@ewhac

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Software engineer of a Certain Age, particularly with low-level and embedded systems, and device drivers. Closet extrovert.

(It's pronounced " 'eɪ.wæk ".)

All opinions expressed are solely my own, on my own behalf, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

Home Pagehttps://ewhac.org/
YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/ewhac
GitHubhttps://github.com/ewhac
ewhac5h ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116280575943263005

It would be nice if this resulted in an increased uptake of OpenWRT. I put it on a couple of cheap TP-Link units (before I switched to UniFi), and it worked fairly well. I wouldn't recommend your Average Joe attempt to install it, but technically astute people should have no difficulty.

Unfortunately, what will probably happen is all the ILEC and cable Internet providers will send scare-o-grams to their captive audience saying, "IF YOU'RE NOT USING OUR ROUTER, YOU'RE AT RISK!!!1!1!"

ewhac3d ago

Okay, that's cool...

The latest release of the @Vivaldi browser has a new feature called Auto-Hide, where pretty much the entire browser UI disappears, showing nothing but page content. Move the pointer near the edges of the window, and the UI elements for that edge slide back in, and then disappear when you move away again.

Quite nice when visiting browser-based games.

ewhac4d ago

The Slob has ordered the Department of The Interior to stop talking to the San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate:

The "logic" is that the press is free to ask what it wants and print what it wants, but the government is under no obligation to respond.

I will be amused to see how fast that idea evaporates when the Democratic administration very properly shit-cans OANN, Breitbart, and Fox News.

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/interior-blacklist-sfgate-national-parks-22082140.php

ewhac5d ago

Well, that was surprisingly easy(-ish).

Just installed Forgejo into a BSD jail running on my NAS. The package was very thoughtfully put together, called out the configuration bits I needed to fill in, and I had a Git server running on my LAN within a couple hours. After a few minutes additional work, it was speaking TLS, and had 2FA enabled.

ewhac6d ago
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ewhac6d ago

Found on Discord:

"USA is 50 third world countries in a trenchcoat, pretending to be a developed nation."

ewhacMar 16
Baldur BjarnasonMar 16
The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/
The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Show threadewhacMar 15

...Huh. Well. That was far easier than I feared.

Successfully installed Noctalia Shell, first on my laptop, then on my desktop. They offer it as a .deb package (though it collides with the `quickshell` package), which made it very easy. Some minor mods to `hyprland.conf` later, and the whole thing came up, and runs rather nicely.

Now I get to spend the next eight weeks tweaking theme colors :-).

https://noctalia.dev/

Noctalia - A beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland

A beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland that actually gets out of your way. Built on Quickshell with a warm lavender aesthetic.

Show threadewhacMar 15
Related Thought: Is it possible to feed a prompt to an LLM that is complete gibberish, but fits the statistical envelope of a well-formed English sentence, and get a response?
ewhacMar 15

Stupid Random Thought from Someone Who Doesn't Know Anything About LLMs or Signal Processing:

Can the neural network of an LLM be thought of as a multi-dimensional resonant cavity?

If so, is it possible through prompting to inject a resonant signal into the cavity, swamping out all finer detail and effectively destroying the model?