๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth

F/OSS hacker, mostly working on #OpenVPN
- speaks only for himself.
ex-Twitter account (now inaccessible): twitter.com/DavidSommerseth

"Don't aim to be someone. DO something."

#nobridge - because I believe in the real #fediverse, and I don't want my own views/data to be abused by yet another "closed-service which can do whatever it wants for profit".

**If you want to follow me**, you now **MUST** have some content on your profile where we have some common ground on interests. I will no longer accept random profiles wanting to follow with no toots or no other follows or followers in the same interest sphere.

๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
2025-05-23

god there is going to be so much money in cleaning up after AI code and config

you'll be a shuddering husk, your soul destroyed by a relentless onslaught of horrors literally beyond human comprehension.

otoh they'll back a kei truck full of gold up to your house every month, so who can say if it's good or bad

๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:

@davidgerard [taps the sign]

A sign titled SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Hourly Rates

Minimum: $150/hr
If you watch: $200/hr
If you help: $300/hr
If you worked on it first: $400/hr
If AI was involved: $1000/hr
๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
George Takei :verified: ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝgeorgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-05-23

Yes, Iโ€™m sure all those top buyers of his meme coin are there because heโ€™s just a great person, not the President.

๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
2025-05-23

Announcing: justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
ร“lafur Waageolafurw
2025-05-23

Asking someone's age? No.
Asking what their browser zoom level is.

๐Ÿ”— David Sommersethdazo@infosec.exchange
2025-05-23

@jwildeboer Maybe I'm not less biased as an ex-Red Hatter ... But I also feel it's a good deal โ˜บ๏ธ

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Jan Wildeboer ๐Ÿ˜ท:krulorange:jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
2025-05-23

#Oops. I forgot to renew my (free) Red Hat Developer subscription. Fortunately that is fixed by logging in once at developer.redhat.com to renew, wait a minute, and run a `subscription-manager refresh` on my servers. After that the weekly `dnf update` and after rebooting my 3 servers have upgraded themselves in-place from RHEL 9,5 to 9.6. All my containers and services are up and running as before, because we at Red Hat care :)

๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
vitaut ๐Ÿคโค๏ธ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆvitaut
2025-05-23

The documentation recommends not shooting yourself in the foot but I see many users shooting themselves in the foot. How do I shoot myself in the foot?

๐Ÿ”— David Sommersethdazo@infosec.exchange
2025-05-23
๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
2025-05-23
It's the giant container shipped that crashed (nearly) into a house in Norway. The ship is labelled "COPILOT ISSUES, PRs" and the house is labelled "YOUR REPO"
๐Ÿ”— David Sommersethdazo@infosec.exchange
2025-05-23

@gauteweb @jhamre Tipper de bildene kun brukes der hvor de fรฅr en eller annen form for bot fra kommunen.

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vitaut ๐Ÿคโค๏ธ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆvitaut
2025-05-23

Hello, I'm Victor and I'm an algogolic. Every code I write includes <algorithm>.

๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
Ars Technicaarstechnica
2025-05-23

CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say
Under Trump, the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was cut.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/05

๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
Keith Hoodlet :verified: :donor:securingdev@infosec.exchange
2025-05-23

As a leader of security researchers, this excites me ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft) has said as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by Al
๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
2025-05-23

Loving this: "The Copilot Delusion"

Quotes:
"Copilot isnโ€™t that. Itโ€™s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Letโ€™s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear wonโ€™t come down."

"The problem isnโ€™t just laziness. Itโ€™s degradation. Engineers stop exploring. Stop improving. Stop caring. One more layer of abstraction. One more lazy fetch call inside a render loop. Eventually, youโ€™re living in a cathedral of technical debt, and every user pays."

"At that point, youโ€™re not working with a copilot. Youโ€™re playing Russian roulette with a loaded dependency graph."

"But even if you're just slapping together another CRUD app for some bloated enterprise, you still owe your users respect. You owe them dignity."

deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusio

๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:Larvitz@burningboard.net
2025-05-23

Just migrated my Cloud-Server at Netcup from CentOS-Stream 9 :centos: to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 :redhat:

Since all my workloads were containerized with Podman :podman: that was very simple to do:

- Deploying new server in parallel
- Stopping all containers
- Moving the volumes and the systemd/quadlet files over to the new machine (/etc/containers/systemd)
- Starting all containers on the new host
- Updating DNS entries to new IP addresses
- Decomissioning the old machine

#redhat #rhel #rhel10 #podman #container #centos #linux #devops

๐Ÿ”— David Sommersethdazo@infosec.exchange
2025-05-23

@Patricia Which posting!? I've not seen a post from you which you should be ashamed of.

And I hope you get an enjoyable weekend too!

๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
2025-05-23

Spouse: โ€Did you buy another domain name for a side project youโ€™ll never finish?โ€

๐Ÿค”

#memes #webdev #domainnames

A man sweating meme with four options for response below him set in the style of the game show โ€œwho wants to be a millionaireโ€. The options are โ€œI won a gatewayโ€, โ€œ I got a good deal on itโ€œ, โ€œ it was an accidentโ€, โ€œ you look very pretty todayโ€
๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
2025-05-23

Allowing customers to cancel is a burden & may kill you - THIS FTC SUCKS

youtube.com/watch?v=JkGN3dX6004

๐Ÿ”— David Sommerseth boosted:
2025-05-23

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