I don’t understand why they keep saying “the Trump admin is doing this”, “the Trump admin is doing that”, and so on. It isn’t the Trump admin: it’s the majority of USA citizens that’s doing this and that. They voted it. They’re the first responsible and guilty. Each and every single person in that majority.

One big, sad problem in machine learning and AI is that many, hopefully not most, practitioners there are largely incompetent in statistics and probability. This is why they often incorrectly evaluate the performance before deployment.

findmnt --real

Cheers! Apparently Ubuntu uses the relatime setting.

So what are the atime settings in a Linux distribution like Ubuntu?

Fantastic person.

Funny that the post closes with “thank you”. So kind. I depend on K-9 Mail daily, so “thank you” from me doesn’t cut the amount of indebtedness and gratitude I have to this person. Thank you! 🙏

Thank you! didn’t know about that command.

Edit: explicitly installing 10.1 with

sudo apt install wine-staging=10.1~focal-1 wine-staging-amd64=10.1~focal-1 wine-staging-i386:i386=10.1~focal-1 winehq-staging=10.1~focal-1

worked.

Thank you for the help!

But I can’t remove wine-staging, at least not via apt:

$ sudo apt remove wine-staging-i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 wine-staging : Depends: wine-staging-i386 (= 10.2~focal-2)
                Depends: wine-staging-amd64 (= 10.2~focal-2) but 10.2~focal-1 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

So no go there. --fix-broken doesn’t work either:

$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  wine-staging-amd64
The following packages will be upgraded:
  wine-staging-amd64
1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 9 not to upgrade.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/114 MB of archives.
After this operation, 15.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 393922 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../wine-staging-amd64_10.2~focal-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking wine-staging-amd64 (10.2~focal-2) over (10.2~focal-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/wine-staging-amd64_10.2~focal-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/opt/wine-staging/bin/wine', which is also in package wine-staging-i386:i386 10.2~focal-2
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/wine-staging-amd64_10.2~focal-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any idea on how to remove Wine manually, bypassing apt?

The problem is that the whole apt system seems to be broken. It doesn’t let me install other packages, and I can’t even uninstall wine. So I wonder if any fixes from wine will work. It looks like this needs the user’s manual intervention.

$ sudo apt upgrade 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 wine-staging : Depends: wine-staging-amd64 (= 10.2~focal-2) but 10.2~focal-1 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

$ sudo apt remove wine-staging-amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 wine-staging : Depends: wine-staging-amd64 (= 10.2~focal-2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

but sudo apt --fix-broken install does not solve anything…

“In fact, open source is more of a cultural behavior than a commercial one, and contributing to it earns us respect” [the founder] added.

Wisdom.

United States of chinA

I wonder which server they use. I’ve only had headaches trying to use Matrix for collaboration, especially if people were on different servers.

Figuratively or for real?

On top of that, the actual results are behind a paywall and can be very iffy. It sounds like there were only 12 people in the 6-hour group and in each of the other groups. And no indications about other traits like sex, smoking or other habits, and so on. Too small numbers to guarantee against statistical fluctuations. And the “significant” in the abstract may indicate that they used p-values to quantify their results, which are today considered iffy by a large chunk of the statistics community…

“Science of the Total Environment” journal? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Too silly even for a 3rd-rate sci-fi film…

these autonomous agents represent the next step in the evolution of large language models (LLMs), seamlessly integrating into business processes to handle functions such as responding to customer inquiries, identifying sales leads, and managing inventory.

I really want to see what happens. It seems to me these “agents” are still useless in handling tasks like customer inquiries. Hopefully customers will get tired and switch to companies that employ competent humans instead…

Cheers! Got a bit clearer now.

Appreciated if someone can explain what is the problem and its context in simple terms 🙏

I understand the GNU “framework” is built on free, open source software. So I don’t understand how one can “discover” that there were pieces of non-free software there… They were put there by mistake?

😂

The current security philosophy almost seems to be: “In order to make it secure, make it difficult to use”. This is why I propose to go a step further: “In order to make it secure, just don’t make it”. The safest account is the one that doesn’t exist or that can’t be accessed by anyone, including its owner.

We aren’t supposed to accept that. We can simply not use their software. And as users that’s the only power we have on devs. But it’s a power that only works on devs who are interested in having many users.