I resent the term "prompt engineering" because it implies that there is a sophisticated theoretical basis to writing LLM prompts and not simply "fuck around with the wording until the dumb computer makes me happy"

@vbabka @ljs Here's my proposed optimized kfree():

void kfree(const void *objp)
{
/*
* If you're not rich enough to buy more RAM, GFY.
* Or reboot your system.
* Improve your boot time, really. LOL!
*/
}

Chasing a netperf regression between v5.14 and v6.4 is fun.

https://sigillatum.tesarici.cz/2024-05-31-local-ip-performance.html

Alexander Dugin, speaking on #Russia conference described Russia’s goals in the ongoing invasion on #Ukraine as split between a “minimum” and “maximum” goal:

The liberation of Novorossiya is a minimum program. The Russian authorities are now discussing two definitions of success - small and large. The minimum victory is the liberation of Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Odesa with their regions, with Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. That means, we are restoring Little Russia, which is part of Russia as a powerful mighty entity without any share of autonomy. We liberate these three regions with two cities and say: Novorossiya is ours. This is a minimum program. From there we enter into peace negotiations.

Note that this goes far beyond the current territorial conquers of Russia, which would be possible in case of total Ukraine’s defense collapse on most of the front line. But, of course, even the “peace negotiations” are defined by Dugin dialectically:

The liberation of Novorossiya will only start the next stage of the war. The great success will come through the termination of the existence of an independent subject of Ukraine and the creation of a new state of Eastern Slavs for the Ukrainian and Belorussian peoples with certain zones of autonomy and sovereignty for Lukashenko, who deserved it and zero autonomy for the Little Russian [Ukrainians] who don’t deserve it.

When you hear “Ukraine doesn’t want to engage in peace process”, just keep in mind that Russian elites understand “peace process” as nothing else but capitulation of Ukraine and massive territorial concessions, well beyond what Russian army captured by force so far. And then, when Russian army rests a bit, a complete subjugation of Ukraine to Russia. This is how Russia understands “peace”.

Translation: @yasminalombaert

Never lied to my kids and never expected I ever would, until the other day. Daughter, 11, brought up climate change and asked, "they are doing something to stop it though, aren't they?" "Yes", I said, "they are doing something to stop it."

Picard engineering tip: Use the metric system.

With open source software desktop OSes, **you** actually have full control of your computer, and not some shady company!

<proceeds to accidentally SIGKILL the display server instead of another process and lose important work in progress>

🤡

The #CVE count of the #Linux #kernel is not looking good these days compared to any other #OS is it. Maybe time to switch to #FreeBSD or some other system which doesn't claim to find hundreds of significant vulnerabilities every day

Missing the time when computer expansions came in beer cans #retrocomputing