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Interesting take on how Microsoft employees are resentful of AI because they're forced to use Copilot but it doesn't make them more productive and AI teams are rewarded while everyone else gets scraps & layoffs. It even claims a team lost their PM to layoffs because of lack of proficiency at using AI.

jonready.com/blog/posts/everyo…

Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready

A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
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On a positive observation, I've been conducting a very successful experiment with my WiFi network over the past week.
Old Habits Die Hard
I go back to the young days of Wi-Fi, around 2003. I do know people who go back further than I do for sure, but I got in at the start of the consumer adoption of Wi-Fi. Back in the days of draft standards, half-baked implementations, finicky radios, the lot.
The sage old advice said that you should have separate SSIDs for each band being broadcast, so that devices could choose, and stay locked on, to which ever band you intend.
That has worked quite well for me, to this very present day. However, a popup on my iPhone 17 Pro Max at setup gave me pause. It had mentioned something about my WiFi network having limited compatibility with some AirPlay features, due to the SSIDs being separate. It wanted me to unite all the bands into one SSID. So on a whim, and with really nothing to lose, I did that. I combined my 2.4 GHZ, 5GHZ and 6GHZ bands under one single SSID.
And insanely amazingly, it actually has worked perfectly for the past week! All devices connect to their best band at the best rate! Its seemless! And what's even more cool with the iPhone, is that it actually seemlessly hands off to lower rates on lower bands as signal strength weakens. I can get all the way down to my elevator lobby. That's about 100 feet away with this new setup. Cool shtuff! Thanks Apple.
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Borris

Yep. I've been using a unified SSID like that since about 2014, but I also maintain separate ones if I find they are needed for anything, because my UniFi access points make that easy to do. Granted, I don't currently have 6 gHz access points until I upgrade the AP's, which will also mean a switch upgrade, because Gigabit bottleneck. So far, other than for testing purposes only, I have not needed to use the separate per-band SSIDs.

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SeaweedFS has had one hell of a struggle with their S3 V4 signatures and reverse proxies. Over the last year they've refactored several things to get it to work as consistently as possible.

But one giant problem that they haven't properly documented: If you are reverse proxying on HTTPS/443, you should NOT set X-Forwarded-Port or it fails signatures.

Because it assumes you need the port to be signed because it's part of the URL right??, but nobody puts the 443 port in the URL...

Disabling X-Forwarded-Port fixed SeaweedFS auth for me

guess I'll have to save someone the pain and blog this

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#ioquake3 on #HardenedBSD will ship with cheat support enabled by default: git.hardenedbsd.org/hardenedbs…

This would make for a fun LAN party (remember those?)

:-D


HBSD: Add cheat support in games/ioquake3 (6db48ee8) · Commits · HardenedBSD / Ports · GitLab

I suck horribly at gaming, but occasionally dabble. ioquake3 is actually a good small program to test our exploit mitigations and security hardening techniques. So, let's play (with cheats!) Signed-off-by:...
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#hardenedbsd #ioquake3

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The great news is that the blueberry butterfly iBook G3 has survived the travel after 6 months in a box in a container (3 of them blocked due to strikes in Spain) !

I never noticed before that back then the logo on the back was upside down when opened. Feels kinda weird nowadays.

Anyway this looks great for upcoming #Marchintosh and #GlobalTalk in 2026 (or 2027, if you know how I am).

#Retrocomputing

A G3 iBook with an AzERTY keyboard displaying the OS 9.2 about box on top of a messy table with a green desk lamp in the back reflecting itself into a glass
Back of that same iBook G3 seen from behind the glass outside the office. The Apple logo on the open lid is upside down. There’s a lot of mess around.
#retrocomputing #MARCHintosh #globaltalk
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#21NightsOfHavamal

“It’s a long and crooked walk to a bad friend,
Even if he lives nearby.
But it’s an easy road
To a good friend,
No matter how long the journey.”

-Hávamál 34

You should actually want to hang out with your friends. This seems like a ridiculously simple concept, but as social creatures, we tend to hold onto relationships even when they’re harming us.

Odin’s advice is that if you have to force yourself to hang out with someone, if you dread their texts, if you have to prepare yourself for their phone call, then that person is bad for you. A friend should be someone you actually want to spend time with because they’re fun, and they make you feel good. Yeah, we all have days where we just don’t want to leave the house, but there’s a difference between wanting to stay home because you’re tired and actively dreading someone’s company.

#21nightsofhavamal

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alright so SeaweedFS sucks balls too

Start a single node.
Create an S3 bucket.
Setup ACLs etc.
Upload data.

IT WORKS!

Create a new S3 bucket.
Do the same.
Upload data.

IT FAILS!

Why? Logs say there are no more writable volumes.

List the volumes, it says 8/8 are in use by the "collection" first bucket.

WHY? I don't know.

How do I add a new "collection"?

You can't. They're created on first use. Ok...

How do you increase volumes?

Run additional volume servers that join the cluster, or pass a flag to the volume server to increase its max.

But I can't pass that flag because I'm not running a standalone volume server, I'm running a single master that does it all.

I don't want any of this crap I just want it to work.

Why can't I have multiple buckets that share this storage?

Why is everything so over-engineered out of the box?

in reply to feld

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feld

ok this is manageable. The FreeBSD port only provides a single service and that's not very useful in this scenario. It really should offer separate service files for master, filer, and volume roles.

I am now running a master with -volume=false so I can run a separate volume service where I can pass -max=0 so there is no max number of volumes and they're created on demand, and now things are working well.

It's ugly as hell but as long as it's fast and works that's fine with me because the "weed shell" for managing things is pretty nice and the s3 configuration is easy.

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Attention HKC Christmas Audomation listeners!!! We interrupt your HO Ho Hos and ribbons and bows to let you know that Sonic Synergy Sunday will be starting at 9 PM eastern Due to a prior earlier obligation. So bring your cookies and milk and snuggle by the fire with us for a latenight relaxing episode of Sonic Synergy! Mor like Latenight sleepover antics that may or may not get the police called on us! Tune in and find out!

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🚀 AntennaPod 3.10 🚀
🗄️ Completed all episodes of a podcast? You can now archive it to get it out of sight while keeping your statistics.
🏷️ Organizing your list of subscriptions got easier through direct access to tags.
📋 Heard a nice quote that you want to share? If the podcast supports transcripts, you can now copy them.
🎊 Reflecting on your year? Check the home screen next week. 🤫
Full list of changes on our forum: forum.antennapod.org/t/3-10-re…
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3.10 release notes

Hi there! The 3.10 release is approaching, and therefore it is time to prepare the release notes. This is the full list of changes: ▶ List of PRs & commits in this release Which I have summarised as follows (in 468 characters, line endings not incl…
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Happy birthday @haveibeenpwned! 12 years ago today, I pushed out a blog post launching a little data breach search tool, and life changed forever. Reading the post again now, did I get it right? 😎 troyhunt.com/introducing-have-…

Introducing “Have I been pwned?” – aggregating accounts across website breaches

I often write up analyses of the passwords disclosed in website breaches. For example, there was A brief Sony password analysis [https://www.troyhunt.com/2011/06/brief-sony-password-analysis.
Troy Hunt
@Have I Been Pwned

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RE: mastodon.social/@jonhicks/1156…

I know #Tidal isn't perfect (and buying physical media or band merch is better, but hey, that is situational, I will only buy an album after I already like it), but this sort of thing makes me feel vindicated in choosing not to use #Spotify.

Jon Hicks (@jonhicks@mastodon.social)

“If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period.
Jon Hicks (Mastodon)
#spotify #Tidal

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One thing about "AI" is with the technology OpenAI has (large neural network plus manual tagging) you could've made the best search engine ever. There could be a Copilot where you describe what you wanted and it finds an example of it in the corpus of open source software. You could go from a fuzzy image description to a stock image. These would be better than buggy code and fucked up images. But they wouldn't do that because the *service* OpenAI provides is obscuring that the content is stolen.

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Das Besondere an Berlin war einst, dass die Stadt von einer freiheitlichen Grundhaltung durchdrungen war. Das ist mit diesem historischen Tag heute vorbei. Die schwarz-rote Landesregierung hat ein Polizeigesetz verabschiedet, das heftigste Überwachungsbefugnisse mit sich bringt: Verhaltensscanner, Gesichtersuche, Palantir-artige Datenanalyse und Staatstrojaner, beispielsweise. Ich habe dieser Ungeheuerlichkeit einen Kommentar gewidmet.
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Neues Polizeigesetz: Berlin wirft die Freiheit weg

Heute wurde in Berlin eine Novelle des Polizeigesetzes verabschiedet. Sie erlaubt so ziemlich alles, was an digitaler Überwachung möglich ist: Verhaltensscanner, Gesichtersuche, Palantir-artige Datenanalysen, Staatstrojaner. Ein Kommentar.
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🌏 Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Zanda funerea) #AustralianBirds | #YellowTailedBlackCockatoo #ZandaFunerea | #BlackCockatoos #Cockatoos #CockatooFamily #Parrots 📷: Photo by ChiemSeherin🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Zanda funerea) The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo is a large, brownish-black bird with a short crest, distinctive yellow cheek patches, and a yellow tail band. It is distributed across southeastern Australia, including Tasmania, favouring eucalypt woodlands and forests. These cockatoos are diurnal, social, and often noisy, seen in pairs or flocks. Their flight is characterized by slow, deep wingbeats, and they primarily feed on seeds and wood-boring grubs. Two to three subspecies are recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: Their most distinctive sound is a high-pitched, mournful, and drawn-out "kee-ow... kee-ow" call, which is often described as sounding like a rusty gate or a wailing cry. This call can carry over long distances. 📷: Photo by ChiemSeherin via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/yellow-boring-black-cockatoo-cockatoo-9959679/ BAXO
#birds #mybirdcards #birdsoftheworld #australianbirds #YellowTailedBlackCockatoo #zandafunerea #blackcockatoos #cockatoos #cockatoofamily #parrots

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Hey, folks. I hate doing this, but my family and I need help with money for food & gas. This is unfortunately going to be a regular request until I can get a new job. (See my pinned posts for my resume.)

We average about $35/day for food (2 adults, 2 kids) and $10/day for gas, if we are being cheap. Dog food is $22/week. So we need around $335-$340 to make it through the week, making sure everyone is fed and gets to school. Any help, however small, is deeply appreciated.

Please boost for reach! And remember, you can unboost and boost again to keep it visible.

Week of Dec 21:
Progress: $350/$340

(Thank you again, folks, for helping out a couple of weeks ago with the bills we had to pay.)

paypal.me/AaronHosford

account.venmo.com/u/Aaron-Hosf…

trocador.app/anonpay/?ticker_t…

(NOTE: I am completely new to crypto and have no idea what I'm doing. If the trocador link is messed up somehow, please let me know!)

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Food #Transportation #DogFood

Venmo | Aaron Hosford

Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
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#food #MutualAid #transportation #MutualAidRequest #dogfood
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