Summary of Late Night Linux – Episode 197

00:00:00 - 00:25:00

In this episode of Late Night Linux, the host Jim Brown discusses the CIA's new podcast, "Late Night Linux," which is designed to dispel misinformation and distrust of governments. He also mentions a package, "ASCII Cinema," which is designed to fix typos.

• 00:00:00 The author discusses the CIA's new podcast, "Late Night Linux," which is designed to dispel misinformation and distrust of governments. The author also mentions a package, "ASCII Cinema," which is designed to fix typos. He says that while he trusts the software, he worries about how close a typo has to be in order for the software to act on it.
• 00:05:00 Sample Brain is a QT app created by the Aphex Twin, a huge deal in the electronic music world. Type "SL" into a Linux terminal and a steam train comes across the console. Art comes across the console and tells the story of how he accidentally deleted a slash bin directory as a normal user. He eventually figured out the slash bin is a Sim link to the slash user bin, and his problems were solved.
• 00:10:00 In this video, the late night Linux host Jim Brown talks about freedom, ventoy, and samurai. Ventoy is a piece of software that allows you to provision a virtual machine, and samurai is a piece of software that allows you to browse your way around your snapshots.
• 00:15:00 This episode of Late Night Linux discusses how to use a USB stick to store ISO files for multiple distributions, and how to use them to boot from any of those distributions without ever having to dd them.
• 00:20:00 Jim writes about the difficulties of reproducibility in AI, and suggests that open source may be a better way to go.
• 00:25:00 In the video, Late Night Linux host Joe discusses the future of AI, specifically wondering if there will need to be some way of auditing how models are built. He also talks about a recent discovery he made of a text-to-speech engine, Mimic 3, which he thinks sounds more like the host than ever before.