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Computer drive sizes over the years
  • There's terabyte SD cards now, that are almost that fast.

  • New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash
  • It's an interesting filesystem, but you shouldn't use it at this point unless you know what the hell you're doing. You'll need to be able to notice, report and help resolve bugs, and under no circumstances use it for production or where you can't afford to lose some or all of the data on the partition.

  • ‘Cancer is just everywhere’: could farming be behind Iowa’s unfolding health crisis? Iowa has the second-highest rate of cancer in the US.
  • So it's a study that hasn't happened yet, and is also looking at the high levels of radon and alcohol use in the state. But farmers bad, amirite?

  • What is the best, and conversely, the worst wedding you've ever been to, and why?
  • All of them are the worst. God, I hate going to weddings.

  • Trump forces the rest of the world to exempt US companies from global tax on multinationals
  • Un-leveling the playing field. Sounds about right for the biggest kid in the sandbox.

  • Study Finds Water Isn't the Best Drink for Hydration
  • I've had to restrain myself from drinking a couple of liters of milk on hot days because I'm pretty sure it was helping me get fat. There's a pile of sugar in milk, but damn, it seemed to be the best for quenching thirst. I really like milk and miss it.

  • Huge turnout for Budapest Pride despite Orban's threats and the official ban
  • I think the transition from comedian to politician is more successful. Ukraine has done well by it.

  • Reevaluating my password management
  • If you've been using passkeys, you'll need to generate new ones when you switch. AFAIK, they aren't exportable from Google or Apple. Which, among other reasons, is why I'll just stick to high-entropy passwords. I've had some sites like Amazon try to sneakily make me register passcodes, I've had to go back and tear them out before they screw me somehow.

  • Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base
  • If you wanted to drive me insane, make me browse the internet using one stupid little screen. Sounds like hell on earth.

  • US Catholic school fires teacher after husband’s obituary reveals his marriage to a man
  • How many little boys did Francis Xavier fuck? I'm betting it's a non-zero number going by the church that sainted him.

  • Government condemns Glastonbury chants aired live on BBC
  • 80k dead and 130k injured, starvation, displacement, murdered by settlers.

    But a chant is "deeply offensive". Take your fucking offense, fold it until it's all sharp corners and shove it up your ass, BBC.

  • Wall Street shivers over ‘hot commie summer’ after Mamdani’s success
  • I think all of this was answered by the deployment of Marines in LA in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.

  • Anon loves The Lord of the Rings
  • World of Warcraft, at least for the first 3 expansions. I think the people that made it back then were utterly devoted to the story and gameplay, as were the players. I'll remember playing that until I die, so many memories.

    Downvote away.

  • lucalp.dev The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization

    Highlights the desire to replace tokenization with a general method that better leverages compute and data. We'll see tokenization's fragility and review the Byte Latent Transformer arch.

    The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization
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    Installed a mini-split this weekend. AMA.

    The pre-charged kits are fairly inexpensive and surprisingly easy to put in, but you'll need about $400 in extra shit.

    My extra shit list:

    Disconnect box

    Surge suppressor

    Liquid-tight whip

    Lineset chase

    20A breaker

    Various holesaws

    12/3 wire

    Caulking

    Duct seal

    Extra insulation

    Wall mount or concrete paving block

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    every.to We Made Top AI Models Compete in a Game of Diplomacy. Here’s Who Won.

    The models that did the best learned to lie, deceive, and betray their fellow players

    We Made Top AI Models Compete in a Game of Diplomacy. Here’s Who Won.

    It's a little disconcerting that the company that's trying to make an "ethical" GenAI does the best at deception and backstabbing.

    >Opus was lured in by the hope of a non-violent resolution. It was quickly betrayed and eliminated by o3, which went on to win.

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    Anyone noticing Firefox not letting you use the address bar in some windows?

    This is a very recent thing I've had happening, presumably since an update. I will often have multiple FF windows open. In one of the windows, I'll suddenly not be able to place my cursor in the address bar on any tab. But other FF windows function fine. I have to close that window and start a new instance or drag a tab from a working window to another screen, then that will work fine for an unpredictable time.

    I have no idea what specific thing I might be doing that touches this off, as far as I can tell I'm just browsing. I thought maybe I had a child dialog opening in a hidden window, but it must be hidden pretty good because I can't find it if I do.

    Fedora Linux 42 KDE

    Firefox 139.0

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    How I use Pinchflat/Sponsorblock to avoid podcast ads
    github.com GitHub - kieraneglin/pinchflat: Your next YouTube media manager

    Your next YouTube media manager. Contribute to kieraneglin/pinchflat development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - kieraneglin/pinchflat: Your next YouTube media manager

    I listen to a lot of podcasts. I spend a pile of time where I need something to distract me and keep me awake, and I also just like podcasts. But there's a lot of podcasts, especially from sources like IHeartRadio, that have scads of annoying ads (mainly for other podcasts, which seems weird, but OK).

    I had gotten to the point where subscriptions like Behind the Bastards just weren't worth listening to because the ads went on for like 5 minutes. I had to come up with something or drop them.

    Enter Pinchflat. You can create a "Podcast" media source profile that's audio-only, and respects Sponsorblock. If you have a podcast that has a Youtube channel, you can pretty much eliminate ads this way. And Pinchflat makes an RSS feed that you can subscribe to in your favorite app like Antennapod to consume that feed. One thing I like to add to the Media Profile is to redownload after a day or two so it updates the Sponsorblock info that might not have existed if Pinchflat grabs the episode when it's very fresh.

    Links:

    Pinchflat Docker compose setup

    Podcast RSS feeds (Ignore the reverse proxy if you already use an always-on VPN like Wireguard/tailscale or download your episodes while on your LAN)

    The heroes at Sponsorblock and the other heroes that contribute timeblock entries

    Donate on behalf of Pinchflat to Zakkarry, a collaborator that the developer of Pinchflat has identified as a good donation target, as well as the EFF.

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    Docker bridges showing up on desktop network icon

    I noticed this recently, and now if I hover or click the network icon on Plasma, I see all my docker bridge networks, not just the normal Wifi and wired networks available.

    Why did those start to show up, and how do I get rid of them?

    !

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    Looking for a DMARC processor that alerts me for failures

    What do you use for Dmarc report processing? Looking to reduce the amount of reports I have to wade through but I don't want to miss failures, so I need some sort of alerting.

    Self-hosted, of course.

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    radanskoric.com Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby

    “It’s not that hard to build a fully functioning, code-editing agent.” Thorsten Ball

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    How To Build An AI Agent
    ampcode.com How to Build an Agent

    Building a fully functional, code-editing agent in less than 400 lines.

    How to Build an Agent
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    How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone?

    I currently do a lot of my monitoring via MQTT for my solar system etc. I currently use MQTT Alert and set up my alerts to ring my phone at top volume until silenced. But I have missed more than one alert because I don't think the background agent is always active and it doesn't necessarily start when I reboot the phone. While the application does "monitor" the MQTT connection, it only makes a short sound if it drops, with no followup until you notice that there was a notification and go back into it to figure out why the connection is down.

    Does anyone have foolproof way of getting things like security alerts that will always trigger on the phone, without having to check the phone 10 times a day to be sure the application is on and the connection is active?

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    OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management
    github.com GitHub - sebadob/rauthy: OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management

    OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management - sebadob/rauthy

    GitHub - sebadob/rauthy: OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management

    Rauthy is a lightweight and easy to use OpenID Connect Identity Provider. It aims to be simple to both set up and operate, with very secure defaults and lots of config options, if you need the flexibility. It puts heavy emphasis on Passkeys and a very strong security in general. The project is written in Rust to be as memory efficient, secure and fast as possible, and it can run on basically any hardware. If you need Single Sign-On support for IoT or headless CLI tools, it's got you covered as well. You get High-Availability, client branding, UI translation, a nice Admin UI, Events and Auditing, and many more features. By default, it runs on top of Hiqlite and does not depend on an external database (Postgres as an alternative) to make it even simpler to operate, while scaling up to millions of users easily.

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