Mastodon Feed: Posts

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

This schlocky piece of bad science presented as entertainment takes itself seriously? I despair for science in this country.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/22/the-last-andy-weir-movie-i-will-ever-waste-money-on/

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

i abandoned netbsd and went back to freebsd. i have successfully built and run the code i needed it to test and i can actually finish that code and test it now.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Media coverage predictably favored Apple's event. It didn't help that the BB820 had WiFi issues at launch.

https://www.wired.com/2007/09/8820-wifi/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Example 1: WiFi

July 2007—BlackBerry announces the upcoming BB820, RIM's first WiFi enabled smart phone.

Apple waits a month, just a week before BlackBerry's event, and announces "the beat goes on," a special event set for September 5th, the day after RIM's BB WiFi official launch.

Apple launches the new iTunes WiFi music store, "offering music fans the ability to browse, search, preview, purchase and download songs and albums from the iTunes Music Store over a Wi-Fi network"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Apple's Counter-Launch Strategy: How iPhone beat BlackBerry

Stay with me. I know you've seen hundreds of analyses with similar titles. But this is different, I promise!

I meant to write this like a decade ago, did my research, then forgot about it (surprise surprise).

I love/hate a good marketing strategy. So let's get it.

When the iPhone launched it had all the momentum. Apple used that momentum to execute what I guess I'm calling a counter-launch strategy.

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

heard from an old friend out of the blue. he's a bsd user and german and he may have compared lennart with the most famous german.

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

anyway i am fast going off bothering to test anything on netbsd.

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

no, apparently we shall not since it's probably because of UFS corruption.

my god, why are people still pretending this filesystem is okay?

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

let's pretend the package installer didn't just segfault on me and despair in the direction of 9p support, shall we?

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

i've got a build toolchain installed 🎉🎉.

and a segfault from the package installer. wat?

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

right, well i think i've gotten the filesystem resized, let's see if this works

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

oh of course, netbsd does the same thing with the graphical bootloader as freebsd, so my -nographic was optimistic.

i despair. is not producing ready-to-qemu images some sort of test to keep the noobs out?

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

netbsd's live image does not have enough space to install a development toolchain. do i now need a second image to resize the filesystem in the first image after increasing the filesize of the raw image?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I was talking to the kiddo about the "Wilhelm scream" yesterday, and so I went looking for examples. As a result, I stumbled across this recent little gem of a documentary about it.

"The Untold Story of The Wilhelm Scream Sound Effect"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wsVHjGJ7Gg

And I just realized you can hear the whole recording of the sound library entry "man getting bit by an alligator and he screams" here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%5Fscream

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:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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.

2/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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.

1/

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.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
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!

Boosted by jwz:
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.)