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  New yorker cartoon by Paul Noth about Palantir and Anduril

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  Been running vmware (vsphere and vxrails) continuously for about 15 years. Managed VMs across different server rooms and datacentres. Barely a moment's downtime in all that time. Due to broadcom's licence cost stitch-up, we've moved to proxmox and i'm turning off the last vmware hypervisor today. Excellent technology, terrible owner. Having said that, I am really liking proxmox, and I can do everything so much quicker with it, particularly adding new nodes, an...

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  @Grueproof mine is long and very US-centric. i wish it was easier to add words to the list than the current UI

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  So far the best use of the firefox VPN has been to streamline my daily task of unsbuscribing from geoblocked US food retailers that my idiotic american namesake has signed up for with my email address Stopping the daily receipts from dunkin donuts is proving more of a challenge. Although they might stop for another reason if he eats many more of those Maple Sugar Bacon wraps

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  Surely there's laws against inaccurate pictures of the product you are selling #slop Why wouldn't you just take an actual picture of the product

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  Currently slurping all my various data sources into #obsidian. My #goodreads shelves and ratings? Slurp #Kindle clippings? Slurp #Calibre epub library? Slurp Now to get to work on a csv file of all my paperbook books...

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  I've been regularly hiring for about 25 years. New trend I'm seeing is that certain applicants are completely rewriting their whole CV tailored to the job profile to make them sound like a great fit. That's a lot of work, so I expect they are getting LLMs to do it: "hey here's a job profile, change my CV to fit". The result is rather deceitful. When I check the linkedin profile, the job title and descriptions look like 2 completely different r...

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  We have safety laws for a reason. Good to see the EU acting on this. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1178

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  Me (to the family): "I think I'll tidy the study tonight, seeing as I can't actually get in there due to all the stuff The missis, some time later "how's the tidying going" Me: erm..

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  Made the mistake of putting data into #onedrive when I had free 5TB. Now they've done a rug pull and i'm getting scaled back to 100GB i'm trying to get my data out and i'm getting throttled into oblivion. Never again.

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  @GossiTheDog the right answer is probably Kenny Everett

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  vscode/cursor/claude are horrible software that are really not designed with networked filesystems in mind (or they don't care). apart from the obvious security implications of extensions running on the remote server, it is regularly scanning 20,000 files per second with ripgrep and fileWatcher. unfortunately users can't be relied upon to implement recommendations so I need to find a server side throttle to use.

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  Surely I can't be the only person who follows the rule: "never trust a person who dresses like a magician"

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  when chewie met chewie #starwars

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  This is the level of terminal zoom required when I'm troubleshooting an issue on one of the big beefy Epyc 9965 dual socket servers

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  Spent much of the afternoon tidying the study. Good news is that I have room on the desk again for my handy programmable macropad. I just added excalidraw shortcuts to it, since I've been using the excellent obsidian+excalidraw plugin recently (by @zsviczian )

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  I don't like that people can abuse the Freedom of Information request system with demands to populate their sales database. The effort on their part compared to the effort required on our side to respond is vast. #foi

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  Twitter: opinions are mine, not my employer's Linkedin: opinions are my employer's, not mine Mastodon: opinions are from my fursona

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  Try asking an LLM not to speak until a trigger word is said. It will fail abjectly, and give all sorts of reasons why it doesn't need to follow the simple instruction it agreed to. there was nothing unsafe about my instruction, but some design rule overrode the instruction despite claiming that it would comply - in fact the bot suggested this method in the first place. Extrapolate this issue to real world tasks and you have a big problem.

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  When I start reading a book review I'm now getting quite good at detecting if these words will appear at the end: "Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for sending me this advance reader copy for review."

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  Story of my day. Couldn't migrate a vm. Investigating .. an openssl error which turned out to be non jumbo mtu on a switch port. nothing was what it seemed.