Michael Dexter @dexter@bsd.network

My local, municipally-owned electric utility Enova Power shows "Lake America" on the outage map. Easy to see how this happens, but a good small reminder of the pitfalls of relying on US-based services. Time to find a Canadian provider of map data and/or utility services.

@wwahammy @dee @filippo nothing I said was inaccurate: a model is still a lossy reflection of its training data (and context window). period. end of story. it cannot be anything other than that, and thinking otherwise is just magical thinking.

and it does freeze the present, because it does not challenge the operator to design for maintainability, because the model can just do the heavy lifting.

so if the model is generating thousands of lines of unnecessary boilerplate, there is no incentive outside token economics to care about fixing that, even if removing all of the boilerplate would make the software better.

this is just a fact, human motivation is largely driven by streamlining areas of toil, and the models provide an alternative to doing that work.

for example, just yesterday, in response to Debian going all in on GenAI, Joey Hess said that he might not have made debhelper if he had LLMs in the 90s: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Debian_and_the_sirens/

*that* is how models freeze the status quo: they handle the toil that would otherwise get optimized out through better design.

you can tell me how advanced the models are, and I will agree, they are technically advanced. but the commons is a social construct, and I am talking about the social impacts to the commons from model-assisted coding, where refactoring and clean design are NOT happening because the model is "good enough".

that isn't some anti-vax bullshit and frankly it is disrespectful to characterize my commentary as such.

I hate LDAP with a burning seething passion. In all the years I've used it, I've only ever wanted it to do two things:

* Authenticate user X
* Is user X a member of group Y?

That's it. And every application has a different, obtuse way to configure it. I have a whole freaking LONG wiki page just to track LDAP configs in my #selfHosted stuff. There has to be an easier way.

But at least I can be thankful this is the *lightweight DAP*. Sure would hate to see what full DAP is like.

Within 60 seconds of adding A and AAAA DNS records for a new web server, miscreants are trying to break into it. They're trying to access various php scripts, JSON files, /api, /server, /.git/config, /trace.axd, /.env.local, /actuator/env, /debug/default/view, /.vscode/sftp.json, /ecp/Current/exporttool/microsoft.exchange.ediscovery.expor, POST to /graphql, /?rest_route=/wp/v2/users/ and much more.
I'm only slightly surprised at how quickly the miscreants spot new DNS records in random domains.

I started porting fixes from SoCBSD to FreeBSD https://github.com/SoCBSD/socbsd-src

RPI2/RPI3 got 3d acceleration, which dropped memory usage from 500mb to about 180mb..

It also fixed few locks on the way.

If you are someone that want to learn programming, a SoC with 2 SDcard is excellent learning target. RPI2/3/4/5 can be found cheaply in facebook marketplace.

Grab them before people start installing LittleFedi on them or full servers in FreeBSD.

cc @grahamperrin

People in #pdx where can I recycle #3dprinting PLA poop ? Or what can I do instead of throwing it into the landfill?

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tom's Hardware @tom-s-hardware-TomsHardware

RE: https://flipboard.com/@tomshardware/tom-s-hardware-c60sbsq8z/-/a-o7Jwbe7oSF-SKhMxSBJqsQ%3Aa%3A1829740277-%2F0

- Whoa hold up there champ just how old are you?
- I use linux
- ...my bad sir carry on.

😂

Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is an always enabled feature on the iPhone 17. It's simply a high quality implementation of MTE using the latest standard extensions. It uses MTE in the most secure mode in the kernel and a large portion of userbase. They did a very good job integrating it.

ARM hardware memory tagging (MTE) is used by GrapheneOS across the entire base OS including the kernel and every standard base OS process. It's only temporarily disabled for a few device-specific processes. It greatly improves protection against nearly all remote exploits and many local exploits.

@h3artbl33d What is MTE?

Yesterday, just for fun, I started porting to #OpenZFS to #HaikuOS.

The userspace kernel is running nicely. Here's ztest, the stress/fuzz tool, ticking along, doing what it does. zdb is live too, and the unit tests pass. Not bad for two afternoons!

Don't be fooled, this is not very far along. The userspace kernel is mostly test tools running over the ZFS core, and doesn't really require much beyond POSIX basics. Still, building and running is a good place to start!

Also don't get too excited; this was an excuse to look at Haiku again after their recent release, and a bit of decompressing after an intense couple of weeks. I'm going on vacation next week, and then back to my regularly scheduled work.

That said, I will keep poking at this. One of my long term projects is making OpenZFS easier to port or integrate with other systems, which is most a lot of slow, careful refactoring. Actually building a platform interface from scratch is a pretty good way to find out where some of the more awkward seams are.