No, you are not a billionaire because you're a genius.
You are a billionaire because you're a heartless, predatory sociopath and capitalism exists to reward heartless, predatory sociopaths.
It takes no effort at all to be a trash human.
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TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:
Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!
GitHub - FFmpeg/asm-lessons: FFMPEG Assembly Language Lessons
FFMPEG Assembly Language Lessons. Contribute to FFmpeg/asm-lessons development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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#VictoriaLogs is the best #LogManagement alternative to #Loki (and #Elasticsearch):
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Zero-config & schemaless โก
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๐ Supports high-cardinality fields out of the box ๐ฏ
๐พ Uses less RAM & disk space than Loki & Elasticsearch ๐
โก Executes queries faster than Loki โ๏ธ
๐ Better query language for logs than Loki
Read more in the latest blog post by our Co-founder - Aliaksandr Valialkin
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![The following are known processor manufacturer ID strings:
[highlighted portion says this:]
"GenuineIntel" โ Intel
"GenuineIotel" โ Intel (rare)[7][8]
[other items before that say:]
"AuthenticAMD" โ AMD
"CentaurHauls" โ IDT WinChip/Centaur (Including some VIA and Zhaoxin CPUs)
"CyrixInstead" โ Cyrix/early STMicroelectronics and IBM](https://f.lapo.it/photo/preview/640/1001302 "The following are known processor manufacturer ID strings:
[highlighted portion says this:]
\"GenuineIntel\" โ Intel
\"GenuineIotel\" โ Intel (rare)[7][8]
[other items before that say:]
\"AuthenticAMD\" โ AMD
\"CentaurHauls\" โ IDT WinChip/Centaur (Including some VIA and Zhaoxin CPUs)
\"CyrixInstead\" โ Cyrix/early STMicroelectronics and IBM")
The UK government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages.
The change comes just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Appleโs cloud storage service techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/uk-qโฆ
UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites | TechCrunch
The UK is no longer recommending the use of encryption for at-risk groups following its iCloud backdoor demandsCarly Page (TechCrunch)
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Gradually decorating my office, and I've been trying to get a nice poster of one of my favorite alternate periodic tables -- JF Hyde's.
You can find these on Etsy, but every last one of them has removed the attribution and license block at the lower right corner. Because, y'know, Etsy.
So I have caved, and I'm having one custom printed at VistaPrint.
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Obsidian is now free for work.
Starting today, the #Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site.
obsidian.md/blog/free-for-workโฆ
Obsidian is now free for work
Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.Obsidian
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There is only one correct reaction to this video
That JD Vance and Donald Trump should burn in hell
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Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian forces over 83 years to capture the remaining 80Institute for the Study of War
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#Trump just said #Ukraine โshould never have started the warโ with #Russia.
Trump made the remark while deriding Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy, whose country was invaded by Russia in February 2022.
This guy is a #liar & an #idiot.
#geopolitics #authoritarianism #autocracy #idiocracy
nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trโฆ
Trump says Ukraine 'should have never started it' in comments about war with Russia
The president made the remark while deriding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose country was invaded by Russia in February 2022.Zoรซ Richards (NBC News)
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โญ Everyone Knows Your Location timsh.org/tracking-myself-downโฆ
We all kind of know this but seeing it laid out with examples is something else
โ rknight.me/links/everyone-knowโฆ
Everyone knows your location
Recently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent.tim (tim.sh)
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According to all known laws of DNS, there is no way a fedi instance could be hosted on an .ARPA domain.
Even if you get ahold of a domain like this, it should only be used for PTR records - right?
The instance, of course, federates anyway - because DNS doesn't care what humans think is impossible.
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Bah. All that happens is that you get a bidirectional self-referencing host. Nothing to see.
But, it's not very helpful for humans....
fun fact, LE won't give you a cert for .arpa -- very few actially will. LE cites[0] an RFC[1] for this decision,
> In particular, the "arpa" domain is not to be used in the same manner (e.g., for naming hosts) as other generic Top Level Domains are commonly used.
No RFC2119 keywords are used in this recommendation, though, and nothing strictly forbidding experimentation.
[0] community.letsencrypt.org/t/exโฆ
[1] datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/โฆ
Exemption for rDNS (ip6.arpa) domain
Letโs Encrypt initially issued for some .in-addr.arpa domains because we hadnโt explicitly blocked it. However, when we later looked at the purpose of the .in-addr.Let's Encrypt Community Support
oh, you actually managed to find an RFC that suggests against this! I tried and came up empty before.
wrt LE - it at least errors out properly! i've tried a variety of other certificate providers and most of them have errored out in a terrible, unverbose manner. I'm describing this in detail in my upcoming blogpost.
Noam Chomsky offers a thought for your weekend.... as in the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant they yell 'drill baby drill'!
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On Unix and gaming and SIGINFO
I used #Linux a bit in the days when Slackware was recent, then a friend of mine suggested #FreeBSD (4.7 at the time) and it was love at first sight. After that day, I used FreeBSD on all the servers I am the admin of, and also on my office desktop PC. Still very happy about my choice.
At home, on the other hand, I always needed to keep Windows to cater my gaming habit (no, I don't like dual booting at all, as I often game for a short time while keeping tens of other programs open and ready to use afterwards). Resorting to CygWin to have Unix tools, which I later substituted with WSL 1 (WSL 2 doesn't properly support IPv6 and also it occupies Hyper-V and thus forces VirtualBox in "turtle mode", so it is a no go for me), happily enough for a couple of decades.
Enter Steam creating Proton (out of Wine), making gaming on Linux a common and accessible thing almost overnight (of course it was possible for a long time already, but mostly retro-gaming and via emulators).
So, as an experiment, in the desktop PC I keep at my significant other's home I decided to try and avoid Windowsโฆ I tried FreeBSD for a couple of days, but running Proton on my nVidia 1070 card was very difficult (if at all possilble, I wonder) so, contrary to my convictions, I tried Arch Linux (mainly because it is the one Steam Deck is based on, and the fact that AUR is very similar to the FreeBSD Ports I love and use daily) andโฆ even if #ZFS (I filesystem I cannot do without, ever) is not officially supported and using it via DKMS is a bit of an hack, that only took me 2 hours to conquer and from there it was all much smooth and easier that I dared dream. In only a couple more hours I had everything working at first try, all "by default" and with no need for extra configuration, including things like: nVidia with 3D and CUDA support, USB webcam, Wi-Fi printer/scanner, Bluetooth USB dongle.
I am impressed. 2024 might really be the "Linux on desktop year" as some say, for sure it was for me (at least in this PC, I'm still not migrating the existing Windows setup for now โ but someday I will).
Now, ironically, the thing I feel absence mostly is control-T support in the terminal, which on BSD sends a SIGINFO which makes most programs print a status report on stderr. It is something that on Linux wasn't included "mostly out of laziness" as reported by Theodore Ts'o in 2014, but is still missing.
I am of course using FreeBSD on all the servers and hoping that FreeBSD will catch up on ease of use on the desktop to change to it again, but right nowโฆ I like using Linux better than Windows+WSL. 
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I'm actually not sureโฆ there's also the fact that I end up doing some devops on RedHat for work and had some past Ubuntu experience on Windows WSL too (I recently switched to Arch also on WSL).
I don't really like systemd, but in the end I don't hate it as much as I thought and I will not remove it from the system (I'm not even sure if that's possible); what I really like is that packages are (IMvHO) "properly updated" just like on FreeBSD, I really really dislike Debian approach "old is more secure" (which is not, IMHO, and sometimes is even spectacularly worse just because of that approach).
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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors. 1 The Pentium incl...www.righto.com
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#SQLite is the most deployed and most used database. There are over one trillion SQLite databases in active use.
It is maintained by three people. They donโt allow outside contributions.
avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-facts/
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite - blag
Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLiteavi.im
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Oh wow
From: @blainsmith
fosstodon.org/@blainsmith/1137โฆ
Blain Smith (@blainsmith@fosstodon.org)
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite https://avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-facts/ #SQLiteFosstodon
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@ted the most traditional ones do not but the more useful ones do.
(And I canโt believe I hadnโt thought of this before; I donโt wear them that often but more than never. Would buy at least one set.)
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"Lights Out: Covertly turning off the ThinkPad webcam LED indicator":
powerofcommunity.net/poc2024/Aโฆ
(A 150-slide PowerPoint presentation converted to PDF - but, seriously, folks, check it out. This is NSA-level shit.)
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Time-lapse of the Sun circling the horizon at the South Pole during early March.
Video credit: Robert Schwarz
Source: vimeo.com/208466944
What does the sun do at the Pole !?
Only at the Pole - the sun circles around the horizon in 24h here is a time-lapse of nearly 5 days from March 08-13, 2017. So only a few days until sunset so inโฆVimeo
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Future of Mozilla (and) Firefox
โฆ but I am also more and more worried each and every time a new article about #Mozilla hits the news. ๐
(I look forward to #Servo too, but that's a partly different issue)
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In my experience, most people model security issues as broken windows or loose locks, something easily fixed with some care and attention.
On the other hand, most security issues are better modelled as missing structural beams or sinking foundations, flaws that compromise the integrity of the entire structure and the safety people around and within.
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Security design sometimes seems like a "Unwinnable by Design" scenario in a game where an early incorrect choice leads to a situation where it's impossible to win or rectify conditions in order to win.
Having to start all over from the ground up is rarely favored by management
Investors favor just patches that build technical debt & postpone the inevitable pain of the next data breach, system crash, or ransomware hack.
rustls outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL.
Security and performance: pick two!
memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-pโฆ
Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL
ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance.www.memorysafety.org
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The Archive is back! (In read only mode). Get to the things you love, and we will continue our quest to be dependable, clean up the mess left behind, and be there for you.
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LLMs canโt perform โgenuine logical reasoning,โ Apple researchers suggest
Irrelevant red herrings lead to "catastrophic" failure of logical inference.
arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/llmโฆ
LLMs canโt perform โgenuine logical reasoning,โ Apple researchers suggest
Irrelevant red herrings lead to โcatastrophicโ failure of logical inference.Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)
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