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werdahias (tired) @ KiCon | @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

I see a lot of "unpopular opinion" posts today. Let me add one more. There's something we working folk need more than unions. We need cooperatives. People working together and owning their work. More people actually seizing the means of production, less working for rich rentiers.

74 Prozent fürchten den US-Kill-Switch, 36 Prozent testen ihren Notfallplan nieEin Nachmittag mit einem Zettel schlägt jeden ungetesteten Notfallplan

Morgen früh ist dein Postfach zu, der Kalender leer, und die Telefonnummern liegen in genau dem Konto, an das du nicht mehr rankommst. Mehr als die Hälfte der von Proton befragten Unternehmen müsste nach einem Tag den Betrieb einstellen. 94 Prozent haben einen Notfallplan, 36 Prozent haben ihn nie getestet. Bezahlt hat die Umfrage der Anbieter, der die Alternative verkauft. Der Nachmittag, an dem du den Ausfall einmal durchspielst, lohnt sich trotzdem. Reden wir drüber!

https://www.chrislo.de/blog/2026-08-08-alle-fuerchten-den-us-kill-switch-fast-niemand-testet-den-notfallplan/

@navi understandable. That's what me me choose electrical engineering over computer science: Because it is pretty satisfying to see a LED blink at the end of the day.

Though I had to debug SPI and devicetrees today, so YMMV.

Again a productive train ride:

- Reviewed a MR for skim
- Rebased my own against debvm
- Opened a new MR against KiCad adding a TPM2.0 chip
- Did some uni work (begrudgingly)

@mirabilos thanks for the insight, that makes sense.

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

Manche Leute macht das halt auch mit der Zeit psychisch krank. Sie werden depressiv, schlimmstenfalls suizidal. Das wird dann halt in Kauf genommen. Von Behörden und auch Gerichten mit dem Empathievermögen eines Friedrich Merz.

tl;dr: Migrationsrecht ist ein von Grund auf menschenfeindliches System

My answer to "claude | bash" is the same as the one we had for "curl | bash" for decades - "just don't do it".

I don't understand how this is considered "controversial" or "not going with the times" as I fail to see a substantial difference between the two regarding their potential security / safety impacts.

So ... don't want your "agent" to go hack the facehugger site and delete all your emails? Just don't pipe its output directly into bash 🫠🫠

@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?

Ah yes let me E-Mail the voltage rail.....

Screenshot from a datasheet. When hovering over the table header  "VDD_325@1.8V"  a mailto: link is displayed.

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