i have decided. linus torvalds is fired. i have fired him. he is no longer in charge of maintaining my kernels
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misskey 2026.10.0-aliceif.2
computer witch in a professional software/linux/embedded engineer's clothing - anti-vibecoder - i live in maryland and bend old computers to my will - polyamorous, vaguely relationship anarchist, very gay - sometimes i make music as 'ersatz waterfall' - not a tech-only account, i'm just a computer addict - Intel 80286 enthusiast, and also PowerPC and MIPS and RISC-V - i have either too many or not enough ESP32s
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if you have recently used the world wide web, connected to a 5g cell network, or gotten an ultrasound at a hospital, there's a chance something i worked on helped. i currently do energy monitoring tech
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i am an operating systems nerd. i regularly use Gentoo, FreeBSD, and NetBSD on desktop, NetBSD/Alpine on server, Debian when those fail me, and sometimes Haiku, and many old operating systems, including IRIX and Novell NetWare.
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there exist no conversations without politics
consumerism is destructive
control your technology, don't let it control you
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this is not a mastodon account. if you are using mastodon, i highly recommend trying alternatives. a diverse ecosystem is a healthy ecosystem
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i make an effort to put alt text on all my image posts, but alt text seems to break sometimes on misskey.
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follow requests invoke a vibe check. if you're cool i'll probably accept. unless i already follow you, then they're automatically accepted. if you're cool and you didn't get accepted, dm me, it may have just gotten lost
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if you have recently used the world wide web, connected to a 5g cell network, or gotten an ultrasound at a hospital, there's a chance something i worked on helped. i currently do energy monitoring tech
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i am an operating systems nerd. i regularly use Gentoo, FreeBSD, and NetBSD on desktop, NetBSD/Alpine on server, Debian when those fail me, and sometimes Haiku, and many old operating systems, including IRIX and Novell NetWare.
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there exist no conversations without politics
consumerism is destructive
control your technology, don't let it control you
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this is not a mastodon account. if you are using mastodon, i highly recommend trying alternatives. a diverse ecosystem is a healthy ecosystem
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i make an effort to put alt text on all my image posts, but alt text seems to break sometimes on misskey.
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follow requests invoke a vibe check. if you're cool i'll probably accept. unless i already follow you, then they're automatically accepted. if you're cool and you didn't get accepted, dm me, it may have just gotten lost
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only cool kids grew up with one of these
i find it very interesting that llama.cpp, a project presumably maintained and contributed to primarily by people who generally have a decent understanding of LLMs, has a strict policy against predominantly LLM-generated contributions, bans accounts who violate it, uses an AGENTS.md that tries to rope the agent into enforcing this and warning the user, and they have also discussed adding canaries to catch people lying about AI use and not sufficiently reviewing its output
it's remarkable how computers just keep getting worse even when they get better
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@nyquildotorg@gts.nyquil.org my upstream OS vendor turns this telemetry off by default. firefox therefore says it is being "managed by my organization" in its settings page, because of the file they installed to override this.
nobody who runs any number of different Linux distributions is counted in these numbers. this includes all 3 members of my household, about 10 machines. it probably includes multiple of my coworkers.
all anthropic employees should be banned by default from all open source software projects, in light of the fact that apparently claude code has an "undercover mode" for their internal use, to be used when contributing to public repositories, that instructs the model not to indicate that it is an ai model or attribute commits to itself and instead pretend to be a normal human (and also not leak internal codenames)
current US copyright guidance requires that ai-generated output is adequately indicated as such in order to not jeopardize copyrightability of potentially the entire work (such as, for example, an open source codebase)
current US copyright guidance requires that ai-generated output is adequately indicated as such in order to not jeopardize copyrightability of potentially the entire work (such as, for example, an open source codebase)
it is time to optimize some microcontroller power usage
today in things you may not have known:
during quake's 10 year anniversary, john romero released the sources to all of the original quake maps, singleplayer and multiplayer, under the GPLv2.
the textures and models are still proprietary, of course, but the maps themselves are free for the world to use
during quake's 10 year anniversary, john romero released the sources to all of the original quake maps, singleplayer and multiplayer, under the GPLv2.
the textures and models are still proprietary, of course, but the maps themselves are free for the world to use
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@wafflesies@infosec.exchange this looks ai-generated or something. each of the images are different, even if they look vaguely similar
i think one of the most useful things facebook could do for society is probably to stop existing
lol (lol out loud (actually saying "lol" instead of laughing))
absolutely love to delete hundreds of lines of code from a codebase with zero change in functionality
emailed my congressperson about H.R. 8250, the federal age verification bill, and all the reasons why any such bill is a bad idea, and told him that if it passes they might as well arrest me now because from that point on part my life's work becomes, by necessity, actively avoiding complying with it or using any device complying with it, and assisting anyone else who asks in doing the same
if you're reading this and in the US, you should also call/email your congressperson and complain at them. you don't have to be eloquent or waste their time like with companies, just tell them how you feel and what you want from them. part of their literal actual job is to listen to you
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
if you're reading this and in the US, you should also call/email your congressperson and complain at them. you don't have to be eloquent or waste their time like with companies, just tell them how you feel and what you want from them. part of their literal actual job is to listen to you
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
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@neilk@xoxo.zone hmm. i am very certain that you are supposed to read past the superficial framing of the Foundation as the supposed heroic good guys.
at best, you are supposed to think that they are necessary, right up until they succumb to the fate of becoming everything they were originally meant to avoid.
it is a story about the inevitable rise and fall of empires.
i would really caution you to consider that just because Asimov writes characters that say "this is good", that this does not mean Asimov is saying that it is good.
i want a steam frame
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@techokami@woof.tech @kirby@freerobuxextremist.com also, the freebsd handbook is better than any linux wiki that has ever existed
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@256@mastodon.social i sit here reading this in the year 2026. the other window on my computer screen is a terminal in which i am monitoring the progress of backups of several terabytes of data from one of my computers to another.
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange sounds to me like he's about due for his monthly lecanemab iv
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@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social anecdotally, i have heard of a lot of relatively non-technical people trying out Bazzite or CachyOS in the past month or two. including non-technical family members of mine.
meanwhile my mom is addicted to Stardew Valley and decided she wanted a Steam Deck about it. she, too, has now joined the ranks of Linux gamers
i want a game that is exactly like endless sky but with chunky software-rendered 3d graphics
the members of the Vortex Quake II dev team (myself included) are working on a big update that supports the q2repro engine and quake 2 remaster content, including adding all of the remaster weapons, and integrating them into Vortex's RPG-like character upgrade systems
i am very excited for this
i am very excited for this
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@techokami@woof.tech @kirby@freerobuxextremist.com you can run steam on freebsd with plasma6 wayland, using only tools that you can install directly from the package manager, without having to build anything from source. doing it properly does mean writing and running a script to launch it, but you can cut corners and not do that.
and you can run steam games this way using native (not emulated-linux) wine/proton, with proprietary nvidia drivers officially released by nvidia, on a dual-graphics laptop from this side of the decade boundary. the open source graphics drivers are derived from linux. getting graphics drivers set up is not trivial, but once you're done it generally does just work, and it is all in the package manager.
you can use fusefs-lkl to load linux btrfs as a fuse library and mount your btrfs filesystems, but i'd recommend if possible using zfs for things shared between linux and freebsd instead. can't speak on ntfs.
see this thread from a while back with some screenshots of me running steam
RE: https://nya.social/notes/819af22734a0975283376d99
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@techokami@woof.tech @kirby@freerobuxextremist.com sorry, my instance doesn't have edits and i wanted to fix something
i need more games for my psp
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social in order:
yes yes yes and yes!
yes, but not enough. fixing that this weekend was already on my docket (for things arent local mirrors of easily available data, anyway)
yes, im actually running my home storage on the live backup as i write this (with "prod" as backup meanwhile) and will be switching back over to "prod" this weekend
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@Lunaphied@provably.online i do not know what the equivalent place would be where you are, but i am sure that it will be possible for you to find such things
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@Lunaphied@provably.online personally: Akro-Mils stackable plastic storage bins, and medium sized cheap hardware store plastic bins, all stored on cheap but very sturdy plastic shelves (i got the generic bins and shelves both from costco)
dangit my "backup" storage server's root disk is failing, and it's actually technically the primary storage server right now
i'm going to have to sort this out rather immediately
i'm going to have to sort this out rather immediately
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@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz my employer bought me a pizza and mexican food!
... they didnt know about this until afterwards though
i got a bag of chips
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@xgranade@wandering.shop the only solution i can think of, for myself, is to write software that is only useful to people, and which is not useful (or if possible, actively obstructive) to those who which to continue optimizing paperclips
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@badkeys@infosec.exchange just a few days ago i broke an rsa384 key using yafu on my home server (a ~6 year old dell poweredge, fairly decent spec) as a practice run for something, and it took under 5 minutes
once again, after an unexpected reboot, i have found firefox restoring my tabs from...
3 months ago
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io these companies are throwing away enough money on things that are obviously doomed to fail, that it clearly wouldn't be a problem to pay, oh, i don't know, let's say, 1 person per 1000 users a livable wage to be a full time moderator
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@ian@social.modest.com thank you so much for having done this. the official tracker does not work for me either and i am glad to have access to this data
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@badkeys@infosec.exchange the yafu help describes using siqs for this, which would take that server 2 to 3 hours, but using nfs it took only minutes
my SGI Onyx2 has had its fan tray replaced and it is now alive
is there anything that exists in the space of fully open source weather modeling
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@_elena@mastodon.social every 6 months, journalists and corpos check us out, get angry when they fail to hack our engagement here and can't figure out how to advertise/monetize, and proceed to write articles about how "mastodon is dead" (nevermind that mastodon isn't the only game in town).
and yet we continue on, happily talking with people we actually care about, of things we actually care about.
their "networking" is no match for actual community building, and after a few years, it starts to just become funny watching them fail to understand this over and over
i found an ancient relic at goodwill
chips, assorted flavors
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@neilk@xoxo.zone for an interesting time, consider trying to apply this analogy to different various different parts of societal institutions and fields such as supply chain logistics, or the stock market, or even complex software systems.
programming offers many interesting ways to do this.
it can be very enlightening to see how introducing different things that promote growth/performance/speed, and incentive systems that reinforce and increase those things, naturally also drive increased demand. as well as how they collapse under increased load. usually from failure to meet the increased demand on inputs, or the system losing its ability to respond to changing scenarios (peak performance at all costs -> all available workers are busy -> no workers can handle an urgent critical issue -> entire system falls apart; the longer this goes without happening, the more the system "thinks it can get away with" going further)