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Linux kernel hacker and maintainer, virtual instrument creator etc.

https://jarkko.codeberg.page/

Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 6 hours ago
@pinkforest Github is also infamous for spreading malware in precompiled binaries and many many other things than just AI and inference :-)

Microsoft's web story is quite bad overall over the decades even. It's all been only shit so far :-)

When thinking about LLMs, it makes me releaved to see how MS executes these days in the sense that apparently even unlimited AI resources enhanced MS is still as lack of style as always :-) It is apparently something you cannot teach.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

I think I also publish at some point my personal backup tool of which I've been using for ages in various forms. I don't know how backup tools work, never used them, and it has been implemented over that basis :-) This is actualy only backup tool I've ever used.

/* KOPIO on-disk format structures */

static const uint8_t KOPIO_MAGIC[8] =
{ 'K', 'O', 'P', 'I', 'O', '7', '7', '7' };
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@pinkforest I keep my distance to Github :-) I only use it if I get paid for using Github.
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And "designed for Lua" i.e., the reason why it has files and folders is the direct mapping to Lua's table hierarchy.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 19 hours ago

“nippu - does one thing right”

https://codeberg.org/jarkko/nippu

I just need something simple and stupid as it is quite often :-)

I.e.,

#include <stdio.h>
#include <nippu/nippu.h>

int main(void)
{
	const struct nippu_node *node;
	const unsigned char *data;

	if (nippu_lookup(&assets, "/hello.txt", &node) != NIPPU_SUCCESS)
		return 1;
	if (!nippu_is_file(node))
		return 1;

	data = nippu_data(&assets, node);
	fwrite(data, 1, (size_t)nippu_size(node), stdout);
	return 0;
}
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Jarkko Sakkinen

I sometimes wonder how many of the people who think compiler injected safety checks are great have heard about icache :-)
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Software and hardware innovations have not happened for long time. It's all about who builds largest infrastructure.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

AI competition and deregulation in the United States have caused "pop-up" data centers to be created like mushrooms in the rain, and energy for them is largely produced with fossil fuels. Other resources, such as water, are also consumed in shocking amounts.

So remember that if you rely dominantly on agent infrastructure, it will come at the expense of basic human resources, and you will destroy the planet for future generations. Appealing to the economy is irrational, because the economy is always ultimately a virtual issue and a matter of contract.

Nvidia's hardware is quite bad in terms of energy use in terms of environmental specs, because it's half a graphics card, and not just for inference etc. designed. Only Google (maybe someone else) has energy efficiency in order, because they produce an ASIC designed for the purpose, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).

Tech is not problem, humans are once again. E.g., my use of inference in my sample browser pakki is probably example of such case as it runs smart sample search just fine on my X390 ThinkPad :-)
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@pavel I have no idea. I just bookmarked it here so that I remember to check :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 3 days ago
Pakki - a sample browser i'm putting together :-) it has also AI and interference run with CPU/GPU (works fine on my X390 Thinkpad).

The only AI app I've made so far...

If there's a magic button that generates all the code in the world, I can only assume that everyone is pushing that button. How I adjust my focus on topics such as AI is to look into smaller scale not as crowded areas such as local AI, which has the similar optimization challenge as all optimization challenges I love :-)

1. pfffft for FFT
2. libonnxruntime for inference
3. https://github.com/LAION-AI/CLAP/ for epoch models.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 4 days ago
One that comes really close, despite being scripting language, is Lua (and efficient, already used in games such as Civilization 2).
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C is the most human readable and WYSIWYG language I know.
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The factor that Rust always adds in complexity is its layer compiler generated code i.e., it is hard to "hallucinate" (for human brain) how it executes. For C I just see it always duality with assembly, which makes it so much easier to deduce.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 4 days ago
This is was hard one in its own way:

https://github.com/himmelblau-idm/himmelblau/pull/1079/changes/83c1b07599e75d8d4c86e7df4ddace3ff34383db

I.e. simple patch but finding exactly correct simple patch of unlimited choices was the sudoku here.

I left out dynamic update as it requires:

1. Detection of "no sessions for user" (probably through loginctl?).
2. Maintaining "no sessions" state while e.g. running recursive chown.

I did not figure this out yet and even if I had it appears to me to be at least complex in size as my initial patch. Since the current returns error on dynamic change, it leaves door open to add a opt-in flag for it later.

#himmelblau #linux #systemd
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 4 days ago
created a vga esque home page to fit this ao486 leisure time work: https://jarkko.codeberg.page/

for 486 SX authenticity it uses 24:8 fixed point at run-time no floats :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

I decoupled the protected mode extender in ao486kit as its own project called TinyPM.

TinyPM is basically a single process protected mode kernel, which exists back to MS-DOS instead of shutting down when its only process dies.

TinyPM builds tpm.exe, which runs .TPM files, which are 32-bit relocatable binaries of their own format.

The project includes scripts:

- scripts/mktpm.lua: Takes base address zero 32-bit elf and creates a TPM file.
- scripts/linktpm.lua: Links tpm.exe and a .TPM file into a self-hosted executable.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Decoupled module in ao486kit:

- tinyfb: graphics library
- tinygus: hardware playback routines for GUS
- tinypm: my protected mode extender
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@neal It was like the only sound card from that era of which Amiga's 8bit DAC's were not superior.

Fast-forward, when it comes to audio, Windows up to this day has absolutely nothing offer. GUS is the only bright spot in the history of running MS operating systems :-)

By now Pipewire is the superior choice for audio in my opinion of any operating I'm aware of. CoreAudio was amazing when it first came out but compared to the current Pipewire it looks and is a relic.

That's I why I targer my Clarity DAW exactly for Linux + Pipewire. It's all about technical superiority and I want to sacrifice 0% of it. Apple made the same choice with Logic Pro.
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They are about the same era but:

GUS: legendary sound
SB16: legendary bad sound
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 6 days ago
OMG I found an *active* GUS fork of ao486:

https://github.com/xolod79/ao486_MiSTer/tree/GUS

SB16 is a CPU hog with worst imaginable sound.

486 SX-33 + 16 MiB + GUS is ideal :-) GUS is a legend, love it.
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