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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com そのジョークの重要な部分がいくつか抜けてる気がする。
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"Don't mention the children" by Michael Rosen.
Don't mention the children.
Don't name the dead children.
The people must not know the names of the dead children.
The names of the children must be hidden.
The children must be nameless.
The children must leave this world having no names.
No one must know the names of the dead children.
No one must say the names of the dead children.
No one must even think that the children have names.
People must understand that it would be dangerous to know the names of the children.
The people must be protected from knowing the names of the children.
The names of the children could spread like wildfire.
The people would not be safe if they knew the names of the children.
Don't name the dead children.
Don't remember the dead children.
Don't think of the dead children.
Don't say, "dead children".
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@dexter@bsd.network I hope you participate in the FreeBSD discussion. I don't have high hopes for a good policy from them, but I'd so very much like to be surprised.
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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social "“They're not recycling, they're devouring them, they're destroying them. One of the quotes from the Anthropic court case was, Project Panama - so this is from the company, from Anthropic - Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”"
I've used pkgbasify for the first time, and then immediately thereafter, I upgraded a FreeBSD 15 box to 15.1 with pkg. This is really dramatically faster than freebsd-update. I think I'm hooked on pkgbase now.
#freebsd
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I think it would be entirely reasonable to insist on no LLM contributions. Let's not assume dishonesty as a baseline. Free software is about community, and communities are based on trust.
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Wedges are a new thing since I last used NetBSD, and clearly they're going to be involved, as I'm going to want/need GPT partitioning, since hardware nowadays tends to use UEFI.
This talks about some of the commands used:
https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/mlelstv/using-large-disks/
And some man pages:
https://man.netbsd.org/dk.4
https://man.netbsd.org/dkctl.8
I'm leaning more towards *not* using a ramdisk which will never be released and instead trading some disk space to do the same thing. I haven't gotten to a proof of concept yet, but I'm hoping to get there this weekend if I can.
#netbsd
I saw a terrible message from DigitalOcean yesterday. I was helping a co-worker learn to do SASL authentication with Postfix, using Dovecot to do the heavy lifting, (second co-worker this week! Breaking people free from Google!) and we got to the point where we were ready to have him send out a test email - a reply to an email I'd just sent him that exercised all the moving parts of his inbound path.
But when he tried to send, he couldn't talk to my email server. I checked to make sure he wasn't being firewalled, but he didn't show up in my abuse listing. But then on poking around, it became clear he couldn't talk to ANY port 25 ANYWHERE. And I thought, "Oh, right, they've got that blocked. Le'ts find an article talking about how to unblock it." Not too uncommon. So I looked for their docs on unblocking 25.
Turns out, there's no automated way - not even a support ticket type for the purpose. You have to open a general request.
But man, they REALLY don't want you opening a general request! This is a masterpiece of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server
Without meaning to, they've eloquently captured the essence of everything we're seeing with the destructive corporatization and centralization of online services. They say:
"In many ways, mail server stacks represent a collision between the tools and values of the early internet — self-hosting open source software using well-defined standards and interoperable protocols — and the reality of the modern internet — a few centralized, trusted authorities."
This, not to put too fine a point on it, is BAD FOR US.
We need *more* selfhosting. I was a customer of theirs for a few years, but I stopped after they had some catastrophe that prevented me from accessing my server console for more than a week. Their support was underwater and I didn't get any movement until I decided to publically name and shame them with details of the incident.
This kind of attitude should make anyone hesitant to sign up for services with DigitalOcean.
#selfhosting #digitalocean
Just encountered this from Jamie Zawinski.
Original is here:
https://www.jwz.org/images/2026/aicards.pdf
#ai #llm #jwz
It's regularly surprising to me that people support this stuff of their own free will.
It won't be long now before people start walking the streets with robes and sticks telling random strangers, "you are not of the body".
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Yech. Finished it.
There was a good story hiding in there. A good short story. No way enough to be a book - not even a novella. An editor would need a shovel and a blowtorch to pare this thing down.
Do Not Recommend.
Perhaps he can be tried for war crimes once he's out of office. It might set a good example for the US.
"Israel's parliament approved a bill on Wednesday to dissolve itself, potentially bringing forward by a few weeks the next national election, which surveys predict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lose."
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uspol, primaries, scatalogical reference
My wife just told me eBay is opting some people into their slop training by default.
You can go to your account settings and opt back out if they've done this to you.
Mamdani continues to to demonstrate the healthy kind of populism.
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/zohran-mamdani-nyc-public-grocery-plan
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This book started so strong! It was going to be a post-catastrophe thriller, a modern Lucifer's Hammer.
I'm on page 171, and the catastrophe that started on day one hasn't really inconvenienced anyone. There's no TV any more, no broadcasts, no power.
The book is done in another 121 pages, and I'm hoping something exciting happens in that time. The setup is now more than complete. The stage is set. There's not a speck of dust on the stage, not a hair out of place. The characters are well-defined, and we're ready to see them thrown into crazy, unexpected situations they're not quite ready to face. SO ready.
But on page 171, there's a doctor, and despite his being in a bunker with other folks, he insists on seeing them over Zoom calls.
=record scratch noise=
#books
My wife called CVS and couldn't get through the automated system.
So I called. I ignored the prompts. I said "raptor" a few times, "help" once, and I made a gurlging noise partway through before reverting to "raptor". Did the trick and I was talking to a person in less than a minute.
For anyone who hasn't looked at air quality today, take care. It's bad where we are, and it looks like it's bad a lot of places.
#airquality #maskup
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@paninid@mastodon.world We really needed Giordani Bruno in there.
From Wikipedia, Bruno "was a Neopolitan philosopher, Dominican friar and priest, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist."
And of course, "Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition" and they "found him guilty, and he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600."
Now, things have improved. They murder fewer people nowadays. But their reputation is well-earned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno
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@masukomi@connectified.com I think it's a little more nuanced. It's a mix of religion and cigarettes. Religion isn't as quickly addictive on its own. Likewise, cigarettes don't normally demand faith. This is something new.
"First vaccines, now mammograms? RFK Jr.’s latest firings have doctors outraged."
I wonder if RFK Jr. is secretly pushing beyond "paleo diet" towards "paleo life" where humans don't live past forty. Firing members of the US Preventive Services Task Force is a step in that direction.
Here's some good news!
"Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were targets of a “weaponized” legal system."
Sometimes listening to some Phil Collins hits the spot.
This was well worth hearing. We're not particularly well prepared for the next pandemic - we're not doing awfully well with the still-ongoing COVID pandemic.
https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/preventing-future-pandemics
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@anakin78z@mograph.social Oh, that's wild.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Neck
They've been around for quite a while!
Thank you for explaining.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com I pretty much have to set laptops to 1366x768 no matter what, if I want to see what's on-screen.
A friend asked me, "Why is Google moving away from Kubernetes?"
I realized that I hadn't ever seen anything put together to talk about it. So I looked, and this talks about it, and has some interesting data I hadn't seen previously:
https://aws.plainenglish.io/why-even-google-is-rethinking-kubernetes-internally-a4c457252450
Of course, today, the LLM addiction is doing even more economic harm to companies, but this stuff is still worth knowing.
#kubernetes #google
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So, ironically, I've started getting involved with Tech For Palestine, and lo and behold, they're on the Fediverse!
Here they are, for anyone else who wasn't aware of their being here:
@tech4palestine@infosec.exchange#gaza
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@jackdaniel@functional.cafe I'm against LLMs and slop, but I remember what AI was supposed to be and I suspect we'll get back to working towards it one day.
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@Larvitz@burningboard.net There's no Forth any more, is there?
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/stand/i386?h=stable/15
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com Hrm, hrm. I see several references to the name, but I'm not altogether sure what it's supposed to be. :P It will join other mysteries in my life. If I understood everything, like would be boring.
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@lindsey@recurse.social @byorgey@mathstodon.xyz That was a wonderful message.
There's an analogy I like. McDonald's is "inevitable" and "here to stay" but that doesn't mean I'm going to eat there.
The analogy can go further:
McDonald's makes stuff shaped like food, and the materials they use could have been real food if prepared with love and care, but instead it's slop and it will harm you if you eat it.
McDonald's turns people who might have been chefs into food assembly-line workers. But man, they can crank out a lot of lines of slop.
McDonald's takes their profits and uses them to support demonstrably evil people doing demonstrably evil things.
And much like what we see in the bubble engines, McDonald's formulates their stuff to be addictive. They use salt, fat, and sugar where the tech fad du jour uses reinforcement loops. They're both wielding dopamine to capture us.
I feel like we'll get through this. Teachers sending messages like that one are going to be an important part of it.
PSA! Every time you give Andy Weir money, you're powering the mind behind this:
"A suite of new laws restricting cooperation between Maine law enforcement and Department of Homeland Security agents is set to take effect today, less than three weeks after an ICE agent shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. These “ICE Out laws,” as they’re collectively known, will limit collaboration between state and local police and federal agents, and forbid landlords, hospitals, and schools from sharing personal information with ICE."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/ice-out-maine-shooting-dhs/
"Meta’s AI glasses have all sorts of alleged use cases. The real use case is the market of creeps and weirdos who film people out and about without their consent."
"And Meta is now in an arms race with its actual paying customers."
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/09/metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-will-record-24-7-without-a-light/
It's worth following @davidgerard@circumstances.run and listening to his podcast. He researches the horror so you don't have to.
#privacy #surveillancecapitalism
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com You're clearly looking for one just out of college. If you understood your own needs better, you'd realize that mastering offense doesn't require rude language.
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Page 238 and I'm certain there's some foreshadowing that predicts some danger and conflict on the horizon.
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Alright, page 213. I feel like things might start moving. I really do. My luck is going to change.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com Hm, good point. What happens when you don't crank down the resolution? And are you doing that in the software? I'm not remembering a BIOS knob for it.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange I found that many rabbits on the road when I was a teen. It was at night, and I was driving with my girlfriend. We drove over one in the road, but cleanly over it, not touching it. I immediately stopped and checked it out, and it was a domestic rabbit, wIth a bunch more beside the road. I think we ended up with the same count.
These guys were a little malnourished, which we think explains why they were dumped. Luckily some friends drove past not long after, and there were a bunch of teens chasing down rabbits and putting them in my trunk.
We hope we got them all. We think we did. All of them ended up with homes - we kept one, whom we named Denise, to be a friend to our existing rabbit Gary.
They ended up having little rabbits, and Denise was *not* a good mother. Don't know if the stress of her origin story was too much or what.
A cherished part was a mom and her daughter who came in response to the newspaper ad. There were solidly medium rabbits by then, having had access to food and safety. The mom said, "Honey, don't you want a little rabbit?" I saw the opportunity slipping, so I pretended I didn't hear and slipped the rabbit into the little girl's arms. She said, "no, Mommy, I was *THIS* rabbit." The mother shot daggers from her eyes, but they took the rabbit home. And he was a healthy, nice little rabbit at that point, so I wasn't foisting off defective product. :P
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@Robotistry@fediscience.org @Synchro@phpc.social @gimulnautti@mastodon.green @Paul_Taylor@mathstodon.xyz GMail is worth avoiding. It's never too late to take back email administration.
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@qqmrichter@mastodon.world
It's worth considering the variety of harms this technology inflicts on us, cognitively, economically, environmentally, before deciding that they're acceptable. The copyright problems (both training and in the reproduction of training-set data verbatim) alone should be enough, but it's not standing alone here.
@ProcessParsnip@mastodon.ie @libreoffice@fosstodon.org
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@sidalsolgun@infosec.exchange Can you expand ESLB for me? I don't know what it means.
But what I meant in my reply is that you are yourself. You are not just a body, you are that which animates your body. You are as valid and as valuable as anyone.
Your posts were unhappy, and as I see it, you're unhappy over outward things, when the most important bits of you are totally independent of your shell.
I'm not dismissing your unhappiness. I'm very unhappy with my shell too. It's actively bad in a variety of ways, often mixing pain and discomfort and disability. But who I am is still deeply good and valuable, even if I don't look and feel as I'd like. Please accept this. It's more hopeful and realistic than being down on yourself altogether.
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@dexter@bsd.network I don't know where or when. There have been a couple mentions in public. Kyle Evans noted that Core wants to come up with a 'balanced' policy. (I suggested that balance wasn't possible with this stuff.)
The trouble is that this "we'll do a committee soon" has been kicked down the road for a while now.
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@paninid@mastodon.world This is frankly stunning. Even comic-book villains tend to stick to one scam or plot, and they try to hide the details.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com No, I got that, and I see "Jagger Potato" showing up various places, but I was looking for some subtext beyond the name combination. :)