Brutkey

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi
Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

Typos of the day: open cod, source cod.

By brain has a feature where if I mistype a word once, I'll keep mistyping it the rest of the day unless I'm diligent.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

There are days when I take excessive pleasure in destroying misbehaving virtual machines with extreme prejudice: kill -9, then wipe the file system where the image file resided. It doesn't really help, for more than a few seconds after the deed is done, but some days that's enough.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

Status quo et quo vadis(*) of Radicle CI: https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2025/radicle-ci-status-quo/

(*) I read too much Asterix as a child.

#Radicle #RadicleCI #newsletter

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

The IPv6 chapter in @mwl's "Networking for System Administrators, 2nd Ed" is number 4. I wonder if that's a subtle joke.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

I suddenly have flashbacks to the 1990s and bringing an update to the distro I was using on a few tens of floppies from the university back home and invariably having some of them fail during the hour the trip took.

So for an extra fee I can provide extra floppies encoded in a Shamir secret sharing manner so that any N of M floppies will work. The customer gets to pick positive integers N and M, for a small extra fee of 2^N^M euros.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

My latest startup will be selling this data to whoever wants to buy it. I have a special price for AI companies of only 100 euros/floppy.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

Transferring 7 TiB of file system images takes a while. Computing checksums to verify the transfer worked take further time.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

I like what @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club wrote on his blog: https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/you-probably-shouldnt-block-ai-bots-from-your-website/

Some choice quotes:

"Large scale fraud is not revolution."

"If you look past the shit-stained windows of BigTech’s walled garden, there’s a whole world of beautiful, working internet out there."

"Luckily, the bots are dumb as fuck. Three ifs in a trenchcoat gets rid of most of them"

"Fuck off you privileged elitist prick."

"I like computers, I like technology. But I like humans a whole lot more"

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

I told some friends recently about the on sentence in German I can still manage, and now I'm going to inflict it on you too:

eine kleine Tasse Schokoladenschnitzel mit Bananenkartoffeln und Kabelsalat auf der Hauptbahnhof, bitte

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

In their recent episode @europeanspodcast@mastodon.social mentions that Mastodon (a.k.a. the fediverse) is where they have the fewest followers and the most interactions.

I've avoided commercial social media for a while. I'm here because I've found interesting people with interesting things to say, and I'm not being manipulated into trying to buy stuff, or being force fed stuff I'm not interested in.

Thank you @cwebber@social.coop , @evan@cosocial.ca , @Gargron@mastodon.social , and others who've built this place for us.