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New comment by bobmcnamara in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

bobmcnamara — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:02:41 +0000

Probably explains the duck farm OpenAI purchased recei

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

bobmcnamara — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:01:30 +0000

Who needs stability when you can have a pelican?

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?"

bobmcnamara — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:30:09 +0000

You're making my point here - this sort of corporatist, bait-and-switch-if-you-dont-opt-out behaviour is illegal in many countries, Netflix got spanked for it this spring.

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?"

bobmcnamara — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:14:12 +0000

Christ it's the airport bellhop scam:

Someone appears, gives you a service unprompted(carries your bag of spams some AI code reviews), them later demands payment.

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

bobmcnamara — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:40:47 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations

New comment by bobmcnamara in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

bobmcnamara — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:35:45 +0000

The big USB racks all have separate power.

New comment by bobmcnamara in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

bobmcnamara — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:33:18 +0000

smartmontools misses data corruption at the drive layer, as it trusts the drives to report faithfully.

"In hashes I trust"

New comment by bobmcnamara in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

bobmcnamara — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:30:35 +0000

The worst part of either approach is: how do I find disk number 39 out of 48.

New comment by bobmcnamara in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

bobmcnamara — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:28:00 +0000

What do you dislike about SATA?

New comment by bobmcnamara in "GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup"

bobmcnamara — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:44:25 +0000

We've already leached too much uranium into the groundwater for many to drink just from the mining alone.

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k"

bobmcnamara — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:57:11 +0000

How does this work?

I hover the mouse over a dot and a pop-up appears nearby, but when move the mouse away from the dot to click the bubble, the bubble closes.

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

bobmcnamara — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:25:55 +0000

I ran 2003 on my laptop for ages. Only tricky part was installing the audio stack.

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

bobmcnamara — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:24:38 +0000

You can fix Windows7/8/10/11 with Retrobar

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children"

bobmcnamara — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:21:45 +0000

That sounds like something somebody hopped up on social media would say.

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide"

bobmcnamara — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:08:32 +0000

Same with pre arm Atom indows tablets

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

bobmcnamara — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:25:14 +0000

> does it have to be so convoluted?

Getting strncpy right always has been

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

bobmcnamara — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:22:24 +0000

The switch sure sucked though. I doubt Microsoft would risk their reputation for backwards compatibility.

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

bobmcnamara — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:12:54 +0000

CRLR is Baudot, predating UNIX by what, a century ?

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

bobmcnamara — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:04:33 +0000

Easy - don't

New comment by bobmcnamara in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

bobmcnamara — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:57:56 +0000

Several of them you can reclock the PLLs to hit 2.5 and 5, but it's a very manual process.