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And doesnt run as root by default ! ( which docker does iirc, but can be turned off )

Oh nice, a fritzbox. Ive gotten one the week it was legal to bring your own modem here ( not germany ) and i have not looked back since. There is a build in vpn server you can enable to access data from anywhere :)

Note to self: read full post. I used eduroam when i worked for a university and it just worked. We had set it up for our full ad+username to be the username and our ad password was the pass and that just worked so idk.
I did lookup the android settings they said to use and used those in linux though

This. This is how i feel about ml/llm/ai tech.
Im going to give a lecture this year about mcp, what it is and what it does, with a live demo of letting an llm see what an application does ( via an reverse engineering api with an mcp endpoint ) and recreate it in .net ( via the build in vscode mcp ).
That, or i might make an old api to access data, attach some mcp endpoints and let a lmm design some basic ( = aka to be validated and build upon by an actual engineer!! ) structures of the data for migration purposes and maybe even let it migrate some data depending on how my poc goes.

The tech is cool as hell, but what its used for and how companies throw it against everything, even if it has no added value, is making me puke and hate it so bad…
Even the way llm’s are trained make me puke. Fuck you all companies out there

Agreed. As an ex-technical lead and co-architect i also agree that what ai does is often very poor architectural design and i wouldnt want it to touch that, ever.

Tools are always useful. If its a good thing to (ab)use said tool depends on the tool and if its human or not :p
… And the job for the tool ofc

Ye derp, im used to 32, not 32k lol.

Cache man, its a fun thing. 32k 32 (derp, 32 not 32k) is a common cache line size. Some compilers realise that your data might be hit often and aligns it to a cache line start to make its access fast and easy. So yes, it might allocate more memory than it should need, but then its to align the data to something like a cache line.
There is also a hardware reasons that might also be the case. I know the wii’s main processor communicates with the co processor over memory locations that should be 32k aligned because of access speed, not only because of cache. Sometimes, more is less :')

Hell, might even be a cause of instruction speed that loading and handling 32k of data might be faster than a single byte :').

Then there is also the minimum heap allocation size that might factor in. Though a 32k minimum memory block seems… Excessive xD

Im guessing though. I remember seeing it on 4chan as a teenager so thats between 2006 and 2010 or aomething :p

In 2008? More than you’d think.

It is not, its been a thing since circa 2008

Wanna bet its ai scrappers? Im part of multiple communities who have all been under serious ai scrapper bot ‘attacks’. We are talking millions and millions of requests in minutes by the bots. Its complete bonkers what those fucking bots are doing

Sure hope so. Ive been waiting for cinnamon on wayland to because stable for while now. Really want to try wayland without cursing all over the place
( and yes, i know i could just try another DE and use that with wayland, thats not the point )

Yup! And now we are facing the problems many sys admins face every day all over the world: certificate expirations!
Though instead of https(ssl) certificate of a server expiring, its the certificate used to validate what secure boot boots.
Thats what the article is about

A yes, the fun times of a baby haha. Enjoy! :p
Anyway, Secure boot itself was designed by the eufi consortium, which is a group of pc tech companies, to help make sure devices only boot what it can trust. Good on paper and in practice but…

back in circa 2011 microsoft had enforced any pc that wanted to be windows 8 certified ( and get the sticker ) to require secure boot to be enabled together with fastboot. All motherboards needed to have a tpm module with only the microsoft certificate in it. This meant that booting from a usb or cd was completely off the table and you could just not install linux, period.
And even if you did, the kernels or bootloaders were not signed so they would be refused by the bios/eufi.

This was a big thing back then, and canonical and redhat tried and found a few ways around it, and so did some individuals.

But afaik the linux foundation ( which microsoft is part of, funnily enough ) made some binaries that were signed and allowed linux to boot under secure boot, including usb/cd.
Iirc, during the linux installation the distro will add its certificate to the tpm so that kernels signed by the distro boot fine.

To this day, without those binaries from the foundation, it would be impossible to boot linux with secure boot and can still cause issues when dual booting and having bitlocker enabled for example. Bitlocker detects a changed boot state (by grub) and says fuck that, give me the recovery key or i aint decrypting this.

Here is a google search if you want dig deeper, it should all be from circa 2011-2012 :
https://www.google.com/?q=windows+8+oem+to+disable+linux

A quick way to know is if youre running custom build kernel, or use mainline on ubuntu based systems, youre not using secure boot.
Those kernels are generally not signed and the cert is not added to the tpm to allow it. Youd have to have gone out of your way to do it, in which youd know secure boot was enabled :p

With? How it could effect us?

It might. It depends on a lot of stuff.
Microsoft was heavily involved in the making of uefi and secure boot but had heavy resistance from canonical as the early drafts of secure boot would not allow os’ to add signing keys to the tpm so a machine would only be able to boot windows.

Thankfully canonical won that debate :')

It was announced in may on microsoft build event ^^
I call it nano for windows haha