Notices by Poul-Henning Kamp (bsdphk@fosstodon.org)

Damn, Peter Salus is also dead 😠

(Source TUHS)

If you have not read his "Casting the Net" and "Quater Centry of UNIX" books, you should.

Rest in peace Peter!

Right now more than half of Denmark's electricity comes from solar panels.

...and it's only 10 in the morning.

@sun @tante

They may have uttered it, but where I come from (DK/EU) it's mostly used about provinces and former colonies having had enough.

And that, to me, is the perfect analogy of people finally demanding freedom from the enshitifcators.

@tante

I insist on calling it "Digital self-determination" for that and other reasons.

If you program, you should read this piece.

"Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly, in buffer overflows and null pointer exceptions and data races and security vulnerabilities, generated the discourse. [Ada did not]"

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

@cheri_alliance @david_chisnall @jmorris

...but if you have so many boards you dont know what to do with them, I'll take one.

I promise I'll torture a lot of FOSS code with it 🙂

@cheri_alliance @david_chisnall @jmorris

What I desire, is to have a CHERI platform in our Continuous Integration in our FOSS project[1].

For that I do not need a full Morello board,

Having a remote account on one, to run a batch-job once per hour would be fine[2].

[1] Vinyl Cache, the FOSS project formerly known as Varnish Cache.

[2] IBM runs a mainframe that way, which is why we know our software works on s390.

@david_chisnall

What are the prospects of getting access to developer hardware ?

I wouldn't mind having a CHERI platform in the CI cluster for Vinyl Cache (The FOSS project formerly known as Varnish Cache)

@MidniteMikeWrites

US politics make a lot more sense once you realize it is a one-party system cosplaying as a two-party system...

Dear everybody:

Everything is so much easier to understand, once you realize that the Gold-foil-King is a Mafioso, who only know mafioso methods, and only use mafioso methods.

The letter to the .no PM is classical mafia:

"Nice country you have there, pity if something happened to it. Better think careful about who gets those peace-prices, capisce ?"

EU needs to stop pussying around, and go full in and stand up to the bully.

If not now, when ?

This is why we need mandatory, government funded, independent IT accident investigation boards!

This kind of investigation needs to happen *every* *time* IT endangers life, limb or liberty, so that we all can learn from the mistakes and avoid them happening again.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/optus_emergency_outages_cause_report/?td=rt-3a

@lproven

Ohh man, I had just gotten over that trauma...

@cmconseils

Danish: Nine and half five twenty

@ditol @cmconseils

nine plus halfway (from four) to five times twenty

twenty used to be a very common number in trade, it was called "en snes"

@ditol @cmconseils

Weird, but 100% systematic from 50 to 99:

51 = 1 + 2.5*20

64 = 4 + 3*20

72 = 2 + 3.5*20

87 = 7 + 4 * 20

How to tell that somebody was not competent enough for the job they held:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/jen_easterly_ai_cybersecurity/

@timbray @robpike

The tech in these TI chips was invented in Denmark, so we heard about them long time ago.

I swapped my beloved Tandberg TPA-3006a out for one of these beasts many years ago, and never looked back.

Speakers: Rauna Njord - not the easiest task for the amplifier.

@mei @lofty @wren6991

As somebody who once wrote a malloc implementation seeing that makes me want to farm carrots instead...

Somebody is conducting an academic survey about AI-SLOP and FOSS projects.

The problem is economic in nature, so the solution has to be economic too.

My proposal:

Charge a €100 fee to file a bug report, to anybody who has not previously filed valid bug reports.

Refund the fee if the bug report is valid, otherwise keep it.

This is how most consumer/producer arbitration/conflict resolution boards operate in civilized countries.

Here's a back-of-the-envelope result from today:

USA has approx one million practicing doctors and there are approx one million employees in "Health Insurance" preventing them from doing their job.

Approx 7.5 million people are employed by hospitals, approx 2/3 of which are "administrative" which means their job is to ensure somebody pays.

Six million employees get a salary for prioritizing money over health.

Six million is 3.5% of USA's total employment.