(I’ve been a bit quiet lately, because I was still absorbed by this. 😅 Kept writing/extending that story from different angles and the whole thing grew from 120 to 260 pages. 📜 I think I’ll give it a rest now. 😅)

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Yeah, it’s a CD from my cabinet. It’s old, though, I got it when buying CDs was just a normal thing to do. 😅

It’s not necessarily my “mission” to collect this stuff, but I still buy new CDs these days. I just like having something physical, I like reading the booklet, I enjoy the artwork. Guess I’m just old-fashioned.

But it has become rare. The last one was “Leitmotif” by Dredg about 1.5 years ago. And that’s an old record as well (1998), I just never got around to buying it back then.

Okay, I admit it. Maybe I do collect this shit a little bit. 🤣

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Boo!

Extra boo!

Can’t blame you. 😅

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz @klaxzy@klaxzy.net It’s a musl problem and it’s probably/hopefully not that horrible in practice, because “sane” setups don’t use PasswordAuthentication yes anyway. It’s a real vuln, yes, but I think it’s over-hyped – it’s not like every SSH server is wide open.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah! It was precisely that talk that got me into groff/troff in the first place. 😊 Haven’t seen it in a while. Maybe I should have rewatched it before making that blog post. 😅

The groff syntax is quite alien indeed. Because it’s so terse. I mean, have fun decyphering stuff like that:

\l'\w@\\$1@u\N@45@'

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Oh, wow. This is really good. 😳

In case you missed it:

https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/worlds-best-toilets/

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, restic it is. 👍 Looks like the best option.

@david@daiwei.me Oh dear. That’s … a lot. 😃

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com “Nut-flex”, lol 😅

Maybe I should give “Homeland” a try. I’ve already finished the latest “Diplomat” season. 😖 It’s not super long.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Yeah, this is sad news. 😢

One of my favorite TNG scenes:

https://movq.de/v/06620d2bfa/tng.mkv.mp4

I’m happy to report that there is going to be an Advent of Code event this year:

https://adventofcode.com/

To be honest, I really wasn’t sure if it was going to happen. “Programming” has changed so much this year …

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org There was an actual fire: The building was evacuated and I saw a burnt-down trash container. Sounds harmless, but these containers are inside of our building. (Because …) So this was an actual, real danger. Not as bad as some appartment being on fire, of course, but still. When I left my appartment, I could smell it and I just thought: “Yep. This is it.” 😐

@shinyoukai@twtxt.net To my surprise:

https://www.worldmeteo.info/en/europe/norway/hell/weather-194988/

11 °C? At this time of year? wtf

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I need to switch to something like restic or borg. And probably a big storage server at a hoster like Hetzner. 🤔

I do have several layers of backups already, even offsite ones, but it requires me carrying external HDDs around. That used to be acceptable for me (or maybe I was just being naive). But now I’m living in a 20-story building and there are SO MANY IDIOTS in close proximity who might fuck shit up … Fire is a real threat.

There just was a fire alarm.

Again.

I didn’t expect this to happen so often. My strategy for making backups of my data isn’t good enough. The risk of all this shit actually burning down is real.

@david@daiwei.me Which are those shows, if you don’t mind telling? 😅 Lol, the price. I said the same thing: “When it reaches 15€, I’ll cancel.” It’s over 15€ now. 🤦‍♀️

“… for?” https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117486886676310899

The (only?) reason for having a Netflix subscription at the moment:

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be Ah. Oh. Yeah. That sounds annoying.

pkgsrc is still on my todo list, only used pkin so far. When I’m being honest, though, I don’t really want to compile from source anyway. I like binary packages. 😅

@arne@uplegger.eu Hut! Hut! Hut!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com No worries. I’m sure we’re all UTF-8-clean. 😏

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Bwahaha. 🤣 (I didn’t see the zalgo effect in my terminal, until prologic posted the screenshot. 😅)

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be I’m certainly not $deity nor a huge expert on this, but what are you struggling with? 😅

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be It’s anecdotal, of course, but I remember HLWM being super popular – but that was, like, 10-15 years ago. 😅 (I even took some tiny bits of its ideas and put them in my own WM.)

This is the fix for the PHP vuln:

https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/31c0ea7d7ff1d1fccb6492e52dab544011628065#diff-1e0e6a2362d21e5db547d25a3d6116e522ee84604513d92f30f11507caa7fc8f

Look at … look … look how … JESUS CHRIST, this diff is huge. Holy shit.

Obviously, no human could have written this, let alone understand it. We’re fucked.

You know what I run on my servers? Not PHP.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s true. You learn the most about something when you’re constantly exposed to it.

I can’t bring myself to fully switch to NetBSD or OpenBSD, either. 😅 Not yet. This takes time.

You know that “badger, badger, badger” video, right? From like 84 years ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

The guy who made that is still alive and kicking. He has a music project called “Savlonic”: It’s him, his wife, and Katt Wade, probably a friend, dunno. And they’re amazing (look at their horse!).

https://weebl.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Are/were you trying to run it on your desktop system? Or on a server?

I’m not aware that OpenBSD has an explicit “no AI” policy like NetBSD, but, uhm, the song for the 8.0 release makes it pretty clear. 😅

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First this:

I have seen black sheep that actually improved the code base

And now a coworker actually reviewed an AI PR today. With criticism!

Hell is freezing over!

Ich weiß, es ist alles nicht zum Lachen und im zweiten Link gibt es auch Aufklärung, aber ich möchte an dieser Stelle trotzdem lieber weder Journalist noch Diplomat sein.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/israel-wahlkampf-eisenkot-100.html

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadi_Eizenkot#Herkunft

Oh, OpenBSD 8.0 has been released today? Has it been 6 months already? Man, time flies this year. 😲

@arne@uplegger.eu Oh, that’s cute. libcaca, eh? 😃

In the age of AI, PR reviews at work only serve these purposes:

• A PR makes me vaguely aware that something exists. Like, I now know that there’s a component over here that probably does something with this other component over there. Maybe.
  
• I can “gauge the risk”: Is this something that I can simply throw away once it breaks? If not, I’ll have to bite the bullet and start a more detailed discussion about what the flying fuck your 8000 new lines of code actually do. And then you’ll pull the “but I don’t have time for this discussion”-card and we merge anyway.
  
• Shift the blame from author to reviewer: “It passed review! The builds were green!”
  
• I don’t need pills anymore to raise my low blood pressure.
  

It’s so disheartening to see everyone vomit out bullshit. “You can use AI responsibly and actually make the code better”, my ass. Nobody does that. Not a single soul. No human. Ever. None. Nobody.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Awwwww! A beardie! 😃

There appears to be a rush a disgruntled Linux users switching to NetBSD:

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117451701775023949

They even got a ton of new donations (which, funnily, broke their little progress bar):

https://cannot.understand.computer/kunev/p/1791449917.947134

So… donations for @netbsd@netbsd over the last few years look like this:

2020 - $46k
2021 - $52k
2022 - $44k
2023 - $60k
2024 - $40k
2025 - $79k

And in 2026 $120k so far!

And why is all that? Because of this:

Do not commit tainted code to the repository.

If you commit code that was not written by yourself, double check that the license on that code permits import into the NetBSD source repository, and permits free distribution. Check with the author(s) of the code, make sure that they were the sole author of the code and verify with them that they did not copy any other code.

Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta’s Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

This official guideline is much more “tame” and “diplomatic” than the overall “vibe” (sic) on the Fediverse: NetBSD basically says no to AI as much as possible.

And, apparently, this attracts lots of users and donors. Maybe there’s still some hope after all?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m way too clumsy to do actual craftsmanship. 😖 I had this janitor / delivery driver job once, that was great, and I’d love to do that again. Doesn’t exist anymore, though, and paid like shit.

FWIW https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/240-men-in-tech-yesallmen

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh wow, molten sky. 😃

Ballonfahrt in den Sonnenuntergang muss auch hübsch sein!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Had a 3D printer for a couple of years now. 😅 I got a used one in 2019. I don’t print that much, mostly just little stuff like this.

The vibration from the desk is so intense because it simply abruptly halts. It doesn’t slow down first – it just stops, NOW. 🤦‍♀️ It’s pretty stupid, but there’s nothing I can do, other than buy a new desk. 🫤

Made some “brackets” that I can use to mount some small speakers on the top of my monitor. That way, they don’t take up any space on the desk.

It’s not perfect and the curvature at the back of the monitor is annoying. But it works.

There’s a fair bit of vibration when I lower/raise the desk (hard to capture on video), and it survives that. 🥳

The speakers are trash, of course. Doesn’t matter. They’re good enough for some light background music. Like an old FM radio. 😅

Let’s see how long it takes until they fall down and break. 🍿

https://movq.de/v/fa5dd44cab/mount%2Dnosound.mkv.mp4

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I love the Compose Key. 😃 Want that “o” with the slash in it? Type Compose + o + / and there you go: ø. I use it all the time. Also for stuff like → arrows or ™.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahhhh, some twt from the future must have snuck in? In my database, “latest twt in feed” had a timestamp of 1814983537 (that’s in July 2027), which made my client ignore any twts older than that. I deleted that from my DB and now it’s working again. 🥳

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Wow. Straight to the wallpaper collection, these go. 😃

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz What’s your point?

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com

and/or the people in charge realize that “enterprise-class” and “vibe-coded” are mutually exclusive software concepts

I’m really uncertain about this, to be honest. Short-term, you can vibe-code a ton of stuff and get away with it. I think that quality/correctness only matters for a small fraction of software out there. But long-term? I guess that then depends on whether you’re able to still pay the AI bills. Maintenance/refactoring is going to be veeeeeeeeeeery expensive, and virtually no human will be able to do those tasks. Or, you know, just rip off your customers and don’t sell any long-lasting support contracts in the first place.

I dunno. 🤷‍♀️

I hope things get better for you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de (and for anyone else dealing with the same issues).

Thanks! 🙏

@thecanine@twtxt.net I’m so glad that the Microsoft world is the one thing that I’m able to avoid. I didn’t have to touch a Windows server in over a decade.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @david@daiwei.me I suppose the only sane thing you can do is what Lyse said:

I will have been gone in five years. At most. I should start looking for complete alternatives.

I’m looking for alternatives as well, but … what would that be? Not a clue. Actually, no, I have a lot of ideas – there are so many useful things that I would be able and willing to do. Only problem is, those jobs don’t pay the bills. Haha.