Diane Bruce

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I live in #Ottawa, Canada (Unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation)

My interests are Amateur Radio, (de va3db) Photographer, BSD, real-time embedded and maker of universes (Apple Pies).

#nobot

#freebsd subreddit is a cesspool right now, bunch of AI generated garbage ("here's a song I made for the new release with Suno" / "here's an image I generated of Beastie and Tux walking hand in hand" / etc) and now we're getting a video giving a Nuanced Take about how we shouldn't just call it all AI Slop, from some guy trying to get his youtube channel off the ground. Mods seem fine with it all. This sort of thing is why I feel it's a fundamentally anti-social technology - the only thing it does is displace real conversation and fill in any gaps like a bacterial colony
and another #freebsd server has been updated to 15.1 flawlessly and also now has #sylve on it... hopefully I find a bit more time soon to try a few things...

I had already started a company sign-in with my real details from checking out some Alveo FPGA stuff. It's totally "AI"-pilled, I just want CPU docs... I was then patterned into signing up separately for devcloud which requires a separate signup, so I've been tricked into signing up for two sites full of promotional garbage which seems to be more about selling training courses, cloud compute, and overpriced TPUs.

I smell another big fat UK ICO GDPR Right to Erasure action coming on.

@phessler Crank up the 1812 in retaliation?
@DianeBruce Does bsd have /dev/fb0 access? some kind of quick shared access for 15,000 clients all scribbling? I can do this on linux but it literally takes 10s of hours to coerce linux to not drop to 4 frames/sec and keep it up to 60-1000 frames/sec
How to interface with the graphics card on freebsd.

Hello, I would like to know how to draw something without X.org on a modern graphics card under FreeBSD. I have a 2560x1440 monitor and a Radeon RX 6800 TX. // As an example setup. I'm more interested in embedded systems, but it would be interesting to see if the process is the same for a...

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@grahamperrin @JdeBP *BY YOUR COMMAND* BZZZBZZZZZ

@grahamperrin @JdeBP EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE ALL LINUX... oh wait sorry...

Just to be clear I'm Canadian eh?

@JdeBP @grahamperrin @GossiTheDog @cstross I've seen the Tesco uniform etc.
Until a few years ago we had a Marks&Spencer shop I quite liked. My inlaws were expat Brits. They knew how to make a decent cuppa. I was just riffing on the fake beard theme ! Of course then they'd be wearing dark sunglasses and look even more out of place. ;)

@JdeBP @grahamperrin @GossiTheDog @cstross With the almost invisible earpieces but white wire leading down to their shirts?

Oh yes those people.