Category: Open Source

Important message for Apple Silicon OpenBSD/arm64 users

Posted on by Michael G
As you may be aware, OpenBSD runs on Apple Silicon M series processors, thanks to the efforts of the OpenBSD/arm64 developers.

For those running our favorite operating system alongside the Apple product, sometimes special measures are needed, though.

Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) sent a message titled Important message for Apple Silicon OpenBSD/arm64 users to the misc@ and arm@ mailing lists, warning about possible firmware issues: 

Subject:    Important message for Apple Silicon OpenBSD/arm64 users
From:       Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis () xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2024-05-21 20:54:21

As indicated here:

  https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/112449204541186432

The system firmware that comes with macOS Sonoma 14.5 triggers a bug
in the m1n1 bootloader that is used to boot OpenBSD on these machines.
The bug will prevent OpenBSD from booting on some machines after the
macOS update has been installed.  The recommended fix is to update the
"stage1" m1n1 by booting into macOS and running:

Read more…

Releasing a new paper on openness and artificial intelligence

Posted on by Michael G

For the past six months, the Columbia Institute of Global Politics and Mozilla have been working with leading AI scholars and practitioners to create a framework on openness and AI. Today, we are publishing a paper that lays out this new framework. During earlier eras of the internet, open source technologies played a core role […]

The post Releasing a new paper on openness and artificial intelligence appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

How to make Google’s new “Web” search option the default in your browser

Posted on by Michael G
Last week, Google unveiled a new little feature in Google Search, called “Web”. Residing alongside the various other options like “All”, “Images”, “Video”, and so on, its goal is to effectively strip Google Search results from everything we generally don’t like, and just present a list of actual links to actual websites. It turns out it’s quite simple to set this as your default search “engine” in your browser, so somebody made a website to make that process a little easier. On May 15th Google released a new “Web” filter that removes “AI Overview” and other clutter, leaving only traditional web results. Here is how you can set “Google Web” as your default search engine. ↫ TenBlueLinks.org It’s important to note that this is not some separate search engine, and that no data is flowing any differently than when using regular Google. All this does is append the parameter UDM=14 to the URL, which loads the option “Web”.

天空侵犯 │ 女高中生突然出现在一座高塔，不幸成为各种人魔追逐的对象！ 《天空侵犯》

Posted on by Michael G

Video by via Dailymotion Source 《天空侵犯》是由三浦追儺原作，大羽隆廣負責作畫的漫畫。該漫畫於2013年12月05日開始在DeNA的x電子漫畫APP——MangaBox上連載，是一部恐怖熱血類型的作品。單行本的日文版由講談社出版發行，繁體中文版則由台灣東立出版社代理發行，而電子簡體中文版則在嗶哩嗶哩漫畫上連載。 故事講述主人公本城遊理突然來到一個莫名其妙的世界，這個世界裡充滿了超高大樓、吊橋，還有一個戴着面具的殺人魔。為了逃離殺人魔的追殺，遊理不得不拼命逃跑，但發現大樓的樓梯並不通往地面，只能在高樓層和屋頂之間移動。在這個異常的世界裡，她撥打手機，卻發現哥哥竟然也在這個奇怪的地方。為了生存，遊理決心展開一場殘酷的生存遊戲，這個世界充滿了挑戰和未知，她必須努力活下去。 《天空侵犯》營造出一個充滿神秘、恐怖和生存挑戰的故事世界，讓讀者跟隨主人公一同探索這個奇異的環境。 Go to Source