In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de tried translating that and it said Art lover/enthusiast, that could be correct since that despise of the artificial stems out of “Love for the Actual real Art” although that’s a subjective statement in itself; xD duckduckgo’s translation thing spat out “künstliche-Kunsthasser”

/me wantis to learn german so bad!

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In-reply-to » Fuck me dead, what a giant piece of shit. On my Linux work laptop I have the problem that some unknown snakeoil "security" junk is dropping any IPv4 connections to ports 80 and 443. All other ports and IPv6 seem unaffected. I get an immediate "connection refused" when trying to estabslish a connection.

Thank you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Luckily, I can disable it. I also tried it, no luck, though. But the problem is, I don’t really know how much snakeoil actually runs on my machine. There is definitely a ClownStrike infestation, I stopped the falcon sensor. But there might be even more, I’ve no idea. From the vague answers I got last time, it feels like even the UHD/IT guys don’t know what is in use. O_o

Yeah, it is definitely something on my laptop that rejects connections to IPv4 ports 80 and 443. All other devices here can access the stuff without issue, only this work machine is unable to. The “Connection refused” happens within a few milliseconds.

Unfortunately, I do not have the slightest idea how it works. But maybe I can look into that tomorrow. Kernel modules are a very good hint, thank you! <3

You’re right, it might be some sort of fail-safe mechanism. But then, why just block IPv4 and not also IPv6? But maybe because the VPN and company servers require IPv4, there is zero IPv6 support. (Yeah, don’t ask, I don’t understand it either.)

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Fuck me dead, what a giant piece of shit. On my Linux work laptop I have the problem that some unknown snakeoil “security” junk is dropping any IPv4 connections to ports 80 and 443. All other ports and IPv6 seem unaffected. I get an immediate “connection refused” when trying to estabslish a connection.

I had this problem four weeks ago on Friday morning the very first time at home. On Thursday evening, everything was perfectly fine. Eventually, I plugged in the LAN cable in the office and everything got automatically fixed. Nobody can explain what’s happening.

Then, last week Friday morning out of the blue, the same issue was back. So, I went to the office yesterday and it got fixed again by plugging in the network cable. This evening, I have exactly the same bloody problem again.

What the hell is going on? Does anyone have any ideas? I’m certainly not an expert, but I don’t see anything suspicious in iptables or nft rules. I also do not see anything showing up in /var/log/kern.log. Even tried to stop firewalld, flush the iptables and nft rules, but that didn’t result in any changes.

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AAEON Integrates Intel Arc GPU with High-Performance Computing in Edge PC
The MXM-ACMA-PUC is an industrial edge computing system from AAEON that combines 13th Generation Intel Core processors with an embedded Intel Arc GPU. It is designed for machine learning and AI workloads, with applications in smart city infrastructure and industrial workstation management. The system supports a range of Intel Core processors, with the default configuration

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Problem 2: Your SSD-backed database has a usage-pattern that rewards you with a 80% page-cache hit-rate (i.e. 80% of disk reads are served directly out of memory instead of going to the SSD). The median is 50 distinct disk pages for a query to gather its query results (e.g. InnoDB pages in MySQL). What is the expected average query time from your database?

Share your solution via Twtxt and how you arrived at it and I’ll share my solution tomorrow!

#napkin-math

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In-reply-to » (#yp3ljla) @bender Well, so far, I’m using the standard web client. Haven’t found a great client yet. 🫤 Mastodon/Fediverse is also very different from twtxt, there are way more images/videos that I’d like to see – a TUI client like toot wouldn’t work for me.

@bender@twtxt.net there’s Pub too but is still experimental I think …

Warning: pub is still in development, if it breaks, you can keep the pieces.

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I think it’s time I set up jenny for this feed… been echo-ing my twits manually and there came times when it made me feel like a dork xD Plus I don’t have my vim’s :set spell to catch up with the typos

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I think it’s time I set up jenny for this feed… been echo-ing my twits manually and there came times when it made me feel like a dork xD Plus I don’t have my vim’s :set spell to catch up with the typos

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NVK Achieves Day-Zero Support for Vulkan 1.4
The Khronos Group recently announced the release of the Vulkan 1.4 specification, and NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware, has achieved day-zero conformance with the latest API. This support has been integrated into Mesa and will be available in the upcoming Mesa 25.0 release, scheduled for early 2025. This development highlights Mesa’s ongoing

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Low-Cost ESP32-PICO-D4 Board with LoRa, Wi-Fi, and BLE Connectivity
The LILYGO T3 V3.0 TCXO is a development board based on the ESP32 microcontroller, offering integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth V4.2 + BLE connectivity. It features multiple GPIOs, QWIIC connectors, and LiPo battery support, making it suitable for portable applications. Unlike other LILYGO products with LoRa support, such as the T5 E-Paper S3 Pro, the T3

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In-reply-to » Today's discovery: Iris a Serverless text-based forum for tilde-likes. I still haven't posted anything out there yet, but I'm in love with it already. Let's see what we find out next... rubbing hands

Also interesting:

edit_hash: When a message is edited, a new message is created– this field holds the hash of the modified message. The client follows the chain of edit hashes to end up at the final, edited message to display. This lets us keep an “undo” history (not yet implemented) and is a marker so the client can display a marker that the message has been edited.

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In-reply-to » Today's discovery: Iris a Serverless text-based forum for tilde-likes. I still haven't posted anything out there yet, but I'm in love with it already. Let's see what we find out next... rubbing hands

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks! Also very interesting rid bits here 🤣

The author, parent hash, timestamp, and message values go into the hash. (see Message Hash for details)

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In-reply-to » Today's discovery: Iris a Serverless text-based forum for tilde-likes. I still haven't posted anything out there yet, but I'm in love with it already. Let's see what we find out next... rubbing hands

LOL the rest of it appears undocumented 🤦‍♂️

Messages

Message Hash

Bad Hashes

Edit Chain

Deleted Messages

Topic List

Replies

License

GPLv2

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In-reply-to » Today's discovery: Iris a Serverless text-based forum for tilde-likes. I still haven't posted anything out there yet, but I'm in love with it already. Let's see what we find out next... rubbing hands

@skinshafi@thunix.net Cool!

Iris leans heavily on convention. Iris’ security and message authentication is provided by filesystem permissions and message hashing.

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In-reply-to » (#ptp2n7a) Hi @prologic Hi @bender 😁 now, Why is my @ mention is all over the place? xD this feed has a # nick = skinshafi so... should I scream buuug ? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net I’ve seen plenty but I doubt you could use any (other than PHP) to actually serve your pages, anything you want to serve, you put in a ~/public_xyz folder (your php files go there too for Apache to serve), no config files/server setting.

But don’t take my word for it, I just got there and still yet to meet people and learn a bit of IT wizardry from them ;)

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In-reply-to » Problem 1: How much will the storage of logs cost for a standard, monolithic 100,000 RPS web application?

My solution to:

How much will the storage of logs cost for a standard, monolithic 100,000 RPS web application?

  • 512 bytes logged per request
  • 100,000 RPS
  • ~50MB/s
    • ~4TB/day
  • $0.02/GB Blob Storage
    • $0 ingress
  • 90 days retention
    • ~400TB
    • $8k Blob Storage
  • Costs:
    • ~$88/day
    • ~$2.6k/month
    • ~$32k/year

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In-reply-to » (#ptp2n7a) Hi @prologic Hi @bender 😁 now, Why is my @ mention is all over the place? xD this feed has a # nick = skinshafi so... should I scream buuug ? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Twtxt wise, it was kind of disparate at first xD with no access to logs as you may have read on the alt-feed itself. But then, @sorenpeter@darch.dk’s script came to the rescue … like, just in time 😁 Otherwise, everything else is fun as publicised, exploring and learning along the way.

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In-reply-to » Problem 1: How much will the storage of logs cost for a standard, monolithic 100,000 RPS web application?

A reminder of the problem:

How much will the storage of logs cost for a standard, monolithic 100,000 RPS web application?

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In-reply-to » Problem 1: How much will the storage of logs cost for a standard, monolithic 100,000 RPS web application?

Anyone had a chance to have a go at this problem yet? 🤔I’ll post my solution in a few hours…

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In-reply-to » @mckinley Regarding https://mckinley.cc/notes/20241120-css3-announcement.xhtml, I'm wondering why you support viewing your website on a printer? :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Haha, the dark background would have been printed before I added the media query. It’s unlikely that anyone will want to print one of my posts, but I figure it’s worth the extra line to conserve ink if someone does.

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In-reply-to » I’ve been using Mastodon too much lately. The constant notifications are becoming too stressful. I really do prefer slow communication, like twtxt. ✌️

@movq@www.uninformativ.de if it’s just notifications that are bothering you could just go to your /settings/preferences/notifications and uncheck as much boxes as you need … unless you’ve already done that, then… sorry, not sorry we love your posts my friend!! xD And just so you know, you put a smile on my face whenever I stumble upon any of your retro-computing posts! 😁

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In-reply-to » Bluesky's Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It's All Public Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users' data. But despite that, "one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face," reports Mashable (citing an article by 404 Media).

@bender@twtxt.net That’s the plan! 3;)

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In-reply-to » Bluesky's Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It's All Public Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users' data. But despite that, "one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face," reports Mashable (citing an article by 404 Media).

@prologic@twtxt.net I bet our twts are already being fed to circuit monsters… Remember the other day when I’d snapped out about some nonsense, being an A-Hole and what not? I’ve seen an AI company employee lurking around with not much interaction (if I’m not mistaken), so my mind went on auto-pilot mode thinking “This !#@%@$ must be feeding us to the circuit peggy monster!! Arrr 😤” 🤣🤣🤣 but then again, one shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover (or an employee by his title) right?

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In-reply-to » Bluesky's Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It's All Public Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users' data. But despite that, "one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face," reports Mashable (citing an article by 404 Media).

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Bahahahahahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣

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