Anna

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/07/two-years-is-long-enough-to-learn.html

It is hard and it takes works and I am very sympathetic to anyone who doesn’t manage, but Americans tend to think both that learning a second language is a wizard skill AND anyone coming to the US should manage it in a few weeks.

American father who moved to Russia to avoid LGBTQ+ “indoctrination” for his kids is being sent to the front line against Ukraine despite being assured he would serve in a non-combat role.

Derek Huffman, 46, feels he is being “thrown to the wolves” after being told that his job in the military would be as a correspondent or as a welder, his wife, DeAnna, said in a recorded plea for prayers, which has since been removed from her YouTube page.

Huffman has no prior military experience, DeAnna said, adding that his limited training was conducted in Russian. She suggested this language barrier has made her husband particularly unprepared for the horrors of combat.

...

“Unfortunately, when you’re taught in a different language, and you don’t understand the language, how are you really getting taught?” she pondered. “You’re not. So, unfortunately, he feels like he’s being thrown to the wolves right now, and he’s kind of having to lean on faith, and that’s what we’re all doing.”

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/07/two-years-is-long-enough-to-learn.html

https://www.metafilter.com/209626/our-ancient-gods

Posted by mittens

"But who were these brand-new people that fascists couldn't bear to look at? 'The First Homosexuals,' at Wrightwood 659, in Chicago, attempts to answer this question, tracking the emergence of modern ideas about gender and sexuality across more than three hundred art works. It focusses on the period between the eighteen-sixties, when the word 'homosexuality' was coined, and the nineteen-thirties, when the Nazis shut down Hirschfeld's institute and burned his research." How 'The First Homosexuals' Shaped an Identity. (new yorker; archive)

https://www.metafilter.com/209626/our-ancient-gods

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/19/openai_us_china/

OpenAI delayed its promised open-weights model since GPT-2, leaving the Middle Kingdom clearly in the lead

Comment OpenAI was supposed to make good on its name and release its first open-weights model since GPT-2 this week.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/19/openai_us_china/

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/07/morning_0290143302.html

Slacker Saturday

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/07/morning_0290143302.html

https://www.metafilter.com/209625/Summe-sende-ylues-and-summe-sende-nadderes

Posted by verstegan

A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars for 130 years has finally been solved. The breakthrough involved working out that the word 'ylues' in a thirteenth-century manuscript refers to 'wolves', not 'elves'. The discovery solves the most famous mystery in Chaucer's writings and provides rare evidence of a medieval preacher referencing pop culture in a sermon. (The full academic article can be found here.)

https://www.metafilter.com/209625/Summe-sende-ylues-and-summe-sende-nadderes

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/19/idf_cyber_chief_iran/

Keep It Simple, Stupid

Interview Scattered Spider and Iranian government-backed cyber units have more in common than a recent uptick in hacking activity, according to Ariel Parnes, a former colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces' cyber unit 8200.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/19/idf_cyber_chief_iran/

https://www.metafilter.com/209624/Im-not-sure-all-these-people-understand

Posted by chavenet

Dunne's transformation sounds like a fairytale in reverse: one kiss, and his life turned into a nightmare. Seventeen years have passed since that night, and he still mostly explains the change in himself in metaphors and similes. His eyes filled with soot. His voice was a robot's. He felt as if he were locked outside his body, which became a sort of "second body". Any form of water, from a raindrop to a warm bath, made everything worse. from I was enjoying a midnight swim. Then my girlfriend kissed me – and the nightmare began [Grauniad; ungated]

https://www.metafilter.com/209624/Im-not-sure-all-these-people-understand

https://www.metafilter.com/209623/Either-theyre-having-an-affair-or-theyre-just-very-shy

Posted by Wordshore

...spoke Chris Martin of Coldplay, as the camera lingered on an embracing 'couple' who rapidly weren't. Social media melted as this summer's CEO was crowned. The company are investigating, there have been comments, and memes, and the Phillies mascots see you.

https://www.metafilter.com/209623/Either-theyre-having-an-affair-or-theyre-just-very-shy

https://www.metafilter.com/209622/How-one-family-turned-their-failing-farm-into-a-pocket-of-paradise

Posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries

How one family turned their failing farm into a pocket of paradise. A quiet and beautiful new documentary shows the journey of the Burrell family, who took failing farming land and rewilded it, creating something unique and possibly game-changing. (England)

https://www.metafilter.com/209622/How-one-family-turned-their-failing-farm-into-a-pocket-of-paradise

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/trump_gpu_china/

Moolenaar demands answers from Commerce Secretary

The Republican chair of the US House Select Committee on China has protested the Trump administration's decision this week to lift restrictions on the sale of Nvidia H20 GPUs and similar processors, warning the chips could be used to advance Chinese AI and military interests.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/trump_gpu_china/

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/meta_declines_eu_ai_guidelines/

GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges

Two weeks before the EU AI Act takes effect, the European Commission issued voluntary guidelines for providers of general-purpose AI models. However, Meta refused to sign, arguing that the extra measures introduce "legal uncertainties" beyond the law's scope.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/meta_declines_eu_ai_guidelines/

https://www.metafilter.com/209621/Netflix-goes-AI

Posted by Lemkin

"Netflix used generative AI in an original, scripted series that debuted this year, it revealed this week. Producers used the technology to create a scene in which a building collapses, hinting at the growing use of generative AI in entertainment."

Engadget:

According to Sarandos, the creators of The Eternaut wanted to include a shot of building collapsing in Buenos Aires, and rather than contract a studio of visual effects artists to create the footage, Netflix used generative AI to create it. "Using AI powered tools, they were able to achieve an amazing result with remarkable speed," Sarandos shared during the earnings call. "In fact, that VFX sequence was completed 10 times faster than it could have been completed with... traditional VFX tools and workflows." The shot "just wouldn't have been feasible for a show on that budget," Sarandos says, as someone with some input on the show's budget. The executive says that The Eternaut features "the very first Gen AI final footage to appear on screen in a Netflix original series or film." Clearly, the show is also a prototype for how Netflix can avoid costs it doesn't want to swallow in the future. Workers in the entertainment industry have not taken kindly to the use of generative AI. Labor strikes — including the recently resolved SAG-AFTRA video game strike — have made securing protections against AI a central issue. The Oscar-nominated film The Brutalist came under fire in 2024 for using AI tools during production. Beyond that, whether generative AI models were illegally trained on copyrighted material is still an open question.

https://www.metafilter.com/209621/Netflix-goes-AI

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/07/trump-suing-gavin-macleod-markie-post.html

OK just Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones, News Corp and a couple of WSJ reporters.

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/07/trump-suing-gavin-macleod-markie-post.html

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/07/check-doodle-kerning.html

Right wingers will keep throwing anything against the wall until they find something that sticks.

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/07/check-doodle-kerning.html

https://www.metafilter.com/209620/yum

Posted by clavdivs

'Meet Chef Aiman: The world's first AI chef who is launching a futuristic restaurant in Dubai.' "That future arrives this September in the heart of Dubai, where WOOHOO, a first-of-its-kind AI-powered dining experience.
"The worldwide AI market is expected to grow to over US$631 billion by 2028 from US$235 billion in 2024. How much of that growth is likely to occur in the restaurant industry?"
'How AI is revolutionizing restaurants.'

https://www.metafilter.com/209620/yum

planet_debian_feed

Posted by David Bremner

https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//blog/posts/hibernate-pocket-7/

Context

See hibernate-pocket, hibernate-pocket-2, hibernate-pocket-3, hibernate-pocket-4, hibernate-pocket-5, hibernate-pocket-7

Building upstream-ish kernel

Roughly following the "bisecting upstream linux" section of reform-debian-packages/README.md

$ git clone https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/linux.git collabora
$ cd collabora && git git switch -c rockchip-devel origin/rockchip-devel

The next step is to apply the the non-collabora patches from reform-debian-packages/linux/patches6.15/rk3588-mnt-reform2
Unfortunately these are missing the proper metadata to work with git-am

Sidequest: Fix patches

1000-v3-pci_dw_rockchip_add_system_pm_support.patch doesn't apply, even with added metadata. Start again upstream.
Thanks to joshc for the suggestion of the b4 tool.
```
  b4 am 1744940759-23823-1-git-send-email-shawn.lin@rock-chips.com
```
This creates a .mbx file ready for git am (roughly equivalent to fetching the /raw version from lore, with some extra checks).
Brute force finding a base for the patch:

git rev-list --no-merges --since 2025-01-01 refs/heads/rockchip-devel | \
    while read ref
    do
        echo trying $ref
        git checkout $ref
        git apply --check v3_20250418_shawn_lin_pci_dw_rockchip_add_system_pm_support.mbx && echo SUCCESS && break
    done

122 steps later this yields 9dff55ebaef7 (bisect would be better if we knew a "good" commit).

$ git branch -D tmp ; git switch -c tmp 9dff55ebaef7
$ git am v3_20250418_shawn_lin_pci_dw_rockchip_add_system_pm_support.mbx
$ git rebase -i rockchip-devel

This fails with 3 conflicts. The first is easy, as the one non-comment line just moves around. The other two involve a new function rockchip_pcie_unmask_dll_indicator used to reduce code duplication, and in all 3 cases I just took the version of the code from Shawn's patch.

Rebased patch is at 0001-PCI-dw-rockchip-Add-system-PM-support.patch

previous episode

https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//blog/posts/hibernate-pocket-7/

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/rapidus_foundry_2nm/

That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else

Japanese foundry upstart Rapidus says it's on track to begin volume production of 2nm process tech after achieving a major milestone this week.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/rapidus_foundry_2nm/