Lillian
network engineer,
#Debian #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD
moar #DNS nowadays #anycast #nonprofit
oh and #Perl, a bit of #Go
#nocloud #noai
| first name | Tamás |
| also known as | cstamas, tom |
Csillag Tamás
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Royce WilliamsThat Ubuntu "let's make GRUB more secure by forcing a ton of use cases onto an unsecure path" is some specious BS.
Chris SiebenmannIt has been '0' days since I found an incompatibility in Ubuntu 26.04 Rust coreutils: 'stty tabs'. Also, the uutils stty manpage is absolutely ass in 26.04.
Ondřej Caletka
Jerry Lundström 
All these companies firing staff to replace them with vibe-coding/reviewing ahead of massive price hikes and/or bubble pop 😒
Tim ChaseI recently read Warren Buffett describe the moat¹ as one of key things to consider when evaluating a business. That is, how protected a business is from incursion by competitors.
This seemed like the perfect *inverse* metric of companies with which I want to do business.
I prefer to engage with businesses where they *know* I have a choice and they take steps to make me *want* to be there. They have an exit-ramp for me to take my business elsewhere if they don't compete for it. They have great products. They have great service.
It's why I like standards. Didn't like my mail-provider? I just connected via IMAP, cloned over my data to a new host, updated my DNS records, and done. Same with web-hosts. Or my mail-software (sorry, Thunderbird). Or automotive businesses.
So financial firms might recommend a business because of the moat, and it might be a green flag for purchasing stock.
But it's a definite 🚩red flag🚩 when it comes to entering a business relationship.
Natasha 
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interesting thread on bit flip memory errors and Firefox
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171750653898304
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171750653898304
Gabriele Svelto (@[email protected])
A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5
Howard Chu @ SymasOracle never really affected us in OpenLDAP much, until they bought Sleepycat and took over BerkeleyDB in 2006. For a couple years the Sleepycat team still ran things there but I suppose eventually their golden handcuffs came off. In 2008 Oracle started sending us threatening emails about needing a license to use BerkeleyDB in OpenLDAP. I forwarded a copy to Keith Bostic asking him wtf and he assured me it was a mistake; as an open source project we didn't need to sign a license with Oracle.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116188939207308679
Happiness is watching the 800lb gorilla in your industry careen like a drunkard from one critical mistake to another, over and over