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Aged prototyping system administrator who loves sci fi, skateboarding, SCUBA, skydiving, nature and animals. Trying to stay on the path but it can be very cold, lots of suffering, and extended free fall :-)

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A barred owl in Florida.

Photo πŸ“Έ harrycollinsphotography
#Owl #Photography #Nature #Birds

19.02.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 982 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 4
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Celebrity Condiments | TWiT.TV On this episode, Paul Thurrott, Leo Laporte, and Richard Campbell explore the Windows KB5052086 update, the new Linux kernel drama, quantum computing, and more. Microsoft has

βš›οΈ Microsoft debuts its first QPU! Can the hosts even comprehend it? Plus, Linux drama, AI efficiency & a special whisky toast! @LeoLaporte.me @thurrott.bsky.social & @richcampbell.bsky.social cover it all on Windows Weekly! πŸ₯ƒπŸ’» #Windows #QuantumComputing Download and subscribe here:

20.02.2025 20:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

of all the GNU software packages, I think guile is the most difficult to build outside of any GNU libc environment. I might be wrong, but it's my current puzzle to solve πŸ˜€ Let's keep opensource "build-able" and reduce the number of dependencies to a minimum.

09.02.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities (kevin.burke.dev)

Main Link | Discussion

08.02.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Twitch Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

Trace profiling & snapshot testing in Zig

https://twitch.tv/kristoff_it

09.02.2025 14:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
mpv.io a free, open source, and cross-platform media player

EmacsConf 2024 is live (emacsconf.org/2024/watch/). Just wrapping up the first talk/paper. You can watch and participate live with the opensource mpv (mpv.io) video player and IRC.

07.12.2024 14:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FreeBSD 14.2: What’s new, and how did we get here? | FreeBSD Foundation FreeBSD is a strong choice for organizations looking for a modern and reliable open-source operating system. It offers flexible licensing, strong security, excellent performance, and great stability,…

FreeBSD 14.2 is here! New ZFS, Firecracker VMM, AIM for UDP, rtw89(4) driver, & AddressSanitizer. Explore performance & security updates! πŸ”—https://buff.ly/4f5bZG5
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Networking #Virtualization #Security #Performance

04.12.2024 21:07 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

nice, an only 2 year old product already enabling people to shoot themselves in the foot at scale including our government :-) Yeah!!!!

30.11.2024 15:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Canadian Man Arrested in Snowflake Data Extortions A 26-year-old man in Ontario, Canada has been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting more than 160 companies that used the cloud data service Snowflake. On October 30, Canadian author...

Krebs has a good write-up on these characters as well: krebsonsecurity.com/2024/11/cana...

29.11.2024 15:27 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know you are smarter than me and you bring up a good point on how to organize posts on SM in general. specialized shop talk probably only resonates with followers sharing the same interests in the Venn diagram :-) things that you do naturally in person don't automatically happen in the metaverse

23.11.2024 17:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Enabling containers to access the GPU on macOS Being able to run AI models locally is one of the coolest tech things 2023 brought to the table. But given the extremely heterogeneous software stack for AI accelerators, doing that in an efficient wa...

Sergio's blog on container/virtualization is good information dense reading IMHO - thanks Sergio: sinrega.org/2024-03-06-e...

23.11.2024 15:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

if you learned how to touch type, the word freebsd can be typed one-handed very quickly while your right hand is still on the mouse

23.11.2024 01:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

replaced my old macbook with a new m4 max. will not use homebrew; explicitly select/curate each package and building from source. started with ziglang and qemu. Also, never using my account for software installation - instead use a non-privileged secondary macos acct to avoid info stealers.

23.11.2024 01:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
system information showing operating system version and uptime specifically version 6.12 of the linux kernel

system information showing operating system version and uptime specifically version 6.12 of the linux kernel

updated my linux workstation to the 6.12 kernel today - so far so good:

23.11.2024 00:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0