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Anyone know anything about the status of bsdstats.org

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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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As one pointed out: dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do…

Similar but different. Fortunately the NYC*BUG subways always run on time.

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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recently posted hardware:

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:

dmesgd.nycbug.org

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Still looks like it's from the future.

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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

:BoostOK:

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In the new year I wanna feel safe working from the coffee shop. But that means feeling safe without an N95, and that isn't gonna happen, is it?
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@silverwizard I've found the library to be a good option to work from when I just want to get out of the apartment. No need to remove the mask.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@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


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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.

in reply to silverwizard

As an audiobook author, I would have no reservations about someone doing these things. I would much rather my efforts be enjoyed, even if they needed a bit of custom editing.
in reply to Mister Spinalzo

@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!

in reply to silverwizard

My mom reminded me she kitbashed some VHS tapes for me when I was scared of movies, and yeah! That's way harder core!

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These are the people who have adorned the #FediTree of @silverwizard:
- ajroach42@retro.social
- mwl@io.mwl.io
- djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
- rysiek@mstdn.social
- bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org
- claudiom@bsd.network
- philvuchetich@bsd.network
- mhoye@mastodon.social
- neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk


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

mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/ope…

#OpenAI #AI #VC #SuchirBalaji


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this is not to claim that there isn't differences between the two killings. I just hate hypocrites

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@silverwizard Even if I did, I have a hard time understanding song lyrics in any language. I'm Whamageddon-proof! I still get sniped by Mariah Carey though.


Played WiiU games and Mario DDR for the gamecube and ate tacos with the kids

This is what I want to live for




The hardest problem in Web Infrastructure is accepting that your webapp will only receive a few dozen to hundred requests per second

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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...


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There are two types of computer people:

Those who like USB

Those who understand USB

Unknown parent

@Allen that definitely is a shocking connnection!

My kids are young, but I've been talking to them about shorts since they were 3

Unknown parent

@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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yeah people just dont discuss sociological problems seriously. and the propaganda works. i genuinely believe people aren't talking about the boeing assassinations and they are talking about this ceo, because the media presented one as a non-story and the other as 3 day long headline grabbing news.


wfsb.com/2024/12/05/anthem-bac…

A CEO can get shit done when motivated



email# ls |wc -l
   14999
email# ls -l |wc -l
   15000
email# find . -ctime -1 -exec ls -lT {} \;|wc -l 
   15027
email# 

Something is very wrong

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@Andreas lol, sadly yes. But it was the weird inconsistent numbers, but I think I got why, it's because I forget about ls


Can we apply Common Carrier rules to Cloudflare so they don't get to control who has access to the internet and how?

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hot take: software that primarily centers activitypub support could all be based off the same dang data schemas and focus on customizing their business logic and presentation without messing with the data structures and it’d make everything a lot more portable.

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by which I mean someone should take their winter downtime and build and release ActivityBase, the standalone generic data layer provider for fedi services.

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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?

#SouthKorea



My new RPG Dungeons in Dragons where intrepid explorers explore living systems inside massive behmoths in order to reach their hearts to slay them. The Dragons are the size of small mountains, and contain dangers and complex ecosystems of microbes the size of a person.
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@Hypolite Petovan @Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran The main question is how do you evoke the weirdness of a dungeon inside a monster without too much body-horror but also the right amount. And then how do you differentiate the dragons. Gotta pull out some Dragon theories about why you'd delve into dragons.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan @Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran gotta start with humans - why build in the mouth of a dragon? obviously because it's the safest place! Are dragons safety, or are they the danger being escaped? I don't know if we want people normally inside, since it's the Dungeon. But if that means we need something desired inside. I'd like this to not be Shining Heroes but instead scrappy underdogs, so that means it's gotta be food, water, or safety. Food would be funny, Water would be terrifying, safety would be expected.
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@silverwizard @Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran Like the diamond mines in Africa, dragons' insides could contain a valuable resource that desperate people would be ready to risk their life to obtain for a chance at upward social mobility.



Star Trek Enterprise's CMO had a cool trait of using medical properties from aliens and lifeforms from around the universe, which was cool, but also made him a naturopath.

He also withheld a vaccine and committed a genocide.

This makes him a consistent character.



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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!

in reply to silverwizard

Storing my SSH key on a DAT tape would be easier than a record since I don't have a turntable...
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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*.


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My son is trying to build a websearch DB by scanning the barcode on every book in my house
I should save this work for loading into Koha
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@Bob Jonkman I have bad news

I have a 5 year old and a 3 year old

It was the 5 year old

in reply to silverwizard

There must be a wormhole. They've aged three years in the span of an eyeblink. That, or I've been travelling close to lightspeed...

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only half serious take: a company's website search being absolute dogshit should be considered an accessibility issue and you should be able to sue them for it

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“CrowdStrike Earnings: Cybersecurity Firm Posts Higher Revenue Amid Swing to Loss - WSJ”

wsj.com/business/earnings/crow…

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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Any ideas about what it would take to make business outcomes depend on software quality? It seems to me that it doesn't naturally happen at small, bootstrapped software companies either, since building a great product isn't sufficient or arguably even necessary to earn sales.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt I recommend reading about the "market for lemons", because that's basically what is happening. And yes, we know how to fix it too, just nobody who can make those decisions wants to, because there is too much money to make like this.

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The SSO Wall of Shame #infosec sso.tax/

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Bluesky took down my bad, misspelled Elsevier brand impersonation account within like 2 days and maybe 5 posts. Idk dog a network where you can't clown on brands does not seem like a very open network to me. Brands.town is more resilient to corporate cease and desist orders than bluesky is lmao. Even if I hosted this from my own PDS and used did:web, even with composable moderation, at the end of the day, bluesky corp has final say over what can exist on the app.

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Speak 40+ languages instantly with ENENCE Translator – 35% off this Black Friday!

Get Offer - shorturl.at/e1vIz

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No information that is misleading? So like no jokes ever? What if the joke isn't funny?

in reply to silverwizard

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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any suggestions for frontends to openbsd's networking stack for capable and sensible people who don't do this professionally or for fun? #openbsd
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@Bram @BSD NL I don't think the wife and kids are gonna manage the DNS server - I'm pretty comfortable in Bind currently so I'll likely stay they. I just want them to be able to forward a port or reboot if needed. Or figure out pings.

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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"

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan yeah, it's literally just "oh, sorry, you missed my racism, luckily I got this whistle to call my dog"
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@Hypolite Petovan When I say I got told by mods to cut out personal attacks when I said "can you explain how that isn't a racist dog whistle", you'd think there was nuance in the situation! But no! straight racism

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Fucking CrowdStrike showed up very smugly at SecTor and I can't believe that we, as a community, allow shit like That Incident without consequences

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STOP SENDING ME LOGIN LINKS I JUST WANT TO INPUT A PASSWORD WITHOUT MOVING AWAY FROM THE PAGE TO MY GODDAMN EMAIL

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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. 😒

in reply to Jima

@jima I've used up all of my easily recalled passwords and I'm on to associations to make longer pass phrases. I do prefer a token to an sms for 2fa
@Jima

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"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."

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A thought I have had over and over for the last six months is "I wish instead of getting a 'job' I could just do work and get paid for it". When I have this thought I consider posting it but I'm afraid people will think it's a joke

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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.

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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"

gutterbookshop.com/product/bul…


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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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tbh I'd probably try to delegate some stuff if that would happen, specially math bits, but definitely a strong "Shoo, go away" for the bits I want to do.


My 5yo just asked me "Was Andre the Giant smarter than you"

What the fuck do you say to that?!

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard: well, Andre the Giant has an explicit posse, so that's a thing he's got that I don't, I guess. No word on "smarter" tho.
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@BB Yeah! Being Andre the Giant sounds terrible. But Andre the Giant *is* awesome. Not gonna conflict on that.
@BB
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@RootWyrm 🇺🇦 Worse, if I was in that movie I'd be replacing Peter Falk not Andre the Giant