[sf-lug] SF-LUG Meeting Sunday 2024-03-03

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The next SF-LUG meeting is this upcoming Sunday March 3rd 2024, from 11:00 
AM till 1:00 PM as per the current www.sf-lug.org

* virtual remains: https://meet.jit.si/sf-lug.org
Browser: one will need sufficiently recent version of, e.g. Chromium, 
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per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC#Support

Dial-in (audio alternative or audio only): +1.512.647.1431 PIN: 524 338 
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This message forwarded from Bobbie S. <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> :
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>> Any Linux user trying to send the highest-resolution images to
>> a display at the fastest frame rate is out of luck for the
>> foreseeable future, at least when it comes to an HDMI connection.
>> The licensing group that controls the HDMI standard, the HDMI
>> Forum, has reportedly told AMD that it does not allow an open
>> source implementation of the HDMI 2.1 (or HDMI 2.1+)
>> specification, blocking tools such as AMD's FreeSync from
>> working over HDMI connections at resolution/rate combinations
>> like 4K at 120 Hz, or 5K at 240 Hz.
>> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no-you-cant-make-an-open-source-hdmi-2-1-driver/
>
>
>  News is from Team Amiga another mailing list to which I have a
>  subscription. But this good news if you have an aging relative.
>  I found this online.
>
>> It turns out that Bacille Calmette-Gurin (BCG) vaccine that has
>> saved millions of lives. from Tuberculoisis also can prevent
>> dementia in a large number of recipients. Full story at the URL
>> and search on the term "Bacille Calmette-Gurin (BCG) vaccine
>> that has saved millions of lives."  brings up multiple sources
>> for the information.
>> 
<https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/25/is-the-100-year-old-tb-vaccine-a-new-secret-weapon-against-alzheimers-dementia-bcg>
>
> Glad this bit of the news is not horrific.
> 
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Was myself wondering what peoples' experiences are with the relatively 
recent release of Warp terminal with AI[1] ??
Its recent DistroWatch writeup is at [2].
FWIW, sort of get the impression that it has questionable Privacy features 
in its current "Free" plan[3], even though their Privacy Overview at [4] 
does state for the timebeing :
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Warps app telemetry is optional and you can opt out at any time.

You can disable analytics and crash reporting during your sign up process 
before using Warp. If youre already using Warp, you can disable telemetry 
under Settings > Privacy.
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The Warp AI's documentation has a Privacy webpage [5] with a so-called 
"Exhaustive" Telemetry Table of what gets shared to the mothership "E.T. 
phone home"-like[6] when using the app.
Still, don't myself wish to be among the first proverbial Privacy "guinea 
pigs"[7] in testing out Warp AI :-\

-Aaron
aaronco36 at sdf.org


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References:
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[1]https://www.warp.dev/ 
[2]https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20240226#warp 
[3]https://www.warp.dev/pricing 
[4]https://www.warp.dev/privacy/overview 
[5]https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/privacy 
[6]https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial 
[7]https://grammarist.com/idiom/guinea-pig/ 
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