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Comment · 4 months ago
This is why I come to the internet.
Comment · 8 months ago
This is good to see. The concept of immutable OS and fallback boots is going to be much more common. I think there are similar concepts being explored in postmarketOS such as https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/duranium

I've tried the silverblue desktop version of this and while I'm not convinced that a mix of OS/Brew/Flatpak/Containers is making things more approachable it's interesting to see these concepts progress and the tools improve.

Comment · 9 months ago
That really reads like an ad.
Comment · 10 months ago
Feels like this is a reasonable compromise for them. They can release the source for their machines while still remaining in enough control to allow them to stay in business. It's similar to the Business Source licenses that we have seen from software companies recently. Not Open Source or Free but better than a lot of other manufactures. Does this leave the Voron as the only Open and Free design that is being built in quantities?
Comment · 11 months ago
So the argument is, we have manufactured something to create a noxious goop that we would like to inject into the ground at high pressure. Why are people so scared that this is going to have a long term impact our company has a short term profit to deliver to shareholders.
Comment · 1 year ago
My understading is that the hackers had a copy of the source code for their app so they had to patch all their outstanding CVE that they where sitting on so the DOJ let them hold back until that was ready. It's not ideal but I suppose there is at least something people can do right now. Feels like they could have been a bit quicker with some of the information though.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I think there has been a big uptake in things you don't see like embedded or FPGA cores but as a general CPU it's nowhere near as efficient as ARM/x86 right now is my understanding. So it might be running in the SSD and the Fan controller but not as the CPU. I think a large part of the cost of a CPU core is not the instruction set but the optimisation of the CPU and ARM/Intel/AMD are still way ahead in those. And so it needs people to optimise the cores, which when they have done that they charge for being a better CPU.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
"Hi we would like to give your child something that we think will lower their intelligence would you sign here please."
Comment · 1 year ago
I give you the file called ":
Comment · 1 year ago
They showed a video at the end of their broadcast last night comparing what the raw microphone hears and what comes out of the XMOS chip and you can hear a much clearer voice all the time even when there is noise or you are far away from the device. It is also used to cancel out the music if you are using it's speaker output. I don't think it's doing any voice processing but it's cleaning up the audio a lot which makes the job of the wake word processor and the speach to text a lot easier. Up until now this was missing from a lot of the home made voice assistance and I think why Alexa can understand you from the next room but my home made one struggles with all but quiet conditions.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nabu Casa employ one of the Mycroft devs now and i think some of the tech came from that project so it's not all gone :)
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
It's all open and so should be able to work with OpenHAB as well but it would need somebody to either write a firmware that's compatibale with the OpenHAB endpoints or add ESPHome interegeation into OpenHAB. Somebody might have already done that for their voice stuff. There is not much yaml in home assistant now unless you want it. I'd give it a go in a VM and see what it finds on your network :)

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