This post is an unpublished review for As Answers Get Cheaper, Questions Grow Dearer This opinion article tackles the much discussed issues of Large Language Models (LLMs) both endangering jobs and improving productivity. The authors begin by making a comparison, likening the current understanding of the effects LLMs are currently having upon knowledge-intensive work to that of artists in the early XIX century, when photography was first invented: they explain that photography didn’t result in p...
Read more →Después de varios años existiendo y evolucionando, hoy puedo liberar oficialmente Poda 0.1, la primera versión que considero verdaderamente estable. Los invito a descargarlo de:
https://gitlab.com/alvarezp2000/poda/-/tree/v0.1 Poda es una herramienta avanzada para detectar directorios duplicados y similares, incluso entre dispositivos ...
I have a 2 TB file which I compressed using bzip2. This file lives in a Raspberry Pi NAS. How did I compress it? I must have sent it across the network for storage in this NAS; something like this: ...
Read more →Good old Robert Riemann presented some truly interesting viewpoints on FOSDEM this year regarding the EU OS project. I highly respect his movement; in fact, it was a significant inspiration for us starting Fundación MxOS here in México. That said, respectfully, I have some bones to pick with his presentation …
Read more →Hoy amanecí con la PC hecha un desmadre. Aplicaciones como Firefox y Chrome se cerraban de la nada con volcados de memoria y el escritorio se sentía lento, como si algo estuviera atorando los engranes. La neta, pensé que había roto algo en mi configuración, pero el problema resultó ser …
Read more →Hola! If you read my previous post about using ACLs on Fedora , you probably noticed a user named intro appearing in the examples. "Who is intro?" you might have asked. Well, let me introduce you to my new partner in crime. Who is Intro? Intro is an AI agent running …
Read more →Hola! You know how sometimes you have a service user (like a bot or a daemon) that needs to access your files, but you feel dirty giving it sudo access? I mean, la neta , giving root permissions just to read a config file is like killing a fly with a …
Read more →Mis sesiones de coding con IA se estaban volviendo un desmadre. Ya sabes cómo es: empiezas con una pregunta sencilla, el contexto se infla, y de repente el modelo ya no sabe ni qué día es. Así que me puse a afinar mi configuración de Opencode y, la neta, encontré …
Read more →Finally, some light at the end of the tunnel! As I have said in this blog and elsewhere, after putting quite a bit of work into generating the Debian Raspberry Pi images between late 2018 and 2023, I had to recognize I don’t have the time and energy to properly care for it. I even registered a GSoC project for it. I mentored Kurva Prashanth, who did good work on the vmdb2 scripts we use for the image generation — but in the end, was unable to push them to be built in Debian infrastructure. Maybe...
Read more →This post is an unpublished review for The Innovation Engine • Government-funded Academic Research David Patterson does not need an introduction. Being the brain behind many of the inventions that shaped the computing industry (repeatedly) over the past 40 years, when he put forward an opinion article in Communications of the ACM targeting the current day political waves in the USA, I could not avoid choosing it to write this review. Patterson worked for a a public university (University of Cali...
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