Hey fedi friends! Tell me what you are up to? No reply too trivial or detailed
@vaurora We apparently have *very* similar glasses.
@vaurora watching birds cute-fight over the winter food we provide for them
@vaurora Enjoying some alone time in a school holiday week (J took N elsewhere for the day), listening to Pink Floyd and George Michael (alternating, afaik they never performed together), trying to get myself to do some housework, considering what to have for lunch and intending to go to my local hackerspace later today.
@vaurora Listening to my dog snore as I mentally gird myself for what is going to be a challenging trip.
@vaurora Preparing to publish this months Radicle CI newsletter after a brief nap.
@vaurora Reading the RfA submitted by the board of ASML to the works council, periodically reminding myself of Hanlon’s Razor.
@vaurora trying to find the energy to get moving and goto the workshop...
@vaurora, I am studying for my German A2.1 exam. Then I'm packing for my trip this weekend. It will be my first night train; I'm very excited!
@vaurora *yawns* it's 7:35am, still in bed after a good night's sleep. Next: coffee, the elixir of life.
@vaurora writing a Telegram bot that prints the incoming newsletters to a small printer so I can finally delete Telegram from my phone
@vaurora Eating an oversized toasted cheese sandwich at speed, bulking for an afternoon of meetings about computering projects.
@vaurora Decided that I would get a systems architecture book. Recommendations are welcome!
I was thinking about LLM's and agents, where I was wondering if it was the technologist or addict part of my brain that would like to further research LLM/agent-based coding.
Currently, I feel limited by not being able to properly define the system or project I want to bring to life. That has to do with both general architecture scope/design, and the (in-depth?) knowledge of the tool or system I want to use. I can learn (with my actual human brain) how to properly architecture a system or project. Then, in the mean time, the AI bubble can implode or not. At the end, I know how to architect projects for either outcome, a net positive.
@collectifission where do you shop for glasses? Mine are 10 year old Chesterfields and so out of fashion, but nothing else works for me
@wynke sounds lovely, let's virtually co-work. You do housework and I will review comments on the CRA VPN standard 😩
@vaurora trying to figure out if I should attempt DELF later this year
@vaurora looking into taking a discord bot I made a while ago for some friends and turning into some kind of business.
I know a lot of people probably associate “bot” with “ai” but there is no ai involved in this.
@vaurora toying with using kluctl instead of opentofu for the bulk of our infra deployments.
Tofu/terraform don't seem to work very well, and seem to be overkill for deploying kubernetes workloads. It feels like we're fighting with the tooling too much.
The question is, am I just exchanging one set of problems for another equally frustrating set? We'll see...
@vaurora I buy mine at Specsavers, which is a Dutch chain.
@vaurora Good plan (although I'm currently also heating up some soup for lunch, but I'm also tidying the living room a bit, which is very necessary after 5 full days of having N at home.)
@vaurora Figuring out how to self-host some stuff and working-on/writing-for my site 😃 https://shellsharks.com
@vaurora Actual side project:
I've got a Nook GlowLight (released 2013, 2G storage, M/N BNRV500) that still works but B&N killed cloud support for it. It drains its own battery flailing at talking to a dead cloud.
I figured out how to inject my own CACert into my Barnes and Noble nook's cacerts.bks file; and used BIND Response Policy Zones to redirect bncs.barnesandnoble[.]com to a server on my local network.
I'm bored, so I figure: why not try to make my own cloud? ADHD kicked in hard, I pulled all the apps off the device, threw it all into jadx-gui, and used a python protobuf-inspector to pick apart cloud messages from the wire. Comparing protocol captures to actual code has been such a learning experience!
Worst case outcome: I throw some fake cloud up on something like github.
Best case outcome: I breathe new life into old tech, maybe get it working with archive.org. 🤷
@vaurora Attacking technical debt at work. (YAY) Also, it’s a WFH day so I’m trying to figure out what to do for breakfast besides go make myself a cup of tea.
@vaurora Possibly putting a little too much effort into trying to get a GPU compute kernel to behave itself and stop spilling registers to memory. Profiling shows I'm leaving lots of performance on the table though. Can't have that!
@vaurora Well done! I am now going to do some cleaning in the kitchen and the bathroom.
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@vaurora Less than 60 days till my wife and I move to 🇨🇦 from the 🇺🇸 to be closer to her family including more than a dozen nieces and nephews.
@vaurora getting very, very deep into the weeds of the oldest extant Chinese manuscripts https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116097927830680664
@vaurora Taking some time away from ice invading my city to try to at least triage the backlog of toybox bug reports and feature requests. (Once again contemplating migration to netbsd as Linux gets too crazy to deal with.)
In a couple hours I'm tutoring another resident of my apartment building in C programming.
Earlier I refilled the apartment building's "little free library" box with books the public library cycled out of their collection and was "fill a bag for a penny" giving away.
@vaurora I’ve got pneumonia! So mostly that’s what’s going on. Yesterday was rough.
But also I’ve been thinking about Dijkstra’s essay on the futility of natural language programming and how I still think that’s true even when you have LLMs. Some of the programming is more natural language-ish, just as C is easier to read than assembly, and smalltalk is easier to read than C, but fundamentally, you will always need a symbolic language to do hard things with any hope of determinism.
@vaurora It is possible that I got distracted and baked a cake. (Surely I can clean the bathroom while the cake bakes...)
@vaurora And, I successfully did just that, then did the dishes and made the bed and put in a load of laundry. And then took 3/4 of the finished cake to the hackerspace.
Wow, I have a lot of really interesting and creative followers...
@vaurora These last couple of months, I have been attempting to write my first operating system, in a language I've only used a couple of times before (Rust), for an architecture I've never worked with before (Risc-V). It's... a stretch.
Also vacillating between looking for a job in software development again, or trying to start a new career.
@vaurora psyching myself up to go to tango class and be very very calm in my exercises, because I just got two teeth out on Tuesday, and my face is sore
@vaurora watching a PBS kids show with 7 year old. "Cyberchase", where the bad guy is "The Hacker" voiced by Chris Lloyd. I had never heard of it before a few weeks ago, it's extremely 90s!