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by linsomniac 4mo ago
>they used to go years without rebooting Unix servers A coworker was getting ready to do a RAM upgrade on a Solaris system that hadn't been rebooted in multiple years. I suggested to him: Before you do the RAM upgrade, try just reb
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
>it was probably the most absurd, loud marketing event the tech world has ever seen. I remember watching TV with a friend during this and a Coke ad came on where this guy was shuffling from office to office asking for change for the Coke
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Omg.lol membership price increases August 1(omglol.news)
3 points by linsomniac 4mo ago|0 comments
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
>I chuckled at 10G wired ethernet on a laptop. Back in the early days of wireless networking I had my laptop configured with the wireless and wired networks bonded. I want to say that was 2Mbps on the wireless, so if I was doing a big t
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
>The Agentic Multiplier Oh man, you buried the lede there. I switched over to NixOS around a month ago from Ubuntu and it's been just a dream. I expected there to be some friction with installing things that aren't already bui
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
It's really hard to tell what the benefits of Incus over Ganeti are. The Incus site doesn't really lead with features or benefits that I can see. About the only things I could figure out are that Incus can manage containers and
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
Aside: we were also one of the first VM providers, I see on the Wayback Machine we were offering it in Feb 2005, predating Digital Ocean by at least 6 years. I've regretted not marketing and selling that service much more widely. It
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
You're right, even though I did have a good use-case for them. Back in 2000-~2020 I built a "boutique linux hosting" provider, and the Supermicro "Twin^2" servers really fit our use case. We were mostly serving sm
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
Them doing this signals to me that the RAM pricing isn't going to go back to normal for quite a while. They've been riding this out, likely through long-term contracts. They also don't seem to be the sort of company to lowe
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AI's PR Problem(blog.dshr.org)
17 points by linsomniac 4mo ago|10 comments
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
I haven't specifically compared this. I "feel" like the different models have different strengths and weaknesses, so the collaboration produces great results, assuming cost is no object. ;-)
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
I wrote up the prompts and supporting information here: https://linsomniac.com/post/2026-06-22-ai_loops_and_collabor...
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
Not at all, I do have a meeting here, I'll try to get it up in around 2h.
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
I feel like I get a lot of what this article presents as "hidden" by using this process: - "Read `description` and create a specification, implementation guide, and checklist." - "Ask clarifying questions. If any o
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
IMHO, the primary thing you want to look for is "wide toebox shoes", though I just got a second pair of Whitin and they are my primary day-to-day shoe. I've got massive bunions and I remember as a kid (in the '70s-80s) t
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
>I've bounced off Nix every time I tried it, before I even started trying something like Home Manager. I did too. Until I tried configuring it with Claude Code. I'll give you my money back guarantee on it.
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
I spent a year dabbling in NixOS, getting a few "toy" setups. About 6 weeks ago I installed NixOS on a spare laptop and did 100% of the configuration through Claude Codex. Initially I copied "/etc/nixos" off t
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
>But lawyers are expensive Maybe, but it can also be VERY expensive to NOT have a lawyer. I have a lawyer that offers free 30 minute initial conversations. But I also practically beg her to charge me for her time because it's valua
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
Yes. However: it's always safe to say, as you are complying: "I do not consent to this." It should also be safe to ask "Are you giving me a lawful order?", but situations will vary. Beware that they can be very g
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
TL;DR: Never talk to the police. In fairness I'm going to give half my time to a police detective. Detective: He's right, never talk to the police. This is a classic! it's informative but also entertaining.
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
>We should start trimming the fat out of everything. "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry One of my buddies was infamous for a
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
The Ubuntu DDoS last month inspired to me make a better apt cache service. It's looking like I'll be cutting a 1.0 release later this week (after extensive testing in my environment). https://github.com/linsomniac
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
Same on Arc
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
FYI: I just recently added simple Exif viewing/editing/clearing to my "xv"-inspired image editor pxv: https://github.com/linsomniac/pxv My primary goal was to have my core "xv" muscle-memo
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
I just had that same thought, came here to see if anyone else mentioned that. It's very on-brand for all the will they/won't they tariffs and oil-related war/peace announcements. I guess the tell-tale would be if they
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
Still, every time someone accidentally disconnects from a video meeting or the like I say "That wasn't my speaker cable."
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
Trying to understand if nix/nix-darwin is an alternative here. I just switched over my work machine to NixOS and I'm totally loving it. So far I've only used nix on Mac to install Wezterm, because I need the Linux and Mac v
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
I had Claude throw together one for my NixOS setup with Sway and Waybar: https://github.com/linsomniac/claude-usage-waybar
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A Store for GitHub Releases(github-store.org)
1 points by linsomniac 4mo ago|0 comments
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by linsomniac 4mo ago
I was immediately excited about this wrapped in Python because the current Python git bindings are kind of obtuse, but they do work so I guess I can't complain.

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