https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html

#snac #snac2 #alpinelinux #linux #raspberrypi

AWS Client VPN now supports connectivity to IPv6 resources
Posted on: Aug 26, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/aws-client-vpn-connectivity-ipv6-resources/

#aws #ipv6

I remember reading a comment 10-20 years ago that said something to the effect of, "The Star Trek holodeck would be humanity's last invention."

There's nothing more potently addictive than a room that can conjure up every conceivable place, person, thing, whim, or desire.

I think what we're seeing with "AI" is a kind of "dialectical holodeck," where people enter in, wrap themselves up in a fantasy world created by a twisted algorithm designed to satisfy the user's curiosity and cater to their every verbal whim, and think it's their greatest reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT_psychosis

Hello Kitty

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An elected official stands on a podium in front of a huge crowd and says we’ve done it we’ve achieved world peace. “And every single person on earth is happy. The crowd cheers then the announcer says one more thing “one other quick announcement the owner of the hello Kitty IP recently stated that hello Kitty is not actually a cat. She’s a human girl who simply looks like a cat“the crowd is silent for moment, then irrupt into a total bloodbath of cartage, screaming, fighting and mayhem.

🗣️ "I notice a lot of 5xx errors from the application during scale-in of the pods after a spike period."

I was asked this question last week and spent some time debugging the issue. In the process, I realized there is confusion about how Kubernetes does (not do) graceful shutdown.

So, I decided to rewrite our article on graceful shutdown and augment it with some knowledge I gained during the years!

You can find the full article here: https://learnk8s.io/graceful-shutdown

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

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Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.

https://e-mail.wtf

Bluefin LTS has hit RC!

https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/discussions/3012

CC: @gumnos@bsd.cafe

That said despite the IPv4 and v6 addresses showing up as NL in every database I've checked. I am STILL getting a 403 from lgbtqia.space. I give up. Oh well fun evening project.

My $12 VPS in London is paid up for the next 11 months though…I’ll have to think what to use it for.

I’ve sent the admin an email to see if they would consider unblocking just the apis needed for federation. I’m not holding out much hope though.

Cc @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

We’re trying to sell the place and I’m told piles of hoarded junk doesn’t help with that.

A lot of it is boxed up already but still feeling moderately stressed about it. Still need to shut down the lack rack…

Aurora August newsletter is now out

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/stargazers-2-aurora-august-update/10251/

If you’re on Linux, there’s a good chance you use GNOME: it’s the default experience across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora Workstation, Endless OS, and more. If you’re on another desktop, you still likely use components developed by GNOME contributors—or maybe you get apps from Flathub.

Want to become more than just a user? How about… a friend? 🥺 Become a Friend of GNOME to support GNOME, Flathub, and the work we do!

https://donate.gnome.org/

#GNOME #Flathub #Linux #OpenSource

https://youtu.be/zg9YASpFD3g?si=NSbTMhXe-yJRLIhY

#UniversalBlue

Blue95: Everything In Its Right Place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-l2Owbm5k

A reminder that according to the Ministry of defence VPNs allow users to bypass state-imposed censorship. #VPN #Censorship

https://uk.webuy.com/search?stext=Minibook+x&availability=In+Stock+Online

Oh wow. The UK government has finally grown about 1/1000000000th of a pair.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cdrkj810plvt

The idea of Bluefin and Aurora (and Bazzite, the gaming focused one) is that they take the atomic fedora base and make an opinionated “just works” out of the box experience on top of it. Obviously that kind of customisation is going to be quite different between the different desktops.

Bluefin has received the most attention as it is the focus of the overall project, and Aurora is an offshoot with a smaller team. Both are really good though to be honest.