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Hindenburg part 2 let’s gooooooo

Liberapay is similar to this, and very well established. Highly recommend checking it out!

I never set up text selection and have apparently never tried it till now so that one I can’t help with, but with zsh you can enable ctrl+backspace behaviour by putting bindkey “^H” backward-delete-word in your ~/.zshrc file. Ctrl+delete is bindkey “\e[3;5~” delete-word, in case you also use that one.

I have everything you mentioned (except maybe the selection only stuff, I don’t use it and forget if I set it up at all) set up in my zsh+kitty setup, so it’s definitely possible. If you want I can dig thru my zshrc and kitty config for the relevant parts once I’m at my pc later.

People in here saying it’s a bad idea for things like compatibility with other shells make some good points, but I think they’re missing one important aspect - fuck other shells, what do I care? 95% of my time in the terminal is spent on my own machine and I may as well make it convenient for myself. The odd time I ssh into another box without my keybinds I’ll be a bit less efficient, but that’s a worthwhile trade off imo.

It only makes gtk theming slightly less of a pain in the ass, but you can use gtk’s inspector (enabled thru a gsettings terminal command and then ctrl+shift+d in the app or thru an environment variable) to find the classes, names, and object types for whatever you’re trying to theme.

Kobo does drm-free ebooks when the publisher allows it, so it’s on a case-by-case basis but I have got a lot of them drm free

ElementaryOS was my gateway drug cuz it was so pretty, I switched to have an OS that made me happy instead of miserable. Dual booted for a while for gaming until I got an hdr monitor and ended up stuck on my (modded for privacy and performance) windows partition more and more, but followed Wayland’s development religiously until plasma finally launched HDR in beta.

I chose arch (btw) cuz I was tired of running Debian-based distros with custom kernels and I generally just don’t like apt, and I don’t see myself ever really wanting to switch again.
(Other than compulsively reinstalling arch to try whatever new shit catches my eye, that doesn’t count)

Oh sorry I was in a rush reading your post the first time and fully missed that your wireless adapter was broken lol. Do you have a 3.5mm audio cable to use? I honestly don’t even know if the USB port supports audio but my gut feeling would be charging only (can’t imagine why they’d bother putting a DAC in the headphones). I won’t have my headphones or my pc for a couple days but I can poke around with this after that if you want anything tested on another similar setup, by then.

Possibly a stupid question, but are you using the wireless dongle that came with the headphones? I have the same headphones and run arch as well, and my pc recognizes the dongle as “Audeze Maxwell usb” or something like that.

I’m running pipewire for my audio system and iirc it worked out of the gate with these headphones, though I did some modifications to get digital surround sound working too.

Great, this is all the infinite information sucking machine was missing: MY information. Can’t wait for hiring companies to try to force me to use this /s

GenAI is short for generative AI in this context

Proton’s a compatibility layer to translate between games that want to speak to windows and a Linux system. Steam downloads it for you if you turn it on as a setting, and most of the time you shouldn’t have to worry about it past that.

For pirated games: if you have the game as a folder with a game exe rather than an installer, you can still add it to steam pretty easily as a non-steam game and then just enable proton. If it has an installer this can still work, but it’s more of a pain cuz you have to add the installer to steam, run it with proton, and then switch the steam entry’s file location to the newly installed game. I honestly don’t recommend doing it that second way, I’m chronically allergic to bloat (arch btw) and even for me this is a dumb hacky work around.

I watched someone vibe code a curl request with grok and it spat out an api key in the configuration completely unprompted. It wasn’t an active one unfortunately (that would’ve been so funny) but I could totally see this happening

Did you use a heavily quantized version? Those models are much smaller than the state of the art ones to begin with, and if you chop their weights from float16 to float2 or something it reduces their capabilities a lot more

Yep, the OpenAI api and/or the ollama one work for this no problem in most projects. You just give it the address and port you want to connect to, and that port can be localhost, lan, another server on another network, whatever.

I don’t know if anyone reading this will ever have this problem (if you got this far without installing an adblocker, this is your wake up call - go get one now), but ctrl+W is the shortcut to kill a tab and that should work regardless site focus or popups

Called the blobfish

Copy of the article because I don’t respect Microsoft:

With finite natural resources and a growing demand for food, the world must find ways to overcome this challenge. One proposal comes from a Brazilian startup that will produce milk proteins without the need for cows.

Founded in 2023, Future Cow wants to transform the dairy market by using precision fermentation, a process that combines high technology, sustainability, and production efficiency.

“Our mission is to make milk without a cow,” summarizes Leonardo Vieira, the company’s co-founder and CEO. “Precision fermentation is a technology similar to that used in the production of beer or wine.”

The entrepreneur explains that the technology involves identifying the genetic sequence in the animal’s DNA that provides instructions for producing the milk protein. The sequence is then copied and encoded in a host, which can be a fungus, yeast, or bacterium. The host then multiplies in a fermentation tank with a calorie source for nutrition.

The result is a liquid that—after being filtered and dried—is transformed into the initially programmed milk proteins.

“These proteins serve as ingredients for the food and dairy industry, which can recombine the product to create various derivatives,” he explains.

The foodtech will use yeast as hosts to initially produce casein and whey protein, two of the main proteins found in milk. Casein is widely used in cheese and yogurt production, while whey is rich in protein and highly valued in the food supplement market.

There are also other proteins in milk, each with specific applications.

“One of them is lactoferrin, which is extremely difficult to produce using traditional methods,” says Vieira. “It takes 10,000 liters of milk to obtain just one kilo of this ingredient.”

#From the laboratory to the market

Future Cow began operating in the Supera Technology Park in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo state. There, it produced the first grams of milk protein using precision fermentation. It was then selected to take part in the DeepTech Acceleration Program (PACE) of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) in Campinas.

It is now testing the scaling of the process, which is a critical stage for biotech companies.

“Ninety-five percent of biotechs fail when they leave a bench environment and go to a pilot plant or other relevant environment,” recalls Vieira. “We’re very optimistic that with the support of the CNPEM and the available infrastructure, we’ll achieve the scale-up we need for the next stage.”

The startup does not intend to replace animal milk entirely; rather, it wants to create complementary solutions for the industry.

“When precision fermentation began, it was all very black or white: the product was either animal or it wasn’t animal. Now, we see more hybrid models,” Vieira observes.

According to Vieira, executives from large dairies claim to already purchase all the available milk on the market. “They can’t increase production by 20% or 30% with just the traditional raw material,” he says. “If they can mix our ingredient with the animal product to create a hybrid product and increase the scale, it’ll be a significant gain,” he says.

Another relevant aspect is the decarbonization agenda of large companies.

“Even if precision fermentation doesn’t fully replace animal milk, a 10% or 20% reduction in the carbon footprint of large corporations in the food sector would already represent a considerable environmental impact,” Vieira continues.

#Brazilian potential

The sector for alternative proteins produced by precision fermentation is still in its early stages, but startups specializing in the segment are already emerging around the world.

“Each one follows a different technological route. There’s variation in the type of host [fungus, yeast, or bacteria] and in the target proteins,” says Vieira.

The entrepreneur points out that Brazil is in a privileged strategic position to lead the global market.

“Brazil is the only country in the world that has an abundance of water, sugar, and renewable energy, which are the three essential inputs for fermentation. It’s a unique opportunity for the country,” he points out. “With these characteristics, Brazil can take the lead in a strategic industry for the future of global food.”

Future Cow’s technical and economic analyses show that producing milk proteins on a 300,000-liter scale will be less expensive than traditional production methods. He points out that when precision fermentation reaches an industrial scale with lower costs, it will disrupt the market: “If Brazil only focuses on traditional agriculture at that point, we’ll be left behind.”

The researcher cites New Zealand as an example. The country has characteristics similar to Brazil’s, and a significant portion of its gross domestic product (GDP) comes from milk exports.

“They’ve already realized that the sector is going to change and are moving to avoid being left behind,” he comments. “I’ve been trying to alert the Brazilian government authorities to this potential.”

#Future prospects

Future Cow already has a functional strain and is now looking to increase production yields.

“The more the strain produces, the more the unit price falls. So we’re optimizing the fermentation processes,” Vieira asserts. The expectation is that the product will be ready and available for sale by the end of 2026.

Since the product is an ingredient, the company will not sell directly to the end consumer, but rather will act as a supplier to the food industry. This approach could facilitate the startup’s entry into the market.

Vieira explains, “As an ingredient, our product can be incorporated into existing products without facing a high entry barrier.”

The startup will initially market the proteins it has already developed before expanding to other varieties.

“Only after the first commercialization will we develop other proteins,” says the entrepreneur.

The company is preparing to take part in VivaTech, an innovation fair that will be held in Paris, France, in June.

“The technology already exists in other countries and at VivaTech we’ll be able to show that Brazil has it too,” says Vieira. “We can win over investors who realize that we can manufacture in Brazil and export to other locations. This kind of exposure abroad is uncommon for Brazilian companies.”

At the meeting, Future Cow aims to connect with the innovation ecosystem, raise awareness of the development of the technology in Brazil, and attract potential corporate partners. “We want to demonstrate that we’re developing alternative proteins and, with this, attract multinationals from the dairy sector to be our clients.”

#Scientific entrepreneurship

One aspect that Vieira highlights is the combination of skills at Future Cow. While he brings experience in business and entrepreneurship, his partner, Rosana Goldbeck, has a Ph.D. in food engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and has already studied meat cultivation in Brazil.

He says, “This mix is an important differentiator, as it brings together someone who understands business and someone who understands the technology.”

According to Vieira, this is one of the main barriers preventing more innovations from Brazilian universities from becoming commercial products: “Brazil produces a lot of science, has many scientific articles, but most of them don’t become businesses,” he laments. “There need to be more connections between the academic environment and entrepreneurship in Brazil.”

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