fennec-posix

yeah, just did a search on github, ouch. This looks bad.

What's a Real Estate/Design company doing pivoting into the AI space?

On the flip-side of this, have had friends have their MRs against projects get "reviewed" by CoPilot which does a lot of unnecessary nit-picking and can often be incorrect at it. I get it helps project maintainers save time, but it just feels very dismissive to have your code be thrown to a robot to critique and comment on.

Love the nod to MST3K, this is actually pretty cool.

I think the more recent news is we've expelled the Iranian Ambassador to Australia

nice!

>"Their framework" is going to break down a lot of good things before it starts breaking down itself... and empty pleas for [ethics] can do absolutely nothing to stop it.

bingo.

wtf did I just read, what the hell are we doing

yeah I can tell

This is excellent, wife's been looking to switch to a dumbphone for phonecalls/SMS and just use a tablet for everything else. Something I might eventually adopt myself.

Yeah, but what's your unused internet being used for now?

good day to you!

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yeah, that's what my line of thinking was reading this part. Though with a lot more stuff I cannot add here at risk of being banned :D

"Mediocre" by what standard I ask. Wealth? Maybe. Happiness/Life Satisfaction? Not all roses, but hardly.

>“One moment, you’re financing your Coachella outfit; the next moment it’s groceries.” And indeed, this is happening more and more frequently—a quarter of “buy now, pay later” customers say they use an installment-payment service to shop for food.

This is the kicker for me personally. I don't know if it's cost of living increases driving people to start using these services for daily essentials, or if it just becomes a habit through putting all spending through services like this. Either way it's scary.

systemd-resolved

I see LLMs as a force multiplier. It's not going to write entire projects for me, but it'll assist with "how do i do x with y" kind of problems. At the end of the day I still understand the codebase and know where its faults lie.

I think that's part of it, however it does seem the barrier to entry for anything now is a lot higher. People can argue what's causing that as they may, I cannot say for sure what causes it. Could be economic, could be cultural/procedural within corporates.

yeah my coworkers deal with this in our "banter" channel, my raw thoughts.

yeah, that sounds about right for UEFI

To be honest, this should be our National Anthem!

Australian here, our "very strong social safety net" is a NIGHTMARE to navigate, and has stringent requirements that must be met. The pay you get is also NOT enough to live on.

I've walked past homeless people at the train station on hold to Centrelink on their phones. The system is hosed.

The Internet is always gonna have undesirable traffic if you're facing it. The trick is to minimize your surfaces as much as possible:

- Only keep open ports/forward ports for applications you use, drop/block everything else.

- Use strict host-header checking for web services on port 80/443, drop anything to 403/404 that doesn't have a valid host-header for the website(s) you're hosting.

- Move SSH and other remote admin servers to use a non-standard port. (legit, find a random port number between 9000-65535)

- If it doesn't need to be public, allow-list it with iptables.

Unfortunately DO and other providers will never have 100% legit traffic, it's just the nature of the Internet's noise floor.

Hope this helps you or someone else!

oh good lord no

I was pretty sure John Titor was long proved to be a hoax, it's a cool story though.

Smart Cards

If you work in a SCIF you don't have to worry about your phone being a distraction

Love the almost alien building look that the Wikipedia article has as the main image. So very brutalist but ultimately for utility.