Adrian Chadd <verified.png>
erikarn@mstdn.social
<p>I have some code and radio stuff. <a href="https://erikarn.github.io" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">erikarn.github.io</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p><p>I'm on twitter. <a href="https://twitter.com/erikarn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">twitter.com/erikarn</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> .</p><p>I do FreeBSD related stuff. <a href="https://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">people.freebsd.org/~adrian/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I dunno, what else? You can just find me via google. I&
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Here&#39;s my wall of text post explaining why expecting to switcharoo your raspberry PI DDR4 RAM and expecting it to always work isn&#39;t always such a hot idea (and kinda why I agree with the RPI foundation here, sorry y&#39;all.) https://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2026/09/why-just-switcharooing-ram-on-rpi-isnt.html
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i&#39;m thinking of organising a two day hackathon on 3/4 November 2026 (preceding https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/event-calendar/november-2026-freebsd-vendor-summit/) - somewhere in the south bay. Who&#39;s up for a BSD focused hackathon/lightning talk thing?
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I just want to be a bit .. annoying about LLM or anti LLM stuff in the real world. If you want to see your favourite no-AI/LLM project survive, it needs: * developers, who are - * writing code, which typically needs - * money It's not enough just being a user. There's plenty of users and potential users out there. So if you REALLY want to see the no-AI projects be sustainable, you either need to contribute work to them or money. A lot of money. You can't expect them to survive o...
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Hey @seanwbruno@infosec.exchange look what just happened - https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e7efe2f059a474f8f8e14393713071761a633e65
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A story from my past - when I &quot;took down a data centre&quot; by plugging in a Dell: https://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2026/02/being-accused-of-taking-down-data.html