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rtyler, 6 days ago to random

if terraform didn't exist, would you invent it? 🤔

nogweii, 7 days ago to pokemon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qil4OpfOufU is such an awesome #Pokemon video, highlighting the surprising-to-me connections between Gold & Silver's Johto and Japan's history. Phenomenal!

nogweii, 12 days ago to Dogs

Random midnight thought - are puppies in the same litter technically fraternal twins? 🐕

Turns out, yes and no.

#Dogs are superfecund, that is, a single mother can have multiple eggs fertilized by different fathers.

So its possible that a litter might have a few half-siblings and/or a few fraternal twins. If there's only 1 father? All fraternal twins.

Thanks for joining me on this random research rabbit hole.

pid_eins, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to random

4️⃣ Here's the 4th installment of my series of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v256 release of systemd.

You might be aware of systemd's per-service setting "ProtectSystem=". When used it ensures the service lives in its own mount namespace, detached from the host's and various key directories become read-only to the service, in particular /usr/. This reflects the fact there's very little code that should ever be able to to write to /usr/.

bitprophet, 15 days ago to NixOS

Getting really sick of painstakingly migrating to some Cool New Technical Thing With Superpowers and then whoops, It's All Ethics Violations after a while.

First #Kagi - CEO is a white dude who can't read the room when a bunch of users raise serious concerns re: suicide warnings, .ru indexes, Brave collab, etc.

Now #Nix / #NixOS - BDFL is a white dude who can't read the room when a bunch of users raise serious concerns re: toxic members, shitty governance, MIC sponsorship, etc.

danderson, 15 days ago to random

If I had to concisely sum up the status of the Nix ecosystem after today:

woop woop
TERRAIN! TERRAIN!
woop woop
PULL UP! PULL UP!

I continue to hope against hope, for now. But also, a migration planning doc also exists now, when it didn't last week.

simontatham, 16 days ago to random

In bash, writing ${var?} instead of just ${var} or $var means if var isn't defined then bash will throw an error and not execute your command, instead of expanding it to "" and carrying on.

mv file1 file2 $subdir # oops, I overwrote file2
mv file1 file2 ${subdir?} # error message instead of disaster

My favourite use of this is for example commands in documentation, with placeholders for the user to fill in. Then it's OK if a user accidentally copy-pastes it without filling them in!

pid_eins, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

1️⃣ So let's try something new. As we are closing in on tagging systemd v256-rc1, let's see if I manage to post a brief mastodon item about major new features of the upcoming release, every few days until the final release of v256. I figure not everyone reads NEWS files, even if curious. Hence let's start today with the 1st post: the new .v/ directories. You know those .d/ directories that are quite popular in low-level Linux packages these days? While .d/ dirs never have been formalized properly…

simon, 19 days ago to random

I pulled together notes on all of the LLM plugins that have worked for me for Llama 3 - both for hosting locally (I've run 8B and 70B on my 64GB M2) and access via APIs (Groq is SO FAST for that)

Options for accessing Llama 3 from the terminal using LLM
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/22/llama-3/

Animated demo. The sonnet appears in less than a second: Here is a sonnet about a brave owl: In moonlit skies, a silhouette is seen, A wingspan wide, a watchful, piercing gaze. The owl, a sentinel of secrets keen, Patrols the night, with valor in her ways. Her feathers soft, a camouflage gray, She glides unseen, a phantom of the night. Her eyes, like lanterns, shining bright and far, Illuminate the darkness, banishing all fright. Her talons sharp, a grasping, deadly sway, She swoops upon her prey, with silent might. Yet in her heart, a wisdom, old and gray, A fierce devotion to the darkness of the night. And thus, the owl, a symbol of courage true, Inspires us all, with brave and noble pursuit. I hope you enjoy this sonnet!

mjg59, 23 days ago to random

Amazingly, https://github.com/mjg59/linux/tree/restrict_path_traversal actually seems to roughly work as expected do I attempt to upstream or not

evan, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Tattooed people: do you like it when people ask about your tattoos?

#EvanPoll #poll

evan, 1 month ago to random

Friends, I need your help. What songs should I add to my eclipse-watching playlist?

#PathOfTotality #Eclipse #Eclipse2024

Foxboron, 1 month ago to random

It's weird going from the weekend discourse of xz backdoors to work and dependabot MRs.

Idk, yolo/which-files-changed-watch update 43 to 44 with an autogenerated conventional commits changelog, are you backdoored or are you fine?

Hits approve

Edent, 1 month ago to github

Hmmm. I have an SSH key which I use for both #GitHub and #GitLab.

GitLab has just warned me it will expire in 7 days (but no notification from GitHub!).

So, my #SSH wizard friends:

Is there a way to update my key? (I assume no and I need to create a new one.)

Should I have different keys for Hub/Lab?

What's the real danger to my personal repos of having never-expiring keys?

THANKS CLEVER PEOPLE WHO ALMOST CERTAINLY KNOW MORE THAN AN LLM!

whack, 1 month ago to random

Finally finished a Destiny 2 mission that took me and @jubei almost 3 hours in one sitting (after many prior failures)… and the reward is a reveal that this mission was part 1 of a 7-part quest. (The Grasp of Avarice)

A+++++ trolling by Bungie. I’m speechless. 🫡

pushover, 1 month ago to random

Can anyone else on T-Mobile Home Internet confirm this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pushover/comments/1bgp9c0/tmobile_5g_isp_blocking_pushovernet/

Edent, 1 month ago to random

🆕 blog! “.well-known/avatar”

Hot on the heels of a post I wrote 4 years ago, wouldn't it be useful to have a well-known URl for user avatar images? When I sign up to a web service, I don't want to faff around uploading an image to use as my avatar. I want that service to look at my […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/well-known-avatar/
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#avatar #IETF #openstandards #standards

jacqueline, 1 month ago to random

i made a forum to talk about tangara and whatever else u want: https://forum.cooltech.zone/

i will plug it to tangara backers later, but for now consider this an ✨exclusive✨ soft launch for fedi lovers

danderson, 1 month ago to random

TIL: so, wifi has these regulatory domains right, where if you don't tell your radio what country it's in, it doesn't know where it's allowed to transmit and effectively locks out all channels above 2.4GHz.

So I went to see how my chipset was configured... And somehow, it knew that it was in Canada and configured itself appropriately, despite me not telling it and there not being any OS-level service that would have done funky geolocation things.

Turns out, it's the access point!

mike, 2 months ago to random

I hope everybody is having a good Sunday.

#DaylightSavingTime

simon, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

The only way to evaluate an LLM continues to be on its vibes

The vibes of Claude 3 Opus are looking /really/ good right now: people whose opinion I trust are treating it as a step up from GPT-4!

I've not spent enough time with it yet, but my impressions so far have been very positive

Edent, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Poll time!

Here's a link https://台北.台灣/
(don't click; it doesn't work).

Does your Mastodon client show the name of the link with Chinese characters or as "xn--djrpt…"?

#i18n #Internationalization #IDN