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Reword a public announcement [1], slap on a misleading title, put it behind a cookie banner and paywall and boom - Journalism! "Bose is releasing documentation for EOL smart speaker HTTP API" would be more apt. Not even Bose is claiming that anything has been open-sourced in their statement. Titling the section "Open-source options for the community" is as close as they come to that.

Still, props to Bose for actively helping to keep their old devices usable.

[1] https://www.bose.com/soundtouch-end-of-life

encypruon

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> dot += A[i] * B[i];

Isn't it pretty bad for accuracy to accumulate large numbers of floats in this fashion? o.O In the example it's 640,000 numbers. log2(640,000) is ~19.3 but the significand of a float has only 23 bits plus an implicit one.

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I'm extremely disappointed to learn that Firefox allows access to motion sensors by default and provides no option to make it ask for permission. It can only be disabled completely but this silently breaks legitimate uses like this one. This is a privacy nightmare. There is so much that can potentially be inferred from motion data, like user identity, mode of transport (maybe even location), what they're likely to be typing in the url bar or in an iframe, emotional state, a bunch of health information...

edit: Nice game, though. I wonder what it's made with. There seems to be a huge amount of generated shader code in the js. I wonder if that could be avoided.

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After dismissing the final pop-up it will go on to proclaim:

  > Yes!
  > 80085 is 00000000000000000 in binary!

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I did. I have an "Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1" (what a mouthful) and the volume is always too high and the audio ridiculously bad at "low" volumes. Changing some values with ALSA makes it almost bearable. The easiest way I found to do that was to root the phone, compile tinyalsa in termux and use this script to call tinyalsa with root:

https://pastebin.com/5f1jwpkb

If anyone has ideas how to do this without root, get around the issue of calls being lower volume or remove the dependency on tinyalsa and termux, I'm all ears.

encypruon

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Sorry, some objections...

> It's for deep learning, not that much "for graphics".

No, while it is true that there is some overlap between the techniques and concepts used, gaussian splatting isn't necessarily "for deep learning". The library provides a differentiable rasterizer for gaussian splats. This basically means that you can ask it "if I want my output image to change in this and this direction, in what direction should I change the position / orientation / color / ... of my splats?". This enables users to plug it into other software (that is also commonly used for deep learning) and to optimize the parameters of the splats to represent a particular scene.

Since it's primarily a differentiable rasterizer for splats I think it's fair to say that it is "for graphics".

> The problem is "how do you do 3D deep learning 3D scene reconstruction" aka "how to make 3d equivalent of stable diffusion".

That it uses gradient descent doesn't mean that it is "deep learning". There are no neural networks or layers here.

It's not an "equivalent of stable diffusion". The way it's used now is to learn a representation of a single scene, not unlike photogrammetry. Sure, there may be other use cases for this library, but this is primarily what gaussian splatting is about.

encypruon

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I think I finally managed to disable tracker-miner on xfce.

  systemctl --user list-unit-files | grep -o "tracker-\S*\.service" | xargs systemctl --user mask

...wasn't enough. What did the trick was unchecking the remaining two entries in the "session and startup" settings dialog. Good riddance. It was the number one reason for my notebook heating up and draining battery.

encypruon

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AFAIK with the Nokia N900 this was possible in 2009 using gstreamer. I never actually used it to create a video device but I assume that the v4l2sink was already a thing back then. I did use it quite a few times for streaming to remote windows and OpenCV.

Only good phone I ever had. I wish things were as easy on Android devices, but somehow they almost never are.

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