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2026-08-26 10:34:41 UTC

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coreboot is just one possible implementation of step 1 (“UEFI”)
u-boot is another

2026-08-26 10:22:29 UTC

what people think of when you tell them you have a rescue system that runs from RAM:
1. UEFI
2. bootloader
3. kernel + initrd
4. mount squashfs
5. copy to tmpfs
6. pivot root into tmpfs
what I mean:
1. UEFI
2. bootloader
3. UKI (including kernel + initrd)
you are done, the initrd is the rootfs, just have an overlaymount

2026-08-14 12:30:18 UTC

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I’ve Seen Things with it
as for features it depends on what you do tbh, I particularly appreciate sub volumes

2026-08-14 12:23:38 UTC

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kind of? It’s just not very featureful for things I care about and fairly fragile because of how it works

2026-08-14 12:20:28 UTC

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mostly because ext4 sucks

2026-08-09 10:42:41 UTC

*sees a cop car and looks at the license plate*
“listen the license number starts with HH for a reason”

2026-08-09 08:22:15 UTC

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mello

2026-07-30 10:41:29 UTC

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i understand him. let him cook —helene

2026-07-13 11:43:51 UTC

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I'm a freelancer (>10 years experience, you stop counting at some point) and can help here (I do a lot of other things too, but I do enjoy helping people learn). I've maintained global infrastructures (multiple continents, high uptime, low fault tolerance, "hybrid cloud", etc), am closely familiar with several CI/CD systems (and have designed some), and am a long-time free software contributor (you are very likely to be running my code right now). I'm based in France and am available for short missions with a preference for small business, but have no certificates (I find those distasteful). I can handle all of the above topics from beginner to principal level, and my education background is appropriate for training. The main issue you might run into is that I'm not very cheap ^^

2026-07-08 08:49:52 UTC

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no im tosti we just actually both think that

2026-07-08 08:45:26 UTC

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the nintendo 3ds is the optimal console and you cannot change my mind

2026-07-07 21:06:08 UTC

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that’s so nice of you, what could I do to improve on this 810 rating?

2026-07-07 21:02:39 UTC

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bro's just reposting my memes he's THAT unemployed —helene

2026-07-07 12:40:17 UTC

I mean meow

2026-07-06 08:00:13 UTC

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damn you did art in uni?

2026-07-03 20:18:21 UTC

Me when I’m on that good zaza
https://asdf.donotsta.re/media/158d4f342de515dc541d58a5363e218163a6072941530b2fd93b67ea02b8639f.jpeg

2026-06-27 10:57:26 UTC

ok but do you lot know about milk bags

2026-06-27 10:16:56 UTC

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one is the cross platform qt-ish-based one, while the other is the native swift app (you want the latter)

2026-06-25 19:57:09 UTC

yesterday @npub1h0m…hsv8 said "you have your sense of humor about you regardless of your state; drunk, sober, whatever"
so I asked "ok, and what do you think about my sense of humor?"
then he turned the music up 50%

2026-06-10 09:37:15 UTC

consider what your cat considers

2026-06-03 11:37:35 UTC

I want smaller programs with fewer features that take longer to write by people who are happier to do so and I’m not kidding

2026-05-28 17:37:52 UTC

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what is it? :0

2026-05-28 05:08:41 UTC

that’s a nice personal project you got there, you make it yourself?

2026-05-17 16:32:17 UTC

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they feed us poison (cloud ip cameras)
so we buy their "cures" (freebsd frigate on nas)
while they suppress our medicine (dog watching the gate)

2026-05-17 14:14:33 UTC

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it's insane how graphically intensive games today look worse than they did 4-6 years ago while using up way more power
they just pump them out faster
except they also suck more so no one buys them lol

2026-05-04 09:32:41 UTC

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learn universal discrimination : “everyone sucks and I should cherish anyone that has shown not to”

2026-05-02 16:06:42 UTC

Anyone wants to start a news feed with me?
Difference from lwn: the news is very minimal; essentially giving you the full link to read and the smallest useful summary (e.g. on software release, the headline features; on mailing list drama, the subject of discussion / potential consequences).
Difference from phoronix: applicability is both wider and narrower. No attempt to make money off of it, so news is restricted to news we find interesting ONLY. However it also means it need not be restricted to tech only, multiple feeds per category possible.
Difference from slashdot: the feed is all there is. There’s no website, there’s no comments. There’s an anonymous feed viewer in lieu of a “website” but no long-lasting stuff. Ring buffer of the last 100 posts per feed or whatever keeps a hard cap on costs; the client side can handle persistency of things you want to keep around.
Difference from magasines: no release schedule, you just post when you hear something interesting. Format is closer to lobsters/lemmy anyway.
The idea would be that I build the thing and have a very simple API so I can give people tokens (that have a list of feeds you can post to) and you use a bookmarklet or whatever to make the post. The author is marked in RSS metadata so if someone is seen repeatedly making posts that suck / aren’t interesting / spam (but I don’t believe that one) it can be discussed.

2026-04-29 12:47:47 UTC

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depends on the soft skill
my experience has mostly been with the "putting yourself in horribly uncomfortable positions and forcing your way through them anyway, repeatedly, until it gets easier"

2026-04-29 11:09:21 UTC

It is time! I am once again on the hiring grindset. I'm gonna have more openings shortly tm (this week), but one's already ready!
The job is to work on industrial monitoring, specifically in the transport and energy sectors. You will be regularly visiting clients, figuring out what their problems are (not just asking, they're usually resigned to suffer in silence), and finding ways to solve them.
"But I don't like transport, it pollutes the planet." I have great news! Most of the company's clients are moving to electric vehicles now! The energy sector contracts? They want to monitor green energy (currently mostly wind). They go to this company precisely *because* they have more experience with not just thermal engines, but also the funny electrical gizmos (they looked into OCPP back when nobody was using it, for example, and now are ahead of everyone else). If you work in transport, this is one of the places where you can actively contribute to being greener (another example: there are setups to monitor when a vehicle should be recharged, and what kind of driving habits are more economical in practice for electric engines).
"OK, what's the catch?"
You'll have to move (and be allowed to work in) to Versailles, France. If you're already around there (or can otherwise make the trip *regularly*). You'll also have to go to the clients' place of work on the regular. The soft skills aspect is almost *more* important than the technical aspect, and the technical side is quite wide. We don't expect you to be a master of all the technical details, but you should be an expert on at least one of them (you can probably figure out what they are, things like CAN 2.0, etc); otherwise just high-school level understanding of power, electricity. And of course, you gotta not be afraid to open a vehicle up and start digging in - you'll be working with field technicians, garagists, and other technical staff; they need to be able to respect you. Language-wise you must know English and French, and German is greatly appreciated.
The salary range is 35 to 65k EUR, dependent on how many technical aspects you're an expert on (while the soft skill side determines whether you get hired at all).
If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, feel free to send me a fedi DM and I'll give you the complete job posting and instructions on how to apply (so you can skip some of the initial filtering steps, I prioritize candidates over fedi).
#getfedihired :boost_ok:

2026-04-20 10:26:01 UTC

me when im kity and i do pol

2026-03-28 21:09:24 UTC

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no no you don't got it. you should be like "VDSLjob from a girl that's older than me" —helene

2026-03-28 21:07:12 UTC

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EPONjob from a girl with nice optics —helene

2026-03-28 09:36:17 UTC

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I really like downtown strasbourg (the isle and some of the east coast), illkirch is nice as well
would have liked to move there but it's very much out of our reach for now
instead we're moving to the opposite side of alsace, though it has its own advantages (though being that pretty isn't one of them ^^)

2026-03-28 07:57:21 UTC

It’s funny we just straight up have cherry blossoms in Alsace.
The microclimate here and in some of the Vosges is just close enough to Japan to just be able to plan them and have them go.

2026-03-26 09:44:12 UTC

Bruh I’m so tired I would not have survived the winter (day at the office) today

2026-03-26 07:38:15 UTC

meow (I have escaped a terrible fate)
mew mew nya (having to go to the office)
maO! (there's a snow warning!)

2026-03-12 07:18:32 UTC

you caught me at a very chinese time in my life
https://asdf.donotsta.re/media/f3a93001521bca0c84d1ff708464daa5595d38fc5853bc70b66fd80d2fd099ab.mp4

2026-03-02 15:25:59 UTC

I feel like a bit epistemic question over the next few years is going to be in creating an ontology of friction
there’s clearly different types thereof, some friction prevents action without necessarily improving outcomes if it’s pushed through, while some are clearly necessary for learning
how do you tell them apart and how do you classify them, what are the other effects present?
whether this is actually looked into is another concern obviously but it’s becoming obvious this needs to be understood, including on a social level (we’ve known for a while in psychology that being surrounded by yes-men turns you stupid, but not much beyond that that I can recall)

2026-02-25 17:08:41 UTC

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it happened to me too, do you think it's contagious?

2026-02-23 22:04:13 UTC

you're such a gemini (astrological) vs you're such a gemini (google chatbot) —helene

2026-02-23 21:35:42 UTC

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chamas (cheese hamas) is better

2026-02-23 21:29:57 UTC

john wario from kingdom hearts

2026-02-23 20:36:14 UTC

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I have terrible news
he's str*ght

2026-02-23 20:34:32 UTC

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he actually looks like that —helene

2026-02-12 12:02:16 UTC

trams are the ultimate form of transportation
train? that's just a faster tram
metro? underground tram
bus? worse tram

2026-02-12 11:46:10 UTC

i don't wanna work
i don't wanna meeting
i just wanna maow
MAOW

2026-02-12 09:43:45 UTC

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I believe so

2026-02-12 09:40:16 UTC

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me: talks about cheese and raclette all the time
cell: how could you HIDE THIS FROM ME

2026-02-12 09:39:53 UTC

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what do you mean CONCEALED??

2026-02-12 09:38:51 UTC

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from cats

2026-02-12 09:38:20 UTC

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with cats

2026-02-12 09:33:33 UTC

I can consistently nail open C, D, and E major chords by heart
fingers are hurting quite a bit less but there's still a ways to go; shoulder still gets tired quite quickly
gonna keep repeating them to make sure I have the finger placements memorized and probably learn open G and A later
and then I'll have to start figuring out how to do barre chords :neofox_sob:

2026-02-11 19:50:37 UTC

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people needed to come up with a socially acceptable (to them) way of talking about the same things rightoids/terfs want to talk about, I don’t know why you would ever assume it’s unhelpful /s

2026-02-09 10:55:02 UTC

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that’s pretty hand wavy for something that I’m not sure *can* be hashed out given how this stuff works

2026-02-09 10:43:50 UTC

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the main issue is that in order to attain this state and ability, you not only have to write a lot of code but also agonize over it repeatedly until you find the appropriate paths
and you have to keep doing it regularly or it fades away
besides all the ethical concerns (which to me are more than enough, the true cost of this stuff is ridiculous and 99% subsidized), I’ve never seen an LLM produce anything I wouldn’t have been able to do faster AND better myself after all the rounds of review etc (I don’t use them but I have to interact with a lot of LLM generated stuff at work), so I find there to be very little value for the astronomical price

2026-02-09 10:32:42 UTC

Boilerplate is such a non-issue for me because I just write half of everything from scratch and making things nice and keeping things novel is at the forefront of my mind in general (which means they end up nice, which means there’s no boilerplate)

2026-02-09 10:19:57 UTC

All of my firewall setups start with allowing all ICMP. If you manage to do something with that you deserve it. The benefits of all ICMP being allowed outweighs the risks. I like ICMP. It stands for International Communication Method Protocol, and I like communicating internationally.

2026-02-09 10:09:37 UTC

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wait till you hear about the region of China named after Tsingtao beer — helene

2026-02-07 07:40:15 UTC

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me several years ago: “idk if I visited Japan I’d want to go to Hokkaido”
everyone then: “Noo you don’t wanna do that”
everyone now:

2026-01-30 07:33:46 UTC

today on tosti blogging: How I Use Shell (2026 Edition)
it's long, it's ranty, it's probably incoherent at parts
in this, I very quickly go over what my history with shells is, where I'm at today, what a shell even is for me, what I think about all the shells I thought were relevant to talk about, what I'm willing to recommend to people, and finally some completely arbitrary and disjointed bits and bobs as to my actual usage that honestly are not that interesting
get it while it's hot!
https://blog.toast.cafe/shell-26

2026-01-30 07:11:54 UTC

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happy birthday cell! ^-^

2026-01-26 21:59:24 UTC

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oh lol I love the controller not coming back up (pcie_aspm=off sounds about right to me)

2026-01-26 21:43:36 UTC

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I see an ext4 moment! It's been so long!!!

2026-01-26 05:38:25 UTC

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"when are you available to start?": "yes"

2026-01-26 05:37:52 UTC

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cover letter present, opens with "dear hiring manager"

2026-01-26 05:37:34 UTC

sometimes, it's interesting to see what people completely outside of tech have as CVs, and I get to do that when they cluelessly apply to tech positions
just got a CV from a business analyst that's 5 pages and wastes 50+% of space
half of it is like "yeah I know ERP, I know SDLC"

2026-01-26 05:19:00 UTC

posted with no further comment
https://asdf.donotsta.re/media/f75aaec6e743f74f4236df06cb2c841f5b50151658f3900d4883c3daca4d9b09.png

2026-01-21 10:33:18 UTC

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even 100mbit you can selfhost most things tbh