Mastodawn

I’ve had a bunch of people ask my thoughts on Anthropic’s Mythos. I’ve read the research paper they released and the numbers, and basically I agree with @malwaretech’s take. It’s marketing. The cybersecurity industry is historically very good at marketing cyber pearl harbour and the need to buy magic boxes.

Ricardo Pardini 6d ago

darf

Apr 2

"The nice thing about being able to pick your own battles is when you're battling yourself, you can let yourself win " -Kenji López-Alt

Ricardo Pardini Mar 21

K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁Mar 20

b4 0.15.0 is out. Lots of new features in this one, including the whole new "b4 review" workflow.

https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/releases.html#v0-15

Release notes — B4 end-user docs documentation

Ricardo Pardini Mar 18

Lennart Poettering Mar 18

1️⃣1️⃣ Here's the 11th post highlighting key new features of the just published v260 release of systemd. #systemd260 #systemd

ARM laptops have recently started moving from the fringes of the Linux world more towards the middle. In the ARM world the nice ACPI-based auto-discovery of devices that PCs have is not really that common, and Devicetree reigns instead. While ACPI is somewhat OS independent, and hence can easily be provided…

Ricardo Pardini Mar 2

abadidea Mar 2

June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”

March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Ricardo Pardini Mar 1

Inspirational Skeletor💀Feb 28

Ricardo Pardini Feb 20

Picard Tips Feb 19

Picard management tip: Tolerate failure, not incompetence. Learn the difference.

Ricardo Pardini Feb 19

Steve Herman Feb 18

The ‘Streisand effect' strikes again. The Late Show interview with James Talarico, which CBS kept from airing fearing the FCC, has 5.4 million views on YouTube. On a typical night about 2 million people tune in to watch Stephen Colbert. https://youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?si=a2Ie6j5wVIA4ZTFQ

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

YouTube

Ricardo Pardini Feb 17

Charlie Stross Feb 17

Oh boy, this year the UK is—surreally—entering Sam Battle, aka Look Mum No Computer, as their contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest. Yes, it's *that* Sam, who built the Furby Organ.

Ricardo Pardini Feb 17

Ben Zucker 🍰Feb 17

I teared down my almost brand new Gmktec T1 because it suffered heat issues. When compiling #linux the cpu reached 100°C which isn't exactly great.

Some folks on this certain non-free forum-like platform confirm this and the reason seems to be poor application of the thermal paste.
So I decided to look for myself and well... Let's just say it couldn't have been much worse.

Cleaned up everything and applied some Arctic MX-7.

After re-assembly temperature max out at slightly above 70°C. Success