Notices by nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social), page 12

There's a special place in hell reserved for those who unleash spam or DDoS attacks on non-profits and independent #Mastodon instances. It's like kicking puppies in a digital playground. These instances are often lovingly nurtured by individuals in the community spirit, offering a refuge from the Big Tech. Why anyone would want to rain on their parade with spam or try to knock them offline with a DDoS attack is beyond me. It just doesn't make any sense. Also, donate to your instances if you can.

*** PSA ***

Three things to do today:

a) Make a backup.
b) Verify your backup.
c) Find out how long it takes to restore your backup.

3-2-1 is a good backup policy.

@Varpie I understand. Every tool, device, medicine and software used in the medical field is typically certified and approved by the FDA. I don't see Perplexity, OpenAI, or Microsoft obtaining such approval from the FDA. What happens when something goes wrong, or AI misses cancer screening and someone dies out? There is no procedure or even law in place to prevent this kind of abuse by AI companies, including responsibility for the loss of human life.

FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/ffmpeg-devs-boast-of-up-to-94x-performance-boost-after-implementing-handwritten-avx-512-assembly-code

#opensource #programming

@Karsten Add CEOs and C-suites to that list too.

@Kishi I agree. People with good hearts and rational thinking know well this is theft and replacing all jobs with some shity corporate AI overloads. We already know how much abuse X/Twitter, Facebook, Google, Insta, and TikTok do with misinformation. This is their end goal. 4 or 5 large corporations control everything. This sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it is happening right now.

@Xenograg NYT doesn't know that perplexity is after their job, too. Perplexity will show live US election results despite AI accuracy warnings
AI search engine embraces 2024 US election with live tracker and chatbot info hub. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/perplexity-will-show-live-us-election-results-despite-ai-accuracy-warnings/

Oh, but I'm a software developer. AI can't do my job. From the same site:

Netflix Bullish on Gen AI for Games After Laying Off Human Game Developers https://www.404media.co/netflix-games-ai-exec/

So, video game developers, artists, and voice actors are also being replaced. It is happening way too fast, and nobody is safe. Meanwhile, politicians are busy throwing mud at each other. They don't care as long as AI companies keep paying them. Nobody is going to protect your job and your family.

This is not going to end mostly for human tech workers, journalists, writers, & artists. The billionaire AI tech bros found a new loophole to make money. The laws are slow to catch up with this kind of abuse. By the time laws are updated, the whole generation of whilecaller jobs will be lost forever. They are already deploying AI in hospitals to replace trained medical professionals. This will not going to reduce your medical bills. You have to be a delusional fool to think this will help you😅

New York Times tech workers are on strike for fairer pay and just cause job protections. 

Perplexity, an AI company that has repeatedly ripped off the work of human journalists and created a mess for every human work, is now offering help to the New York Times.

See how these AI companies are stealing jobs from humans and then selling back services at a price. https://www.404media.co/perplexity-ai-offers-to-help-new-york-times-with-tech-union-strike/

**Day 100:** A girl from Fansly or OnlyFans takes pity on a lonely guy who is into Arch Linux and decides to make him lucky.

**Day 110:** It turns out they have much more in common than they initially thought, beyond just a one-night stand. They begin dating and helping each other to fix issues.

**Day 742:** They get married and live happily ever after.

**Day 743:** The YouTube Channel is archived—the END.

Bro is getting better everyday installing Arch #Linux ... LMAO. Yes, it is real https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTUULw3bjATzc86JscVaBHy-O_d_1Ibh

Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux https://kevinboone.me/systemd_embedded.html

#Linux #opensource

@GolfNovemberUniform try cli option. it is much easier

@jocarren webmin is awesome but sadly it lost battle due to all newer devops or IT automation tools like ansible or salt.

Linux host firewall:
1. nftables - low-level way to manage the firewall on modern distros. It is a replacement for iptables
2. iptables- legacy firewall
3. East to use fronted - manage your nftables or iptables using GUI, CLI, or web fronted. Typical examples are ufw, gufw, Guarddog, FWBuilder, firewalld, firewall-config, etc. Both nftables & IPtables are part of Netfilter. For most users, choosing fronted, such as ufw https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-set-up-ufw-firewall-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts-in-5-minutes/ or firewalld https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/set-up-a-firewall-using-firewalld-on-opensuse-linux/ is recommended

#Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell. https://github.com/Gandalf-/coreutils

When did you join the cult of #Linux?

I started in 1994 ;)

Lmao. #Linux

@catsalad i think you found a loophole lol