Pavel Machek
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@marcan Well. I don't think they broke the Turing test, yet. Yes, it is significant progress in breaking Turing test. (And it may be useful google replacement). Problem is we don't actually understand what "inteligence" is. GPT3 is not it, and I don't think GPT5 will be, but maybe GPT17 will be?
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@1br0wn Yep. Step in right direction, and Google should not have had the data in the first place, but now telcos have similar data and it is quite hard to do anything about that. I with phones had "lock me to given cell" mode, so I could limit the information I'm giving back to telco, but that was last possible with Nokia 5110 or so :-(. Should be doable with custom GSM firmware, but....
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libcamera is normally built with -O0. Now I understand first version of debayer algorithm...
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@dustcircle Warning. "AI" aka language models will happily share input data (or random pieces of them) with its users. This is bad, bad idea. Avoid dropbox.
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@kernellogger Dropping i486 support is a bit sad. We do have open-hardware 486sx (in form of MistER FPGA code), so Linux on open-hw seemed closed, but the goalposts are moving...
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@okias Well... libcamera is designed for C++&CPU, not Rust&GPU, so integration will be fun. There's more low-hanging fruit, like for example enabling caches for image data (ouch!). And yes, GPU is likely very suitable for most of the ISP pipeline. Unfortunately, for video recording, you need some kind of video encoder, and writing that for GPU is not going to be weekend project.
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"Creative society" aka "AllatRa" tried to spam me with their nonsense about some kind of infinite energy source again today. They are millenial sect, quite popular in Czech republic :-(. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllatRa With hundreds of members, intensive trolling, I believe they should have article on english wikipedia, too, but so far I was not able to accomplish that. If someone can help...
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@rmader @libcamera It does not need to live in libcamera, but what you ultimately want is good quality video, and there a lot of integration will be required. You want different AE/AF while recording video. Plus you need (for example) to tune debayer well to work nicely with the video encoding, yet leave enough resources for the encoding pipeline.
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@libcamera I have patches to get that working on PinePhone. And yes, it is step forwards, but there's still huge ammount of work ahead. This is AE (auto-exposure), and AE is quite easy. AF is harder (and missing from this). Plus, one day we'll want video recording. That's hard. And we'll want to take photos. That's also quite hard. Millipixels has some parts, but more should go in libcamera, and we really need drivers for jpeg/mpeg encoding.
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@mntmn Yes, I mean such stuff. You'll also need some kind of protocol for setting up individual LEDs, no? Anyway, this is what cutiepi uses: https://github.com/cutiepi-io/cutiepi-middleware ... and it would be great if common protocol existed. (If you use their's protocol, I have a kernel driver, but it needs cleanup and mainlining).
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Bad thing about Li-ion batteries is that each phone seems to have its own size. I have interesting/mystery Firefox OS phone, that came without battery and refuses to turn on. But there's a good thing, too. There are so many Li-ion powered devices that you may have "compatbile" battery, already. I did. Battery from Winner WG8 seems to fit inside mystery phone case. Ok, it needs a lot of padding... but I may be able to try the phone out. Not sure if trying to charge it in it is good idea, but...
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@mntmn So I am not designing computers. I'm kernel hacker, not hardware hacker. But I've tried to get CutiePi to work (and have driver for that), and friend did a talk about MutantC. Open hardware seems to spread, but people seem to design their own interfaces, and that is not great.
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