Brogramming Megathread

[wicked shell]

bruh

"reputable leaker" so take that with a grain of salt

but, if true, wtf

[pseudo plinth]

was on a call with a vendor earlier and when they mentioned asking their internal llm about our issue i felt the corners of my mouth involuntarily pulling down

[empty owl]

game devs gonna have to roll back graphics to 2021 standards then too

[pseudo plinth]

oh, this is cool https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/network-card-emulation-for-qbone-and-unibone.1255922/

i've been hoping for a while that someone would tackle this, i personally have a deqna for my 11/83 but it can be a bit temperamental. if this is nonblocking for the bbb's onboard ethernet that would be a really cool and reliable way to get pdp11s on the internet :>

if it's blocking that would be slightly inconvenient but i'm almost certain the bbb has some onboard serial console option

[chrome ledge]

I already have a 3060

[blazing swan]

hmm. I was wondering if we'd see "LHR"-equivalent cards for AI, but then I realized probably not

[pseudo plinth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_q5T7wTpQ

[slow solstice]

Apparently we are paying for premium Microsoft support just for them to run Copilot on our data and copy/paste the output. I just got a response on a ticket that did not even address my initial concern and was definitely just Copilot bs

Also one of their suggestions was to spend more money with them lmao

[empty owl]

When I’m president I’m throwing every AI executive in prison for life

Vote Damp 2028

[slow solstice]

I am getting progressively more pissed the longer I look at this

They gave us info that is directly contradicted by multiple Microsoft articles, further confirming my suspicion that they used Copilot

[rain matrix]

Use the information and then ask for free stuff when it completely fails (actually I'm sure they have some wording in some contract that says you're not allowed to trust their support agents)

[wicked shell]

the strongest part of AI customer service is the legal team backing it up when it inevitably fucks up

a colossal failure for your business is just training data for them

[empty owl]

forced arbitration

pls sign away your 7th ammendment right to use our product

(America only PEW PEW)

[chrome ledge]

Weird AI

https://tenor.com/view/weird-al-weird-al-yankovic-weird-al-weird-al-tacky-gif-24957059

[empty owl]

going into these product security meetings and straight up making shit up

"yeah that CSRF threat doesn't apply because there is no user input on the page"

sounds right to me but idk they just kinda forced this role on me

[rain matrix]

You are the llm now

[empty owl]

🤖

[wicked shell]

Hyper-V ---> Copilotrash
of all the hypervisors a company could pick, why would anybody pick Hyper-V

i mean i guess if you're already heavily reliant on Windows, fine

[iron mulch]

there's nothing better IMO for either running windows or integrating with it. WSL runs on hyper-V and it works very well

[wicked shell]

fair

[ornate ferry]

also if you have a Windows machine, absolutely enable Hyper-V as your hypervisor on it (making what would normally be your host a guest VM) and enable HVCI and other hypervisor-enforced security settings

[pseudo plinth]

hm, i think i'm just kind of done with *nix on the desktop

everything is annoying in its own unique way, every linux distro has its own weird little quirks that grate on me and even freebsd has some teething issues as a desktop for me personally

the only contemporary desktop i consistently don't have an issue with is macos, gonna give hackintoshing a shot and if that doesn't work i'll just hook my macbook up to the dock work gave me

[trim badge]

Dell announced that "Consumers aren't interested in AI PC's". Obviously the statement is fairly obvious, but I'm surprised DELL of all people was the one to figure that out.

[lean vault]

I mean, it's fine if they include hardware that can do fast matrix multiplication, but that's not the primary use case. :3

[normal tartan]

Really? I personally make all my code do multiple matrix muplications per line just to keep the proportion up, I thought that was standard

[lean vault]

Model name: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M

Silly marketing

[rain matrix]

There's probably a theorem somewhere that all programs can be written as matrix multiplication.

[lean vault]

could be interesting to see that explained

[wicked shell]

built a flashy gaming PC out of spare parts to sell on Marketplace, but had to use a 16GB kit of memory instead of the 32GB RGB kit I wanted to use. They were too tall for the cooler :(

[lean vault]

I think I've just helped someone accomplish a task in the jankiest way possible.

Friend at AGDQ has an LED name badge that needs Windows software. Neither of us are running Windows on our laptops.
I ended up tethering my laptop to my phone so I could get a native IPv6 address, and connected over qemu+ssh to the IPv6 address of my desktop at home.
Started my Windows 11 VM at home and connected to the display, installed the software, connected the name badge to my laptop. Passed the USB device to the VM 2000 miles away.

It all worked 😛

[pseudo plinth]

https://bsky.app/profile/pcperini.com/post/3mbzsd67kfk23

Patrick Perini (@pcperini.com)

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

-# Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
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https://f.duriansoftware.com/@joe/113969806632505919

Joe Groff (@[email protected])

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@eramdam still can’t believe they called the low level virtual machine WASM and the weird assembler LLVM

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Durian Software · Feb 8, 2025, 7:00 PM

[pseudo plinth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OAiOfCcYFM

[pseudo plinth]

workspace cleaned, let's see how long it lasts

[empty owl]

customer decided over the weekend to mess around with random settings on their server that isn't working

so now it is even more broken 🙂

[lean vault]

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

[pseudo plinth]

tl;dr: tahoe is bad

this is why everyone i know is avoiding it

thankfully sequoia is still supported and i'm pretty sure you can downgrade

i fixed this in my workflow by just not using it personally

[lean vault]

I have a Mac Mini M2 at home mainly for build testing. I don't use macOS often otherwise.

[pseudo plinth]

my time is probably split 60/40 between my m1 air and my desktop

i'm planning to just migrate to macos full time, for now i just bought a dock but if i get a decent bonus i'd like a new mini

[ornate ferry]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225163757015

wild to think I could pull the RAM out of my workstation and sell it for almost what I paid for the entire thing last year, including GPUs

[blazing swan]

most of the time it's completely fine. And then sometimes it goes and does this

[wicked shell]

woah, my 256GB that i'm not using is $480 lmao

downside is, i can't test it, because the motherboard i was using it with will no longer POST

wild that even DDR3 ECC memory has ballooned that much too

[lean vault]

I'm hunkering down for the storm at this point until things ease up, which I imagine could be 2 years :/

[pseudo plinth]

please don't tell me this vulnerability scanning software is checking symbolic unix permissions instead of octal

why in god's name would you do that

but i'm not sure how else i'm supposed to parse ^root:root:[-r][-w][-x]------.?:/etc/cron.d$

[inner flicker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5QXY_qZuI

[vale isle]

Updating the BIOS for my Optiplex 7010 because I have a CPU and GPU on the way and the latest version of the BIOS is A29, and the Optiplex was on A08...

Version A29 came out in 2018

[wicked shell]

what CPU does it currently have again?

[vale isle]

i5-3470

I ordered the Xeon E3-1240 v2 for $13.99 off ebay

since I am getting a GPU so I don't think I would need integrated graphics

and the GPU is a Quadro P620, was probably the best I could find for what I was looking for: a low profile card under 50W TDP and under $50

the Optiplex is mainly for my brother now since I have the Framework

[wicked shell]

i didn't know that desktop supported Xeon chips with a BIOS update

i would have never thought of that lol

[ornate ferry]

it's an optiplex, so maybe

for regular consumer motherboards I doubt it would

do you know if it'll work fine with non-ECC RAM?

[wicked shell]

it supports ECC, but doesn't need ECC like some chips. it comes down to what the chipset requires, and in this case, non-ECC is all it takes

[chrome ledge]

Apple: IOS 26 will be the best apple update of all time

IOS 26: Takes 5 seconds to load contact names from the messages app

[empty owl]

my phone became drastically worse since I updated

[rich gyro]

how do I know if a phone is worth it if looking at specs makes me always feel like "I like your funny words, magic man"

[vale isle]

Look up reviews for phones/search it online and ask people

[lean vault]

A cache for your cache

Crazy how we've been hampered by the size and expense of SRAM for as long as we have been

[rich gyro]

ah makes sense yeah, thank u!

[pseudo plinth]

lol https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

agi coming any day now

[wicked shell]

beautiful

[white sparrow]

lol

[empty owl]

Hahahahaha

[pseudo plinth]

Before UNIX is turned up completely, a few configuration dependent exercises must be performed. At this point, it would be wise to read all of the manuals (especially`Regenerating System Software') and to augment this reading with hand to hand combat.
https://gunkies.org/wiki/Setting_Up_Unix_-_Seventh_Edition

[wicked shell]

so i think i figured out what's wrong with my old dual xeon server that i thought wasn't POST-ing

the built-in graphics are busted, so it is POST-ing, I just can't tell lol

and i can't get to the IPMI because it's still configured with a static IP on my old network... I could do some creative shit to get my desktop connected, but I already have a cheap GPU on the way lol

when i was troubleshooting my unraid server, i wanted to try taking out the GPU to see if that was the problem, but realized I don't have another functional GPU to slap in a PCI slot. so i ordered an AMD Radeon R5 430 off ebay for $15 shipped lol

[lean vault]

I've done lots of instances of adding an IP in a different subnet to my desktop in the last few months so I could talk to a configured IP in a different range.

[wicked shell]

Problem is, I have no idea what it's configured to, since I changed my network a lot back when I still used this system lol. Learning in prod, at home :)

[white sparrow]

just go through all the possible subnets one by one while pinging all the possible hosts, what could go wrong?

does nmap have a mode where it does that?

[ornate ferry]

serial cable output? that would get you a basic terminal

[lean vault]

In my case it was an industrial PoE switch (operating environment up to 70C) and some IPMI devices

For the former, the default IP was the only option :3

[blazing swan]

would be shocked if it didn't

[vale isle]

This arrived earlier

Currently installing drivers

I also realized the Optiplex was still booting off the hard drive instead of the SSD so I had to fix that before I started installing drivers

[chrome ledge]

https://tenor.com/view/optiplex-my-beloved-gif-5646466986796585278

[vale isle]

That looks like the same Optiplex I have

[wicked shell]

went to Microcenter earlier to get another CPU & Motherboard for this build I'm going to sell

they still had some AM4/DDR4 stuff, surprisingly

so I grabbed a Ryzen 7 5800XT and an MSI B550 motherboard

and a cheap 240mm AIO cooler to make it extra "flashy" lol

[vale isle]

Bought an 8gb stick of DDR3 ram for $14.99

Yeah lemme just pay ONE HUNDRED FUCKING DOLLARS for shipping that isn't guaranteed to be faster

[trim badge]

I wanna know what FedEx's algorithm that determined it was that much is doing lol

[wicked shell]

"@grok how much should we charge"

[rain matrix]

Probably holiday weekend -- they'd mail it Tuesday so overnight is Wednesday.

[vale isle]

The GPU has been pretty good so far

way better than the HD 2500 iGPU the thing had before

just waiting for the CPU now because the i5-3470 is definitely the bottleneck of the machine currently

[jagged blaze]

chat

I've been taking computer repair classes, having my finals this wednesday

teacher asked us to hand in a paper assembling a pretensies gaming pc that we would have to assemble and sell for a client

looking for ram is such a nightmare rn

[rain matrix]

Probably easier to invent a time machine and go back 9 months

[jagged blaze]

truly

this is what I got so far (taking into consideration local prices and availability)

[wicked shell]

i'm guessing budget is a major constraint for the build?

[jagged blaze]

yep

but also water cooling required because we didn't physically touch one in class so she wanted us to research about them

[wicked shell]

Oh okay gotcha

I actually bought a liquid cooler just like that yesterday for a computer I'm going to sell lol

[jagged blaze]

oh nice!

no price on part picker but I've found that model on my country for around $99,99

gotta find a case now and I can finish writing a report on it

[wicked shell]

Nice!

[ornate ferry]

Just add the RAM as a custom part "$20 - Paid a hobo to break into business and steal their RAM"

[wicked shell]

or "made it myself"

[pseudo plinth]

someone in the ibm z discord designed a cool deskmat so i'm having one made for the office

yes, that is a 16 exbibyte virtual address space

mainframes are cool (ask me about them)

[white sparrow]

how much RAM you gotta put in one of those bad boys? 👀

[rain matrix]

2GB outta do it. That's what virtual memory is for, right?

[pseudo plinth]

it really depends, some mainframes run with 32GB or less, some run multiple terabytes

the latest z systems support (iirc) 40tb of physical memory max

if you're visa or amex and all you're doing is on-the-fly transaction processing you probably don't need to store a whole lot in memory besides the application because ideally a transaction shouldn't live long enough to need caching

[pseudo plinth]

i've posted this before but it's an interesting watch, IBM are still pushing the boundaries of high end computing in really interesting ways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouAG4vXFORc

z/arch and POWER are essentially where all the modern innovation is happening, both are what you get when you fill a room with the world's smartest systems engineers, designers, and integrators, put a blank check in front of them, and tell them "make it better than the last one"

[lean vault]

Reclaimed the secondary GPU which was passed into the Windows VM to make one massive session :3

[pseudo plinth]

oh boy company announced that they are arbitrarily moving us from 3 days in office to 4

i love being told by people who don't actually come into the office at all and don't actually do any real work that i am now obligated to come in an additional day so that i can "spark ideas and strengthen connections"

[empty owl]

i bet they hired people under the condition of 3 days in office

and now they do a lil bait and switch

[pseudo plinth]

pretty much exactly what happened to me

[empty owl]

i'm supposed to be in twice a week

but I went in maybe a total of 5 times last year

[pseudo plinth]

i’m expected to be in as many days as they tell me to be in and they track badge use and time in and out

some fat fuck who flew to his vacation home for the michigan winter and is getting paid thousands an hour to sit in meetings and say “let’s circle back to that” telling me i’m not working hard enough

funny fucking joke

[wicked shell]

i'm worried if i move closer into DFW i'll have to start going to our tiny DFW office

i'd be the only tech person in that office, so you know what that would turn into

"hey can you fix my laptop/phone"

buddy i got shit to do and it's not that

[lean vault]

"let's circle back" just makes me think of this

[limber tiger]

When when when let’s let’s circle back

[arctic jasper]

sounds like the next donation copy pasta

[vale isle]

the Xeon arrived today

was my first experience swapping CPUs, ain't that bad of job

people were right about needing to use more force than you would think

[wicked shell]

haha yeah it can be really unsettling if you're not used to it

it feels so wrong lol

[lean vault]

Unsubscribing from a thing, clicked, opened a page with options.

This form has some history 😛

[pseudo plinth]

glad i came into work today

[chrome ledge]

Now it happened again at 4 in the morning

[vale isle]

Unplug your monitor every night

[chrome ledge]

https://tenor.com/view/morgan-freeman-true-morgan-freeman-true-nodding-gif-13973817878387504960

[pseudo plinth]

so here's a fun thought exercise, no wrong answers: i'm working on two distinct scripts that could potentially be merged into one workflow, essentially one script parses the results of a vmware rightsizing report and does some post-processing, and the other actually performs the vm resize actions. question being, in your ideal world how would this work? is it a script that lives on an admin box and runs via cron? is it an interactive webapp? is it an ansible playbook?

our ideal workflow is: run report -> parse results -> notify affected teams -> pare down list to hosts we can justifiably change -> process new inventory

so there's a pause in between running the report and actually doing the work which is where my brain is getting caught up

lot of different ways to approach this particular issue and i'm not really sure what the best one is

the question is basically "if someone has to push the button, what's the cleanest and most maintainable button i can implement"

[empty owl]

Does the first script need to be invoked manually?

Or is it like the first script runs nightly and generates the reports, and then the second script is used if it is determined that something needs to be done

[pseudo plinth]

it's either going to run the report on a schedule and parse the results directly or wait for a csv file to appear on a network share when vmware runs the job

i'm waiting on broadcom to tell me if the vrops api can actually do the reporting or not

so the first part is automated, once we have our initial list we reach out to affected server owners programmatically, the ones who don't reply we prod manually, and once we have a finalized list we would feed it back into the script in some way to do the final resizing job

i'm thinking a webapp might actually be a good fit for this

it could be written to allow for interactive manipulation of the inventory

i haven't done much python webapp stuff but it doesn't seem particularly complicated (kind of a theme for the language)

[empty owl]

Is it customer facing?

If it’s internal just make a barebones web app

[pseudo plinth]

internal only, and yeah, i'm thinking something like this

i'll have to sleep on it because i know my brain isn't operating at 100% but it's at least something

[wicked shell]

new least favorite thing

conversation with a complete stranger i've never worked with:
"hi gr3at, good morning" (doesn't follow up until i respond)
"hi, how can i help you?"
"can we have a quick call?"
"what is this regarding?"
calls anyway

[lean vault]

internal message? someone working for the same company?

[wicked shell]

outsourced contractor

but technically internal

[lean vault]

How strange. it would never occur to me to do that to anyone in any context.

[wicked shell]

unhinged behavior in any context lmao

[lean vault]

even people I know well I would at least mention the topic when asking if I could call.

[wicked shell]

exactly

may as well message someone "hey i'm about to cold call you"

[lean vault]

I have no reason to make it adversarial and try to have the upper hand by making the nature of the call a surprise

[wicked shell]

100%

and you should never assume whoever you're calling will know exactly what you're talking about off rip

this guy seemed to think i knew exactly who he was and what he was working on

[lean vault]

my boss messaged me today.. "how badly do we need another hypervisor server in the EU"

My response "I admit I'm not surprised by the question"

It was on the Capex Tracker for January... it's January... I did the thing I had scheduled myself to do. After seeing the price... converted from EUR... I am deeply regretting not ordering it in October when I ordered the four US servers.

BTW, we haven't received those 4 US servers yet. expecting them by early Feb though.

[wicked shell]

i'm not looking forward to acquiring new hardware for our new monitoring platform this year lol

everything we do has many layers of bureaucracy to weave through

like just getting a Rocky Linux VM created in our dev environment for a POC took 2 months

[lean vault]

wow

that's a same day request here 😛

[wicked shell]

our legal team has been working out a contract with Datadog (our new monitoring platform) since August

we still do not have a contract

it's baffling how slow everything is

and it's mainly because our legal team (exclusive to IT) somehow does not know the difference between SaaS and on-prem software

[lean vault]

people not knowing how to do their jobs

I think we have just one staff attorney and he's been with the company for more than 2 decades. I would hope he knows his stuff. 😛

[empty owl]

the red tape I have to go through to get anything done is infuriating

Why are we behind schedule? Well because the document needs to be reviewed by 6 different people and then sent to legal who also needs to review it and then it needs to be signed off by department heads who are travelling to and from Japan constantly

[empty owl]

I have to ask for permission to update visual studio because it requires admin permissions lmao

[wicked shell]

after much tinkering, i've determined my supermicro board is toast. so i looked up a replacement on ebay and found an open box one for $135 shipped, from China lol

guess there's not much demand for nearly 13 year old server hardware lol

[pseudo plinth]

just be glad you're not into ancient computers, i have to repair my kdj11 because uh

a direct replacement is a very reasonable $985 :D

[wicked shell]

damn you could buy like, 32GB of DDR5 with that

speaking of which, my exact ECC DDR3 kit I'm using with this server build is up to $480 lol

[pseudo plinth]

i think the problem is with the slu since it just reports garbage, it should be a relatively easy fix and everything else should be kosher but i haven't dedicated the time to it yet

[pseudo plinth]

lol

mine is probably around there, i'd have to look

[wicked shell]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224016011039

[pseudo plinth]

i was actually hoping to build another machine this year so i could dedicate it to freebsd but i guess i'll have to repurpose old stuff i have lying around instead

thankfully i have a ton of ecc ddr3 lying around because i bought almost 1tb worth when it was cheap, i just don't know where it is :x

(not all at once mind, i just bought 32gb here, 64gb there, whenever there was a good deal)

[lean vault]

We are probably buying very few new machines this year at work. It's just brutal out there. HDD augments are gonna sting

[wicked shell]

shipping from china tho

i'd be shocked if it's here by the 5th

[wicked shell]

So it turns out this convention is like 90% about AI

[rain matrix]

Are they explaining why it's worth using all the RAM for it?

[chrome ledge]

I think the battery on my iPad is actually (mostly) fucked

I’ll leave it off after it “dies” for a few hours, and when I hold the power button it’ll turn back on to 30-50% but then immediately go back to much lower

[empty owl]

this company fundamentally does not understand product security

they keep complaining about security taking forever and coming back with identified risks

there is always going to be risk. you cannot give us a product a week before release and expect us to just sign off on it

so frustrating

and we got told that if we don't hit a deadline then the CEO would lose out on some of his bonus

which is quite frankly INSANE to tell random employees

like any of us give a shit if the guy who just laid off 2k of our coworkers gets a bonus

[slow solstice]

I would honestly laugh if someone said that as a compelling reason to not do my job properly

[pseudo plinth]

boss makes a dollar i make a dime that’s why i shit on company time

[wicked shell]

Boss makes a million
I make a buck
Steal the catalytic converter
From the company truck

[pseudo plinth]

whee, signed up to help with patching and got roped into sitting around to help replace a drive with no eta on when it will arrive

i was hoping to go out and get vanilla beans and potatoes

at least my manager will probably let me work from home an extra day next week to make up for it

[wicked shell]

a guy on my team has started doing something really annoying lol
you'll be having an important conversation with him, and he just fkn vanishes
teams status stays green the entire time, but he just stops responding for over an hour

him: "hey team i built a new dev server with the latest update. hostname is devserver15. it's not a standard build so your domain accounts or RSA keys won't be able to log in"

me: "what account should we use to log in, then?"

[slow solstice]

Lol, my guess is he turned off teams notifications and forgot when he moved on to something else

(definitely not speaking from experience)

(though usually I don't do it when I just dropped important info in the chat)

[ornate ferry]

my strategy is to do that, but then go on vacation for a week

[wicked shell]

he finally responded.... after regular business hours

🙄

[pseudo plinth]

man i really love dealing with isp support

you can't tell me that you have no way of manually releasing a dhcp lease, i almost certainly worked for the company that made your routers

[lean vault]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/blursedimages/comments/1quannl/blursed_tech/

[vale isle]

1

[trim badge]

Is usb-c really that old?

[lean vault]

Usually standards are finalized well before you start to see them in wide use.

The Nexus 5X and 6P released in 2015 had USB C connectors

but they were a couple of the first phones to use that connector

[trim badge]

I suppose that makes sense

[vale isle]

wasn't that the year of like one of the worst Macbooks

really thin and it had a single USB-C port and a headphone jack

that was definitely a design choice

[wicked shell]

The dongle era

The swap to type C thunderbolt ports on 2016-2020 MacBooks wouldn't have been as unpopular if there were just... more of them. Larger models had more but iirc the 13 inch MacBook Pro had two type C ports and nothing else. Especially when you consider charging was done via those ports as well lol

[lean vault]

My laptop can have up to 7 USB C (but I only have modules to give it 5 total)

well, I could take out the remaining two modules and the port behind them are USB C, but that's janky :3

[empty owl]

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/notepad-says-chinese-government-hackers-hijacked-its-software-updates-for-months/

[trim badge]

Do people actually use notepad++ still?

[arctic jasper]

I use it at work but i never updated

[rain matrix]

I use it all the time. Thankfully never allow auto-updates.

[slow solstice]

I use it all the time for work too, but we have updated

[pseudo plinth]

i love watching ai people talk about art because they just make it so incredibly obvious that they don't understand art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk

"what if music could be engaging"

brother i'm about to blow your fucking mind: it already is

you just have to actually listen to it

[wicked shell]

thing exists for hundreds of thousands of years
"this isn't engaging enough"

delusional lmao

[pseudo plinth]

i like that in their world creating music is something that only a chosen few have the knowledge and access to do

i guess all the kids who grew up making music in cracked versions of fl studio before eventually getting noticed just don't exist

like, i don't view my failure to learn to play guitar as anything other than a personal failure to put in the time and effort to learn it, i didn't just scoff and go "well this is just impossible", i recognized that i wasn't putting in the kind of dedication needed to actually learn an instrument. it's hard, but if you're truly dedicated you will figure it out

some people aren't! and that's okay! but you don't get to then take a shortcut past all the blood sweat and tears those people put into honing their craft and go "yeah i'm basically just like you guys actually"

just such a selfish delusional view of what it takes to actually create something

it's just paint on a canvas, it's just words on a page, it's just notes on an instrument, and yet i can't create it unless i grovel in front of the machine

i feel the same way about people who criticize artists like rothko and newman; if it's so easy to put paint on a canvas and make a million dollars, why haven't you done it yet? what's stopping you?

[wicked shell]

to me, it's like someone who can't play saxophone using a saxophone sample in FL Studio, then claiming to be a saxophone player because of it

like no... that's not the same thing at all

[blazing swan]

13-inch MBP used to be available with 4 USB-C ports but then Apple said nonono you can't have nice things and reduced it to 2

[slow solstice]

I have seen people describe it as a disability that they can't make music, so they use AI as an aid for their disability

[wicked shell]

to be totally fair on this point, there is one very notable example of this happening that i actually support. the country musician Randy Travis, who already has an extensive discography, suffered a stroke several years ago that left him unable to sing or play guitar like he used to. in a new song he released in 2024, studio musicians did all of the backing track, and they had a "placeholder" vocalist sing the lyrics, emulating Randy's cadence and style. they then used an AI model trained entirely on Randy's vocals from his previous records, and replaced the placeholder vocals with his own.

there's a mini doc on it, it's actually pretty cool

[slow solstice]

Sure, AI can definitely be a tool to help with disabilities. I don't think I worded my point quite right, I should try to find the article, it was basically implying that lack of creativity was the same as a disability

[wicked shell]

oh, well that's just BS then, lol

that's like saying writer's block is a disability

like hush was saying, it takes work and lots of practice

now i can totally see AI being a great tool to help learn an instrument, learn to read music, etc

but that's very, very different lol

[slow solstice]

I can't find the article, I think it was on reddit so maybe someone was just rage baiting

[pseudo plinth]

i'm skeptical even of that most times, if an llm could be trained to know when it doesn't know something maybe but i think by design they just make things up as long as the probability is >0

obviously i know little about training llms and whether or not an llm can "know" when it doesn't know something but from experience all of the "good" llms seem more than happy to just make things up

i've mentioned this before but a while back i tried some llm, chatgpt or deepseek or something, to try and see if it could unstick me from some problems i was having with lisp code

predictably it made up two functions that do not exist in the common lisp spec and when prodded it said "i made them up :)"

when i prodded it further i got yet more invalid code

that could be a side effect of their tendency towards sycophancy, again i don't know for sure, i'm just speaking from experience

the problem is that when you're new to something and you can't separate the signal from the noise you might get something that builds and works fine but is fundamentally wrong in ways you can't identify

there's a reason memory management is an entire school of thought all on its own

[wicked shell]

honestly fair, i've noticed that too. LLMs seem to have a hard time differentiating between "it works" and "it's correct"

[rain matrix]

Indeed it's been proven that LLMs (at least with current architectures) can't correctly predict their own knowledge, and thus can't accurately say "I don't know."

[pseudo plinth]

yeah and that's a fundamental problem with llms as a learning tool, a good teacher will tell you where their knowledge ends, they won't just keep feeding you bullshit until you go away

and a good teacher will also help you find that information yourself and in the process equip you with the tools you need to do it on your own in the future

[wicked shell]

oh yeah LLMs will never (or at least, should never) replace actual teachers, at any level

[pseudo plinth]

the reason i basically had to relearn programming from scratch when i graduated high school even though i took a programming class was because our teacher was totally checked out and didn't inspire any passion, he would just look up answers whenever we had a question

[wicked shell]

one of the most important parts of education, with any subject, is critical thinking. which LLMs fundamentally cannot do.

[pseudo plinth]

yeah and ais have so far been demonstrated to have a net negative effect on existing skillsets https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-ai-deskilling-paradox/

adam's video mentions this paper which is particularly worrisome https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

essentially endoscopists who were exposed to ai over a period of time exhibited a marked decline in their ability to independently spot cancerous growths

i think more people need to understand we are essentially being poisoned to suit the whims of a bunch of delusional silicon valley hacks

this is another very clear us vs them

[rain matrix]

Regarding factual accuracy (so, nothing about LLMs generating opinions), the most straightforward explanation that I like to use is that LLMs are trained for one goal and only one goal: generate text that we (humans) think is good text. Overall, we usually do like true text, so the LLMs that are massively trained tend to produce true text (when there is a truth), but it certainly doesn't "care" about whether or not it's true -- it's just been trained that the text that's true performs better than the text that's not true. The two ways that falls apart are 1) when there wasn't enough true text on a topic in the training data, and 2) when we (humans) don't necessarily prefer the true text. In both cases, the extremely dangerous thing is that it will still generate text that we like. And when we see text that we like, we tend to believe it, regardless of whether or not it's true.

[pseudo plinth]

well said

[wicked shell]

100%

[normal tartan]

https://i.redd.it/0ekeixr6c7hg1.jpeg

I came across this the other day and it cracked me up + is semi related to the conversation so here you go

[granite breach]

Does that say vaiuation or is it just a weird font for valuation

[white sparrow]

those are "i"s on both graphs

[wicked shell]

plot twist: the graphs are AI generated

[vale isle]

it has the piss filter on it

[granite breach]

Is vaiution a real thing?

[normal tartan]

Gotta justify it somehow

What better way than linkedin memes

[pseudo blaze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56HJQm5nb0U

[normal tartan]

Oh my god it keeps getting worse this is incredible

[empty owl]

great comment

[vale isle]

Got some gifts for my birthday :3

[wicked shell]

heck yeah

[vale isle]

my Framework gets really hot because the small fan in it can't push out enough heat so I got a cooler for it

[wicked shell]

smart

i have that same toolkit, it's soooo handy

[vale isle]

I don't really have a use for it at the moment but I know I'll have uses for it someday and it'll be nice to have it on hand

[wicked shell]

definitely

[normal tartan]

I picked up the set with the folding thing that goes around that one a while ago

[wicked shell]

well happy birthday, i'm glad you got some neat stuff!!

[vale isle]

thanks

[normal tartan]

Very useful kit overall

[wicked shell]

yeah of all the tech toolkits i've had, my ifixit has lasted the longest by far

[vale isle]

and then the mouse is because the wireless mouse I had barely works and I don't like using a wired mouse on a laptop, plus I prefer silent clicks, which the G502 Hero definitely doesn't have

[normal tartan]

I'm actually surprised I've used the spudgers and stuff as much as I have, I figured most of the kit except the bits etc. would be useless lol

[wicked shell]

fair enough lol, i've always liked wireless mice too

[vale isle]

I gave my brother the G502 because it is a lot better than the Onn mouse he was using before

[wicked shell]

oof, yeah, walmart brand mouse

[vale isle]

mhm

[wicked shell]

Onn peripherals are dirt cheap but somehow still overpriced

lmao

[vale isle]

haha

[normal tartan]

Once it became good enough I've never wanted to go back

The wire

[wicked shell]

i currently use a razer naga pro, which can be either 2.4gz, bluetooth, or wired

but it has a charging dock, so i use it wireless all the time and set it on the dock when i'm not using it

haven't had to plug in the mouse itself in months

[normal tartan]

I have a viper v2 pro that I have to plug in once a week or so

My only dislike is razer customer service lol

[wicked shell]

i have beef with Synapse

and also the mouse is heavy

[normal tartan]

Idr if I mentioned it here before but I had one that was dying before

It would just randomly click

[wicked shell]

huh, weird

[normal tartan]

And I had to talk to customer service 3 times because the first 2 times they told me they couldn't honour the warranty because I didn't buy it from Amazon, I bought it from "Amazon.com.ca", who is a reseller and therefore not warranted

The third guy told me he had no clue wtf they were talking about and processed it for me

[wicked shell]

mine has an issue with double middle clicking, but that's such a minor issue i'm not worried about it lol

[normal tartan]

I just never use synapse lol

[vale isle]

the tecknet mouse I got can be 2.4gz or bluetooth, but not wired

which I don't think is much of an issue

[wicked shell]

this mouse has 12 thumb buttons so i need to map them somehow lol

[normal tartan]

That's fair

I've never wanted one of those, I just have the standard 2

[wicked shell]

i love MMO mice

so much room for activities

i wish the steelseries aerox 9 wasn't so massive and uncomfortable

[normal tartan]

That's what a 104 key keyboard is for

[slow solstice]

I have a wireless Logitech mouse, I had a Corsair mouse for a while and that thing was garbage

keep going back to Logitech cause they're cheap and I can get a few years out of them

[vale isle]

yeah this is the first time in years that I have something other than a Logitech mouse

[wicked shell]

lol this is so funny
today was an important contract renewal negotiation/signing day for our current monitoring suite
the platform has been having significant, highly visible issues all day
as it stands we don't have pen to paper on a new contract (or price) for 2026
we have so much fkn leverage for a huge discount right now lmao

this is our last year with them anyway since we just got approved to move to datadog

they don't know that yet

[arctic jasper]

holy schmoly that one course is like 4 of my courses when I was in school

[wicked shell]

if anyone needs a mirror of the Bash Reference Manual, here's a new one:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00315849.pdf

yep, just a regular mirror. definitely not hosted in the epstein files archive.

[rain matrix]

And if I heard right, there's one bit in it that was censored

[wicked shell]

page 122

so funny lol

[chrome ledge]

attempting to put in a 1tb ssd in my steam deck OLED

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-pc-meme-matrix-codes-gif-16730883

it worked, I didn't break it

[white sparrow]

I ... never expected that kind of brainrot

[pseudo plinth]

woah, now that's a cool find

genuine piece of history

[ornate ferry]

lmao @ the half duplex, my sides

[empty owl]

rip crypto and tech stocks

[wicked shell]

holy shit i just saw bitcoin lmao

[empty owl]

All the bitcoin people realizing they’ve been funding an international pedo ring after reading the Epstein files

And now getting rug pulled lmaooo

[trim badge]

Yeah, I'm down 5% today... Still beating the s&p ytd though, so we good

[wicked shell]

crazy those NFTs are still worth that much tbh... 5.64 ETH is still $10,560 at the current price

i haven't checked my 401k yet

[iron mulch]

If you are under 40 buy the dip

(stonks, not crypto)

[wicked shell]

will this work?

[pseudo plinth]

sold the as400 🥲

sad to see it go but it's going to a fellow hobbyist so at least i know it will be properly loved

[chrome ledge]

for shits and giggles im gonna try to install steamOS on my old lenovo laptop, hoping the fact it has AMD will help

ok that didn't work, bazzite it is

[pseudo plinth]

god i fucking hate supermicro

it's release day and one of our tasks is to enable hyperthreading on a bunch of database servers

well guess what, they're all supermicros and of the five i checked literally all five of them needed the bmc reset before i could access the console

[lean vault]

There's probably a prometheus exporter that can monitor those. Something I want to set up one of these days

[pseudo plinth]

if there's an api i'll just write a cron job to reboot the fucking bmcs every night if that's what it takes to make sure they're there when i need them

out of the fifteen or so systems i worked on this morning do you know how many had a functional console on the first try

one

[chrome ledge]

im gonna try to intall pop! os on my old laptop, mostly because i've never used it before

[pseudo plinth]

damn i love a high quality handwiring job

an ideal analog circuit should be laid out in such a way that a high school electronics student can understand and work on it and i think this fits the bill pretty nicely

i like this detail the reviewer pointed out, the leads of these diodes and their bypass caps are intentionally bent in such a way that they fit cleanly together and indicate at a glance that they're associated components. very neat

[wicked shell]

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1

[ornate ferry]

that's the fault of those users, not the compiler

include paths not properly set up for the standard headers or something

[vale isle]

That company name tho

[wicked shell]

i got basically that same power bank by a different brand (probably exactly the same tbh lol) and having a built-in cable is awesome

also got one of these and put it around the built-in cable for charging my airpods

[pseudo plinth]

"hey can i get a pcap run for a couple hours for this /21 hitting this handful of IPs on this port"
"no that would impact the firewalls"

with all due respect no i do not think it would

at least not in any meaningful or noticeable way

this is genuinely the first time i've ever gotten pushback for asking for pcaps in a prod network and i've worked for some pretty big companies

like yeah if i asked you "give me a pcap for FROM ANY TO ANY PORT ANY PROTO ANY" i would definitely expect you to tell me to fuck off but that is not what i am asking

[ornate ferry]

do they think you want pcaps from the network infrastructure maybe?

like you can run tcpdump on a router or managed switch... but it's definitely gonna impact things

[pseudo plinth]

a pcap from the firewall that observed the traffic would be ideal but that's not something i've ever had an issue with myself

i was partly responsible for managing our juniper deployment at my last job and i don't think we ever had issues with pcaps

we did a lot of threat hunting and a lot of pcap tasking and i don't remember ever being told we had to back off, and this was on prod gear

[ornate ferry]

oh yeah in any reasonable enterprise it would be fine

but maybe they have a crap setup

[pseudo plinth]

aiui as long as your filters are reasonably restrictive and you task the pcap over a fairly short timespan the impact is negligible

yeah that's my thinking as well, we have a pretty sturdy backbone so it should be able to handle an hour or two of pcaps

i'm pushing back on them (gently) because i think they're being overly safe

i should also note this is not a small company at all, there are like 1000 people in this office alone

[ornate ferry]

ah

[pseudo plinth]

yeah, i think it's just the sort of neurotic overprotective behavior you tend to get in highly regulated change-controlled environments

nobody wants to be the guy getting paged because their shit went down so they tend to be overly cautious

we've been seeing this as we try to mass resize a bunch of overprovisioned vms, people pushing back even after we show them months-long charts indicating they only use half their allocated resources because "what if it goes down and i'm on call"

we have the data but emotions take precedence

[white sparrow]

"what if it goes down and I'm on call" ... then do your job :sigh:

[wicked shell]

i've only had pushback for a pcap one time at my place, and it was for our PCI DSS certified environment. i was able to get it done, but it needed to go through the whole change control process and take place overnight

[pseudo plinth]

yeah and i mean we have a vested interest in making sure your shit doesn't go down because guess what? if the app goes down due to insufficient resources, guess who gets blamed?

it's not like we're doing this just for shits and giggles, it's because there's 3/4s of a terabyte worth of memory and several hundred cores that we can recover lol

we have a budget too, have these fuckers looked at the cost of memory lately

(ok that was kind of a vent sorry)

[wicked shell]

3/4 of a terabyte of ECC DDR5 is probably worth more than i make in a year at this point

[pseudo plinth]

i think we got quoted for $6.5k for a single 64gb dimm through cdw

[wicked shell]

[pseudo plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/seal-wave-wipe-out-hit-dead-gif-2709884677575117023

it's a bad time to be in ops

[lean vault]

Sign in to this site: Use a password or send an SMS code?
types password in
Please type the code we sent to your phone to continue.

[pseudo plinth]

hm

[lean vault]

update BIOS from your browser?

[wicked shell]

https://codeberg.org/smnx/promethee

these words are NOT in the bible 🥀

[lean vault]

😛

someone must have had a fever dream and needed to put it into code

[pseudo plinth]

as much as i love old unix it can really be a pain sometimes

"inability to login graphically if the system hostname doesn't resolve" is such an annoying and opaque failure mode

[trim badge]

AI is getting so good it learned to count!

I really wish I could turn off the search summary. I don't find any other search engine works well for some of the super niche topics I research on occasion, but I despise the fact that you can't toggle the summaries.

I'm not even opposed to its existence, I'm opposed to the fact I have to scroll past it and can't disable it.

Maybe there's a browser extension for that actually

[normal tartan]

You can, at least in Firefox

Idk if other browsers support custom search engines

But you can force it to search with the Web tab, which doesn't have it

And/or disappear it with ublock

[empty owl]

i turned off AI results in Edge

should work for any Chromium browser

[marble sparrow]

There's some bit of data you can append to the url after the link to disable it

[blazing swan]

https://udm14.org/

[trim badge]

Awesome. I swear I researched this like a year ago and the only way I could find was to append profanities to my messages lol

[ornate ferry]

yeah an alternate method that I've heard works is to append "-<any slur>" to your search, which normally excludes results with the slur but will cause the AI to shut down processing due to your prompt having a slur in it

[pseudo plinth]

remember to only use the ones you're allowed to say

[empty owl]

time to break out all my italian-american slurs

[pseudo plinth]

i get those plus all the gay and autistic ones. i'm multiclassing

[wicked shell]

well damn i guess i don't get to use the slur method lmao

[rain matrix]

I don't think "limey" is strong enough to work and that's all I got.

[ornate ferry]

oh yeah I definitely don't recommend using the slur method, but I just thought it was interesting

[pseudo plinth]

well, i'm finally being forced to deep dive into performance testing

topic of benchmarking linux on hyper-v performance came up and i went yep i'll do that

it shouldn't be too hard to write something in python that can do everything i want

[ornate ferry]

what statistics do you want?

I have a friend who works on the Hyper-V team at MS

[pseudo plinth]

i think we're mostly looking to understand what we can expect out of our hardware

[ornate ferry]

ah OK

if you ever need statistics for stuff running on Azure let me know, since it's literally his job to speed that up

[pseudo plinth]

for sure, i appreciate it!

[chrome ledge]

We went to a Verizon store bc my brother got a new phone, and I messed around with the Fold 7 on display

Fuck I want that phone so bad

I miss using my z fold 3

[marble sparrow]

I love how modern computing encourages using slurs to give more factual results /s

[arctic jasper]

what does it mean when my work computer won't connect to the router after a windows update?

guessing it's just a free day for me then if I can't get this working lmao

[empty owl]

a few years ago I got locked out of my work account and it took like 2 weeks for them to get me back in

so I did nothing for 2 weeks

was pretty great

[arctic jasper]

my current solution is using mobile hotspot on my work phone that is only connected to the wifi

[marble sparrow]

It means you have to restart

literally this is just a thing with the most recent version

💀

I'm the sysadmin and it's happened with like 4 of our devices where windows just stops detecting the network hardware sometimes when you boot

another banger system breaking windows update. Thanks microslop

[arctic jasper]

restart didn't even work for me

[marble sparrow]

Does your pc at least show available wifi networks or is the option missing?

[arctic jasper]

yeah it shows options, just won't connect to the main wifi network

[marble sparrow]

Ahhh okay, that's different, idk what the specific problem is in that case.

Can you try to run "ipconfig" in the terminal? That's what I usually do to start troubleshooting wifi

[ornate ferry]

disable your wifi adapter, then turn it back on

this happened to me a few times on win10

[arctic jasper]

okay, so turns out the router just wouldn't let you reconnect if you disconnect for any reason

resetting the router fixed this. didn't think it was that since everything else was working lmao

appreciate the help, helped narrow down the issue

[wicked shell]

huh, that's weird. wouldn't have expected the router to be the issue

what kind of router is it?

[arctic jasper]

it's a netgear nighthawk ac1900

[wicked shell]

huh, weird, those are solid routers

i wonder if something somehow got messed up with the DHCP lease? that's the only thing i can think of, but idk how that would even happen lol

[wicked shell]

approve my pr pls, thanks

[slow solstice]

Ah yes my favorite month/day, PublicHoliday

[wicked shell]

update on my old dual Xeon build that suddenly shit the bed and i couldn't figure out what was wrong:
replacement motherboard finally arrived from china. put in the CPUs and memory, fired right up.
48 cores and 256gb of memory are now at my disposal

downside is, i have no storage for it

or a case, now that i think about it

[pseudo plinth]

rust programmers be like "my 300 sloc project might pull in 80 different packages but at least they're all memory-safe"

[ornate ferry]

80 packages? someone's optimistic

[pseudo plinth]

i NEED a fancy progress bar. you don't understand. EVERYONE has one

[lean vault]

cargo cult

[vale isle]

My dad got a bunch of computer parts from his co-worker to give to me, I have so much ram now

It's a mix of DDR2, 3, and 4

Also some old motherboards and power supplys and other stuff

[vale isle]

thinking of using one of the motherboards to set up a home server

the one I'm thinking of using is a HP IPM87-MP which had a Core i3-4170 in it when given to me, which I know isn't the best but should be fine for what I would want to use my home server for.

or I'm thinking I could upgrade the CPU in there and get it a GPU and my brother could use that as his computer, and I would have the Optiplex to set up as a server

of course no matter what I do I'll have to get a case for it

[vague peak]

Unless

[pseudo plinth]

put a cardboard box over it, cut holes in the box, mount fans in the holes

the screws they give you are basically self-tapping anyway

[wicked shell]

isn't that true of any screws?

screws can also be nails if you hit them hard enough

[pseudo plinth]

given an appropriate amount of pressure sure

[wicked shell]

i've made a case out of a rubbermaid container before

[vale isle]

I wasn't given screws

I did find a cardboard box though

[vale isle]

It's working!

[wicked shell]

hell yeah

[vale isle]

Definitely have to modify the box

[rain matrix]

My first computer (that was mine, not the family's) spent its life screwed to the underside of a Walmart beside table.

Just the motherboard.

You can just barely see it all the way on the left.

[wicked shell]

hold up hold up, let me see if i can guess the year

[rain matrix]

SO many clues.

[wicked shell]

that's why i want to guess lmao

so immediately, i can tell it's between 2003-2006

"war in iraq" on the tv, so it's after 2003

gamecube as the main console, so most likely before 2006

if i really wanted to go crazy, I could use the US quarters map hanging on the wall

but that assumes you kept up with it as soon as the quarters released

i thought maybe the wavebird controller would be another clue, but that came out in 2002, and we already know it's at least 2003

[rain matrix]

@heavy oasis, play the "Countdown" theme.

[wicked shell]

yeah i don't think i can find anything else to indicate the exact year

i'm going with sometime between 2003-2006 lol

[rain matrix]

Early 2003 yeah. So I was 17. I think I got the computer when I was 15 or so.

[wicked shell]

hell yeah

i would have been 8 at that time, just learning how to type lol

side note, the samsung SSD plugged into coby's naked PC made me think of this

[vale isle]

Perfect server name

[rain matrix]

Big fish little fish

[wicked shell]

ubuntu server spotted

based

[empty owl]

Thanks Microsoft

Great diagram

No notes

[arctic jasper]

Timn ⬆️

[vague peak]

morged

[empty owl]

branch may be continvoucly morged back into develop

imagine working for Microsoft and debasing yourself by producing this garbage

insane loser behavior

[normal tartan]

m o r g e d

[vale isle]

The cardboard box

Cable management is horrendous and the SSD isn't secured in place, but neither is the motherboard and PSU

But it works

Oh yeah I also want to get my WD Red SSD in there too

[wicked shell]

lol i've done so many builds with the SSD straight up zip tied to the case

including the one i'm selling soon

also any plans for the new server so far?

[vale isle]

For now I'm planning on setting up Immich and maybe just use it as a NAS in general

My brother wants me to set up a Java server

[pseudo plinth]

really annoying: windows 11 search doesn't include "anaconda" when i search for "conda"

why the fuck not!

[empty owl]

all the search functions have been replaced with copilot, which does not work

can't find emails in outlook anymore

[pseudo plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/michiganstate-football-spartanfootball-michiganstatefootball-coachtucker-gif-21338414

so the ai can't figure out:

• partial pattern matching
• basic mathematics
• counting

[empty owl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_PTvdxF_XY

[vale isle]

I don't think we have zip ties but we do have some command strips that I can use

we might have zip ties, idk. not where I have looked

[wicked shell]

"RegEx can't hurt me if I don't know what it is" - Copilot, probably

also the Win11 start menu is a React Native application, so it uses more resources to give you incorrect results lol

[wicked shell]

I think my coworker is actively trying to pick a fight with me

For no reason, he opened my branch of our repo, found a one-off utility script i wrote a few weeks ago, linked it in our team chat and said "this looks pretty useless"

like what the fuck was that for lol

[slow solstice]

Send a link to his LinkedIn page and say "this looks pretty useless"

(jk don't actually do that)

[wicked shell]

lmao

i said "didn't ask" and left it at that

[vale isle]

WD Red SSD is in and I "secured" both with a couple of command strips

Also added a hole at the front to access I/O

[wicked shell]

heck yeah

[vale isle]

this cardboard box is getting more unstable the more I do to it :P

[wicked shell]

it wouldn't be a homelab without a bit of instability

[normal tartan]

Years ago when I was first putting together my second pc I didn't have a case for about a week and just ran it on my desk in front of my keyboard lol

[ornate ferry]

respond to our recruiter saying I want to interview a candidate, I can do it any day this week except Friday, time has to be after 2 PM

interview scheduled: tomorrow at 10 AM

[slow solstice]

Idk what it is with recruiters and lacking basic reading comprehension

[white sparrow]

sometimes one wonders how some people even graduated highschool

[trim badge]

Is putting your PC on the carpet really an issue? I've had mine on carpet for 3 years since I've built it, and have never had an issue. I didn't know about the no PC on carpet tile at first, and just haven't bothered to change it since, but I'm curious if I should remedy it with a piece of cardboard or something lol

[ornate ferry]

I haven't had a problem with that, as long as it doesn't exhaust downwards you're fine

[white sparrow]

depends on the carpet;
some carpets can generate static electricity which could be bad for a computer in contact with it, and if it gets too hot it could catch on fire or melt

but it depends

if it's been there for years already it's probably fine, or it's already melted but you never noticed cause you didn't look underneath

[trim badge]

Airflow vents out the back and top. The bottom has an area to setup raid drives, but it's empty cause my SSDs are enough for my current usage. I mentioned it to my cousin yesterday and he acted like the carpet was going to emperor Palpatine my PC lol

[rain matrix]

Sometimes Windows decides I've used all 48 GB of RAM even though the processes only add up to like 1 GB

Taken at the same time. Apparently also using 73 GB of virtual memory.

[empty owl]

if they had reading comprehension they wouldn't be a recruiter

altho it's not like anyone else I work with can read either

[ornate ferry]

Check your kernel NonPagedPool usage

[rain matrix]

Next time it happens I'll check that

[pseudo plinth]

https://bsky.app/profile/screamerjim.bsky.social/post/3mf6bz5srkc2q

Screamer Jim (@screamerjim.bsky.social)

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

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[empty owl]

https://tenor.com/view/tayne-paul-rudd-tim-and-gif-5277723016601964746

[wicked shell]

oh hey, the origin of my name

mi momo Tim Heidecker

[vale isle]

updated to Plasma 6.6 the other day and the icon for OBS became hecked up

why is the middle part a square now

it's overlapping the outline

[wicked shell]

finally finished and listed my spare parts PC

i have it listed at a pretty fair price tbh

not the prettiest cable management but oh well lol

[wicked shell]

i posted it less than an hour ago and i've already had 4 people contact me lmao

maybe i should have asked for more

[empty owl]

time to jack up the price now that they're interested

[wicked shell]

i really thought i was asking too much and was prepared to go down a little

Ryzen 7 5800XT
RTX 3070
32GB DDR4

I asked for $1500

that's well above each part individually

even with current RAM prices

that specific kit is $150 on ebay right now

if you add up each part individually it should be $1200 lol

[iron mulch]

my machine was about that price new all things considered

maybe a bit more

5800x, 48G of DDR4 (bought at optimal timing,) 3070 ti

[wicked shell]

lol the case for my xeon build came in, but my PSU cables are too short

[rain matrix]

They're made of plastic and ductile metal, so just pull them hard enough and they'll stretch.

[wicked shell]

i ordered some extenders

i'll keep a fire extinguisher nearby

[chrome ledge]

I was updating my nvidia drivers, why was this in (mostly) korean?

I was updating my nvidia drivers, why was this in korean?

Also somewhat unrelated but also related, but I had this really weird issue where earlier, my main monitor froze, then my other two monitors froze, then all of them went to "sleep", and then everything went back to normal

Then about 30 minutes later, the same thing happened but my monitors wouldn't turn back on, so i had to turn off my desktop then turn it back on

I noticed there was an nvidia driver update from late January, I hope that doesn't happen again

Knock on wood, but if this means that my GPU is dying (Which I doubt), then I might have to use a gpu from my old hand me down gaming PC

[rich gyro]

I saw somebody else having the exact same issue

[trim badge]

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

I don't see anything like this being a problem for at least the next decade, but it could be an early indicator of a bigger issue in the future

[arctic jasper]

css crimes https://lyra.horse/x86css/

(doesn't work on firefox sadly)

[white sparrow]

(I'd argue that's a point in firefox's favour; CSS is not supposed to be this capable!)

[wicked shell]

"we see you and your neighbors are offline but there's no outage"

??????

[empty owl]

getting gaslighted by the ISP support

[wicked shell]

Feel bad for the tech driving all the way out here to say it's not my equipment lol

[wicked shell]

we're back

apparently a crew was replacing some equipment a few streets over, and since my house wasn't marked as a Spectrum customer, they disconnected me

[wicked shell]

finally got clarification on my company's RTO policy if i were to move closer into DFW
i'd have to go into the office 4 days a week, which kinda sucks but also isn't that bad if i live nearby

and i can't avoid it by moving to Austin either, because we're opening an office there soon as well lol

[pseudo plinth]

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

[pseudo plinth]

https://asahilinux.org/docs/project/policies/slop/

[sour hull]

Slop generators is based

[sour hull]

https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?si=8M2lmrCqHRtTdwmw interesting video plus explains ssh in a way I could understand so I figured I'd share

[iron mulch]

I remember waking up to this news, I was completely blown away

[pseudo plinth]

lol very cool that hyperv apparently has code to prevent you from stopping a windows vm mid-update

now i get to sit and spin while a vm i don't want anymore updates

allsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wicked shell]

https://giphy.com/gifs/steve-windows-ballmer-MGYY2FIs8VrfW

[pseudo plinth]

oh my god lmao the scvmm eval vhd ships with gpos configured in such a way that you can't actually install vmm

is anyone even employed at microsoft

this is a joke

[wicked shell]

https://giphy.com/gifs/everyone-word-sharing-13V60VgE2ED7oc

[wicked shell]

i'm about to crash out at our vendor

we're constantly chasing bugs and getting a lot of heat for the platform not working

today we get a marketing email from them about using agentic AI for predictive alerting

BUDDY YOUR PLATFORM RUNS ON PYTHON 2

[iron mulch]

I can do predictive alerting in my sleep. just send the alerts before you cause the problems

[wicked shell]

i'd honestly trust a roadside psychic more than this company's "predictive alerting" tbh

[empty owl]

when I first got hired about 10 years ago now we were trying to build predictive alerting into our medical devices

turns out hospitals don't love telemetry

[pseudo plinth]

speaking of shitty vendors, gotta love submitting a ticket on a thursday afternoon requesting a call and hearing back "what are your hours for next week"

how about "what are your hours for tomorrow, which is friday, a business day" you fuck

[empty owl]

good job corporate

you don't know if a .NET software engineer needs a Visual Studio license

[ornate ferry]

ehh if they do that for all licensed software automatically, it makes sense

but yeah I think you need that license lol

[empty owl]

i feel like there are better processes than thi

especially since it came into my email as an External potential spam message

[slow solstice]

Our audit folks make managers review licenses and access quarterly

Security doesn't like it because they think it makes people complacent when they do it that frequently lol

[wicked shell]

our "AI Security Review Board" is made up of non tech people

today's "what the fuck are they doing" moment was issuing an announcement that AWS and GCP are no longer allowed, because they both offer AI products

they very quickly retracted lol

they don't realize that AI is unavoidable right now

can't even use Notepad

[ornate ferry]

oh, they're switching all of you to Linux?

quite bold of them

[iron mulch]

sign me up

the only thing I like about windows is visual studio, and rider is good enough to replace it now

[thorn aurora]

steam link might be the best piece of software in recent times im ngl

i understand it now

[chrome ledge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportmacgyver/s/wgg3aHQbmT

[wicked shell]

my synology nas died

oh well, i'll just pop by microcenter tomorrow and get a raspberry pi lol

i didn't have anything super important on it

[chrome ledge]

You can run an OS on a pie?

[chrome ledge]

Hey windows 11

If File Explorer wouldn't have a fucking stroke and randomly freeze, thus getting red of my file explorer windows, that'd be fucking fantastic

https://tenor.com/view/screaming-internally-spongebob-spongebob-scream-intensifies-gif-6589653077021924320

[thorn aurora]

https://www.voidtools.com/

[rain matrix]

Today it's started taking literally 20 seconds to open the fucking right-click menu in file explorer. GG microsoft.

[chrome ledge]

Also, I love it when the task manager doesn’t update its graphs, and when I close it, it’ll more than likely open up by itself again

[rain matrix]

Probably thinks it crashed. I know it has more fail-safes than most programs, so probably tries to restart itself after crashing. Except now that it's thoroughly enshittified those mechanisms are less than useful.

[empty owl]

My explorer sometimes doesn’t work and it spins the cpu like crazy until I restart the process

Win10. Really annoying.

[inner flicker]

Any suggestions for Linux distros? My friend is thinking of moving from windows 11 to Linux

[sour hull]

I just started using Linux mint and I like it a lot. Probably a solid starting point

(also I have a weird display scaling issue if anyone knows how to help)

[vale isle]

I also recommend Mint

[fleet python]

I've been running Ubuntu Cinnamon since building my new PC (early last year, before memory prices went nuts), but Mint was a very, very close second.
Mint was probably the better choice upon further research, but eh, too lazy to change now

[sour hull]

i asked on reddit and everyone is telling me to switch distros but i'm too stubborn

[vague peak]

no matter what linux issue (or potentially any OS issue) you will get this suggestion on reddit

[inner flicker]

[sour hull]

i figure to some extent but it seems specifically an X11 vs Wayland thing to an extent. (using 2 different sized screens also using an nvidia graphics card)

[normal tartan]

Have you tried switching distros so that people stop telling you to switch distros?

[wicked shell]

I have Mint on another nvme drive but I keep forgetting to select it in the bootloader when I start my PC lol

I'll have to do today's archipelago in Windows though since that's all the Portal 2 mod supports

[chrome ledge]

If I happen to find a 2tb+ ssd at a decent price ( ) then maybe I’d try messing with Linux again

[vale isle]

I was running Mint on a 128gb mSATA SSD as my only OS

[chrome ledge]

That gives me an idea

I should run Linux off my 640gb laptop hard drive that was manufactured in 2011

[vale isle]

I originally was running Mint off my 320GB failing hard drive

[thorn aurora]

damn. gpt is getting better at coding. i remember struggling with some basic stuff years ago but it fully solved my problem and even let me work around its own analysis limits.

the whole script is 23 lines and worked perfectly first try

[thorn aurora]

https://github.com/Swirren/GZChatFinder

[wicked shell]

just found out my county pays a contractor $275k a year to host/maintain the county website

it's hosted on a single EC2 instance

i should start an LLC and bid $250k

[pseudo plinth]

government contracting is the biggest and most obvious grift there is, it's hilarious

we spent like a trillion dollars on a plane whose most noteworthy attribute is "loves to crash"

[rain matrix]

State DoT here uses a program to analyze bridge designs. It's written in fortran and almost no one even knows how to use it anymore, let alone make any changes, but its output is considered the base truth in all of their design review processes. I wonder how much they'd pay someone to port it to a modern language.

[empty owl]

the Noem hearing today was hilarious how corrupt the no-bid contracts are

yeah they worked on my campaign for a decade and helped write my memoir but they earned that $220m no-bid contract to make DHS propaganda videos

not to get too political but yeah. government contracting is fuuuuuucked

[wicked shell]

close friend of mine was a SSgt in the air force and left recently after 11 years. we grew up together building computers for people, so he's very familiar with how much things should cost. he said they were replacing some computers on base, and they were paying upwards of $10k a pop for regular ass Dell Optiplex desktops

[rain matrix]

$1.5k of computer, $2k of paperwork, and $6.5k of "extended support" (aka when it breaks they just send a new one no questions asked).

[wicked shell]

apparently the Navy was still migrating systems off XP as late as October 2025

that was their "deadline" for getting everything upgraded or migrated, but idk if they actually met it lol

we'll probably never see it, but i wonder how different the 2025 version of XP is compared to the last supported version of XP from 2014

[chrome ledge]

I remember my doctor as a kid having those windows xp tablets

When I was 8 I was like: woah, that's so cool!

When I went to that doctor for the last time when I was 12/13 I was like: woah, that's so cool!

Even now, despite almost being 26 and haven't seeing that doctor in 13 years, I'm like: woah, that's so cool!

[pseudo plinth]

was at the mall for the farmer's market today and when i walked past the home expo booths on my way to the bookstore i saw one of them had ai banners hung up and the middle one had the studio ghibli piss filter lol

really wanted to take a picture but the guy was sitting right there and that's weird

[rain matrix]

Eh, be weird about it.

[pseudo plinth]

i mean 99% chance that guy's dipshit boss generated and printed it and he's just being paid (and not particularly well) to sit there and try to hawk roof treatment to 70 year olds

unless someone's goose stepping around with a swastika t-shirt i generally try to just leave others be

[blazing swan]

hawk tuah

[wicked shell]

"hawk to a 70 year old"

[pseudo plinth]

talk me out of it please https://frame.work/products/deep-computing-risc-v-mainboard

(don't actually talk me out of it)

[rain matrix]

From what I've heard, only do it if you're interested in helping research and develop RISC-V support.

Oh ha they literally say that in the description.

[iron mulch]

join me in appreciating the timer implementation in this blog post https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260309-01/?p=112120

[ornate ferry]

holy shit that is fantastic

[sour hull]

interesting twitch quirk: O.O doesnt show as the emote when sent through the api vs native twitch chat, or at least i presume thats what it is, the underscore version works

[thorn aurora]

are we closer to reality

it was $512 90 days ish ago

please continue going down thx

[ornate ferry]

thank you for bringing this pricing mistake to our attention, we meant to type $639.99

[wicked shell]

friend of mine just showed me an incredibly predatory thing microslop is doing with office 365 now

i'm not sure if it's a new thing, but end users can install trials of office programs without IT intervention, and it adds a trial license to the Office 365 account. the trial can then automatically be converted to a paid license and added to the company's bill

this is already bad to begin with, but gets immensely worse when it's enabled by default

default setting is "Allow"

[rain matrix]

Aren't commercial licenses a huge part of where they make money? That seems like something that will "bite the hand that feeds."

[lean vault]

heh, just tinkering with getting GitLab runner working on a Windows 11 VM with Docker Engine, job failed in the middle. Attach to Windows console.. automatic updates in progress

I don't care that much since this is just for me as a fallback for doing Windows builds in case there's ever a problem using GitHub's actions, but yeah, I'm glad I don't deal with windows much 😛

[wicked shell]

according to their FY2025 earnings report, Office 365 (Commercial Only) made up about 43% of their total revenue lol

by far their largest segment

[lean vault]

Just a little slush fund

[trim badge]

Windows is an okay operating system for your average desktop user. I believe, on a scale of user tech saviness, they design for perfectly average. And if a user isn't within one standard deviation of that, they're better off with Mac (less or more tech savvy) or Linux (more tech savvy)

[lean vault]

Probably true. I will probably cross-build my Windows builds if I can make that work, but leave the native one for validation (not automatic)

[empty owl]

when I am president I will seize Microsoft

and jail all executives

[pseudo plinth]

oh boy apple released a new product so you know what time it is: time for all the annoying linux dorks to come out of the woodwork and tell everyone how it's bad actually

[trim badge]

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/

Was mocking this one justified though?

[pseudo plinth]

honestly one of the biggest advantages of dailying a mac is that it baits people who just installed arch for the first time to accuse me of not knowing anything about linux

[pseudo plinth]

sure but if people buy it, oh well

i'm fairly confident in saying my m1 air from 2021 will smoke any new framework laptop in build benchmarks though

[trim badge]

Most of the best networking guys I know prefer mac over linux. I don't understand it, and probably never will, but I think its funny people associate Apple users with stupidity. I don't see the coorelation.

Though I probably shouldn't say too much, cause at one point I thought I did and was totally anti-apple.

[vague peak]

I have been saying they should put an iPhone in a mac body ever since they made the arch switch glad they got around to it

[pseudo plinth]

i've been a unix sysadmin for going on 20 years and i like macs because they provide a stable desktop with unix utilities beneath, it's the perfect ecosystem for me to be productive in. i'm actually more productive on a mac than i am on linux

the biggest userland gripe most people have is macos is really designed to have one window in focus all the time, on the laptops it can be hard to get around due to limited screen real estate and hidpi but if you have an external screen there are some nice tiling and window management utilities

for me it's not a huge deal, i just cmd+tab between windows on a workspace as needed or swap between the workspaces themselves, there are a lot of nice keyboard shortcuts for navigation and i generally don't need anything more complex than 3 or 4 windows tiled in a single place at once

i can say that macos on the whole grates on me a lot less and a lot less often than windows or linux have but obviously ymmv

[trim badge]

I learned to program on a 13 inch laptop, so I'm a pro at tactical tab switching

[pseudo plinth]

yep, it's honestly a lot less of an issue than people make it out to be, especially when you add in external displays

[iron mulch]

I truly despise finder on an emotional level that almost no other software triggers in me

[pseudo plinth]

if you can manage 10+ tabs in firefox you can manage macos windowing

[iron mulch]

that's it. that's the argument

hope this helps. - resident linux dork

[pseudo plinth]

finder can be a little annoying yeah but i don't really have a ton of issues with it

[vague peak]

Every time I use finder it makes me feel like I've never used a computer before

[pseudo plinth]

tbh i do the bulk of my file management on the cli anyway

[vague peak]

It's so different from when I used to use Mac os

[wicked shell]

inverse bell curve of usefulness for a mac. those who aren't good with tech find it easy, those who are deep experts find it very intuitive. it's definitely made my job easier fr

although i'm not a "deep expert" lmao

[pseudo plinth]

yeah, exactly- a lot of really smart people i've known use macs, and a lot of really smart people i've known use windows

[wicked shell]

i suppose i should say "those who know their way around a command line"

[trim badge]

at the end of the day, I don't think one desktop is objectively better than any other - i think it just comes down to preference

[pseudo plinth]

some of the smartest reverse engineers i've known use windows just because it's where they're most comfortable and productive, but this is a concept a lot of linux evangelists haven't been able to figure out. in their eyes it's objectively wrong to prefer windows or macos for any number of reasons

[wicked shell]

preference and what you intend on doing with it

[pseudo plinth]

i should start doing a thing where they tell me that macos isn't a real os and i just fire back with "come back to me when you've hacked lisp on a pdp10 running its"

[wicked shell]

how would it not be a real OS? i've never heard that before lol

[pseudo plinth]

not "real" in the sense that they view it as a toy, even though terminal.app is Right There

[wicked shell]

oh, then they are very uninformed lol

[pseudo plinth]

it even ships with gcc

like idk what you want

oh wait actually you might need to install xcode for gcc

but still you just do xcode-select --install and boom, gcc

[trim badge]

My favorite genre of teenager is the autistic teen who just installed linux for the first time, and now thinks they're a professional at everything computer related.

[pseudo plinth]

as someone who was once that autistic teen: god yeah

[trim badge]

I was once said teen

[pseudo plinth]

like i said i love it when people accuse me of not knowing anything about linux

i get to rattle off all the cool stuff i've built :D

[wicked shell]

i'll admit, when i was a teen i was very anti-Mac and insisted Windows 7 was better in every way. but didn't consider that at the time, yes, Windows 7 was better for what I used a computer for. didn't even consider other people's use cases lol

[pseudo plinth]

i think it's a pretty common experience to feel like you've found the objectively best thing because it makes you feel cool and smart and unique, especially at that age

what i can't forgive is the guys in their 30s or older who are still posting like "microshaft winblows" on reddit

get a hobby dog

[empty owl]

That IS their hobby

[pseudo plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/fentcord-true-coyote-gif-2599436844608872721

[wicked shell]

reddit is all the explanation you need

[empty owl]

Posting shit takes on Reddit, sniffing their own farts, and not showering

[pseudo plinth]

you're not a real linuxhead unless you've installed v4 unix from tape

get some hair on your chest

come back to me when you've memorized toggling in the bootloader for the rk05 and then we'll talk

[wicked shell]

gatekeeping linux is wild to me

[pseudo plinth]

yeah it's really strange to think "more people should be using linux because x y and z" and also "the best way to get people into using linux is to shame them for having Bad Computer"

[wicked shell]

i've legitimately seen people say shit like "if you have to ask questions about basics like this, Linux isn't for you"

like, buddy, do you want Linux to grow or not??

[pseudo plinth]

yeah seriously lol

teach people to find the documentation and how to read it or don't say anything, if people don't feel like they have any support in trying something totally unfamiliar they're just going to give up!

[wicked shell]

asking a question in the first place shows a willingness to learn. that alone is a good place to start. a lot of people would throw their hands up and walk away at the first thing that's not exactly like mac or windows.

[pseudo plinth]

this is a huge part of why i'm really not loving the trend of telling people who don't love windows to just replace it with linux, a lot of people are gonna have a bad time when an update goes wonky and they reboot their machine to a login prompt on ttyv0

[wicked shell]

i hold no allegiances when it comes to an OS lol

i daily drive Windows 11, my work laptop is a Macbook, and all of my VMs (both work and personal) are running either ubuntu server or rocky linux lol

that said, WSL is pretty dope

[empty owl]

I've been trying to figure out which linux distro I could feasibly switch to for my pc

for gaming

because I am sick of windows spyware 😢

[wicked shell]

i've heard CachyOS is good

or Bazzite if you want something Fedora-based

CachyOS is Arch-based

You won't be able to play League if you swap tho. At least not easily. Riot's anticheat does not work with Linux whatsoever, so it would take some kind of risky bypass lol

[empty owl]

yeah that's my biggest issue

I like playing as a 5 stack with my buddies

[wicked shell]

The general consensus I can find for playing League on Linux is to dual boot with Windows lmao

Apparently it worked before 2024

Vanguard fucked everything

[vague peak]

Yeah if you want to play most kernel level anticheat games you're just out of luck

[normal tartan]

Yep

I've played like 50 games of league in the last year because of it lol

I'm probably moving to linux soon-ish because I just can't be bothered to restart my pc so the only thing seriously holding me to windows is gone

[iron mulch]

same thing for me, I daily linux and dual boot windows except for VR instead of league. I'm hoping the steam frame will help solve my issues

assuming it comes out

[blazing swan]

great, I'll disable this setting tomorrow.

[rain matrix]

yo I just hit the jackpot

[wicked shell]

https://tenor.com/view/let-it-ride-let-it-ride-diem-gif-13460879079669063039

[wicked shell]

i'm going to lose my fucking mind
we are now in month 19 of trying to get a new monitoring suite approved

it's like neither side wants the contract

negotiations have devolved into our legal team and their legal team asking each other technical questions, totally misunderstanding them, and providing incorrect responses. so the technical people on both sides have to correct everything.

all because my company does not understand how AI works, or that it's basically unavoidable in 2026

[empty owl]

competitor had a huge data breach

big for us

[blazing swan]

classic micro$oft

[wicked shell]

that's so fucking insane

[inner flicker]

I wish windows 10 was the last windows version

[wicked shell]

11 isn't perfect by any means, but it's nowhere near as bad as 8 imo

[inner flicker]

Yeah, but comparing to 8 isn't really fair

It was just so awful

[wicked shell]

windows 8 (and by extension, server 2012) was very, very bad

[blazing swan]

I liked 8/8.1 but I was only using it personally. 10 better though.

[wicked shell]

i managed to skip from 7 to 10 personally, but had to use server 2012 extensively at work

[blazing swan]

https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?#/manageselfservicepurchase

"but in some cases"
WHAT CASES??

[wicked shell]

as someone focused on infra monitoring, constantly observing a large environment, server 2012 was objectively the most problematic from both a stability and resource optimization standpoint compared to both 2008 and 2016, at least at my org

[wicked shell]

this should 100% be configurable by 365 admins and it's so predatory that it isn't

[blazing swan]

Also found this setting that's enabled by default

[wicked shell]

"The Office Store provides access to apps that aren't curated or managed by Microsoft"

insane

that begs the question, though, do Office Store apps bypass account permissions in terms of users installing software?

[blazing swan]

Oh yeah, another thing I realized is enabled by default - ChatGPT connectors. Had to go in the admin portal and disable all of those too, and will have to continue to monitor it because they regularly add new ones

[wicked shell]

that's so infuriating

like imagine if a user installs unapproved software and connects their laptop to a compliance/secured network

[blazing swan]

"guess you shoulda paid for the enterprise license"

[wicked shell]

and microsoft is directly enabling that by default

[empty owl]

Anti-trust is dead

This is blatant predatory anti-consumer bullshit

[rain matrix]

ahem "raises" the question

[wicked shell]

I'm fluent in 0.8 languages okay?

Or I could say "Southern dialect erasure"

[wicked shell]

my company acquired another company recently and laid off their monitoring admin, despite us begging to add him to our team because we need more hands

so now my team has to manage an entire Solarwinds environment, when we're already stretched extremely thin lol

we were a team of 9 when i started 3 years ago, now we're a team of 4

i'm the only one with experience in Solarwinds so now it's 100% my problem lol

[rain matrix]

Why aren't you strategically leveraging AI to increase productivity and reduce overhead?

[iron mulch]

you've gotta think of the shareholders, man. I bet I hold some nominal amount of stock in your company through a mutual fund. I'm saving probably hundredths of a cent here. hundredths

this is critical to my financial well-being

[wicked shell]

we've been trying to get Datadog as a replacement for all of our monitoring tools, but our "Technical Risk" team has been shitting their pants over Datadog having built-in AI tools, despite the fact they're disabled until you pay for them. We started the approval process 19 months ago and they're still pissing their pants going back and forth with Datadog's lawyers.

[rain matrix]

Replace the Technical Risk team with AI agents.

[wicked shell]

That would honestly be better at this point

nobody on the "Technical Risk" team has a technical background

they're all lawyers

[slow solstice]

That is shockingly close to the numbers on my team too

I think it was like 8 when I started and now we have 5

[wicked shell]

we were in the middle of a rushed on-prem to SaaS migration of our monitoring platform when i started.... 3 people retired early before it was done lol

[somber oak]

I daily drive Bazzite and it's pretty good for gaming, not so much for watching streams. Twitch barely runs on it.

[empty owl]

in a meeting rn telling everyone that there is no fuckin way I can release our new product version with 697 open security vulnerabilities lol

they threw me under the bus so hard here

almost straight up quit during a call yesterday

[empty owl]

yeah this company is fucked

[slow solstice]

Yikes, that sucks

[chrome ledge]

I love it when I click on a tab in my browser and for whatever fucking reason it brings me to another desktop

[chrome ledge]

oh, its because I have another instance of Opera GX on that desktop

doesn't make it any less stupid

[lean vault]

I got access to Claude Code at work last week. So far I've used it to successfully reverse engineer the RFB protocol on 4 different types of server BMCs and implement a kvm remote access client invoked at the command line (python using pygame for the SDL window).

Some of these older servers require a Java web start app to connect, and that was becoming untenable without a Linux VM and a permissive java setup.

Working on the virtual media support now (an ISO from your client machine appearing on the server as a virtual CDROM). Even some of the newer servers only work if you use the java app, even though they have an HTML 5 iKVM.

I say newer, they're still kinda old 🙂

especially in today's climate, we've been upgrading a ton of old servers with cheap CPUs rather than buying new hardware

[sour hull]

i made a silly little java program thats basically kana flashcards :)

[wicked shell]

the supermicro board i bought a few weeks ago requires Java web start and it's SO fickle lol

i haven't done much troubleshooting at all, but it was having problems with IPMIView as well

[lean vault]

well, if I get clearance to open-source this work, I'd be happy to share it.

chances are the jar that it downloads embeds a cert/key used for mutual TLS, but the fun thing is that every viewer probably has the same cert/key

it's just the BMC saying "oh, I see you're IPMIView or a java client, ok, I'll let you past the TLS handshake"

it's just dumb vendor lock-in that isn't very effective.

[wicked shell]

vendor lock-ins 🥀 🥀

[lean vault]

Supermicro is apparently the least bad when it comes to their BMCs of the enterprise brands.

HPE probably the worst from what I hear

[pseudo plinth]

supermicro are pretty bad

i've had the least trouble with idrac

[lean vault]

I've been working on the ASUS (AMI BMC) integration. We have a few of those

so far those don't seem too bad

[wicked shell]

yeah idrac was very simple on my r610 and r210, even if they were really outdated

[blazing swan]

we're still running a few r610s (we only have like 4 servers and 3 of them are r610s)