Notes | Brutkey

I hereby declare that the term "smart" in combination with a device such as a TV or phone is short for "surveillance machines are really tedious". Now you know.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

My latest startup venture develops self-propelled goalposts for debates and all kinds of football (soccer, rugby, armpit-egg). It uses large language models (what pundits who don't know what they're talking about call "AI") to detect when movement is necessary and in what direction to allow you go win an online argument or make a goal.

My email is open for investment proposals. Serious proposals only! I don't have time for jokes or investors without billions to give me.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

My wife, @dokumentaristi@mementomori.social , is an artist, and has some beautiful artwork for sale.

https://en.taiko.art/soilemottisenkangas

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

Various organizations choose either a monorepo (put all projects in one tree) or per-project repositories. I've tried a monorepo for Debian by importing all source into one Git repository, in one commit. That was fun.

Should I try the other extreme, with as small units of source code per repository? What would the unit be? File? Byte?

Why? To see if I can. Because obviously I have too much free time, says my subconscious.

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2024/monorepo/

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

Wake-on-LAN is a magic goodness in my little home lab thing where I'm not willing to invest in a KVM device. But it doesn't help if I wake up the wrong computer.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

On this day in 2002 version 1.0 of the creative commons licenses were first released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license#History

#OTD #OnThisDay #CC #CreativeCommons

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

I was young once. For a few frames at the start of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd3P-68at9E

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

Linux users: Do any of your main laptop or desktop computers currently enable support for hardware accelerated virtualization? The kvm module in the kernel, plus CPU instructions, plus enabled in firmware?

On Debian, the kvm-ok script in the cpu-checker package lets you test.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

If a web site pops up a question to ask consent to use cookies, I'm going to assume the web site and its owners are up to no good, and will treat them with care. There is no need to ask for consent for cookies that are essential for the site to function (e.g., sessions), and everything else is likely to be malicious, and not in the best interest of those visiting the site.

(No, really, the EU does not require asking for consent for session cookies.)

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

I have a training course for the basics of Rust. In about four hours I can cover enough to enable the students to learn more on their own. Now that Rust is a core part of the Linux kernel, I imagine there are some Linux kernel developers who feel they need to learn Rust soon. They should talk to their employer to hire me to teach them.

https://liw.fi/training/rust-basics/

(Blatant ad. Feel free to boost.)

#Linux #Rust #RustLang