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Docker + E2B: Building the Future of Trusted AI
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de My impression also is that good sysadmins are missing. No wonder if they all get laid off because theyāre ānot doing anythingā and developers can just operate their shit themselves. Or so the bosses and plenty devs think. Sadly, thatās the general view.
Hell no, devops is bullshit in my opinion. Most developers (including myself) are rather bad at administrating. A good sysadmin offers other skills. Great admins appear to just sit around, but theyāre much more proactively working than programmers who also operate the same stuff. The latter have a waaay more reactive work model in comparison. When things have already gone south. The sysadmin, on the other hand, would have noticed and thus prevented the vast majority very early on when it was far from becoming a problem in the future.
At least thatās my personal experience in all those years in different projects and what my mates tell me from their companies. Sure, skills can be learned, but itās just not happening (enough). And obviously, there are people out there who excel in both disciplines, but they are rare. Most fall in one of the categories. Not to forget, plenty are just bad at everything. :-)
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How to turn Liquid Glass into a solid interface
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Today, I experimented with Linux Capabilities as a continuation to my Unix Domain Sockets research from a few months ago: https://lyse.isobeef.org/caller-information-via-unix-domain-sockets/#capabilities
I learned that I donāt know hardly anything and there is heaps more to explore. Tomorrow, I will do the same in Go and see how that feels.
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I experimented with a 2.4x7mm aluminium rivet I had on hand. As expected, it was quite a bit long. Using my pliers wrench, I was able to crush it down by quite some bit. I should have taken a photo right after the hand riveter for comparison. Now, itās much smoother and the chance of cutting my hand open is reduced by quite a bit. But breaking the burr with a few file strokes is still necessary. I should get 2.4x4mm rivets and try with them. I reckon they would be more suited for my 0.5mm sheet metal.
With the pliers wrench again, I was able to also crush down the chopped off 3mm copper nail and form a second head. That was surprisingly easy. Now, I need to figure out how to efficiently make a head on the remaining copper nail shaft, so that I can use this again.
Both are rock solid, thereās absolutely no movement at all between the two sheet metal cutoffs.
Okay, they are also offering 2.8x25mm copper nails. Which I actually do have a single one here. :-)
My hardware collection also includes a few brass-like looking screws that I could repurpose into rivets. But I reckon I have to upgrade my burner first. Iām not a metal worker by any means, so I could be totally wrong, but I imagine that some heat is necessary to loosen the work-hardening effect when beating on them. I will do some experiments on Saturday and report back.
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Show HN: Autism Simulator
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I give up. Just doesnāt give me a 360° video. š„“ Maybe Iām just having bad luck with YouTubeās randomized stuff (maybe Iām getting āexperimentsā, who knows) ā¦
I was trying to say (badly):
Thatās kind of my position on this. If we are going to make significant changes in the threading model, letās keep content based addressing, but also improve the user experience. Answering your question, yes I think we can do some combination of both.
@bender@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de I had automatically yt-dlped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZTSIYkuMlU. Itās only worth for an experiment, no recommendation to watch.
@alexonit@twtxt.alessandrocutolo.it Yhays kind of love you!! Stance and position on this. If we are going to make chicken changes in the threading model, letās keep content based addressing, but also improve the use of experience. So in fact, in order to answer your question, I think yes, we can do some kind of combination of both.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I donāt think thereās any point in continuing the discussion of Location vs. Content based addressing.
I want us to preserve Content based addressing.
Letās improve the user experience and fix the hash commission problems.
@prologic@twtxt.net I know we wonāt ever convince each other of the otherās favorite addressing scheme. :-D But I wanna address (haha) your concerns:
I donāt see any difference between the two schemes regarding link rot and migration. If the URL changes, both approaches are equally terrible as the feed URL is part of the hashed value and reference of some sort in the location-based scheme. It doesnāt matter.
The same is true for duplication and forks. Even today, the ācannonical URLā has to be chosen to build the hash. Thatās exactly the same with location-based addressing. Why would a mirror only duplicate stuff with location- but not content-based addressing? I really fail to see that. Also, who is using mirrors or relays anyway? I donāt know of any such software to be honest.
If there is a spam feed, I just unfollow it. Done. Not a concern for me at all. Not the slightest bit. And the byte verification is THE source of all broken threads when the conversation start is edited. Yes, this can be viewed as a feature, but how many times was it actually a feature and not more behaving as an anti-feature in terms of user experience?
I donāt get your argument. If the feed in question is offline, one can simply look in local caches and see if there is a message at that particular time, just like looking up a hash. Whereās the difference? Except that the lookup key is longer or compound or whatever depending on the cache format.
Even a new hashing algorithm requires work on clients etc. Itās not that you get some backwards-compatibility for free. It just cannot be backwards-compatible in my opinion, no matter which approach we take. Thatās why I believe some magic time for the switch causes the least amount of trouble. You leave the old world untouched and working.
If these are general concerns, Iām completely with you. But I donāt think that they only apply to location-based addressing. Thatās how I interpreted your message. I could be wrong. Happy to read your explanations. :-)
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@zvava@twtxt.net Not much of a known fact these days, but thereused to be a Yarn phone app (https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/app), last version released 5 or so years ago, but it still suggests, it has to be somewhat feasable, to make another one. I donāt think anyone tried since, because the web version works well on phones, but Iām still hoping, we get a more native phone experience, one day.
i went to a rilo kiley concert the other day and it was so special to me⦠i teared up at some of the songs but when āa better son/daughterā came on, i full on cried. what an amazing experience.
photos: https://eunoia.sayitditto.net/photos/rilo-kiley-2025sep/
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, removing the cover will probably help. Iāll have to try. š And, yes, the scrolling is pretty annoying (and kind of ruins the experience a little bit).
The printer isnāt that loud ā at least not for a dot matrix printer. š Itās been ~30 years since Iāve last seen them in person, but I remembered these things to be louder. Iām typing on my Model M, maybe that contributes to the perceived noise on this video. Hereās an isolated recording of that keyboard: https://movq.de/v/ddc98b03d8/2022-02-21āmodel-m-goes-brrr.ogg 𤣠It really sounds like that when youāre typing fast. Brrrrt.
@thecanine@twtxt.net I think Googleās Android is as vanilla as it can be, coming from the āsourceā. The bloatware is more often than not vendorās provided, no? I donāt consider Google apps and services bloatware, but an intrinsic part of the Android āvanillaā experience.
@prologic@twtxt.net Anything above a couple hundred Euros. š The current Epson LX-350 appears to be not that pricey, though. š¤
I mean, what do you want to do with it? If you want to use this as an actual printer for daily use, Iād get a laser printer instead, because theyāre very reliable and the print quality is top notch.
I got my dot matrix printer mostly for experiments and nostalgia, so I wouldnāt want to pay something like 300-400⬠for it.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de having to go to a gopher proxy to see a text document better served on readily available web servers⦠š¤, but I digress. Verbatim text:
What's Missing from "Retro"
~softwarepagan
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You know, often, when I say I miss older ways of computing or
connecting online, people tell me "there's nothing stopping you
from doing that now!" and they are technicay correct in most cases
(though I can't, for example, chat with friends on MSN ever
again...) However, let me explain that while this type of thing can
*sort of* fill that hole in my heart, it isn't *the same.*
Say, for example, I wanted to connect with others over a BBS. This
wouldn't offer the same types of connections it used to. While
there are BBSes around with active users, they're no longer there
to discuss movies, Star Trek, D&D, games, etc. They're there to
discuss *BBSes.* The same can be said for Gopher, old-school forums
and all sorts of revival projects (such as Escargot, Spacehey,
etc.) Retrocomputing enthusiasts, while they have a variety of
interests, are often in these spaces to discuss the medium itself
and not other topics. This exists at a stark contrast from how
things were in the past, where a non-tech-inclined person may learn
the tech to connect with likeminded others (as I did as a
Zelda-obsessed kid.)
The same can be said of old media. People will say "well, nobody is
stopping you from watching old shows/movies now!" Again, they are
technically correct. I can go home right now and watch *Star Trek:
The Next Generation* to my heart's content. It will never again,
however, be current, or new. When something is new, it serves as a
shared cultural experience. Remember how "Game of Thrones* felt in
the mid-to-late 2010s? Yeah, that.
It's sad. I sustain myself on a mixed diet of old things, new
things, and new things intended for old millenials like me who like
old things. It can be bittersweet.
We did an experiment at work today: Do I even need to lock my laptop when Iām gone or is nobody able to use it anyway?
It went as expected. š¤£
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I also wondered for a very long time why nobody improved the man experience in the terminal. Iād love to see links and more colors.
setpriv on Linux supports Landlock.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thatās really cool! I wanted to experiment with Landlock in tt as well. But other than just thinking about it, nothing really happened.
Depending on the available Landlock ABI version your kernel supports, you might even restrict connect(ā¦) calls to ports 80, 443 and maybe whatever else has been configured in the subscription list.
@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, Iām referring to software thatās similar to that of suckless.org: Small, minimal codebases, small tools, but still useful. dmenu is probably the best example and also farbfeld.
Hereās the author of Anubis talking about some of their experiences:
https://xeiaso.net/blog/why-i-use-suckless-tools-2020-06-05/
(You can skip the long config and keybinds part.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Rust is so different and, at the same time, so complex ā itās not far fetched to assume that I simply donāt understand whatās going on here. The docs appear to be clear, but alas ⦠is it a bugs in the docs? Is it a lack of experience on my part? Who knows.
By the way, looks like there was a bit of a discussion regarding that name:
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