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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the thing is though, i am just an ordinary developer wanting to add support for more systems. it would really help me do that if the OS developers would make available a machine image that was designed for me to just use without having to faff around for an hour mostly googling shit.

i'm intending to do exactly the same thing again for netbsd. they have a 'live' image, whatever that is. sounds like fun.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

since freebsd's anti-vibe coding stance is i think still not finalised, i suppose there's a possibility i go to all this effort to support freebsd and then they go and slop up.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i was initially pleased that freebsd had vm images because it meant i didn't have to do all the setup, but i'm fairly sure this has taken about as long as a setup would.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

right, i think i'm finally ready to build and run my c in freebsd.

what a pallaver, honestly.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-widows

> They did not arrive as disruptors. They arrived as intensifiers. LLMs function as an accelerant for the existing optimization machine, making the logic run faster rather than challenging its foundations.

This is effectively a continuation of Joseph Weizenbaum’s decades old argument that computing encodes and optimises existing structures. LLMs go further: encode, optimise, then intensify.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Context Widows - by Kevin Baker - Artificial Bureaucracy”

https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-widows

> Goal displacement is a different diagnosis that is being made on a different patient. The problem is not in the metric but in the organizational form that needs metrics to function.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

apparently, freebsd vm images 'helpfully' don't show anything on the console if you boot them in qemu with serial console mapped to stdout.

also i seem to have already corrupted the disk image by ctrl-c'ing qemu. i knew i should have downloaded the zfs image :blobfoxangry:

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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Part of the obstacle is that if we were to set the bar at "basically competent", 90% of the profession would have to significantly up their game.

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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Ever since I read Steve McConnell's After The Goldrush, I've been listening to people tell me why software engineering should be exempt from the kind of controls that e.g. electrical engineering or medicine or plumbing are subject to.

The reason is almost always "Their work can do real harm".

Yeah? Look around you, dude.

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

Bryan Lunduke has always treated FOSS like a right-wing political project. he has also always misrepresented his goals as technical ones. the current moment is very convenient for him: he is using the valid need for an alternative to systemd to funnel people into fascist-controlled software ecosystems like Devuan and Artix. under no circumstances will Lunduke ever acknowledge the many init alternatives and distributions run by marginalized leftists. this is the game he has played for years.

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

the thing you must understand now is that regardless of their stated views, liars like Bryan Lunduke, Lennart Poettering, and Dylan M Taylor have demonstrated by their actions that they all have the same goal: a fascist software ecosystem that operates against our interests and exploits but does not empower our labor. it is the destruction of FOSS as we know it.

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

on goody, this random project i found appears to be unlabelled LLM output. there is no way a human wrote this README.

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

strace(1) is now on rat steroids 🤯

🔍 **strace-tui** — Visualize/explore syscalls in the terminal

💯 Color-coded calls, live filtering, search & stack traces with source resolution!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/Rodrigodd/strace-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #linux #debugging #syscalls #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: 84e75b0e7b7d8f0c.mp4

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

on that note, I'm off to workout!

alone and without a macha latte, because im a millennial 😤

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

BBC discovers Gen Z are not fans of poisonous piss-smelling swillholes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly0krjy57lo

"Some are twinning a trip to the gym with coffee mornings or protein smoothie meet-ups" — kids these days!

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

when Dylan M Taylor (the author of the age verification code in systemd, Ubuntu, and Arch, and a defender of Google’s dreadful new restrictions for Android apps) and others in his wake compare his age verification implementation with an age gate on an adult site, they know full well that adult content online is a gray area rapidly verging towards illegal as US states and other repressive regimes implement age verification laws.

4/ (Taylor cont.)

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

systemd has always been a lever of power; there’s no other reason to create an ecosystem of its shape. the person who grasps that lever is Lennart Poettering, and it always has been. I don’t need to write much on this; I watched the “oh shit” moment last week when systemd started accepting slop code, and again when an age verification mechanism was imposed on every systemd user and distro on Poettering’s final word. this was always the social structure on offer, enforced by a rigid ecosystem.
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frogglin@theblower.au ("Lyn") wrote:

*laughs and laughs and laughs*

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"One day, everyone will have always been against this"
Poster spotted in Toronto, Canada

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"All my Homies Hate ICE / War on ICE"
Seen in Barrio Logan, San Diego, California

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swags@treehouse.systems ("Swagtoy") wrote:

Systemd commits: userdb: add birthDate, familyTree, killCount, potentialThreat, incomeYearly, isOnDoNotFly to JSON user records

OpenRC commits: add... puppies! ^.^ :P and also..... kittens!! (^ :3 ^) and remove GNUism to comply with POSIX definition that was denied in court 25 years ago but later standardized as of 2028. You'd hope.

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Chinga la Migra / Fuck ICE"
Seen in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

please verify your age before consuming any more facts

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Me as a kid: that place is awesome, they even have a web site!
Me now: that place is awesome, they don't even have a web site!

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

I was broadly familiar with the outline of the Afroman case, but I hadn’t been paying close enough attention to have watched the actual music videos he dropped throughout it. Which I’m realizing now was a mistake, because LOOK AT THIS

https://youtu.be/u4AiuqQpB1U

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bclindner@mas.to ("Brian!") wrote:

@TechConnectify thank you for your hard work

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Foxboron@chaos.social ("Morten Linderud") wrote:

People are rightfully angry at age verification laws.

That doesn't justify any harassment campaigns towards *any* FOSS developers, maintainers nor contributors. Turn that anger towards something productive.

Get a grip people, holy shit.

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darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Puck you, fae me

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Progress is possible, if not exactly comfortable.