

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  • I think I actually prefer the Ritos; it takes what’s good about the TNG warp core and makes it feel a bit more spacious without turning the ship into a Tardis - looking at you, SNW Enterprise warp core and DISCO turbolifts!

    EDIT: Tardis in the sense it’s bigger on the inside - I think wibbly wobbly timey wimey has always been a given in Starfleet.

  • All glory to the hypno-swirly!

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  • Just to keep it a bit up to date (though for the record, Ceroptesian is probably my least favorite Debian theme in recent years).

  • systemd 259 To Raise Linux System Requirements - Phoronix

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  • Thank you for saying this before people started crying, “Linux is getting encrapified!” without understanding what the article was actually about.

  • Life is good

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  • At the same time, I can’t imagine how many knives are to Grand Nagus Rom’s throat, so Nog might have it relatively good. I’m sure someone would be bound to try and kidnap him at least once, but he’s an experienced Starfleet officer and can probably make it clear early on how foolish taking him hostage actually is.

    Like, it’s kind of a miracle Rom made it to 2381 without at least ending up exiled from Ferengi society.

    I guess Ishka may have used Zek’s social influence to keep Rom in power.

    Still, I think it would be fascinating to have “autobiograp

  • What was your first distro?

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  • Technically Raspbian Jessie, I think- I was gifted a Pi 3 in ~2016 and fiddled around with it for a while. I also made some cursed choices, at one point running Windows 10 IoT Core on that thing...

    though luckily not for long.

    In 2017 or so, I started toying around with Ubuntu in VMs. It wasn’t really until 2020 or so that I started trying other distros; Debian Buster was probably the first non-Ubuntu distro I’d tried (excluding RPi stuff), and I mostly stucked to Debian besides one Arch install.

    At a certain point in 2022, I found myself using Unix tools so much I was starting to wonder if I should just use Linux instead of Windows. It was at this time that I tried NixOS in a VM for the first time and thought, “Wow, this is cool… I’m sticking with Debian, though.”

    Around that time, I threw Debian Testing (then Bookworm) on a second 256GB drive, ostensibly as a “test run” for daily driving Linux, and by “test run”, I mean I de facto quit using Windows; a few months later, I opted to use dd and copy that “test install” over my Windows install on my bigger 1TB drive (of course with sufficient backups so I could copy my Windows files over). That install is still the one I use on my desktop today and has just transitioned into Debian Testing/Forky*

    *A name I quite honestly hate, mostly due to the fact that Forky represents everything wrong with America today the Forky Asks a Question shorts beat out Steven Universe Future for an animation Emmy, though honestly, I don’t know else what I was expecting to happen.

  • Oh Lawd, she comin!

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  • Reminds me of the time I made a tier list of all the canon alternate reality Janeway variants at the time… though that was made before I watched Prodigy S2, which added another alternate version of Hologram Janeway due to all the time shenanigans.

  • Debian turns 32!

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  • The big 25!

  • Kirk eyeing it like he wants it

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  • Oh, yeh! In the CD pregap that’s really hard to rip and didn’t make streaming!

    It was supposed to be on a compilation, but it got scrapped after he left Prophet Records for Pah Wraith Entertainment, unfortunately.

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Jaresh-Inyo, Sylvia Ront, Cardassian Union, Vic Fontaine
Gamma Quadrant, Jake Sisko, Buck Bokai
Norah Satie, Benny Maxwell, Miranda class, Holoprograms
The Maquis, the Federation, Deanna Troi

T’Pel, Photons, Chakotay, Deep Space Nine
Kullnark, “Frame of Mind”, and “Something for Breakfast”
Chancellor Gowron, Voyager, Bajor’s got a new Kai
Ben Sisko, Sonny Clemmons, Sarek of Vulcan, goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, like the Bajoran Fire Caves
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
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  • Well, except his parents, courtesy of Emperor Kodos.

    Also, why do I kind of feel like we need to see Ensign Kevin Riley in SNW at least once? (For reference, Riley is a Lieutenant in TOS, which suggests he’s been in Starfleet a few years.)

  • FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding

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  • I mostly agree with you. However, I think there are some caveats to upscaling; there are so many lazy "4K AI UPSCALE BEST QUALITY" videos online that just don't look good and were clearly put there just to get views.

    However, I've also found they have their uses; for instance, I wanted to laser cut a TMBG Flood logo once, but there were very few good images online that traced well in Inkscape. I ended up doing an AI upscale of the least terrible one with a white background, and that traced pretty well in Inkscape.

  • FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding

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  • I was messing around with HomeAssistant the other day, which uses the same speech recognition engine, and I found it to be decent.

  • FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding

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  • I think including the word "OpenAI" in the post name is somewhat a misnomer that implies an encrapification not really happening to the FFMPEG project.

    Yes, it is true OpenAI originally developed the Whisper model, and I hate OpenAI; however:

    • Whisper is actually open source, unlike most OpenAI crap.
    • FFmpeg isn't even directly using the OpenAI version, written in Python - they're using a port to C++ called Whisper.cpp
    • We've been able to use speech recognition for decades, so unlike other AI models, I don't think a speech recognition model that does it better is problem.
    • You don't even necessarily have to compile FFmpeg with Whisper support.

    I get the dislike of AI, but the idea of association with OpenAI is overblown and not really reflective of reality. Now I can get not wanting to use open source projects whose developers don't reflect your principles; however, I think this ethical issue is more indirect than may initially appear and is not a strong reason to quit using what is still the most effective media conversion tool.

  • FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding

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  • No need to panic in this case. While I hate OpenAI, there's two things to note here:

    • Whisper is an open source library for speech recognition rather than generative AI, run entirely locally. It's just using ML to do something we could already do with computers (speech recognition), but better.
    • They aren't even directly using the OpenAI version - they're using whisper.cpp, a port of the model.

  • That Tuvix ain't right, I tell ya hwat!

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  • Janeway responds to “nuqneH” with a very aggressive, spit-filled “nuqneH”, which most Klingons would laugh at were it any other human.

  • Distribution Release: Proxmox 9.0 "Virtual Environment"

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  • I use this image, which mostly just works (other than the need to throw model info and a made-up serial into a config.plist.

    https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore

    I can’t say for 15.6, but mine is currently running 15.2 just fine; I usually fall a bit behind on updates since these days, I only really use it to upload They Might Ne Giants rarities to my cloud library via Apple Music.

    The only annoyance with the VM is iPhones can’t connect over USB easily.

  • Distribution Release: Proxmox 9.0 "Virtual Environment"

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  • I don’t use Proxmox, but since it’s all libvirt anyway, I’ve frequently found someone doing something on it that helps me with my VMs.

    For instance, my GPU passthrough Hackintosh VM is part based on some dude who made a tutorial for Proxmox that applies elsewhere.

  • Did they kill them too?

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  • I mean, that’s at least a grounded Anglicization that I could see someone in-universe coming up with. Pronunciation-wise, ”Fek’lhr” isn’t so bad either, but still incredibly stupid spelling-wise.