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https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/david-hockney-a...

Currently on in the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park until the 23rd August.

I recently read his book Secret Knowledge on how many of the Old Masters may have used optics, and it's affected my thoughts every day I've looked at old paintings since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockney%E2%80%93Falco_thesis https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Secret_Knowledge.html...

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Thanks for the book tip. It sounds like a similar theory to that in the doc "Tim's Vermeer".

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Those two (and more) exist in chrome://flags in Chrome 147. I'm disabling them now, with the expectation that will prevent the new default.

One option I'm leaving as default is "Use LiteRT-LM runtime for on-device model service inference." Any comment on that?


I'm on Chrome 147 too and disabled:

"optimization-guide-on-device-model"

- Enables optimization guide on device

"prompt-api-for-gemini-nano"

- Prompt API for Gemini Nano

- Prompt API for Gemini Nano with Multimodal Input

and deleted weights.bin and the 2025.x folder in "OptGuideOnDeviceModel"

Will report if Chrome 148 downloads the model again.


If you touch those files into existence and chown to root and chmod to 0, it shouldn’t be able to ever overwrite them right?


You want to use chattr +i (make the empty file immutable)


I'm on my phone now so I can't check if something has changed, but what you want to protect from change is the directory, not the files. A file can be deleted and created again if the process can write the directory.


yeah, should work. Will try readonly on windows too.

Now I can't see it anymore, but shouldn't the model be under chrome://on-device-internals/ -> model-status?

Maybe you can uninstall there too.


thanks, went to flags in Vivaldi and just in case disabled all flags containing "gemini" and first five results for "model"


maybe I was on the wrong side of the early release but I’ve deleted this model many times in the last year. I’ve had it for at least 12 months.


it downloaded the model again...


Those flags will exist already, but will default to enabled in 148.

That other flag is for using a different open-source inference engine to the (from what I can tell) closed-source one that's used by default.


As a project member, I want users to already be logged in to the bug tracker. The lack of friction, likely from being the network effect winner, is key. I know fossil has this, but people don't have their private keys in fossil, they (I) don't even have fossil installed.


Whatever happened to OpenID, anyway? That was supposed to be federated one-click login. If the problem is login, then only the login needs to be federated, and this approach leaves the rest of the system more flexible as sites can have different bug tracking features without becoming incompatible with the federation.


Apparently there are two competing ID federation setups, and a bunch of "login with Google/Apple/Facebook/ID.me" and nobody can agree on anything.


https://web.archive.org/web/19970211041004/http://www.tummy.... 1997 https://web.archive.org/web/20030407080813/http://www.tummy.... 2003, a consultancy who still lists their software https://web.archive.org/web/20211130023259/https://www.tummy... 2021 company closed


I'd like a medal for clearing the screen of all debris. What's that you say, some of it is still useful? oh


I was given that book as a teenager, and only read it yesterday. It was an interesting look at an unintentional frozen point in history.


The lines with platform edge doors (Elizabeth, half of Jubilee) do need to be in the right place with 10-20cm accuracy.


Surely this has to also be a problem long solved by classical physics?


In a locked room off that car park is a bit more of that fortification. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/visiting-roman-ruins-hi...


I went on that Open House tour, and they said the window view is a secret until opening day. They've told contractors not to take personal photos.

For context, this line is Thameslink, just south of Farringdon, on the east (heading south) side.


I'm terrible at keeping secrets so, it was probably a bad idea to let me go on the tour, or, perhaps we should try to have fewer secrets so that I'd remember ?


If I clone my fork, I always add the upstream remote straight away. Origin and Upstream could each be github, ambiguous.


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