BBC reports that Chinese open models continue to steadily muscle out closed offering from US companies
Is China quietly winning the AI race?
The BBC's Lily Jamali looks into why big US firms and start-ups alike are turning to Chinese tech.Lily Jamali (BBC News)
CO2 turned into starch: China's new method boosts productivity by 10x
CO2 turned into starch: China's new method boosts productivity by 10x
Chinese scientists have developed a way to convert carbon dioxide directly into starch, bypassing crops and farmland.Christopher McFadden (Interesting Engineering)
11.37%. Now we're talking.
In StatCounter's latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, "unknown" accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unlikely.
In addition, ChromeOS comes in at 3.67%, which strikes me as much too low. Leaving that aside, ChromeOS is a Linux variant. It just uses the Chrome web browser for its interface rather than KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, or another Linux desktop environment. Put all these together, and you get a Linux desktop market share of 11.37%. Now we're talking.
Why people keep flocking to Linux in 2025 (and it's not just to escape Windows)
By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number - and why people are making the leap.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
Europe's discontent, useless NATO, Zelensky ‘crosses line’: Davos happenings
Europe's discontent, useless NATO, Zelensky ‘crosses line’: Davos happenings
Statements by European leaders on the sidelines of the WEF sounded like performances in an international theater of the absurd, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova saidTASS
New US strategy elevates Western Hemisphere, allies' burden-sharing
New US strategy elevates Western Hemisphere, allies' burden-sharing
The strategy places defense of the US homeland and the US interests across the Western Hemisphere above all other military priorities.chinadailyhk
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Imperial Boomerang
The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
Switching audio channels crashes GNOME
Hello! I have been using Fedora Silverblue for over a year now with few to no major issues. Today, however, I started experiencing an odd issue. Whenever I connect a set of Bluetooth headphones and switch the audio output channel, GNOME will completely crash. I get logged out, and the crashes repeat every few seconds until I disconnect the headphones or manage to shutdown the device. After logging in, all apps get killed, and even GNOME extensions get disabled (likely as a panic measure). The headphones were working perfectly prior to today.
I manually updated the system and tried cleanly pairing the headphones, but the issue persists. After cleanly pairing, the device immediately crashes without switching audio output channels. I'm not exactly sure how to diagnose the issue since I've never experienced anything like it in my years of Linux. I don't want to rollback, because I don't know if it's an issue with an update or an issue I need to fix on my own. What should I do?
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That bug report is from May last year, is it really about the same bug ?
This one is recent forum.manjaro.org/t/bluetooth-… and as a work-around downgrading wireplumber is suggested.
Bluetooth connection leads to gnome crash
Hello everyone, I am having an issue I cannot really pinpoint. When I am connecting a bluetooth headset (tried different ones) and switch from Headset to Handsfree mode, gnome crashes. It looks like a wireplumber crash leding to a coredump.Manjaro Linux Forum
In 2024, 495,000 overseas-educated students returned to China, a 19.1% increase from the previous year.
China sees jump in number of students returning from overseas in 2024
China saw 495,000 students return from overseas study in 2024, up 79,400 from a year earlier and an increase of 19.1 percent, education authorities said on Thursday, in a sign of an accelerating flow of talent back to the country.english.www.gov.cn
Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs if it 'makes a deal with China'
Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs if it 'makes a deal with China'
It comes as tensions appear to have escalated between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.Sakshi Venkatraman (BBC News)
Spanish court points finger at Israel as it drops Pegasus spyware case again
Spanish court points finger at Israel as it drops Pegasus spyware case again
Judge shelves inquiry into use of Israeli-made software to target ministers’ phones citing chronic lack of cooperationSam Jones (The Guardian)
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Tldr: used wrong wording would not deny prior or current issues with the usa if anything white people feeling it now is a good thing
I think my point may have been lost a little bit, I have had to explain what is going on to many people who won't accept that the discrimination has been going on for a really long time to at least try and get them to do things now
Yes america has been treating everyone they can poorly for a really long time and I would never deny that
I realized that a bit before this current wave of shit because I realized that I am trans back in like 2020 ish maybe a bit before and found out exactly how discriminatory the area I live was even before we actively had Nazis and clansmen parading around regularly (we did have some but not as many as recently)
The united states does happen to be overstepping its bounds publically slightly more than usual given even the people who wouldn't normally notice are noticing
“We’re Not Afraid”: Voices From Cubans’ March to U.S. Embassy
from Belly of the Beast
Thousands of Cubans marched to the U.S. Embassy in Havana to denounce U.S. imperialism in the wake of the attack on Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro.People from all walks of life — military officers, retirees, workers, students — took to the streets to show they are willing to defend their country in the face of U.S. aggression.
The “March of the Fighting People” honored the 32 Cubans who were killed in Venezuela during the January 3 U.S. attack. It reaffirmed support for the Cuban revolution despite threats made by the Trump administration and the ongoing economic war the U.S. is waging on the island.
“We’re Not Afraid”: Voices From Cubans’ March to U.S. Embassy
Thousands of Cubans marched to the U.S. Embassy in Havana to denounce U.S. imperialism in the wake of the attack on Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro. People from all walks of life — mi...PeerTube.wtf
Exclusive: Weapons flow to RSF via Libya continue despite pressure on Haftar
Weapons continue to flow from Libya to Sudan despite Saudi and Egyptian pressure on Khalifa Haftar to stop Emirati military support to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Middle East Eye has learned.
Earlier this week, MEE reported that the eastern Libya commander is coming under growing pressure from Cairo and Riyadh, which have warned that continued assistance could trigger a serious shift in Egypt’s relationship with him.
Saddam Haftar, Khalifa’s son and deputy commander of his self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), was “summoned” to Cairo earlier this month for a dressing-down, during which he was told to immediately end support for RSF, according to Egyptian sources.
Exclusive: Weapons flow to RSF via Libya continue despite pressure on Haftar
Weapons continue to flow from Libya to Sudan despite Saudi and Egyptian pressure on Khalifa Haftar to stop Emirati military support to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Middle EaMEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Michael Parenti passed away, RIP.
Michael Parenti, the path-breaking Marxist scholar, historian and political scientist, passed today at age 92
He went peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family
“Now he is in what he used to refer to as ‘the great lecture hall in the sky,’” his son, Christian, reflected
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What XMPP clients do you like and why?
I'm wondering what XMPP clients people use and what they like about each particular one.
Not that I am looking for one, really just wondering what people like to use. :D
EDIT: Also, more and more people around me are starting to use XMPP, so it is good to learn what to recommend for various use-cases.
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in reply to vermaterc • • •Yes a long time ago and they don't, but the AI models and training data are two different things.
Also as they are open source, there's nothing stopping anyone from running these AI models locally with your own training data.
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in reply to vermaterc • • •It's not easy, but it's done all the time. New models, new LoRAs, and in some cases, the training data doesn't even need to be very large for a specific task.
You don't need the entire training dataset that the model was built from.
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in reply to vermaterc • • •All AI models have some boundaries implemented. A lot of them of ideological nature.
China has a big interest to challenge the US's hegemonial status. If "they" win the AI arms race "they"later can charge actual money when having established themselves as THE winner and only supplier of consumer AI. It's how most western monopolies became to be one.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Interesting stuff. I hope Sam Altman loses everything.
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