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RootWyrm 🇺🇦

@rootwyrm@weird.autos

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Someone who owns exactly zero normal cars.
No, the Porsche isn't normal either.

All toots are mine and do not represent and are not the business (and definitely not the property) of any employer past, present, or future.

I am extremely picky about followers. Especially unannounced requests.

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Joined November 09, 2022

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@tay @dalias @lazza @Vivaldi just no. This is a dead-end technology with no future. We have known this for over a decade. It used to be called 'expert systems' and similar. Go look up IBM Watson. And that was done by far smarter people, manually training a targeted dataset with people who were experts in the field. It is not a technology. It is a waste of resources to do a bad implementation of a chatbot from the 1970's so a bunch of sociopathic techbros can siphon money for themselves.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@Viss@mastodon.social @da_667@infosec.exchange Apple's entire ethos since the Apple II has been that you'll own nothing, do as they say, and you'll like it. I truly do not get how people don't understand that has been their entire schtick for decades.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@cR0w @catsalad should.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 4mo ago

Where'd you go?
- Away, hopefully to an early grave

Why?
- Because I'm tired of every fucking day being a fight to achieve nothing

So you'll be back, right?
- No, and it's insulting that you act like you give a shit

Why not delete the account then?
- Impersonators. This is the only actual RootWyrm, period.

Signal's in the profile. I won't hold my breath.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 4mo ago

Keep following me in hopes I return, stop following me and toast the good riddance, I truly don't care.
I know where I stand and I know that nobody cares if I live or die, except people who want me to die. Just don't fucking bother me with bullshit pretending you care.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@0xtero @da_667 @Viss @iagox86 @hrbrmstr it's not even that you can't teach people unwilling to learn. You cannot possibly ever educate someone who sits there and tells you the chatbot is great, who turns to if it you don't have the answer instantly or aren't available. You just cannot keep 'unteaching' them chatbot bullshit that they relearn again because they no longer retain information. It is Sisyphus, except the boulder is a giant ball of shit.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@davefischer every one I dealt with had a penchant for eating clock boards, fans, and SIMMs. In roughly that order. Out of morbid curiosity I looked at eBay, and nostalgia is a HELL of a drug.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

So now apparently it takes a force greater than the one that took Iwo Jima to escort a single merchant ship. Crewed by soldiers who are so terrified, they demanded helicopters and attack boats and spent thousands of rounds of ammunition firing at absolutely fucking nothing and hitting even less.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@jwz@mastodon.social

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@marshray @wdormann the PoC works against the kernel and I already tweaked it as necessary for musl. What I'm seeing in musl is that it appears to be failing at step 3 with all suid binaries (I tried several,) possibly because they all set BIND_NOW, or because they don't link against the kernel.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@wdormann amusingly, it does not appear to be a thing on musl.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 4mo ago

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@mitten@social.lol @wq@vim.wtf @bendaubney@social.lol m🍄🍄

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@bagder@mastodon.social it's all marketing. And any improvements are completely moot, as the actual *costs* to find that single bug were in the tens of thousands of dollars minimum. That's the MINIMUM known cost. It would not surprise me if finding that one bug cost $75k, $100k, $200k of compute time. It's a pile of shit, hilariously inefficient slop that sometimes behaves as a fuzzer that occasionally finds a crumb.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@Viss@mastodon.social @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org don't forget shifting all the costs and liabilities to an unfunded mandate!

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@matildalove@wetdry.world if you want to be the hero this world needs, both. Smash both.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@da_667 @Viss @iagox86 @hrbrmstr somebody once gave me shit for that stance, too. "If you don't teach them!" Which tells me they've never dealt with them. You cannot teach someone who yeets things without even reading it forget checking if any of it works, who argues REPEATEDLY because they only believe the chatbot, and then complains that you don't know anything because CrapGPT made insane shit up and the AI is super good at computer. They just drag EVERYONE down and make you look terrible.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@davefischer they also tend to have 14 weeks of downtime per 3 years and every failure takes 14 days to fix even though you have '4 hour.'

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@alice@lgbtqia.space don't be ridiculous. Reply Guys don't know when to run away.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@maxleibman@beige.party @mwl@io.mwl.io oh, no, you seem to have misheard me. I said I'm a man of MINI talents.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@AutisticInnovator this is a whole thing with every store, not just Walmart. We have a local discount chain here. Most prices are competitive or highly competitive. EXCEPT for certain SNAP/WIC items. Milk, eggs, butter, competitive. Kraft singles, 16ct, the only one you can buy WIC, $5.09. Walmart, $3.86. JIF Peanut Butter, can only buy 16oz. $3.59. Walmart, $2.98. It's not just Walmart. It's *ALL* of them. They know they have captive customers, and agencies that won't question prices.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@dan@weird.autos not with all the torquing and fighting you had to do with the cam bolt. It being stripped took an insane amount of effort. So unfucking that probably disturbed something that was already iffy below.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@dan@weird.autos spoiler: the upper timing chain seal is perfectly fine. It's the front main seal this time. Which requires removing the lower timing chain cover to replace.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@dan@weird.autos unfortunately - and I genuinely hate to say it - there's no way that's the upper timing chain cover. That is a LOT of oil. Too much oil to be that.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@futurebird south of NYC? Could try Haycock Mountain in PA. French Creek State Park is just a bit further but still within 150 miles as well.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@sjolsen@tech.lgbt boy are you going to be disappointed! ... it's way more than 80%.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Viss people who think k8s is or contains security boundaries need to be hit with actual boundaries. Like fence posts or concrete walls rated to stop semis traveling at 70MPH.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@sanityinc@hachyderm.io @baldur@toot.cafe they dropped actions pricing right after they tried to start charging people to run actions on their own hardware. Whining that they had 'real costs' from running the control plane. https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-16-coming-soon-simpler-pricing-and-a-better-experience-for-github-actions/

Update to GitHub Actions pricing - GitHub Changelog

The GitHub Blog

Update to GitHub Actions pricing - GitHub Changelog

Update: We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach. We are continuing to…

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @davidgerard@circumstances.run backwards compatibility is very much a sacred cow when it comes to Windows. There are huge customers that can move the revenue needle, who still need OLE32. There are thousands of applications that are still in use that need OLE32. And they've always essentially promised that things will always be backwards compatible. If it worked on Windows 3.11, then it will basically keep working, forever. Which is no small feat to begin with.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@ben@mastodon.lubar.me @futurebird@sauropods.win @admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com the fucking spam sites have been around a lot longer than folks even begin to comprehend. The biggest reason I quit blogging was because from 2010 or so, every single one of my posts was within days stolen by SEO scamming operations in India, halfass copy-pasted to a dozen blogspots running ads mixed in with thousands of other often unrelated posts. When I identified and blocked them, they switched to using open proxies.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@patrick @dansinker @darkuncle yeah, no. That is not what the suburbs are known for. They are known for packing houses on top of each other to the point where you can open a window and touch your neighbor's house - literally. When the interurban was built, the population was 2500. The city has annexed virtually no land and the population is now ~18,000 with a whole 4 apartment buildings.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 4mo ago

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@kkarhan@c.im not only is that not even remotely accurate, it's an intentionally offensive leap of logic to make hateful accusations. Delete yourself. Not from the Internet. You are a fucking SICK person who has no goddamn place in this world. Not to mention you're completely and utterly fucking wrong and clearly have no goddamn clue what the fuck you're talking about.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@david_chisnall @dpnash @davidgerard we've known that a while. WordPerfect had grammar and spell checking in 1993. The "totally conscious superintelligence that is also my abused girlfriend" box "knows" there are two R's in strawberry.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@db something I often point out is that people don't yearn for *or* hate Microsoft products. People use Microsoft products every day without complaint, *when they work*. What people hate is broken, unreliable things. No matter who it is. Ask anyone who's been through an Atlassian upgrade. Ask anyone who's tried Red Hat's multiple attempts at making major version upgrades possible. Ask Gitlab users who have run into bugs (which Gitlab always blames on users.)

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@dan okay, now I'm impressed. See those letters? That's a class 10.9. Alloy steel, tempered and quenched with a proof of 830MPa, tensile of 150kPSI, and yield of 940MPa with a hardness of at LEAST HRC32. Meaning 1049N/mm^2. You have to MASSIVELY fuck up to strip one of those.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@vgoller@nrw.social @glyph@mastodon.social no, they won't. Period. These are not 'super geniuses' any more than LLMs are AI. They are a bunch of entitled dipfucks huffing their own farts while churning out slop that churns out more slop. Anthropic's entire employee roster would struggle to find 3 brain cells combined. They aren't smart. They're scammers and people too fucking stupid to function in society. Oh, and we already know this bullshit cannot EVER work, period. Not "needs fixed." It is IMPOSSIBLE.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@NosirrahSec @da_667 @Viss @iagox86 @hrbrmstr flee into the woods to become that thing everyone tells stories about.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social for anyone who actually gives a shit, that is the very opposite of fun.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@hrbrmstr in other words, UAE leaving has basically zero impact on structural supply at all. It simply introduces a *destabilizing* factor. And again: the markets are vibe based. So the price of oil is skyrocketing. Because they now have a wildcard and no idea what they will do. And the assumption is that UAE will maximize 'shareholder value' by getting as much as they possibly can. Which can destabilize the whole system *either* direction.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@foone@digipres.club me: "... there are slow dot matrix printers?" The printers I worked on:

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@soatok as someone who routinely has to explore these concepts in a somewhat reality-based context? There are literally not anywhere near enough antidepressants and liquor production for anyone with involuntary empathy to have survived past 2014 or 2015.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@dukeboitans@mas.to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @davidgerard@circumstances.run oh, no, that's just flat out wrong. The old 16-bit stuff still works more or less perfectly with the compatibility shims. That's what NTVDM is for. It's why OTVDM is a thing and works even though it's "obsolete" technology. It's impressive and terrifying at the same time. Especially when you consider that in theory, you can in-place upgrade from Windows 3.11 all the way to 11.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@sundogplanets gah, meant to be quiet public. But yeah, last I looked, EchoStar was being forced to sell a huge chunk of their licenses to Nazi supporters because of - you guessed it - Nazis pressuring Carr.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@dukeboitans@mas.to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @davidgerard@circumstances.run that's the official policy; nothing that old is "officially" supported. But like all things with Microsoft, enough money changes it. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/ntvdm-and-16-bit-app-support

learn.microsoft.com

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@Viss yeah, but we start with the eBPF dipshits. For obvious reasons.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 4mo ago

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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social not flashy enough (or fashy enough,) and they're too stupid to understand the importance of batteries, much less pretend to do any development of them.

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos

· 5mo ago

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@aral and this is EXTREMELY on-brand for Dell-EMC.

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