@alanc between this and the rise of LLMs for coding, I’m thinking that my “sure thing” retirement consulting gig may not be such a sure thing.

My favourite piece of internet today is the theory that Jesus was actually a type of yeast.

Turns water into wine
Floats on water
Makes bread for 5000 people
Put in a cave for 3 days and lo - he has risen!
Jesus was a sourdough starter.

Also this would imply: We should be calling him 'Mother' not 'Father'

@xsk while viewing the product page linked later in this thread something caught my eye…

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256810607569362.html

Current conditions in Chicago

@jlevon that’s not something my mom ever taught me to keep in the kitchen. A quick search makes me wonder why you have it.

@toasterson Nice!

It seems https://codeberg.org/Toasterson/ips/src/branch/main/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md is a bit stale. In particular it says there is no solver yet. In your talk you briefly mentioned that the multithreaded solver is a big improvement. How much of an improvement is it?

As a customer I complained about the speed of the solver on T2000’s. When I joined the Solaris team I learned amd64 was where almost all new code was written and tested the most. Then I understood how a single threaded solver was introduced.

@nina_kali_nina I think you just said that the typical US resident could fly premium
economy to the UK, buy some hearing aids, and see the sights for a few days before flying home for less than they typically pay for hearing aids in the US.

@Myotis_cuniculus if you need hearing aids and don’t have insurance to cover them, go to Costco. About $1600 for a pair with free appointments, adjustments, and repairs so long as you keep your membership.

If that’s too much, AirPod Pros may be an option if you only have moderate hearing loss.

@Myotis_cuniculus I think the rechargeable hearing aids tend to be more forgiving of water than older ones. My current set are rated IP68.

An important feature of hearing aids is that they only amplify the frequencies where there is hearing loss. Amplifying everything can be detrimental. I have severe loss in one ear. A 4 hour flight listening to podcasts with noise cancelling headphones with the balance adjusted so I felt I could hear in stereo left my bad ear ringing for hours.

@basetwojesus try smartctl -a. I had an NVMe drive that slowed to a crawl when the battery used for power loss protection died.

@ai6yr @mappingsupport I should clarify. The first line is a bit more, additional are $8. I pay $30 per month for 3 lines that share 1 GB of data. When I run out it automatically adds another gig for $2. Normally everyone is on WiFi so I think the most I’ve paid for extra GBs is $10. They have unlimited plans that are cheaper than I used to pay Verizon for a very limited plan.

Referral links on request if you want to sign up & think I should be paying less. Not the purpose of my replies.

@mappingsupport @ai6yr with US mobile you can get access to all three of these networks, but only one per SIM. I have use two eSIMs in one phone to have simultaneous access to multiple networks. When using a by the gig plan, each line costs $8 per month to access pooled data with unlimited minutes.

Switching between networks generally takes less than 30 minutes, but you need WiFi to do it. Switching using a neighbor’s hotspot is likely possible. Signing up has similar $ and time requirements.

Hello, RANDOM PERSON! The slides from my #EverythingOpen #EO2026 talk "The unreasonable cost of open source contribution" are now up at https://robn.au/open-source-cost . The slide notes have something very close to a transcript (I write my talks out in long form) if you want the talk parts and can't wait for the video (hopefully within a few weeks)!

The response has been kind, thoughtful and heartwarming. I've had so many interesting conversations today with people that had their own stories about their time in open source, or their reasons for not contributing more. A couple of Proper Community Organiser people that I look up to gave me encouraging feedback, which made me giggle just a little bit.

I'm still very uncomfortable about the money specifics in particular, which is partly why it's taken a day to post this. But so far everyone has been gracious and capable of nuance, so I have hope that it will continue to be understood, and provide a bit of cover and permission for others to talk about their own experiences and help flesh out the size and scope of the problem we face. If the conversation goes that way, it'll be a reward that far outweighs the risk.

I dunno if open source in its current form can be saved, but if the people I've talked to today will be there for the next thing, maybe it won't matter 💚

@dme glad I could help.

@dme did you try 07👆☝️👉👇🖕…?

@thomas one of the more egregious examples is from a computer parts recycler. After seeing the same post four times this morning I searched for their name and found eight or so accounts that were clearly the same persona with no more than three followers each.

I’m seeing an increasing number of duplicate posts in my feed caused by people having multiple fediverse accounts and cross posting interesting hashtags between them. Is there a reason people are doing this?

#askFedi

@NebulaTide what’s the threat model? If all you care about is privacy of your data, ZFS encryption may be sufficient. If you care about privacy of things like dataset names, how often you create snapshots, properties and their values, ordering of writes to various datasets, etc., then you want full disk encryption. Perhaps your threat model requires both types of encryption for the most privacy and compartmentalization.

This has nothing to do with FreeBSD, it is common to ZFS on all platforms.

@me_valentijn @ai6yr the only way I’d stand a chance of affording the house at the top of the hill is to buy a plot of land at the bottom and wait for some heavy rain. Possession is 9/10 of the law, finders keepers, etc.

@bryanredeagle The dd command is reading 4096 bytes at a time, 1024 times. This GPT label (GUID Partition Table) is at the normal location for a drive with 512 byte sectors.