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@floppy.org.ukReposted by @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyExcellent point here - LLMs are not becoming more intelligent than us by actually improving, they're just doing it by making us stupider 😆
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/everybodys-lost-their-minds.html
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyConsidering moving to CA before the election just so I can vote Yes on Prop40.
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyA few people recommended https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB to keep my (#NetBSD based :- ) TimeCapsule in service for a bit longer. If futzing with the firmware on your storage device makes you nervous, I'll just note that this worked like a charm. Super easy, two clicks, two reboots, 5 […]
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyAdvanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment
Week 5: make(1)
Let's take a look at how the make(1) utility can be used to help us selectively build our code project. You don't need much to get started -- built-in default suffix rules make this easy -- but with time you can build complex build […]
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyAdvanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment
Week 5: The Compiler Toolchain
This 4-parter covers the compiler toolchain, including a high-level refresher on compilers (you _did_ take a class on compilers, right?), the cpp(1) pre-processor to include .h files or replace macro definitions, the […]
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy“just one more prompt, bro!” by @davidgerard nails how chatbots implement the typical patterns of addictive design, with their stochastic responses working beautifully as selective reinforcement.
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyIn going on two years of this iteration of bullshit, cruelty, incompetence, malice, and just totally bananas insanity, this week ranks above average, doesn't it? Remember when we all went "this is not normal" in the first round? Not sure everybody's come to terms with the fact that, no, it is, now.
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyAdvanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment
Week 5: ed(1) is the standard text editor
What? You thought we could skip ed(1)? No way! It's the standard text editor. ed man! !man ed
But understanding ed(1) also helps us understand other tools like vi(1), sed(1), and ultimately even things […]
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyOMG, the new MITRE CVE form is just *terrible*. You know, the one that requires you to log in using a Google or GitHub account, because how could you possibly be on the internet without that, and why would security reporters ever not want to tie their reporting to the oligarchs' and […]
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyComing soon: Trial by Combat, brought to you by Budweiser Bet on number of limbs severed on Kalshi, mandatory viewing in grades 1 through 10.
@stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyReposted by @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyWhat I'd like to see live-streamed is Trump and Hegseth's trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity. (Civilized countries don't even have a death penalty.)
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyIn 1981, Ned Block described a branch predicting algorithm to determine "sensible strings" for a dialog beyond Eliza. "Could the issue of whether a machine in fact thinks or is intelligent depend on how gullible human interrogators tend to be? [...] I conclude that the capacity to emit sensible […]
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyLooking forward to companies scrambling to move their oh-so-clever .ai domains to Slovenia's .si before the big OpenSI IPO. That'll show THE ENEMY.
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyOh, Atlassian, never change! 😭 "CVE-2026-21589 - Arbitrary File Access Vulnerability impacts Multiple Products" CVSS Score 9.3, so, you know, you better "Test that your rule blocks .. immediately adjacent to /". APT /../../../../../../etc/passwd strikes again […]
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyAdvanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment
Week 5: The Unix Development Environment
This week, we're looking at the Unix system as an effective Integrated Development Environment. This introduction outlines the different tools we will cover in subsequent videos. (You may notice it is a bit […]
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyAnyway, here's the list:
https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/statistics
Top 10 applicants:
316 Link Freedom Group Ltd (new company created for this landrush)
278 XYZ.COM LLC
153 Registry Services, LLC (GoDaddy)
140 Intercap Registry Inc.
92 Radix Technologies Inc SEZC
80 ShortDot (Ireland) […]
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyThe ICANN "What the internet needs right now is moar TLDs" nonsense continues. In this round, there were 1,615 applications from 481 applicants. At $227,000 application fee, that's $366,605,000 in total going to ICANN "to recover cost". I've pointed out before that the existing set of over 1 […]
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy"Winning AI" -- people keep using those words. I don't think they mean what they think they mean.
@jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyAdvanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment
Week 4: time(3) is an illusion
Having revisited the atime, mtime, and time in our last video segment, we now have to come to terms with time(3) itself. We'll discuss managing the data structures and handling arbitrary concepts such as leap seconds […]
