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

(not really, i'm going to support both, obviously)

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

(no, i'm just going to use kqueue like it's epoll and make the filehandle nonblocking)

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

am i going to have to take up kernel hacking just to make a thing that should just work work?

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

oh, apparently freebsd now considers anything but sockets and raw disks unsafe by default now. so no async io on files for you?

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

AI Is African Intelligence:

“It [Sex bot work] required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man. If I’m talking to a gay person, I need to act like a gay person,” he told me at a coworking space I met him at in Nairobi. After doing this for months, he, like other data labelers, developed insomnia, PTSD, and had trouble having sex."

This is abuse.

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

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

accessibility question: for a series of images in a blog post that are only slightly modified in sequence, is it okay to assume context from the previous alt text? seems bad to repeat the same descriptions

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

i am just trying to read and write /dev/zero for a test program to avoid faffing with tempfiles. what is this new hell where that's unsafe?

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

okay, i've gotten my little program to run. i had to use sysctl because apparently aio_read on a file is 'unsafe'? what on earth?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
vincent@social.lol ("Vincent Lammens :prami:") wrote:

how much intrest would there be for a omg.lol pubnix instance?

What is a pubnix you ask: a public linux system where everyone of the omg.lol community could log in, play with linux, run scripts, and host webpages.

I'm looking for an excuse to get a server...

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: