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ted_dunning

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Member of Apache Software Foundation, committer on many Apache projects, Fellow at HPE, CTO for Data Fabric.

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gamingonlinux, to random
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Google AI just telling people to drink piss. Perfect, no notes.

https://x.com/dril/status/1787041991391584549

ted_dunning,
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And ... Google search isn't presenting an AI overview on that query any more.

@gamingonlinux

GottaLaff, to random
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#Doonesbury on “the Roberts court.” #SCOTUS

Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/01/28

ted_dunning,
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Actually .... that code of ethics was a guideline, not a ruling.

So the point stands.

@GottaLaff

kernellogger, (edited ) to linux
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Bobby Borisov looked into the #LinuxFoundation's 2023 annual report: https://linuxiac.com/insights-into-the-linux-foundations-2023-report/

"'"[…] You might have quickly noticed that only two percent of the expenses are allocated to #Linux #kernel support. Although this percentage appears modest, it translates to a substantial figure of $7,804 million [e.g. a bit short of 8 million $], representing a significant investment in kernel development. […]"'"

#LinuxKernel

ted_dunning,
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Wow.

Keep that man away from any sort of accounting tasks.

Off by a factor of 1000.

@kernellogger

Cmastication, to random
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Upon reflection, I find Jesus’s miracle of having 12 close male friends well into adulthood to be the most difficult to swallow. I can nod along with water to wine, raising dead, and healing. But 12 close male friends? That strains credulity.

ted_dunning,
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They thought they were all getting options.

@Cmastication

GottaLaff, to earthquake
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Just felt a quick #earthquake in Ventura County #California Not big, a little jolt.

ted_dunning,
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Go ahead and report it!

Your report can help with modeling for more serious events which, in turn, can save lives.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/

@GottaLaff

Teri_Kanefield, to random

Someone asked me what I think is going on with Trump's lawyers attacking the clerk.

Yesterday I said this:

"It's hard to tell what is going on with that. My best guess is that Trump's lawyers are fatigued, know they are losing, and are getting weird and paranoid."

Judge Engoron, who sees it all up close, said there is misogyny.

I just saw a picture of the clerk and I have revised my opinion.

The judge may be right . . .

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ted_dunning,
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She is also seated on the same level as the judge. That probably pisses them off as well.

@Teri_Kanefield

AAKL, to Cybersecurity

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    ted_dunning,
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    The other thing that the article says that Okta said is that the employee used Google as a password manager for the support account and that is how the attackers got in.

    But that implies that support engineeers at Okta aren't required to use hardware MFA.

    Incredible.

    @AAKL @SecurityWeek

    ted_dunning,
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    The attackers started by attacking the personal google account which apparently wasn't protected by 2FA.

    That isn't entirely Google's fault. It goes back to Okta for not considering their support engineers as critical security targets and making sure that they are securing their personal life as well as professional.

    @AAKL @SecurityWeek

    ted_dunning,
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    You're definitely not wrong.

    Linkage in general is dangerous. Every linkage introduces chances for horizontal transfer.

    And if the linkage is to an uncontrolled asset (a personal account owned by somebody who isn't serious / being helped to secure themselves) it's even worse.

    @AAKL @reinouts @SecurityWeek

    GottaLaff, to climate
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    I'm keenly aware of how Comments and Reviews can devolve, so, no, I'm not "surprised" at this (Sidebar: How I loathe that default "Are you surprised?" response), but I am steamed, outraged, annoyed, whatevs at the "verified" Amazon "reviewer" who felt compelled to stupidly post: "Thanks comifornia and you moron dems for creating" lower flow shower heads.

    Yes, now EVERYthing is politicized, even buying a damn shower head.

    & don't even start me on the #ClimateCrisis aspect of this.

    ted_dunning,
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    Well, hard to take him seriously on that topic. Remember that wind farms cause cancer?

    He's an idiot. Effective at demagoguery, but not with rational thought.

    @GottaLaff @fondoffawns

    SecureOwl, to random

    British Thermal Units (BTU’s) are the traditional unit used to measure the temperature at which tea is served - the highest BTU tea can only be achieved by your nanna somehow.

    ted_dunning,
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    And as nannas everywhere know, it takes about 59 BTU to get a teacup of water to boil.

    @SecureOwl

    freemo, (edited ) to foss
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    Redoing this poll due to a suggestion by @kilroy_was_here ...

    What name do you like best for a non-profit #FOSS community for Ham Radio? Think Apache incubator but for Ham plus other open-source services and resources for the community.

    FYI I have both the dot com and dot org as well as the hyphenated and non hyphenated versions of the below. Please mention which variant you prefer in comments.

    #Ham #HamRadio #Amateur #AmateurRadio #RF #Radio #Foss #Floss #OpenSource #Programming

    ted_dunning,
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    Free and Libre implies a rejection of the Apache and MIT/BSD licenses.

    Why start there?

    @freemo @kilroy_was_here

    erictopol, to random
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    “A new type of vaccine… has shown in the lab setting that it can completely reverse autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes—all without shutting down the rest of the immune system.”

    Leveraging the liver!

    https://erictopol.substack.com/p/an-exciting-new-approach-to-autoimmune

    ted_dunning,
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    This is a highly targeted kind of therapy that would work only on certain kinds of disorders.

    The good news is that they specifically mention celiac disease in the article. I don't know enough about celiac to say whether is one thing or a collection of different issues, so I couldn't comment about.

    @raphaelmorgan @erictopol

    Cmastication, to random
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    My current example of “leakiest abstraction in modern computing” is Spark. Can y’all think of a leakier abstraction?

    ted_dunning,
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    SQL is inconsistent and can't much serve as the basis of more abstraction. Non-materialized views are nearly the best you can get and you can't do much with them.

    It is pretty decent at hiding what's below, though.

    @Cmastication @wcbdata

    georgetakei, to random

    I won’t be watching tonight’s GOP debate. If I wanted to watch a bunch of invertebrates gathered together, I could visit the Aquarium.

    ted_dunning,
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    I'll be near an aquarium tonight.

    Good tip that this would be a better place to watch molluscs interact!

    @georgetakei

    emilymbender, to random
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    I use Mastodon for public scholarship, because that is one of the main benefits I see to public/open social media. It's how I used Twitter and I've definitely benefited from other people using social media this way.

    But in my experience, Mastodon is 'splainy AF, which is exhausting. Just this morning, a gentleman decided I would benefit from an explanation of GIGO, FFS.

    So, while I never insist on titles, I'm going to include mine in my display name for a while, to see if that helps.

    ted_dunning,
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    It makes me that is a perfect time for to splain them by letting them know that there is a widespread social convention to use the word "yes" as a code word for indicating agreement.

    There's even a wikipedia page on the topic so the response can be SUPER helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement

    I think I will try this.

    @emilymbender @Mer__edith @MissPriss @natematias

    Houl, to random
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    ted_dunning,
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    @profoundlynerdy @Houl

    A mobile direct page is the gateway feature leading to register windows and the Sparc architecture!

    ted_dunning,
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    Probably the most interesting feature (at the time) for the Sparc architecture was the use of register windows. The basic idea is that the processor has 32 general purpose registers divided between globals, "in", "local" and "out". When you make a call, the processor renames things a bit so that the out registers become the in registers at the next call level.

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    @profoundlynerdy @Houl

    ted_dunning,
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    Register windows are a bit like a (small) page zero because you can get to them with a short address. Being able to efficiently roll to the next window was pretty cool and is like being able to have a new page zero when you call a function.

    In fact, however, register windows turned out very bad if you account for context switches because tons of unused registers had to be flushed to the stack.

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    @profoundlynerdy @Houl

    ted_dunning,
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    Thus my "gateway feature" comment. Windows seemed cool at the time.

    Register windows can also never be removed from the arch due to compatibility. Thus the drug metaphor.

    (that may be more than you wanted to know 🙂

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    @profoundlynerdy @Houl

    ted_dunning,
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    That sort of thing lives longer than anybody can believe, but I really don't see a lot of room. x86, ARM and Risc-V don't leave a lot of oxygen to spare.

    @profoundlynerdy @Houl

    ted_dunning,
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    Being open source doesn't help with Sparc's fundamental problem with spilling register windows on context switch. Because many of the spilled registers are actually not even used this is very wasteful of memory bandwidth.

    Better to do what modern processors do and treat L1 cache as a huge register pool. Small flips can have small cost that way.

    The net net is that Sparc won't have a revival no matter what. RiscV fixes the problems and thus wins.

    @kkarhan @profoundlynerdy @Houl

    ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random

    Great big feet on this lovely acorn woodpecker. We don't get these in Seattle, so it's a delight to spend some time with my favorite woodpecker species.

    ted_dunning,
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    Also known as "clown-faced bastards" among some circles.

    @ct_bergstrom

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