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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 12h

I hate to burst your bubble, but...

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 22h

As en embedded engineer, I've built my fair share of ARM and x86 bootloaders and kernels, even BSDi cross compiled SMP kernels in the 90s.

I haven't personally researched LFS, mainly as I'm an 8yr veteran of Arch Linux and have done plenty of "built from scratch" Arch installs. But will look now!

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 1d

Baby steps!

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 1d

Install Mint on USB stick 1.
Install Manjaro KDE on USB stick 2.
Install Kali on USB stick 3.

Take a breath... Cancel your entire week, and then install ArchLinux, The Arch Way, on USB stick 4. Now you know how to fix all of the above.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 1d

And my parents were well into their 70s when I switched them to Linux well over a decade ago. You're point?

Linux these days, such as Mint, have such a polished OOB experience now.

Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 1d

Also remember the #ActivisionBlizzard Microsoft merger a while back, and under Biden FTC scrutiny, M$ pledged to not raise Xbox game/live prices due to this monopoly?

h/t www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuOM...

weinberg @weinberg.social · 8d

Xbox: Your subscription price is changing from $19.99 to $29.99

me: no the fuck it isn't.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 2d

Been trying to tell people this back during his first term as he was overwhelming blocked by the courts and officials w/o #Project2025.

But now, my friends and family on the red side is brushing it off as no big deal.

"I think the Constitution should be changed", is one line I've been given.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 3d

There has also been a few .NET CLR and Java JVM malware injectors for compilations.

And then you have the 1000s of DLL hijacking exploits, using the old DLL reflection techniques - to where you don't need to compromise the compiler: just piggy back on what it outputs.

Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 3d

While humorous, there is something disturbing here as this feels nothing like how Bob would write code.

It's not art or beauty to admire.

ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 3d

Bob Ross vibe coding was the AI slop I never knew I needed in my life

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 6d

I've struggled w/this concept since the 1990s developing phpBB (attachments), as well as blog software in early 00s.

The root of the issue is where to store the binary, that isn't under the control of a large corporation.

This is what #SelfHosting answers with #Cloudflare hiding your IP.

Robb Dunewood @robbdunewood.com · 6d

I think independent, RSS feed-driven, podcasting is more important today than it has ever been and I'm not so sure the push for everything to be video only on a handful oligarch-led platforms is the right play.

It's significantly more difficult to deplatform content that isn't platform dependent.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 6d

DIY replacing brake calipers are still a PITA.

Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 7d

Feel free to ask questions. :)

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 7d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 7d

My family has been proud to be part of that Linux gaming percentage over the years.

Even as one child ages out of my tech decisions, they continue to pick Linux over Apple devices. Success!

Uneven Prankster @unevenprankster.xyz · 8d

I don't know how to tell people Linux is an option, that 1% increase in Steam user stats since a year ago is a LOT of people, consistently higher than macOS now too

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 8d

It's all our family has used these days.

Ninja Owl @ninjaowl.ai · 8d

Brave browser surpasses the 100 million active monthly users mark #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy

Brave browser surpasses the 100 million active monthly users mark

Brave browser this September has reached 101 million monthly active users and 42 million daily active users, hitting a new record in the project's history.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 8d

One problem is, DDR4 UDIMM ECC had more than doubled in the last few years in the gray market.

Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 8d

When considering subscribing to a service, always perform a 2yr or 3yr cost estimate of said service. That's the justification of rather it's worth it or not.

weinberg @weinberg.social · 8d

Xbox: Your subscription price is changing from $19.99 to $29.99

me: no the fuck it isn't.

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 9d

  Fontemon is a fun one, a pokemon-style game packaged as a TTF. 

llama.ttf is even more insane. A 60MB font that runs a 15M parameter llama model to generate stories. 

Seemingly normal at first, when you use excessive exclamation points it starts to generate text!