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I’ve created a very customized LaTeX document which contains portions of machine translated text. I will ask a native speaker to make the text proper. I’m not sure who will take on the task yet, but it’s unlikely to be someone who understands LaTeX. My large preamble would add to the intimidation.

I think overleaf would have normally been ideal. But it became restricted access and hostile toward Tor users a few years ago. I cancel oppressive platforms like that.

One idea is to host it on some arbitary gitea server. They can probably edit the text directly in the web browser of they are a low-tech user. Or if tech-proficient they can use git as it was designed. Doesn’t matter if they butcher the code.. I’ll deal with the cleanup. I guess my main concern is that they would be so alienated by the code that it would put them off this volunteer effort.

Pandoc was one thought: pandoc -o paper.md -f latex -t markdown paper.tex, in which case they would work in a less alien situation. But pandoc can’t even handle my 2-column doc. It falls over on a tabular and produces nothing. But even if it could produce results, I’d expect disaster anyway.

Probably no great answers here.

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A History of the BSD Daemon by Marshall Kirk McKusick

This talk tells the history of the BSD Daemon. It starts with the first renditions in the 1970s of the daemons that help UNIX systems provide services to users. These early daemons were the inspiration for the well-known daemon created by John Lasseter in the early 1980s that became synonymous with BSD as they adorned the covers of the first three editions of `The Design and Implementation of the BSD Operating System' textbooks. The talk will also highlight many of the shirt designs that featured the BSD Daemon.

For more information about BSDCan , please visit: 
https://www.bsdcan.org/

For more information about the BSD Daemon, please visit:
https://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html
https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon

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Music from the arcade game Valkyrie no Densetsu, composed by Hiroyuki Kawada. This game was developed and published by Namco, and utilizes both a Yamaha YM2151 FM chip and a Namco C140 PCM chip.

This was played using the development version of Benben v0.7.0, a high-performance open-source music player written in Common Lisp. You can find out more information about Benben here: https://chiselapp.com/user/MistressRemilia/repository/benben/

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This talk goes over the development of a distributed filesystem tailored for OpenBSD. While OpenBSD excels in many areas, its native filesystem support has room for improvement. This talk goes into using the Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) on OpenBSD to provide for a distributed and highly available filesystem.

This talk also includes an introduction to the Raft Consensus Algorithm, which plays a critical role in ensuring data consistency and reliability across distributed systems. The Elixir programming language is used, providing the necessary foundation for the implementation of the distributed FUSE filesystem on OpenBSD.

Talk link

For more information, please visit: https://www.bsdcan.org/

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Bonus video of bun fleeing the scene.

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can’t say i remember much from using winME. maybe i blocked it out, haha.

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Designing more and better platforms to support democracy can be an antidote to the wave of global autocracy that is increasingly bolstered by tech platforms that tighten public control.

Op-ed by Lisa Schirch, Professor of the Practice of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Paris, France.

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Democracy is in crisis globally, and technology is playing a role. Most large platforms optimize their designs for profit, not community or democracy. Increasingly, Big Tech is siding with autocrats, and the platforms’ designs help keep society under control.

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A handful of tech billionaires dominate the global information ecosystem. Without public accountability or oversight, they determine what news shows up on your feed and what data they collect and share.

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Tech companies design platforms based on extensive psychological research. Examples include flashing notifications that make your phone jump and squeak, colorful rewards when others like your posts, and algorithms that push out the most emotional content to stimulate your most base emotions of anger, shame or glee.

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A techno-autocracy is a political system where an authoritarian government uses technology to control its population. Techno-autocrats spread disinformation and propaganda, using fear tactics to demonize others and distract from corruption. They leverage massive amounts of data, artificial intelligence and surveillance to censor opponents.

For example, China uses technology to monitor and surveil its population with public cameras. Chinese platforms like WeChat and Weibo automatically scan, block or delete messages and posts for sensitive words like “freedom of speech.” Russia promotes domestic platforms like VK that are closely monitored and partly owned by state-linked entities that use it to promote political propaganda.

Over a decade ago, tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, and now Vice President JD Vance, began aligning with far-right political philosophers like Curtis Yarvin. They argue that democracy impedes innovation, favoring concentrated decision-making in corporate-controlled mini-states governed through surveillance. Embracing this philosophy of techno-autocracy, they moved from funding and designing the internet to reshaping government.

Techno-autocrats weaponize social media platforms as part of their plan to dismantle democratic institutions.

The political capture of both X and Meta also have consequences for global security. At Meta, Mark Zuckerberg removed barriers to right-wing propaganda and openly endorsed President Donald Trump’s agenda. Musk changed X’s algorithm to highlight right-wing content, including Russian propaganda.

Designing tech for democracy

Recognizing the power that platform design has on society, some companies are designing new civic participation platforms that support rather than undermine society’s access to verified information and places for public deliberation.

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In 2014, a group of technologists founded Pol.is, an open-source technology for hosting public deliberation that leverages data science. Pol.is enables participants to propose and vote on policy ideas using what they call “computational democracy.” [...] People participate anonymously, helping to keep the focus on the issues and not the people.

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Taiwan used the Pol.is platform to enable mass civic engagement in the 2014 democracy movement. The U.K. government’s Collective Intelligence Lab used the platform to generate public discussion and generate new policy proposals on climate and health care policies. In Finland, a public foundation called Sitra uses Pol.is in its “What do you think, Finland?” public dialogues.

Barcelona, Spain, designed a new participatory democracy platform called Decidim in 2017. Now used throughout Spain and Europe, Decidim enables citizens to collaboratively propose, debate and decide on public policies and budgets through transparent digital processes.

Nobel Peace Laureate Maria Ressa founded Rappler Communities in 2023, a social network in the Philippines that combines journalism, community and technology. It aims to restore trust in institutions by providing safe spaces for exchanging ideas and connecting with neighbors, journalists and civil society groups.

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In 2024, the Alliance for Middle East Peace began using Remesh.ai, an AI-based platform, to find areas of common ground between Israelis and Palestinians in order to advance the idea of a public peace process and identify elements of a ceasefire agreement.

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I built these bleachers from recycled pallets. I use them for container gardening (tomatoes and eggplants this year).

Today was very hot (30C) and this bun was laying down back there when I got back from work. I set out a tray of fresh water just in case bun’s feeling a bit dehydrated.

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BSDCan 2025 Keynote: Hardware Support for Memory Hungry Applications by Margo Seltzer

For nearly 60 years, we lived in a CPU-centric universe. Today, we are on the brink of a transition -- GPUs are the new golden child and those children demand unprecedented amounts of DRAM to satisfy modern data-hungry applications. I'm going to talk about these hardware trends and what they mean for those of us who build systems.

Speaker bio: Margo Seltzer is Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems and the Cheriton Family chair in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests are in systems, construed quite broadly: systems for capturing and accessing data provenance, file systems, databases, transaction processing systems, storage and analysis of graph-structured data, and systems for constructing optimal and interpretable machine learning models.

She is the author of several widely-used software packages including database and transaction libraries and the 4.4BSD log-structured file system. Dr. Seltzer was a co-founder and CTO of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB, the recipient of the 2021 ACM Software Sytems award and the 2020 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award. She is a past President of the USENIX Assocation and served as the USENIX representative to the Computing Research Association Board of Directors. In 2019 recipient of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award.

For more information, please visit:

 https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/

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I think the server components need a reboot or some part of the system needs to be looked at. Seems to have been getting worse as the week has gone on....

Did we ever figure out the best course of action to get the instance mod from SDF to look at it?

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