So anyway, if you liked my incendiary toot the other day, then you might also like the long form version.

In summary:
❎ AI isn't reliable, and even if it was
❎ AI does real harm in the real world, but even if it didn't
❎ AI hypesters are not acting in good faith, but even if they were
❎ AI can't know things or understand your complex system

Even if all that were true, making ourselves into reviewers for AI written code is still selling out ourselves and our futures
https://jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/

The brilliant Molly White (@molly0xfff) has given us the best coverage of the scam-ridden cryptocurrency "marketplace" -- a public service in a time when tech journalism resembles fanzines.

In a new piece, she turns her attention to deeply unattractive but central tenets of Silicon Valley's current mania, AI.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation

Savor every word.

Terry Pratchett was wise

I'll be returning for the second installment of the Understanding Latency webinar, which will take place in a few weeks, on Dec 11-13. See https://www.understandinglatency.com/

Raking leaves is so much fun! 😅 #dogsofmastodon

On a totally unrelated note, my IPv6 connection is now working great! 😅

PSA: not having an IPv6 link-local address assigned on an interface breaks neighbour resolution probing, leading to subtle intermittent connectivity issues.

Don't ask me how I know this 🙈

#linux #networking

RFC to rename Rust's unsafe { } keyword to sus { }

I heartily agree.
#SphinxOfBlackQuartz #JudgeMyVow

Next years @linuxplumbersconf will be in Vienna, Austria during the Week of 16 Sep.

To quote from the private "#LinuxPlumbers Conference is a Wrap, see you next year" mail I just received:

""we're looking forwards to seeing you at next year's Linux Plumbers Conference (possibly even in person?) which will be in Vienna, Austria on the Week of 16 September 2024 (co-located with OSS EU). We haven't found the actual space we'll be using yet, so we don't have exact days of that week to give you.""

It's funny (not funny) how the single-digit issue numbers for any kernel driver repos stored in github/gitlab have become completely useless.

You see, a lot of bug reports and commits contain backtraces and lockdep splats. And they, in turn, contain a lot of #1 and #2 etc.

And github/gitlab think they are references to issues.

For examples, see https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux/issues/3 or https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/1.

#linux #kernel #github #gitlab

Our very own @mtaht will be speaking at the upcoming #UnderstandingLatency 2.0 webinar series: https://www.understandinglatency.com/

Last run was a huge success, the first event of this kind put on by Domos.
Learn From Leading Experts on Network #Latency, #Bufferbloat & #Jitter.
DECEMBER 11-13, 2023 | 4 PM CET

#LibreQoS #RoundTripTime #WorkingLatency #RTT #SpeedTest #Throughput #Bandwidth #InternetServiceProvider #CDN #IXP #OpenSource #LowLatency #ISP #WISP #FWA #5G #Starlink

Greetings everyone ! My name is François Rincon, I am a theoretical physicist working in France at CNRS. I spent the first 20 years of my career doing research on nonlinear astrophysical fluids, plasmas and magnetic dynamics in astrophysical systems spanning many scales, ranging from the Sun, to protoplanetary accretion disks, to clusters of galaxies and the primordial […]

https://lookingup.francois-rincon.org/from-scratch-the-origins-of-a-transition/

Dear junior to mid career technologists,

You deserve to be here, you are good enough. The imposter syndrome is normal. Try to find comfort in knowing you are not alone, we all experience imposter syndrome and for most of us it never fully goes away. I am a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, have over 20 years experience, a BS and MS of Computer Science, multiple patents pending, and I still have that feeling sometimes. You are not alone. You do belong. We are a community. Be kind to yourself ❤️

@maxamillion
Yes! We're all in it together. "It" being the ongoing struggle against complexity and entropy that's better known as "figuring out how to make anything work at all" :)

@sovtechfund (funded by the German government) just announced a €1M grant towards the @gnome project, an open source desktop environment.

Imagine a world in which governments don't spend billions of dollars in licensing fees every year to make Microsoft richer, and that money instead goes towards _public code_ that belongs to all of us.

That may seem utterly implausible - but every example like this brings us one step closer to it being inevitable.

https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/09/gnome-recognized-as-public-interest-infrastructure/

“In sum, there is no denying that women’s path to leadership positions is paved with many barriers including a very thick glass ceiling. But a much bigger problem is the lack of career obstacles for incompetent men [..] The result is a pathological system that rewards men for their incompetence while punishing women for their competence, to everybody’s detriment.”
https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men

Happy Torment Nexus day to those who celebrate (we all celebrate, there is no choice).

US lawmakers are asking to restrict American participation in RISC-V "to prevent China from gaining dominance in CPU technology". The request is misguided. I wrote a letter to the US government on the subject:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6862

I'd appreciate if anyone can help amplify or route the message, so that US rule-makers can better understand the issue.

If you don’t agree with my stance, I encourage you to also send a letter expressing your views, so your opinions can be heard.

Police nabbed a graffiti artist attempting to flee the scene of committing this (picture) adorable art in the harbor of Visby, Gotland, the large island just outside southeastern mainland Sweden.
The 27-year-old was prosecuted for vandalism, with the prosecutor demanding a fine.

Police's interrogation records said e.g. that "His intention is to offer free art to passersby." and... the District Court of Gotland... agreed.

The court's ruling states that no harm has been proven and that the artist "on a gray and cracked concrete façade which is the short end of a loading dock, has depicted a lamb.", that "The way in which X has illustrated the lamb testifies to an artistic work carried out with a certain amount of artistic and technical skill." then finally "According to the District Court's opinion, the beauty value of the cracked concrete façade - in purely objective terms - has increased through X's painting." so the 27-year old artist was acquitted by the court, which also ruled that the police had must return the spray cans they had confiscated.

Damn hippies. ;-D