1080i though
this is my goto for xbox gen1 HDMI - Electronxout[0].
Here's a full list of video options[1]
[0] https://electron-shepherd.com/products/electronxout
[1] https://www.xbox-scene.info/forums/topic/657-list-of-all-og-...
Readit Newsboilerupnc commented on XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox xbox-scene.info/articles/... · Posted by u/zdw
boilerupnc commented on IBM Delivers New Quantum Package newsroom.ibm.com/2025-11-... · Posted by u/donutloop
Related Qiskit Tutorial Video[0]
"This tutorial covers advanced techniques for implementing the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) at the utility scale using Qiskit. In this video, we walk through how to build, optimize, and run QAOA for real world optimization problems on real IBM Quantum hardware.
This series is designed for quantum computing practitioners who are ready to move beyond basic examples and start running large scale, hardware aware algorithms. We explore how to transition from theory to practical execution, covering algorithm development, circuit optimization, hybrid workflows, and best practices for hardware performance. Whether you are expanding your QAOA skills or preparing to run your own research experiments, this tutorial will help you strengthen your understanding of utility scale quantum computing with Qiskit."
Anyone using GitLab have any insight on how well their operations are running these days?
We originally left GitLab for GitHub after being bit by a major outage that resulted in data loss. Our code was saved, but we lost everything else.
But that was almost 10 years ago at this point.
Not sure what specific operational services are of interest - but here's a link to their historical service status [0]
[0] https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/5b36dc6502d06804c083...
boilerupnc commented on Baby Shoggoth Is Listening theamericanscholar.org/ba... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
There's always crime...
I suspect the early variants will fall into two camps:
1. Traditional garden variety human to human, computer to computer and computer to human crime stuff that happens today.
2. Human to computer (AI) crime, misdeeds and bullying. Stuff like:
- Sabotage and poison your AI agent colleague to make it look bad, inefficient, ineffectual in small, but high volume ways. Delegate all risky, bad+worse choice decision making to AI and let the algo take the reputational damage.
- Go beat up on automated bots, cars, drones, etc ... How should it feel to kick a robot dog?
For a humorous read on automation bots and AI in a dystopian world, take a look at Quality Land [0]. Really enjoyed it. As a teaser, imagine having some drones suffering from a fear of heights, hence being deemed faulty and sentenced for destruction. Do faulty bots or AI have value in this world even if they don't deliver on their original intended use?
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36216607-qualityland
boilerupnc commented on OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel oneuptime.com/blog/post/2... · Posted by u/ndhandala
Does any OpenTelemetry vendor have a dashboard / graph product in the same level of usability as Datadog?
Honeycomb is decent at what it has, but very limited offerings for dashboard.
Coming from Datadog, Grafana is such a bad experience I want to cry every time I try to build out a service dashboard. So much more friction to get anything done like adding transform functions / operators, do smoothing or extrapolation, even time shifting is like pulling teeth. Plus they just totally broke all our graphs with formulas for like 2 days.
Grafana is to Datadog what Bugzilla is to Linear.
Give IBM Instana a look. It has great otel support. Nice usability. [0][1]
Free sandbox for an email [2]
[0] https://www.ibm.com/products/instana/opentelemetry
[1] https://github.com/instana/instana-otel-collector
[2] https://play-with.instana.io/#/home
[disclaimer: I'm an IBMer]
boilerupnc commented on Grokipedia and the coup against reality thedissident.news/grokipe... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
This reminds me of a joke website I pondered making a few years ago 'provemeright.com'. If you are in a bar and you make an outrageous claim and don't want to back down, provemeright.com has your back! Give us 10 min and we will edit wikipedia and create a website with your 'fact' on it!... It was a funny joke when it wasn't real.
Also works for getting backstage passes to concerts! [0]
[0] https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/fan-edits-wikipedia-page-t...
A few other interesting links with Vitamin D absorption. Surprised nobody has brought up gut dysbiosis and the role microbiome plays in Vitamin absorption. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to discern whether the things we consume are for the direct benefit of our cells and metabolic needs or via a more indirect path if the things we consume directly affect the microbiome within us which then translates into either nourishment or inflammation within us. Since microbiomes can change rapidly in composition, this feels like a game of nurturing over the long-haul with some minor blips along the way.
[1] "connection between vitamin D and the immune system through gut bacteria and may have applications for improving cancer therapies"
[2] "How the Gut Microbiome Affects Vitamin D Absorption"
[3] "vitamin D may affect the host-microbiota relationship."
[1]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh7954
[2]: https://www.gutnow.com/medical-treatments/how-your-gut-micro...
I tell my son all the time that I couldn’t predict what I’m doing now … 3 years prior. I didn’t have this insight or awareness but after running the SW/IT marathon for 25 years here we are. Trust your instincts, they weren’t developed in a vacuum. The more you explore, the more insights pop in your mind and every 3 years or so, a change presents itself for you to affirm or deny.