Notices by Schamschula (schamschula@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft I’ve long ago switched my default search engine to DuckDuckGo. On rare occasions I will manually go to Google for a second opinion. Given that AI hallucinations are now commonplace for Google, why would you want use it in the first place?

@nixCraft Although Apple has given up on providing a server OS, a full stack can easily be installed using #macports or #homebrew.

@nixCraft If Goethe only knew what would become of his “Zauberlehrling”!

@nixCraft Under a ssh connection nano, otherwise under the FreeBSD or Linux GUI Kate, but better yet, BBEdit under macOS. Have zero interest in a 1970/80’s command mode editor (vi[m]) or the complexity of emacs. I have the escape from vi in muscle memory, but I would never use it to edit anything.

@nixCraft AIX and pains...

@nixCraft I started working with artificial neural networks over twenty five years ago. Among others, I used the same ones for which Drs. Hopfield and Hinton were awarded the Nobel prize. Once trained, each layer is just a set of numbers in a weight matrix. LLMs are just huge versions of the same, using up huge amounts of energy to determine the weights. There is no “consciousness” in there anywhere.

@nixCraft Poudriere on FreeBSD chokes with 32GB when building any combination of gcc, llvm, npm, and rust. I haven’t run into any build issues on my Macs, even those with only 16GB, but a Mac Studio with 64GB sure gets the job done a lot faster!

@nixCraft What could go wrong?

@nixCraft Been there, done that! I tell everyone that I know nothing about Windows (mostly true).

@nixCraft Last step: create the port file for your favorite package manager.

@nixCraft In most cases it should be pronounced “See-Que-Lite-Three”

@nixCraft Also available for #MacPorts

@nixCraft MySQL and sqlite3

@nixCraft rsync or sftp for a single file?
How inefficient!
Never mind that you have to be careful not to accidentally overwrite other files by setting the wrong options.

@nixCraft curl it’s the glue that holds the internet together. It supports over 100 operating systems.

@nixCraft s/Linux/*NIX/

@nixCraft So Apple will need to track (frequent) rust releases in Xcode? Good luck!
At least the license isn't infectious, so it's not entirely impossible.

@nixCraft My #freebsd servers sure don’t take that long to boot