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The new scorpion who stings you as you works seems like it would be a nogo for consumers, but I hate to bet against Apple


It's only a podcast if it was produced in the Podcast region of the RSS 2.0 Spec

Otherwise it's just a sparkling phonograph




So there's a massive debunk of the "AI Drone Killed Its Operator In Simulated Test" story going around!

You see, the simulated test was simulated!



I have a PinePower Desktop on my desk - and my headphones refuse to say if they're charging, but the thing says how many amps the port is putting out - so I can just *see* if they are charging - and this is one of the most convenient parts of the device


Bad at posting and dropped off the face of the fediverse for a good 6 months, but excited to be making a book for my 4 yo starring him and based on his current favourite book series. This is a picture of the cover I've made so far. Seems to warrent a post :)

Somebody please tell me if I did alt text correctly or tell me what I'm doing wrong if I didn't... I have never managed to get it right 😞😳

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@silverwizard La la la I don’t care, I want Dragon Maters to be real, and @Becky your art is lovely !
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I understand it's really easy to build a lil' car out of a disposable camera using the motors for film winding or whatever - but I've never done it. I've looked for guides on how to do it - but I mostly find the dumb like "here's a tazer from a camera" instructions.


Apparently since the release of ChatGPT our emails from our sales people are getting blocked for being spam.

Almost like writing weird generic spam instead of an email gets your domain blocked

in reply to silverwizard

are we talking about general emails (like direct communication with customers and prospects), or marketing campaign/mailing lists?

If the latter, you may consider using a service that is dedicated to this type of messaging (Sengrid, Mailchimp, whatever). It will have its own DKIM signature and a different origin (of course present in SPF records), and would make human, hand-crafted artisan messages written with love less likely to be blocked by a blanket RBL listing.

If the former, then maybe you don't need salespeople after all. Just an OpenAI API subscription and a couple of scripts.

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@Kicou This is emails directly to prospects - rather than like, a mail blast...

So yes, fire 'em all


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@silverwizard @uzayran Reminds me of the ongoing US screenwriters' strike that may well end up catastrophically like this.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan at least the writer's strike is about the studios acknowledging they are gonna go:
make AI write useless script
hire writer as an *editor* and violate guild rules but try to be a dick on a technicality where Draft 0 was by AI


FUCK OFF
Hotel wifi being slow isn't an outage
Not giving me access but telling me to do it isn't delegation

*breathes*

in reply to silverwizard

Sean, we want to see more leadership from you! But you 100% cannot have admin access to our email.

You can control the MX record, have control over the users, have the ability to read everything, just not the Admin keyword. Meaning you have to bug the CEO whenever something changes, and boy will he get mad at you for bugging him.



Successfully wrote an awk script to make user invitations way easier - pretty excited - awk has always eluded me as a skill and I want to get better at it

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Have not listened to it but looks good hackerpublicradio.org/series.p… @bobjonkman

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Wow! An entire #HackerPublicRadio series on #AWK. I'm sure I've heard some of these already, but I'll see if I can add just the series to @AntennaPod and decrease even more my copious amounts of free time for listening 😉

And, of course, repeat my so-far unkept promise to contribute an episode or two. I hear @hpr is running low on episodes again.

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@bobjonkman @ghostdancer @AntennaPod @hpr In my case discovering #AWK was an introduction to the "Unix Way". I found a version to run on the OpenVMS system I was administering in the 1980's or later, and it made life so much easier. Handling data from the student records system (to make accounts for them) was so much easier than writing compiled programs!

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@Dave Morriss @ghostdancer @Hacker Public Radio @AntennaPod @Bob Jonkman AWK always feels like an arcane thing to me - it's something my dad has implemented three times on three systems - and so it's kinda always been a mythical tool. But so has KornShell and that's also my default shell.

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@perloid @ghostdancer @hpr @AntennaPod @bobjonkman I used awk in my hardware detection script, but I had to look up how to use it and then experiment a bit... Sed and awk are both a bit mystical to us 'desktop users.' :) But still super handy for hacking together things.

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Come into work after a week's vacation. Find a message from myself:
"Terraform is completely broken. redis subnets are b0rked in production"

I curse the person who setup our redis and immediately begin to ask the musical question "Can we make a change to our environment without destroying and replacing it"

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@Rivetgeek Was it at least from someone else? Or nope - just plain ol' "Sounds like a job for post-vacation me"?
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@Rivetgeek Oh I love giving tasks to "once we get all the shit fixed"

Since - you know - that's the far off future where it will never happen



Hey #zfs people

if I have a pool I want to view when I can't mount it - any way to view files? (Read only root so mountpoints can't create)

#ZFS

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can you creat a ramdisk and mount that somewhere, then create the required hierarchy in the mounted ramdisk fs? Or maybe mounting a tmpfs filesystem is an option.
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@Mike Gerdts That... is the right idea, if I can find a mount

I feel like this is probably freebsd inside baseball though



Setup a solar irrigation system off a new rain barrel so that my son can do some plant automation (watched a kids show about farm robots)

Started moving from a bank to a credit union (got accounts - just need to slowly fill them)

Made a tiramisu

Damn good birthday

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@Troy the Gardener yeah - my parents gave me the pump for my birthday but they seem, reasonably, priced


Merry #BSDCan Go Home Day to all who celebrate

I masked aggressively enough to lack a hangover today, so there's that, but I still forced people to try to talk to me to fix documentation



Sitting in a coffee shop in Ottawa, I'm hearing "D&D" from the next table over, but I think they're actually talking about DND.


Thing I said today: "If I don't like it, I'll tell everybody I know that I hated it and they should read it so they can agree with me that it's terrible."
(I'm sure all the #BSDCan people will know exactly who I said it to and approximately about what.)


Here comes the ice man
He's trying to freeze the crew
He's not a nice man
His touch will turn you blue

youtube.com/watch?v=uLnCKBYRBj…



I should start a hosted email service in order to more easily get my own email delivered better



Apparently I can't report someone who is using Mastodon, because I am not using Mastodon.

I can't even just go over to their mastodon page and report them.

Reporting logistics is hard - but there's gotta be a better way

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan @Jonathan Lamothe I feel like this is more a mastodon problem
If I go to your Friendica instance, I see my own login and stuff and can do basic interactions


I wish the software industry wasn't just such fucking *marks*.

It feels like we as a culture are just basically idiots with no attention span or no sense of history.

"This very good company amazon has hosting for us, I bet that's not trying to replicate the Cisco model where they sell you a billion courses and you get locked in forever fucking your career"

"I bet this Peter Thiel fellow is really good and this generation's AI hype is probably different than the last four. I do know that Palantir and Paypal are renowned for how friendly and usable they are"



What are the obvious and easy replacements for Miro? I'm sure they exist - Miro just is a product designed for destroying CPUs AFAICT


In exactly seven days, I expect to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of Smiths Falls, on a train on the way to #BSDCan.


an open source mystery show called Scooby Gnu where everything is Linux when unmasked

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How do you tell a sales person "you are unselling me - tell me a price and shut up"

They just - are managing to make me less excited as time goes on - because I know they are *saying* things wrong. I've *used* the product before.

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Oh, that IS the worst.

"It's new and better now!"

"Well, I'll agree on the first part."



GPT4 for video game NPCs is going to be a nightmare. Just imagine having only flat characters and no ability to trust that quests and hints are real >.<
in reply to silverwizard

That was one of the problems that occurred to me when I read about a Skyrim mod using ChatGPT.

One of the things that astonishes me about this imminent disaster is that people seem oblivious that the main virtue of computing is getting definite answers to specific questions; LLMs will make computers completely useless for their primary purpose.

ign.com/articles/skyrim-mod-us…

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Yeah exactly! It feels like we're going into this with the weirdest blindness
It's not that we can't see it it's that some people just like bad things.


@Greg Stolze So I played Bring Me The Head Of The Comte De Sainte Germaine over the last 1.5 months (one session every other thursday).

And Cloisonné basically decided to smash her Subaru into Mother Apocolypse in order to protect Joy from her mother, and no one is sure what to do with these emotions.

This is your fault and I think we all love you for it! Thanks so much - that was really good (and for two players a very Feet First intro to UA)

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A coworker asked about keyboards - and then someone else told them to ask me.
I accidentally just wrote a page of text....


My son will randomly decide he wants to make things. And basically has no conception that he can't make things and that's really exciting.

He also made a train out of playdough, and then made a little mini-motor like he'd seen in toys, and opened the playdough train, put the playdough motor in, and said it could go by itself.

Just so proud of how much I've let him understand making.



Just remembering all the Old Days of Good Social Media people are telling me about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klout
in reply to silverwizard

We don't talk about the Old Days of Shitty Social Media much, do we?
in reply to Allan Haverholm

@Allan Haverholm We should always remember the Phaedrus Lesson

The past is always a perfect time - and the good part of it is often a quirk of memory, yeah



Tech companies use Timeboxes as a way to make investigations way harder so much of the time
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@silverwizard It's funny how there has always been a stigma to be working in the tech department of an established business, as if it was impure.


Listen, I agree with you, but it's a contract with someone and it's flagging my "talk to an attorney" senses. I wont tell you you're right, because it's flagging my "talk to an attorney" senses.


BlueSky is gonna make me defederate .social just to get rid of the "fediverse is bad" takes
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@secretspecter I'd really rather not do it - I should check the contacts table to make sure that I am not affecting more than me...
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@secretspecter My instance used to be a single user vanity instance, but now there's 6 people on it - which is far too many


I suddenly pulled from my memory a conservative making a case for Conservative Freeganism and Dumpstering to me in uni

it ... was coherent and good - but looking back 17 years later - holy shit, I want that back

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Basically it boiled down to
1) Freegansim will allow you to feed people for cheap, and taxes are bad, so if you can feed people with social discards you don't need to raise taxes
2) Feeding yourself for free is an important part of Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstaps

And like - sure - the premises are bad - but the actual stuff is... fine?



Welp - my 1yo has learned the fine art of trickery
He's standing at the top of the stairs screaming "Coffee daddy! Coffee!"

He wants me to come upstairs from WFHing