Aaron Toponce ⚛️

Systemd merged age verification to comply with California state law.

If you want to enter a birth date, I recommend "Friday, 13 December 1901 20:45:52".

I like this for a few reasons:

1. This is the earliest date possible for a 32 bit datetime integer in C.
2. It's malicious compliance.
3. It's obviously faked.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

#linux

Looks like #SUSE #Linux is up for sale. Again.

- 2003: Acquired by Novell
- 2010: Attachmate Group takeover
- 2014: Micro Focus merger
- 2018: Sold to EQT AB

(Ignoring all the asset sales and transfers)

https://www.reuters.com/business/eqt-eyes-potential-6-billion-sale-linux-pioneer-suse-sources-say-2026-03-09/

I've been battling an insertional Achilles tendinopathy since late October 2025. Despite every precaution, I keep encountering setbacks. This despite a marathon coming up in May and 50K in September.

So I finally got around to setting up my bike and smart trainer last night and did my first ride during lunch.

I'm familiar with running power, so cycling power is familiar territory. But what's up with this chatty data? Good hell.

#running #runnersOfMastodon #cycling

A friend of mine just got bad news on one of two breast cancer biopsies. She's waiting to back on the second, but isn't optimistic. Currently waiting talk to the surgeon, which is the next step based on the pathology.

Fuck cancer.

#Debian CDE in your browser.

https://debian.com.mx/

I don't know who needs to see this.

I joke that both my parents (baby boomers) and kids (gen Z) are computer illiterate. The only generation that wholly understood computing are the Gen Xers and Millennials.

I'm not convinced I'm wrong.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

Asking various #AI bots to generate 10 #passwords, then using #Vim syntax highlighting to match different character classes to visually identify patterns.

The prompt is exactly "Generate 10 passwords". I did not elaborate further or otherwise restrict the bot in what to generate.

Aside from the #security risks of servers generating secrets for you, I think it's obvious that these lack quality entropy.

Just use the password generator that ships with your password manager.

>“But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman said. “It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."

Human consumption of ~2000-2500 kcal/day is roughly 97-121 Wh. If that human lives to be 80 years old and keeps a constant energy consumption of ~100 Wh, then their total energy consumption is ~56 MWh.

GPT-3 consumed approximately 1.287 GWh during its training.

GPT-4 consumed 50-60 GWh.

Swing and miss.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/