Notices by John-Mark Gurney (encthenet@flyovercountry.social)

Every time I try to use an LLM, it always gets things terribly wrong. Nvlist binary format is undocumented. Ask an LLM for it and of course it gets confused with OpenZFS similarly named nvpair, and talks about that (don't know if it's correct or not, but probably isn't from what I briefly saw).

I really don't understand how anyone uses this stuff for work.

@feld
I expect it to have FreeBSD's source code from anytime in the last 10 years in its corpus.

If I have to hunt down and provide source/docs for it, I might as well look at them myself to understand it and not depend upon an LLM to do so.

I even tried a 120b model, and it still gave me the incorrect response.

Welp, someone boosted a dhh post onto my feed. That's an immediate unfollow and mute, and apparently I hadn't blocked/muted dhh either, but that is now fixed.

Absolutely shocked, shocked that a surveillance company would lie about how they cameras are used in order to prevent it from being obvious that they are being used for illegal surveillance and tracking of people.

> https://mastodon.social/users/eff/statuses/115339859206355809

Looking at the *at family of functions and I just realized that I viewed them as part of the capsicum security framework and not as part of allowing a threaded program to access relative paths from each thread's own working directory.

This explains why absolute paths are allowed and ignores the directory fd.

FreeBSD's openat man page explains this.

#FreeBSD

Omg, this prediction is legit and correct.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200204102438/https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@artemis/103593164283415630

> https://mst3k.interlinked.me/users/artemis/statuses/103593164283415630

Looks like quote posts don't work on my server yet.

Previous post was in reference to:
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115239655698292352

When you're more worried about short term stock prices than the long term reputation.

Finding out that if I'm lacking proper sleep bad enough, that a little caffeine doesn't wake me up, but just makes me jittery and still sleepy/tired.

Oh, and a little dehydrated as well.

@b0rk_reruns
It'd be cool to mark which ones are posix sh and which ones are bash only. You someone do that when you mention [[ ]].

Maybe a " with a food note, bash only.

The ai companies keep arguing that the law needs to change, but that's like a burglar arguing that the prison sentences are too long, because if they steal 1000s of items, They'll go away to prison for the rest of their life.

We need to keep these damages because we need to reign in corporate exploitation.

> https://mastodon.social/users/Richard_Littler/statuses/115101118350063381

That's a new one, gpl is cause of security vulnerability:
> kernel licensing restrictions prohibit Nvidia’s proprietary kernel module from generating uevents

> https://infosec.exchange/users/raptor/statuses/115046024591525402

@dalias
You can do it in three:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm

But takes a few more additions.

@miodvallat

@ryanc
Thank you for educating this person on this important part of computing.

They are probably the same person that doesn't canonicalize urls (percent encoding, etc) before comparing them as well.

If you need to transfer files, use magic wormhole.

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

There's an Android app that works as well.

And unlike that service, magic wormhole doesn't know the contents of the file. It's encrypted/decrypted at the end points.

> https://io.mwl.io/users/mwl/statuses/114854651817790706

@feld
The defaults for ggatec are bad. My default they set the tcp buffer to 128k instead of letting it auto scale, and iirc, it's single threaded as well, so can't take advantage of command queuing.

I have various fixes that I haven't don't extended testing in my tree.

https://funkthat.com/gitea/jmg/ggate

(Including versions that work over ssh and https, aka WebDAV.)

@only50000hours

At the recent dev summit, there are no plans to remove 32-bit userland support from FreeBSD. 32-bit i386 is still on the chopping block, but old binaries will still run on 64-bit machines for the foreseeable future.

#FreeBSD

Just someone trying to explain why you need their product.

Having seen the trends over the years, no one need FTTR, not even businesses. The reason is that gige is fine for 99.99% of needs. Most places don't have enough internet bandwidth where you could even use more than gige speeds (and there's not 2.5gbps and 5gbps) to do anything.

Yes, if you're doing >1gbps, fiber is significantly less power, but again, existing wire plant can likely do 5gbps over copper and still be fine for the rooms that need it.

> https://geeknews.chat/users/theregister/statuses/114731310439689213

Just found an auto translation fail. Failed to translate Thai Buddhist year to CE when translating a Thai message to English.