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(DIR) Post #B4yycj17gge4xdLAMS by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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In light of all the recent hype, I decided to see how LLMs deal with truly weird problems, not just webslop.I assumed they'd fail in a spectacular and entertaining way at debugging linux audio. Turns out, at great token expense, a modern LLM *can* debug problems involving lots of intricate bullshit with poor documentation. I'm not sure how to feel about this.
(DIR) Post #B4yycjM2QvNM0V7rxg by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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context: I got a Thinpad T14gen6 AMD recently and installed #gentoo on it. Besides the typical oopsie of forgetting to compile in a touchpad driver or something, it works almost flawlessly. Almost.The mute LED on the f1 key doesn't work.I tried some easy things with no results, so fuck it, let's have the clanker try. It'll be fun to watch it fail.
(DIR) Post #B4yycjbzTc8UnyabpI by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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I gave Anthropic 20 bucks and ran Claude Code (with manual approval of every shellout) with a pretty basic prompt (this is the problem, the running kernel is in /usr/src/linux/, any other info you can get from sysfs or pactl, figure it out).It spent hundreds of thousands of tokens "investigating", then ran out of daily quota.I considered it a failure at this point, but decided to give it another try next morning.
(DIR) Post #B4yycjraXcc3aLt48e by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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Turns out I was using the stupid model (Sonnet vs Opus) by default, so I switched. Another 150k of context (mostly loading what the previous one did) later, it poked a few more files in sysfs and it figured it out.I have mixed feelings about this.Could I have done this myself? Yes.Would it have taken me an entire day? Absolutely.Would I learn a lot? Sure.Is it worth a day of my free time to know the intimate details of ALSA codec-LED binding? Eh, probably not.
(DIR) Post #B4z2If76tGQCsapUhs by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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@wolf480pl 1. i got frustrated in my first manual attempt, so probably not. if i got to the reading kernel source part (what the llm did) it'd be interesting but still frustrating because:2. there wasn't even a code mistake, it's purely user error. i flipped the wrong kconfig flag months ago and didn't know. so i'd be pretty angry at myself
(DIR) Post #B5JcS3sfeuAjoL3VYG by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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@cmb in this house we respect shitty isps for their giant cgnat deployments making ip banning scrapers unfeasible
(DIR) Post #B5nhjLbJMFFUCjnNK4 by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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@wolf480pl @q3k If you managed to get the page swapped out first (with an oom condition or sth), then probably yes, but idk how the page cache interacts with .text mappings to be sure.If that is possible, then there should be plenty of tasty targets in pid1 - systemd is a pretty thicc binary
(DIR) Post #B64EkzvPKCOyZcwsnQ by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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@q3k ethertypes other than 0x0800/0x0806/0x86DD are not real they can't hurt you
(DIR) Post #B65GafcQMVLHlXETw0 by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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@domi OVH cold object storage is about that price, scaleway was also suggested.Another option is your own tapes, if you can get access to a drive. You could make use of the library at hswaw. Still leaves the problem of moving and storing the tapes physically somewhere tho.
(DIR) Post #B86WxFDc7Gl8sjSvpI by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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@domi you can combine it with the inverse to do irc on raft on irc on raft on ircor raft on irc on raft on irc on rafthttps://github.com/robustirc/robustirc
(DIR) Post #B8Iig6NSqCgH72kRlY by implr@social.hackerspace.pl
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@whitequark @ariadne i don't want to defend bros treating llms like a full on person, but we've anthromorphized much dumber things in this industrylike "the kernel believes this board has only one uart [because the dt is wrong]" is a perfectly regular sentence you could hear a decade ago