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  You may need to know that #OpenBSD has released today no less than 8 security patches for 7.9: 022: Update nsd(8) to version 4.15.2. 023: Update unbound(8) to version 1.26.1. 024: Fix a variety of bugs in libressl 025: An errant process could cause ps(1) to crash due to a buffer overflow in sysctl(2). 026: A reference counting bug could lead to use-after-free in the kernel. 1/2

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  Well well well... My problems are about to start, so to speak. Cc: @jolla@techhub.social

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  You can't spell Nazis without AI. Just saying.

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  Yeah, if the 3 IP addresses you have used to connect are in: - Croatia - Iraq - And China I am afraid I can't let you have an account on this server. Sorry, not sorry. #MastodonModeration

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  If all of you all (you know who you are) currently exploring #NetBSD (for, uh, reasons*) would donate a little bit of money to the NetBSD Foundation, I am sure that sad little gauge under the logo would look a lot better. https://www.netbsd.org/donations/#how-to-donate Because right now, it stands at about 12K out of a goal of 50K and it makes me sad. 😔 Donate! 💶 💵 💷 (* good reasons, I might add) :netbsd:

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  Headline in the guardian: "If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?" Mate, AI is NOT smarter, it's just parroting what it has read elsewhere, calculating the most probable response to your input and consistently failing to provide correct replies. Because it's not intelligent at all. And it does not even have any process remotely looking like intelligence. AI is just a marketing term. Stop repeating the B...

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  And of course, FODMAP guts has decided to FODMAP extra hard tonight. Ah well... 😩

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  It's not (yet) the expected crash, but it certainly looks more and more like the beginning of the end: > Dear reader, it blew up: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/31/business/situational-awareness-explained https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/his-wedding-guests-were-arriving-just-as-his-45-billion-fund-was-falling-apart/ar-AA2997uK https://nypost.com/2026/08/01/business/nostradamus-of-ai-leopold-aschenbrenner-didnt-have-the-crystal-ball-seeing-hedge-fund-portfolio-dip-67/

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  I just discovered that the calming method I have been using for years has a name, and it's called "box breathing".

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  Also: yes, I know that poor little machine is filthy. Cleaning will have to wait for tomorrow. 💻🤓

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  "As the fight over AI data centers heats up, some polls have shown that AI is less popular with Americans than Immigration and Customs Enforcement." Now THAT takes some hard work! Congratulations to all involved. From: Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/terrified-tech-execs-traveling-armed-195630019.html

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  Me in front of the world cup final game.

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  Oh. That explains a lot. Let's hope that's its final form. Great Northern Kaiju or something. (Source: https://slrpnk.net/post/40463796 )

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  I have come to hate the term 'AI'. I hate it because AI does not exist. Just because you have an automated parrot on your computer does not make that machine 'intelligent'. Even if you have 10000 computers running the same software, those machines are not 'intelligent'. What you have is a poor statistical model. So, stop using 'AI'. This term is pure propaganda, designed to make you despair. Use better terms: 'machine generated', 'statistical non...

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  Asking the important question right now. Did it make you happy? (From: https://lemmy.world/post/49149393 )

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  Have a great day everyone!

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  OK, off to bed I go. Lord Cthulhu, I am dead tired.

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  Yes. This is what we all want. (Source: https://lemmy.world/post/48905532 )

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  Current temperature here is 40C. If anyone needs me, I am over there, melting next to the open refrigerator.

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  Today. In great dialogues at work. (Screams from the switches in the background. Lots of blinking lights) Them: ... Me: ... Them: it's not DNS Me: ... Them: No, seriously, it's not DNS Me: ... Them: it can't be DNS Me: ... Them: ... Me: *stops systemd-resolved* Them: ... Me: ... Them: ... Me: *ping crucial_address* Ping: (works) Me: it was DNS AND systemd, young one Them: freaking DNS Me: My work is done.

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  Well well well... 001: SECURITY FIX: June 2, 2026 All architectures Multiple vulnerabilites in the X server dri2, sync, saver and Xkb extensions. 002: RELIABILITY FIX: June 2, 2026 All architectures Fixes for a variety of crashing bugs in smtpd(8). 003: RELIABILITY FIX: June 2, 2026 amd64 arm64 In vmd(8), fix a variety of crashing bugs and misbehavior of -b flag. Of course syspatch is your friend! Update your #openbsd 7.9! :openbsd:

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  Well... Guilty as charged, I guess. (Source: https://literature.cafe/post/31408282 )

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  At the end of the day, COVID-19 made people realize: - They could work from home and that most offices are shitty places. - Their job was really shitty. - Governments could finance pretty much anything they wanted. - Global warming could be stopped. - The really important jobs were the ones that are the worst paid (nurses, for instance). - Most governments are run by idiots, who are in the pocket of the wealthiest.

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  I think I need to repeat this: - No info in your bio = no follow. - No alt text for images = no boost. Sorry, not sorry. I want people to interact with, and not anonymous chum. And if you can post an image, you can also take two minutes to write a short description in the alt text. This helps a lot of people. Also, please learn what a content warning is and use it. That also helps. A LOT. Do I sound like an idiot? Maybe, but there is a good chance I was on the Fediverse before you.

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  @alice Looking at it, this is clearly the kind of place I would make a pit stop at right away.

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  The only way to avoid fake LLM CVE, bug reports, etc... is to have formally verified code, that is guaranteed not to have bugs. Something that ada + spark have been doing for years. Just like Trump dumb war on Iran is pushing everyone, everywhere, to use renewables, LLM and fashbros war on the Internet and open source may well push everyone to adopt formal methods and serious engineering for code. At least, one can dream.

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  The truth is, git is extremely simple to use, as long as you don't do anything with it.

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  Regular reminder that "embrace, extend, extinguish" was invented by Microsoft. Now, Microsoft says it is "embracing" Linux and open source in general. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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  Something I discovered recently: https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/ This is a blog, hosted on a Nintendo Wii running #netbsd ... Pretty cool! :netbsd: Hat tip to: https://caolan.uk/links/servers/ And: https://sunny.garden/@kaimac/116459990980227925

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  @spaf So, uh... Several more weeks of cold and grey... Right? Right? 😰