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w8emv

@w8emv@hachyderm.io

On the net since 1985 from Ann Arbor, MI. Ham radio operator W8EMV.

Work: infrastructure for Open Source at #Equinix

I'm on a batch of relatively specialized Mastodon instances all as https://hachyderm.io/@w8emv - if that puzzles you, just think what I need to put up with.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

hazelweakly, to random
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One of the hardest things for people to understand with distributed systems is that eventual consistency is the same thing as eventual inconsistency. The very same pattern that lets you non atomically deal with things also ensures that eventually you'll have a system that doesn't match your understanding.

Resources will go stale, things will go missing, stuff will exist without ever having been created, and data will be destroyed that never got manifested.

w8emv,
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@hazelweakly

every working big system is always partly broken, in ways that ensure that systems people and operations people will always have something to do.

w8emv,
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@hazelweakly “We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” Ellen Ullman

danderson, to random
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I have written a blog post, something I rarely do.

Unfortunately, since the last time I wrote one, Hugo has apparently become a "framework", the entire config has changed shape, everything throws deprecation errors, and my blog renders as a blank page.

Just, why

w8emv,
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@danderson

I used Hugo for a while (and even developed my own theme). But as you note the changes between releases are breaking changes all too often, and even the community developed themes I liked broke and were never fixed.

I'm sure it's a great system if you are super invested in it or if you are the developer of it, but I couldn't keep pace with the rate of change.

lacey, to random
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I wondered if ChatGPT would be helpful in coming up with recipes for multiple allergens.

I asked it, "Give me a fajita marinade that works for chicken or beef that accommodates a bell pepper allergy, a garlic allergy, is dairy and gluten free, and is soy and legume free."

And its response included both paprika AND chipotle peppers, both of which would trigger a bell pepper allergy.

w8emv,
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@lacey What I am hearing is that ChatGPT should be avoided for this task, which just adds to the list of tasks that it should be avoided for.

w8emv,
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@lacey I mean "don't ask an AI for recipes" got pretty much confirmed with the glue on pizza trick, but it's good to have a second opinion.

andypiper, to random
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Deleted my Stack Overflow account. It means my reputation and profile over there are gone - evidently even though my answers were licensed CC-BY-SA their claim is that their ToS prevent me from making them delete them, or from them selling them. 😡

w8emv,
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@andypiper

You didn't need that account anyway. (I didn't. Good choice.)

https://vielmetti.typepad.com/logbook/2024/05/stack-overflow.html

w8emv, to random
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On nostalgia for the "small web", the "old web": A few of us remember when the net was different. It was a lot slower, a lot more expensive to use and to operate, and the public web was tiny by modern standards. There was a culture which was kept in check by acceptable use policies that threatened you with banishment if you went beyond them. 1/

w8emv, to random
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A little reading for tonight

Waits v. Frito-Lay, Inc.
Midler v. Ford Motor Co.

in anticipation for the likely

Johansson v OpenAI

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

drewdevault, to random
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I needed a break from Real Work, so I'm speedrunning writing a Unix-ish operating system

Day 3

w8emv,
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@drewdevault

Do you have top/htop ?

w8emv, to random
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Red Hat assigned this issue CVE-2024-3094.

"Subject: backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise"

As posted to oss-security by Andres Freund andres@

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

#xz #liblzma #backdoor #cve20243094

miah, to random
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xz/liblzma is backdoored. wow.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

w8emv,
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@miah SUSE has a downgrade patch for #xz / #liblzma

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1163302

based on the patch it looks like their Tumbleweed distro might need a closer look.

#cve20243094

jpmens, to random
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    w8emv,
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    @jpmens

    huh, the first time I saw that my impulse was to complain that it didn't have alt text, and the second impulse was to mute the poster because it seems kind of a harsh way to ask for help.

    I have direct experience.

    w8emv, to random
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    2006: Twitter
    2024: Mastodon

    w8emv, to random
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    "keep the internet weird" - a difficult challenge.

    I think mastodon helps in that aspect, at least now.

    The world of obscure self-hosted software running in home labs gives me encouragement.

    The set of interesting things you can explore with a modern laptop + a pile of cheap home computers continues to grow.

    Retrocomputing forces us to understand that systems were not always like they are now (and often were more fun then).

    w8emv, to random
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    From when "dial-up internetworking" was a thing.


    Edent, to foss
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    Is there a version of FourSquare / Swarm for the Fediverse?

    I want to check in to a specific location and share that online. Not looking for badges and mayors etc.

    Just a geotagged post saying "I am here".

    #FOSS #SelfHosted #FourSquare

    w8emv,
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    @Edent

    Checking in from

    w8emv,
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    @Edent

    See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System

    is roughly southeastern Michigan and is roughly downtown Ann Arbor. You can add more letters for more precision. System is used by ham radio for the last 40+ years.

    w8emv, to random
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    Hey @hyc did you ever get a RISC-V system running? I recall a conversation about a LicheePi at one point.

    michal, to random

    Kyle has been at it again: «MySQL could similarly document that their “Repeatable Read” means “Read Committed, plus some sort of guarantees that hold until the transaction writes something, at which point mysteries occur.”» 🤣 Recommended read, as always https://jepsen.io/analyses/mysql-8.0.34

    w8emv,
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    @michal

    interesting, either if you are very squarely in the database world (of interest to @hyc ) or if you are in the "databases are black magic when it comes to corner cases, use them at your peril and have some wizards handy" level.

    TIL: LazyFS at https://github.com/dsrhaslab/lazyfs "A FUSE Filesystem with an internal dedicated page cache, which can be used to simulate data loss on unsynced writes". Very suitable for automating tests of simulated power failures and losing all unsynced data.

    w8emv, to random
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    I have an old install of Asahi Linux from the Arch Linux days. I want to completely clobber it and start over with Fedora Asahi Remix.

    I didn't see an option to do this in the simple install instructions (though maybe I missed something).

    @AsahiLinux @marcan any suggestions?

    It looks like https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Partitioning-cheatsheet is the cheat sheet that gets referred to, but the last edit for that is August, and if there are any updates w/r/t the latest release I think I'll wait to see them.

    RichiH, to random
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    For the 2024 edition of the and devroom received 61 submissions, a record high, and the average quality was also quite high.

    Building a schedule is a luxury problem... I just sent out the first ten acceptance emails; we have two more slots and will build the schedule with actual times once the reconfirmations come in.

    Good problem to have, but it was still hard...

    w8emv,
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    @RichiH

    maybe FOSDEM needs its own version of Rejekts

    danderson, (edited ) to random
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    "Thanks to my framework, it's so simple!"

    <700 lines of atrocity that's one guttural scream away from summoning an Old One>

    "And there we go, now there is a checkbox!"

    w8emv,
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    @danderson stares briefly at MagicDNS, then looks away

    w8emv, to random
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    At the rate my pre-order is progressing, it looks like I won't have a Pi 5 until 2024.

    w8emv, to random
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    proof of work

    (tracking Gmail inbox size in home assistant, I need to do a quick writeup of how I do that)

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    Will the War on Christmas succeed this year?

    w8emv,
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    @thomasfuchs advertising for Christmas appears around here to have started the day after Halloween.

    I think of it as a War on Thanksgiving.

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