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boot: add submenu support by TobiPeterG · Pull Request #28084 · systemd/systemd This also shows the current menu path Fixes a bug displaying status messages I tried multiple implementation methods, i like this one the most. While it introduces a new struct and, union and enum,...

systemd-boot may be getting support for submenu entries, which in nixos world would make it easier for differentiating between specialisations [sic]. Each can be a parent menu and the submenus their various generations: github.com/systemd/syst...

@mcuban.bsky.social thoughts?

Did you time your PTO to the launch of Switch 2? 😍🤩

Uh, nice! Thanks for sharing. It also has an easy self-hosting option!

Did you consider an EV from one of the traditional brands? What about polestar?

Uhhh… Syndicate in the 70s! 🤩

I Tried Samsung's Secret Android XR Headset! YouTube video by Marques Brownlee

NEW VIDEO - I Tried Samsung's Secret Android XR Headset, and it was awesome. Think of it as the Nexus/Pixel of headsets. Coming later this year.

Full video: youtu.be/az5QL_NLBvg

Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering YouTube video by runevision

insane new graphics tech for dithering, literally ground breaking www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqG...

Oh no! 😬

Nice!

I don’t think it can open that wide. :-/ The legion is 8.8”, no?

+1 to this — I’m on Jekyll myself hosted on GitHub.

Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space) Attached: 1 image Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 millio...

Pentium FDIV bug reverse-engineered: oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff...

Large Language Models explained briefly YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

Also, 3blue1brown has a nice series on LLMs, starting with: youtu.be/LPZh9BOjkQs?...

Welcome back!! And to the right network. 🤣 Hope mat leave went smooth!

On transformer fundamentals, I recommend:
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3925...
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850...
- jalammar.github.io/illustrated-...
- e2eml.school/transformers...

And def put them all on NotebookLM.

TIRED: Killing your service’s third-party apps

WIRED: Killing your service’s first-party apps

Good list of the cool things that Intel packed into AVX-512 beyond SIMD: mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/11057282974952...

Hardest (and perhaps most rewarding) part of our job is the human factor, for sure.

The amazingly sharp @sararob.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! She knows everything there is to know about ML (and baking!), so go follow her. Welcome, Sara!

There isn't a community feature like on Twitter yet, is there? https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/communities

Is there a Rust community here yet? I’m looking for a well-maintained ECS library that can work with no_std (alloc ok) and would appreciate recommendations.

Screenshot of a Hyprland-based desktop.

hyprland.org is looking great! Available as a Nix package already.

Elixir creator @josevalim.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! 🎉

Good overview of how it works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njnjwH7SQD8

A picture of a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro box.

Retro x86 gaming has never been better. Between emulation (DOSBox, PCem/86Box), FPGA (MiSTer ao486), there are many options. But running real DOS wasn't possible with sound. SBEMU (https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU is a new DOS Sound Blaster emulator for computers w/ AC97 and solves that problem!

Speaking of retro tech sounds, this very cool video from the Retrocet channel captures the dial up modem negotiation sounds at various speeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k I had no idea that V.90 56K needed a digital line on the server side.

Before SSDs became a thing, I always wanted to put together a maxed out desktop with 15K rpm SCSI or SAS drives. The excellent PhilsComputerLab channel has a recording of how cool Seagate Cheetahs sounded like: https://youtu.be/1QcMpPyUzlQ?t=76

Interesting! Thanks.

What’s the historical argument?