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Playing with improvising some sanquhar-style patterns in the round (so I don't have to do purls), and decided to turn it into a sock for my lovely Zoom L6 portable mixer. #knitting

Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/sam-altman…

Sam Altman Offers YC Founders $2 Million in OpenAI Tokens For Equity
OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman late Tuesday offered to invest $2 million in every startup currently in the Y Combinator startup accelerator program—not in cash, but in OpenAI tokens. “I am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build,” Altman posted on X after unveiling the offer in a talk to YC founders

The morally bankrupt, culturally bankrupt, intellectually bankrupt Supreme Leader in Bad Taste ruins yet another piece of prime real estate. He hires only the "best people" to indulge his ego.
#RefliectingPool #WashingtonDC

Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.
You simply don’t need to.
You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.
Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.
The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.
And yes, they’re just another venture capita…

I've finally finished pushing the latest update for #Gentoo Distribution Kernels, and requested their stabilization. This includes upstream releases 7.0.9, 6.18.32, 6.12.90 and 6.6.140; and Gentoo patch bumps 6.1.173_p1, 5.15.207_p1 and 5.10.256_p1.
All of these contain the v5 #Fragnesia patch. And yes, while the exploit is in the wild, upstream still hasn't merged a fix to the mainline kernel, let alone all the LTS branches. Of course, the patch keeps covering more holes, but it would really be preferable to do that as a followup instead of leaving people vulnerable and forcing us to keep rebasing it.
They also include a few reverts in 6.18 and 6.6 for broken PowerPC backports that upstream didn't apparently test. 🤷
We're doing our best, but I'd still recommend running the latest 7.0.x kernel, or LTS 6.18.x, because upstream is far from reliable with the backports.
#Linux

from my link log —
Let's build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/10/22/lets-build-a-high-performance-fuzzer-with-gpus/
saved 2020-10-22

Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
TL;DR: Can we use GPUs to get 10x performance/dollar when fuzzing embedded software in the cloud? Based on our preliminary work, we think the answer is yes! Fuzzing is a software testing technique that supplies programs with many randomized inputs in an attempt to cause unexpected behavior. It’s an important, […]

daily affirmations:
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for python2.7... python2.7
checking for --enable-universalsdk... no
checking for --with-universal-archs... no
checking MACHDEP... linux2
checking EXTRAPLATDIR...
checking for --without-gcc... no
checking for --with-icc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for …

Weird. The weather forecast says 13C (yes, Celsius) for Victoria, BC (yes, not the one in AU :D), but it really feels like... idk, 30C?!
https://weather.gc.ca/en/location/index.html?coords=48.433,-123.362
What is this magic?
It is super sunny outsid…

Everything pulled out of the old build and ready for installation into the new case along with the new cooler and what have you. Smol motherboard, but yuuuge GPU by comparison. Basically the same hardware going into the larger case but with much improved cooling and a significantly reduced risk of snapping something off of the GPU.
#steamMachine

China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal (Koh Ewe/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5ppg50gplo

China executes man for murdering prominent gaming tycoon
The court said the man poisoned the tycoon for sidelining him after he helped secure a deal with Netflix for the 3 Body Problem.