Good.

Locked bootloader is a no-go for me, I’m 100% on the GrapheneOS train now. But I do hope that smaller phones make some kind of comeback, I also hate how big they’ve gotten over the years.

Debian has become my favorite server OS. Some more specialized distros are great for specific use cases, but for 90% of my stuff, I just install Debian and chill.

“Soldier Found Deep In Jungle, Still Fighting For Extinct Empire!”

This guy was complaining in the blog post about how bloated systemd is because it uses 36MB of space and it could be done with ~6MB if you used different tooling.

If you’re the kind of user where 30MB of disk space genuinely matters either at scale or in some very niche edge case, then you’re also the kind of user who won’t have much trouble using an alternative init system or building/tuning your own.

I’m so sick of this constant corpo hype-cycle. Either cure cancer, or shut the fuck up.

The bubble can’t pop soon enough.

Certified fresh meme every time lol.

I think they know/strongly suspect that the bubble is about to pop. They are trying to drastically cut expenses to better weather the coming economic storm.

What the fuck did you just fucking ask about me, you little script kiddie? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in my community college helpdesk program, and I’ve been involved in numerous Vim vs Emacs debates on Reddit, and I have over 300 active torrents. I am trained in gorilla pentesting and I’m the top hacker in my entire IT department. You are nothing to me but just another end user. I will wipe your NAS device the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with asking that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of system admins across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your file system. You’re fucking pwned, kid. I can RDP anywhere, anytime, and I can hack you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my Nintendo Power Glove. Not only am I extensively trained in naked Dance Dance Revolution, but I have access to the entire arsenal of my IT department’s T430 Thinkpads and I will use them to their full extent to wipe your miserable computer off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” question was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn normie. I will DDOS all over your network card and you will drown in packets. You’re fucking pwned, kiddo.

certified prompt engineer 🙄

Oh gawd, the world is burning and people are dying. Stop tone-policing, go out in the real world and bash the fucking fash.

Tailscale or Netbird literally take 15 minutes tops to set up and get working. Then you just pick whatever services like SSH you want to use, have them accept connections only from Tailscale/Netbird IPs, and you’re gold.

I use Tailscale on my entire home lab, and with my friends and family for everything from Minecraft, to accessing my Jellyfin home media server, to accessing my parent’s home PC across the country to check updates and backups.

Fast, easy, free, and secure.

I have yet to see a sticky note password that was anywhere near NIST compliant lol.

Meanwhile, half of the people at every company I’ve ever worked at:

Yeah…and I suppose they all hauled ass out of there because their company was doing so incredibly well and they felt super optimistic about the near future?

Also, if you can’t make a chatbot BF/GF company profitable, that’s a pretty damning signal for the industry as a whole, certainly from an end-user perspective.

He’s not perfect, obviously, he’s had some notable issues in the past. I think he’s a victim of his own optimism here.

I think he genuinely didn’t believe so many people would just vibe code slop and spam maintainers with it.

It’s kinda the classic, “I’ve always used XYZ responsibly and never had a problem. Doesn’t everybody else do that?” People do this all the time with credit cards, alcohol, gambling, extreme sports, etc. You think that because you’ve always done it “the right/smart/responsible way” it must be equally as obvious to everyone.

I was recently talking to a coworker about this same topic. I told them that one of my fears about LLMs is that the flood of vide-coded sloptributions would eventually make FOSS less free. Maintainers wouldn’t be able to keep up with the volume, and would resort to locking down contributions to well established community members and contributors.

Basically, gone will be the days of skilled randos contributing freely to projects, or beginners jumping in to help with easy, small issues/fixes. Now you’ll need to be well known, be vetted formally by other contributors, etc.

The agents.md compute sabotage idea is interesting, essentially Anubis but for your repository.

It might be happening finally. All it takes is one domino that’s just big enough to knock over the next one…

What’s this? An overabundance of fossil fuel use across the country?? This massive buildout of gas power plants oughta put a stop to that!

Monero is the only crypto currency I believe in.