Notices by Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)

@anderszapac.bsky.social #Canada got the memo: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/angered-by-trump-s-threats-canadians-cancel-u-s-trips-1.7456243

If #AgentOrange really is allying himself with #Putler, we should look at sanctions and boycotts. We should petition to remove the 2028 #Olympics from #LosAngeles and the US venues from the 2026 #FIFAWorldCup. We need to freeze all #Trump assets and minimise trading with the #USA.

Yes, that was the obvious solution. Glad I don't have to type all that in myself, but rather that #Hashicorp #Packer does that for me.

(I have to configure the network to set "dhcp-identifier: mac" in Netplan, *before* the autoinstall file is downloaded; to mimic what happens when I install NetworkManager in the generated VM, otherwise it switched IP addresses after reboot, and Packer fails to log in over SSH).

Definitely did not waste most of today figuring this out...

#Ubuntu #cloud-init #Netplan #NetworkManager #FAIL

The sooner we collectively realize that Elon Musk is a shitposting, conspiracy-addled fool, who needs to stay out of public policy not upend it, the safer we’ll all be.

@WWESavant Will watch today, as it airs at 2am our time.

Please use CW when posting spoilers, thank you!

At least #US Broadcast Media seem to be on the brink of finally broaching the subject of Agent Orange being a Russian Asset.

It's a little strange because Russian Broadcast Media has been openly talking about Trump being Putin's puppet for the last 8 years.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-russia-ukraine/

#Trump #Russia #USA #AgentOrange #Espionage #Ukraine #UkraineWar #War #NATO #Europe #USPol #Politics #Media

I'm seeing a colon thread in the hard disk issues I have been seeing in my two desktop PCs...

#Seagate #Barracuda

@mayhemshow TV;DW, but I have noticed that there are weird spots where microphones go silent or they start to say something, and are overlaid with a video package advertising for events. I haven't tried watching live yet (02:00 is not an ideal time to watch live).

And if you wait a day or two, the live broadcast gets edited, too. #SmackDown is three hours if I watch it Saturday morning, but loses about 35 minutes if I watch it Sunday.

#WWE #Netflix

@ronnie_bonkers If you really want to, you can ask it to:

git config help.autocorrect immediate

It's probably better to ask it to ask first:

git config help.autocorrect prompt

Personally, I much prefer the current behaviour.

Stop saying “artificial intelligence”. (And “neural networks” too.)

Be more specific. Say “reinforcement learning”. Say “generative modelling”. Say “Bayesian filtering”. Say “statistical prediction”.

These are incredibly useful tools that have nothing to do with “intelligence”.

And say “model trained on plagiarised data”.

Say “bullshit generator”.

Say “internet regurgitator”.

These are also nothing to do with intelligence, but they have the added bonus of being useless, too.

Good morning, #Oslo.

#CrossBorderRail #TågTut

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I fucking hate the fact that top-reply in email won the war.

Good to see that the clown gets some pushback at least. But is it too little, too late?

https://www.404media.co/federal-judge-orders-cdc-fda-to-bring-back-web-pages-before-midnight/

@georgetakei Yeah, I can see how Moses and the Ten Commandments would be too "woke" for the Usonian alt-Christian neo-Nazi Republicans.

@anderszapac.bsky.social Ingår de i hushållet, eller har de upprättat en egen republik bakom sin låsta dörr, typ?

@anderszapac.bsky.social Ja, när de börjar närma sig den övre gränsen är det ju i bland tveksamt om de bor hemma eller inte…

@Cadbury_Moose @cstross Agreed.

(My local sci-fi book shop no longer carry Stross, unfortunately, but I have asked them to do a special import for me).

@Infrapink Interestingly, official time in Ireland is now UTC+1, with a winter time change of -1 hours. It is the only country in the world with a negative DST.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

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"Sam Altman (sama) no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want"; in response to #muskolini wanting to buy #OpenAI for $97.4 billion.

https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1889059531625464090