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josephholsten

@josephholsten@mstdn.social

Journeyman human being. Sous-Chefs founder. Sacrificed my beard to a respirator against woodworking, PNW smoke and plague, the rest of the hair went on its own.

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mwl, to random
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Hey everyone! #vultr just enshittified!

They re claiming ownership of all intellectual property you host on their VMs.

https://grimgreenfo.rest/notes/9rdle0uyo4d30029

Clear violation of copyright law.

So, where are people moving to? What options are out there? that suck less?

josephholsten,
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@mwl I mostly use Oracle Cloud because I manage operations for the compute service. We had a problem with the FreeBSD image but @dch recently got it fixed and has updated images (incl ZFS root) planned. I also have Rocky, OmniOS guests.

If Oracle isn’t something you’re comfortable with, I hear great things about Hetzner and OVH for BSDs, and they treated me well at prior employers.

(Opinions my own etc)

glennf, to random
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I am seeing some clear misogyny (from male and female comedians) using Joanna Stern's WSJ cooking with Apple Vision Pro video to make fun. I am not seeing male tech videos of the AVP being used that way. This is not cool. (Also, "the timer over cooking items" thing is one of the best use cases I've seen for me…)

josephholsten,
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@glennf @famousringo that’s really been my take away from AR since about 2010. Give us hypertext sticky notes and a way to share graffiti layers; it’ll be amazing. Honestly, that’s enough for some amazing innovation in game design. But it’s not the complexity of the overlay that’s hard.

Unfortunately, collaborative simultaneous-location-and-motion is actually a harder problem to scale neural-net training to than ChatGPT style LLMs. That’s the precise location detection.

RickiTarr, to random
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Alright, after all this talk of ketchup/catsup, I need to know:

What are the Top 5 Condiments you have to have in your kitchen?

josephholsten,
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@RickiTarr For me:

  • fish sauce
  • black soy sauce
  • tapatío
  • coarse ground mustard
  • garlic

For my family:

  • ketchup
  • ranch
  • bbq sauce
  • miracle whip
  • jelly
RickiTarr, to random
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Do you think there are "normal" people? If so, what constitutes normal? If not, why not?

josephholsten,
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@RickiTarr Statistically, most people are dead. So sure, they’re normal now.

danirabbit, to random
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If you don’t want to use software made by queer people, use TempleOS or something I dunno. Or you could stop being a fucking weirdo about people who are different from you existing

josephholsten,
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@danirabbit Don’t forget to turn off your TCP stack, anything received over it will also have the queer cooties.

cstross, to random
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Teleportation: if we ever get them, they absolutely MUST exhibit some behavioural commonalities with a relational database—notably they must exhibit ACID properties: atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.

If teleportation isn't ACID you ain't getting me in that booth!

josephholsten,
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@cstross I’m now terrified to see @aphyr running Jepsen testing against various teleportation implementations. Just dropping in results of https://jepsen.io/analyses makes for some… exciting plot points?

Eg “When the partition heals, we have a new problem: it’s not clear which version of an object is authoritative.” From https://aphyr.com/posts/285-call-me-maybe-riak
What is this, accelerando?

evan, (edited ) to random
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How should server software be configured?

josephholsten,
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@evan “It depends”

I have a spot in my heart for https://nginxproxymanager.com, which is webui configured. It’s so easy to start using, and enabling other software.

But long term, I tend to prefer the config file managed https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/swag/, especially because I can manage those configs in version control.

That said, most services don’t need directories full of nested data structures for config. Env vars, ala 12 factor apps, are lovely.

But Google ruined cmd line param cfg for me.

josephholsten, to random
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/*

  • mkzombie - make zombie processes. Unix/Linux.
  • This program creates one or more zombies and a daemon their leader.
  • It can be used to replenish system zombies, or to feed the init monster.
  • 23-Jun-2005, ver 0.80
  • USAGE: mkzombie [-f] [number]
  • The -f option feeds the zombies to init. On systems where init does not
  • eat zombies, the -f option will create persistant zombies.
    […]

https://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/mkzombie.c

gsuberland, to random
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"latex is pronounced 'lay-tek'"

WELL YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SPELLED IT WITH AN X THEN SHOULD YOU

josephholsten,
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@gsuberland Well you see, in Ancient Greek it was more of an aspirated voiced glottal stop $/k^h/$ but between the Alexandrian expansion and Koine Greek it became more of a voiceless fricative /x/ as in loch or Bach;
But the Latin ‘ch’ orthography came from the older phonology, which then turned into ‘tch’ sound in French and adopted into English.

Which is to say ALL ORTHOGRAPHY SUCKS AND BEING PEDANTIC VIA TWO AHISTORICAL ORTHO-PHONO TRANSITIONS IS BAD

mmmKay?

josephholsten, to FreeBSD
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I am slowly beginning to understand why @mwl has explicitly committed to never writing LDAP Mastery. My personal doc for just being able to rebuild test infrastructure and to install, configure & validate realmd on against different domain controllers is getting to thousands of words.
Admittedly, this is also documenting connectivity in RHEL clones (as a known “good” client) and the start of doc for integrating with samba & nfs file servers.

josephholsten, to random
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@XOrgFoundation has anyone summoned the lawyers about the trademark infringement happening at the tirefire formerly known as Twitter?

josephholsten, to RaspberryPi
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Sure, it’s needlessly antiquated. But it would be hilarious to have my serial console be over a traditional d-sub DE-9 with https://www.sparkfun.com/products/449

josephholsten, to random
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What are people planning to use the new 10 for? I have uses I like for FreeBSD, OpenIndiana, Solaris, plus a few Linux things for hardware support and a few unportable programs.

Surely there’s something I can do besides install it on Dreamcast.

alan, to random
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Saw this going around on Tiktok: some interesting maps of baby name similarity between US states over time:

More maps and animations in the published research paper from the University of Rome: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1507143112

Via this tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cirruslyyesterday/video/7350814314753821983

josephholsten,
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@alan Clearly Zotero needs to get building a TikTok importer plugin.

josephholsten, to Dragonlance
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What’s the bookshelf speaker equivalent of Sony MDR-7506s or Shure SE215s? JBL 4312s with roots back to 1968? Sony SS-SC5 from 2014? Jones’ 2016 Elac Debut or earlier 2012 Pioneer BS22? Klipsch R series?

Should be:

  • cheap as possible while not crap
  • old enough that most folks know of it
  • given above, it should be a common reference point when comparing other models

josephholsten, to random
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Ah, the sweet sound of a half dozen people coughing continuously.

Good morning, plague.

josephholsten, to random
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Love is sharing beautiful experiences with people who appreciate them. Sometimes that’s nothing more than a little comfort amidst pain.

Which is to say, all I’m trying to do here is love you.

josephholsten, to FreeBSD
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Of course, while I’m waiting for necessary hardware to arrive, I find another tangent I don’t have time to go down. But it sure would be lovely to get & sharing some https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxKPI code to reduce the strain of getting ports available. Do I have any idea what that would require touching? Of course not! But getting iwlwifi and drm ported and maintained sounds nearly as hard as a linuxkpi red queens race.

josephholsten, to FreeBSD
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Don’t mind me, I’m just wondering how get my a USB-C hub to work with & and trying to understand how the driver-chipset-device relationship works with USB & Thunderbolt controllers.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L05_xHCI.pdf

josephholsten, to VintageOSes
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“We know that the audience for articles on linking is not large, probably on the order of a few 10's, or low hundreds of individuals, world wide.”

Linker Aliens blog archive: http://www.linker-aliens.org

via: @alanc

josephholsten, to random
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“I must begin by admitting, as is scarcely necessary, that I am at least several months away from being able to feed a new piece of French text into a computer and have an English translation come out at the other end.”

Brown, A. F. R. Language Translation. Journal of the ACM, Volume 5, Issue 1. 1968. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/320911.320912

doctorwhom, to linux
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Have you ever gone off about the history of certain commands at work written in the 1970's for five minutes before you realize nobody cares?

Yes! No, no. Just me. sigh

josephholsten,
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@doctorwhom Which you couldn’t really conceive of before Ken Thompson came out with the 1968 version of QED for CTSS using regular expressions instead of plain string match: https://cacm.acm.org/research/programming-techniques-regular-expression-search-algorithm/

Also, having all the C. @ACM back issues is great!

recursive, (edited ) to random
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Technical words that sound worse to people outside of that particular field:

degenerate (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degeneracy#Science,_mathematics,_and_medicine)
regime (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime_shift)

I'm trying to think of others. Please no outright slurs, we can let those die.

(Edit: folks on Discord mentioned:
"reaping zombie children" (Unix process management)
"performed an illegal operation" (computers in general)
"exploit" (compare resource usage vs. computer security)
)

josephholsten,
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@recursive “Bias” has all sorts of technical, valuable uses. I’m especially fond of “cut on a bias” in sewing, cooking, woodworking. But of course, local bias in a subset of an algorithm can also be useful. Comes up a bunch with neural net weighing, analysis across timeseries.

josephholsten, to random
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Checking in on Stewart Brand’s “Maintenence: of Everything” and it’s yet more amazing. https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/

The M16 v AK-47 digression has so much knowledge that seems forgotten between the end of Vietnam and the rise of the mass-shooting epidemic.

josephholsten,
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Oof, the Tesla section does feel a little in need of an update. Or at least a few caveats about Musk and the actual support experience of Tesla owners.

recursive, to random
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Look, I'm just a simple computer scientist, any time I see a problem that might be fun to represent using a formal language I start drooling like a dog faced with the juiciest steak they have ever seen.

josephholsten,
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@recursive I took a math class in university where I was supposed to find an optimal way to hedge the risk of a whole life insurance plan with term life insurance.
I actually invented an algebra of annuity functions, then built a genetic programming system to generate arbitrary compositions, then ran Monte Carlo simulations to approach an optimum. It was a beautiful thing, ruby calling gmp & gnuplot reporting. (1/2)

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