This makes a whole lot of sense… Will be interesting to see the direction the Swiss go, when it comes to supporting an enterprise with their software infrastructure.
Really makes me treasure the nerds and bookworms in my life… 📕🪱
That makes a lot of sense from a company’s standpoint. Not really the best for reliability when you think of business scale support…
Interesting that most computing activities are reduced to a web front end (is this the correct term?) and the web browser becomes the OS for the usual user.
At my previous job, we were issued several devices, on which I just used to access the services the company wanted our department to use. Much of the software would take minutes to load… Updates nearly every day… Usually when you were presenting in a conference room.
The frustration derived from all those times where the computer would freeze just because the OS was using so many resources radicalized me a bit more towards Linux. :)
Any suggestions for a noob in the router space? I’m looking to start with some basics, and wasn’t sure if Network Chuck would be the best starting point.
Sometimes there are some graybeard HTML documentation sites laying around that are great at conveying fundamentals.
Being in the in between age group that didn't learn the way the web is structured from an earlier timeframe has garbled my understanding of where I should start and the roadmap of where I want to go.
Hoping to spread the good word of Linux at my next employer… 😂 In any way I can suggest and assist someone in a transition to more creative freedom in their projects is a win for me.
I’d imagine you’ve learned quite a bit working with FAANG companies. Very impressive background!
A bit off topic… But is there a good starter resource/project for a VPS? Each time I revisit the idea of self hosting, the abstractions can get confusing. Interested in making a Pihole for one, but don’t want to make any tragic noob errors.
I think you're misinterpreting my meaning behind this post. Maybe I could better rephrase it as... How do you believe the general person could become more informed, and engage with systems utilizing Linux with less user abstraction?
The unfortunate reality that I’ve come to cope with, is that there’s only so much you can do to attempt to convince people of something contrary to beliefs integrated within their identities.
Cognitive dissonance is a difficult battle to wage, but it is fruitless persuade those unwilling to be convinced that a large community easily indexed on the first page of the most ubiquitously used search engines is not the best solution to find community.
It is an unfortunate truth, but it will reduce the harm in your life to distance yourself from these types of group think communities.
I would prefer to be downvoted and engage in good faith discussion with a smaller group of individuals and possibly have my own beliefs evolve than stay in a corporate environment.
I also have used Linux at my workplace, but I’d imagine most of the general populace does not. That is my intention behind this post.
Sounds like you’ll find more community here on Lemmy.
We’re a smaller, odder bunch, but in the more reminiscent style of older form posts.
I really like the sphere here. I ditched Reddit awhile ago for the Fediverse and haven’t looked back since.
For me, I’ve been a hobbyist polyglot for most of my life. The disconnect I’ve found is in my auditory processing ability.
I usually can learn to read, write, and speak in a very short period of time. The difficulty comes in the way a native will phrase their sentences, coupled with my deficiency in gauging the other person’s intent behind their message.
Written communication is the easiest for me, but spoken language carries psychology and nuance that can go over my head. Neurodivergent native speakers seem to have similar idiosyncratic ways of expression…
I can confidently say I speak 5 languages, but have studied upwards of 25 not counting written ancient languages.
Linux in the Workplace
Recent events have had me thinking a lot more about which tools we will be allowed to use in the workplace.
It was difficult to undo the damage that using Windows for most of my life affected my perception of computers.
Using Linux has widened my perspective on technology in general and made it a lot more fun to explore low level and systems programming.
Do many of you get to use Linux tools at work? How would you feel about more small establishments and local shops using software that gives them more control?
I’d imagine payment software, and a whole slough of other services are now sold as SaaSes when historically they did not need to be digitized or have an unnecessary middle man.
Just a little Tuesday thought for discussion. Hope you all are doing well.
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Yup! Once they notice that you struggle with basic tasks, but are able to synthesize complex information or tackle very involved tasks in a fraction of the time they can... It's bullying for you! :)
Completely agree with NT people being stranger. Whenever I chat with someone ND, it feels like there's a layer of understanding that just isn't there with the wider neurotypes.
No offense taken at all, it's a fair comparison, but upsetting when you see the similarity in how judgmental and shallow some people can be. Eccentricity is the route I usually take. It ends up dividing the room into buckets depending on the amount of "personality" one can take. Not sure how predictability/spontaneity influences this viewpoint of NTs as well, but as you pointed out, ferocity and being "too good at your job" can also make NTs jealous from what I've experienced.
Eye Contact, Body Language, and Misperception
Hello All,
Hope you are all doing well despite the current circumstances of the world. Given that society is in a fair amount of turmoil, this is a great time to open up a discussion about the perception of others and how our autism shapes that view.
There have been times in my life where colleagues, friends, classmates/peers start off with an initally positive rapport that is unfortunately shredded at a later date. In the past, this has led to bullying in the workplace and strained interpersonal relationships. When there are other clearly neurodiverse individuals sharing the room with me, oftentimes crude comparisons are made to minimize both myself and the other person.
It's a bit confusing why this happens so often, but I'd imagine that when I get more comfortable, parts of the mask come off. Another guess would be that I may be socially blind to certain actions that may alter one's perception.
Wanted to see if any of you relate to this, as it would be a great discussion item
GUI Programming Recommendations
Hello all,
I'm trying to get into GUI programming, but am hesitating on using a Python library to make my first barebones program. My goal is to code basic buttons and understand how operating systems implement the way they draw windows for applications.
I have coded mostly in scientific libraries or high-level languages that are fairly simple (Python, Matlab, Julia)... Also am familiar with basic concepts and syntax from C.
Looking for recommendations to start. I am happy to learn a new PL. Interested in writing code for legacy hardware and mobile. Bonus if the codes are general enough to be written for most displays one could interact with.
Makes perfect sense to compare different lists listing lists so that you can see what list of lists is listed the best using the site listing lists ;)
MSI X670E Gaming Plus Wifi Fans not Starting
Hi everyone,
I am in the midst of troubleshooting why my fans are not turning on despite the PC booting.
The motherboard is an MSI x670e gaming plus WiFi. The CPU cooler is a Noctua NH-D15 with two fans.
Things I have tried or will try so far…
- Update bios version… (y) Didn’t fix anything.
- After BIOS update, see if changing power setting to PCM turns the fans on. (n)
All the connections are slotted in properly, so I’m not sure what’s the matter with the system… Mint is already installed, so it’s weird that none of the fans turn on. Including the GPU.
This is my first Linux build out of the box… Should I be looking for any drivers in particular?
CPU: Ryzen 5 7600x GPU: Radeon RX 7800
lol quatsch jedes Mal wenn ich deutsch rede die Leute antworten auf englisch
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Great source! Thank you very much for sharing, I’ll check it out more 😊
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I can change the combination of words I use to communicate if that would be better. Tribal knowledge is a term I have heard expressed between a spectrum of individuals from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds working in technical fields. I did not know that this term was off limits for this forum. It was not my intention that it be extrapolated as an insult towards someone’s race or social class.
I already am watching some and enjoy going to my local library as well to do so. I understand that it’s not the person’s responsibility. It seems preferable to just look it up without expressing any communication to the other.
That would help achieve this goal. I would appreciate if you sent this playlist. Social interactions confuse me as well. It is better to attempt them than to immediately jump off the page when a disagreement ensues.
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As much as I would like to turn to professional developers for nearly every solution, I would like to learn how a professional developer operates.
My assumption is that Lemmy has many professionals who may be benevolent enough to lend some time and discussion regarding FOSS development. I would gladly assist, as it would improve my knowledge. My career is in hardware manufacturing, so maybe I can be useful for them as well.
A clear and transparent discussion of even the “developer tool chain” and open configurations + hotkey and macro suggestions would be great. Sometimes UX is enough to put people off from programming. This is a slight detour, but coding is as fundamental as literacy with all the semiconductor devices that surround us. I’m talking out of my ass when it comes to how a washing machine or computer console in a car is programmed, but I’m sure the concepts would be just as helpful as knowing how to wash dishes or mop ones floor.
Not everyone needs a DIY fab in their home, but as technology miniaturizes, we can achieve much more. Some of the tools when they were pioneered had their calculations performed on computers as large as an entire room. Nowadays it can fit on a table top.
I grew up under the poverty line and am sickened by how people are being screwed by software. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel are a couple to name of these monopolists that the general person is not really able to sever out of their lives. Don’t like that banking, travel, etc are all being relegated to an app.
Does this make some of my goals a bit clearer? I would like to do as much as we can as a community, as simple as possible. Arch and Gentoo are great as DIY examples, but software libraries and solutions created by others start to sound like fantasy when no actual English words are used to describe dependencies and abstract programs.
Learning to Cook
A howdy hello to everyone,
Getting older has made me realize the deficits in my cooking skills. I was a very picky eater growing up, and started to widen my palate so that I wouldn’t be condemned to eating some form of bread with cheese for my entire life. I love fruits and vegetables, so there’s no problem here. Grains are a bit difficult because of their texture.
I am completely dogshit at cooking. Whenever I try a new recipe, I either burn or undercook the food, resulting in about an hour wasted of poor planning.
This may involve walking back and forth around the kitchen getting ingredients as needed, forgetting to do a step, or forgetting an ingredient that is sitting on the counter away from me.
My motor skills are sometimes clumsy with cutting, so oftentimes the vegetables and fruit are cut too thick, or not to the point where the recipe expects them. When I made aloo gobi, my cauliflower was too large, the potatoes were undercooked, and the other veggies were just a pile
Preferences and Decision Making
Hello again everyone,
I’m very happy with the comments from the last post I made. Many of you had positive and constructive feedback about socializing. Made me realize that I’m generally overthinking the whole thing.
I mentioned that I was a chatterbox with a tendency to delve too deep into things and talk about whatever spontaneously comes to mind. Usually I can hold a conversation for the first couple of meetings, but then I’ll be at a loss of words for relatability.
When I thought more about why I can’t relate to others, it’s not because of any distaste towards people or their personal likes/dislikes… In fact, I would prefer to be viewed well in someone else’s perception. Generally treating others with kindness, complimenting specific items of clothing, jewelry, hairstyles, and inquiring about basic things like music, weather, architecture, outdoors etc.
But when I look into myself… I went through life having mostly no preferences…
For example, when asked where I’d like
How to Socialize?
How do you get other people to speak with you? Usually I never know what to say in response.
Being a chatterbox hasn’t worked out too well throughout my life. Even in my second language, German, it’s evident im sort of a “parrot” when it comes to learned social phrases.
Socially exhausted right now and feeling like an alien.
Hardware Project Survey
Hope everyone is having a relaxing Sunday morning/evening.
I wanted to follow up from my previous post, as some of you have indicated interest.
About logistic considerations, I believe 8 weeks is a good time commitment for a hardware project. The goal is to learn more about silicon manufacturing, lower-level computer hardware details such as architecture, circuit design, fundamental condensed matter physics, and digital logic design. Other goals involve understanding firmware systems such as BIOS and the cascade of events that occur from power-on to user operation as well as conceptualizing the small timescales that these events occur on. My intention is not to dictate the philosophy of learning, but bring awareness to details that otherwise would have never been known or to draw a larger picture using the constellation of components that is a modern computing device. We then will delve into HDLs (Hardware description languages) and look specifically
Hardware Study Groups Revisited
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/36326370
Hey Everyone,
I'm very happy to see the engagement in my last post... Hoping to improve my communication skills and reduce my verbosity in the next couple of discussions.
I feel like it is due time to follow-up on what I posted on this board last year. That is, to follow through with "full-stack" hardware-software-application study groups.
If any of you still are interested, I'd like to open up this form for discussion of how that group should be run.
On the subject of HDLs (Hardware Description Languages), VHDL (Verilog HDL) could be fun for some of us to try together. Architecture is also a large concept frequently glossed-over, enciphered with too much jargon, or taught in a very "academic" fashion with very little discussion between students... The traditional classroom model, from what I experienced, is not too conducive to neurodivergent learning styles.
On that note, the RISC-V processor architecture
Hardware Study Groups Revisited
Hey Everyone,
I'm very happy to see the engagement in my last post... Hoping to improve my communication skills and reduce my verbosity in the next couple of discussions.
I feel like it is due time to follow-up on what I posted on this board last year. That is, to follow through with "full-stack" hardware-software-application study groups.
If any of you still are interested, I'd like to open up this form for discussion of how that group should be run.
On the subject of HDLs (Hardware Description Languages), VHDL (Verilog HDL) could be fun for some of us to try together. Architecture is also a large concept frequently glossed-over, enciphered with too much jargon, or taught in a very "academic" fashion with very little discussion between students... The traditional classroom model, from what I experienced, is not too conducive to neurodivergent learning styles.
On that note, the RISC-V processor architecture could provide an amazing opportunity to gain a low-to-high understanding
Socializing Advice to Break out of NPC voice lines?
Hey everyone!
Long time no post… The Cinny client for Matrix no longer functions even after updating, so I have lost access to the chat.
Anyways, I have been thinking a lot lately about the amount of awkward silences I’ve run into with others. It feels like some people are significantly easier to hold a conversation with, as they themselves are invested just as I am in our topics and dialogue. However, it almost feels like the other person is attempting a strange power dynamic with purposeful silences, staring, or otherwise conversations going downhill.
I’m not trying to be overly dramatic or to blame others, I just want to be as pleasant as possible for both the other person and myself. After all, good conversation can be wonderful!
Hoping to start a discussion with this nebulous afterthought and maybe get some ideas going for conversation skills and building social intuition!
Books for Computational Linguistics?
Hi everyone, I've always had a special interest in linguistics and have informally studied a couple of different languages from all around the world. The different writing systems such as radicals in Chinese, Kurdish scripts and reading from right to left, to Inuit glyphs are all fascinating in themselves.
The IPA has been something fascinating, but I've yet to find a good resource that I could make sense of and hold my attention long enough to internalize the concepts.
I'm looking for books and authors that have a unique background. For example, seeing Chomsky's name in an automata formal language theory book was weird to think... But all the NLP stuff had foundation in older linguistic theory and ways people thought about the human brain, right?
Language and Information by Zellig Harris is an interesting read. John Sowa is another author I'd recommend for the whole way of ontology and computer systems. The particular book by him that I'm thinking is Conceptual Structures, I bel
Older Computer Programmers & Engineers
Lately, I was going through the blog of a math professor I took at a community college back when I was in high school. Having gone the path I did in life, I took a look at what his credentials were, and found that he completed a computer science degree back sometime in the 1970s. He had a curmudgeonly and standoffish personality, and his IT skills were nonexistent back when I took him.
It's fascinating to see the perspectives on computing and how many of the things I learned in my undergraduate were still being taught way back to the 1950s. It also seems like the computer science degree was more intertwined with its electrical engineering fraternal twin.
Although the title of this post is inherently provocative, I'm curious to hear from those of you who did computer science, electrical engineering, or similar technical degrees in decades past. Are there topics or subjects that have phased out over the years that you think leave younger programmers/engineers ill-equipped in the mod
Advice on the Choice of a GUI Library?
Hi Everyone,
I've gotten a lot of older books on mathematics, physics, chemistry, and dabbled a lot in computational simulation with programs like LAMMPS and GROMACS. I am interested in learning how to make a GUI application that I can use to automate graphing functions, understanding how sensitive a model may be to perturbations in particular parameters, and different ways of visualizing data to help me get an "intuition" on subjects. Numpy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib.pyplot, numba, glob, and os, are libraries I like to use. See Gibbs'/Maxwell's original envisionment of thermodynamic surfaces from the late 1800s.
However, I am a moron with respect to software development. My interests are in the FOSS-sphere of things, but I have never made a piece of software other than botched code to calculate averages, perform PCA, and typical statistics visualizations with distributions, Monte Carlo simulations, and see how this effects the properties of the underlying system of study. I've also
NLP Libraries for Resume Optimization?
Hey everyone,
Recently, I've found myself bogged down in sending off resumes that seem to never to be read by anyone other than myself.
I'll go through the whole gamut of picking keywords that match the job description, showcasing my previous experiences, projects, skills etc... But it just seems to never result in a call-back or even an email to tell me I wasn't selected.
Given that I'm tired of screaming into the hills and hearing it echo back, I want to write a program that streamlines this whole process. I have a couple of resume templates written in TeX script that I can populate with content. Alongside this, I have all of my relevant bullet points in assorted text files labeled appropriately.
The idea would be to feed the program the job description, relevant qualifications, and other miscellaneous text files. These would be processed to give an idea on how my resume should be modified to suit their requirements. Perhaps that could aid in creating a strong resume in a more
Gwern Website & "Brain" Inferences
Hey everyone,
Last night a rabbit hole took me to an unexpected place. Gwern is undoubtedly the most comprehensive website adorned with vocabulary, statistics, programming, and a strong bias towards the Haskell language.
I found myself sucked into the site and got lost in what seemed like an endless stream of text. One page about nootropics would lead to another about properly designing scientific studies, the "Dual n back" method for increasing IQ and countless more.
From a previous post I mentioned interest in LLM inferences, but at the time I kind of only nebulously wanted an AI tool better than GPT-4. Some of so kindly brought the Georgi Gerganov Llama.cpp to my attention, for which I finally have adjusted to Linux well enough to feel comfortable downloading software in myriad ways.
Returning to the topic at hand, I have an itching feeling that some sort of ML model could be made to serve the purpose as a brain extension. I can see the uses bei
LLM Inference for Legal Document Summarization?
Hey everyone, I've been parsing through the Huggingface website and am having a bit of trouble picking out an LLM inference to help me parse through legal documents. I am not a lawyer, but I would like to understand my rights and how to search for answers to legal questions with concrete answers using an inference.
I have heard a multitude of things around Llama being a privacy nightmare and something about Gerganov ML files? GGMU is also a nebulous term to me and I understand the basics about how a model is trained and validated, but not how to pick one for personal use that isn't GPT-4.
Any suggestions or things to add on to the discussion?
LLM Inferences for Legal References?
Hey everyone, I've been searching for a bit on getting local LLM inference to process legal paperwork (I am not a lawyer, I just have trouble through large documents to figure out my rights). This would help me have conversations with my landlord and various other people who will withhold crucial information such as your rights during a unit inspection or accuse you of things you did not etc.
Given that there are 1000s of pre-trained models, would it be better to train a small model myself on an RTX 4090 or a Daisy chain of other GPUs? Is there a legal archive somewhere that I'm just not seeing or where should I direct my energy? I think lots of us could benefit from a pocket law reference that can serve as an aid to see what to do next.
Software, Firmware, Hardware Study Groups
After chatting with some of you on this forum and seeing that we all are on Lemmy rather than Reddit, I think it would be a good idea for us to have some study groups to improve our technological literacy and competency.
During my time on Lemmy, I've been able to increase my digital literacy and overall knowledge surrounding my system. I've loved the nearly endless rabbit holes Wikipedia has pulled me into, as well as the resulting happiness that comes from finally fixing a broken Linux system or piece of technology.
But what exactly does technological literacy encompass, one might ask? I'd like to illustrate via anecdote. When I first got into Linux, I was told to "Get a terminal emulator to SSH into the HPC so that you can run computational jobs". To most of you this sentence is completely normal, but to my unconditioned mind, I felt like a big bright light was flashed before my eyes while my PI spoke martian to me. After the initial disorientation, I downloaded what I thought wa
Gentoo Beckons Me
Hey everyone, I've been using an Arch system for the past 2 months and I've had an absolute ball learning more granular details about my hardware. Never in my life did I think I'd be looking at kernel modules and contemplating swapping out init systems and trying different kernels.
I write this post somewhat open-endesd because I'm clueless as to where Gentoo can take me in terms of hardware acceleration and help me learn development of software/firmware deeper. To my understanding, everything must be compiled from source code, which I'd like to learn more about as well. Ive dipped my toe in a myriad of programming languages too and found a more terminals focused work flow was ideal.
My major use cases for my computer are to benchmark hardware and pick more features in software that I'd have to compile from source anyways. I do work in molecular dynamics from time to time and have used software distributions like GROMACS and LAMMPS. Any advice that could be wouldbbe greatly appreci