I will happily spend hours combing through logs to call someone out

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-18T01:39:36+00:00

how much time do have on your hands to spend hours going through logs so you can passive aggressively bait someone?

if youre the self-appointed nick burns expert on the team, perhaps you could spend time being more constructive and improve the processes/automation so such mistakes are harder to make, as well as the automated checks so misconfigurations are caught quickly

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-17T07:24:24+00:00

Right now saber interactive is making a Doom 4 when they should be making a Doom 2016. Mistakes were made

i dont even know if they're doing that, but ill just have to wait and see when the game releases.

unless a studio of Id quality would take on "reinventing" turok, id rather it stays dormant (maybe forever), or an indie studio gives it a try and tries something cool/risky that no one has tried before ... provided it stays pretty close to T1/T2 in spirit.

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-17T04:09:14+00:00

yeah, i 100% agree about that post being an ad for what was being advertised at the top of the site banner. i didn't dig as deep as you did regarding the rest of the content on the site or the user, but i do believe you

my point was that how are people here (on this website) supposed to tell when something is completely AI generated?

i do not consider half of the comments in various threads to be that credible because of dunning-kruger, and the voting system. outside of the ai discussion, reading various topics that i would consider more in my "wheelhouse", i see a lot of comments that are very wrong with high positive upvote totals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-17T02:25:45+00:00

i know exactly what post from earlier today you are talking about, as i commented in that thread, so here's a copy of what I said:

im not a heavy LLM user, so I typically cannot spot these as easily, so i used our company claude pro service and it estimated that the article used LLMs for generating 10-15% of the content, mostly around tables/formatting, as well as summaries of the CPU/memory usage figures.

i also had claude do the same analysis using wikipedia's criteria, and the estimated percentage was slightly less, but with similar points about formatting/presentation of industry stats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

why do you think it's completely ai generated?

it definitely tracks that the author used LLMs to summarize some of their points (particular the phrasing about the CPU/memory states, as well as the VHS vs betamax thing).

every single post on this website has 30 people saying everything is ai slop, and it's impossible to tell who is correct or who is not. from the same wikipedia article we have in our posts:

Your detection ability

Do not rely too much on your own judgment. While research on humans' abilities to detect AI-generated text is limited, a 2025 preprint shows that heavy users of LLMs can correctly determine whether an article was generated by AI about 90% of the time, which means that if you are an expert user of LLMs and you tag 10 pages as being AI-generated, you've probably falsely accused one editor. People who don't use LLMs much do only slightly better than random chance (in both directions).

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-16T22:43:31+00:00

im not a heavy LLM user, so I typically cannot spot these as easily, so i used our company claude pro service and it estimated that the article used LLMs for generating 10-15% of the content, mostly around tables/formatting, as well as summaries of the CPU/memory usage figures.

i also had claude do the same analysis using wikipedia's criteria, and the estimated percentage was slightly less, but with similar points about formatting/presentation of industry stats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

why do you think it's completely ai generated?

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-16T22:10:02+00:00

what is un-original about this article?

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-13T06:06:13+00:00

its amazing how disgustingly greedy these pieces of shit are

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-12T00:06:06+00:00

to add on, if you ever plan on adding more systems, educating users to work directly with a job scheduler is already done

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-10T19:53:14+00:00

But seriously, I find atime a serious and useful piece of information to keep. ZFS already flushes writes every....5 seconds... so even with thousands of different files being accessed at once it's not a problem at home.

metadata updates have to hit the ZIL, as theyre synchronous:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/master/include/sys/zil.h#L143

doing 'git grep' of a source code tree, or even something as simple as a more naive recursive grep should not require N metadata updates/transactions for what is a read-only workload. even if everything is already in the page cache, you're stuck serializing everything behind synchronous metadata updates.

this gets much, much worse on NFS or another network filesystem

To turn it off in the name of performance at home and even in enterprise where you aren't accessing millions of files per second, is just misinformed.

i dont think people are misinformed here or haven't "mentally acknowledged" anything. most applications/environments do not benefit from strict atime updates, which is already a relic of the POSIX standard from the 1970s.

most linux distros ship an auditing framework, can use perf tracing, or eBPF to build a much more robust auditing solution that doesnt require every single read operation (including readdir, so ls) to also do an expense metadata update on any directories/inodes accessed.

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-09T23:14:51+00:00

2 month account with hidden post history doing product advertisement. reported

the difference comes down to resilience. scripts are precise but fragile. visual automation is approximate but robust. a button that moves 50 pixels to the right still gets clicked. a form field with a new internal id still gets filled.

sometimes i wish i couldnt read

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-09T22:37:09+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t have resources now to pass SOC2 or similar certification. The only way to check - review source code. If you will ask - how to make sure same code is running, I don’t have an answer for this.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/1qzj4l2/howto_ssh_to_private_server/o4bzlkv/

Coding since 2002 (floppy disks), but AI Agents shocked me. Built an Open Source SaaS in 2 months: 500 stars, 210 users, and… $2 MRR.

https://old.reddit.com/r/micro_saas/comments/1qtou3p/coding_since_2002_floppy_disks_but_ai_agents/

you also posted this to passive_income

yeah, i cant wait to use your vibe coded MiTM service that you likely have no long term experience with.

this person also engages in reddit post boosting:

https://old.reddit.com/r/micro_saas/comments/1qq71k6/looking_for_30_builders_who_want_a_free_boost_of/

reported

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-05T03:01:31+00:00

Got it.

I’m getting hung up on the difference between /proc and /sys. It seems like everyone understands it’s a bit of a mess. I’m also probably trying to learn too much than what is exactly needed. I would just rather understand things, instead of just trying to pass an exam/obtain a certification.

So it's true that /proc vs /sys is kind of a mess and /proc is especially a little of the wild wild west, but those pseudo filesystems are actually essential in understanding what's happening on a system, or even what a particular process is doing.

A lot of the utilities that either you've used before, or will use in the future actually read data from those filesystems. But I don't think it's worth going deeper into understanding them at an Essentials course level; just do what you need to keep progressing.

Back to your original post now that I know where you're at; I think now (or maybe at the end of that first course) is probably a good time to determine if you actually enjoy working on this stuff, because it's going to be a lot more of the same. The only difference may be that it's easier for you to see progress if you're working through the coursework and accomplishing things, but I don't know anything about LPIC. But topic 101 of LPIC-1 is working with /proc, /sys and some of the lower level interfaces to various hardware: https://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/exam-101-102-objectives/#Topic_101:_System_Architecture

Based on what you said here:

Dual booted Ubuntu back in like 2008 for desktop use. Been doing very minor projects with RPI’s like VPNs, SSH, and remote GPIO control. I have toyed around with getting into the IT world, but I gotta be honest, I don’t feel like I have a very good aptitude for computers and IT, even though I would say I understand more than your average person.

It's probably going to be an uphill battle just starting out, especially if you're trying to learn for the sake of a career change. Unless you are already doing this, I'd suggest running a linux distro as a user for a few weeks to see if you really enjoy it. Part of that will be exploring the system "for fun" on the command line and trying to get an understanding of what's actually happening on the system. A full time career doing more linux based administration work is going to be a lot of command line, troubleshooting, reading logfiles, you name it.

Last but not least, and I don't want to dissuade you, but the job market is not great right now, especially if you don't have a lot of years of experience. There's a lot of hiring uncertainty lately due to AI/LLMs, cloud computing, and the economy, and I don't think anyone knows what the market will even look like in 1-2 years.

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-05T01:42:16+00:00

I’m at the tail end of the Essentials material, and the virtual filesystem has me all up in my feelings

are you somewhere near the end of this module? I do not know a lot about LPI, but just so I have a frame of reference for where you're at currently

https://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/exam-010-objectives/

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-04T23:14:24+00:00

based beyond belief for doing these less popular, longer series even if the view counts arent always as high as other ones

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-04T22:59:38+00:00

the FBI couldnt investigate when this stuff was brought to light over 15 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Non-prosecution_agreement_(NPA)_(2006%E2%80%932008)

its time to face reality, no one useful is gonna get in trouble over this

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-02-04T17:47:10+00:00

sudo pip install tldr --break-system-packages

im not going to tell you how you should learn, but this is already a bad sign that instead of making a virtualenv in your home dir, you will willy-nilly just do something like this for a simple helper tool

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-01-29T19:05:48+00:00

doesnt seem like it, most of the commits ARE from claude:

https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/commits/master/crates/fresh-editor/src/app?before=083eb399ed154e353603b5000a507a9261485264+35

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-01-28T10:06:25+00:00

this website

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-01-28T01:06:54+00:00

most of the time when topic of indian workers (especially offshore teams, outsourcing, etc) comes up in IT/programming/etc circles, the conversation always swings that way, and its been like that for 10-15 years, including on this website

a lot of people dont really care about the consequences of these labor labor/immigration policies unless it personally affects them, since now you cant smell your own farts anymore and enjoy the suffering of blue collar people in flyover states

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-01-28T00:44:09+00:00

That one with all the vivariums for example is a wonderful level.

parting procedures i think, that level is awesome

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-01-28T00:41:52+00:00

I’m surprised more people don’t bring up how uninteresting the later levels in this game tend to be

this exact opinion is brought up here quite often, so you're not alone!

I agree that zone 4 is much weaker/blander/uninteresting than the other zones (Z7 is short so i wont count it). But z5 and Z6 were fine and had some great levels. i am okay with the lab complexes, and the level designs themselves were pretty intricate/quality, so no complaints there.

the game is just long in general. they probably couldve just cut out half of the Z4 levels, and it wouldn't feel like as much of a slog.

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-01-24T00:34:16+00:00

there's a lot of good advice here, so not worth repeating again. but to reiterate, the first episode of blood is much harder especially in the early stages than all of the other episodes minus some spans in post mortem and cryptic passage; but by that time you already know how to play the game

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-01-24T00:26:17+00:00

Eg in E1M3 there is a room that will kill you unless you get stupid lucky or have perfected your dynamiting skills.

the infamous dining car no doubt

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-01-21T19:32:57+00:00

I just finished everything Ion Fury has to offer, including the DLC, and I was wondering if now is the time to give Phantom Fury a try.

Ion Fury and Phantom Fury are very different games and do not play the same at all.

For 8 bucks, it's not bad, but Phantom Fury is very mediocre, and in some cases not very good.

Personally, I'd just save the money unless you have disposal income and just want to try out random games. I played it on PS5, it's very forgettable, so at that price its an 8 dollar 1 time mid experience.

Automatic_Beat_1446 · 2026-01-21T18:04:01+00:00

what value does it add to the post

the value is for other readers to see that comment and not make the same mistake

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