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chx··on Visualizing malicious IP addresses
I just run sslh...
chx··on Visualizing malicious IP addresses
1. mens rea probably applies

2. But if you make a stab at shoplifting and you are successful and give back the item, did you break the law?

I am not a lawyer I am just asking.

chx··on Open Sourcing DOS 4
No, you are thinking of 4.01 this is 4.0.

Those are very different operating systems, this is DOS 3.2 + later abandoned very crude multitasking features. Roughly.

And this matters because DOS 3.3 was a milestone.

4.01 comes from 4.00 which has nothing to do with 4.0 (yay for versions).

chx··on Open Sourcing DOS 4
Around the time Windows 2000 came around.

Up to Windows 3.11 it was a GUI on top of DOS. Windows 95, 98, Me used DOS to boot and it was still possible to stop the booting process at a DOS prompt (although in Me this was no longer official). Finally Windows 2000 had nothing to do with it as it is NT based.

chx··on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say
The diabolical take is the Republicans moved for this to make TikTok deeply interested in the reelection of Trump. Yes, Trump tried to ban it in 2020 but since then he turned around, if for no other reason than Biden doing it.
chx··on JavaScript Naked Day
When I am on the web to consume information, JS is not required. It can be useful for some data visualization but that's it. This is, of course, not the approach taken by almost all web pages. (Even if you insist on collapsible navigation which is dubious at best, you still don't need JS, CSS is enough. https://codepen.io/raubaca/pen/PZzpVe )

In general, it is a mighty odd notion every random person who can throw up a web page gets to run code on my machine. This shouldn't be a casual thing, sandbox or not.

chx··on When do we stop finding new music?
This rapidly becomes an exercise in classifying music which I always felt a bit silly. Try to put God Is an Astronaut in a genre, I wish you good fortune in the wars to come. https://youtu.be/ZmWYCIZhBgk at one time Wikipedia had them as "Post-rock, electronica, ambient, Space rock" then just gave up and labelled them as post-rock.

My brother and I, less than two years apart in age, when we were 18 years old listened to the same music, power metal, mostly. By now, some three decades later he have veered off in a direction of high BPM while I am deep in folk metal land sometimes leaving metal behind. Where does folk metal end and where does (neo)folk rock start? I do not know and I couldn't care less if I tried. I simply enjoy https://youtu.be/mQWmryiIcxY a lot without trying to label it.

chx··on Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
it's a two line script running periodically. the first line is docker the second is nginx -s reload. As /etc/letsencrypt dir is mounted from nginx into certbot, certbot upgrades that, nginx reload picks them up. Easy as pie.
chx··on Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
I mount webserver docroot and /etc/letsencrypt directories into the certbot container, /docroot and /etc/letsencrypt mount points respectively, it is totally prepared for this.
chx··on Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
I am doing docker run -it --rm certbot/certbot

Is there a problem with that?

chx··on 6th generation x86 CPU Comparisons
Meteor Lake is out.

The next ones are Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids on the server side, Arrow Lake on the desktop and Lunar Lake on the laptop.

And then comes Panther Lake supposedly next year which is both desktop and laptop and Gelsinger admitted betting the company on the 18A process it is using.

We shall see.

chx··on How the internet became shit
Except Patreon banned a lot of Ukranian vloggers and did not ban Russian propaganda.

For example, WarGonzo is still on it (just checked) and Ayder Muzhdabayev and Serhii Sternenko are not. Check https://youtu.be/91US4DNcBGw as well.

This made me delete my Patreon.

chx··on Why SQLite Performance Tuning Made Bencher 1200x Faster
That bonus bug could be read as the perfect case to argue against using an ORM

> .left_join(schema::alert::table.on(view::metric_boundary::boundary_id.eq(schema::alert::boundary_id.nullable())))

instead of

> LEFT OUTER JOIN alert ON (alert.boundary_id = metric_boundary.boundary_id)

chx··on Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project
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chx··on RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo
I stand against the tide for sure.

I am grievously concerned about the sea temperature being off the charts for a year now and we do not know why. Wasting tremendous amounts of energy to generate bullshit doesn't seem like a prudent action. Yes it's not yet a large chunk of total energy usage but we do need to stop the hype before going further when it'll be.

Because as https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650 explains it's good for naught else.

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.

And then of course there are all the ethical concerns.

chx··on Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

== End of toot.

The price you pay for this bullshit in energy when the sea temperature is literally off the charts and we do not know why makes it not worth it in my opinion.

chx··on Your LLM Is a Capable Regressor When Given In-Context Examples
Yeah it'll contribute to the regression of human life as we know it by boiling the seas even further. Just great.
chx··on "Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge
Nah. Have you seen the Sydney Opera House?
chx··on DNS over Wikipedia
These days, the question rather is, why anyone on this site is not using Kagi? I understand perhaps the general populace simply doesn't know but here?

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/

> I hadn't even heard of Kagi, but the Nielsen Haydens are among the most effective researchers I know – both in their professional editorial lives and in their many obsessive hobbies. If it was good enough for them…

> I tried it. It was magic.

...

> That was before I started playing with Kagi's lenses and other bells and whistles, which elevated the search experience from "magic" to sorcerous.

> The catch is that Kagi costs money – after 100 queries, they want you to cough up $10/month ($14 for a couple or $20 for a family with up to six accounts, and some kid-specific features)

> I immediately bought a family plan. I've been using it for a month. I've basically stopped using Google search altogether.

chx··on Libgourou: A Free Implementation of Adobe's Adept DRM on ePub/PDF Files
> Google Play Books are basically the same as Kobo, but they don't state up-front if a book has DRM or not.

they absolutely do. https://i.imgur.com/VA3G54Z.png

chx··on The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws
Yeah but in 2017 TTS (the parent company of Festool) acquired SawStop.

https://www.sawstop.com/news/sawstop-to-be-acquired-by-tts-t...

TTS is a magnitude bigger than SawStop and they might have different ideas than a narrow minded patent attorney.

chx··on Google Axion Processors – Arm-based CPUs designed for the data center
I read a lot about how important it is for a foundry to be able to work with customers and this used to miss from the company DNA of Intel. Cell library, process that sort of thing. We shall see.
chx··on How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform
Isn't it ironic how the article mentions

> Git was custom-built for distributed democratized development

and doesn't mention how github and gitlab too severely lacks in this aspect?

Drupal, like a decade before git already, allowed multiple people to work on the same issue. This was reviewed by the community and then the committers and then it got merged. You still can't do this on Github and only through some drupal.org magic does it work on the Gitlab instance the Drupal Association has.

Some democracy.

chx··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Are you implying Redhat is not reliable in their security disclosures?
chx··on Simon Riggs has died
You can see an SR-71 there!
chx··on Daniel Kahneman has died
Aye well, there's your problem, the clouds.

The sea temperature is already literally off the charts and we do not know why but let's just add a couple more countries worth of energy waste in datacenters producing nothing, what could possibly go wrong.

chx··on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
> It's my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge and I expect the Congress to support my effort

This is what he said. I would expect Congress to play along too -- just how unpopular would it be to abandon Baltimore??

chx··on Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain
The next thing you need to read is How the press manufactured consent for never-ending COVID reinfections https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...

and then stop spreading harmful propaganda. That's what you are doing, not "reporting a study", faugh!

chx··on Gaining kernel code execution on an MTE-enabled Pixel 8
And that requires a powerful GPU? I thought a much much simpler 2D accelerator in the style of the S3 911 of yesteryear would be enough.
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