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lispi314

@lispi314@udongein.xyz

Hi, I'm Lispi, Lisp (Technomancer) Wizard (to eventually be).

You might know me from @lispi314

I like Free Software, #Emacs and resilient computing a lot.

I also like anime girls, animes with cute girls doing cute things and artwork with them too. Cute stories are good too.

Some Pins:

Software and Assumed Privilege, common problems: https://mastodon.top/@lispi314/111253066257920146

Writing Privacy-preserving software & services 101: https://mastodon.top/@lispi314/110849018589421824

#Kopimism #FreeSoftware #CommonLisp

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lispi314, to random
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How realistic would it be to convert average graphics-related GPU computational tasks to analog computing accelerator cards?

Certainly the entirely of ray tracing & lighting could go that way, but is that most of the load? Is the rest of the load convertable without completely ruining the results?

I have no doubt that one would still end-up requiring both a digital GPU and the analog accelerator, but how much would it alleviate things?

What brings this to mind is the notion of things like the 4090 using 450W to work. That's a ridiculous amount of power. That's literally more than my lab normally uses (even during scheduled disk scrubs).

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Hm, yes. 3$/h for commisions is too low (duh).

That being said, >=100$ commissions is also in the territory of "I guess I'll have to skip half my meals this week and maybe the next".

Or I suppose it might motivate learning to do the art by oneself instead, much like the trade example mentioned in the screenshot I'm subposting leads to.

rysertio, to random
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> reportedly took an IV bag home to rehydrate herself and died in front of her husband. Her autopsy found a lethal dose of bupivacaine in her system.
Who tf does this?

lispi314,
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@rysertio You think one would at least bother to check that it's "normal saline" and not medicated.

lispi314,
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@rysertio Oh. Honestly that starts sounding like a deliberate suicide attempt.

The minimal competence required to understand the logical consequences of doing it is there, so going ahead with it anyway?

lispi314,
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@icedquinn @rysertio Well yes, I was thinking "incompetently grabbed the first thing lying around" since just... buying IV bags isn't exactly an option I think, here. (Nevermind how stupid that is considering how far emergency services can be and how training people to treat basic things locally can be very important.)

lispi314, to random
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Bioconservatism is such a weird ideology.

"We must stay as we are because have always been this way (false). Progress is verboten. Change is verboten. Especially intentional change. Self-agency over one's physical form is verboten."

mia, to random

hard challenges:

  • don't try to feel better by telling yourself others have it worse
  • don't put yourself down by saying others in your situation are more fortunate and have it so much easier while you on the other hand are hopeless

don't invalidate either your own struggle or that of others. acknowledge your pain but don't let it paralyze you.

lispi314,
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@mia > - don't try to feel better by telling yourself others have it worse

Does that include comparing with oneself in terms of "it could be worse"? Both hypothetically and in knowledge of fact from having previously experienced said worse state?

lispi314, to random
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https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31550/files

I'm not seeing any way for a sysadmin to prevent the use of gratuitous dependencies without having to rebuild the whole program.

This is a pretty common problem with systemd-related programs, really.

Distro defaults don't mean I'm interested in keeping the same defaults. And switching out systemd with a custom build isn't as trivial as other programs where a bit of PATH shenanigans suffices (at least without breaking a lot of the package manager's stuff).

Kerosene, to random
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I think I've definitely switched teams to the so called "immutable" distros. They just work (tm), except when they don't, but that's besides the point. They are so easy to set up, and I truly think that this idea of letting the distro set up your partitions is the best way to go about it. You want to "dual boot"? Buy another HDD/SSD/etc, chud, stop being poor. Everything else is also seamless for the most part, and despite its short comings I think Flatpak might truly be the best option for regular user-facing programs, and for any other case Distrobox with your meme le haxor distro of choice is good enough.

lispi314,
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@iska @Paulajak @Kerosene @kumicota @Pawlicker It'd be nice if hardware devs stopped removing non-radio communication options for their devices.

No one sane wants to use the security shitshow that is the bluetooth stack.

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@lispi314 @Suiseiseki @coolboymew ssd's being harder to encrypt annoys me somewhat. i've made peace with it but there was a time i still tried to use platter drives for encrypted storage.

the gaming pc doesn't even have a password though because lmao :blobcatdunno:

lispi314,
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@Suiseiseki @icedquinn I'd be concerned with neither of those filesystems addressing data integrity. It means it has to be handled at the software level instead, which rather tightly constrains the set of programs one can use safely.

parismarx, to random
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“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

lispi314,
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@Archivist @parismarx It really shouldn't be a thing to have datacenters that aren't integrated into impact mitigation measures like that.

More generally, we should modernize UUCPnet (NNCP is a good place to start) and stop relying on 24/7 uptime for the overwhelming majority of things.

(And ideally we'd do all that with plugable transports so it can be used atop anonymizing overlay networks that do not integrate the mistakes of the clearnet.)

lispi314, to random
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You know, it weirds me out how some message board programs prefer to provide some garbage API with which you need to hammer the server to create an NNTP gateway (a sensible protocol-based interface) rather than just implement it in the original program, where no hammering would be necessary and the lowest possible load would be achievable.

Surely they realize there is exactly no way their WebUI can ever surpass anything I can come up with in Emacs, right?

lispi314, to random
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Am I misunderstanding something or isn't youth unemployment supposed to be a good thing?

Teens and students shouldn't need to work. The whole notion of looking at their employment rates as a metric to lower is missing the point.

yassie_j, to random
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It is, of course, distressing that Yuzu and Citra are shutting up shop due to a C&D from Nintendo.

The reality is that Nintendo has limited legal ground since emulators are not explicitly illegal, and precedent for the “home taping”^ argument has existed since the VHS.

But it does not matter if Nintendo is wrong or right. Nintendo has the power to use its monetary and legal weight to harass you out of existence. This is because Nintendo is a intellectual property holding company that just happens to make videogames; not a videogame company that holds intellectual property.

lispi314,
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@yassie_j @RedCyberPandaz Nintendo (and all laws conflated as the hypothetical and oxymoronic Intellectual Property) must be destroyed.

lispi314, to random
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Imagine having stable and reliable electrical and telecoms infrastructure.

I sure can't. And yet for some reason none of our hardware, software or various bits of equipment seem to be made to cope with such circumstances. I don't get it.

Why is infrastructural privilege such a common base assumption?

lispi314, to random
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Perl's lack of a built-in REPL is an incomprehensible design choice.

dangerdyke, to random
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does anybody have resources on like, learning to be good as sysadmin? like we’ve been faking it with basic unix skills and reading documentation so far but like, where do we go to learn about how to harden a server for security and stuff?

lispi314,
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@dangerdyke @yassie_j Well, you see, the problem is you can't with UNIX(-likes).

The very core design & implementation choices prevent effective & pervasive hardening.

lispi314,
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@icedquinn @dangerdyke @p @yassie_j > i'm not sure wdym unix is designed in a way that can't be hardened. openbsd does it all the time. grsec did quite well, its just they were tired of working on it for free and the linux foundation had zero interest in merging it when it was donated.

The UNIX model of memory-unsafe C APIs is asking for trouble and memory-unsafe monolithic kernels have major ambient authority concerns.

OpenBSD claims to have few remotely exploitable bugs in the default install, but that same systems requires additional software to be useful for most purposes people want it for, so the default install's claims & state don't exactly mean much beyond that it meets at least the lowest bar one should apply to OSes.

Converting a system to using capability addressing pervasively instead of the C APIs would break compatibility with POSIX & UNIX, so it is consequently impossible to properly harden UNIX.

lispi314, to random
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Sometimes my country deeply disappoints me.

Pretty often actually.

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