Mike Roach

@randahl@mastodon.social At least the AI knows he only ever dances like he’s jerking off two guys at the same time.

@subnetspider@mastodon.bsd.cafe ZFS is memory hungry the same way System Idle Process is CPU hungry :p Love this project! Modern software really is such trash.

@elizayer Exactly! I’ve been trying to explain to people, especially those pushing AI at work, that writing code is not the hard part of my job. Identifying the real-world problems and designing solutions that are as minimalist and simple as possible are the hard parts. The code is an implementation detail.

@alsvha@sunny.garden @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange They all have so much Legitimate Interest!

@mastodonmigration @Viss In an alternate universe this ban didn’t exist and employees made a PowerPoint presentations about how commercialise cloud computing and embrace the Linux and x86 platforms much sooner. RIP Sun

@fergycool@mastodon.social I’ll give that a look! My O2 is currently in a cabinet for now. I need to find a permanent home for it so I can have it on and available more often. It’s too gorgeous a computer to not be using.

@kalleboo @caseyliss Nice self-own by the commenter admitting it took them years to figure out the entire premise of the channel.

@caseyliss I feel bad for people that choose not to appreciate poop and fart jokes.

@caseyliss I for one do not get why one may hate RCR. Commentary on society, the human condition, and the meaning of life itself labelled as a review of a Dodge Neon.

@dentaku@fnordon.de @nanochess@mastodon.social @root42@chaos.social Don’t tease me

@elizayer @robtherunt @macronencer Oh let me count the ways… When I do make an appearance at the office my parting words are usually: I’m headed home so I can get some work done. Return to office != Return to work

@robtherunt @macronencer @elizayer Same! I’ve half jokingly said my bathroom is the most productive room in my home office setup. Sitting on the toilet and lots of a-ha moments

@fergycool Our big lesson here is that the best time to buy old computers and parts is at the moment of opportunity! It's not like they're making them any more. A VAX would have been *sweet*. Did you ever run VMS? I haven't used it personally, but at my first job they had one running for years to support a client that just didn't want to upgrade. We even had an LA120 around into the 2000s.

@fergycool Sadly not, although I do have a spare Sun Ultra 27 here that would be about period-accurate for this. Maybe Solaris 11. My VM already died though. Some disk issue. I've seen this before where the OS just doesn't play nice with a virtualised controller and disk. VMS! I've never used it but I've seen screenshots. I'd love a bit of DEC gear. One time I had my bid in on a Digital Multia and lost out and I've never seen one for remotely as cheap since :[

@kylew01@mastodon.social I was wondering about Starlink users and where their PoPs are. In the registry app I think I’m going to parse the location field so we go by what people tell us

@Baa It blows my mind how many otherwise tech-savvy people think that IPv6 is inherently a security problem. I guess some people having lived their entire lives with NAT don't understand that NAT != firewall != router.

@encthenet@flyovercountry.social You can use passkeys with other password managers that are open source and self-hostable like BitWarden. Passkeys are supposed to be protected with biometrics or a “something you know” to be used. (I forget exactly which phase of passkey auth requests and enforces this)

@guyjantic@infosec.exchange I’ve also struggled with this so I’m looking forward to the feedback. @kalleboo@bitbang.social rolled his own blogging solution where posts tagged with #blog or something get automatically converted into a blog post by a script. I’ve thought of doing this too.

@tlapka “are you tired”

@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social Tech bros are the Ferengi with hints of Cardassian-style nationalism

@mixdup@mastodon.social I hear that. I’m getting AI-generated code put in front of me with “how’s this?” as if it’s helping. Or worse, being asked to fix or adapt AI-generated code. It’s got me genuinely thinking about working in a stable mucking stalls or something where I can get away from this shit and let everyone else generate absolute slop and security nightmares.

@Viss @FritzAdalis @jschauma Oh for sure. I follow Daniel on here as well. Great insights into the life of a maintainer. It’s too bad they had to shut down the bug bounty

@ShadSterling@mastodon.social @Daojoan@mastodon.social So that makes everyone else the “shallow skim and give up” people. Nice

@Viss @FritzAdalis @jschauma I always absolutely love a Galaxy Quest meme. Legendary film. I saw one with curl a year or two ago that sounds like that. If you’re using a SOCKS5 proxy and it’s been replaced by a malicious server and you send a specific kind of badly-formed request the server can reply with a mangled response that causes RCE? Uh, ok, so sound the alarm for all 6 people using SOCKS5

@zhuowei@notnow.dev And Friday is the two year anniversary of the xz backdoor discovery

@FritzAdalis @jschauma @Viss This! I triage bug reports all the time that are either theoretical, contrived and unrealistic, or where the failure mode is harmless. Known bug not even worth fixing. Congrats on sniffing out a bug that will never happen in real life and if it does nobody will notice or care 👏

@arroz It’s brutal. And if they’re not an EU vendor and don’t do IOSS, you get hit with import fees. At least here in Denmark there’s a €20 “handling” fee for any package from abroad they have to charge VAT for.

@golemwire @kagihq I got such a kick of this too. I'm still snickering about it 😆

@tilton This is great. Another one I saw and loved was the introduction of microwaves to restaurant kitchens. Wow, look how fast they cook food! Game changer! Microwaves are the future of cuisine! Replace the cooks with more microwaves!

@ered@mathstodon.xyz @annasdtc@sciences.social Since email has become necessary in life, I feel like the postal service should offer free email to all citizens/residents who want it.

@mixdup@mastodon.social Ohhh ok I totally understand that then! I’ve got some account for tracking my retro video games and another for tracking my CDs and records. Neither have good apps. The video game one especially hits home. I’ve bought dupes…

@nikitonsky@mastodon.online That's the kind of performance I'd expect from running in a virtual machine with CPU emulation and no GPU acceleration.

@Viss @FritzAdalis @jschauma Glad they found a way to manage it! Clearly  I’m behind on my news 📰

@mixdup@mastodon.social I didn't even think to look at the source but hot damn that makes this even better. I want to buy a drink for the designer of this site, which judging by the CSS file paths in the is a dude named Andreas. Absolute legend. I haven't seen pinstripes on a website in 20+ years and I didn't realise how much I missed that.

@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange I was sure about IRIX until I got to the Solaris option. Some damn fine choices in this list. ​ ​

@GeriAQuin@mstdn.social Every now and then I open up an app I use to see electricity prices and sources. This is a pretty normal day!

@fen I’ve had intrusive thoughts about creating a database adapter to use DNS as a database. nsupdate for writes, queries for reads. I mean, makes sense to me.

@piger@mastodon.social Same. I’ve wanted variations on this for a while. Kubernetes has that but I don’t see any reason docker shouldn’t be able to do that natively. Solutions you see out there are using docker compose with service mode networking and a container acting as a router. So clunky

@mr_daemon@untrusted.website I like the sound of that. I'd like to try it out, but his install of Solaris died after one reboot. Some I/O issue. Sounds familiar to the issue I've had with NT 4 with certain emulated disk modes. Oh well, maybe I'll try again later. Installing Solaris is so time consuming...

@mixdup@mastodon.social I love the sound of it already! Over the years I’ve thought about how to catalogue and “present” stuff I’ve collected. I know I like seeing pics and videos of things other people have acquired that I can’t or won’t buy.

@mixdup@mastodon.social Same here. My biggest problem with it now that I have to deal with is people outsourcing thinking to it. I'm trying to convince people that struggling to elucidate a thought or come up with a plan is a *good* thing. The struggle is how you hone and refine your ideas and identify gaps in knowledge. Insert some adage about the journey being the destination. On the other hand I find LLMs pretty cool for learning stuff especially when I'm just not interested in learning the nitty gritty. I can say "write me some Windows 2000 C98-compatible code to enumerate AppleTalk zones using multithreading" and bam, it does!

@Viss @FritzAdalis @jschauma Perfect name and I’m going to borrow that term. I feel for the people managing open source projects and having to triage bugs that are legitimate, academic, and invalidated AI slop

@PurpleJillybeans This looks like a punishing way to get there, but the source code link works! https://web.archive.org/web/20060813001725/http://www.tools.de/solaris/realplayer/ And then I found an archived page where the RealPlayer 8 for Unix download links actually work too! https://web.archive.org/web/20070701055715/http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?platform2=Unix&product=RealPlayer%208&proc=Unixware%207%20(i386)&lang=en&show_list=0

@MaddieM4@raphus.social @ramsey@phpc.social Any time XML has to be manually written, it's not a good time and makes you hate it. Configuration is a prime example. For machine-to-machine data transfer, and being *read* by humans, it's pretty great! XML tooling these days makes it much easier to work with in code.

@abdalian I have a print subscription to The Onion. That’s about all the news I want to consume.

Having dealt with XML for 20+ years at this point, my opinion on it has largely evolved into: it's the worst markup language aside from all the others. In all seriousness, when done right, XML is actually quite nice. I think early frustration with XML came from developer decisions like improper/overuse of attributes, lack of XSD, and questionable structure decisions like repeating elements without containers.