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This is super cool! I am using some llm work to help me bring my mmo project (2013-present) to prod, but my project is much more about pushing the edge of the mmo technology space,…

This is forcing me to rethink lots of old sysadmin habits I have. This is good. I'm adapting, as we should. Headed back to functional/repl languages myself. Might even drop zig.

Now if we could just get people to combine Guix and other guile scheme packages that are awesome like mcron into their stacks, and then backfeed more fixes into the ecosystem, we h…

This is the year I take my open source MMO to public alpha!

If you are a complete normie, turn back now, it's gonna get conspiratorial. Otherwise, read on for some insights. First, one must understand that the Federal Reserve was the main t…

Now how do I apply this to get the most realistic looking shaders in 3d?

I'm doing a metasim in full 3D with physics, I just keep seeing the limitations of the video format too much, but it is amazing when done right. The other biggest concern is licens…

edit* Apparently because I haven't used firewall-cmd in a long time, I was wrong on this: firewall-cmd does indeed use nftables by default.

Social gates, not tech ones. Linkedin exploits the network effects of gui-ninjas under stockholm syndrome to an anti-user service. The same reason you get wierd looks when you say …

UFW and Firewall-CMD both just use iptables in that context though. The real upgrade is in switching to nftables. I know I'm going to need to learn eBpf as the next step too, but f…

Just as cloud agnosticism means you should be able to bootstrap your infra in different clouds, that also includes your ci/cd. As a greybeard sysadmin, my advice is to start separa…

Where this is really going: AI is the boogie man they are going to try to use to infiltrate and take over computing, it's 90s cryptowars 3.0 The pivot will be when they starting ta…

Where are the rest of them? Glen Greenwald has never answered that question well enough for me.

UK House of Lords are a buncha of Jimmy Savile pal types, if you get my drift. The same blackmail and bribery networks that exist in the US largely were learned from the Brits, who…

Can expound on what software did this on its own?

I second systemd-nspawn being a hidden gem for this usecase. I use git post-recieve hooks that target it for much of my ci/cd pipelines. I also find myself using nspawn just to iso…

Yep, with DMA sometimes. I've heard this same thing on the Pinephone forums iirc during the early years.

I think many of us linux admins have such a list. Mine in particular is carefully crafted around GPL-izing my stack as much as possible. I really like the format of this ikrima.dev…

Another reason emacs as an OS (not fully, but you know) is such a great way to get used to things you have on systems. Hence the quote: "GNU is my operating system, linux is just t…

Even in the US, selling to kids is illegal in most states, so the same issue applies: kid can't buy vape at store, kid goes to adult who is likely to be criminal to get them to buy…

The soulutions is iptables. The solution is nftables. The solution is bpf. The solution is emacs-m-x-butterfly-bpf.

I recently did a deep dive on cli password management in an attempt to harden my bash scripts. (yes, I love bash, despite HN always loving to talk crap about it) Pass is just a she…

Security, including privacy, is about layers of hardening. In this case, minimization of leakage and other privacy concerns for some can still be worth the tradeoffs. For example, …

No, because it became a locked down ecosystem that is user-hostile and not user-controllable. I realized this when I observed the younger generation, who I thought would be much be…

I grew up in the mountains at about 8500 ft, but was often spending my freetime at higher elevations surrounding the village. There are lots of little things about living at high a…