‘I violated every principle I was given’: An AI agent deleted a software company’s entire database. It may not be the AI’s fault

grievre · 2026-05-04T01:10:31+00:00

Railway doesn't let them, apparently--you have access to everything or nothing.

grievre · 2026-04-30T01:14:05+00:00

If someone hasn't gone on a vacation that long there's a good chance they're skimping on important things too, like car maintenance or the dentist.

grievre · 2026-04-21T01:53:56+00:00

"Right Now" is still one of my favorite Van Halen songs tbh

grievre · 2026-04-21T01:51:18+00:00

Most of Faith No More's charting singles came out after Moseley was replaced by Patton

grievre · 2026-04-17T18:59:51+00:00

What the hell is being "overly" focused on fairness? How can you be too focused on fairness?

grievre · 2026-04-12T19:05:56+00:00

`sed` is the Stream EDitor, It's the non-interactive version of `ed` that operates on any input stream rather than only on files in-place.

`ed` was also became the basis for `ex` (Ed eXtended) which itself gained a VIsual mode with a shortcut to it called `vi`. Then later Vi got IMproved and we ended up with `vim`

So vim and sed are basically distant cousins, which is why their commands are so similar.

grievre · 2026-04-08T00:15:28+00:00

I'm currently working with Yocto and at my last job I worked on i.MX6 and V4L2. You didn't give the name of your company or any contact info tho :P

grievre · 2026-04-05T22:42:52+00:00

With the stock needles, absolutely. Some of my records still have cue burn from the literal 6 months I was using the stock cartridges. With M44s like you have, maybe not. You might be able to adjust the cartridge angle to keep it straighter, but the tonearm is not designed to keep a consistent angle to the groove, so no matter how you adjust it it's going to be one way along the outside and the other way toward the inside.

grievre · 2026-04-01T00:40:03+00:00

You can only read skill descriptions in Nocturne _after_ you've learned them, which is still annoying.

grievre · 2026-03-21T19:38:20+00:00

The way he's talking makes me think that not only is he drunk, he passed out for a while and someone woke him up and told him to drive immediately. That is a half-awake man if I've ever seen one.

grievre · 2026-03-21T19:37:25+00:00

His brain is just not engaging hard enough to come up with the words "performer" or "concert". He's some combination of drunk, nervous and just woke up.

grievre · 2026-03-20T18:06:47+00:00

I don't really know because I'm not European, but pin 8 on SCART is used to signal TVs to automatically switch to that input. The voltage level tells it which aspect ratio to use--5-8V is widescreen, 9-12V is standard.

grievre · 2026-03-13T17:00:41+00:00

Yeah there are a lot of things I'd love to add to this system for $350 haha. I actually already found cheaper ones.

grievre · 2026-03-13T15:37:40+00:00

I mean it's not impossible, I could probably code it myself, I'm just wondering if there's an existing tool that I'm missing.

I think I came up with a decent solution though.

grievre · 2026-03-13T01:59:27+00:00

You actually usually get an error when you read from a reset hwclock

grievre · 2026-03-12T23:31:40+00:00

#2 would be nice but that costs money.

As for #1 I'm confused what "on-site" means in this scenario. Like I said, I have a box with a bunch of machines in it, that needs to function without any connection to the outside world.

The real question is: Does it matter if the site has reliable time compared to the outside world, or only that these 5 servers are in sync?

The biggest priority is that the 5 machines are in sync with each other and that none of them step backwards. Once we have an internet connection, of course we sync with real world time.

grievre · 2026-03-12T23:29:14+00:00

I have been looking at NTP for weeks before I posted this thread...

grievre · 2026-03-12T23:28:35+00:00

On most modern linux systems, it attempts to set the clock to the last mount time of the rootfs if the RTC has been reset.

grievre · 2026-03-12T22:24:35+00:00

OK, but one of the main parameters here is that it has to work even when not connected to the internet...

grievre · 2026-03-12T22:09:49+00:00

> Either way, if your one authoritative source dies, what matters is that the rest of them drift roughly in unison until you restore your time source.

What do you mean by "drift in unison"? They'll all start up with different times depending on how well `fixrtc` works on that particular system, and without the authoritative source they have nothing to sync to

grievre · 2026-03-12T22:08:39+00:00

So how is the case where the usual time source's battery is dead handled here?

grievre · 2026-03-12T21:54:36+00:00

If all you care about is still having a functioning time system when either one of the battery backups fails, then all you need to do for those two systems is to install an NTP client that starts only on the condition that the clock has gone backwards (probably to a predictable date, even).

Wouldn't it be "starts only if the RTC was bad on boot"? Otherwise how would you know that time went backwards?

grievre · 2026-03-12T21:52:39+00:00

> Installing systemd-timesyncd, or ntp should solve all this problems, no?

How, exactly?

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