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pete_wright

@pete_wright@nlogic.systems

BSD and Unix mechanic/malcontent
aka @nomadlogic
Dreaming of a future where there are taco trucks on every corner and no more billionaires.
he/him

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maxleibman, to random
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“Can a Neuromancer TV Series Still Work After The Matrix?” asks man who hasn’t read ‘Neuromancer’ and doesn’t actually get ‘The Matrix.’

pete_wright,
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@maxleibman should be an interesting series - I’ve purposefully been avoiding any info about how they are doing it so I can go in unbiased when I eventually back it up off the internet. I feel they did a good job so far with Foundation on so fingers crossed.

pete_wright, to macos
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#macos peeps - to iterm2 did a LLM thing in their terminal emulator. i just uninstalled it from my system, anyone able to recommend a lightweight replacement to the default macOS terminal.app?

Quinnypig, to random
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I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.

pete_wright,
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@Quinnypig
holy smokes - is there a handy link for this so i can shoot this to my teams infosec and compliance departments. what a disaster.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Are there any films or TV shows thay you found interesting but don't necessarily want to revisit?

pete_wright,
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@TerryHancock @Adam_Cadmon1

that's wild - The Thing has become one of my comfort movies, but I totally get it. It's funny tho 'cause i'm not a horror fan i just really like John Carpenter tho.

pete_wright, to random
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  • Promote fake election fraud
    White people: meh free speech
  • Advocate for Christian theocracy in america
    White people: meh free speech or something
  • Harm a dog and write about it
    White people: omg don’t you dare! This person is unfit for office 😭

I knew once she brought up dogs everyone would flip…where was this widespread condemnation and outrage in the press for all her other horrific things she did/advocated for

Fucking dog people man, I don’t get it. But whatever gets people off their asses?

outofcontrol, to macos
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If you use brew’s curl on macOS, are you really using it? I installed and had curl setup a couple of years ago. Today it appears that curl was now pointing to Apple’s version, which has this issue (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/03/08/the-apple-curl-security-incident-12604/). Looks like brew doesn’t add a symlink for curl to /opt/homebrew/bin. Running ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/curl/bin/curl /opt/homebrew/bin resolved the issue.

pete_wright,
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@feld @outofcontrol @sun

i never trusted brew - i've had to help too many developers fix up their environments after brew got too crafty for its own good. fortunately pkgsrc/pkgin works really well on macOS and pretty much every other unix.

feld, to random
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These types of articles try to trick you into setting up a business where you import Chinese garbage and flip it on eBay and Etsy as some "get rich easy" scheme.

It doesn't work, and you'll just end up in tons of debt and sitting in a mounting of bad quality products you can't move. It's almost as bad as MLM schemes

pete_wright,
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@feld

don't forget it destroys any possibility of the people who make real things from being able to use Etsy at all. It's all drop shippers and SEO advertising now - its wild how far they've fallen from their origins.

CoachMark, to random
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Who decided to call it Soccer?

Was it Big American Football?

Why didn't we just call our Football American Rugby?

Would have solved everything.

pete_wright,
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@CoachMark wasn’t it called soccer in the UK until recently as it was an abbreviation of Association Football?

I was always partial to calling American football American Hand-Egg Ball as one of my Irish friends called it 😅

josh, to opensource
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Hoo boy. I'm not naming names because I don't want to fan the flames, but the knives are out:

Events around have rightly emboldened volunteer-driven open source projects to take their hyper-wealthy downstream users to task.

Wild to think that many large companies have hollowed out their open source program offices (OSPOs), the internal teams who have been working on addressing these resource issues.

I fear this will get worse before it gets better.

pete_wright,
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@josh

i dunno, in the US we should just tax these companies then give grants or outright jobs to OSS maintainers with a steady paycheck and govt benefits. its pretty clear its not in the best interests of todays monopolies to keep doing the low level work that makes the internet sustainable.

feld, to random
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Publishing ports explicitly to private networks should not be accessible from LAN hosts · Issue · moby/moby https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/45610

This is crazy, why aren't they using separate routing tables so another host on the LAN can't send you traffic and have it happily forwarded into the docker network???????

pete_wright,
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@feld

wtf that's wild. that's like table stakes...

pete_wright,
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@feld

I just don't think linux was built in a way to be container friendly from the get go. at least compared to freebsd or solaris. no coherent userland, history of poorly documented core stuff like packet filters and systemd. and the fact that it was sold to linux users as a way to get around packaging software doesn't help either.

pete_wright, to random
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if you are shocked about how a hidden change to a release tar ball can backdoor ssh, wait until you see whatever the hell people are doing in the docker/linux-container ecosystem 😅

altho i'm sure we all have fully audited the containers that get slurped into your ci/cd pipeline on say circleCI or github actions right?

i looked at some of the default ones once and wept...

w7voa, to random
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Looks like Threads is inhospitable to journalists posting real time information about major international news stories.

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pete_wright,
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@mattblaze @w7voa hoping its a bot and they are taking a very aggressive approach by default since its easier to add exceptions rather than cover every possible bad actor? seems like they really missed the mark in testing though if that's the case.

also...why am i giving fbook the benefit of the doubt 🤦

tess, to random
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This slaps.

Indigenous people really just said, "our people need housing; fuck your zoning laws".

https://macleans.ca/society/sen%cc%93a%e1%b8%b5w-vancouver/

pete_wright,
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@tess @Geoffberner

"What chafes critics, even those who might consider themselves progressive, is that they expect reconciliation to instead look like a kind of reversal, rewinding the tape of history to some museum-diorama past. Coalitions of neighbours near Iy̓álmexw and Sen̓áḵw have offered their own counter-proposals for developing the sites, featuring smaller, shorter buildings and other changes. At the January hearing for Iy̓álmexw, one resident called on the First Nations to build entirely with selectively logged B.C. timber, in accord with what she claimed were their cultural values. These types of requests reveal that many Canadians believe the purpose of reconciliation is not to uphold Indigenous rights and sovereignty, but to quietly scrub centuries of colonial residue from the landscape, ultimately in service of their own aesthetic preferences and personal interests. "

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@Geoffberner @tess

"Likewise, the return of Sen̓áḵw to the Squamish people was only achieved after decades of court battles. Across the country, Indigenous nations have grown tired of waiting around for Canada to voluntarily uphold its end of the reconciliation bargain. Instead, they’re holding Canada and its citizens to account—not by request but by right, to claim the power long denied them. It’s that demonstration of power that makes some Canadians uneasy—Sen̓áḵw just happens to be a particularly and literally towering example of this sovereignty in action, one rising up from the heart of a major city. "

Here's a thought - its their fucking land, and they are entitled to find ways to gain the same generational wealth that white people have done for ages without people white knighting themselves dictating the terms on how to obtain this. Are we that worried that they'll be successful and we'd have to learn something from them?

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@msquebanh @Geoffberner @tess

i'm confused - are we talking about the same macleans article? or has this gone down another road all together 🤷

pete_wright,
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@msquebanh @tess @Geoffberner

but the author is a first nations woman from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 6?

no worries i'm happy to mute this thread

bookwar, to random
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7 EOL is such a huge event for the industry, that everyone is trying to get a share of it with good and bad intent and marketing.

There are so many unresolved questions, postponed decisions and just poor planning, which all are exploding in that very last moment, because 10 years ago everyone just decided not to think about "complex stuff".

I don't even want to argue on CentOS or RHEL side. Make your own choices.

I want to say - piling up problems for 10 years is bad.

pete_wright,
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@feld @bookwar @saper

It’s like they follow a Policy Of Most Astonishment

Amazon Linux 2023 does one better and barely supports auto-update on boot. They want you to always use the latest AMI which changes every week or so with no predictable schedule - it’s such a shit show when distro maintainers have contempt for their users.

gregorni, to FreeBSD
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sounds like a really cool idea, because it means BSD can finally have a lot of packages available to them!

https://news.itsfoss.com/nixbsd/

pete_wright,
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@feld @gregorni NIH syndrome in full effect?

tristansnell, to random
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People will look back on this era and be absolutely STUNNED at how many people — among right-wing politicians, among major CEOs — were on extremely serious drugs, while they were working, all the time.

It explains a LOT.

pete_wright,
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@BlackAzizAnansi @tristansnell still trying to wrap my head around how common special-k is these days with these idiots. I’m like - wait that’s the same shit that dudes would break into veterinarian offices steal. And now it’s like popular with tech bros!?!

It was such a low tier club drug back in the day. And now I see adopt-a-highway signs on the 405 in LA sponsored by “ketamine therapy centers” 🫠

tek, to random
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Apple Orders 'Neuromancer' Series Based on William Gibson Novel https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/apple-neurmancer-series-william-gibson-1235925640/

> Per the official logline, the series “will follow a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets.”

pete_wright,
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@tek

hope they don't fuck it up!

i think they did a good job with Foundation so far, but that was mostly because they didn't decide to stick directly to the books. i think it worked for Foundation as the story telling is good. it'll be interesting at the least to see how they handle this..

alex, to random
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Wow. https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_just_sent_me_a_104k_bill_for_a_simple/

pete_wright,
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@feld @alex I think it’s the same thing as everyone thinking you can only “do OPS” by using k8s. The thing is if he just had a small server and Apache his site would have fallen over during the ddos and a) would have realized something was bad and b) probably had a chance to stop the attack. Small is good lord of times.

But everyone needs to pretend their shitty site is a FANG company and then get all surprised when they learn it costs real money to have that scale.

pete_wright,
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@alex @feld

Totally - I think there is a missed lesson in the benefits of fail fast and fail early that the ycombinator droids have unsurprisingly paved over.

pete_wright, to random
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one day i hope to see a good dog owner stand up to the countless really bad dog owners out there. alas today wasn't the day after i watched a dog take a dump in the middle of Pete's coffee causing a random patron to clean it up.

not one dog person said anything like "hey, your dog took a dump in the middle of a restaurant. get your shit together man". instead it was all "aww such a cute furbaby" and other nonsense.

pete_wright,
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@feld

i'm shocked because the dog owner was an older, rich white guy. all the people infected with dog brain worms were also old, rich white people.

they've historically proven to be such good custodians of preserving the public commons. lol

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