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Platform engineering done right can be a huge boost to developer productivity and engineering velocity, but done wrong can drag you down into a hellhole. If you work in DevOps and cloud native, you might have heard that platform engineering is a new discipline promising to fix the shortcomings of DevOps for enterprise cloud native…

If you spend much time helping people with word processor programs, you’ll find that many people don’t really use much of the product. They type, change fonts, save, and print. But cross-references? Indexing? Largely, those parts of the program go unused. I’ve noticed the same thing with Git. We all use it constantly. But do…

Learn how to install a VPN on Linux using your VPN provider’s downloadable app, the command line, Linux network manager or a browser plugin. One of my favorite Canadian television shows, Murdoch Mysteries, recently returned for its 17th season. To watch it, I pulled out my Kubuntu Focus Linux gaming laptop, connected it to my…

A team of researchers from Stanford, UW-Madison, and Columbia have rolled out LLaVA, a fresh, open-source AI platform that poses a challenge to GPT-4, especially when it comes to visual and linguistic capabilities. The best part? It’s free for anyone to use. So, what’s the scoop on LLaVA? Well, it merges CLIP, which is an…

For those making use of GPU-accelerated AV1 video encoding with the latest AMD Radeon graphics hardware on Linux, the upcoming Mesa 23.3 release will support the high-quality AV1 preset for offering higher quality encodes. Merged this week to Mesa 23.3 are the RadeonSI Video Core Next (VCN) changes for supporting the high quality AV1 encoding…