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werdahias (tired) | @werdahias@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Developer. KiCad Contributor. EE student.
Likes hiking, reading and free software.
#RightToRepair
"Freiheit ist immer Freiheit des anders Denkenden." - Rosa Luxemburg

TIL Deutsche Bahn offers somewhat decent green tea on the board restaurant,

@mirabilos ah, thanks

@mirabilos eh, yeah, meant /etc/tty. Yeah, I know BSDs slightly differ, hence my question. The plan would be to read that - > check if /dev/ttyFOO exists - > then create a symlink for the getty service

Question for the #BSD community:

Am I correct in assuming on boot, /etc/tty is read and then init spawns serials consoles if the corresponding serial console exists under /dev?

Context is https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues/1039

Thoughts/comments would be appreciated.
Also would be interested if anyone runs a #BSD with OpenRC.
CC @mirabilos

@kpcyrd thanks!

@anarchiv reading theory is easier than doing actual politics. Maybe that's why the revolution is not happening?

I proudly present: Basic Debian-style #openRC network init is working. Gentoos' openrc uses a more BSD-like networking; thus, some changes were needed.

Still needs some polish, but the interfaces are started correctly now.
Next step is integration with resolvconf, and more testing. Still pretty satisfied, since this was one of the major blockers.
A terminal screenshot showing openrc booting Debian in qemu, with the network interfaces being started.

Hello Fedi #electronics bubble. Does anyone know of any #Displayport MST IC that is available for non-commercial purposes? I know Synaptics and Kinetic Technology produce some, but those aren't some you can't just buy.

#FediHelp

Some Stanford researchers dredged out the absolute dregs of r/AmITheAsshole for all those stories where _zero_ humans supported the poster, where one hundred percent of them said yes, you are unambiguously the asshole, and fed them into LLMs as first person scenarios to see what the LLM had to say.

Unethical, harmful, cruel, criminal, didn't matter: the slopbots took the faux poster's side about half the time.

Edit: preprint on arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352

RESULTS
We find that sycophancy is both prevalent and harmful. Across 11 AI models, AI affirmed users’ actions 49% more often than humans on average, including in cases involving deception, illegality, or other harms. On posts from r/AmITheAsshole, AI systems affirm users in 51% of cases where human consensus does not (0%). In our human experiments, even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right. Yet despite distorting judgment, sycophantic models were trusted and preferred. All of these effects persisted when controlling for individual traits such as demographics and prior familiarity with AI; perceived response source; and response style. This creates perverse incentives for sycophancy to persist: The very feature that causes harm also drives engagement.
CONCLUSION
AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences.

@fabos no?

@fabos no, those are my screwdrivers

Finally changed my bikes' handles
Two old, worn bikehandles on the ground , a screwdriver tool set beside it

I am looking for a software or electronic engineering position in Germany

I have 8 experience is an embedded systems engineer (primarily embedded Linux) with a speciality in audio, and camera systems. and a Master's in Electronic Engineering.

I thrive in an environment with a diverse mix of challenges.

English speaking team is a must.

slowly getting there #openRC
A terminal screenshot which reads:
root@(none):~# rc-service resolvconf start
 * Caching service dependencies ...
                                                                                                    [ ok ]
 * /run/resolvconf: creating directory
 * /run/resolvconf/interface: creating directory
 * Starting resolvconf ...
                                                                                                    [ ok ]
root@(none):~# rc-status
Runlevel: default
 agetty.ttyS0
                                                                                 [  started 00:01:15 (0) ]
Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged
Dynamic Runlevel: needed/wanted
Dynamic Runlevel: manual
 resolvconf
                                                                                             [  started  ]

This needs to be said in a loop until it sticks.

"What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”

- Stefan Rahmstorf, Climatologist.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/europe-wildfires-climate-crisis-heat-summer

@josch @Akirakio nice, reminds when I worked at a place where we also took care of hedgehogs, and fed them cat food.

@josch @Akirakio the ham?

@fabos ja mei

Pol
This is absolutely atrocious, Israel is now spreading herbicide known to cause cancer to get the people to leave:

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/syrien-libanon-bauern-glyphosat-israel-li.3519957

I am melting

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