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AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'
  • The good news is that in order to exploit the new vulnerability, the attacker first has to obtain kernel level access to the system somehow - by exploiting some other vulnerabilities perhaps.

    The bad news is once Sinkclose attack is performed, it can be hard to detect and mitigate: it can even survive an OS reinstall.

  • PS5 controller use with Steamdeck
  • I use a PS5 controller paired wirelessly with my deck. I think the touchpad just worked for me with no extra settings (apart from picking a steam input configuration that supports it) but in practice I almost never use it for gaming.

    Not sure what chiaki4deck is but I don’t believe it’s necessary for PS5 controller support.

    Update: i may have installed something for gyro support at some point but it wasn’t chiaki4deck

  • Why aren't more people using NixPKGs?
  • I often stumble on this example of nix usage - a one-off shell with a a specific package. This is such a niche and seemingly unimportant use case, that it’s really strange to have it mentioned so often.

    Like literally what’s the point of having a shell with ffmpeg? Why not simply install it? Even if you need something just once, just install it and then uninstall it, takes like 10 seconds.

    The other use case that is often brought up is for managing dev environments, but for a lot of popular languages (Python, Node, Java, Rust, etc. ) there are proven environment management options already (pyenv and poetry, nvm, jenv, rustup). Not to mention Docker. In the corporate setting I haven’t seen nix replacing any of these.

    From my limited experience using home manager under Linux and macOS:

    • GUI app shortcuts work in neither of the OSs
    • error messages are about as readable as the ones you get for C++ templates
    • a lot of troubleshooting searches to unsolved GitHub issues

    All in all nix seems like a pretty concept but not too practical at the moment.

  • PostgreSQL @lemm.ee ducking_donuts @lemm.ee

    GCP Cloud SQL managed Postgres now supports pgvector extension

    cloud.google.com Unlock the power of gen AI with the pgvector PostgreSQL extension | Google Cloud Blog

    Use AlloyDB and Cloud SQL to store and index vector embeddings generated by large language models (LLMs), via the pgvector PostgreSQL extension

    Unlock the power of gen AI with the pgvector PostgreSQL extension | Google Cloud Blog

    The blog post title is a bit more fluffy than that, but the gist is that Google Cloud Platform's main offering for managed Postgres instances now supports pgvector out of the box

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