FreeBSD hacker. Has been known to touch pf and lived to regret it.
Strong opinions on bikes and the need to crush all cars into tiny cubes. More strong opinions about bullshit machines.
Rather foolishly volunteered to run EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels.
Ceterum autem censeo FTP esse delendam.
EuroBSDcon 2026: register today and get the T-shirt for free with your registration!
T-shirt is included for registration https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/ until 2026-08-16 05:59:59 CEST, then strictly first come, first served until stocks run out.
See https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/ for other info.
Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html
@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles
i do have a working theory that what i hate isn't ai but instead the fact that there are no software companies left not run by incurious dolts who have no idea how software works and could care less
the ai being pushed into everything is an effect of the money people having no clue how value is created and not the cause (yet)
everywhere is Boeing now. accounting and sales took over and the engineering has no place at the table in companies ostensibly providing engineering solutions
One of these days I will have to take this tutorial and learn how to use pf for real. Not today though, but one day. https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/117078393486144050
At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Network Management with the PF Packet Filter Toolset on OpenBSD and FreeBSD https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RKCHRW/
Tutorial Full Day by Peter N. M. Hansteen, Massimiliano Stucchi and Tom Smyth
2026-09-11 10:30:00
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
About EuroBSDcon 2026: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org
@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #brussels #bruxelles #freesoftware #libresoftware
Climate crisis wipes out EU's economic growth.
Brutal summer set to cost EU economy €180 billion this year — equivalent to 1 % of GDP, which is all the growth expected in 2026.
“Every year adaptation without mitigation is a year borrowed against a hotter baseline.”
#GreenDeal #EnergyTransition #EUpol
https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-scorching-summer-could-erase-blocs-2026-growth
EuroBSDCon 2026 is one month from now! (2026-09-09 - 2026-09-13)
Full program here: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
Conference info: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org
Register via https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
About the BSD conferences: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html
@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesofware #libresoftware
There's no amount of caution you can bring to generative AI that will change the nature of the technology.
Here's a vivid demonstration of one hazard of using AI for app development: "the web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed…" https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
"Imagine you’re an Olympic athlete. You set out to sprint from Clapham to Balham. You know if you take the bus, it will be faster. But you also know that the point was never being in Clapham or Balham. It was the strength, the speed and knowledge of your body that you gained.
A student’s essay on Macbeth has no value as a product. It’s what you learned in the reading and writing – the swiftness and resilience and suppleness of thinking you built – that was the point.
Tiens, ça semble être la période où il faut ressortir l'infographie.
(oui, vous savez laquelle)
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Authenticity Problem
Bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/064.html#bonus
The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
Ukraine is sending fire trucks to France.
Let me rephrase that: The country which is fighting Russia for all of Europe is now also fighting forest fires — in France — while the ballistic missiles are raining down on Kyiv.
Look folks the genie is out of the bottle. The genie went from $20/mo to $200/mo. The genie is spending $8 for every dollar it makes. The genie is reactivating every coal power plant it can. The genie needs 60% of your town's water. The genie is hiding $1.65 trillion in debt. But it's out of the bottle! The genie is out of the bottle folks.
FreeBSD hacker. Has been known to touch pf and lived to regret it.
Strong opinions on bikes and the need to crush all cars into tiny cubes. More strong opinions about bullshit machines.
Rather foolishly volunteered to run EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels.
Ceterum autem censeo FTP esse delendam.
