Coffee is good especially when it's 4am drunk coffee and all who disagree can yeet themselves ( as the children say ) into deep storage of the dark Antarctic to be eventually revived again by drunk late night coffee As it has been written, so it shall be done. Praise NULL, the undefined, the […]

This person did the right thing: the known science of how to change someone's mind, is that you must hear them out first. Not matter how disgusting, deranged, uncomfortable you feel: Let them let it out. https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/115625303443989402 Unfortunately ... it only gets harder […]

Welp. Tried to clear the tiles on OSM to free up space on my phone and instead completely vaporized everything, factory reset the app. Looks like I lost several years of GPS traces. Found backups of all my POI's but they're dated to October 2024 :(

Just got one hell of a Nepenthes-adjacent thank-you note in my inbox and I'm a bit verclempt.

Paul Krugman now talking AI bubble ending ( Not linking, because fuck Substack. ) So uh yeah I guess it's happening now. Though if I'm reading this correctly he seems to be expecting slow deflation over some time and not a sudden crash all at once.

Vendor: "I've worked here 18 years and I've never seen that error." Surprise Second Monday confirmed.

Holy shit this thread. https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/115605366950673501 As a Sysadmin, I don't do "security." It's a key piece of my job, yes - but the focus is "uptime." It must work against all else. Security is a key thing, because without it, uptime is threatened. Uptime is so […]

Was enjoying my coffee, wondering what that ticking noise was, when I realized it was a Downy Woodpecker at the base of the elm tree. I'm not used to seeing them so close to the ground; but there she was. Scouring every tiny niche of the elm tree, top to bottom. I don't know if it's her first […]

It's not a "homelessness" problem, please use the correct terminology It's a "Billionaires have hoarded so much of everything not all of us are expected to survive" problem.

The classic instance-name-in-post trick just got an actual LOL from me.

Brewery cat.

What I see is the past several hundred years of Ukrainian history, is a unified group pushing back against various empires to ensure the cultural, political, and ethnic existence of Ukraine. They're fighting Russia to exist right now. They didn't want this war, Putin alone decided it was going […]

I would like to propose we start using the term "pro-craft" to describe our movement, rather than anti-AI. craft as a verb: to make or manufacture (an object or product) with skill and careful attention to detail craft as a descriptive noun: an art, trade, or occupation requiring special […]

Folks, be the cool human who deletes ALL the phone profiles from the automobile console when you return the rental, not just yours. Take care of your uninformed human siblings.

These kinds of benchmarks are a good thing, interesting and useful information, and yet I consistently see people interpret them wrong: like an OS pissing contest instead of raw data. https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/ The […]

I'm trying to cook up more direct install guides for Nepenthes on more operating systems instead of the generic, vague stuff currently on the website. Alpine, FreeBSD, and Debian were all pretty straightforward. Redhat - specifically Rocky 9 in this case - threw me into an apoplectic rage […]

I haven't touched #freebsd in a long time and this one has stumped me. Fresh deployment of FreeBSD 14.3 from Vultr. Service up and running just fine. Hitting it with curl to localhost works, but from anywhere else on the internet connection refused. It's not the provider - I can fire up […]

Nepenthes 2.3 is out. This fixes a very small bug with big impact - messed up a lot of manual installs. If you have a working 2.2 instance, you do NOT need to upgrade. Conversely, if you tried to run it and couldn't get it to start, try 2.3!

It's good to report bugs. Software developers and maintainers won't always know if there's a problem if no one brings it up. I just fixed a very simply fixed problem in Nepenthes that simply wasn't showing up in my instances. It could've been there since the beginning - but no one said anything.

Could really use that "cron, except driven by iCal" idea that's been bouncing around my head, today.

GitHub is not your friend. They're also not on your side.

"Win" isn't the word I'd use. "Encroachment" is a lot closer. https://masto.ai/@phoronix/115565550462857724

[Conservatism, from a #uspol angle] They talk up principles like "smaller government" and "private sector efficiency" - then a private entity comes along that's about something more than pure profit and "no not like that!" It's because the agenda is really […] [Original post on chirp.zadzmo.org]

A piece of software I utterly despise is Apache Tomcat. Problem 1: all configuration is XML. ALL OF IT. XML configuration is horrific, a clear mistake in retrospect. A configuration file is not really the mind of document that syntax was designed around. It gets worse, though. Version 5.5 ( 9 […]

OF FUCKING COURSE my web server knows when I'm in the woods, and codes chooses when to crash accordingly. Time to rebuild that thing. It's overdue.

Been a good weekend. One more calm moment then time to pack up.

"LLMs use fewer resources doing $task than humans so using them isn't an ecological problem." So what are you arguing for? What happens with the humans we no longer "need"? That argument leads only to monstrosity.

What about those of us who's needs are "Disable all AI features," you shitlords?! https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

I've heard a solid argument made that Larry Summers is a big part of why Obama's economic policies were so utterly disappointing. This might be well known. I dunno. My face has been head down in various electronic things for a decade now. https://beige.party/@GrimmReality/115539410283532888 […]

Troubleshooting a legacy system ... hmmm, that's a unsafe file here in the test system, hardcoded passwords, spits out user account info... Wonder if that's in prod? *logs in .... slams down coffee mug, closes Putty* I'm out of office starting tomorrow. This is my "Friday". I did not see that.

I think my favorite method of objectively measuring how much responsibility some one has in their job is "How many dollars worth of damage can you do in fifteen minutes?" I think my peak was around 2015-2017 or so and the number of dollars was around 15 million.

@0xabad1dea Understanding that that software behavior can have real-world consequences for real people seems obvious, but evidently isn't.

Expanding. https://indieweb.social/@akamran/115521218971208177

Today in "things I found looking at my website logs": Someone is claiming "AI datacenters in space by 2027" Oh dear, that's... so very wrong. Electronics need cooling, and, Fun fact: despite space being very cold, one of the hard parts of spacecraft design is actually keeping them cool enough.

One of the best Fedi threads I've ever participated in. A+ shitposting. https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/115352509189682491

Orange white, Orange Green white, Blue Blue white, Green Brown white, Brown. Some people claim there is a second pattern. They are wrong.

Coffee prices have gotten so high, it's cheaper to buy another coffee brewer instead of another bag of coffee.

Sun4v really never got the respect it deserved. That Niagara architecture really is perfectly optimized for flinging the shit out of some bits across wires. My Sunfire T2000 still punches well above it's weight as a fileserver. If she makes it a few more years ( should, *pounds anything wooden […]

[Plane Crash] Feeling sharp vibes of American Airlines Flight 191. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191 That 1979 crash was a DC-10, a direct predecessor of the MD-11 with the same engine layout. It also lost it's left side engine during early takeoff. Crash […]

... we've been trying to tell you. https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/chatgpt-ai-hallucinations-fact-study-b2858291.html

*Checks Outlook Calendar* "AI Happy Hour" *Closes Outlook*

Has anyone used something like this? ( I say like this, equal functionality from a direct brand is fine. ) It's bouncing around in my head for retrocomputing reasons. I previously tried a CF to IDE adapter and that machine _REALLY_ didn't like it. https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/ide2sat25

Happiness is a fresh pair of Cold Weather Insert Type II's. I burn through a pair every winter it seems like. The painted on label should be gone in a day or two.

The replies to this caused me psychic damage. https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115486950469610646 People have survived in the wilderness for many, many years longer than the concept of electronics or radio even existed. The skills needed to do so without electronics or radio haven't been lost - many […]

Debating putting out a bit of software, with extensive documentation that's just Markov slop trained from AI productivity how-to bullshit, and have the code itself be a thinly veiled fork bomb. Just to see if anyone actually runs it. Be a real shame if it polluted someone's model.

My build box is a 2011 era AMD APU system. It netboots nicely, it's stable, it uses very little power at the plug and has the necessary 64 bit bells and whistles to crank out anything usable on my prod x86 VMs. (*) Just kicked off a build job. First dependency pkgsrc pulled down appears to be a […]

Squid.

Oh-oh, JK Rowling is going to be SO. UPSET. https://journa.host/@w7voa/115472196038378723

https://beige.party/@the_etrain/115465894411947923 Bought myself a cheap stovetop tea kettle this year purely full mulling wine and cider. Temperature is dropping, let's effen go

Email HR went out, that due to someone having a severe life threatening allergy, citrus products are no longer permitted on a certain floor. Apparently even just opening a can of La Croix might aerosolize enough to cause a reaction. I'm so thrilled that person was forced back into an office […]