Just the other day I noticed Jessica Alba had a very minor part in Camp Nowhere.

This checks out. I tried some Rust coding challenges and couldn’t get my stuff to compile mostly. When I see the solution it seems straightforward but also not intuitive.

The movie “Free Willy” syncs up perfectly with Prodigy’s “The Fat of the Land”.

I think Incus was one I had trouble with. It did run without systemd but part of the installation I had to do manually.

AntiX Linux has been the most efficient distro on my netbook. You gotta be okay without systemd though. For the most part I didn’t need it but some things are highly dependent on systemd to work.

WattOS was good too but AFAIK it’s not actually open source so I couldn’t trust it.

I would say yes and no. I don’t think it’s entirely horrible as a programming assistant. I used it just a week ago to perform a series of UI upgrades. I probably wouldn’t have learned anything doing it myself, just mindlessly following the upgrade guide until it’s all done. It would’ve taken me a day at least, between meetings and other distractions, but an agent did it for me, unattended, in about 5 min. I still verified functionality afterwards and fixed a couple tests.

In some respects it kind of feels like the argument I had with a coworker over the use of Lombok (a tool for injecting common but often tedious coding patterns in Java). I was on the side of not using it because some of the patterns are important to understand and not understanding the implementation can lead to misuse of them. Eventually I decided it was a “necessary evil” and that using stuff like that could free me up for tackling the stuff that is completely unique and wouldn’t be found in any library. The fun stuff.

I still hate data centers and AI revenge porn and AI scams and people that replace perfectly functioning tools and experienced workers with AI bots that aren’t nearly as reliable. But I don’t think it’s an inherently bad technology.

Technically yes, it would make it harder, but a house with unpickable locks isn’t impervious to entry. In my personal experience memory exploits aren’t the primary methods hackers use to gain access or run custom code. I think layers of protection are more effective at stopping actual damage from being done. Run custom code, but you’re still an unprivileged user. Elevate your access but you’re still in a sandbox. Break out of the sandbox but you breach memory allocation and the environment is destroyed and rebuilt. And all the while you should be tripping alerts.

Those curious can see this git.kernel.org search for “Assisted-by” for those authoring patches in full or part by AI coding agents and honoring the “Assisted-by:” tag.

This happened to me the other day too. Copilot helped me reformat 4 files, each about 10 lines long, I was too lazy to edit myself. Yeah, you earned that injected text I didn’t ask for Copilot.

And if they put something like 10% of those savings back into developing more open source tech it would be a huge boost to the global community.

Depends on profession and location. I live in a major metro area. Pediatrician? Same day if it’s urgent. ENT? 6 months.

I’ve done both ways and the dummy plug is much less hassle in my opinion. Not a universal solution though. My GPU has only one HDMI port.

I used this method and it worked great for me but the main problem was that when my screen locked it would turn off the monitor (including the virtual one). I had to set it to be always on. And if you have a monitor already plugged in I recommend using a different EDID so you can easily tell which is the virtual one.

Sure an APC/UPS is pretty much necessity but I’ve also had services that lost their mind when the internet went down for more than a few mins. I also personally wouldn’t rely on a UPS keeping the server up long enough for power to be restored (depends on capacity and load, etc.). Sometimes a graceful shutdown paired with WoL is better.

Lots of ways to approach these issues which is why infrastructure engineers get paid well.

Maybe I’m just unlucky but I’ve experienced plenty of power outages that negatively affected my servers (mostly services not coming back up properly) so I’ve found it more worthwhile to optimize boot and recovery time.

Sounds like it would be actively used so I wouldn’t go without a powered adapter or hub. I struggled for months with an external adapter that would work 90% of the time but suddenly unmount at the worst times.

Not just that, but a good amount of software wouldn’t work or even install because of a direct dependency on systemd.

I was thinking it’s less about using a “zero date” and more about the Linux/Unix community protesting the change by coding a well-known date.

01/01/1970 about to be a real popular birthdate.

You might also consider linuxbrew as well, depending on your goals. AFAIK it’s almost the same as native but with better separation of dependencies.

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