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https://titanupthedefense.neocities.org/ #TitanUpTheDefense

#TitanUpTheDefense
silverwizard
silverwizard  

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

@Titan Up the Defense

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)

BB :verified_cool:
BB :verified_cool:  
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@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.
@silverwizard

Content warning: What's the longest side of a Canadian triangle

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

silverwizard
silverwizard  

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

@Kicou

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

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

Kagi AI | Kagi's Docs

Kagi Search Help
help.kagi.com
FoolishOwl
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I didn't know that about DDG.

So we're basically completely losing the ability to search for information on the Internet.

I'm in #KitchenerWaterloo giving out fudge without enough trick or treaters
#KitchenerWaterloo
Chris Brennan
Chris Brennan  
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Yum! Would make nice Christmas presents if the leftovers last until then.
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

Mat Gadd
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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!
silverwizard
silverwizard  
This turned out to be the highlight of my day
RACIng my brain for who could be responsible

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

Darcy Casselman
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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.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@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
@Darcy Casselman

Apparently https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atlasgames/infunity-tiles?result=project&term=atlas%20games 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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Only ever spelling it C♯
j_angliss
j_angliss  
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don't tell Microsoft it really fell C♭

Hah!

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

I feel like a baby playacting business.

Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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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.
@silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Hypolite Petovan two sequels and a series! Exactly our business goal
@Hypolite Petovan
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Rivetgeek I have never usEd an LLM without my prompts giving me garbage inside 2 prompts
@Rivetgeek (He/Him)
Is only being able to buy music on iTunes just normal these days?
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@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.
@Jay Hannah @Shannon Curtis
Jay Hannah
Jay Hannah  
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@shannoncurtis this too shall pass 😉❤️
@Shannon Curtis
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

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

Alex P. 👹
Alex P. 👹  
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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

silverwizard
silverwizard  

@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"

@Alex P. 👹

https://xkcd.com/1494/

This is a shockingly clear explaination of the asymmertry of power

Those Clever Hacks are *innovation*


Insurance

xkcd
Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard And VC are happily funding those “cool hacks”, right?

And that’s how we get Uber, Theranos and FTX.

@silverwizard
@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
@Becky

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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"What if the movie Hackers was an anime about Aliens"

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 https://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

Bob Jonkman
Bob Jonkman  
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TIaL about the Potato computer. Almost, the https://libre.computer/ is #Javascrippled to the point of not showing anything.
#javascrippled
silverwizard
silverwizard  

@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:
https://convenient.email/display/2c704a81-1365-1485-c43d-eee576813660

@Bob Jonkman

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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"

"Can I borrow the cord of the bouncy castle for the hot glue gun?"

#parenting

#parenting

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

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

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

#ZFS #truenas #zfshelp
HankB
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(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.)

@Practical ZFS - Discussions

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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@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
@Practical ZFS - Discussions @HankB
I type cut -d '"' -f4 far too often in a given day
silverwizard
silverwizard  

@screwtape that... yes


But I can also tell you're not parsing JSON too much

@screwlisp
screwlisp
screwlisp  
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s-expressions of symbols my friend
: THESE NOT USING CUT
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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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silverwizard
silverwizard  

@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*

@argv minus one
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e  
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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"
1.8GB of JSON is the worst kind of day
Alternate way to tax bug tech:
Levy fines of a few million a month to enough places for crimes inherent in their business model
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@silverwizard Is "Bug Tech" specifically about surveillance technology?
@silverwizard

When I recently replaced my server I went from 64 GB of RAM to 128GB, and now I'm seeing that i'm using 54% of that at steady state, so apparently I needed the upgrade

also - damn

My 4yo dropped a thing and said "I can't find it! It disappeared! I must be learning magic!"
Made cinnamon nutmeg pancakes (called pumpkin spice), kids are excited

I just actually screamed at Google Calendar

Holy shit - how can a calendar be this bad?!

Did you know you can only put Events on secondary calendars?! Team communication?! Fuck it!

Writing a web browser in Electron
My 4yo doesn't understand "I don't mind you sleeping in our bed when you're really scared. It's the kicking me in the face in the morning that I don't like"
silverwizard
silverwizard  
Welp, my 2yo has apparently grown up enough that's he's started the plan of cuddling his face into his mom, and kicking his dad repeatedly in the face when he's too sick to sleep on his own without crying

Is there a good SBC that supports HDMI and will do native full Android?
I'm looking to build a tablet with a 4 yo, and I don't wanna use a raspi, but I wanna plug everything in, no soldering.

Odroid? Pine64? OrangePi? Any advice?

#sbc #diy #android

#DIY #Android #sbc

And for my biyearly post...
I just think it's funny we did a tarot reading tonight with @silverwizard new deck, after an impromptu trip an hour and a half away to get a scroll reader we ended up not finding. We did get a few other things instead, and then some free cotton candy. All in all, I needed the spontineity since I'm about to be over extended at Shæ's school, according to the cards..
@silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Becky never let a christian read your cards
@Becky
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