Generative AI (and the Technologist)

In a year, all the AI models used worldwide withdraw the same amount of water as three and a half average showers for every person in the world. The only ethical way to work on GenAI at present is to reduce its environmental footprint, testing on the smallest possible scale.…

Kernel patchsets

xanmod, pf-kernel, zen kernel, kernel-ck ... wait, no, the youth don't know that last one. What makes a kernel patchset? Who's deranged enough to make another one? ... That's me, as it turns out. Penny for my thoughts.…