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@Michael Brown lol - that's also a pretty good option.
My goal is to make an ebook reader that will start playing when a CF card is inserted. And then bulk buy 128MB cards and put books on them.
My 3yo got through 1 paragraph of @Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail: 's SSH Mastery before saying "I'm done with this book"
I think these books aren't for toddlers!
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He's far too young to have chosen a preferred OS.
Give him ten years, and he'll experiment with Inferno just because he think it'll piss off Dad.
@Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail: @SirWumpus His grandpa's university friend wrote Inferno, so uh... he has the access
My dad wrote Coherent, so I rebelled against my OS dev dad by becoming a sysadmin, so I hope he makes better decisions than me
I wonder if Tim Pool will have to give back his Russian propaganda funded skatepark
This is a sentence I just idly thought, this is a glimpse into madness
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Thinking about Bandcamp and incentives.
So I just bought music from derinaharveyband.bandcamp.com/… and you should too. You should buy it all and leave a tip. But, let's talk incentives.
So I want to buy Derina's music, because (he way she sings makes me want to scream, weep, join the chorus, and somehow fly. And if she releases a new anything, I want to know one second after, if not early enough I can preorder.
But I don't buy a lot of music, I have extensive ear damage and most music falls flat for me. So I don't care about much other music.
Derina Harvey Band doesn't care what music I buy, as long as I buy theirs (they are probably good people and hope I support their community though, back there in a second).
So Derina Harvey Band and I have a relationship (I want to give them money), but they want to make more, so they use Bandcamp for discoverability. I found their bandcamp before I found their website! So bandcamp is good! It fascilitated a relationship, and I get to hear about the sea.
But now Bandcamp wants to spam me about not-Derina-Harvey, they want me to learn about Nathan Evans or whoever, bands I really don't want to engage with, since I might buy their music. And this has lead me to turn off all communications from Bandcamp. This means I miss when bands I like release music.
So, because there's a broker (platform) who is going to meditate my relationship with Derina Harvey Band, I am going to lose out. Bandcamp turned a new fan into a new customer, but made it harder for a customer to stay a customer.
And, I want to be clear here, there was not even regular Enshittifiation. It's bandcamp Friday, I sent the band slightly over full price for all their albums and they're probably getting, as cash, the full price of all their albums, the platform took nothing. But they band also doesn't have a POSSE style setup, I need to use a platform to learn about tours and releases, and I don't.
I dunno, this is just a tragic story, there's no lesson we don't all know, and there's no solution that isn't to tell a band to manage their own mailing list. The obvious solution is to create a platform that isn't evil, but even then, I don't think that's possible because of all this.
Abolish capitalism so I can revel in a shanty about how capitalism ruins sailing.
@Hypolite Petovan yeah
The point is that if we gave people access to money they would be more able to make software and maintain it
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Zscaler has a hard dependency on systemd on linux
This causes so many issues, any minor change in modules and defaults causes my user's computers to lock up and completely lose internet. A basic local vpn (which is all zscaler is) is trivial to implement without systemd.
By depending on systemd, they are making my life worse as an admin, for no gain.
I don't get the systemd cult.
it's running as a service or daemon right? So you need a system that controls your daemons....
Like a firewall, or any other service.
How's the tunnel know when to come up if something doesn't tell it?
New funding model for Open Source just dropped.
InfoSec starts screaming about a 9.9 CVSS and then the open source maintainer sells the vuln on the dark web.
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The best IMDB pages are these kinds
imdb.com/name/nm0870439/
Just a jobber who has acted in shows I'd love, it's like a To Watch List and a Resume
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Ran into family friends from childhood while out last night, and all they could talk about is that my dad had a heart attack a few months ago.
My family is downplaying it so much, and it was the first time I got to talk to someone who took it seriously (except my wife), and it was nice.
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For @Becky 's birthday, our 5yo wanted to make a custom PvZ mod where everything is rainbows.
So our first attempt all the work we did got eaten because the game didn't like the files. So we redid it, and then had to test.
And my son is being a proper game dev, having all his work ruined and needing to fix it
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I have a friend who is being harassed and threatened semi-anonymously via Facebook. She knows *who* it is, but Facebook and Police are characteristically being uselss.
I am kinda useless at this side of deanonymization, but does anyone have advice or resources for deanonymizing enough to get cops to move?
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if you can host a file on a site where you can look at the access logs and then post a link to that file, you might be able to bait them into downloading the file which could give you their IP address in the access logs. A whois search for the IP address.could get you their ISP and geolocation information on the IP could get you the general area.
That's a lot of "ifs" and "coulds", though.
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How To Bait and Catch The Anonymous Person Harassing You On The Internet
Leo Traynor, an Internet user in Ireland, had a problem. More specifically, he had a troll, a very nasty troll.Kashmir Hill (Forbes)
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from there, if the police still won't do something, it turns to filing court orders to get information from the IP holders about who had the IP at the time of access and harassment.
Good luck.
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@🩷 eva 🩷 See that's the issue! I hate irssi! I can't get my head around it!
People keep recommending me WeeChat but I keep forgetting. One day.
My friends run an XMPP project, soprani.ca/, which has some MUCs if you want to look around!
Any #FreeBSD folk know why the rust compiler might give me
ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/../lib/librustc_driver-d829a4d8a572ebe4.so: Undefined symbol "_ZNSt3__122__libcpp_verbose_abortEPKcz"I am worried the problem is my kernel is 13.2 but the rust package claims to be from 13.3? Is this a "just upgrade and stop worrying" situation
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@Rivetgeek yeah, so much of the time. someone told me that facebook tells employees to leave theirs in their laptops, which is, at least, funny.
SMS 2FA is mostly because because SMS numbers suck
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Someone needs to write a sysadmin version of the Last Sea Shanty
A sysadmins not a sysadmin anymore
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@Andy H3 He also does a Last Sea Shanty that I like youtube.com/watch?v=zw0FZs_J2I…
also some wildly good River Shanties around on.soundcloud.com/dWAaRJRCEY75…
I mostly love the Sea Shanty as a repository of blue collar solidarity songs that are great for groups and to scream, so I don't understand the love for the Wellerman, though enjoy it fine
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This is the *stupidest* use of LLMs - right?
The primary problems with video games are:
1) too well written
2) don't suffer from enough bloat
3) run too quickly
Luckily Google has fixed it in a way even worse than Stadia!
This Is Doom Running on a Diffusion Model
GameNGen is an interesting proof-of-concept for a diffusion model-based “game engine.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Listen, if your branching and commit message strategy takes more than 15 minutes to explain. And I need to work with every team and this is just yours.
I'm not gonna follow it.
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in reply to silverwizard • •The kids helped, they definitely got distracted, but they helped!
They, most importantly, got to see inside a computer and were allowed to touch all the pieces.
My kids have been able to use their computers for lots of little things
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in reply to silverwizard • •And to be clear:
the 5yo is playing Mario and a few other small games, mostly micro-indie games
the 3yo is listening to audiobooks and lullabies using a device he's built.
This isn't full hacking - this is still kids.
I'm looking at sourcing some classic lego motors to see if I can use these as the brains of a lego robot.