I have just implemented one of the most cursed thing ever!
An implementation of Conway's Game of Life in a MANUAL PAGE, by abusing the Turing completeness of the roff language.
On most systems (a system that uses groff and man-db), the following command will give you a live demonstration:
$ curl codeberg.org/cve/mott/raw/bran… | man -l -
Support for other roff implementations such as mandoc is planned.
You can find more about it here: codeberg.org/cve/mott
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@Jonathan Lamothe Part of the issue is just that I don't like sitting there for 8 hours in a mask - but that's not a terrible plan
The library near me is pretty small though - but I should think thoughts
My son has a much loved audiobook that he listens to every night. But. One of the line reads in it scared him sometimes, and he sometimes fears to listen because he's worried about it.
We talked, and we're experimenting with a version of the story where the line is said in my voice, I opened the file, cut out the scary line, said it instead in my voice, and left the rest of the audiobook intact.
Talk to me again about DRM.
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@Mister Spinalzo yeah! I 100% paid for the book for my son to enjoy! The line reading was great! But sometimes the line read of "a dragon surprises the main character" is too scarey for an anxious 5yo!
Thanks for writting books it's important work!
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Quick, someone give the police force a billion in OT to shake the bushes at a local park! We need 4000 posts about how supporting OpenAI in these times is unthinkable!
I was just talking to a colleague about the AI bubble. These companies are in so deep they can't tell the truth. They are all lying about the efficacy, costs to consumers and most importantly how & when this tech works or doesn't.Is there enough money on the line to kill over?
There's likely a trillion bucks of valuations across the industry. Billions in sunk costs, billions in c suite remuneration, billions in VC mgmt costs.
RIP Suchir
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#OpenAI #AI #VC #SuchirBalaji
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.Jakob Rodgers (The Mercury News)
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I did some work on porting miller's work on the risc-v userspace over to 9front, the toolchain works well enough to compile all of /sys/src (at least at the time of its writing). There was some work on a qemu targeted kernel but people lost steam and we never got it booting to userspace.
If you want to check out the userspace parts you can find it here: shithub.us/moody/riscv/HEAD/in…
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@moody I probably don't have the C for this, but I wanna! I am gonna look and then mostly get lost.
I should buy DevTerm R01s for some Plan9 devs...
There are two types of computer people:
Those who like USB
Those who understand USB
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@Allen that definitely is a shocking connnection!
My kids are young, but I've been talking to them about shorts since they were 3
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@Allen My older son picked a lock before he turned 2. My younger son built his own computer (with help from mom) at 3.
I basically am going to accidentally make the stars of a heist show, and I'm ok with that.
But honestly, kids love to learn everything. And we all know enough to be a friend and mentor to a kid. Don't sell yourself short for raising awesome kids. The kids may be alright, but parenting is hard work, and doing it *matters*
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Remember when Boeing was assassinating whistleblowers?
Why is no one up in arms about that? We have more important assassins to be chasing.
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@benda I am not a fan of murder as a solution! But like, there's a reason why it's happening! We're not... stopping it
And fuck - people need to stop being hypocrites where we don't show *horror* that people killing people in masses, but get upset because one murderer got vigilante justice
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A CEO can get shit done when motivated
Anthem backtracks on anesthesiology cap policy in CT
An unpopular move to cap anesthesiology coverage by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield drew criticism from patients and state officials.Rob Polansky (Eyewitness News 3)
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People are being kind of smug about the FBI announcent not to text anymore, and I understand why... But there's a bigger problem than your texts to aunt Edna being intercepted.
Your mfa codes that are texted to you are now fully compromised. And a lot of websites only have sms mfa. That's the real story here. We've known for a while sms mfa was insecure because it's susceptible to SIM cloning and hijacking but there's now confirmation of man-in-the-middle happening. That's 10x worse.
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To be clear - Piketty wanted to continue capitalism and said that if we didn't make it slightly less garbage people would die.
I guess no one started the process of even making it slightly equitable, so I guess we're on the other path.
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I don't think that yesterday has hurt South Korea's reputation. Lawmakers unanimously voting against martial law, national assembly staff blocking soldiers with fire extinguishers, people taking to the streets to protest while not giving a damn that this is illegal under martial law, the largest umbrella union organization calling a general strike - all this is very impressive.
They couldn't know whether the army would shoot protesters (as they did in 1980). They risked their lives to protect democracy. So when I see takes like "I thought South Korea was a stable democracy", I think: Which democracy is more trustworthy, one that seems stable from the outside or one where people will actually stand up for democracy?
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Ok, looks like I can read tapes. Now I need to figure out if I can write a tape from this USB deck, and source some blank tapes!
Dat tapes for the future!
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@💞 eva 💞 I will never learn to use a camera
I'm using an R01 (the RISC-V one) because I wanted the cool form factor, but also needed to justify it with a weird CPU to play with.
I really want to love the DevTerm but the keboard is in a magical place to be annoying no matter how it's held, but if I use an external keyboard it' *wonderful*.
I should save this work for loading into Koha
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“CrowdStrike Earnings: Cybersecurity Firm Posts Higher Revenue Amid Swing to Loss - WSJ”
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So, I've long argued that all of software dev's dysfunctions can be traced to the fact that business outcomes do not depend on software quality, design, or reliability. As long as this dynamic continues the software we use will only get worse
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The SSO Wall of Shame
A list of vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement.The SSO Wall of Shame
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twice now I had it stop resolving recursively and I needed to futz to make it work
might be openbsd router time
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There is nsh: nmedia.net/nsh/
It can be installed via pkg_add nsh
It's really hard to be in free software spaces. So many are so libertarian and kinda fashy.
I had someone try to get me on side by saying "When I said group of kids, I meant gang"
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@megansruckus I remember too many passwords, but need even more unique ones...which is what secure password managers are for.
But, cumbersome as they may be, those are still better than a process that requires global SMTP to be quick and always available, something upon which I (as someone who's done SMTP for...gosh, almost 30 years) never want to rely. 😒
"What else do we forget about the pandemic? We forget how mesmerised we were as nature rebounded, how clean the air was in the absence of industrial scale human activity. We forget that carbon emissions fell at the sort of pace required to avoid cataclysmic climate change. We forget that no-strings cash payments saw child poverty in America plunge to record lows, that the UK slashed homelessness with schemes that found homes for people sleeping on the street.
We forget that there really was a sense of global solidarity, that the reflection demanded by a pandemic opened up spaces for us to consider truly radical and permanent change. Remember build back better? There really was a sense that the coronavirus, as we all knew it then, could be the catalyst for a better word.
It couldn't last because of capitalism. This isn't some glib statement, it is literally why such promises could never be fulfilled. Because such promises required redistribution and structural shifts to economies that billionaires don't want shifting."
donotpanic.news/p/five-years-o…
Five Years On: A Covid Retrospective
As we approach the five year mark of the first known case of covid-19, as we contemplate a half decade of watching a novel virus rip through our communities, our countries, our world, I wanted to do a retrospective on the pandemic.Nate Bear (¡Do Not Panic!)
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i would not laugh at this. as there is a diffrence between having a job, and doing work.
Work can be anything, if i help relatives move, i am not a mover. if i help my Sister painting her walls, i am not a painter...
If i remove the splinter from my neighbours daughters finger, i am not a doctor.
so getting paid for doing work would be great...get paid for what you feel like doing.
Are you familiar with Bullshit Jobs theory?
Bullshit Jobs : The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It by David Graeber
"Be honest: if your job didn’t exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren’t necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs"
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Bullshit Jobs : The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It by David Graeber
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it.Gutter Bookshop
you know what, i don't even care how good AI is at coding. if the literal ghost of Donald fucking Knuth showed up at my desk and started typing my code for me, i'd tell him to fuck off back to his grave. It's *my* code and *I* want to do the coding.
[update] i have been informed that Donald Knuth is, in fact, still alive
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My 5yo just asked me "Was Andre the Giant smarter than you"
What the fuck do you say to that?!
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in reply to Michael Dexter • • •The software is still available…
Maybe this could be reborn for BSD cloud stats, given how many BSD virtual machines are counted as GNU/Linux or Windows.
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Similar but different. Fortunately the NYC*BUG subways always run on time.
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dmesgd.nycbug.orgoxy but high contrast
in reply to Michael Dexter • • •I realised after I replied. Probably dont want to spam that with the results from 10 million KVM virtual machines.
Knowing that there are 10 million KVM virtual machines running *bsd would be cool though.
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Sun 3/60
HONOR MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon
ODROID-H4 + ODROID Netcard v2
An interesting cross-section of diverse hardware and *BSDs
Be sure and share your install/config wins with the community:
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