Codeberg now fits well for me static blogs, me personal projects and also Luanti CTF game I posted earlier in the community.

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I realized there is also LibreHardware community. I wonder why there is no post there. This fits right in LibreHardware.

Let me know your username. I like farming noobs >:)

Well… I might agree but I don’t think I want another round of hot discussions and then a new name…

Cross posting me comment from CNX:

Lemme clarify something about the earlier comments I had. If we see this device as a start to liberate the world of e-readers, it could be a very good effort. If it goes well, I would appreciate it very much. But as a device to use as a real e-reader daily, nope it isn’t.

If the efforts of Open Touch people lead us into an open e-reader ecosystem, it makes all sense that the first open hardware e-reader doesn’t catch many eyes. Perfect is achieved step by step. It doesn’t come for granted for free. However, going for ESP32-S3 still would be a valid criticism.

BTW, AES mini games are also fun. But the player base is much smaller. Good if you can coordinate with a number of friends to join there at the same time and have fun :)

https://aes.land/

I personally think both pro LLM and anti LLM are wrong. One group think they are gods. The other think they are demons. LLMs can be useful for programming to some extent. But they will create a disaster if you don’t know what are you doing. I have recently published a post about the matter on me blog. I think the best part is:

I strongly believe that LLMs are useful for programming to some extent. Imagine you have a shop and you get a robot to do the moves for you. So you instead focus on the main business concerns.

So if you want to make some changes to the code which don’t require intelligence, that is they are just mechanical tasks, LLMs are good. If you want the LLMs to understand semantics of your code, you have chosen the wrong tool. Maybe in future we’ll have new AI software and tools which also understand semantics to some extent. But I highly doubt a transformer will be able to do it. They just predict the next likely token.

There is something I haven’t yet added to the post. So I am writing it here. Our computers are Universal Turing Machines. There are some fundamental limits to what a turing machine can’t do. Those are called undecidable problems. For instance a turing machine can never check if two pieces of code are semantically equivalent[1]. But that’s what human programmers can do. That’s why I emphasize on tasks which require no intelligence.

[1] That’s about the general case. Sure there are exceptions. But as we say “exception is not the rule”.

I see people get excited about this. But if you are realistic, buy a Kobo e-reader and you are good.

Copy-pasting me own comment from under this CNX post

I am a BOOX Leaf user. Very much frustrated with BOOX. They do not release the GPL code. I quite like a cheap e-reader with too > long battery life. But I have several criticisms on this thing:

• It uses ESP32-S3. It’s Xtensa. Worse software support. Didn’t the folks stop their Xtensa line?
• Isn’t 8MB (PS)RAM short?
• The screen supports only 2 bit grayscale. And they haven’t written what screen they are going to use. That makes a realdifference. I already feel the difference between me BOOX Leaf with Carta 1200 and me brother’s BOOX Go 7 Color with Carta 1300.
• If you want to simply sideload normal DRM-free epubs, all of those devices support it.
• If you are fine going for an AP, you can install custom software like koreader on many devices including Pocketbook and Kobo ones. Not sure why it has written you cannot run custom code on Kobo Clara BW.

Regarding the last point, I do want a decent e-reader like Leaf I have but with Linux support. To make us closer to the goal, I have > extensively contributed to postmarketOS wiki: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Ebook_reader

As I have written in the respective wiki pages, both PocketBook and Kobo openly permit running custom OS/firmware on their ebook readers if you can go outside warranty.

hmm perhaps there is something enterprises use? or What? I think there are some CPUs(AMD ones?) exclusive to the Chinese market. For instance see “Hygon C86 7380”

Me linux distro is not the best. “The best” varies from person to person and also in accord to different positions in time.

Thanks for sharing this. I think I’m gonna include it in me next Linkdump on the blog.