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Making the Wikimedia Sound Logo [Meta] was a huge collaborative project with considerable community participation. Thank you! We received 3,235 sound logo submissions from 2,094…

This release’s major highlight is singed (and public) streams: skip channel classes and connect to your data streams directly (and securely), progressively enhance your application with bi-directional realtime features only when necessary (not so often).

(To read the complete Mozilla.ai publication on LLM evaluation, please visit the Mozilla.ai blog) In a year marked by extraordinary advancements in artificial intelligence, largely driven by the evolution of large language models (LLMs), one factor stands out as a universal accelerator: the exponential growth in computational power. Over the last few years, researchers have […]

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In this blog, we’re sharing with you all the ways you can socialize and participate in LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community outside of the official program.

We’ve talked about Tribblix before on OSNews – it’s a distribution of illumos, built by Peter Tribble. In his latest blog post, Tribble details some of the changes he’s made to the live ISO and other images for the most recent release. All along, there’s been an overlay (think a group package) called base-iso that lists the packages that are present in the live image. On installation, this is augmented with a few extra packages that you would expect to be present in a running system but which don’t make much sense in a live image, to construct the base system. You can add additional software, but the base is assumed to be present. The snag with this is that base-iso is very much a single-purpose generic concept. By its very nature it has to be minimal enough to not be overly bloated, yet contain as many drivers as necessary to handle the majority of systems. As such, the regular ISO image has fallen between 2 stools – it doesn’t have every single driver, so some systems won’t work, while it has a lot of unnecessary drivers for a lot of common use cases. ↫ Peter Tribble Tribble then details how he addressed this issue, which is, unsurprisingly, rather clever. I’m not going to spoil it here, so go on over and read the details.