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@nixCraft that looks like a BSD disk naming scheme, so I'm guessing FreeBSD

@nixCraft who here has some code that matches the same description, but instead they wrote it themselves a long time ago?

@nixCraft even though I'm an Ubuntu boy, SUSE linux is the coolest linux of them all IMHO.
If you are of a different opinion, or if you just want to see something epic, go here: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6sYHytyKN2-X93TurF3JptW8qSVm0DzA
Don't know where to start? "paint it green"

@nixCraft from the world of Dutch tech news: the AI LLM "GEITje" (apache licensed model, open source) got taken down after pressure from "Stichting Brein" (a non-profit that claims to protect copyright infringement but is a bit controversial). https://tweakers.net/nieuws/231254/ontwikkelaar-haalt-taalmodel-geitje-offline-na-verzoek-stichting-brein.html
The Dutch techies are a bit upset that this small OS project got taken down, while the big boys can keep stealing whatever they want.

@nixCraft top, simply because it is always there. Ain't got time for being a fancy pancy all day long ;-)

@nixCraft anybody who thinks they can make anything idiot proof, is seriously underestimating the idiots

@nixCraft F in chat

@nixCraft echo/cat/sed

@nixCraft do not secretly put decaff coffee in the coffee machine?

@nixCraft stunts.exe

@nixCraft the biggest problem is them calling it "AI". How about locally generated subtitles using a neural network to do the speech-to-text translation?

It is of course a waste of computational resources for 95+% of everything that gets played in vlc, as you can often just download subs. But I can imagine that hearing impaired family members would love this when they watch some home videos of kids birthdays/weddings/graduations/...

@nixCraft whatever gets the job done in the fastest, cleanest, most portible way possible. Shuffle the order to your own preference.

@nixCraft welcome to linux! Are you having fun with your bootloader setup changes?

@nixCraft start working on fortran 2003/2008, and try to keep your project working on both ifort and gfortran. That will help you get used to compiler crashes 🤣

@nixCraft I feel like the proper answer here is a copy of "Farming for Dummies"

@nixCraft internet, but served from servers with all led indicator lights soldered off the boards. This sounds silly, but considering the average datacenter with tens of thousands of servers, this adds up to quite a bit of power saving.

@nixCraft ubuntu, Dell xps 13 9343 (2015), IIRC to get sound working. Wrote a blog post about it, good times.

@nixCraft and prepare yourself for some trauma, because let's be real: if you are sending them an email, you most likely do not want details on their nightly activities 😉

@nixCraft I see this browser tab hoarding quite often, but have never understood it. What are you guys keeping in there? What kind of interesting websites am I missing out on?

@nixCraft next article: break every portable script with "sudo rm /usr/bin/env"