fennec-posix

The destination IP has some high-value octets, almost wondering if it's a software bug in something out there:

Address: 66.252.224.242 01000010.11111100.11100000. 11110010

Maybe a long forgotten server with some ancient malware that keeps being moved around...

Mysterious

this is very interesting... been watching the work around bootc coupling with composefs + dm_verity + signed UKI, I'm wondering if this will build upon that.

Glad to see SunOS/Solaris still alive in some form in the Open Source space. Had heard of Illumos and OpenIndiana, but didn't know about SmartOS. It's definitely won me over with the NetBSD pkgsrc package manager... Very nice.

This is incredibly cool!

Fabs for ICs such as GPUs and DRAM chips are booked out well into next year or further due to demand from the AI industry. I wouldn't be surprised if these fabs also work on non-volatile memory chips, and or, the demand for these is high as well.

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They'll arrive too late to make a difference.

I love this, I remember running a tarpit on port 22 on a spare VM at an old job of mine. Was entertaining to tie up all those scanners and be a pest to their runners.

The extremely large banner in this example is hilarious.

I love the ingenuity of this, truly in the hacker spirit! I also lol'd at how fast this got onto the FP given what these guys do, jolly good show gents! Well Played.

I do feel Ramon's (blog poster's) pain.

I'm so lucky that I'm at a place that I can see my direct manager actively protecting us from a lot of these things like random busywork and solutions for the hell of a solution. As a result we can get some really good work done and actually deliver on the large projects we're given in the roadmap on time.

I just hope Ramon can find somewhere that respects his talent and his time and allow him to do his best work without the stress. I really wish that for everyone (although, no perfect world exists)

I mean, LinkedIn was like this before ChatGPT. The advent of LLMs just made this sort of corporate shitposting explode as everyone could now write one with such little effort.

Using Podman over Docker is probably an even safer bet in that regard. But QEMU or something for an extra layer of safety and paranoia is probably the next best thing.

Everything about this is awful. Absolutely awful.

Yeah, Nah.

Gave it a play on QEMU, seems the latest image of Gloire (A simple UI variant of Ironclad) is not wanting to boot on my QEMU. Will give it a few months and play with it again, looks interesting enough.

Would definitely be an interesting contender for use in safety-critical environments where Ada/SPARK are favored.

This article also touches on why LLMs can be so dangerous for those who are going through a psychotic episode, it will hit you with the "That's a great idea", "You're correct", etc. Which will just further play into someone's delusions, to a point it's directly down a statistical well telling the person what they want to hear. Sadly this has ended in tragedy more than a few times.

It's an interesting idea, however cost per "shot" is going to be really high still. Alternatively how do you decide what to keep up in orbit on standby for delivery, how long can it be in orbit for before use-by dates are reached on perishables, etc.

The article has a scenario of a Special Operations team somewhere deep behind enemy lines needing immediate resupply in a contested airspace environment.

It's very Helldivers.

Very neat. Even found a couple Cold War-setting books to read and an entire series of 6 books on the same topic, All from searching up Team Yankee.

Thanks for the new reading list :D

I wish I had the time to build dumb shit

I find myself using BSDs at home too, I got a bunch of very old systems that only NetBSD supports these days. Very old SPARC, HP 9000s and the likes. Everything else is Linux, but maybe I'll try one of the BSDs on something more modern...

TPMs can be useful for device security, and there are ways in Linux to use it (under your control) to its full extent for protected boot and disk encryption.

Look at tools like Clevis for LUKS, and I believe systemd has support for integration with TPM. Ubuntu is experimenting with TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption on Desktop using the work they put into snapd and Ubuntu Core.

It's an insane (and mostly annoying) rabbit hole if you intend to follow it, you quickly learn how much of a wild west UEFI is between vendors.

"It appears that human speech occupies a distinct time-frequency space. Some speculate that speech evolved to fill a time-frequency space that wasn’t yet occupied by other existing sounds."

I found this quite interesting, as I have noticed that I can detect voices in high-noise environments. E.g. HF Radio where noise is almost a constant if you don't use a digital mode.

I think these are also good strategies for anyone who suffers from mental illness/burnout.

As far as I know, Twitter has always done this since the "Likes" were introduced. I don't think they're recorded in a permanent manner on who liked what, just the total number of likes per post as a counter.

I still don't understand what he meant by that statement, none the less, floors me each time I read it. I don't think it's for my understanding... I'm not his audience.

Only been able to find one movie that was done on Mystery Science Theater 3000:

The Beatniks: https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll...

Had to see for myself, and yeah... that's a whole lot of chaos. I'm sure I'd get the joke if I could read Chinese though.

A long read but one that's quite incredible. Has definitely helped my understanding of computing get closer to the metal so to speak.

oh, this just makes me sad. Has it really been that long?

It's all a distraction. Since a lot of these guys peddling this benefit from the actual harms to society.