Ariadne Conill 🐰

@ryan why does that make it futile. my assumption is that they are unaware the troll is abusing the instance.

hi @unredacted please be aware that we are considering defederating your instance because you have a troll (epicgaming@unredacted.social) on it for several days now.

edit: they have suspended the account

@davidcelis @jannem is that not the marketed purpose of philanthropy though?

@davidcelis how in the heck? basically nobody gives alpine money and it is the backbone of the modern internet, but some vanity distro gets $12m?

do you have any idea what foundational distros like alpine could do with $12m? it would be game changing.

anyway, the reason why i am not moved by the moral argument around copyright and GenAI is very simple: generally, the GenAI companies have infinity times more money than the artists they are ripping off.

which means making a copyright claim against a GenAI company is both expensive and unlikely to succeed unless you can afford the same lawyers they have

welcome to the US legal system: whoever has the most money tends to win civil litigation

so, you know, when you reply telling me i am an AI lackey and i should kill myself, i just go and report you to your instance admin and bonk the suspend button. no chance of appeal.

i'm going to let you in on a secret: part of the reason why i post, in my opinion, useful and insightful takes on things i know deeply about, is to keep treehouse's blocklist primed 🙃

apparently thinking copyright is shit makes me an AI lackey. good to know. *plonk*

fwiw the copyright arguments about GenAI do not hold water with me. copyright is the tool of the noble classes, and should be abolished. the fix is, and has always been, to abolish copyright.

what arguments *do* hold water with me are the political ones: commercial GenAI represents the greatest concentration of money & political power our generation has ever seen.

my arguments *against* GenAI in alpine, and in my own projects, are based on a risk analysis of that concentration of power: as maintainers we cannot protect our autonomy, nor our projects' sovereignty, in an era where we become dependent on GenAI. the people who control our access to GenAI technology will, instead, be the person who exercises total control over FOSS projects which embrace GenAI.

well, this is yet another red line that has been crossed.

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist

i don't even, man

did you know that you can run Alpine in things that are not docker containers?

"unprivileged? ring 0?"

yes. from the *platform* perspective, ring 0 is still user-controlled code, and thus must be considered by the platform to be unprivileged code, even if it has more privilege than rings greater than 0 (e.g. ring 3 userspace).

the *platform* must consider the ring0 kernel to be adversarial.

@mewsleah from the platform perspective, ring 0 *is* unprivileged.

#np: moby - alice (noisia remix)

@dysfun i didn't read any of it, i just went and looked at the code instead. the kernel driver made it pretty obvious what was going on.

@viq yes, it is for ANC. i would like to replace "chaotic loud" with "orderly loud"

the tl;dr on that exploit (which is novel research) is that AMD fucked up and made the memory controller configuration registers unprivileged (at the platform level, which exists in rings below 0), so you can just reprogram them from ring 0.

this is, needless to say, a phenomenal fuckup on AMD's side, but does not need 10,000 words of AI slop to explain.

@atax1a the writeup did seem very wordy, i suspected it was slop

open to suggestions on an acceptable replacement

in the apple ecosystem airpods work well with third-party foam tips

but, sadly, the pixel buds seem to be really picky after whatever firmware has been released recently

and yes, compatibility with foam tips is a must-have here