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Original presentation: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.ppt :)

I mean, not to snarkpoast on main, but all of this has happened before re: > The massive sudden shift in the commoditization of human workers and turning them into faceless labor r…

If you mean an isolated linux instance _including a linux kernel_, that would be provided by a virtual machine running under the bhyve hypervisor on freebsd ( https://docs.freebsd.…

On the bright side, at least it's in the PR text and not the code? (... yet?) Sheesh.

Sadly, today I received notice from Hetzner that indeed the prices on the older CX22 are going up. Product previous price €3.95 New price as of 1 April 2026 €5.39 CX22 (HEL1) all p…

Doesn't seem to apply to older/deprecated gen instances. I've got a CX22 there for personal screw-around projects and it's the same £3.95/mo (pre-VAT) afaict. So maybe not much hel…

https://man.openbsd.org/vxlan.4#SECURITY seems unambiguous that it's intended for use in trusted environments (and all else being equal, I'd expect the openbsd man page authors to …

I'm pretty sure the original 10+k/yr/employee for good ppo coverage is a radical underestimate, for what it's worth, though I guess "way more than ten" is technically part of the "…

I saw them on the menu at a chippy food cart at glasgow comicon this summer, so they exist here. I did not order one, but they were for sale. :)

Sorry to focus on just one aspect of your (excellent) post, but do you have recommendations for reading up on A*/SAT beyond wikipedia? I'm mostly self-taught (did about a minor's w…

Trip report of size one, fwiw: I have a JetKVM device at home and it's been super handy in my small homelab (half dozen or so older dells and lenovos). I haven't experienced any pr…

I can't say as to what it might've been like 80+ years ago, but years back I was with a friend on a trip through a PX and there was a rotary display (perhaps like you might see use…

doctors and nurses have enough power to demand fixed professional(0) wages that "unskilled labor"(1) does not. no one _wants_ to make $2/hr(2) and to have to rely on the generosity…

Location: UK/Scotland, easily commutable to both Glasgow and Edinburgh Remote: highly preferred, inclusive of US employers (see notes below) Willing to relocate: not at present, mi…

Open Maryland, Not Indiana :) (So named in this case because the company that released it, OmniTI, is based in Maryland. Source: worked there at the time) It's a good OS, as I imag…

tbh I was guessing Volvo 240-series. I suspect cockroaches will be driving those battleships around after the bomb/climate collapse/asteroid/big crunch.

Kotlin? Basically the same as the Corolla but a bit more comfortable in all regards. :)

The UK can get pretty rude, for example. ~40p/kWh is not unheard of for residential. (Natural gas price shocks, unfettered greed post-privatization, badgers in the transformers, id…

For a long time my home server was a dell wyse 3040 that I got for £25 on flea-bay. 1.4ghz quad core x86-64, 2g ddr3 ram, 8gb emmc, <= 5w max load, fanless, runs standard, normal d…

Perhaps those are an essential ingredient for a full consciousness or experience of what we've agreed by consensus to call reality, but the parental part of me holds on desperately…

I used[1] jetbrains tooling quite a bit on my m1 air and never had problems, though I did opt for the 16gb ram version. The newer models are presumably at least as performant if no…

having this open in another tab adds just the right soundtrack: http://conferencecall.biz/ ;)

"Zabha, Svvptc, and Ziccrse" Man, I'm sure those are important changes that mean a great deal to someone, but to my naive eyes it looks like someone's cat ran over their keyboard. …

tbh i'm just happy to see "crypto" and have it mean cryptography. sic transit gloria mundi or something. :)

As much as I feel joy at the discovery for the advancement of science and human knowledge, a part of me feels sorrow for the wee critter so many years ago. I feel similarly for hum…