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Update on my image chroma compression algorithm: There's now a C/C++ library that implements the algorithm, and it's preforming pretty decently.

Meet Bitfrost CC: https://codeberg.org/mbitsnbites/bitfrostcc

bitfrostcc

The Bitfrost CC library for image chroma channel compression.

Codeberg.org

Latest hack: A spatial domain variable block size luma dependent chroma compression algorithm

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-algorithm/

#image #compression

This weekend's hack: How long does it take to brute force a cryptographic key?

https://bruteforce.bitsnbites.eu/

Brute Force Attack Time Estimator

Another hurdle that I need to get over with Fedora is SELinux. Undecided if I should learn it (i.e. The Right Thing) or disable it and get on with my hacks.
LFT-Nine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4twUyt-MY if you know how the C64 works, this starts out bog standard and then gets increasingly WTF
NINE (Seemingly Impossible C64 Demo)

YouTube

As a @unity user I’d like to:
Read blog posts about the product or plans, like maybe some details about that “Unity next” or some such,

So that I can:
Stop seeing blog posts called “How AI enables the creation of high-quality ads” on the official Unity blog.

Thanks.

Didn't have much luck getting docker/podman to work with CUDA in Fedora (too much hassle, mostly blaming NVIDIA), so I went with a user systemd unit to run my llama.cpp instance instead. Works perfectly.

The current situation with a multitude of competing and incompatible AI models, inference engines and APIs reminds me of the situation with C/C++ compilers, calling conventions and ABIs back in the 1990's and early 2000's.

Let's hope that OSS comes out on top this time around too.

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.