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My 4yo is stressed out about The Princess Bride, I'm worried I did a bad dad

This is approx the age I saw it, but

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@silverwizard 4 seems a little early for me, we watched it with my kid when she was 7. At this time she was already jaded outside of incomprehensible Minecraft-themed comedic shorts on YouTube.
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@Hypolite Petovan we have been managing Youtube fairly responsibly, watch a lot of content about pokemon, but very little "kid mush", but he's more upset by the tension than the fear


Made mini loaves of bread and whipped cream into butter for lunch. Added some brie and cheddar and some basic vegetables.

Next time I need to whip in some garlic to the butter



My least favourite trope in media is that you need a more powerful computer to hack something.

"I need a half billion gigs of RAM to hack this system!"

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I mostly seem to need small devices with a hardware keyboard to hack systems. Come on get me a new Nokia N900 replacement, netbooks or even just a cheap transforming tablet.
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“I need a much scarier-looking rubber hose to hack this system!”



@Titan Up the Defense You brought up the Unwear On The Outside thing on a recent episode

Somewhere in this channel youtube.com/user/skunkap Chris told me that it was because it made Superman look like a Circus Strong Man, and the strong men wore them because when lifting big heavy things their pants split a lot.

Imagine you were lifting a tank over your head and your pants split!





I bought a lightbulb with a speaker in it, and it's amazing

I am annoyed it's this good

in reply to silverwizard

If you aren't buying golden fuckin' HDMI cables for audio, I bet most daily audio can be handled by this thing, it seems pretty simple
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if you do buy golden cables, buy white ones and set the light to yellow. It's cheaper!


I feel like there's new bad movies I should watch but I don't have time to watch *movies*. I watch TV shows while I do projects in the evening sometimes, but that's it.

I still haven't seen any Neil Breen

in reply to Craig P

@Craig P I am a pretty seasoned bad movie type from my 20s, but kids killed it.

But yeah, I'm excited to be able to get a bad movie group together again in my life


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Like many podcasts they don't have a website, but I made that site for them as a joke

But they are here! @Titan Up the Defense



What's the longest side of a Canadian triangle
A hypotemoose
in reply to silverwizard

re: What's the longest side of a Canadian triangle

on a slightly different topic (or a tangent if you prefer), but still very Canadian: today a customer created new servers for their in-house ERP. Customer is in the business of rubber hose manufacturing.

They called their servers HosERP and HosERP-DEV

All I can see is "Hoser Herp Derp".

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re: What's the longest side of a Canadian triangle

@Kicou Honestly, I cannot believe how many specific rubber hose manufacturers there are! It boggles my mind!

But Hoser Herp Derp, :D



People keep talking about Kagi being cool and good - but it turns out they're just AI scum?
help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/kagi-ai.…

The reason to move of DDG is that DDG is AI scum, that doesn't seem like Kagi is better?



I feel like I've been hit by a truck, which is the best I've felt all week

Schools are a terror

(And our kid masks at school, and we tested negative for COVID, likely just flu)

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard: im so sorry to hear that, man. Hope you feel better soon. Got hit with RSV 2x and food poisoning once this past month - i feel your pain.



Hey guys - random question: do we have anyone who might have VBA (I'm assuming that would be the required language) scripting capability?

I think this is the actual worst question I can get on a Monday morning

in reply to silverwizard

so long as it isn’t an ancient one that’s grown over… 4GB, I think the hard limit was, before they went bang? Good luck!



Apparently kickstarter.com/projects/atlas… is worried about funding

These things look cool as hell, infinite puzzles are fun as hell, and games trying to figure out how to ethically and safely use and reuse plastic is cool

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I run more than a half dozen VMs and a bunch of jails on a home server
I play video games
I have been asked to work on building and training LLMs as part of a work project

The most computationally intensive thing I do in a week: attend a meeting and open the collaboration tools

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With any luck, the project will keep going like that until the hype curve hits the Trough of Disillusionment, and it can be safely cancelled without doing too much damage.
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@Darcy Casselman I feel like Disillusionment is already about 50% there, it's gonna crash soon. But as far as I can tell, our plan is to go as hard as we can so that we've got half the company committed right as it becomes worthless



Employer has decided they need to "Build an LLM" in order to be "a leader in AI"

I feel like a baby playacting business.

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@silverwizard I feel like this idea has already been explored in the cinematic franchise "The Boss Baby", no need to go for it again.
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@Rivetgeek I have never usEd an LLM without my prompts giving me garbage inside 2 prompts


Youtube trying to block ad blockers is weird. Nothing is really hard in software, but Google's employees are kinda a mess and don't really understand technical problems anymore, so it feels like a mug's game to make them fight the internet

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@Jay Hannah @Shannon Curtis Oh, yeah, I get that conceptually (and yeah, I'm not a giant music lover, I have one large binder of CDs that's all the CDs from my childhood into my 30s)2m Bandcamp in theory gives me that "Own it forever", but I don't know how that's gonna work in the future.


I find the idea of playing fair in a single player video game insipid

People love to talk about "fun trumps rules" or "rule 0" in TTRPGs and the same applies to videogames.

I actually think it applies less in TTRPGs because of the multiplayer aspect, rules are expectations, and changing them matters more and should be thought out

in reply to silverwizard

oh i mean in video games

sometimes you can totally ruin a single-player game by giving people a choice to do something un-fun rather than something really fun, even though it's just a *choice* the player is making

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@Alex P. 👹 Oh! that! Yes! I am definitely the worst about that.

But I am the kind of person who will be like "Oh, Morrowind wants me to be useless for the first four hours of gameplay, this is dumb, I'm going to edit my save file", which is what I'm talking about.

If you give me a bad option I could spend 20 hours grinding on, I'll just skip that 20 hours in the game of "How did you encrypt your savefile" instead of "Develop an RSI"



xkcd.com/1494/

This is a shockingly clear explaination of the asymmertry of power

Those Clever Hacks are *innovation*




I had an issue where there was a repo that made no sense

And then I looked closer and saw that I had committed documentation with all the reasoning behind the weird decisions, and made it make sense. Committed it right after I started at this job (probably when I asked all the same questions)

Document people!

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So my 4yo son said to me "I want a computer, inside a pumpkin, with a microphone on tap, and a speaker on top, and a cable out of it, and we can talk through the pumpkin."

So I grabbed a few things
-a Libre.Computer LePotato I was gonna try to build a tablet with
-a speaker/mic I use for testing
-a battery pack

And so current status

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TIaL about the Potato computer. Almost, the libre.computer/ is #Javascrippled to the point of not showing anything.
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@Bob Jonkman Yeah - I tried to download the image with lynx, and uh.... useless

But it's a fairly reasonable RasPi competitor

And look at the timeline on getting one:
convenient.email/display/2c704…

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Got linkedin spam from a slaesperson at DuploCloud and their last job was at KinderMorgan, so I assume they have a playpen full of Duplo they pretend is a bank


My general policy of only buying technical castoffs makes me worried there's more compute in my monitors than some of my computers


Parenting today has required me to tell half a story about pokemon, and use the phrase "my second best spellbook"


My friend just made a typo and I now think we should replaced LLM and AI with "ChatBoy"


Prefacing that I know this is a longshot

My brother in law is using #TrueNAS with #ZFS, he didn't backup.

He imported his disks by different names (ada4p2 and Long-GUID-Goes-Here for the other)

He had an issue and his disks got relabelled. Now only one of his four disks in his pool is available. I can see the correct gpt ids when I run GEOM, but on the wrong device names.

Any way of forcing ZFS to rescan names or relabel my device nodes? (my mknod searching is failing me)
#ZFSHelp

in reply to silverwizard

(NB: No experience with TrueNAS.) "sudo zpool import" should scan all drives and report any pools that can be imported (and likely any that cannot.)

@PracticalZFS (and the related forum) for more help (from people who know more than me.)

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@HankB @Practical ZFS - Discussions yeah - I dug through imports and it's showing me that the disk is gone (but I see it!), I am trying on a new live image to see if that improves it


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s-expressions of symbols my friend
: THESE NOT USING CUT
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One of the weirdest things I've ever felt is when my monitoring work gets hooked up to a pager.

It feels very visceral in how much I need to make a bunch of guesses and then those guesses make guesses, and any bad guess is someone's bad day



@Becky said that she didn't want to put gravy on my champed potatoes because she was worried any change would make them less perfect, so that's the ideal cooking outcome


As far as I can tell, Wayland's security model seems to be "users doing stuff means they could do bad stuff!"

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@argv minus one The issue is that Wayland just bans them outrightly

But if you need permissions for them, fine, but if they are able to self-declare then you can use that to bootstrap a perm bypass.

This system you envision is just a tool to annoy people with *no value*

in reply to silverwizard

this is an excellent description of my least favorite kind of security thinking, thank you




Why do so many security vendors (thinking of DLP) act like HTTPS is the only protocol for sending messages.
"Oh, we inspect all HTTPS traffic, we block HTTP and block USB mass storage"
"What if I open a VPN?"
"Oh, then this wont work"