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Oatmeal
feeds.twtxt.net
 (28w ago)

** Om nom nom LLMs, in which I respond to Simon Willison’s analogy **
I am hesitant to wade into the tumultuous waters that are the discourse around generative AI and LLMs, but this morning I came across a thing that so thoroughly melted my brain I feel uncontrollably compelled to respond.

This morning, at evidently 4:10 AM (no mention of timezone), Simon Willison shared the following blog post, quoted here in full:

Quitting programming as … ⌘ Read more

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lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
 (29w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » OH, FUCK ME DEAD! On the way home from today's walk I saw easily 800 fireflies! Yes, over eight hundred! That was absolutely amazing. First time this year and already this many. Crazy! They were just fricking everywhere in the entire forest. I counted to one hundred and then stopped. The darker it got, the more fireflies came out and glowed around. :-) There were spots where in under ten seconds I counted 20 glowworms. Super sick. Soooo beautiful. <3

Thanks @bender@twtxt.net! Yeah, so super cute. I couldn’t pet them, though. Despite very curious, they were also very restless.

I persuaded my dad to check out the fireflies with me tonight. He only wanted to go for a short trip, so we came just across a couple hundred of them. Otherwise, the thousands mark would have been exceeded in no time. He was super glad I talked him into that. :-)

It was also my first time to see them over the meadows. Those numbers don’t compare to the ones inside the forest, no question, but we probably saw 60 or so. Haven’t come across them there before, I only heard and read about that.

Note to future-Lyse next year: Leaving at 21:45 seems like a good time. We left earlier and had to wait just a few more minutes for them to come out in masses.

Too bad it’s impossible to share photos or videos. My camera isn’t made for that at all, not even close.

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Oatmeal
feeds.twtxt.net
 (29w ago)

** Of fairies, compost, and computers **
Lately I’ve buried myself in reading fiction. Stand outs from among the crowd are, of course, Middlemarch but also a lot of sort of scholarly fairy fiction; works that follow the scholastic adventures of studious professorial types in vaugely magical settings. Namely Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries’, Heather Fawcett and The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow.

I’ve also been working on a handful of personal utility programs. I … ⌘ Read more

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Oatmeal
feeds.twtxt.net
 (30w ago)

** My measurer **
My dad is an electrical engineer and physicist. Measuring things is a core part of his professional life, and something he seems to spend a lot of time doing around the house. This is all to say my dad is relatively expert in the ways of measuring things so I think it’s hilarious that he calls absolutely anything he is using to measure anything else“my measurer.” Measuring tape, oscilloscope, scale, volt meter, bubble level, table spoons, whatever. They’re all“my measurer.” ⌘ Read more

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Oatmeal
feeds.twtxt.net
 (30w ago)

** growing good **

“…for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

George Eliot, Middlemarch ⌘ Read more

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aelaraji
aelaraji.com
 (30w ago)

Unless your Terms of use update email looks and reads the same as the one I got yesterday from mastodon.social, I don’t wanna know about it, nor do I agree to it.

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (30w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Come on, why is the bloody IBAN only in the damn HTML part of your e-mail but not in the plain text!? Grrr! Don't you wanna get paid, dealer!? Your new web shop system sucks so bad, I want the old version back.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ooh, I’ve got to bookmark that page. 😃

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I wish I had the luxury of not reading that junk. 😅 But instead, I have a Mutt hotkey that pipes an HTML mail through elinks … Bah.

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aelaraji
aelaraji.com
 (30w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Come on, why is the bloody IBAN only in the damn HTML part of your e-mail but not in the plain text!? Grrr! Don't you wanna get paid, dealer!? Your new web shop system sucks so bad, I want the old version back.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de > That guy over there in the corner…

I’m literally sitting in a corner chuckles. I rarely get any emails nowadays. But if I do and it is not plain-text, then my Mutt gets to bark at it and I, just… won’t read it. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
 (30w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Come on, why is the bloody IBAN only in the damn HTML part of your e-mail but not in the plain text!? Grrr! Don't you wanna get paid, dealer!? Your new web shop system sucks so bad, I want the old version back.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah. :-( But hey, there are at least six of us using mail as it should be™. :-)

I sent the dealer an e-mail about that with all sorts of other issues as well. Let’s see if they fix anything of that some day. Or yet just even read it.

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@rlafuente@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
 (30w ago)

It all started in New York in the early 1980s. Click, now 85, and his friends were sitting at the long bar of the New York Athletic club reading magazine articles about boxing, fencing, judo and wrestling. “One of my mates said, ‘Dude, we don’t do any of those things.’” They had to face it. They were dull. They decided to embrace their dullness.

As a joke, they started The Dull Men’s Club, which involved some very silly, dull activities. They chartered a tour bus but didn’t go anywhere. “We toured the bus. We walked around the outside of the bus a few times. And the driver explained the tyre pressures and turned on the windscreen wipers.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/09/meet-the-members-of-the-dull-mens-club-some-of-them-would-bore-the-ears-off-you

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (30w ago)

OpenBSD has the wonderful pledge() and unveil() syscalls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXO6nelFt-E

Not only are they super useful (the program itself can drop privileges – like, it can initialize itself, read some files, whatever, and then tell the kernel that it will never do anything like that again; if it does, e.g. by being exploited through a bug, it gets killed by the kernel), but they are also extremely easy to use.

Imagine a server program with a connected socket in file descriptor 0. Before reading any data from the client, the program can do this:

unveil("/var/www/whatever", "r");
unveil(NULL, NULL);
pledge("stdio rpath", NULL);

Done. It’s now limited to reading files from that directory, communicating with the existing socket, stuff like that. But it cannot ever read any other files or exec() into something else.

I can’t wait for the day when we have something like this on Linux. There have been some attempts, but it’s not that easy. And it’s certainly not mainstream, yet.

I need to have a closer look at Linux’s Landlock soon (“soon”), but this is considerably more complicated than pledge()/unveil():

https://landlock.io/

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (31w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Gopher server is back online and I’ll be phasing out Mastodon.

@bender@twtxt.net Both Gopher and Mastodon are a way for me to “babble”. 😅 I basically shut down Gopher in favor of Mastodon/Fedi last year. But the Fediverse doesn’t really work for me. It’s too focused on people (I prefer topics) and I dislike the addictive nature of likes and boosts (I’m not disciplined enough to ignore them). Self-hosting some Fedi thing is also out of the question (the minimalistic daemons don’t really support following hashtags, which is a must-have for me).

I’ll probably keep reading Fedi stuff, I just won’t post that much, I think.

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (31w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » I wanted to port this to Rust as an excercise, but they still have no random number generator in the core library: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/130703

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, it’s difficult, you often don’t get what you’d expect. They also make heavy use of 3rd party libraries. IIUC, for random numbers, they refer to this library. I’ve read many times that the Rust stdlib is intentionally minimalistic (to make it easier to maintain and port and all that).

I’m struggling with this, using 3rd party libs for so many things isn’t really my cup of tea. I’ll probably make my own tiny little “standard library”. It’s silly, but I don’t see any other options. 🤷

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cncf
feeds.twtxt.net
 (31w ago)

My Journey to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024: A Story of Volunteering and Growth
My name is Oscar Ayra and I am from Lima, Peru. In 2024, I had the privilege of being part of the volunteer team at Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Lima. It was an enriching experience where… ⌘ Read more

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news-orf-at
feeds.twtxt.net
 (31w ago)

Amoklauf beispiellos für Österreich
Nach einer bisher für das Land beispiellosen Amoktat, bei der es am Dienstag in einer Grazer Schule mindestens zehn Todesopfer gab, ist in Österreich eine dreitägige Staatstrauer ausgerufen worden. Wie am Nachmittag bei einer Pressekonferenz bekanntgegeben wurde, handelt es sich beim Täter um einen 21-jährigen ehemaligen Schüler der Grazer Schule. Neben den Toten gibt es nach Angaben von Innenminister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) zwölf Verletzte, manche davon schwer. ⌘ Read more

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cncf
feeds.twtxt.net
 (31w ago)

Newbie No More: Lessons from My First KubeCon + CloudNativeCon as a Speaker
Introduction April in London has never felt so electric. From the first footstep in the ExCeL halls to the hallway conversations, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 was a whirlwind of new ideas, familiar faces, and those… ⌘ Read more

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lobste_rs
feeds.twtxt.net
 (31w ago)

Passing of Jean-Raymond Abrial
Jean-Raymond Abrial, father (in particular!) of the Z notation, but also of the B method, and then Event-B, passed away on May 26. I was surprised to see that this piece of news, which may be of some interest to formal method folks, doesn’t seem to be very well known (there’s not much material on the web).

Here are some links (on LinkedIn, sorry):
[by Bertrand Meyer](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bertrandmeyer_i-am-saddened-to-report-from-todays-print-activity-7335684948974034944-SJf1? … ⌘ Read more

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lwn-net
feeds.twtxt.net
 (31w ago)

[$] Improving iov_iter
The iov_iter interface is used to
describe and iterate through buffers in the kernel. David Howells led a combined storage and
filesystem session at
the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) to discuss ways
to improve iov_iter. His topic\
proposal listed a few different ideas including replacing some
iov_iter types and possibly allowing mixed types in chains of … ⌘ Read more

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lwn-net
feeds.twtxt.net
 (31w ago)

[$] An end to uniprocessor configurations
The Linux kernel famously scales from the smallest of systems to massive
servers with thousands of CPUs. It was not always that way, though; the
initial version of the kernel could only manage a single processor. That
limitation was lifted, obviously, but single-processor machines have always
been treated specially in the scheduler. That longstanding situation may
soon come to an end, though, if this patch\
series from Ingo M … ⌘ Read more

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ABC_JustIn
feeds.twtxt.net
 (31w ago)

Breaking: Australia sanctions against two far-right Israeli ministers over Gaza comments
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Australia will join the UK, Canada and New Zealand in sanctioning Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich over comments they have made about Gaza. ⌘ Read more

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lwn-net
feeds.twtxt.net
 (31w ago)

20 Years of the Open Invention Network
The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating
its 20th anniversary.

The central feature of the OIN community is a patent cross-license
that covers core Open Source functionality and expands in parallel
with the growth of Open Source technology. As growth in Open Source
has accelerated, OIN has proactively expanded the scope of the OIN
license’s benefit by including more than 4,500 software components … ⌘ Read more

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lwn-net
feeds.twtxt.net
 (31w ago)

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-django), Fedora (krb5), Mageia (cockpit, golang, kernel, and kernel-linus), SUSE (augeas, go1.23, go1.24, iputils, libwebp, transfig, and xen), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode, apport, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-azure-fips, linux-raspi, systemd, and tomcat). ⌘ Read more

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