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• Post #4503248

  @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange for proteins I tend to switch to fresh cheeses, fish and legumes

• Post #4434736

  When looking for a hotel booking.com is a great resource. The correct way to use it is to look for a place you like, then find their phone number and call them directly. They will always give you a lower rate and you won't be sending money to a faceless corporation.

• Post #4422660

  This article¹ reminded me that the one thing we absolutely need in computing is simplicity. Cutting down on complexity, not piling it up. BMCs are basically small Linux machines (often PowerPC-based in the past, ARM recently) that allow you to manage the server that contains them even when it's off. Crucially this is a Linux box that gets updated only when the vendor feels like updating it, which oftentimes means sometimes between too late and never. ¹ https://arstechnica.com/security/2026...

• Post #4391569

  I've updated my tutorial on how to enable SecureBoot on Gentoo using shim & GRUB, there's a few significant changes compared to the first version I made: - There are less manual steps as I rely more on the improvements in Gentoo's GRUB package - There is no need to regenerate the bootloader when installing or removing kernels - Post-install scripts are provided to automatically update both bootloaders https://www.setphaserstostun.org/posts/secure-boot-on-gentoo-with-shim-grub/...

• Post #4323434

  I keep encountering the weirdest bugs on websites and in applications I've used for a long time, and every time it happens I can't help but think: is this vibe-coding?

• Post #4162031

  I was not expecting the value of chipmakers to start tumbling so soon, after all those are among the very few companies that are profiting from the AI bubble. If investors feel the party is already over for them then the great AI Ponzi scheme is very close to unraveling.

• Post #4131318

  > It is not reassuring to convince people that AI is going to make the world better while playing a song about the end of the world, and yet, this contradictory musical choice seems to have sailed right past everyone at Meta, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg. [...] Then again, tech leaders are not known for their literary analysis skills. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/meta-launched-a-new-ai-optimism-ad-set-to-a-song-about-human-extinction/

• Post #4095318

  RE: https://shakedown.social/@aburtch/116981916905452543 Schadenfreude like there's no tomorrow

• Post #4039335

  Lebanese shia families that fled the combat are turned away by other religious groups for fear of attracting attacks from the Israeli Defense Forces on their settlements and districts. This plays into the hands of Hezbollah which needs to refill its ranks and stoke sectarian unrest in Lebanon and yes, it's absolutely by design. It's not like the Israeli leadership didn't know this would happen. https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-special-report-july-22-202...

• Post #4031243

  Reading about a storage array used by a Kickstart project I'm following where they lost 3 drives in the span of a few seconds in an 8 drive RAID6 array. They are now waiting for a data recovery company to hopefully restore and clone the contents of one of the drives to rebuild the array. I don't know how this kind of failure is possible but it's a good reminder to make backups even when your data is in what is supposed to be a very reliable storage element.

• Post #3993607

  So Nvidia bought another stake in Nebius - one of its customers. They stopped Enroning for a bit so they can WorldCom instead.

• Post #3962702

  I spent some time during the past week hashing out some work with my colleagues to optimize Firefox memory consumption and its behavior in low-memory situations. Ironically this is all work that I had already initiated years ago but couldn't finish for a number of reasons. One was that I lacked data, but we've gathered enough since then to inform our choices, so that work was not lost, it just needs to be completed. Given the situation around memory prices I think this is a priority.

• Post #3961239

  When asked about AI use in a project remember that it is absolutely valid to reply that you will use it when and if it makes sense to, and by that mean never.

• Post #3927424

  In a bit of good news Andrew Tate and his brother have been arrested. Again. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/18/us/tate-brothers-arrested-miami

• Post #3890861

  EA was a toxic company even before the Saudi's and the Trump's bought it off. Now it's like a sewage pit where people decided to dump radioactive waste and asbestos in.

• Post #3805543

  Goodbye Lara is absolutely gorgeous. Apparently part of the OP was hand-drawn on cels. Seeing cel animation be done again fills my heart with joy. Source: https://xcancel.com/Goodbye_Lara/status/2076337829341471157 OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOfC_4qCa9c #GoodbyeLara #さよならララ #anime

• Post #3789554

  In the recent discussions around rsync I've seen people focusing on whether a maintainer has or doesn't have an obligation towards its users, or whether it's the users' job to maintain something they depend upon. I believe this discussion is missing an important point: the money. 🧵 1/4

• Post #3782471

  Here's one thing that really gets on my nerves when tech and natural language meet: almost two decades on and Android's spell checker still can't get Italian verbs right. There's a lot of complexity involved, but it's the kind of structural complexity that is perfectly amenable to handling by a machine.

• Post #3732804

  Oh boy, this is going to be fun: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/apple-is-suing-openai-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft-213609180.html

• Post #3640338

  It has been zero days since I had to verify the output of a large language model and it was wrong.

• Post #3640337

  Spending my evening patching GRUB because why not?

• Post #3621935

  Long time no absurd post for Dune Sietchposting, so here's a fresh one. The forms of Schulz have been obeyed. #Dune #shitpost

• Post #3389630

  I have never seen a graph explain more clearly what's going and why it's completely unsustainable (and this is just cash-flow, it doesn't take into account the rapidly climbing debt!). https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/big-techs-27-trillion-ai-bill-comes-due-chart-of-the-day-100000100.html

• Post #3375663

  How it started How it's going

• Post #3334237

  These days the tech industry feels like the Titanic, except it's the middle of the day and every passenger and sailor on board can clearly see the iceberg. But if you mention it to the captain or any of his officers they scream back at you WAIT UNTIL THE NEW MODEL THIS TECHNOLOGY IS INEVITABLE YOU DON'T WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND FULL STEAM AHEAD. But the iceberg is still there and doesn't really care about the opinions of a bunch of delusional middle-aged men with text generators for g...

• Post #2575770

  Indeed this is obscene, immoral and should be illegal too https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/11/private-jets-flocking-to-cannes-branded-obscene-as-fuel-crisis-sparks-food-shortage-fears

• Post #2575762

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/116575326620964772 Reminder that it is never too late to join a union

• Post #2575761

  FYI there's a new crowdfunding campaign for new modules and music for the gothic orror RPG Shadow of Esteren. If you're looking for a non-conventional tabletop RPG with a ruleset that greatly favors storytelling and acting your character over mechanical rules then you might want to give it a shot. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1176616619/shadows-of-esteren-rpg-down-the-river #LesOmbresDEsteren #ShadowsOfEsteren #Esteren #TTRPG

• Post #2493895

  FYI I nuked my Twitter/X and Instagram accounts. I kept the first to look at stuff but there's nothing interesting anymore there, and for the odd post one can use xcancel.com. I never used the latter so again nothing of value was lost. Spring cleaning basically.

• Post #2491183

  Earlier this year I decided to react to the chatbot insanity griping the entire tech industry by studying. I am extremely proud of the work I did in the past few months because I learned a lot while doing it. I'm a better professional than I was six months ago and I'm completely comfortable dealing with complex topics I found daunting only a year ago. As people around you deliberately deskill themselves, do the opposite. It will pay off, believe me, it always does.