Repeat after me:
Beta software is not for hardware you depend on.
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Thinking about #BSDCan abstracts and falling into analysis paralysis, I've no idea what an abstract *looks* like for this con. How many words? Do you want the talk outline? The topic and that's it?
I dunno - AP is setting in - I want to give a good idea without accidentally writing the entire talk?
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@Hypolite Petovan @pamela Ok so the talk abstract is basically
My goal with computer is to be as stupidly boring as possible, let's talk about how BSD enables that, and what I am currently doing.
The problem is that... that... I don't know. Giving more context is way too much, but it's also not much there.
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@silverwizard A good abstract is like good slides, they give the direction of the talk but not the details.
You aren’t trying to get clicks so you should state bluntly the context of the talk and its conclusion, this lets people gage if they are interested in the “in-between” part.
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I’m going to beat up on #OpenBSD
Not because of the tragedy of sysjail (which I funded)
Not for “just enough file system to load your PF ruleset”
Not for discontinuing CDs and STICKERS…
BUT FOR AN UBERTRAGIC LACK OF @bsdcan TALK SUBMISSIONS!
Some of the single greatest #BSDCan talks have been OpenBSD ones!
Let’s go Fish Linux!
Puffy4Evah!
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GAH! Stop!
Even @h3artbl33d boosted this, an OpenBSD supporter!
Everyone please stop sharing and boosting this.
I was wrong to establish and maintain expectations based on precedences.
Don’t do this. It’s rude to volunteers.
Please don’t expect anything from me as a volunteer with a personal life either, which is a huge relief.
This is perhaps a good time to remind potential #openbsd speakers (and others for what it's worth) that the submissions deadline is February 12th, and I for one will respond to any questions or concerns you may have.
The way in: bsdcan.org/2025/papers.html
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Trans Rescue - Trans Rescue
At Trans Rescue, we are dedicated to helping trans individuals and people from the broader queer community escape life-threatening situations in some of the world’s most dangerous regions.Stichting Trans Rescue Foundation
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I was running a D&D module (Grasp of the Emerald Claw) in #BurningWheel, and they failed a navigation roll, so I rolled on the Random Encounter Table.
It is now over 6 months later and the aftershocks of that random encounter are still pretty major to the campaign.
Dice are wonderful.
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yeah, 2x16's you should have no trouble finding. Those don't load the UMC because even at the 8Gbit dies, it's still 2R total. I'd generally go with G.Skill Ripjaws V or whatever ORDINARY stuff you can find at a comparable price. The 3600 is VERY important, because any other clock *is wrong*.
FCLK is 1800MHz. x2 = 3600. Anything else, you eat a HUGE performance penalty. MUCH bigger than people realize - 30-50%!
So, um, are any #Toronto media covering the PowerSchool data leak affecting TDSB among others?
It's a pretty big deal, with data on all students since 1985: names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, health card numbers (!), and for students since 2017 also principal's notes (!), residency status (!), and any medical information shared by the parents with the school (!!!). Also parent data for students since 2017.
Since it's student data going back 40 years, this is surely impacting at least a third of all people in Toronto?
I got the notification from TDSB <tdsb.on.ca/About-Us/PowerSchoo…> and now Ars has a write-up <arstechnica.com/security/2025/…> but I haven't really seen anything much on local media.
Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
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Dear infosec 'professionals,'
Stop shitting on the IT team when there's an incident because we didn't/couldn't do everything perfectly. How businesses operate in the real world is completely different than your isolated test rooms. We're only human and even with all the tools to monitor and protect our environments there is a lot of ground to cover. Many of us are a one person operation.
Do not belittle my employees because they fell for a nicely executed scam. They already feel like shit. I will call you out on this at every turn and then treat my coworker to ice cream or the treat of their choice and make sure they are okay.
We know we got fucked and we are asking for help while doing internal damage control and mitigating things to the best of our abilities. Do not talk to us like we are computer illiterate cave people. We already know you are good at what you do, that is why you are here. Do not waste billable hours on calls autofelating yourself over how brilliant you are.
In summary, please act like a professional.
Sincerely,
IT Teams Everywhere
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i'll say it again: fuck everyone who built this world, defended it, normalized it, spread it into critical social infrastructure that will fail us in increasingly disastrous ways as the crises mount. a crime against humanity.
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Is the president or the US government investing the half trillion? The articles I came across just mention private companies and individuals investing their own money.
Is there anything about the government paying half a trillion to random companies for AI?
People brigading @Cory Doctorow because he supports a thing they don't like.
I get why people proping up bluesky sucks, and why people are mad.
But fucking. Ok. If there's anyone who has earned benefit of the fucking doubt it's Cory Fucking Doctorow. And if you believe he made a bad call after reading his piece on it, I get it, but imagine dismissing him this hard for one bad take. Damn. Fucking bonkers.
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@Hypolite Petovan I mean - the war between millionaires and billionaires is a pretty complicated thing going on.
I'm in a situation where I'm going to become a millionaire at some point by dint of birth, and it's weird, I feel a lot of guilt about it. And despite this - I don't feel any kinship with the idea of a billionaire. Billionaires are these weird *monsters* - they don't feel like people anymore, they're just these warps in reality that reshape our fucking world to their (somehow always Nazi) whims.
But yeah - like - Mark Ruffalo does not have any sort of world shaping money - but has enough to try to make a new social media company - it makes sense - but like - yeah - Mark Ruffalo probably shouldn't be the place we put our trust in our digital future.
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Coming up on Friday, March 14th! A Dying Root (Sherbrooke), Dumbass, The Pox, and D.T. (second show!) at La Biu.
D.T. is one of my partners’ Erin’s (Ratpiss) new bands, in which they are playing drums. They’ve gotten pretty good at it in a short period of time and I am very proud of them. Also my good friends Marshall (Stand Alone) is on bass and Axtmn (Nausia) is on vocals.
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Well I'm sure glad my schoolboard's stuff uses AWS, AI training, and doesn't always have a functioning T&C page.
I'm glad the schoolboard is doing vendor reviews!
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Just when you think the PowerSchool breach couldn't get worse, Toronto's school district says it lost upwards of 40 years' worth of student data stored in PowerSchool, per @carlypage.
Toronto said it was storing the historical data for responding to former student record requests.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/toro…
Toronto school district says 40 years of student data stolen in PowerSchool breach | TechCrunch
Canada’s largest school board says hackers may have accessed some 40 years' worth of student data during the recent PowerSchool breach. In a letterCarly Page (TechCrunch)
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Working on a Kubernetes project for the first time in forever, and I forgot how fucking awful this environment was for people shipping their internal scripts as documentation and being like "any other way of cluster management is not supported"
Use Argo? Fuck off
Use kustomize instead of helm? So?
Don't use EKS? Not our problem, the terraform says you do now
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@Becky and I are rewatching The Gathering (Babylon 5 pilot) and she doesn't remember a lot of it since she's not seen it in years.
There is a hole in her mind.
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Someone is scraping one of the sites I am maintaining; but they are doing it in the silliest way.
Almost no traffic, then just periodically, THOUSANDS OF REQUESTS PER SECOND!
Knocks the site offline every-time it happens. Doesn't even give things a chance to scale.
Then, when the majority of those requests fail, they give up.
The most annoying thing is that all this traffic comes in from a bunch of different IPs, mostly Chinese residential IPs; so blocking known hosting/vpn IPs won't work. Geoblocking probably would work, but I don't want to.
Its public info, if whoever is scraping the site could just use SOME chill I don't think anyone would even care
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![STOP DOING DEV OPS ON PERSONAL SITES
• PERSONAL WEBSITES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN CLOUDS
• YEARS OF BLOGGING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for zero-downtime CI/CD PIPELINES
• Wanted to put your website on the net ? We had a tool for that: It was called "FTP"
• "Yes please orchestrate my deployment. Please provision horizontal scaling" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what DevOps Engineers have been demanding your Respect
for all this time, with all the homepages & fan sites we built for them
(This is REAL Ops, done by REAL Engineers)
[Three images of network diagrams]
"Hello I would like to containerize the application layer please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://convenient.email/photo/preview/640/7091594 "STOP DOING DEV OPS ON PERSONAL SITES
• PERSONAL WEBSITES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN CLOUDS
• YEARS OF BLOGGING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for zero-downtime CI/CD PIPELINES
• Wanted to put your website on the net ? We had a tool for that: It was called \"FTP\"
• \"Yes please orchestrate my deployment. Please provision horizontal scaling\" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what DevOps Engineers have been demanding your Respect
for all this time, with all the homepages & fan sites we built for them
(This is REAL Ops, done by REAL Engineers)
[Three images of network diagrams]
\"Hello I would like to containerize the application layer please\"
They have played us for absolute fools")
A fun and weird tech change is that all teams in movies need to have "A Drone".
A Drone is just useful enough it's impossible to not want. And it exists as an object that's pretty easy for anyone to get (if they have access to TV resources) while feeling higher tech than most people encounter day to day.
So:
Heist team of kids: Drone
Wildlife Survey: Drone
Marines storming a base: Drone
High Tech Bounty Hunters: Drone
Cyberpunk Weirdness: Drone
Humourous Impromptu Team Of Comedy Bros In Trouble: Drone
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I love open source, and I want young people to know there’s a career path outside of #FAANG. Open source can be financially sustainable—it just gets super hard if one of your key goals is making your investors even richer. #Conversations_im is about the same age as #Matrix. I never took VC funding, and I’m doing fine.
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A weird bit of the LLM future is that the people using LLMs are only credulous dupes who think they are useful. This means we only see times when they are good, or times when they are so bad even credulous dupes can see it's wrong.
This leads to a dangerous narrative that LLMs aren't wrong in smaller less obvious ways. People say to factcheck - but they don't often know what the contours of that are.
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I knew #AI would come for all our jobs eventually, but I really thought that Holocaust denial would be safe for a little while longer.
futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-…
Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust
A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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How the heck to I send rendered HTML to a unix pipe?!
I know I can use w3m/lynx/elinks - but I want to take a "screenshot" and send it to a unix pipe. Is this a thing anyone supports? Do I have to pull out a text mode rendering engine and make a weird curl wrapper?
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Does that have anything to do with the "rational actor" theory? Because that's a bunch of spherical bullshit too...
Trying to talk to devs about questions like "What kind of string is this? What kind of thing has handled it"
I am constantly surprised how much people don't know about what a data type is
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@Hypolite Petovan I KNOW RIGHT
This stuff is so important and so thorny!
Also - I feel for you, this madness is wonderful, isn't it
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superb.
Are they called "desire paths" in English, or is that wordplay for the title? In Dutch we call them elephants paths.
in the last issue of my newsletter, i wrote "Side note: If someone promises you a risk-free 20% annual yield if you just let them hold on to your dollars for you (or turn your dollars into stablecoins and then let them hold on to your stablecoins for you), the risk that that you never see those dollars again is in fact very high."
anyway here's a post from Justin Sun today
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Now I really want to ask where the yield comes from, but I think I already know the answer.
Hint: it doesn't
I am watching The Mandolorian season 2, and it feels like the fight scenes haven't been directed
Has anyone else noticed this?
Just there's no sense of flow or reason in action. There's a bunch of cool moments, but no flow if more than 2 people are present
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There are two kinds of TTRPG game
-Playing to Fuck Around
-Playing to Find Out
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The amount of ink spilled by Hachydermians about #Fedipact being an overreaction should be interrogated. We should all think about how giving fascists the benefit of the doubt is fucking stupid.
Hello Hachyderm! Thank you for your patience as we gathered the necessary data to write our announcement blog post regarding Threads.The short version: Hachyderm has defederated from Threads.
Specifically, this is due to Threads changing their moderation policies and moderator guidance (see press cycle) to be in direct conflict with Hachyderm.
For the data and explainer, please see our announcement blog post:
community.hachyderm.io/blog/20…
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Please Please Please - if you don't have a good reason
NEVER SEND ME A VIDEO OR SCREENSHOT of your terminal.
Copy/paste the text. BAAAH
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Bwahaha!
I remember being asked to migrate the Linux documentation for the Windows-centric MSP that had acquired a former employer.
I spent a fair amount of time making sure all was correct, well formatted and had plenty of examples.
It came back to me with the comment that there were no screenshots.
So you want terminal screenshots as documentation for command-based processes?
Of course I maliciously complied :D
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@Kicou Fuck - I hate it. That's so annoying.
I recently had to send a video to a support chat - rather than copy/paste them the error message. The video was of the error message.
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TED is one of the biggest enablers of this "AGI" scam, and one of the biggest ways to circle more money amongst more white dudes. Period.
Why not do an "interview" with the myriads of traumatized, exploited workers and those protesting genocide to discuss "safety"?
Those are not from populations TED is interested in. They don't fit the bill of "a scientist" or "innovator." There are only certain things that Black people are supposed to talk about in front of white saviors.
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"If you couldn’t replace the tires in your car, you wouldn’t buy a car.
But overwhelmingly, lithium batteries have become glued in, and that’s just not viable.
Right now, the lifespan of a thing is the life of the shortest-lived component: the battery."
- @kwiens
Full article: theengineer.co.uk/content/in-d…
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#iFixit #ewaste #repair #RightToRepair
Damage control: How repairability could help address the e-waste crisis
Growing pressure to make products more repairable could have major implications for manufacturers around the worldJon Excell (The Engineer)
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I guess we're fucked an linux is going full Windows 11?
Systemd takes steps toward a more secure boot process [LWN.net]
lwn.net/Articles/1001730/
Sometimes, systemd adds features, which are not embraced uniformly across the entire Linux distro ecosystems. Hopefully this is one of them...
ALSO luckily there are a few non systemd linux distros still hopping.
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