@jamesthomson speaking of Skynet, I saw this on Bluesky (posted by
‪ketanjoshi.co):

@carnage4life if his fixing industry looks anything like his fixing government, we can expect a wrecking ball approach to improving productivity. When the economy implodes, he'll switch back to wanting to colonize Mars. "Because look how bad things are on Earth."

It's a bit of a trope at this point, but whenever the guy opens his mouth, I think #latestagecapitalism .

[1] https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/12/20/unpacking-late-capitalism.html

OSS projects need more money and more ways to get money. I've seen a pattern with larger enterprise projects like Apache Kafka that sell enterprise services to generate revenue. Wish there was a better model for smaller tools, like xz for example.

... more money does seem to correlate with better security. practices... a greater number of unique sources of open source funding for a given project also corresponds to a project with better security practices...

@silhouette

@nuintari check out powerd++ for more cpu hacks. Changed my overheating i9's life. Does wonders for battery life, too.

... Growth in renewable energy production in U.S. fossil fuel–producing states has not, by itself, displaced fossil fuel production over the studied period. State-specific factors are much more influential in shaping fossil fuel output....

Incorporating renewables into energy markets may not influence fossil fuels prices, but they do stabilize consumer prices for electricity.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-025-01704-0

@europesays

Interesting video on hacking a rent-a-bike ebike from a defunct public bike transport company.

#cycling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJC9s4XhiRE

Today, we're launching two things at @anewsocial: a Bridgy Fed settings page and a Patreon!

Bridgy Fed Config lets you switch bridging on/off for your Bluesky, Mastodon, or Pixelfed accounts. For ActivityPub-based accounts, you can add a custom domain to look native on Bluesky.

https://blog.anew.social/bridgy-fed-config-patreon/

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@chaseforliberty Soonish? I'm all for a new reserve currency that is market driven, but gold and a broad basket of fiat currencies is still the play to beat when it comes to reserve assets.

TrueNAS CORE lebt weiter: Community spaltet quelloffenen Fork zVault ab

iXsystems setzt künftig auf die GNU/Linux-Variante von TrueNAS. Daher entwickelt die Community die FreeBSD-Version TrueNAS CORE im Fork zVault weiter.

https://www.heise.de/news/TrueNAS-CORE-lebt-weiter-Community-spaltet-quelloffenen-Fork-zVault-ab-10389702.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Betriebssystem #FreeBSD #IT #Linux #OpenSource #Software #news

@WildCard You can run windows inside of a virtual machine from Linux. 80% of your work can be in Linux and 20% can be in Windows and you can run them at the same time and switch between Desktops with gestures or keyboard shortcuts. In time, you'll find yourself running the windows VM less-and-less.

Virt-manager, gnome boxes, and virtualbox are gotos for this.

@winterschon Helix editor with the Python language server. Rust and c++ are well supported. You'll feel at home if you're coming from vim.

[1] https://docs.helix-editor.com/lang-support.html

NEW RULE: Anyone pushing for terraforming other planets has to first prove their sincerity and expertise by working to measurably restore Earth’s climate and ecosystems

@neptune22222 You can also run the docker registry. Either with docker compose or Kubernetes.

[1] https://www.paulsblog.dev/how-to-install-a-private-docker-container-registry-in-kubernetes/#set-up-docker-registry

You can use Ansible to script jail packaging with Bastille as well for complex environments. I've seen ZFS snapshots of jails used this way as well -- which are even faster. The networking for jails is superior to Docker, IMO. As is the efficiency. You can run 50-100 jails on a host at once with very little CPU usage for idle containers. Ansible can integrate with #bhyve as well and manage guest VMs. The Ansible community has done some solid work with BSD management. @Larvitz

I use Jails with Ansible to automate their creation, their lifecycle management and automation of the jailed applications and I highly enjoy, how comfortable and easy it is.

No immutable images, no “Dockerfiles”, no weird volume mounts or image registries and no constant re-creation of images and new deployments just to update something. Just some simple, well isolated operating systems to run my applications in 🙂

I don’t say that Linux containers are bad. There’s for sure situations, where they shine. Just for my personal use-case, they are more effort in comparison to BSD jails and I’m a fan of “using the right tool for a task”

And the idempotent nature of Ansible automation makes it easy to describe them in a declarative way and manage them at scale.

#linux #container #freebsd #jails #ansible #opensource

"StackOverflow activity down to 2008 numbers."

This graph is incredible to me.

#programming #softwareDevelopment https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1knapc3/stackoverflow_activity_down_to_2008_numbers/

@matthew The robots are faster and more comprehensive at this point.The quality of the code is less -- requires more refactoring. But to get a project off the ground is much faster now. 🚀

I have gaming PCs running FreeBSD for science. We use Bhyve VMs with graphics card pass-through to Linux guests. I could see something similar for actual gaming. Bonus in that the VM keeps your FrreBSD base system clean of dependency cruft.

@bamboombibbitybop

@alarig looking to tip the admins to help keep the lights on. Is there a BTC wallet address we can hit? Or a donate button somewhere?