Just repeating what I read elsewhere, the reporting has been somewhat muddy.

Thank you kindly.

There was a lovely volume I had that was an English translation where every facing page the left was French and the right was English, lent it out, never to return, sigh. Learnt most of my poor grasp of French from it. If anyone knows I would highly appreciate the details…

And avoid fans, spin them fast and they’re generators, with a good chance of reverse polarity to the intended. In fact, judicious canned air is probably better than a vacuum, but you use what you’ve got, it’s a thinkpad, it’ll probably be fine.

+1 to Isopropanol, (unused) makeup brushes can also be useful.

Nope, not top, but apparently not awful (seems to be her husband coding). Some interesting things happening currently with memory systems for local AI which seem to truly enhance (make smarter) smaller thinking models, meaning you can use more, and more coherent context.

As with most of this stuff I’m waiting for a bit more maturity before looking deeply at it, but there’s definitely some excitement at the moment, and it has the potential to make models that fit on say a 16GB video card capable of many more use cases than previously.

These things are for the nasty little surprises, more relevant for the proprietaries, but not useless on linux. They’re for the unknown unknowns, and that’s a good thing. The next supply chain vuln might bite you, and opensnitch might let you know.

Or Obtainium.

Gonna file this under blaming the individual for systemic failure while things like the DMCA (making reverse engineering interoperability illegal among other things) and life + 50 copyright are in place and enforced worldwide by US trade deals.

Here’s hoping Trump’s crapping on Pax Americana gives a once in a generation (or two) chance to get out from under.