^. .^ Paul Wilde

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @rl_dane@polymaths.social As a brit, I agree with my friends in Australia - Shaw and shah are different 😂 And I say shah too. Shaw = like Sure, or saw Shah = ... well, sha. The closest equivalent I can think of is "nah"

@mwl@io.mwl.io if the subtitles are anything like what are broadcast alongside TV programs they'll be utterly awful. Yes, I watch TV with subtitles on. The amount of misspellings is terrible since AI took over. Generally names and places are wrong, and the occasional but often word pronounced with different accents are wrong. Some words joined up, other split into many. Get actual transcribers back who check their work I say.

Just had somebody request assistance with an error accessing their 365 account but sent be screenshots of the Gemini output of them googling for the problem. something something, cognitive decline, something something Naturally, they're getting asked to send me screenshots of the actual problem before I begin to help, and get charged for the pleasure of wasting my time in doing so. #StopGenAI

I think anybody "responsibly using AI" in software development are forgetting something... Anthrophic are watermarking generated text, I expect others will follow. One would expect it only to be a short leap to begin watermarking generated code too. So, how long till they go "See the watermarks? That's our project now." And we say goodbye to -insert name of project that hasn't resisted AI here- ? I suspect sometime around when the money dries up and they need a fresh injection of demonstratable products. "But licensing!" I hear you cry. Don't be silly, they haven't respected licenses since day zero.

@sudonem@infosec.exchange Thanks. Pretty much what I thought. And I have already questioned them about SQLExpress. I know little of this business, but my experience so far is they know very little past windows applications use SQL (or SQL Express) so it's the only option. Ohhhhh how wrong they are. Fortunately, this is during an evaluation period and I will be telling my client this application is not fit for purpose.

@ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe is that today? Great, I'm taking the day off and chopping wood instead then. Also, sysadmins that use LLMs in their workflow do not get to celebrate today. Their job is to pick up the slack where we relax. Don't know what to do? Well then.

@rysiek@mstdn.social just one more datacentre and we'll solve climate change, bro

My journey with #MeshCore so far has been: Flash firmwarePair to mobileMobile goes crazy alerting to all the repeaters it can see and public messagesSilence most notifications"Oh wow, I can reach France!"Plug device into too-higher-powered power supplyBlow deviceThink "Lucky I bought two"Repeat steps 1-5.

@sotolf@polymaths.social @nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe @oxy@social.bsdlab.au Ah, good old Peter Principle. Once you know it, you see if absolutely effing everywhere.

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe that is a very good point.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run signed! Also, can we normalise calling them "Pervert glasses"? I think this may help reduce sales somewhat. Pointing at somebody wearing them and shouting "PERVERT GLASSES. PERVERT GLASSES" should also be encouraged

@gbraad@mastodon.social @kitten_tech@fosstodon.org @doctormo@floss.social still, polite to rate limit. But sadly the answer probably is "it's vibe coded" and/or "we need to get the entire Internet's content as quickly as possible" Considerations such as multiple pages showing the same or similar content such as a git repo are not considered, and when an AI web scraper hammers a git repo for all it's commits since the dawn of time it can take the whole thing offline.

@bagder@mastodon.social you deserve it! Well done, thank you, and enjoy your break.

@nicole@tietz.social bonus gift: you learn a new skill

@tanketom@tutoteket.no Can I come too? Or perhaps take Devon and Cornwall as Overseas Territories? Please?

@LinuxToday@techhub.social "Co-Authored by Claude; stolen from the public" should be the commit message really.

@mathew@universeodon.com @mhoye@cosocial.ca I don't think that would work this side of the Atlantic. Perhaps, but unlikely. And with the price of new hardware skyrocketing, I'm pretty sure older boards are going to be around much longer, and secureboot is not required. And for everything else there's coreboot, or hacking your main board BIOS/uefi. And, of course, distros without systemd. I'm not saying it can't affect the masses, but there are fundamental flaws in even trying to enforce it. Chances are most of us who put any kind of workaround in place are largely going to be ignored by authoritative bodies. We aren't the type of people who visit the types of website they're trying to protect the children from.

@boplaid@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run "It is our belief that widespread LLM usage comes from the "move fast, and break things" attitude that, while common in many parts of this industry, is contrary to what makes Debian Debian" chef's kiss This is definitely one to watch!

@joel@gts.tumfatig.net out of interest, is zfs send | zfs recv not an option? I'd expect that to handle zfs to zfs much more efficiently than rsync.

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au oh no, what did I miss? What happened?

@davidgerard@circumstances.run I never thought the zombie apocalypse would start off up with deathly murmurings of "IT IS A TOOL, LIKE ANY OTHER" but here we are

@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe my one comes via a friend, who had a manager with the knowledge of a peanut but the need to show off their supreme powers all the time. Short story really. My friend was pinging a host, the manager saw this, leaned over their shoulder, pointed at the TTL column and said "see that? That means it's encrypted"

@kabel42@polymaths.social @cmccullough@polymaths.social people just have to realise Windows knows how to use their computer best and we should all just give in and abide by that. NOT! Burn it, burn it in fire.

@sotolf@polymaths.social sounds like he has no idea how many servers are in his server.

@ericgallagher@zirk.us and friend and I used to go "acoustic skateboarding" - it was something we invented which was basically running up and down a half pipe in our socks. We were in our 20s, it was the middle of the night, after a number of drinks at a bar, and often included a takeaway pizza. Good days.

@Greylinux@floss.social it's a great idea! Probably one of the better distros to use as a server base to be honest. You just set up the minimal of what you need and let the containers do the real work. Perfect distro for this workflow in my opinion Source: even though I generally use FreeBSD and jails for my containers, I do have a couple of Alpine servers than run dedicated tasks, one of them being to run containers I can't run in jails for various reasons.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social you can also do freebsd-version -rk to see them both in the same output (although, granted, it's not clear which is which, but the lower number is probably the running kernel XD)

@dajb@social.coop new personal record of 0.78 seconds!

@jbjrkng@hachyderm.io if only somebody told them! Oh no.... wait... we did. So now we have age verification systems that will track everybody but also give social media businesses earning billions a get-out clause of "well they shouldn't have been using us anyway" when they publish harmful content that hurts somebody.

Yo #Database nerds! Quick question - would approx 8 seconds be a reasonable transaction time when returning 5 million rows of a single column over a VPN connection ? Standalone Windows Server VM (ew), spinning rust SAS drives , generally well performing all round. Loads of ram and cores, but guess what... it's SQLExpress so no matter what I give it it won't be used. I think 8 seconds is OK.... I'm right, right? Please note I am not asking for ways to improve this, I am asking if this would be considered acceptable given the constraints. Basically, I need to tell some software developers to make their database calls more efficient and not blame the servers. (If your application needs to make loads of database calls returning every result in the table so the client application can do some work, maybe investigate ways to improve this!!! (Oh, and don't use MSSQL (and definitely not SQLExpress))) #SysAdmin #MSSQL #SQLExpress

@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe oh damn, now I'm remembering more... I've had a manager that asked me to run the upgrade of 32-bit to 64-bit on a host operating system. Same manager, trying to save space on a MS Exchange server, switched on NTFS compression on both the mailbox database and transaction logs folders.

@The_Universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com @Tutanota@mastodon.social only office is included within Euro office. Euro office has the benefit of actually having a functional license

@fedops@fosstodon.org describes it perfectly.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca I still don't see how something like this could possibly be made to work. Windows, Mac, fine - stop a service running and the whole thing crashes, but open source OSes, almost by definition, are about user choice. Don't want something running in the background? Fine turn it off, no bother. If age verification is required, but likely is going to be on device, then we'll just make a service that says "Yes, over 18" when asked. If age verification requires a third party cloud service, then well done they've just broken the internet.

@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @jimsalter@fosstodon.org If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times - Linux is more and more not a "Unix-like" operating system, it is a systemd operating system. This needs to change.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca yep, absolutely. It's not about keeping kids safe, it's about giving BigTech "well they should only be using it if they're the right age" get out clause.

@scathach@stereophonic.space @dbattistella@mstdn.ca yep, quite right. My mistake. The quote I reference comes from ISBNdb via @davidgerard@circumstances.run https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendors-are-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot/ Still, it's bad in every way possible.

@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info bugger. Better keep an eye on this!

@stux@mstdn.social becoming a trillionaire activates the, previously undiscovered, human body's self-destruct mechanism. Tell your friends, let's get this information out there!

@nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social @stux@mstdn.social no, no the human body doesn't have a self destruct mechanism. Sorry if that was unclear everybody. Sorry. A boy can dream though.

@liquidlamp@hachyderm.io @fracicone@mastodon.uno @david@fouroclockfarms.club what else would you expect from someone with a twitter verified emoji as part of their display name  😂

@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe The best bit was he asked me this via intercom on the phone system so my colleagues in the same room heard the absolute nonsense he was saying. Absolutely, it performed terribly! We recovered it, naturally, by taking the email service offline for most of the day. No idea how he kept his job, frankly. Smiled at the right time and laughed at the right jokes I guess.

@aburka@hachyderm.io @mhoye@cosocial.ca I was wondering whether or not to put that on the end - it's right of course, but then maybe this sort of nonsense will be the end of systemd too. We can only hope

@RnDanger@infosec.exchange @gbraad@mastodon.social @kitten_tech@fosstodon.org @doctormo@floss.social ha! Ouch. If code has to be updated every few minutes there's a pretty serious issue going on! 🤣

@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @keengrasp@layer8.space this is why AI is such a terrible thing to describe it. Could an LLM create a new cancer drug? No. Could machine learning be used to study data and extrapolate results that can be used develop new cancer fighting drugs? Yes, it probably has been for some time now.

@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe @munin@infosec.exchange Seems to me the get out clause is transferrable, so when we're done with LLMs can we burn anthropic's datacentres to the ground?

@dbattistella@mstdn.ca somebody needs to be behind bars for this. Absolutely horrifying. I think anthropic's argument is something like "books are a data delivery system. Once an LLM had read that data the book has done its job" It's f*cking sickening.

@0x00string@infosec.exchange giving me real denholm renholm vibes. I like it.

@BastilleBSD@fosstodon.org sounds like a great weekend!