Ray Kelm

@mhoye@cosocial.ca I recently installed #Fedora #CoreOS on my home server. It uses a configuration system that can fully clone a server. You can boot the installer and then feed it the config you have for the other server and it basically duplicates it.

@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange I thought I read that dirtyfrag was originally disclosed responsibly, with a delay before publication, but someone else leaked it, so the discoverer had to publish so that people would know. What I read said that was pretty much standard procedure. Is there some article that’s saying this wasn’t the case?

@samiamsam@mastodon.social @tankgrrl@hachyderm.io Seems like men who self identify as alpha male do so *because* of their insecurity. It the cause rather than the effect.

@lostgen@det.social @hweimer@fediscience.org There’s enough randomness that an answer that is a random combination of other answers might be given though. That doesn’t mean it’s “creative”, but it does mean that you can see things that are novel, in that that particular combination of parts hasn’t been seen. This is basically interpolation though, and your extrapolation argument is spot-on. They do not produce output that discovers anything new.

@Lana Wait, those card look bigger than normal, or is it maybe just small hands?

@knowprose@mastodon.social Everyone should take time to watch Dr. Becky's videos. She's awesome.

@statsguy@mas.to Performance might vary a bit depending on whether there is a lot of data to transfer or not. Rsync hashes file chunks to avoid sending data when it’s not necessary, and the C version might perform slightly better for that. Otherwise the process is I/O bound, which should mean you get the roughly the same performance when there is a lot of data that needs to be transferred. Personally, I’d shell to rsync, but then I’d probably use a shell script instead of python as well, unless there is some other need for the capabilities that python provides.

@grahamdunning for home use, KiCAD is popular for schematic capture and PCB layout. For fabrication, there are many vendors that will make PCBs and even populate them. JLBPCB and PCBWAY are two. You can also make two layer boards at home using a desktop CNC such as Carvera Air. And the old acid etch technique is still a low cost option.

@Canageek I use several. Desktop mini-PC (low end AMD GPU) runs Aurora (A KDE Plasma distro of universal blue). I use this machine for software development, browsing/email/messaging, and light gameplay (2d games mostly). Runs great, no complaints. I like the automatic updates, and doing dev work in containers is my preferred approach anyway. Brew took some getting used to, but works well for me now. Laptop (2022 Asus Zephryus M16, Nvidia RTX4090) runs bazzite also with KDE plasma. This is where I play 3D games. I can dual boot Windows 11 on this machine, but I haven’t needed to for a while. Runs great, no complaints. Home server, mini-PC, runs Ubuntu 24.something. Mostly running docker containers for various services I use in my house. Runs great, no complaints. I barely have to pay attention to this machine.

@ElpasYou_2 @nico42 That’s when they added lidar to the iphone.

@alios I really like this idea. I’ve been doing a bit of embedded work in Rust, but hadn’t considered using the same approach in a non-embedded environment. I’m going to give it a try. Thanks!

@Lana@beige.party We're not perfect, but yes, we have a lot of good things going for us. Housing prices are high, both rent and for purchase. Gas prices are about $1.60 higher than the national average. I'd still rather live here than elsewhere.

@seindal @millihertz @elb dd is a handy little command. I had to use it to write floppy disk images that I downloaded for slackware. I think I used it to copy an entire hard drive once, but it wasn’t all that big a drive, like less than 100MB. Still took forever.

@millihertz @elb Oh yeah, there were definitely a lot of differences introduced in BSD. I first learned on System III, then when I started using Linux, there were a lot of BSD versions of commands that messed me up. (and to clarify, the System III machine I used was old when I started using it)

@levi I’m not sure those fields really support any real corporate use case either. Most corporations are going to have some other more centralized system to track that kind of information, like LDAP/Active Directory/Exchange/etc. It makes no sense for each computer to have that info entered separately in a corporate environment.

@donm what size nozzle are you using? You should be able to print finer detail with a smaller nozzle, but there is still a limit to how small you can go. 0.2 mm is a common smaller size, and is half the size of the more typical 0.4 mm. There might be 0.1 mm nozzles you can find too, but those are not as easy to find.

And we go into bonus hocket now... #hocket

@jdw @pojntfx Personally, I use a 2022 Asus ROG Zephyrus M16. It wasn't cheap, but it runs Linux nicely, and every game I've played has been at least decent performance and graphics quality.

And it's over.. 5 to 6. Bummer

@elb @millihertz The set of commands we use now is an amalgamation of utilities from different UNIX variants, and most of them maintain compatibility with the really old versions so that old scripts still run. I could be wrong here, but I wouldn’t be surprised if those commands came from different variants.

@ariaflame @stevenally @Lana This was my understanding as well, but it's information that I got second or third hand. With a few online searches I found reporting that said that 70% of the refineries we have can process heavy crude, but that the oil produced in the US is light (sweet) crude. That statistic doesn't necessarily mean that we are not "energy independent", but it does mean that prices will likely be affected if the supply of heavy crude is interrupted. Whether there will be gas shortages in the US might be more related to just how much we use compared to what we produce with those 30% of our refineries, and how much petroleum companies send elsewhere because they can get higher prices. Either way, it sounds like trouble.

@Anomnomnomaly@beige.party @lety@doesstuff.social

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job"

• Douglas Adams

@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange

After discovering Dirty Frag, Hyunwoo Kim was reportedly working with Linux developers to fix the issue before publicly disclosing it. However, an unnamed third party published a working proof of concept earlier than anticipated, forcing the researcher to disclose the vulnerability more than a month ahead of schedule.

https://www.techspot.com/news/112365-newly-disclosed-dirty-frag-vulnerability-left-linux-exposed.html

@mpowney@mastodon.au @florenciocano@infosec.exchange Wait, you think there was design involved? :) Seriously though, I was only willing to run it against an LLM on my own network, so I tried qwen-3-coder and glm-4.7-flash. Both made the assistant really hard to work with, as it would forget things, get stuck on little details from the SOUL.md file, and so on. I’m sure it was never tested with smaller models, but I wouldn’t call that a real design decision.

@mpowney@mastodon.au @florenciocano@infosec.exchange That could be it too. Large context wasn’t as much of an option. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve messed with it at all, maybe I can try tuning it a bit to see if it has better results. I’m running the LLMs on a laptop 4090, which has 16G dedicated, and supposedly can use the other 16G, though it never seems like ollama allocates it, and I think I had a crash when trying something bigger. I’ll try adjusting the max context window if I can.

@fesshole@mastodon.social This is so clever. I’ve posted questions where I included the steps I tried that didn’t work and still get “answers” asking if I tried doing just those things. I may try this in the future. Thanks!

@CIMB4@norden.social @attoparsec@clacks.link I think maybe it’s the “walking your pets on a leash in an area with rattlesnakes”. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that exact sign before. It’s at a rest stop. It made me chuckle then too.

@mray@social.tchncs.de Are you looking to build everything yourself, or build on something existing? If you're not wanting to build from scratch, Nakama comes to mind. if you are looking to build from scratch, be aware that you could be talking about a year of effort for a solo dev.