Beautiful

My life now

It's genuinely amazing to watch otherwise intelligent people, in real time, give in to delusions and scams that are so patently obviously those if only you took the time to step back and ask fundamental questions.

At the end of the day all humans are apes. Not all of us great apes.

@burger_jaap Congratulations again to the olympic committee for accepting Russian athletes, it's going really well I see

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/112852025502479198

My favourite social media influencer (and maniac) is @lkundrak

If anyone on here following me still has a Twitter account, pay attention to this. Phoney Stark being even more of a scumbag.

I know some people attacked code orange's latest album but I really like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJs2jqym09A is a nice ballad from it

Try xscreensaver, looks cool.

Go to gym, come back, fans blasting at 100% system locked.

Untry xscreensaver.


*Before anyone asks I'm using X because of nvidia hw

Bloody hell, EVERY software product I run is having AI absolutely shoveled into it as versions update.

Adobe, eM Client, Filmora... the list goes on and on. All of them are offering needless "AI enabled" functionality now which no one is asking for and which, in most cases, makes zero sense and doesn't work at all.

I was going to end this post with a link to a very old parody of the Mac "Switch" commercials where the speaker in the ad touts the virtues of an "autoblogger" tool, to keep his occasional readers satisfied. But literally you can't even search for that video anymore because YouTube is page after page of tech bro bullshit results if you try to search "autoblogger" since apparently people are making those in droves now, trying to cash in.

ShittyFuture needs a Fediverse account so we can tag them on things like this, damn.

The amount of LWN traffic that is just AI bots downloading the same stuff over and over again is staggering; it's increasingly hard to see any sort of human signal in there at all. Something is going to give here at some point...

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/

Full time work from home is an enormously wonderful privilege and I am so grateful to be able to do so.

Now my only commute is the one I impose on myself going to the gym and back, but the gainz never sleep.

*Whispers*
Hail gainzan. 🍷

BREAKING: CrowdStrike pledges to do more testing in prod

"A getrandom()? In *my* vDSO?"

It's more likely than you think.
[FREE VM_DROPPABLE!]

It's almost as if the company has management that (allegedly)* makes very poor decisions or something.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce58p0048r0o

* UK libel laws suck.

Having to be a hero once could happen to anybody.

But absolutely refuse to work with anyone who makes a habit of it.

Heroism is an error condition: it means that problems were allowed to get bad enough that extraordinary intervention was required to address them.

It's symptomatic of a failure to understand and preempt hazardous situations, and implies either an inability to conduct operations safely or a lack of planning.

obsidian is great.

BREAKING: C++26 will add destructive copy

DDR5 memory is a shambles. Bought 4x 64GB Corsair DIMMs advertised at 5200MHz, doesn't run at anything above 3600MHz. And nothing on the product page to say that the advertised clock speed is an overclocked speed that can't be achieved outside of very limited configurations.

This is my 2nd DDR5 build. The first was unstable at the default voltage (if I remember the details right from last year, the memory modules asked for 1.1v but the actual memory chips used were designed to run at 1.2v) and required a lot of faff to get it running.

I guess I just don't understand the computer parts market the way I used to. I used to know which numbers were "real" and which were manufacturer bullshit. Somewhere along the way the numbers advertised for RAM became bullshit and I must have missed the memo.

I think I'm going to give up and go with pre-built systems in the future. Life is too short to spend hours of it on PC component esoterica.

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage https://tcrn.ch/4bZ9vHV