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 Page | https://ewhac.org/ |
| YouTube Channel | https://www.youtube.com/c/ewhac |
| GitHub | https://github.com/ewhac |
OpenAI, Anthropic, Gr0k, Gemini, DeepSeek, Quen... I think I finally figured out what they all are.
...They're GIR.
...From "Invader Zim."
Because when anyone asks why they're so stupid, the purveyors always reply, "It's not stupid. It's advaaaaanced!"
The view count on these music videos is criminally low. See if you can do something about that. (If ever you were a fan of Warner Bros. cartoons, these should be a very easy watch.)
It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.
How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.
But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.
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!"
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.
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
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.
Found on Discord:
"USA is 50 third world countries in a trenchcoat, pretending to be a developed nation."
Arne Brasseur
Æ.
Baldur Bjarnason