TL;DR Polish is not supported as audio input for Gemma 4 12B Google has released Gemma 4 12B, a new variant of its open-weight LLM family. It’s a medium-sized model advertised to run locally on laptop-sized devices using just 16 GB of VRAM. It also features native audio input. Audio: We simplified audio processing even further. We removed the audio encoder entirely and projected the raw audio signal into the same dimensional space as text tokens. ...

I am told, via an ornithologist I know, that my BirdNET-Go setup may have recorded what could be the first Greenish Warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides) detection in Poland this year.

I want to make posts more capable. Some ideas are easier to explain with an equation, a diagram, or a chart. The baseline post is still Markdown. The blog still uses Hugo. ...

A few people have asked me to document my DIY BirdNET setup. Here it is. The software stack I use is based on BirdNET-Go, which is a bird vocalization classifier and dashboard. Under the hood it uses BirdNET-Analyzer and the BirdNET 2.4 model.

This is a collection of links and quotes from the many articles published on the topic of the recent XZ Utils attack. There is no original research here.