an immutable OS means never being able to install the CUDA toolkit directly In order to get the blurt gnome desktop integration to use the whisper.cpp CUDA model in Fedora Silverblue (or any immutable OS), you need to do a couple of things: main-cuda is the key Assuming you have whisper.cpp and blurt installed and… Continue reading getting blurt to use the CUDA whisper.cpp version in Fedora Silverblue
astounding accuracy of OpenAI's whisper is retained with massive speed improvements in distil-whisper transcribing the excellent 40 minute Prosecuting Donald Trump podcast in 45 seconds If you have ever suffered through voice-to-speech software from the 1990s with its awkward setup, convoluted training, and extremely poor accuracy, you will be astounded by the latest automatic speech… Continue reading distil-whisper is the tipping point
I don't think LLMs understand CUDA I am exploring numba and CUDA. What better way to examine code than to ask an LLM to generate samples. It works for some code examples, but it is painfully obvious that at best LLMs are a copy/paste function (with lacuna) and at worst simply don't understand CUDA at… Continue reading Testing out LLMs with a Mandelbrot plot using numba and CUDA
for Fedora Silverblue and other Linux users who thought this function was broken For the longest time I thought LibreOffice's Encrypt with GPG key option for saving files was broken: Yes, you can easily save the file with encryption, select your GPG public key to encrypt and it all seems to work, but when it… Continue reading How to encrypt and decrypt documents in LibreOffice using YubiKeys and GPG
Kleopatra for Windows works fine: it recognises my YubiKey as a smart-card and is able to encrypt/sign/decrypt and verify without issue. Kleopatra for Fedora Silverblue on the other hand: Fedora Silverblue often did not recognise the YubiKey (upon boot it seems to hog the YubiKey and does not let go). I had to manually reset… Continue reading Kleopatra for Fedora Silverblue: one solution
the useful aedile The last thing Mr Dent wanted was attention to his business. As aedile of the district he made sure distribution of the study pills was hidden from the Corporation and under his sole control. His grey imports had no records. All that mattered was that he got paid. Whether that was done… Continue reading City of Legions.4 [draft]
ChatGPT instructions still don't really help So I have opened up my original post: https://felixquinihildebet.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/1629/
a trip to the quarantine zone Dr Edith Snow, a young doctor specialising in cholera, along with Peter, our driver and security, met briefly and we drove outside the headquarters area into the old part of the City, toward Broad Street. Sunshine gleamed off the pristine vehicles, parked waiting for their precious cargo. Even during… Continue reading City of Legions.3 [draft]
a trip to the office “I have a problem.” It was Sue. “I will be there.” Sue rarely had to do anything, beside calling her granddaughter. But calling a talent was one of those things only she could do. As an Owner Sue had all the resources of the City of Legions at her disposal. She would… Continue reading City of Legions.2 [draft]
that substack thing went off the rails... After leaving TWTR when the Musk showed up, I am well acquainted with how badly a site can go off the rails. So, I will be suspending https://felixquinihildebet.substack.com/ and publishing on WordPress once again. A City of Legions chapter has been in draft form for far too long… Continue reading systemctl reboot
would subscriptions create more content? I have set up a substack at https://felixquinihildebet.substack.com/. It will take some time to think about this and become familiar with the mechanics of blog entry/editing. After seeing traffic but no likes (which cost very little effort) for a lot of my "How to" entries, it does raise the question… Continue reading trying out substack
Just this past week a solution has finally emerged from reddit thanks to donkerslootn (https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/11qk9gx/luks_and_fido2_unlock_on_fedora_silverblue/) on how to unlock an encrypted disk upon boot using a YubiKey (instead of a password) for the excellent Fedora Silverblue OS (both 37 and 38 beta worked). By default, one would need to type in the password for the… Continue reading How to unlock a LUKS encrypted Fedora Silverblue disk using a YubiKey with FIDO2
Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.Friedrich Nietzsche To level a city was easy. The fusion driven Corsair, several blocks in length, had the unique ability to generate sound in the hundreds of decibels upon a target, seemingly without limit as to distance. Who could have dreamed… Continue reading City of Legions.1 [draft3]
Hi https://twitter.com/thelaurengraham (this generation's funnier and prettier Barbra Stanwyck--but not because of the Oscar thing)! Looking forward to reading another one of your super funny and engaging books (yes, I know: https://sites.prh.com/have-i-told-you-this-already). I was reading https://twitter.com/AnnaKendrick47's Little something, something but got interrupted by your fast talking book and finished it instead. Have you thought of… Continue reading Pitch to Lauren Graham (satire)
It is easy to fall down a rabbit hole of research when searching for methods of generating sufficiently random numbers on a computer. It is an area that requires deep expertise and is generally inaccessible for the average user. At its heart, the idea of generating randomness from a device that is built to be… Continue reading Generate random numbers and passwords using your YubiKey
Industrial conglomerate owner (Elon) Zorg races to collect four stones demanded of his backer, who is described by one of the keepers of the stones on Earth as “pure evil.” Zorg is under pressure as he has promised delivery without actually possessing the stones. He is also suffering from his haircut and other physical ailments.… Continue reading The Fifth Element (1997) review/satire
Today's big news is the implosion of TWTR. As of today, the remaining qualified domain experts within the company rejected Musk’s revised employment conditions and left the Zoom call. After all, he that is so yokèd by a fool, Methinks should not be chronicled for wise The Two Gentlemen of Verona As several essential functions… Continue reading How to improve your Mastodon workflow
As I mentioned earlier, OpenAI's Whisper transcription model is the current state of the art, with stunning results. Whisper is so good, in fact, that I felt it worthwhile to transcribe hundreds of old audio files into text. Rather than doing this manually, I set up a workflow, which you can see in the enclosed… Continue reading How to transcribe hundreds of audio files into text using OpenAI Whisper
The following blog entry was essentially transcribed (with manual editing where I was unhappy with what I said). OpenAI Whisper using the medium model (unedited with errors in red): The new OpenAI Whisper Voice to Transcription Service is now by far the best transcription service available. It is open source and can very easily be… Continue reading I am stunned by OpenAI Whisper’s voice to text results
To someone who worked in Hong Kong for a number of years, one of the most singular aspects of Musk's TWTR takeover is the Four Seasons Landscaping level of obliviousness concerning the headline transaction details. If the Chinese press are not pointing this out that speaks volumes too. What I am referring to, of course,… Continue reading 四四
“Let’s see, 20 ml of Suze, 40ml of gin, 30 ml of Lillet, oh right, my grapefruit peel, I need to cut that. A round block of ice in the tumbler, strain the mixture over the top, spritz the grapefruit peel and add it as a twist.” As Mal was handing over the pre-blink cocktail… Continue reading City of Legions Chapter 19: the Old King of the Black Isles [draft]
A breakthrough in Android took place very quietly within the Synology NAS ecosystem which has finally opened up the ability to use the excellent markdown editor Obsidian on Android properly. Before the introduction of the Synology Drive beta, it was not possible to realistically sync a NAS folder of your choosing on to your Android… Continue reading How to sync Windows/Debian and Android for Obsidian markdown editor: Synology NAS sync breakthrough
There has already been commentary concerning the massive short dated (one week duration) options activity in TSLA that has reliably caused prices to rise despite fundamentals (the gamma squeeze). I am tempted to blame a certain large trader, which may be unfair, for this options activity. But I have no data, only supposition, and in… Continue reading What caused the pivot in TSLA?
Although the year is not over, this question must be in the running: https://twitter.com/TheLastBearSta1/status/1438171695685283847
Synology DSM 7 supports YubiKey logins to the Synology NAS console. Because SSH access results in an equivalent, if not greater, security exposure, it makes sense to lock that door with the same level of security (it would be silly to have YubiKey secured console login but password secured SSH access with port 22 for… Continue reading How to setup YubiKey SSH authentication for Synology NAS under DSM 7: advanced users only
I found a fix regarding bitlocker for those exploring the Windows 11 beta and finding themselves unable to turn Bitlocker back on. Each successive beta did not fix the problem but it turns out the new problem is actually very old: [Error message when you try to run the BitLocker Drive Encryption program: "Cannot run"… Continue reading How to fix “drive cannot be encrypted because it contains system boot information” in Windows 11
Chart after chart had the same bounce in May which then ended in July. What makes this week notable is that even the leadership names like AAPL that had continued to power higher due to money flows have finally pivoted lower, following the correction in bubble names. One of the more dramatic charts in this… Continue reading May bounce is over in July
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The problem There is an unsustainable acceleration in the volume of e-waste: most existing sources of e-waste, computers, phones and other household electronics, have not been recycled (rates achieved are only about 15%). Meanwhile, new sources of e-waste, like EVs and traditional devices that are being improved with semiconductors (such as farm tractors or household… Continue reading Do we really want to solve the e-waste problem?
This tweet today (https://twitter.com/INArteCarloDoss/status/1391839660830339073) concerning ARKK Innovation ETF is interesting, whether you agree with the tweet or not, because although it ranks the top 21 names in the fund by their daily percentage loss at the time of the tweet (everything on the list fell today by more than -6%), if you look further in… Continue reading Arkk ETF holdings tweet
For anyone following the markets during the last few decades the absence of effective enforcement or regulation of markets by captured regulatory agencies is not only not a surprise but a necessary factor to consider and weigh in the consideration of prices, very much, if not more so, like interest rates or employment data. Just… Continue reading The Bill Hwang effect
It seems the reddit crowd is losing influence as this week was more about a rally in quality (or at least profit making potential) than bubble names. AAPL, ABB, AMD, AMZN, APD, COST, FB, GE, GM, GOOGL, LIN, MA, MS, MSFT, NFLX, NOW, NVDA, OKTA, PFE, PYPL, SBUX, SHOP, V, VUG, were strong. The Bill… Continue reading Rally in quality
The market did indeed bounce off critical lower parallel or price box support. Curiously, the SPY is making new highs even though this was a bounce off the lower parallel, not the upper parallel, for most names being followed (which means that what I have been following is actually yesterday’s news). Looking more closely, the… Continue reading Bucket shops and new leadership
According to a tweet thread by @DoveyWan, Bill Hwang’s entire $15B portfolio (covering $80B notional--over 5 times leverage) was liquidated on Friday (Goldman sold $10.5 bln of stocks in block-trade spree- Bloomberg News | Reuters). As alarming as one trader taking so many companies down by 40% in three days is the comment that he… Continue reading Bill Hwang liquidation event?
ARK was teasing their new price target for TSLA for some time (I am going to start limiting my reddit consumption as my brain is starting to hurt from the overload of repetitive noise). As ARK is one of the biggest TSLA boosters such an event was expected to boost the failing TSLA price out… Continue reading When the big reveal fails
The most important chart of the week belongs to the 10 year treasury yield as it breached 1.7%. The overall effect of these new interim highs, and the considerable loss in bond values, has been the end of the recent bounce in equities for the most part. Thus we are once again at critical levels… Continue reading chart review as the 10 year breaches 1.7%
If the drop to week lows on Monday was due to the yield on 10 year treasuries rising above 1.5%, and the subsequent bounce on Tuesday and the rest of the week was due to a pause in that move, why are most bubble stocks at today's close higher compared to where they were Monday… Continue reading something is off
As a result of one of the biggest up days in months nearly every chart has bounced off either its lower parallel or price box with the notable exception of DASH (IPO lockup expiry could be weighing on price) and VALE (commodity euphoria is stalling?). But with 10 year treasuries expected to hit 2% by… Continue reading chart update after historic bounce
A lot has happened in one day: AAPL breached its lower parallel; given the path of bubble stocks that have already breached their lower parallel and have continued to go down, this only confirms the new trend (e.g., ABNB, AMD, AMZN, BE, BIDU, BLNK, CVNA, DASH, FCEL, NIO, NOW, OKTA, PDD, PLUG, PTON, PYPL, SHOP,… Continue reading Chart update AAPL breaches lower parallel while QQQ is there
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