K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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Girl on the Net
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When YouTube says 'this is not available in your country' it should also list the countries where it *is* available, so I know which one to set my VPN to.
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Gemini, please convert this response into a politely worded email:
Hi:
Your vulnerability report is stupid. You have no idea what you're talking about, or you're hoping that nobody actually checks your findings. Unfortunately for me, I did check your findings and I will never get these 20 minutes of my life back. Everyone is dumber as a result of your report. Please do not contact us again.
Hi:
Your vulnerability report is stupid. You have no idea what you're talking about, or you're hoping that nobody actually checks your findings. Unfortunately for me, I did check your findings and I will never get these 20 minutes of my life back. Everyone is dumber as a result of your report. Please do not contact us again.
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Every "why is English like that" question is answered simply by stating the obvious fact: modern English is an islander creole language that layers many waves of colonizations.
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Flipboard Tech Desk
TechDesk@flipboard.socialRemember Elon Musk's hyperloop project? Washingtonian's Matt Ribel breaks down where it all went wrong (spoiler: it was doomed from the start because no one had a clue what they were doing).
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mirrors.kernel.org is back from ded, but it will take up to 24 hours for all distros to catch up.
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The RAID6 array is rebuilding, but it will be a whiiiiiile. And, of course, there's always the chance that another drive will decide to give up the ghost while the rebuild is going ahead and we'll be up a creek.
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mirrors.kernel.org is down because it threw 2 disks in a RAID-6 array and then ground itself to a halt. I'm trying to resuscitate it. Please use mirrors.edge.kernel.org (it's pointing at our only remaining server that is now up, in Amsterdam).
We need more redundancy for these systems. After exiting Equinix, we are reduced to just 2 nodes (and hence, we're now down to 1 until I rebuild the RAID array on the one that's currently offline).
If you can donate us a server with at least 70TB of space and lots of bandwidth, I'd like to hear from you, but it has to come with hosting, as we don't have any physical datacentres any more and must rely on the kindness of strangers to host them.
We need more redundancy for these systems. After exiting Equinix, we are reduced to just 2 nodes (and hence, we're now down to 1 until I rebuild the RAID array on the one that's currently offline).
If you can donate us a server with at least 70TB of space and lots of bandwidth, I'd like to hear from you, but it has to come with hosting, as we don't have any physical datacentres any more and must rely on the kindness of strangers to host them.
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LWN.net
lwn@fedi.lwn.net[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine
Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots — a problem that we have written about before, and which has slowly ramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. This h [...]
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Last minor version is always .19. Except for 4.20 -- but only because we were high and forgot.
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It will be 7.0, then 10.0, then 11.0 with Copilot.
True story.
True story.
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Jonathan Corbet
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So let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that you were foolish enough to try to make a living by writing high-quality, well-researched, technical articles about Linux and free-software development. I know that's crazy, but bear with me. In such a scenario, how does one succeed in a world increasingly full of stuff like this?
https://www.webpronews.com/linux-7-0-looms-large-inside-the-landmark-kernel-release-that-could-reshape-open-source-computing/
(I'll post no more links to that site, I promise).
These folks appear to take the stuff we humans write, inject a bunch of errors, then slop it out to the world.
If you were to engage in the silly quest described above, you would find that what you do is increasingly buried in the flood of this kind of material. Does anybody have any bright ideas about how one might survive in such an environment?
https://www.webpronews.com/linux-7-0-looms-large-inside-the-landmark-kernel-release-that-could-reshape-open-source-computing/
(I'll post no more links to that site, I promise).
These folks appear to take the stuff we humans write, inject a bunch of errors, then slop it out to the world.
If you were to engage in the silly quest described above, you would find that what you do is increasingly buried in the flood of this kind of material. Does anybody have any bright ideas about how one might survive in such an environment?
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Stefan Eissing
icing@chaos.socialDo not travel to the USofA, part XXXIV:
- doing everything right is not enough
- white skin does not protect you
- detention may mean a cell shared with 70 people, fighting over food, without medical supplies
- your signature will get forged if you refuse
- judge orders for release on bail are ignored
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention
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Edited 11 days ago
My first two hypes collided. It was around early 2000 and I was crammed into a tiny office with my then-boss, a cranky guy with lots of firmly held opinions about late-90s technology. We were going to watch the Transmeta Crusoe unveiling and he was convinced that it was going to be a dedicated Java-native processor. I still remember when he said "what the f is VLIW? Who the f cares about that!" and turned it off just as Linus was getting to play a port of Doom... Or Quake? Don't recall.
Anyway, that was my first inoculation against tech hype.
Anyway, that was my first inoculation against tech hype.
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My first revolutionary IT hype was:
24%
VRML for everything
24%
ActiveX for everything
25%
XML for everything
11%
Semantic Web for everything
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blockchains for everything
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AI for everything
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I need to change neomutt so that instead of showing the actual number of messages in my inbox, it shows "Fuuuuuuuu" with more and more "u"s being added for every 20 new messages.
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Just came back last night from winter camping with a bunch of scouts. We ran the usual challenge of building snow shelters and sleeping in them, which was particularly tough as it was -25°C overnight. Out of 14 scouts who went out to sleep in the cold, only 4 came in to the heated cabin and 10 others stayed out till morning, which was a new high number. When it was similarly cold two years ago, only 3 scouts out of 15 stayed the night. I like to think it's due to better preparedness and better guidance from us scouters and not just due to better gear. 💪
#scouts
#scouts
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inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me
for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment
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@arstechnica Thank god, these are awful in winter. The number of times I had to bang on the door to get that exact handle unstuck! Teslas were obviously designed in California.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116007427102518234
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116007427102518234
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