My least favourite trope in media is that you need a more powerful computer to hack something.
"I need a half billion gigs of RAM to hack this system!"
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@Titan Up the Defense You brought up the Unwear On The Outside thing on a recent episode
Somewhere in this channel youtube.com/user/skunkap Chris told me that it was because it made Superman look like a Circus Strong Man, and the strong men wore them because when lifting big heavy things their pants split a lot.
Imagine you were lifting a tank over your head and your pants split!
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Has anyone written a Magical Kitties Save The Day hometown for Gabny's Doll House? Asking for the kids in my life
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I feel like there's new bad movies I should watch but I don't have time to watch *movies*. I watch TV shows while I do projects in the evening sometimes, but that's it.
I still haven't seen any Neil Breen
@Craig P I am a pretty seasoned bad movie type from my 20s, but kids killed it.
But yeah, I'm excited to be able to get a bad movie group together again in my life
What's your excuse for not listening to this year's Tales From The Haunted Disco Barn?!
Like many podcasts they don't have a website, but I made that site for them as a joke
But they are here! @Titan Up the Defense
on a slightly different topic (or a tangent if you prefer), but still very Canadian: today a customer created new servers for their in-house ERP. Customer is in the business of rubber hose manufacturing.
They called their servers HosERP and HosERP-DEV
All I can see is "Hoser Herp Derp".
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People keep talking about Kagi being cool and good - but it turns out they're just AI scum?
help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/kagi-ai.โฆ
The reason to move of DDG is that DDG is AI scum, that doesn't seem like Kagi is better?
I didn't know that about DDG.
So we're basically completely losing the ability to search for information on the Internet.
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I feel like I've been hit by a truck, which is the best I've felt all week
Schools are a terror
(And our kid masks at school, and we tested negative for COVID, likely just flu)
Hey guys - random question: do we have anyone who might have VBA (I'm assuming that would be the required language) scripting capability?
I think this is the actual worst question I can get on a Monday morning
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Apparently kickstarter.com/projects/atlasโฆ is worried about funding
These things look cool as hell, infinite puzzles are fun as hell, and games trying to figure out how to ethically and safely use and reuse plastic is cool
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I run more than a half dozen VMs and a bunch of jails on a home server
I play video games
I have been asked to work on building and training LLMs as part of a work project
The most computationally intensive thing I do in a week: attend a meeting and open the collaboration tools
Employer has decided they need to "Build an LLM" in order to be "a leader in AI"
I feel like a baby playacting business.
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I find the idea of playing fair in a single player video game insipid
People love to talk about "fun trumps rules" or "rule 0" in TTRPGs and the same applies to videogames.
I actually think it applies less in TTRPGs because of the multiplayer aspect, rules are expectations, and changing them matters more and should be thought out
oh i mean in video games
sometimes you can totally ruin a single-player game by giving people a choice to do something un-fun rather than something really fun, even though it's just a *choice* the player is making
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@Alex P. ๐น Oh! that! Yes! I am definitely the worst about that.
But I am the kind of person who will be like "Oh, Morrowind wants me to be useless for the first four hours of gameplay, this is dumb, I'm going to edit my save file", which is what I'm talking about.
If you give me a bad option I could spend 20 hours grinding on, I'll just skip that 20 hours in the game of "How did you encrypt your savefile" instead of "Develop an RSI"
This is a shockingly clear explaination of the asymmertry of power
Those Clever Hacks are *innovation*
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@silverwizard And VC are happily funding those โcool hacksโ, right?
And thatโs how we get Uber, Theranos and FTX.
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I had an issue where there was a repo that made no sense
And then I looked closer and saw that I had committed documentation with all the reasoning behind the weird decisions, and made it make sense. Committed it right after I started at this job (probably when I asked all the same questions)
Document people!
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So my 4yo son said to me "I want a computer, inside a pumpkin, with a microphone on tap, and a speaker on top, and a cable out of it, and we can talk through the pumpkin."
So I grabbed a few things
-a Libre.Computer LePotato I was gonna try to build a tablet with
-a speaker/mic I use for testing
-a battery pack
And so current status
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@Bob Jonkman Yeah - I tried to download the image with lynx, and uh.... useless
But it's a fairly reasonable RasPi competitor
And look at the timeline on getting one:
convenient.email/display/2c704โฆ
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Prefacing that I know this is a longshot
My brother in law is using #TrueNAS with #ZFS, he didn't backup.
He imported his disks by different names (ada4p2 and Long-GUID-Goes-Here for the other)
He had an issue and his disks got relabelled. Now only one of his four disks in his pool is available. I can see the correct gpt ids when I run GEOM, but on the wrong device names.
Any way of forcing ZFS to rescan names or relabel my device nodes? (my mknod searching is failing me)
#ZFSHelp
(NB: No experience with TrueNAS.) "sudo zpool import" should scan all drives and report any pools that can be imported (and likely any that cannot.)
@PracticalZFS (and the related forum) for more help (from people who know more than me.)
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: THESE NOT USING CUT
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@argv minus one The issue is that Wayland just bans them outrightly
But if you need permissions for them, fine, but if they are able to self-declare then you can use that to bootstrap a perm bypass.
This system you envision is just a tool to annoy people with *no value*
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"Oh, we inspect all HTTPS traffic, we block HTTP and block USB mass storage"
"What if I open a VPN?"
"Oh, then this wont work"
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Levy fines of a few million a month to enough places for crimes inherent in their business model
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