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  Just had somebody request assistance with an error accessing their 365 account but sent be screenshots of the Gemini output of them googling for the problem. something something, cognitive decline, something something Naturally, they're getting asked to send me screenshots of the actual problem before I begin to help, and get charged for the pleasure of wasting my time in doing so. #StopGenAI

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  I think anybody "responsibly using AI" in software development are forgetting something... Anthrophic are watermarking generated text, I expect others will follow. One would expect it only to be a short leap to begin watermarking generated code too. So, how long till they go "See the watermarks? That's our project now." And we say goodbye to -insert name of project that hasn't resisted AI here- ? I suspect sometime around when the money dries up and they need a fresh...

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  @rysiek@mstdn.social just one more datacentre and we'll solve climate change, bro

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  My journey with #MeshCore so far has been: Flash firmwarePair to mobileMobile goes crazy alerting to all the repeaters it can see and public messagesSilence most notifications"Oh wow, I can reach France!"Plug device into too-higher-powered power supplyBlow deviceThink "Lucky I bought two"Repeat steps 1-5.

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  Yo #Database nerds! Quick question - would approx 8 seconds be a reasonable transaction time when returning 5 million rows of a single column over a VPN connection ? Standalone Windows Server VM (ew), spinning rust SAS drives , generally well performing all round. Loads of ram and cores, but guess what... it's SQLExpress so no matter what I give it it won't be used. I think 8 seconds is OK.... I'm right, right? Please note I am not asking for ways to improve this, I am asking if thi...

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  @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer doesn't say anything about SOCKS proxying over a dynamic SSH tunnel though

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  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @jimsalter@fosstodon.org If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times - Linux is more and more not a "Unix-like" operating system, it is a systemd operating system. This needs to change.

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  @kostyn@niagara.social To attempt a little change of point of view on this - what would you do if you needed to restore from backups? As that's effectively what you're doing: taking a backup and restoring it to a different host. It's definitely a worthwhile exercise to do this if you're running a service in my opinion

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  @LinuxToday@techhub.social "Co-Authored by Claude; stolen from the public" should be the commit message really.

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  @oli@social.tchncs.de just add the bit about the power demands being so unachievable that tech bro-llionaires have thousands of GPU chips in storage because there isn't enough energy available to distribute to them and we're about there, yep.

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  First experience with #NixOS designing a hardware setup for a client's till system. Basically I just need a PC that will start up predictably, with recovery processes, and be reconfigured if necessary, all with the underlying control that those pesky users can't go messing around with things. You know what, I don't think I could ever use it as my daily driver, but NixOS with a tiling window manager and web browser configured to run in kiosk mode and only to one URL seems to work nice...

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  #FreeBSD folk - calling for your help! Upgrading a server with broadcom NICs to 15.0-RELEASE causes VNET jails to stop resolving DNS names. Even trying direct drill freebsd.org fails. Can't even resolve local names. Pinging IPs - fine. Just no DNS resolution. Rolling back to 14.3 the jails work again. Putting a different brand NIC in (i.e. Intel) also resolves the problem. Seems to be a Broadcom only issue. Fresh 15.0-RELEASE install has the same issue too. I've had a forum discussion...