Lars Wirzenius
Lars WirzeniusOn this day in 1906 Grace Hopper was born. She was an influential in early computing. Among other things, she developed the COBOL programming language, still in use today, but her achievements and impact were much wider than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
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Lars WirzeniusI lived in the UK for four years. There's some things I miss from there:
* easy access to good fish and chips
* a dense railway network
* power plugs that don't feel flimsy
* power plugs that are easy to insert
* power sockets with on/off switches
* my friends over there
The European ones (Schuko, Type C, Type F, whatever) are often difficult to insert. The pins are often wonky, apparently due to the required tolerances being bad, but that's my guess.
Lars WirzeniusTypos 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 WirzeniusThere 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 WirzeniusStatus 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.
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Lars WirzeniusThe IPv6 chapter in @mwl's "Networking for System Administrators, 2nd Ed" is number 4. I wonder if that's a subtle joke.
Lars WirzeniusMy 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 WirzeniusI 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 WirzeniusTransferring 7 TiB of file system images takes a while. Computing checksums to verify the transfer worked take further time.
Lars WirzeniusMy 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 WirzeniusTransferring 7 TiB of file system images takes a while. Computing checksums to verify the transfer worked take further time.
Lars WirzeniusI 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"