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knewteron FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop

https://omfreebdy.dba.wtf idk freebsd can be super nice on a laptop

knewteron We built an AI coding tool that stores nothing on our servers

dope

we have success with 39 but we're introducing more focused agents and a smart router because we see the writing on the wall among other things (benefits)

knewteron Free Output – AI output copyright status checker

just found FreeOutput, a website that compares AI providers based on whether they assign copyright to the user.

knewteron Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

what if you had 100k H100s

knewteron An American company steps up to fight Big Tech censorship

for what it's worth, I'm familiar with the folks running this and they're highly competent.

knewteron Sxmo: Linux tiling window manager for phones

There are tons of phones supported by postmarketos, you can use sxmo with any of those as well. But I have a pinephone, I'm "one of those people"

knewteron Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory

Yeah it seems like this guy explicitly doesn't understand the licenses but will go tell people things they cannot do under the licenses anyway. Weird.

knewteron Is Twitter/X Down

Redis is down oops.

knewteron Show HN: QBasic 4.5 on Android

Fairly certain jamon can wire in some io, let me nerd snipe in peace plz

knewteron Show HN: QBasic 4.5 on Android

You could serve your qbasic website from an old Android phone in a drawer my dude.

knewteron The history of Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda [audio]

Thanks for everything. You shaped my youth :)

knewteron Unions work

Yeah I meant I wouldn't side with anyone that thinks it's acceptable to do what they did to my dad. I still mean that. Showing me some other examples does nothing, and modern unions largely think more of what happened to my dad should happen.

knewteron Chomsky explains why nobody is a moral relativist

At least they can reliably compare society's idea of red to their own but I'm pretty sure people's ability to think of red as things outside the rgb gamut is likely diminishing over time.

knewteron Elon Fires Half of X's Election Integrity Team, Because a Manager Liked a Tweet

I feel like maybe this is a consequence of fatherlessness? Just guessing, since my dad's the one that taught me not to publicly ridicule my boss. People take different paths though, so no telling.

knewteron Chomsky explains why nobody is a moral relativist

We universally agree that it is at least "the wavelength produced from a well-calibrated display when asked to render #ff0000'

knewteron Engagement with Foreign Propaganda Is Soaring on Elon Musk's X

Cool so we agree you've never tried to purchase sufficient views to move a needle

knewteron Unions work

When I was learning to walk, my dad was installing conveyors for an automotive factory - he was vp of engineering (later robotics) for a large engineering firm that Siemens ultimately bought.

He was trying to get the job finished and get home to his family, so he was working late one night double checking the fit on all the nuts, bolts, anything he could check to ensure the job was successful. He did this all the time, I learned how to successfully deliver product from seeing him do it.

A gang of union guys came up to him and threatened to beat him if he continued to work because he was taking a union job away from "the pipe guy", call him Frank.

My dad says "that's fine, can frank come help?"

"Frank's out sick"

And that was that. He either stopped getting the job done or they would visit violence upon him.

I'll never side with people that think this is acceptable behaviour.

knewteron Spanish girls are reporting AI-generated nudes being circulated at school

You finding it weird implies you believe there is a right and a wrong way to behave.

knewteron Engagement with Foreign Propaganda Is Soaring on Elon Musk's X

If you've ever achieved a few million views in Facebook you would appreciate that it is laughable that it can meaningfully move any needle. I figure most people would stand by that assertion.

knewteron JPL Open Source Rover Project

https://makezine.com/projects/lawnbot400/

My buddy was featured on the cover of make Magazine for building a remote controlled mower he put a wheelbarrow on and turned into a remote controlled lawnmower plus dump cart

knewteron FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023

Bureaucratic failure though

knewteron Erlang/OTP 26.1 Released

This one

knewteron Spanish girls are reporting AI-generated nudes being circulated at school

> i find it weird that you view it as binary.

This implies that you believe in binary right and wrong and I'm "out" but you lack conviction

knewteron NFS > FUSE: Why We Built Our Own NFS Server in Rust

The only sensible interpretation frfr

knewteron Spanish girls are reporting AI-generated nudes being circulated at school

> you’re afraid to curtail the rights of bad men for the sake of protecting women because you are afraid of what might happen to good men.

You could of course ascribe bad motives to your ideological foes, but I find it weird you don't allow "this law is bad for humanity" as a possible motive.

knewteron NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (1997)

Do you believe NIST stopped trying to backdoor curves in 2014?

knewteron World’s Smallest Commercially Available Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

Wait til you learn about wifi

knewteron NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (1997)

Did you forget about NIST curve recommendations?

knewteron The stack monoid revisited

I read the paper on arxiv and found the efficient work coming from interleaving them an excellent result