2026-06-16 20:43:50
Thermals on the VM server seem dramatically improved from the recent upgrades!
The changes made were:
* Swap the existing cheap 2x 120mm case fans with floppy connector and no PWM/monitoring out for Noctuas with a normal 4-wire fan connector
* Add two new 80mm Noctua fans on the back of the chassis, which previously had no fans in that spot but obvious screw holes where they could be added
* Add PCIe slot fan next to the NIC
* Use IPMI commands to force all fans to …
To the attendees of #RIPE92 : I suggest a discussion to switch the locations of RIPE93 and RIPE94. Then Sofia would have the unique opportunity to host a RIPESC in May 2027 😁
#ripencc #escwinner
from my link log —
A theorem of software engineering: the shortest possible schedule.
https://bertrandmeyer.com/2019/11/01/theorem-software-engineering/
saved 2019-11-02
In other words, we as a campus community have an active debate about which debates are even worth having — and we have room to exercise judgement about which voices we as a community choose to amplify.
Amplifying all voices is not a route to free society; it’s a route to total noise. Flooding the zone is just as effective a means of censorship as silencing all opposition. As people trying to foster useful discussion, we have an obligation to choose choose wisely our topics of discussion and the voices we elevate.
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The Speakers
This is a spoken word poem read on top of a vaguely hip-hop backing track posted on the "Twanger Central" section of the guitar-oriented discussion board www.tdpri.com by a player whose screen name is "cminor9." The poem was a morning poem (sometimes I wake up with some lines) that I didn't know what to do with. It fit here. "Speakers" is a synonym for "humans" in this context.
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@…
"It's completely pointless to even start any discussion about that junk!", shouted the participant who encouraged discussion by adding 170 words of AI-generated text.
<https://forums.fr…
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, HUD Secretary Scott Turner have heated discussion over homelessness, Biden
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5878670-gillibrand-hud-turner-testimony/
More U.S.-Iran peace deal talks are in discussion, White House says (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-negotiations.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p70#a260414p70
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I have finished the outward architecture of #ProFed as a base for discussion. I've used AI to help me put my braindump into a more consistently readable text. be prepared to see a free AI-isms, though it isn't terrible, I think.
4 Under-the-Radar Options For Dallas Cowboys at No. 20 in 2026 Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/4-under-radar-options-dallas-cowboys-pick-20-2026-nfl-draft
There should be more discussion about the costs of AI related to their actual added value in organisations. It is great to have an enormously capable model like Fable5, but is it worth it, can't we do the same tasks or parts of those tasks with much cheaper models?
https://artificialanalysis.ai/#price
“The vast majority of German political science scholars and the German international relations community have made virtually no analytical contribution to the discussion.
Either they refrained from taking a stance, or they went so far as to use their own academic authority to justify Israeli warfare or to endorse official Israeli perspectives on the conduct of the war. Such justifications were offered without any substantive engagement with the available analyses and documentation of wa…
Pushing back on the idea that GenAI is "just another tool" for coding.
This comes up all the time in discussions on its use in open source software. People will fall back on the argument that it's like linters or autocomplete, and all that matters is whether the code passes muster. But it's not. In addition to the ethical issues, GenAI is a fundamentally different kind of "coding tool" and needs to be considered differently.
A comment to that effect in…
These days, we often read that the richest person in the world is getting even richer. There is hardly any discussion of the nature of this wealth – namely, that it consists largely of fictitious capital, the capitalization of a claim to wealth to be produced in the future.
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Raiders GM Doesn’t Hold Back on Jack Bech, Dont’e Thornton https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/gm-comments-jack-bech-donte-thornton/
This post is a placeholder for any potential discussion or feedback on my blog's links page: https://theprivacydad.com/links/
Ah... what better way to start a Saturday morning at 5:20am then getting into a discussion of the capitalization of "Internet" on a #Wikipedia Talk page! 🤣
https://en.wik…
In classrooms and public events and private conversations, my campus regularly facilitates discussion (often heated) about the virtues and dangers of capitalism and Marxism and every economic theory you can think of, about human rights and AI and abortion access and data centers and civil wars and genocide and myriad other subjects of •extreme• controversy.
We do not, however, make space for and amplify people who believe the Earth is flat, because that would be a f***ing waste of time.
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Discussion at parents meeting about mobile phones, screen time and other topics, quite clear that most parents (including me).have no clue what our kids are actually doing on their devices..
Also clear how clueless so many parents are about data privacy, security and online safety.
The black boxification of tech will be our downfall.
RE: https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz/116568835911646029
I love how the comment section turned into a discussion about printers on BSD
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-t…
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On est en discussion avec les associations patronales, mais la question est quelle influence ont-elles encore sur les partis du centre-droit? Maillard
https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/la-matinale/video/linvite-de-la-matinale-pierre-yves-maillard-president-de-luss-et-conseiller-aux-etats-socialiste-vaudois?urn=urn:rts:video:8306de92-6366-38a6-b291-0c9fdd44c94a
I am having an interesting discussion with my GB grid #FiT administrator about its view on me adding #plugInSolar to my existing #gridTied
Watch Dr. Rick Altice, Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, discuss the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS. Moderated by the Rev. Peter D. Thompson '15 M.Div.
https://www.youtube.com/live/yCTtPwW0kSQ?si=dsuUGAeac9fxtdap
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116345269637598744
On truthfulness and openness
The quoted post, unedited, linked to a plea, in Reddit, for:
― rational discussion
― no false assumptions.
The pull request in Codeb…
An under-mentioned aspect of the trump disaster is that it has effectively put a stamp of approval on crime.
If there is discussion - it is almost about fairly major crimes of corruption.
But minor crime has, by my non-scientific assessment, significantly increased.
For example, it seems that illegal email spam (often containing more serious criminal attempts) has enormously increased. Same for scam telephone messages, both oral and textual.
I went to see an exhibition in #Hamburg today advertised as "from Herakles to Superman". I foolishly assumed there would be some discussion of the elements that make a modern hero vs the ancient Greek heros, similarities & differences between Greek heroes & US-American superheroes, and how heroes reflect society. But the exhibitors decided to make 1 room about US superheroes an…
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Frontier AI Goes Federal: How the Great American AI Act Compares to State Laws
https://fpf.org/blog/frontier-ai-goes-federal-how-the-great-american-ai-act-compares-to-state-laws/
@…
Last month, I was in Vienna to talk about #Wikipedia and AI (and #Wikidata, #AbstractWikipedia, and the Wikidata Embedding Project). It took me some time, but I have now written down most of my talk…
I wrote this in a discussion where someone was posting anti-ebike stuff:
“I’m a cyclist who switched to an ebike last year due to health issues. As a bonus it also allowed me to bike to work. I ride as courteously as I did on my acoustic, maybe more so. It’s about the rider, their experience, and the respect they show others, more than it is the bike.”
This seems like it’s shaping up to be a rough summer for responsible ebike riders who read the comments.
A look back at Ted Turner's invention of global 24-hour cable TV news and how it dramatically changed politics, journalism, and civic engagement (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ted-turner-cnn-media-legacy-64660a245d5f52d1c466367e161bc…
We were on a wee cycling loop. At one spot I had some disagreement with a larger root in the the way. During the short discussion, the click pedal took sides of the root and intervened in the discussion.
In the end we agreed to disagree and I need to repair my sock 🪡 🧵. Well, could all be worse.
Take care!
#cycling
Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA on Hacker News
#management
Comment on my site demonstrating deep understanding of a post and a genuine desire to engage:
“Appreciate this write-up on #accessiBe Will Get You Sued. Your explanation around accessibe is concise, and the discussion of sued adds strong context.”
"Exploring Stakeholder Awareness, Institutional Support, and Implementation of Co-Design in Higher Education: Challenges and AI Readiness"
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/libphilprac/8310/
"Findings show that awareness of co-design is moderate and institutional em…
When the Radiologist Becomes the Expense
On March 25, 2026, at a Crain's New York Business panel discussion of the city's hospital sector, Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health Hospitals, told the assembled executives what cost-cutting now sounds like in the largest public hospital system in the United States. "We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment…
Sorry for any mistakes in english.
Recently saw on youtube how discussion about piracy on twitter is getting more and more popular, mainly betwen those countries where the content is made and those where the content isn't delivered, example: Japan and anime/manga.
I haven't seen most of the posts since i dont have an account on twitter, but what i did see was how users we're angry at others because they watch pirated/translated.
This is kinda absurd in this cont…
@… I think this discussion is somewhat hard b/c everyone understands something entirely different under “code quality”. And I don't even mean the subjectivity of it, but the zoom level alone: Will LLMs be able to write better algorithms than me? 100%. Will architecture and expandability ever stop mattering? That's magical thinking. A highly coupled system…
Spotify automatically found some copyrighted music in this episode and took it down. I think I have fair use on my side because only a portion of the song was used and it was the topic of the discussion. I need to figure out what to do here because talking about music is the whole basis of this podcast.
#spotify #podcast
I heard the UK Government's Children's Commissioner on #BBCRadio4 #Today Programme about an hour ago.
I won't get into the #UKPolitics of the discussion (a consultation on …
Kann sich das jemand anschauen und mir eine Zweitmeinung geben?
Bin mir nicht sicher, dass ich 1,5 Stunden Zeit für jemanden habe, der mit "I am picking up on a [problematic] vibe" ankommt und den dann nicht artikuliert.
Der als positives Beispiel für "generative AI"-Nutzung "materials used in carbon capture" (of all things) nennt.
Und dann ein "trust me, I am very good at this" einwirft, obwohl er bisher, wenn überhaupt, den gegenteili…
Claude Code is good at doing research!
In this case helping find the disposition of 126,000 digitized US Supreme Court dockets (cert denied or full opinion), and then reporting why in a archive.org review (using like a wikipedia discussion).
This took real hand-holding and QA to be sure, but it is super helpful. Looked at court listener, the supreme court site (and the old one via the wayback machine!), the Caselaw Access Project at harvard. So good.
Passive aggressive language that makes me want to scream: "This has been a really generative discussion."
Aisling Bea is a very funny woman. She kills this Only Fans discussion. https://youtu.be/aAH8ibfPS-Y?si=P1WU1KO376hiQcxd
Raiders Issued Strong Message on Fernando Mendoza Outlook https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/strong-message-fernando-mendoza-outlook/
When, in 2024, Chinese scientists reported developing an artificial-intelligence tool to design conotoxins, it raised eyebrows in some quarters.
In an e-mail to a private AI and biotechnology discussion group seen by Nature, a senior US government employee flagged the study as a possible biosecurity risk.
The employee, who asked not to be named because of concerns for their job, felt it was especially concerning that the conotoxin AI is based on an open-source protein language …
https://youtu.be/-XSO2KwUoeg listening to this at the recommendation of my mom, and, well - 2 hours in, I guess I’ll remain partially closeted as a “pistachio” for her sake.
Whoever fed the line to Melissa Dougherty about queer critical theory holding age to be on a spectrum is projecting oh, oh so very ha…
“For an Irish Government Minister, no movement is imaginable unless the Minister experiences an external pressure. Making decisions because the actions might be a good idea doesn't even enter the discussion.”
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-promise-of-no-change/
My wife asked me to pick up some fancy hot dogs on the way home from work. Sadly I did not bring a bike lock.
Should I risk leaving it outside for a few minutes unlocked? 🤔
#Tallbike #TallBikesArePractical
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Disappointing to read NYC's Urban Forest Plan and observe that there is no discussion of understory plants at all. Seriously
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@GlasWolf/116664309465577981
This is an absolutely brilliant discussion. Worth a listen:
Yesterday, in our very warm office, an interesting discussion emerged: there was no dedicated taxonomy for evaluating Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in MISP.
So, we created one called: cti-evaluation
🔗 https://www.misp-project.org/taxonomies.html#_cti_evaluation
Pretty sure here are people interested in the history of NeXT, Inc. On the occasion of the new book "Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary" by Geoffrey Cain, the Computer History Museum published a recent discussion with Geoffrey Cain with some early and central NeXT people. Enjoy: https://www.
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The discussion after my first post on #ProFed produced great feedback. I've been working on the website since.
In the meantime, development continues. I've started to work on the Profile Importer: a component that reads your existing online profile using `h-resume` #microformat ta…
Internet Privacy Law and Practice – The Conversation
Recently The Conversation hosted Anne Toomey McKenna, Guy Kawasaki and Florian Schaub for a discussion of Internet privacy. This was a great overview of where Internet privacy law now stands (it is not good) as well as suggestions on how to improve your privacy. You can watch a recording of the session here:
Audrey Tang @… on 'Software Freedom as Civic Care' and so much more - 'care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance' https://civic.ai/software-freedom-as-c
Also a discussion in Denmark right now..
Radiolab: What is a Pig Worth?
And to whom.
Episode webpage: https://radiolab.org/podcast/what-is-a-pig-worth
Media file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/14/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dts.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/waaa.wnyc.org/758af4c0-a2c3-47ec-a2d8-05f41bfbde51/episodes/725f7958-636d-482c-a7d2-6aa6deb1dfdd/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=758af4c0-a2c3-47ec-a2d8-05f41bfbde51&awEpisodeId=725f7958-636d-482c-a7d2-6aa6deb1dfdd&feed=EmVW7VGp
I've started my development log for May. It's really mostly about tooling -- specifically, editors and debuggers.
#PostScarcitySoftware
#Lisp
If you are new to organised left-wing politics, pick a flavour of revolutionary socialism.
This is my fave, it may not be yours but it's a great place to start learning what *you* believe or don't believe in.
https://marxist.com/manifesto-of-the-r
OC Discussion - Miroirs des Terres Médianes pour Rêve de Dragon - YouTube
#rolistetv
RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116307140974025648
Good 🧵 relevant to " third spaces" discussion
RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116307140974025648
Good 🧵 relevant to " third spaces" discussion
A great 50min sit down discussion with Jon Favreau & Tracy Smith about Star Wars, Marvel, his acting & more.
▶️ Extended interview: Jon Favreau - CBS This Morning
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FT46j6trJXY&si=UecTYz6rxh5VO1v1
Migrating from #Go to #Rust
https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
Cowboys Send Clear Message on NFL Draft Priorities https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/clear-message-nfl-draft-priorities/
okay goal for today is get caught up on my readings for my world cup & the politics of football class before discussion section tonight
I was a guest on the Heavy Networking podcast, talking about routing performance and the recent improvements to the shortest path algorithm. A fun discussion for me at least https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/hea
Ex-Raiders GM Doesn’t Hold Back on Maxx Crosby’s Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mike-mayock-maxx-crosby-comments-future/
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@… also FYI
BACKUP_LIBRARIES
Recent discussion (I'll add something more this weekend): <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/
Playing with CSAF 2.1 CSD02 and GCVE extensions.
https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/csaf-and-gcve-bcp-05-extensions/1093
I think more and more that having GCVE extension on all vulnerability standard format makes much more sense nowadays.
from my link log —
The longest train journey in the EU.
https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/
saved 2026-04-25 https://
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-use-microsofts-ai-chips…
In one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university, Texas Tech issued a ban on LGBQT topics
The policy bars professors from discussing LGBTQ topics in core and lower-level courses
and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university system.
It even requires that if an industry-standard textbook includes content on sexual orientation or gender identity, instructors must skip over it and avoid discussion around it.
Most …
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Schottenheimer on Cowboys' LB equation for 2026, talks 'green dot' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/schottenheimer-on-cowboys-lb-equation-for-2026-talks-green-dot
Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:
If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?
The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?
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Kayshon Boutte Gets Clear on Future Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/patriots-kayshon-boutte-clear-future-speculation/
@… the Hacker News discussion is informative.
<https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin@billboard.bsd.cafe/116505870431…
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Schottenheimer on Cowboys' LB equation for 2026, talks 'green dot' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/schottenheimer-on-cowboys-lb-equation-for-2026-talks-green-dot
@… I had a promising discussion with someone a few months ago. I can't disclose details; the likelihood of abuse is too great.
Cc @… @…
Lavonte David Joins “Bussin’ with the Boys” Podcast: Moments That Built a Legend https://www.buccaneers.com/news/lavonte-david-joins-bussin-with-the-boys-podcast-moments-built-legend
Mike Florio Delivers Strong Take on Maxx Crosby’s Raiders Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mike-florio-strong-take-maxx-crosby-future/
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116672590901693172
@… I'm glad to read about the discussion, but not the vibes…