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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱

@vaurora@mstdn.social
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Systems software consultant and crisis engineer solving complex problems in networking, file systems, and operating systems. American relocated to the Netherlands in 2023. Sadly not owned by a cat.

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Profile pic: middle-aged white woman with short hair, smiling

Banner image: Ukraine flag

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Joined February 05, 2025
Personal:
https://valerieaurora.org/
Work:
https://bowshock.nl/
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 3mo ago
Boosted by @trending@homestead.social
I need to remember that if I'm feeling down, a quick scroll down https://genders.wtf will make me laugh uncontrollably. Today it was "Salutation Scale" that got me. Thanks to @effy@social.effy.space for collecting these!
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 4mo ago
Philippe Ensarguet on AI slop and open source: The beautiful lie.... The open source model is built on a beautiful lie: code is the contribution It never was The code was a proxy, for understanding, for investment, for belonging The friction was the filter #ow2con
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 7mo ago

I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform

I keep telling people that I'm excited for the LLM tools that are tuned for specific tasks; Claude Code is clearly one of them. I still don't get paid to do anything that it is good for, but this post is a good summary of the situation.

https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/

matduggan.com

I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform

Until recently the LLM tools I’ve tried have been, to be frank, worthless. Copilot was best at writing extremely verbose comments. Gemini would turn a 200 line script into a 700 line collection of gibberish. It was easy for me to, more or less, ignore LLMs for being the

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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 6mo ago

Oh, nothing, just thinking about the Least Weasel again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_weasel

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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
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if not software then why software-shaped?
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 6mo ago

100% agree with this post

@bodil@social.treehouse.systems

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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 6mo ago

RE: @stribley@journa.host

Werner Herzog on fake Herzog social media accounts: “I understand them as my unpaid bodyguards,” he says with a smile. “Let them do combat out there. Let them do the ugly things out there. It’s fine for me.

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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 15mo ago
You are invited to join my new mailing list for people interested in internet resiliency clubs: https://lists.bowshock.nl/mailman/listinfo/irc I also updated the internet resiliency club HOWTO with some more hardware info and links to talks: https://bowshock.nl/irc/ Suggestions and corrections welcome! #internet #resilience #digital #independence
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 5mo ago

Help me out: do you know of a consulting group that gets called in to fix major problems in systems of computers and people? I'm trying to find groups that do this (preferably in Europe) so I can find out how they got started

#AskFedi

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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 7mo ago

Guess who is keynoting OW2con in Paris in June? I'm speaking about how to start your own Internet Resiliency Club. I hope to see you there :)

https://www.ow2con.org/view/2026/Keynotes_Speakers

https://bowshock.nl/irc/

#OW2con

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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
Boosted by @cstross@wandering.shop
Replying to on mstdn.social
The RAM crisis reminds me of my 2008 article on the ultimate physical limits of computing: https://lwn.net/Articles/286233/
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
Boosted by @cstross@wandering.shop
I am appreciating the "don't make writers appear on video" discourse because it makes me feel better about wearing pajamas all day long and not always noticing when I have chocolate on my face https://bsky.app/profile/dumplingmenace.bsky.social/post/
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
Replying to
@mattblaze@federate.social not everyone is capable of this level of labyrinthine advance planning, you know. "Don't get on the crime plane to go to the crime island with the criminal so you don't do crimes" is a lot to ask
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
Replying to
@justbob@kolektiva.social this was FOR SELF HOSTING A THING
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 6mo ago
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@vbabka @ljs @ffmancera @ptesarik @hyeyoo holy shit, I had no idea anyone else remembered that series
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 8mo ago

I'll be giving a talk on how to start your own Internet Resiliency Club at #Koppelting on Sunday January 25 at 12:15 in Amersfoort. Hope to see you all there! https://koppelting.nl/en/meetkoppel26/lineup#id696abc2eb672a

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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 6mo ago
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@ljs @vbabka @ffmancera @ptesarik @hyeyoo I watched it in the 1990's in rural New Mexico so the timeline checks out
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@broonie next career for @ljs
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
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@mgerdts@mastodon.social @mattblaze@federate.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org uh oh, new instagram craze coming... should never have posted the coordinates of the quicksand!
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 7mo ago

Is there anything cool happening in Zürich March 20 - 27?

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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 8mo ago
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@erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social @amanda@social.spejset.org oh it is so good, one of the creepiest (good kind) books I've ever read
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
Boosted by @cstross@wandering.shop
Replying to
Small hint here: this analysis only applies to people who, in living memory, did feel listened to by the government. Marginalized groups tend not to go fascist for many reasons, including that there is no recent Glorious Past to return to. (To a first approximation; thanks to intersectionality, oppression is fractal all the way down, and there are always people who choose to believe lies about the past, e.g. tradwives.)
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social pull requests written by AI, then scraped by AI to train the next model... computers need to be more expensive
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 6mo ago
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@marleenstikker fuuuuuuuu.... 😱
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 7mo ago
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@mikey@soylent.green Dying "AI didn’t create slop. It merely revealed that most of the people who claimed to have a taste level were actually just good at moodboarding and copying Dieter Rams." This IS the depressing thing about AI: learning how many people can't tell the difference between a blood orange and Tang
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 10mo ago
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@Pepijn@mastodon.online hello! Thank you for your many animal-themed posts. I grew up in cattle ranch country in the Southwestern US. I have sat on a lot of animals and even taught some of them to carry me in the direction I want to go, but never sat on a cow. The cows near me were all quite dangerous and kind of dirty and scruffy. Cows are much shinier and happier in places like Ireland so I can imagine they are in better moods elsewhere
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@eamon https://bowshock.nl/irc/ has some suggestions. I would go with the Sensecap Tracker
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@stefano beterschap!
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 8mo ago
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop @brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk I'm sad to say that this reads like classic ChatGPT in sentence structure
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
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@jbert@hachyderm.io @etchedpixels@mastodon.social don't give @cadey@pony.social any ideas
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
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@zackrobbin@mstdn.social the purpose of the project was to monitor some small cheap hardware devices
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 5mo ago
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca ironically, the article has the phrasing and organizational hallmarks of AI
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange has anyone written a description of the zero knowledge proof for people with B.S. level mathematics education? I will attempt to read the paper but would love to read anything by experts
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 9mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop @skry@mastodon.social I have a club where we send each other text messages over low power radio and most of them don't arrive, so I am looking forward to the return of UUCP https://bowshock.nl/irc/
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange ah never mind, it is simpler than I thought. Thanks for sharing your expertise and work on this area!
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 6mo ago
Boosted by @octothorpe@mastodon.online
Any SMART disk experts? I have a failing external USB drive (spinning rust kind) that I'm trying to get the data off. It has quite a lot of bad sectors that fail the CRC check. The read is going very slowly due to the retries on bad sectors and I'm currently estimating 1-2 weeks to read the whole thing. Is there a way to make this go faster, such as tuning the number of retries so it gives up faster on the bad sectors?
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 3mo ago
Replying to
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza @effy@social.effy.space unfortunately there's a bug somewhere that prevents me from editing the alt text
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 4mo ago
Replying to
@bartgroothuis@mastodon.online Ik heb aan CRA standaarden gewerkt een praten over dit probleem met @bert_hubert@eupolicy.social . Ik denk dat de enige oplossing is: minder. Minder features, minder interfaces, minder network verbindingen, minder code.
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 5mo ago
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@shane_kerr@fosstodon.org every single time I notice any duplicate numbers, I think about the actual distribution of random numbers vs what humans will create if asked to think of a random number
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 7mo ago
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@maaretp @dahukanna ahahaha so good
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 5mo ago
Looking hot and smart and not at all forgetful today
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @vaurora@mstdn.social
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@ginabythebay as a kernel developer, I really do work on one of the pieces of software that lasts for decades and where craftsmanship counts - but also I need to be more loose when I'm working on prototypes that I'm just going to throw away
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